Faithwalkers HC modes

I decided to jump into a game of the featured custom HC mode made by Faithwalkers.  I enjoyed some HC modes in BF4 and wanted to see how this played. 

The good:

To say I was impressed would be an understatement. This was the most fun I’ve had playing BF6 since it was launched. Honestly, this felt like BF4 with better graphics.  The mode listed it as 90% movement and 1-2 shot kills with FF off.  I am not sure what else was done to make this custom map but everything felt different in a good way.  The guns felt and sounded great, Getting killed even felt correct. Overall sound was better and appropriate, not as unnecessarily chaotic. The movement was perfect. And, oddly enough, my fps showed the same as normal modes that I regularly play but the game looked, felt and played buttery smooth. No weird panning issues that looks like frames were dropping.

Now some of the bad that can easily be fixed: 

None of this has to do with Faithwalkers custom maps and everything to do with how EA operates and manages/regulates servers.  Faithwalkers has about 8 custom modes he made so I decided to check them out too. I found one that had FF on, which is what I wanted to play, so I searched for it in portal.  There were a bunch of them listed but all completely empty.  I went back and decided to host one myself hoping that if EA saw a person in there it would help fill it.  That didn’t happen. I stayed for about 10 minutes and not one person joined.

If EA wants to feature a set of custom maps they should assist in filling them or allow us to play with bots and backfill it after the match starts. Faithwalkers is highlighted in the featured section but only one of his customized rotations gives you the option to "join now" which EA will actively matchmake for.

Do I want to play with bots NO. But having to wait for 20 players to join is crazy.  With BF 3&4 you could lower that limit down to 4. 

I think allowing everyone to host a server severely dilutes player bases across those servers. Seeing tons and tons of games listed in portal with all of them empty is bad for the community. EA needs to do a better job with getting players into games. Having 20 or more duplicates with 0 players of the same "experience code" makes no sense. 

BF6 needs to have a list of dedicate official servers, with a dedicated rotation of maps, that players can join, even if it means having to wait in a queue. If all the servers in an area are full then they can spin up another one and spin them down when no players are left.  You cannot create a community when a servers spins up and then down for every new map/game.  Seeing the same people in multiple rounds is what will help create a community among players. 

I know they spoke about platoons coming back and that is really needed to actually build a community again.  Portal is a complete disappointment without platoons.

I have more thoughts but will stop my rambling for the moment. 😆