New Portal update 25th Feb 2026 4 player start

So EA have updated portal to have 4 players start now, with or without bots and modified XP for both.

I see why they have made modified XP for verified server running with bots enabled to help stop XP farms, but why have we got modified XP for verified server that don't have any bots enabled. Only yesterday we had Full XP and Full Stats for none bot enabled verified servers and Full XP and no player stats for bot filled servers.

What is EA doing, are they trying to kill Portal or are they not testing things before they go live with them.

All I ask is shouldn't Verified none bot backfilled servers not running bots be Full XP and Full Stats as it is just actual players and no possible way to farm XP? Can we have this changed please.

Or because there has been no official news posted on the change yet, are they still working on this and it's a bug till all sorted out?

The only reason I know this is because I changed my map rotation and reloaded the server to see 4 player start and modified XP with bots on, so I shut it down and disabled bots reloaded server and 4 player start and still modified XP. I even made a new server without bots even that has modified XP.

Please fix this issue to Full XP for Verified None Bot Backfilled Servers with 4 Player Start and let communities thrive.