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server browser not showing player count
Battlefield 2042 is garbage, can't play even bf4 anymore, server browser doesn't show player count properly, join to empty servers... Stupid ea...
It's not a perfect world...
And yes, the server browser in BF4 has actually never shown 100% correct player numbers at all times. There is quite some latency in the system, so the real live player count will naturally deviate from what you typically see on the screen. Not by much, but sometimes it can be significant as aka after a very long game round than many more players tend to leave in the break towards the next round. Hence, the server browser may here show you a full or near full server, while when joining many players may have quit in the meantime.
So not ideal, but just one of those things we have to deal with...
