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coffee_creature
Rising Traveler
2 months ago

Portal completely ruined with the new player count requirements

DICE, when you reduced the minimum player count requirement to 1 for verified experiences with no bot backfill, that was the best thing you could possibly do for portal, because at that point it worked just like a normal server browser in BF3 and 4, which is exactly what everybody wanted you to do when they asked for a server browser, by the way.

Now with the requirement for 20 players, any verified experience that veers even slightly off the beaten path has no chance of ever happening, because gathering 20 people in one place will take an hour or more, and nobody will sit in the waiting room with nothing to do for that long.

At least yesterday, people could play hide and seek on the maps or whack-a-mole with the objectives while they wait for more players.

Kindly trust your customers because clearly, they know what they want and you don't.

19 Replies

  • I just don't get why a Portal server would need a minimum player count for round start. It's not official matchmaking, you cannot apply the same rules to it, it's not gonna work.

  • "DICE, when you reduced the minimum player count requirement to 1 for verified experiences with no bot backfill, that was the best thing you could possibly do for portal"

    It was first and last good decision by EA/DICE in long long long time.

  • This is how they killed Battlefield 1942 and all the Mods.  By the way that game is still playable. Zombie's bots who cares.  It's for fun!!!

    20 people doing the same game at the same time those days are few and far between.

     

  • Back in the Battlefield 2 days. I had to rent a dang server. To Big for their britches. I want to play against bots and friends. Been gaming for 20 plus years why can't I have a copy of my game why can't I play the game how I want. Control it's all about Control.

  • Bumping the thread. Please revert back to 1 player to start the match for NO BOT BACKFILL servers. Or at least 8 to start but not 20. 20 players to start the match is too hard, we don't get matchmaking to feed our servers. I understand that 8 player requirement is to combat xp farms but that shouldn't apply to pure pvp servers. 

  • Agreed, its a crazy decision with no basis of decent reasoning.

    I just want to play the game as I choose

  • TheBulldogFan's avatar
    TheBulldogFan
    Seasoned Newcomer
    11 days ago

    Agreed. I’ve been waiting for them to address this for months. I suppose it cuts into their profit if they allowed bots for solo lobbies, hence the dead silence. Portal bot lobbies (standard rules, not XP farming) is all I’m interested in honestly, so for the time being I think I’ll clear up the space on my hard drive.

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