Persistent Servers

I've been playing BF since 1942, ran the local BFBC2,  BF3 and 4 Servers... honestly its nice to have a game similar to BF3/4, but agree with the OP on this... matchmaking is broken, server browsers are broken, its very average sadly... even the balancing of teams is broken... 80% of games I played in the last month are lopsided... very very rare so you get an even game down to a few tickets.

Had one game on firestorm yesterday where I spent 4 minutes waiting for it to matchmake, then once into the server, another 4 mins waiting for the server to get to enough players to start the round, and then the game was over in about 4 mins due to the unbalanced teams.... stupid, spent nearly 10 mins waiting to play a game for 4 minutes which was a walk over... It's no wonder the player base has fallen off a cliff, I'm at the point of giving up and playing something else already and I've got thousands of hours in BF games. Sad reality...

Featured are all matchmake servers. You can tell because when you click it, and click start, it says "Matchmaking". The game is all matchmaking by default.

You have to scroll down to Community Experiences.  Every item highlighted there is a persistent community server. There are usually only a couple or few highlighted by EA at any time. You can click one of the highlighted ones, view which servers are available, join a server of your choice, view more by the same creator, etcetera.

Scroll up one from Community Experiences, and there is the option to search experiences. The server browser is full of crap, yes. I think I cover all of that pretty exhaustively in the thread I linked.

If you said that you don't like the BF6 server browser because it gives you too many options, I can get behind that. If you said that the grindy BF6 game mechanic created too many garbage and broken xp farm and afk servers which should now be deleted, I agree. But to pretend that the content from past games and abilitity to find it in BF6 doesn't exist, suggests that you never tried looking for it. The content you miss still exists, you are now just more reliant on filters to find it, because the default everything filter will give you more garbage than past games due to the incentive that created that garbage in BF6.

That being said, as stated, you need to apply the filter you want in order to see what you are looking for.  It's the same as BF3 or BF4, just that there is more garbage if you don't apply a filter.

Apply the filter: Maps & Modes -> Breakthrough, Conquest, and Rush checkboxes.  Boom.  Almost zero garbage displayed. Maybe you'll see a bunch of dumb and misleading names created by people trying to trick people into joining their non-farm server, but mostly no actual farms or garbage.  If people started using the browser, I am sure there would be a lot more quality servers with non-misleading names to choose from. And if EA would finally delete the broken farms (why not!!?!??!), you wouldn't see those empty broken servers either. If you applh the filter that hides empty servers, you won't see those broken empty farm servers either.

Or, as stated, just search through BattlefieldOfficial's content if you want the laziest and most sure-fire method. Find any server by BattlefieldOfficial (shouldn't be hard, since at least one is usually a highlighted community experience, or almost any search you do in the server browser will have at least one BattlefieldOfficial re-host listed), view that server's Experience Info, and then click View More by Creator.  That's the motherload of verified-mode official servers that are easy to find.

People act like they have never used a server browser before, yet somehow played BF3 and BF4.

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...

Combining PS5 and Xbox players in the same pool would help.

It is beyond annoying that players are not kept together as the next server spins up.

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.

THIS. And the UI needs an update. 

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.

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

There are persistent servers. If you go to the community server browser, you will see that BattleFieldOfficial has 16 experiences published, the majority of them are official servers (regarding verified-mode with full XP and unlock progression), and there are hundreds of servers available worldwide, as people host and re-host them.  Additionally, there are many people, groups, and clans who have also created their own verified-mode servers which behave like any other official server.

Unfortunately, it may be that in your part of the world, not many others are hosting or joining official persistent servers, so you may have less options than others.  If you can't convince other people in your part of the world to rely on something other than matchmaking, you are kind of stuck with what the crowd is doing.  And the crowd in general is dwindling every day.

If you need help using the server browser to find verified-mode official servers, instead of all the other garbage, let me know.

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.