Persistent Servers
G’day Dev Team, Not sure if you guys will actually see this or act on in but persistent servers need to be brought back. I live in Australia and it’s 1200 as I write this and every server I go in ...
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This sentiment is common all across the player base right now. This is one of the key reasons the player count has been dropping so rapidly.
Whatever matchmaking algorithm they are using, it's just NOT working out. Leave it to the user to figure stuff out.
Instead of dropping super-fancy stuff, these functional fixes would do so much for the game.
It's a shame to see whatever is going on right now with this game with so much potential.
There is an alternative to matchmaking. It exists. There is a server browser and there are persistent official servers with full xp. Convincing the crowd of that, on the other hand, is like pulling teeth. Everyone wants to complain about matchmaking and pretend that there isn't an alternative, but at the same time refuse to stop matchmaking.
See also: Plz add the server browser | EA Forums - 13090476
We're not talking about using the portal filter or the game mode browser. What were talking about and what we want are how the servers used to work on BF3 and BF4. Whatever game mode you played, a huge list of persistent servers would come up all showing region and ping. You could choose a server with a low ping close to your region (ensuring a good connection, kind of important in fps games), and you would STAY in that server. There was no reshuffling players around every match, which made how the games flowed much more consistent and enjoyable. If you picked a server that was full of sweats, or players that weren't doing anything, you could just pick another one until you found a good server with good gameplay and stay in that server. Right now you either destroy or get destroyed by the other team because the matchmaking is terrible, and we get reshuffled every match.
THIS. And the UI needs an update.
Matchmake servers aren't persistent. You have to pick matchmake servers which aren't persistent, or community servers which are persistent. Sorry. That's the deal.
BF3 and BF4 didn't have matchmake servers. If you want BF3 or BF4-like functionality, you need to use the server browser (just like BF3 or BF4) to join a persistent server. See the link I provided for a much more detailed discussion and why matchmake servers are not in a server browser and cannot be persistent without breaking their current functionality and reason they are used.
If you want to browse for servers, they need to be persistent. Like BF3 or BF4. If you want to matchmake, they aren't persistent. Like COD. The two are competing methods of handling servers. Both are in BF6. You need to make your choice.
Have cake or eat it.
When I select the featured tab.... click conquest.... join.... It should immediately throw me into an offical persistent experience that upon the next match brings all the players over for the new match.
At this time that does not always happen, and if you search the community tab its still all bot farms and training servers...
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