This thread is for the person who is tired of matchmaking. For the person who is tired of joining rounds mid-game. For the person who is tired of having their party break at the end of matches and needing to leave games and recreate their party with their friends. For the person who is tired of playing attacker or defender over and over. For the person who is tired of playing maps in a random order. For the person who misses options and game modes that used to be in Battlefield games. For the person who is tired of sweats, or for the person who doesn't mind sweats.Every one of these experiences can be hosted and started with just one person. There is no need to queue up and wait for 4, 12, or 20 players to join. Each experience can be enjoyed with no other humans or as an experience that is full with only humans. Each one will fill with bots, as necessary, and then the bots will be replaced as humans join. You can either search for the experiences using the titles provided, or search for the experience code listed (the easier method).Battlefield Owners:"Casual Conquest..." : Solo-start (of course!) large scale conquest that is a faithful reproduction of the real thing, except with the ability to play against bots and level up your skill. Vehicles respawn quickly to get you back in the action. Bots will be replaced by humans, as humans join, but a minimum of 24 bots total will always be present, to give that casual feel.ZH6YV"Night Conquest..." : Conquest experiences like the previous, but at night. One is just the night maps as they are available to us. Another one is daylight maps with dark and blue filters, to mimic a full moon night or dusk. Another is night maps with a green NVG effect applied to give a more raw and gritty NVG effect that automatically switches on shortly after deploying. And the final one is night maps with actual NVG goggles, but they are only really useful in certain dark areas due to the amount of light in the current night maps.Night Conquest: 1XTQAMoon light/dusk (fake night): ZMQMZNVG (automatic) gritty fake NVG filter all the time: ZNT41Night with NVG goggles (toggle on) real NVG that is only useful in some areas: ZMBXX"Winter Conquest..." : Just like Casual Conquest, but all the maps are played in the blowing snow.ZGQ1G"Dust Storm Conquest..." : Just like Casual Conquest, but all the maps are played in a giant eerie dust storm.ZVCK7"BF4 in BF6" : Casual conquest in Operation Firestorm, but with a twist. It's BF4. The assault class can revive and heal teammates. The recon class has a spawn beacon. The color tone is a bit warmer. Movement speed is slowed down. Projectile speed is slowed down. Headshot damage is increased. And body damage is decreased. ZVEHH"Heat of Battle..." : A bright and saturated version of conquest where a variety of colored flares appear each time someone spawns, kills, dies, or takes damage. This allows you to have the normal fun experience but also see and appreciate the battle playing out around you. It creates a broad heat map of activity; keep moving if you don't want to give away your position.ZTBJ1"Beach Invasion": Play the classic beach invasion experience. As attacker, your goal is to simply capture the objective without running out of time, as defenders try to push you back. Scripted events occur as the battle progresses, shifting who has the upper hand.1XNJJ"Large Vehicle TDM..." : Classic conquest maps with vehicles and everything, but no objectives. The only objective is to get to the top of the scoreboard, be on the winning team, have a sweet KDR, or have a killer streak. Bots backfill to maintain 26 players per team.ZMSS7"Cairo Chaos..." : Siege of Cairo with a new twist. One street. One objective. 