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thatirishguyyy
Seasoned Rookie
23 days ago

Bots, bots & more bots

If there are 400k players online in BF6 then why do I get lobbies full of bots?

I’m sick of seeing a million threads about skins while the game itself barely works -- 90% of lobbies are bots and anyone trying to ague otherwise is arguing in bad faith or a troll. I'm on PC in the midwest and my results are the same as people in the middle-east.

Every lobby I join is full of bots. Then, when it actually fills up with real players, the match just ends and starts all over again... back to a bot-filled mess! The only thing dumber than that are the people saying it’s not EA/DICE’s fault. “Oh, it’s because cross-play is off,” or “it’s the time of day.”

And comments on these posts are always, "What? I don't ever see bots!" Bullcrap lol

The game broke sales records worldwide and you think there aren’t players online? 

I'm on PC. If I play with friends I don't get bot lobbies. When I play solo all I get are bot lobbies. SBMM has killed this game and I'm done pretending that Battlefield is going to get any better than BF4.

Thankfully I'm on PC and there are plenty of other games to play that don't use SBMM like Arma Reforger. It is also cross-play so come join us on that game instead.

8 Replies

  • F1sherOrigin's avatar
    F1sherOrigin
    Seasoned Adventurer
    23 days ago

    Are you playing at 5 AM? I play it every day around 17.00-19.00 CET, and I've seen a few bots maybe 3 or 4 times.

  • IowaADV's avatar
    IowaADV
    Rising Rookie
    23 days ago

    The only time I see lots and lots of bots is in Casual Breakthrough......cuz that's the plan.  In most other formats I see very few bots.  And I know they aren't bots cuz they own me over and over again.  In Casual Breakthrough I am legendary.  LOL

  • thatirishguyyy's avatar
    thatirishguyyy
    Seasoned Rookie
    23 days ago

    Yeah, on that subject, wtf is Casual Breakthrough? So many bots.

    What happened to regular Breakthrough? Same with trying to find Rush. I don't want to play REDSEC or Conquest ffs.

  • thatirishguyyy's avatar
    thatirishguyyy
    Seasoned Rookie
    23 days ago

    Started trying to play around 11pm CST. Had this issue till about 2am when I gave up trying to play.

    Thing is, the game is global. 11pm CST is still 5pm in Europe. Any other game I play from Arma Reforger to Warthunder has full servers at any time because other timezones keep the game alive.

    This game not so much as matchmaking is broken due to SBMM and struggles to find players. They would rather disband a full server and toss all players into their own queues again instead of just letting us play together again.

    Franchise is dead if we are being honest. You don't build a lasting fanbase on single-game interactions using SBMM. Hell, it takes half a match just for people to be comfortable to even use their mic properly let alone expecting anyone to make friends.

  •  People from all around have this issue.They need to remove or fix the bot issue. It’s a triple A game and there’s still plenny of player.When playing conquest at night, i always play in lobby of 24vs24 and half of the player are bot and the bots are not being replaced by real players because no new players seem to join after the match has started. I understand the use of bots during the first few minutes to reduce queue times, but in my experience, bots remain in the match for the entire game. Since no additional players join mid-match, the games feel slow and empty, and they take longer than usual to complete. Many of the bots also occupy vehicles (such as tanks), which further impacts gameplay since they love cruising around at 6 in a tank.

     

    I would strongly prefer to backfill into an already active match rather than play a full game that remains partially populated by bots. It may also help to merge two or three partially filled lobbies into one full match instead of running multiple underpopulated games.We could continue the next games with the same player also.Lets show that we dont accept this,we need to make noise if we want to be heard.

  • MjrWalker's avatar
    MjrWalker
    Rising Veteran
    15 days ago

    I'm in the UK, and I play late afternoon, early evening, and late night. 

    I regularly see anywhere between 3-6 bots per team, assorted across these hours. The player counts isn't as high as it's been made out to be. 

  • Nothing changed. Bots in every game, yet I have a login queue on game startup. Something is VERY wrong.

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