BF4 Private Servers Getting Prioritized Over DICE Official Ones

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How do some privately owned servers receive players from quicksearch when they're not even started up? For example, you can join Large Scale Battles through quicksearch and instead of being directed to an official Dice server, you end up on a privately owned server that, aside from you, has no players in it. As a server admin, it feels unfair that I need to reach a minimum of 6 players before my server receives players from quicksearch, while these other servers seem to populate completely automatically.

Side note I'm on console and below I have attached a clip of me getting directed into a private & empty server.

darif159cris · Answer

Hello,It's definitely frustrating to experience that inconsistency with the quick search feature in Battlefield 4 on console. You're right, it does seem unfair that your privately owned server needs a player threshold to populate via quick search, while other private servers appear to get priority and pull players in from an empty state. Unfortunately, the exact mechanics of the Battlefield 4 quick search algorithm aren't publicly documented by DICE.

danisoff · Answer

Hello hellomothafacas,Every Battlefield 4 servers on PC is privately owned. Simply, you are joining private servers since there are no official servers.

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