28 vs 28. A ton of cover has been added, plus a couple buildings for snipers to oversee the battlefield. Use of ladders to increase verticality and sustain the crazy number of players is encouraged.ZPQ25"Hardcore Team Deathmatch - Small Maps - Bot Fill" : A rotation of small infantry maps with Hardcore settings. Experience the experience that EA forgot how to provide. Tons of fun and action!YKBXU"4vs4 Elimination..." : A classic elimination game mode, made up of multiple rounds within the same match, where you get one life per round, switch sides after a couple of wins, and the first team to 4 rounds won wins the match. Bots backfill as necessary.1YHR7"4vs4 Search and Destroy..." : A classic elimination game mode, same as 'Elimination', except 2 MCOMs are added and the attackers may destroy one in order to end the round. Bots backfill as necessary.1YKGF Free to Play:"Little Bird TDM..." : A TDM server where the primary weapon is the Little Bird. The bots move around, fly, and don't just stand in one spot and wait for you to kill them. Players spawn randomly in empty Little Birds up to half the map away, or designated spawn points, in order to keep spawns unpredictable and reduce issues with spawn killing.ZTPWV"REDSEC Casual Conquest...": Casual conquest for people who haven't purchased BF6. Bots will be replaced by humans, as humans join, but a minimum of 24 bots total will always be present, to give that casual feel.ZVSWK"REDSEC Winter Casual Conquest...": Same as above, but in the blowing snow.ZUCXE"REDSEC Dusk Casual Conquest...": Casual conquest, but with an afternoon lighting effect.ZUDCQ"REDSEC NVG Night Casual Conquest...": Same as casual conquest, but using night maps. All players are given NVG goggles that they can toggle on, and are given resupply pouches to refill their NVG goggles.ZUDD5"Golf Course - King of the Hill - Clubhouse" : One objective at the top of the hill at the club house, with each side spawning on either side of the club house hill. Attackers try to advance up the hill and take control of the clubhouse, while defenders try to pick them off. Spawns are naturally protected by the map layout, with some additional protection provided. A sniper outpost is added in the form of a broken highway nearby.Hardcore: Z6ZFKStandard core: ZAEF4"REDSEC - Team Deathmatch" : Golf Course, Tech Sector, and Marina map rotation of Team Deathmatch. Golf Course features the same design you see above. Deathmatch AI has a purpose and you will see them on a mission. Infantry-friendly vehicles are provided.Hardcore: Z3Q8XStandard core: Z91ZJ"Golf Course - Custom Bots - Infantry Conquest" : 20 v 20 infantry conquest at golf course with many objectives in close proximity. This is what we used to call "conquest small". This is the chaos some people crave. It is essentially "King of the Hill" described above, except with 4 more objectives.Hardcore: ZC34VStandard: ZC2RY"Friends vs Friends F2P TDM with Team Switching" : 20 vs 20 TDM to play against your friends. Bots can be turned off. Each spawn area has a sign you can interact with in order to switch to the other team, or turn bots on or off. Host it with a password if you don't want randoms to join.ZG383"Friends vs Friends F2P Infantry Conquest with Team Switching" : 20 vs 20 conquest small at golf course to play against your friends. Bots can be turned off. Each spawn area has a sign you can interact with in order to switch to the other team, or to turn bots on or off. Host it with a password if you don't want randoms to join.ZGGTZ Please, if you are only looking for a PvE experience -- alone or with friends -- host the experiences with a password so that you can play with as many friends as you want, instead of kicking unwanted players who randomly join. Being kicked for randomly joining someone's hosted experience is not a good feeling. Note: "Free to Play" is subject to EA's wishes. Free-to-play experiences are hosted on REDSEC maps which were provided to players for free, but EA could revoke free-to-play access of those maps at any time.Additionally, amount of XP awarded and whether weapon unlocks or challenge progression is awarded is completely at the will of EA. Here are some very short demo videos.YouTube: NVG DemoYouTube: Conquest at Night and Bots being a MenaceYouTube: Custom Golf Coarse Map LayoutYouTube: Conquest Bot PlayGo easy on me with the last one. My piloting was awful, but the purpose is to see that bot teammates jump in as gunner, are helpful, will heal, revive, and throw down ammo, and the bots keep activity going around the entire map. Thanks to utilizing these experiences, my piloting is now much better. Here are some images. Thank you for your time! ... oh... and we are all learning together! Ask for help or share your expertise. We all need eachother!

