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Seasoned Novice

4 months ago

Matchmaking breaks every other match when on same network

Me and my fiance have paid £130 for 2 copies of the game, Im PC Steam she is Xbox series X, just for matchmaking to break every other game. Either it loads just one of us into a game or neither of u...

New Traveler

3 months ago

Can't play battlefield with friends on the same network | EA Forums - 6989392

Just found this thread which had no solution, but was answered by EA_Leeuw :

Hey @Coldpawn,

This is most likely because all of you are in one place, which means that all of you are using one ( 1 ) actual network address (IP address) to connect to the game servers.

I am not sure if there is a fix for this, also mainly because of Battlefield 2042 being a cross-play/cross-progression etc. game I think so many people connecting from one ( 1 ) actual network address is asking for trouble, so to say.

So it seems there is no solution right now. Maybe the devs will fix it, but they didn't in the last title and I haven't seen any official acknowledgement that it's an issue with this game so far so...

OskooI_007

Legend

3 months ago

Meatlumps I wonder if BF6 is compatible with IPv6. That would solve the shared IP address issue because there's usually no IP address sharing with IPv6. Every device gets it's own public IP address.