I was excited for portal, want to try newly created Experiences, until met with this freaking error!
I'm disappointed, what's the point of portal if you can't paly your own Experiences.
Get more servers, EA apparently is a 55 billion dollar company!
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I was able to launch but now the Exp from weapons and actually vehicles is 0. So it doesn't make any sense at all.
So you can just gain levels on account and complete challenges. Will it make people leave portal, don't think so. Will it make people leave the game, because they cannot play own style and have even a bit of progression, definitely.
Well I was playing yesterday and the day before on my portal server set to 32 players but also only filled in 24, 12 per side. At least I got to play, no issue launching server and change servers.
Today, it is back poop as usual. Cannot launch my server anymore. I still can set to 16 max players but the default to start the match is 16 and it will only populate 12 like before. So back to no playing
How incompetent does EA have to be for this to be going on for so long? Sure wish I could refund this until they get their poop in a group and fix this bunk!
This is so annoying because I spend literal weeks building a coop game mode only to not be able to play it with my friends because I can’t start a simple 8 person server (or even less) and then they return the game for a refund because it doesn’t work. EA/DICE fix this issue please. I see so many empty servers or servers that are just spawning people in backwards to be mowed down for what ever reason. Let make the whole « community experience » actually a playable experience where really cool game modes can be made, or whole storylines written. It’s the only reason I buy bf games is to play with friend with tactics. I don’t care if it takes for ever to unlock things, I don’t need it. Just let me host a game that my friends can join.
It is no error, it is by design. It shows up as a "Line Item" every quarter and as always profitable. It is an "Account Modulator" and they use it to balance out the spread sheet. To manipulate the numbers. Loose money one place turn up the scam to offset it.
"XP Farming" is not a term recognized by any Court anywhere. It is not even a thing. It is a device used to intimidate.
Disabling XP progress in portal completely defeats the purpose of having it in the game. People play portal for custom rotations and an actual server browser. You take their ability to earn XP away from portal, they'll just stop playing the game altogether. Even on non-bot servers, you won't ever be able to get a server up as no one will want to play if they can't level up.
Good info, but I wouldn't want to play Breakthrough on 32 players. IMO 48 even felt a little light.
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.
Your last point is spot on. The time theft is absurd. I spent all this time setting up a custom experience, that I now can't use. Time that I put up and took down a server repeatedly the first day the game was out to get the settings right, when the feature actually worked for me. Time spent sifting through servers made by other users, clicking on a server to view its map rotation, seeing that it's only 1 map over and over again, backout out of that, only to have the game completely reset the filters I just set up. It's so frustrating and such a waste of time that I've gone to play other games for the most part.
And I'm not even setting up a 1v32 "bot farm" or giving players boosted health or anything. My server is default settings for the most part, with a custom rotation, a few gadgets disabled that I find annoying, and bot backfill so it's not empty when there aren't as many active players. My Rush server is up fine; I just can't host Breakthrough or Conquest, and Breakthrough is the mode I most wanted to play.
And finally, maybe people wouldn't feel the need to "XP Farm" if they hadn't made the weapon unlock system so nonsensical or the attachment unlocks such a grind. For weapons, why do you have to get to a certain level to even unlock the challenge to get the weapon? Make it one or the other, the weapon is either unlocked when reaching a certain level, or you have to do a challenge to get it. As for weapon attachments, someone on Reddit said you have to get 3000 kills to max a gun out. In BF4 you needed I think 300 kills to unlock everything for a weapon, but certainly no more than 500.
I agree BF3/4 system would have been better. But custom persistent servers are necessary, and they promised it to us this way. They need to make it work as is or institute rent a server again. I can't even join most user created portal servers on Breakthrough or Conquest, and I haven't been able to host my own since launch day. If they are unable to fix this or provide a viable alternative, it's false advertising.