All the experience codes are listed at the end of the first post.There are TDM games (hardcore and softcore), infantry conquest ("conquest small"), king of the hill (one objective on a hill), and large conquest games (day and night) available to choose from.If you don't want other players to join, please host with a password rather than kicking people from the game.I haven't tackled rush or breakthrough yet, because I am not super satisfied with the compromises required, and because casual breakthrough is already available in the game and brings you towards a similar outcome.

Railway to Golmud should be available to us on June 9th. Then, I will need to create the conquest layout and hopefully have it published by June 10th.I sent a private message to someone requesting that the experience gets full XP/progression, since they have granted it to other people and the experience is not exploitative in any way, but I don't know if the person I messaged even is able to entertain such a request, or will entertain it. We'll see. If anyone has any ideas how you can get full progression in a casual conquest experience that so many have requested, I'm all ears.

I just published a couple more maps. They are hardcore and stabdard-core versions of the golf course map, with 5 objectives close together, 20 people per team, and infantry only. Essentially, "conquest small"; how we remembered it.Standard-core: ZC2RYHardcore: ZC34VIt's chaos!

I have a new one for you. I have been working on it for a couple of days, trying to get things just right. I waited to say anything about it until I was happy with it.Experience code: ZGQ1G"Casual Conquest with Bot Control and Team Switching"It is a faithful reproduction of Operation Firestorm conquest. It should feel like the real thing, but with bots and you have control of whether there are bots and which team players are on.There is a sign post by each spawn which has a sign where you turn the bots on or switch teams. It should be pretty obvious when you drive by.I spent a lot of time tweaking the AI to feel right. The AI will use vehicles. They will attack objectives. They will attack vehicles. And they will revive. ;)Regarding reviving or resupplying, there is only a 1 in 4 chance that the AI near you will be a support class, and then it also depends on whether they are already on a mission. You are most likely to get the support you need when near an objective area; especially after the objective is finished being captured.Giving the AI a goal that makes the game feel good, is somewhat in opposition to being helpful to you the human. So, I'll just say the AI is very similar to what you will experience with a real human player. It may just not listen to you if it wants to do something else instead. I have tried to make it more willing to revive, but at some point the subroutines take too long and the server crashes if you try to get too complicated with the options.I think I have struck a very good and fun balance. I hope that you will agree.You can fly vehicles above the opponent's HQ, but you will get a warning if your altitude is too low. Just a FYI. I may go back and tweak the AI in the other maps I made. We'll see.Now that I have invested all the time into making it work and play right, I can more easily add more maps. I plan to add Eastwood and Mirak Valley, but might not if I don't see any interest.If you like it, please give it a thumbs up at the game ending scoreboard.

That wasn't the original intent. The original intent was to create new maps or experiences that aren't already in the game. For instance, the first one: hardcore team deathmatch. Not an option in the game. And then the free-to-play maps added for the REDSEC people who hadn't purchased the game to see what the game is. The PVE thing just happened. The bots were added to give people something to do while waiting for other players to join. But it turns out that basically no one plays Portal Custom other than PVE players. Everyone else just suffers through the matchmaking that they claim to hate.I guess you are right that it is time to adjust this thread to match the demand that exists.

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Ty_Ger07

Seasoned Ace

8 months ago

Play PvE or PvP: Solo Start with Bots

This thread is for the person who is tired of matchmaking. For the person who is tired of joining rounds mid-game. For the person who is tired of having their party break at the end of matches and needing to leave games and recreate their party with their friends. For the person who is tired of playing attacker or defender over and over. For the person who is tired of playing maps in a random order. For the person who misses options and game modes that used to be in Battlefield games. For the person who is tired of sweats, or for the person who doesn't mind sweats.

Every one of these experiences can be hosted and started with just one person. There is no need to queue up and wait for 4, 12, or 20 players to join. Each experience can be enjoyed with no other humans or as an experience that is full with only humans. Each one will fill with bots, as necessary, and then the bots will be replaced as humans join.

You can either search for the experiences using the titles provided, or search for the experience code listed (the easier method).

