Edit: Matchmaking (via the multiplayer tab) is currently horrendous in low player count regions. Players are scattered across different games/disbanded after a game ends. This often results in players being thrown into empty lobbies which are populated mostly by bots. This is especially an issue in regions that have a relatively low number of players.Portal is NOT a good alternative because the Portal servers have a much lower tickrate (30 Hz). Also, not all servers hosted on Portal are visible on the Portal server browser, and understandably so, because the browser would otherwise be cluttered. The problem is that players on South African servers struggle to find portal games because there is no option to select Africa as a search region.Please fix the portal visibility issue and the matchmaking. Edit 2: There are enough players in the low player count regions for full games. It's just that the current matchmaking algorithm is unnecessarily splitting those players into multiple games Dice plzzz

I suspect they introduced too many servers vs players, so we have, let's say 512 players split between 30 servers, instead of 512 players split between 8-10 servers.It has been terrible and disappointing. The Beta was amazing, full games, even some with queues to join friends. Now it's just empty 8v8 servers with bots fulling. Experience is kinda ruined, if it can't get fixed in soon I assume people might just give up on this game in our country.

Yeah it is pretty much Botfield 6

Hi EA team. I am from South Africa and have found that no matter which gamemode i play. The game throws me into an empty lobby. I wait for a minute for players to join, usually around 12 people join but because we have a lower player count in south africa than say Europe. The game thinks people are taking too long to join and starts after a minute of waiting, it then fills the game with bots. So its like one 3rd of the lobby is real people the rest of the lobby are bots. This is really frustrating as we do have enough people to fill the lobby as usually at the end of the round its mostly filled with real people. This is a problem as we are all just playing against bots even though there are enough players to fill matches. Only way of fixing it that I can think of is to let the game when a new round start take 4 times longer before it starts filling with bots. Please fix this EA as I love the game but majority bot lobbies are kinda ruining the game.

Ngl, even just a Server Browser for official servers would help us low player count regions. That way we can queue in full servers like the old days

Yeah normal mp queueing is filled with 80% bots, servers are hard to find, and Africa needs to be added in regions to make servers easier to find

Portal Server Visibility/Matchmaking Issue (low player count regions)

63 Replies

S3SSioN_SoL
Seasoned Ace
3 hours ago
Turns out the 30hz Portal servers is actually a bug according to the Lead Producer for Battlefield 6. Verified Modes in Portal are not running at 60hz tick rate. | EA Forums - 12796361
The matchmaking problem continued throughout the weekend, with lobbies continuously being split apart. I tried the 30hz Portal server that was running, and it was an absolutely awful experience, hit reg issues, dying around corners. I would rather play against bots at 60hz than deal with that.
lroln
Newcomer
6 hours ago
had a ton of fun in the beta and launch day, but now it's a freaking ghost town for some reason. This will definitely kill the game if not fixed soon.
BattlebornNomad
22 hours ago
Playing form Central Asian and I am being thrown to East Asia and Europe servers. Yet, I would much prefer playing on Europe due to better connection, higher players count and less communication issue. For some reason friend of mine who lives 10-15 minutes from me doesnt have this problem

DICE please, do something about region matchmakng
Metal_Daryl97
Seasoned Ace
2 days ago
Clearly, a significant portion of the playerbase are experiencing this issue. I hope dice gives our feedback proper consideration. I think the issue would be solved if they add some kind of condition for the lobby disbanding "only split lobbies if there's an adequate number of players in other lobbies". Not a programmer xD
OldKing_Red
Seasoned Novice
2 days ago
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Can any of the community managers respond to this please with some kind of update or response to this please.
SergeiTheHacker
Seasoned Newcomer
2 days ago
I am having the same issue. I was really looking forward to playing, but this completely ruins the experience for me. I gave it 1h30 and decided to refund until this gets sorted :(
Johrdan360
Rising Traveler
2 days ago
I paid a premium for this game, what are you guys at dice doing?
darkplayer1020
Seasoned Newcomer
2 days ago
This is a super frustrating issue that me and most possibly everyone playing in middle east, are facing since lunch. The meaning of "" multiplayer " has basically faded, every single time i press matchmaking 90 percent of the time its filled with bots with couple players on each side. I literally queued 4 times and always landed on an empty server with just me being the real player. On top of that, if you decide to turn off crossplay, the situation gets even worse. There are some modes that I haven't touched since lunch because the matchmaking is faulty from scratch.

First of all, the servers do not wait for players to join, after a limited time set, it automatically fills with bots even though if it waits a little longer, players are joining in, the game has literally separated everyone from each other and put all of them against bots instead of all being in one game, one server

Secondly, the server should never ever disband after the round ends, this is very frustrating to go into a matchmaking again, when there are literally players in the server already, and if some of them leave, the game can add more players during the match.

If fixing all above is a time consuming task, at least give us the option to select a region to matchmaking so we can have a larger player pool.

These issues are ignored and it has been a terrible experience since lunch.
Obasi324
Rising Novice
3 days ago
there are still SA servers but for some reason they are all filled with bots
Obasi324
Rising Novice
3 days ago
It's insane that we pay full price for this game, but aren't allowed to have the same experience as other players because of our region, the fix to this is simple, give us an option to change our matchmaking region, or just have the matchmaking work like it did in the beta.

I feared that this would happen with no server browser, but i was hopeful because of the beta, if i knew the game would turn out like this on release, I wouldn't have bought it