Persistent Servers & Server Browser
Searched and found loads of threads about this, but feel as though the more noise that's made about this, the more likely the problem will actually be acknowledged by Dice/EA.
I've played BF games since BF3. The ability to choose your own server based on ping, the map rotations, rules and player counts is part of battlefield. The fact that you can still jump on BF4 and get a populated server is proof that this functionality is great for the longevity of the game.
The current state of matchmaking means:
- You either join a game half way through (backfilling for bots) and get stomped
- You sit and wait for 5 minutes, the game starts with 50%+ bots, maybe fills while you play
- The game ends, all the humans get spread across multiple lobbies (WHY???) and the process restarts
This problem has not even been mentioned by EA yet, except to say that portal is the server browser.
Portal should have/could have been incredible. Instead its laggy, empty and runs on 50hz. It is completely unplayable.