Battlefield Owners:

"Casual Conquest..." : Solo-start (of course!) large scale conquest that is a faithful reproduction of the real thing, except with the ability to play against bots and level up your skill. Vehicles respawn quickly to get you back in the action. Bots will be replaced by humans, as humans join, but a minimum of 24 bots total will always be present, to give that casual feel.
- ZH6YV

"Night Conquest..." : Conquest experiences like the previous, but at night. One is just the night maps as they are available to us. Another one is daylight maps with dark and blue filters, to mimic a full moon night or dusk. Another is night maps with a green NVG effect applied to give a more raw and gritty NVG effect that automatically switches on shortly after deploying. And the final one is night maps with actual NVG goggles, but they are only really useful in certain dark areas due to the amount of light in the current night maps.
- Night Conquest: 1XTQA
- Moon light/dusk (fake night): ZMQMZ
- NVG (automatic) gritty fake NVG filter all the time: ZNT41
- Night with NVG goggles (toggle on) real NVG that is only useful in some areas: ZMBXX

"Winter Conquest..." : Just like Casual Conquest, but all the maps are played in the blowing snow.
- ZGQ1G

"Dust Storm Conquest..." : Just like Casual Conquest, but all the maps are played in a giant eerie dust storm.
- ZVCK7

"BF4 in BF6" : Casual conquest in Operation Firestorm, but with a twist. It's BF4. The assault class can revive and heal teammates. The recon class has a spawn beacon. The color tone is a bit warmer. Movement speed is slowed down. Projectile speed is slowed down. Headshot damage is increased. And body damage is decreased.
- ZVEHH

"Heat of Battle..." : A bright and saturated version of conquest where a variety of colored flares appear each time someone spawns, kills, dies, or takes damage. This allows you to have the normal fun experience but also see and appreciate the battle playing out around you. It creates a broad heat map of activity; keep moving if you don't want to give away your position.
- ZTBJ1

"Beach Invasion": Play the classic beach invasion experience. As attacker, your goal is to simply capture the objective without running out of time, as defenders try to push you back. Scripted events occur as the battle progresses, shifting who has the upper hand.
- 1XNJJ

"Large Vehicle TDM..." : Classic conquest maps with vehicles and everything, but no objectives. The only objective is to get to the top of the scoreboard, be on the winning team, have a sweet KDR, or have a killer streak. Bots backfill to maintain 26 players per team.
- ZMSS7

"Cairo Chaos..." : Siege of Cairo with a new twist. One street. One objective. 28 vs 28. A ton of cover has been added, plus a couple buildings for snipers to oversee the battlefield. Use of ladders to increase verticality and sustain the crazy number of players is encouraged.
- ZPQ25

"Hardcore Team Deathmatch - Small Maps - Bot Fill" : A rotation of small infantry maps with Hardcore settings. Experience the experience that EA forgot how to provide. Tons of fun and action!
- YKBXU

"4vs4 Elimination..." : A classic elimination game mode, made up of multiple rounds within the same match, where you get one life per round, switch sides after a couple of wins, and the first team to 4 rounds won wins the match. Bots backfill as necessary.
- 1YHR7

"4vs4 Search and Destroy..." : A classic elimination game mode, same as 'Elimination', except 2 MCOMs are added and the attackers may destroy one in order to end the round. Bots backfill as necessary.
- 1YKGF

Free to Play:

"Little Bird TDM..." : A TDM server where the primary weapon is the Little Bird. The bots move around, fly, and don't just stand in one spot and wait for you to kill them. Players spawn randomly in empty Little Birds up to half the map away, or designated spawn points, in order to keep spawns unpredictable and reduce issues with spawn killing.
- ZTPWV

"REDSEC Casual Conquest...": Casual conquest for people who haven't purchased BF6. Bots will be replaced by humans, as humans join, but a minimum of 24 bots total will always be present, to give that casual feel.
- ZVSWK

"REDSEC Winter Casual Conquest...": Same as above, but in the blowing snow.
- ZUCXE

"REDSEC Dusk Casual Conquest...": Casual conquest, but with an afternoon lighting effect.
- ZUDCQ

"REDSEC NVG Night Casual Conquest...": Same as casual conquest, but using night maps. All players are given NVG goggles that they can toggle on, and are given resupply pouches to refill their NVG goggles.
- ZUDD5

"Golf Course - King of the Hill - Clubhouse" : One objective at the top of the hill at the club house, with each side spawning on either side of the club house hill. Attackers try to advance up the hill and take control of the clubhouse, while defenders try to pick them off. Spawns are naturally protected by the map layout, with some additional protection provided. A sniper outpost is added in the form of a broken highway nearby.
- Hardcore: Z6ZFK
- Standard core: ZAEF4

