I have found that if you set it to 16 players per team or less, it will usually work. Anything more, even 17 per team, and I get the global game quota exceeded error every single time.
BUT, with conquest it is saying that 32 players is minimum required to start a match and will only backfill with bots up to 24 players and will never start. Rush and Breakthrough have a lower minimum and will run. Can’t play conquest at all. Extremely frustrating.
I’ve always loved playing solo against AI bots in PvE mode since Battlefield 2042, and I’ve noticed something strange: compared to the first Saturday after Battlefield 6 was released, the total number of AI-controlled bots in MY EXPERIENCES (all verified) has dropped from 64 to 48 when the match starts. That means each team is missing 8 AI soldiers, and the difference in gameplay fun is huge, because the maps now feel much emptier than before when each team had 32 bots.
It’s also almost impossible to host a match now because Portal is overcrowded with XP-farm servers. The situation is a bit better in RUSH mode, since it requires far fewer bots and matches start more easily.
I imagine — or rather, I hope — that this reduction from 64 to 48 bots is only temporary, since managing AI bots consumes a lot of resources. Hopefully, once the developers implement the upcoming measures to better manage Portal servers, they’ll restore the full 64-bot count.
Yeah they reduced the Rush servers as well. My Rush server is set at 32 players and shows up as 32 players in game, but it only ever populates to 24.
I enjoyed bots at first, but it became boring to me. I've had my most fun on bot backfill servers that have like 6 human players per each team.
