Request for improvements to Portal mode.

Let Portal servers start with 1 player FFS or let Portal servers start solo with reduced XP. "Play how you want" is how they advertised the game. Arrogance or incompetence has BF bleeding players from a title that could have been amazing if Dice/EA were capable of listening to their community.

It would be great news if the game's developers decided to return to their original design (abandoning the current restrictions) for Portal mode, giving players greater freedom to create their own matches. However, we know this is impossible due to the farm servers, which put such a heavy load on EA's servers that the entire system eventually crashes. We already experienced this during launch.

For months, many of us have been asking the developers to change this, to create a solo/co-op mode similar to the one in the previous Battlefield 2042 game, where players could play peacefully against bots—without the stress of server downtime and the appearance of a cheater who ruins the experience (as happens in Casual Breakthrough mode).

Most of us, including older veterans, want to play Battlefield for pure fun, not for challenges or achievements – no one cares anymore whether you're level 1 or 10,000, whether you have colorful clothes, maxed out your gear, or just playing the basics. Coming home after a long day at work, you take care of your family, and in your free time, you just want to have fun with friends in a game that will give you positive emotions, not irritation and anger.

When you play online with other players these days, you quickly realize that most of them play solely for the stats, without any teamwork, cooperation, or focus on achieving specific goals assigned to a given game mode – which, as we know, usually ends up happening: you do everything to win, and everyone else doesn't care.

Sorry, but I don't find this kind of game interesting. This may sound old-fashioned, but in previous installments like Battlefield 3 and 4, players had a different mentality; the battlefield situation forced them to take specific actions if they wanted to achieve anything. The current maps in Battlefield 6 are designed for players to basically sit in one place and camp - something players take advantage of quite often.

This game has the potential to be even better. Players will return if the developers finally listen to our requests. They'll keep their word regarding the Portal mode, which was and is one of the main motivators for players to buy Battlefield 6 – so they can play how they want and enjoy it. If they unlock its full potential and develop its features, I'm convinced that most players who left the game will quickly return.

There are heaps of options to prevent farming servers and still allow solo PvE game play.

1. Solo mode like 2042
2. Cap the maximum XP in a round to prevent farming
3. Alter the XP rate for all Portal servers
4. Alter the XP rate for servers with 1 player
5. Allow 1 player to start the game, but no XP unless other players join

Unfortunately, EA/Dice doesn't care about players like us.

There are many possible solutions to this problem, although the simplest would be to add a game mode like Battlefield 2042 (solo/coop) – with the same rules, or even limitations, as its Portal mode.

There's no point in trying to force things, looking for solutions when they're readily available. However, it's noticeable that the developers themselves have also changed their design mentality. Instead of drawing inspiration and building on elements and systems from previous successful Battlefield installments, they're acting as if they were reinventing a new technology that has existed and worked well for decades.

And here arises a question that I would like to ask directly to the team that is designing this game: is it due to lack of knowledge about previous games in the series, lack of real/practical experience or technical skills to do it?

If the production is costing more than before, and not one but four studios are involved in it, and the final effect is deplorable - then something is probably not right here.

Another month has passed and no significant changes have been made to PORTAL mode, so I reiterate my request above to make PORTAL mode more user-friendly for those who want to play peacefully/for fun, fighting bots in full/evenly matched squads.

Many people in the Battlefield community have been waiting for these changes from the very beginning. We're not interested in foolishly farming points or levels that have no meaning here (farm servers are being built one after another right under our noses and no one is doing anything about it.) – we want the options and fun we had at the beginning... and then it was taken away from us.

Another month and another patch, which, in my humble opinion, only brings more chaos to the game than anything positive – it looks like you haven't actually tested it in real combat at all.

Player numbers continue to plummet, do you even care about this game attracting players?

You claim to listen to us, the players, but from what we see, these are just empty words, unsupported by anything.

If you want new player inflow rates to skyrocket, then give us what you promised from the very beginning – the PORTAL mode you showed, talked about, and let us try at launch, only to quickly take it all away.

Now official servers/games are a mix of bots, cheaters, and various technical issues that demotivate people from playing this game. Players are fed up with this nonsense and are leaving in frustration.

If your server infrastructure cannot handle this, then give us the opportunity (as in previous games in the series) to rent an external server where we could play in peace and enjoy the game on our own terms. Because we clearly can't do that here, thanks to the stupid restrictions that scammers/farmers laugh at, and you can't stop them.