"REDSEC - Team Deathmatch" : Golf Course, Tech Sector, and Marina map rotation of Team Deathmatch. Golf Course features the same design you see above. Deathmatch AI has a purpose and you will see them on a mission. Infantry-friendly vehicles are provided.
- Hardcore: Z3Q8X
- Standard core: Z91ZJ

"Golf Course - Custom Bots - Infantry Conquest" : 20 v 20 infantry conquest at golf course with many objectives in close proximity. This is what we used to call "conquest small". This is the chaos some people crave. It is essentially "King of the Hill" described above, except with 4 more objectives.
- Hardcore: ZC34V
- Standard: ZC2RY

"Friends vs Friends F2P TDM with Team Switching" : 20 vs 20 TDM to play against your friends. Bots can be turned off. Each spawn area has a sign you can interact with in order to switch to the other team, or turn bots on or off. Host it with a password if you don't want randoms to join.
- ZG383

"Friends vs Friends F2P Infantry Conquest with Team Switching" : 20 vs 20 conquest small at golf course to play against your friends. Bots can be turned off. Each spawn area has a sign you can interact with in order to switch to the other team, or to turn bots on or off. Host it with a password if you don't want randoms to join.
- ZGGTZ

Please, if you are only looking for a PvE experience -- alone or with friends -- host the experiences with a password so that you can play with as many friends as you want, instead of kicking unwanted players who randomly join. Being kicked for randomly joining someone's hosted experience is not a good feeling.

Note: "Free to Play" is subject to EA's wishes. Free-to-play experiences are hosted on REDSEC maps which were provided to players for free, but EA could revoke free-to-play access of those maps at any time.

Additionally, amount of XP awarded and whether weapon unlocks or challenge progression is awarded is completely at the will of EA.

Here are some very short demo videos.

YouTube: NVG Demo

YouTube: Conquest at Night and Bots being a Menace

YouTube: Custom Golf Coarse Map Layout

YouTube: Conquest Bot Play

Go easy on me with the last one. My piloting was awful, but the purpose is to see that bot teammates jump in as gunner, are helpful, will heal, revive, and throw down ammo, and the bots keep activity going around the entire map. Thanks to utilizing these experiences, my piloting is now much better.

Here are some images.

Thank you for your time!

... oh... and we are all learning together! Ask for help or share your expertise. We all need eachother!

88 Replies

Celto107
Seasoned Traveler
15 days ago
Thank you for the response, I dont get why DICE cant just give us verified conquest solo vs bots like in 2042 and the first week the game came out :(
Ty_Ger07
Seasoned Ace
16 days ago
I guess for point #2, I could publish it again with some backfill bots turned on, so that at least they will spawn on the objectives and not waste so many vehicles. If it is a mix of bots, it could improve things. I would need to play around with it so I make sure I can detect the different types of bots and not have issues with setting their health right and stuff, since they are different types of bots handled in a different way.

Better yet, they fix the issue, and we can go back to the way it was.

And for point #1, I don't know if I made it clear, but the servers have gotten worse. I have removed features as the servers have deteriorated. I would happily add what you want back, if the servers improve.

EDIT: I discovered that the new ticket ticker is bugged, so I reverted things back more the way they were, since I can't be bothered. The bot behavior is still better, but now you also have more of what you wanted.
Ty_Ger07
Seasoned Ace
17 days ago
Point 1)
Unfortunately, the servers run badly if you do a UI element per player. If you show the big capture icon, and the number of players in the capture point, and tick sounds, the server runs terribly after a while, especially since Season 3 came out. Battlefield Studios for some reason left that item out of their new conquest ticket ticker UI, so it is still not displayed to you. Like I said, if I went back to making that manually and showing that to each player, the server would run like crap. You can see the capture progress on your minimap, in the floating capture point icon in the capture area, and at the top of your screen by looking at the capture progress bar under the capture point icon. That is the best I can provide right now without tanking server performance.

