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Wondo691's avatar
Wondo691
New Rookie
24 days ago

Platoon option when forming groups?

I have a good group of guys that I’ve played games with for almost 25 years. We love battlefield, halo, and most games that allow us to do stupid **bleep**. The only problem, and a consistent one at that is we have 8 guys that play together.  The amount of hoops we have/had to jump through to get us to not only play together, but to be on the same team is frustrating. It usually takes us three games to get everyone together, and then the next game will split the group up.

I understand the whole squad culture and I’m not mad at it at all. I’m just wondering if we could have the option to form a “platoon” when trying to play with more than four friends.  Make it an option to have a group of 8 players joint up to play together.

if you have only five that show up the game fill up the other three slots so I don’t think it would hurt the game at all.

The game already allows for other players outside your squad to revive you. So those could be filled in with your now other squad mates and still allows other players to be revived by the remaining players if they aren’t in a big group. 

Would anyone else like this option to be implemented?

9 Replies

  • Twordy's avatar
    Twordy
    Seasoned Ace
    24 days ago

    I would love to see it myself. The small lobby bottleneck is annoying and depressing. 5-6 players available on VoIP with one small lobby for 4 players only.

  • I mean, in retrospect. It’s 2025, if the game supported 128 players a few years back, they can absolutely make this an option and have this as normal. Hell, Halo had an option in BTB to have a party of up to 8 and that was back in 2004-2005

  • We never had this problem pre 2042. It's a crossover from Devs/designers/whoever with an attitude problem not wanting server browser. 

    I absolutely have a problem with this, and despite BF6 looking pretty ok right now, if they don't address this, I'm probably not going to waste my money on it until the sales.

     

    We can only hope that their "promises" that portal will address this issue come true. But not going to hold my breath, they said the same thing ,4 years ago.

  • Wondo691's avatar
    Wondo691
    New Rookie
    23 days ago

    Yea, I honestly don’t know when it changed, but I recall it being a “known”  issue when they started to do cross play. I swear I remember it back in BF3 being an issue even after the server browser came online. But those days are a blur at this point it’s been so long ago. 

  • CPU_UK's avatar
    CPU_UK
    Seasoned Ace
    22 days ago

    LOL, large clans tend to stomp the game if they are all on the same side. And then everyone leaves

  • That’s why I suggested making it upwards of 8, that way it still keeps things as balanced as possible.

  • Twordy's avatar
    Twordy
    Seasoned Ace
    11 days ago

    I will never be a fan of Lobby.  I would love to play on a certain map 24/7. Then, avoid other maps that I like the least in playlists. Basically, have the opportunity to attain unlocks and badges... ehh... I do not see any badges or medals. Nothing in BETA that would build up some immersion. A small lobby of 4 is not the way to go. Please have at least 5 players for Conquest and other multiplayer games.

  • Yeah I have a group of 4-8 friends who all play.

    Creates a real awkward situation when more than 4 hop on at once which happens often.

    Unfortunately no accomodations for that would likely be a deal breaker for me.

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