So I realized that I was playing a game of Conquest with nearly all Bots which makes it worthless to play since Dice made Bot kills meaningless, however a Bot killing me counts.
I am on the east coast (near Boston) of the US at 9:30 EST, which should not be a tough time to find humans that are playing.
So despite being optimistic and overly positive about the game since I purchased it, Dice has crushed my enjoyment of the game
I have posted about this issue as well. Their matchmaking is completely hosed. I live in chicago area, so should have plenty of people on the servers near me as well.
When I join a match (which is almost always backfill now), and I see mostly bots, I leave and start a new search. I often have to go through 3-4 matches before I get a game without bots, even during prime hours, and often well into a match (some have been down to 200 tickets left for one team).
Imagine if instead of filling with bots, they mixed those players from the 3-4 games into 1 or 2 games full of just players. It is obvious there are multiple half-filled lobbies going on at one time. So, I conclude, their matchmaking algorithm is either:
Personally, I think they should just turn off bots in normal matchmaking and work on their matchmaking algorithm to ensure players are directed to existing matches with open player spots.
Or better yet, give us official persistent servers and a proper server browser, so we don't have to use Matchmaking and can just play on a single server the entire night, like we used to in older BF titles.
This happens all the time to me as well. I live in the chicago area, so I definitely should have enough people near me to have full matches (matter of fact, I have kind of proof they would exist).
I've started just backing out if I join a match and it has a large number of bots (especially if there are already hundreds of tickets gone). And I've noticed I often have to go through 3-4 partially filled matches to find one with no bots. That means there are players out there for 1-2 full matches, but instead they are in 3-4 partially filled matches.
This leads me to believe their matchmaking algorithm is completely messed up. Either matchmaking is failing and lobbies full of bots are the symptom, or the bot filling is breaking matchmaking and preventing rooms from getting filled. Given their statement about "waiting to long without bots" and the fact they introduced SBMM, I'm guessing it is the former scenario.
So, I personally think they should remove bots from matchmaking all together and if it has a problem, fix that instead.
Or even better yet, give us persistent official servers and a proper server browser so we can avoid their horrible matchmaking and just play in one server all night, you know, like we used to be able to do, in older battlefield games.