Point 2)
With the new things broken by Battlefield Studios, all the bots need to spawn in the HQ every time for now. They can't teleport to the objective any more. That is why you see them using vehicles more, because that is where they are all spawning now. If I made them use vehicles less, they would take longer to get back into battle and the gameplay would be slower.
Celto107
Seasoned Traveler
17 days ago
The new UI update is awesome, thank you for udpating the colors :) 2 things though:

-Theres no big capturing icon that shows how many players are in a capture point like when you play in official multiplayer modes. Would be nice to have this to know if there are any enemies in the capture zone when youre inside of it trying to cap it
-Is there a way to reduce how many vehicles AI can use on the map at once? Was playing Casual Conquest (ZH6YV) Firestorm and there were quite literally 4 or 5 tanks on my team all being used by AI that just came out of nowhere. Would be nice if you could only have like 2 tanks out on each team at a time. Same thing with helicopters and jets. Golmud could have slightly more than 2 on each side of course
Ty_Ger07
Seasoned Ace
18 days ago
I am rolling out updates to all the conquest experiences to fix (as best as currently possible) what Battlefield Studios broke in yesterday's update. Server performance should improve, but be aware that bot objective behavior in the redsec maps will deteriorate. Since the update that came out yesterday, the bot's objective behavior is totally broken, so it will be improved since yesterday, at least.

New UI:
Ty_Ger07
Seasoned Ace
19 days ago
There were things broken in the update that came out today. Sorry. I will fix what I can, when I can. In redsec, the bots in conquest will be messed up until they fix it, but in non-redsec conquest, I can sort of fix it, but it won't be the same until they fix the underlying problem.
Ty_Ger07
Seasoned Ace
20 days ago
Oh, cool!

It wouldn't be hard to make more Vehicle TDM maps. It is one of the easiest modes to work in. I will consider it, as time allows.
Forty016
Seasoned Newcomer
20 days ago
We were playing the beach invasion all day yesterday. It was such a fun time and fun challenge.
Having more large scale TDM with the conquest maps without objectives would be awesome since we have been playing the same 3 maps. I appreciate the hard work!
Ty_Ger07
Seasoned Ace
20 days ago
I slyly added Elimination and Search and Destroy to the first post.

Here is an early play test video showing the function of MCOMs spawning, arming, despawning (when the other one is armed), and disarming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYmFkU0KafU
^^ RIP to both revive attempts in that video, lol.
I made some subtle changes and made the maps better since then, which you will see if you play the current version.
I also published the maps and code as open source:
https://bfportal.gg/experiences/4vs4-search-and-destroy-template/
https://bfportal.gg/experiences/4vs4-elimination-template/
https://discord.com/channels/870246147455877181/1520648236329730170
Ty_Ger07
Seasoned Ace
20 days ago
Thank you!

For the Beach Invasion one, I made some changes since the version you have played. I made some changes to the bots to balance the gameplay out a bit in certain areas, gave the defender's final spawn area spawn protection so attackers couldn't decide to farm kills instead of focusing on the objective, made the capture area bigger so that it was easier to have back and forth fights in that area without the area being so strongly held by one team or another, and put up some more cover in some areas.
But I haven't published that update yet, because I happened to win the recommended server lottery when I hosted it, and am 'farming' some likes first (so hopefully it won't just disappear and die as soon as it falls off peoples' lists). As I am sure you can imagine, it took a lot of time designing the level, and the code, and playtesting it, and changing it over and over again. The bot behavior changes throughout the match, the bot defense builds lines of defense and falls back to the next line of defense, and there are a lot of scripted events (not just the two obvious ones that you see) and monitoring of areas to make it play right and feel fair. It would be a shame if no one played it. That's why I have left it alone for a couple of weeks to get some likes first in its current published form. Without winning the lottery by chance, creators don't have much way of making their content visible to people and enjoyed. It's a shame how bad the server browser system currently is, and how much only certain creators are chosen by EA to have their content featured over and over again.
For the Vehicle TDM, I only made 3 maps, and didn't see people playing it much, so I didn't add more. I could.