Solo/co op pve experience

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100% agree, but they won't, just another hard nosed kneejerk reaction from an arrogant greedy company, Makes promises, false sales pitch to get you money, would not surprise me they planned this from the get go .. 

I have had no issues with steam so my milage my vary. If it ever did come to that I would just have my my credit card company deal with it since I buy everything that I can with it. 1 year no hassle refund. All I would have to do is show them them what was released and what they changed and they would deal with the rest. I'm hoping for the best still but at this point I suspect its all gas to a new BF each year with more COD style traits each release. 

agreed 100% 

I'm a textbook Battledad. I don't have enough gaming time to play against people who are actually good. I was having a great time playing solo vs bots learning how to play all the vehicles. I haven't touched the game since they removed the ability to make a PvE server with 1 player to start in Portal.

I initially though this ability was broken out of incompetence, now I think it was done deliberately. They definitely are not playing the long game with the community. I certainly won't be buying the next game after feeling scammed on this one.

You can still 1 player start a server against bots. It just takes more work from the creator.

Here are solo start experiences I have made for you to try out:

Large conquest, 3 large maps full of vehicles, mostly-faithful reproductions of popular 'vanilla' conquest maps to give you a legitimate experience that will train you for playing the same maps against humans, solo start, team-switching enabled in the game to allow you to play with or against friends, and custom bots filling the server up to 48 players: ZH6YV

Small conquest, free-to-play Golf Course/Clubhouse (unless EA decides it is no longer offered to non-paying players), solo start, infantry only (besides golf carts and fourwheelers), custom bots: ZC2RY

Team deathmatch, 2 free-to-play (unless EA decides otherwise) maps, light transport vehicles, custom bots: Z91ZJ

I have other experiences and hardcore or softcore versions of most of my experiences. Just search for more by creator.

Like any other server, as humans join, the number of bots deplete. You may host any of them with a password if you don't want any humans in your game.

Note: if the server you host has a lot of up time (closing in on 100 hours or more), you will probably have lag spikes and weird AI behavior. Rehost until you get a good server.  Server up time can be seen by turning network performance bar on to 'always' in settings -> system -> network. The right-most value is total server up time since it rebooted.