Are you talking to me? I've played many BF games. I've been playing BF since Bad Company and stopped at BFV due to the crap. I hoped this would be a return to better. Not so much, but not because of lack of server browser.
There is no server browser for battlefield's instanced matchmaking servers, because I think it is impossible. For hosted servers there is. And you haven't explained anything missing from that experience.
Seems like you’re missing the whole point of what we’re trying to tell you. I am saying that matchmaking has ruined gaming experience in Battlefield games, that's why we wanna bring back the ORIGINAL server browser.
These are real server browsers with FULL admin control:
Yes, I missed the point that you didn't write. You said you wanted a server browser of dedicated hosted servers. We have that. Matchmaked servers aren't dedicated. It's like asking for a redsec server browser. Just like redsec and gauntlet, the matchmake servers are instanced and move and change to fill current demand. You can't browse them when their roles are constantly changing. Their roles need to constantly change to fill current demand. For example, if 500 people in a section of state on xbox suddenly decide to play breakthrough with crossplay off, a server which might have just played a round of conquest with pc players suddenly becomes xbox-only breakthrough. You can't browse for that, and if you did and tried to join 30 seconds after the change, you would have a bad experience.
So, you want to get rid of matchmake servers? I don't think that is happening. Even if it did happen, I think you would be unhappy with the experience for reasons you would discover such as bad pings and bad performance for the game you want to play. Matchmaking sucks in many ways, but it also solves many issues.
If you want to browse servers, browse hosted experiences. Don't like the options? Make yours. Don't like the lack of XP for the experience you make, keep using your voice.
So, you want to get rid of matchmake servers? I don't think that is happening. Even if it did happen, I think you would be unhappy with the experience for reasons you would discover such as bad pings and bad performance for the game you want to play. Matchmaking sucks in many ways, but it also solves many issues.
I wouldn’t be happy? Man, I used to be so happy finding servers I actually wanted to play on in previous BF titles — so it really seems like you don’t understand the problem here. Don't you really remember how fine it was?
Yes, I remember how good it was. But those days are gone. Remember having to rent servers and paying money and some providers being terrible? Remember asking for donations? It wasn't all sunshine and roses. Even if we could have that back, I don't think the majority would get involved. It would probably be a dead game compared to what it is now. You can still play BF:BC2, but there are almost no servers, no one does, and the ping and performance is terrible as a result.
I think the FREE hosting we get from Portal is an amazing compromise. All we need to do is get our community to quit making garbage portal servers OR talk EA into properly vetting and approving them (so we don't have servers that are just spawn kill servers or infinite falling or killing bots trapped in a box with no weapons), then we can get XP back, and we can all love it almost as much as the old experience we loved.
Last night, according to the server browser, there were 5,000 people "playing" in duplicated hosts of a server that simply spawns you under the map and you fall infinitely for 4 minutes until the round ends in a draw. These types of servers are garbage and are trying exploit stupid stuff that has nothing to do with gaming. Why do they exist? Because there is a social media community that wants and perpetuates that. Why can't we have a community who wants good, playable, hosted experiences?
Here's my attempt: code : Z3Q8X
