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Terra_AS6
Seasoned Novice
5 days ago

MATCHMAKING ON LOW POP REGIONS

Hi EA team,

I would like to raise an important issue affecting Battlefield 6 players in South Africa and other low population regions. The current matchmaking and server browser system is making it extremely difficult for us to enjoy the game as intended.

NO SERVER BROWSER FOR OFFICIAL SERVERS AND INEFFICIENT MATCHMAKING

Without a server browser or efficient matchmaking, players in smaller regions are being spread thin across multiple servers. This often results in lobbies with only 8-12 real players and the rest filled with bots. It is frustrating because we actually have a decent player base in Southern Africa, but we are being distributed inefficiently by the matchmaking system. A proper server browser or a more efficient matchmaking system would allow us to join active local servers, play with real players, and keep matches populated more naturally.

PORTAL SERVERS: NO REGION FILTER OR FAVOURITES OPTION
In Portal, there is currently no way to:

  1. Favorite or save servers
  2. Filter by region (Africa is not listed as an option)
  3. Host a Portal Server, we have ZERO severs in south africa (Global Quota error)

Because of this, the community cannot easily find or return to locally hosted servers. There are no  South African community servers available, but they remain mostly empty because players cannot find them through the current interface.

PROPOSED SOLUTIONS:

  1. Add a server browser for official servers or look into a more efficient matchmaking system designed for less populated regions. 
  2. Re-introduce game server Ques, it guarantees full lobby.
  3. Include Africa as a region filter in Portal.
  4. Allow players to favourite or bookmark servers for quick access.

These changes would make a huge difference for the player experience in South Africa and surrounding regions. We love Battlefield and want to stay engaged, we just need better access to each other and our local servers.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

7 Replies

  • Terra_AS6's avatar
    Terra_AS6
    Seasoned Novice
    5 days ago

    I encourage everyone from Low Population regions to post about this issue too so that we get the attention. 

  • HoloKasT77's avatar
    HoloKasT77
    Seasoned Newcomer
    4 days ago

    From South Africa aswell and having this issue, have to play in EU with 150ms ping when there seems to be tons of servers in South Africa but with 8-16 players each.

  • TriCam0110's avatar
    TriCam0110
    Seasoned Newcomer
    4 days ago

    Even if persistent matching as the simplest solution was added, when a quickmatch game does fill up, it won't divide the players into different games next match 

  • Agreed. Persistent lobbies and an official server browser are sorely needed.

  • Str8e1ght's avatar
    Str8e1ght
    Seasoned Newcomer
    2 days ago

    Yes, second this. From South Africa, its massively annoying, tons of players in SA, but constant bot servers because they split the player base into different servers after the match ends.

  • Also had this issue, no option to filter South African or Middle East servers. Please add filter options for those.

  • 69thBuLLeTZA's avatar
    69thBuLLeTZA
    Seasoned Newcomer
    2 days ago

    Yep, this is a real problem on the South African servers.

    Plenty of players, but they are not kept in the same "lobby" between games.

    This leads to full servers being split into multiple games for the next round, inevitably leading to bot-filled matches.

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