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Seasoned Newcomer

3 months ago

Battlefield 6 Party Size Limitation - Concern and Suggestion

My biggest concern with Battlefield 6 is the restriction on multiplayer party size. Currently, the party size is capped at 4 players, which matches the in-game 4-player squad size. While I understand the gameplay is centered around a 4-person squad, the main issue is that when you have more than 4 friends wanting to play together, there is no way to ensure you are all in the same game or let alone the same team. This fragmentation is frustrating for larger groups and detracts from the social aspect that makes Battlefield so enjoyable.

My suggestion is to increase the maximum party size to 8 players while keeping the squad size of 4 players. When a party of 5-8 players joins a match, the game should automatically split them into two squads on the same team. This way, larger groups of 5+ can ensure they are all playing together and coordinating, even if they are divided into separate squads once the match begins; all while keeping squad gameplay balanced with the intended 4-player squad size.

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DiamondVizion
Seasoned Newcomer
3 months ago
Battlefield team: I have really enjoyed the battlefield experience; there is a common issue I've seen on battlefield 6 and other battlefield games. The limitation of only being able to play in a party of 4 players (Squad). This topic has probably been brought up multiple times, but I cannot stress how important this feature to allow party sizes of 6 to 8 players. For battle royal mode 4 player is reasonable. For multiplayer matches, I think they should allow parties up to 6 players and then maybe for conquest up to 8 players per party. There have been occasions where friend groups do not want to play battlefield due to 4 player limits when there are 5 or 6 players in the group wanting to play leaving friends excluded from playing together. Allowing feature to have 6 to 8 players per party will increase players wanting to play but also improve loyal members gameplay to be able to have more friends to play with and potentially have a better team. I understand there are other means of joining friends when party is full by joining mid game, etc. I hope everyone understands how this could help with player experience.
ChemicalDan
Seasoned Traveler
3 months ago
That makes 0 sense on the basis that you can just join your friend and get more people into the same game. The only annoying part is one team needs to then leave at end of game and rejoin again.

So either they need to remove the ability to join people or make it so that you can go in as up to 8 and then its split into 2 squads.
danisoff
Hero+
3 months ago
I believe it would be very difficult to balance. Imagine a premade team of eight players joining a 64 player server. I think they should keep the limit at four, as it seems to be the current plan.
SpiritofGames
Rising Hotshot
3 months ago
According to a thread that was posted here not long ago, the gist of it was that large squads, all voice connected, would be overpowered for the game. If I recall correctly one poster was suggesting squads of 16.
I think the idea is that the game devs would rather see us play as Team versus Team, and four-man squads are really just incidental, basic organization.
Unless I hear different, especially at this late stage of the game, I assume squads will remain as four-man squads.
egyptdaman
Seasoned Newcomer
3 months ago
Has anyone found out if the squad size will be larger than the beta? At any given moment, there could be at least 8 of us in a party ready to play battlefield. It would be nice if we could join our friends in the same game like the good old days