Battlefield 6 Party Size Limitation - Concern and Suggestion

Look, we know this does not effect everyone, but one of the joy's in gaming it being able to play the game with all of your friends at once. Most of the time 4 players is a good number, but with a game of this size and scale, friends from multiple groups will be playing, and I wish we could all be on the same team persistently. I'm ignorant to the implications this causes for matchmaking, but I know many people would like to que with over 4 friends. 

Here's 3 ideas:

1. Allow squads to link up so they can matchmake with each other from game to game. In this case you wouldn't increase squad size but you would allow each squad (max 4) to stay on the same team and join the same game over and over. If it's an issue for matchmaking, make it so only two squads can link at once. This gives groups 8 players total, split between 2 squads.
2. Create platoons. Allow for platoons of friends like the game "Squad" where all your friends can be in the same platoon and you can then choose how to split the roles. Like Leader A, B, C. This gives a lot more flexibility to the amount of players that can be together and how you split them up. Also dev's could adjust the amount of total players allowed within the platoon to optimize for gameplay and matchmaking. 
3. Just prioritize keeping friends together through matchmaking. If you are in a game, and someone on your friend list is searching for a match, prioritize putting them in your game with you. After each game is over, and the game automatically starts searching for a new one, have the matchmaking prioritize putting friends together on the same team, or at bare minimum in the same lobby. Add back the switch teams option in the menu and let the friends figure it out. 

Again, I am ignorant to the complication(s) this creates, but i do know the reason people stick to a game is because their friends play it too. Even golden era COD used to allow up to 6 players to que and I think that was some of the best memories I have, getting all the friends from my class to play together. I don't know if any of this is possible, but i have seen many people talk about it online.. We really have high hopes for this game and I think this could exponentially increase the longevity of this game's life. 

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This is a terrible suggestion. We never had issues with this during BF4 days. I can have up to 8 people In our ps chat and we want to play the same game 

We did have issues during the BF4 days. It's just that you don't see 8 member parties all that often. But when it happens the balance goes to crap.

I'm not buying the game. The same thing happened in 2042. Getting a 5th/6th person into the game was so difficult that it just became "I'll sit out you guys can play" and then nobody wanted to even get on to play because it just meant ditching friends.

And the pathetic excuse that "it would be imbalanced" is such a joke, treating Battlefield like it was ever a hardcore competitive game. Battlefront 2 was only 40 players and it allowed 10 man parties that ALSO had your friends not in squad be yellow. It was perfect and there were no balance issues.

As the previous poster said, all this does is limit large groups of friends and makes them not want to play the game. And they need *every purchase they can* to make their money back. This is the EXACT OPPOSITE way to get their money back.

Hard skip. I subbed to the game pass for 2042 for 1 month as did my other 5-6 friends, and we all cancelled within a month because of the "I'll sit out" issue and how impossible it was to get into the same game. And even if you did, you had to do it after every single map change AND you couldn't see them as a unique color.

Good job EA. You made the same mistake as you did with 2042 that made my 7+ friend group unsub and quit within a month.

You are losing at least 6 sales from me and my friends. I can only imagine how many other large friend groups feel the same way.

When meanwhile, Battlefront 2 had 10 man parties and friends not in your squad were yellow so they weren't lost among all the other blue dot randoms.

You could have easily implemented matchmaking to match large squads on opposite teams.

Regardless, Battlefield has NEVER been a highly competitive game. It's a casual shooter and it's large scale, it's meant to be played with big friend groups.

Just let people match make to the same game. limiting to only play with 3 friends is just stupid. No need to stack every squad on one team if more than 2 squads are premade. But it seriously is a turn off that nr 5 and 6 that wants to play cant join the other 4. It was that in 2042 and it is that in bf6. 

I can understand not stacking 20 friends on one side but letting those 20 match make together and just split them on both side should be doable and wont ruin anything.

And having 6 people match making and playing on the same side wont ruin anything at all. 

This is actually really unfortunate.

There's no way to play with more than 3 friends.

You can join the same server through the portal browser but they haven't included the ability to switch teams, so that doesn't work.

The absolute bare minimum would be the ability to have expanded party size in portal.

Crazy.

we got the same Problem in the Beta, came here to see if they change anything since then but seems like nothing happens!

Battlefield 1 has this Option too!

Hm...lets see if this changes...hope so!

What balance? I have yet to play a balanced game in bf6. I cant remember playing a balanced game in 2042 either. Its not like there will be only 1 premade in games either. You place premades on each team and fill the gaps with solo players. In the end its not about party size but about people playing objectives instead of tdm. 

Dice is forcing people to exclude people out of a group of friends.  This is literally a company encouraging ostracism. 

There were no issues during BF4 when you had good server browser and you were able to change teams during match.