Tactical Conquest servers are not spinning up in North America.

Hello SourceError​,

The number of servers is directly related to player demand. For example, this morning there was only one EU DICE server, but last night there were nine. It’s purely demand-driven.

I also think that something isn't working right. Asian PC players are the largest user-base in the game, surpassing any other region and platform by a factor of 2 at the very least, and despite this even they are struggling to get matchmaking to reliably spin up Tactical Conquest servers. I'm not convinced it is purely a matter of low demand like danisoff​ is saying.

I'm in Europe on PC and I haven't played Tactical Conquest in a while, but this week I gave it a go and got negative results all around: matchmaking always put me on a Community Game—often one with 200% damage and not even running the proper map rotation. Only exception was one time when I was placed on a DICE server across the ocean in pre-round with a handful of other out-of-region players.

This is not the expected behavior at all; if there are no servers for a given playlist, matchmaking should be starting one, not throw players into a completely unrelated lobby.

Let's not forget that about a month ago, out of the blue, the Multiplayer menu screen broke (game mode tiles disappeared), and it has been broken ever since. On top of that, for every round I played today the game couldn't fetch the reports. It's evident that things in the back-end are getting flaky and it's probably time for some percussive maintenance on the servers.

Historically, if there were no Tactical Conquest servers in my region and I tried to play Tactical Conquest, the game would spin up a new Tactical Conquest server and put me on it by myself where I'd have to wait for it to populate.  That behavior has not been occurring for the last couple of weeks.  This seems to be a container configuration problem, not a demand problem.

I did a little more experimenting tonight.  I noticed a single NA Tactical Conquest server in the server browser and joined it.  There was one player on it.  He told me that he had started it by selecting play from the Multiplayer>Tactical Conquest screen.  Unfortunately for him, he was located in Brazil and instead of joining a regionally local server he inadvertently spun up a North American server.  I waited for about 90 minutes for the server to populate.  We saw the occasional player join but invariably they were from either South America or Europe.  Eventually I was disconnected from the server with an error message about losing connection to the EA servers and greeted with a button to "Go Online".  Once I did, I tried to start another NA Tactical Conquest server as the one I was on disappeared, but instead was placed into a BoB server in South America.  After trying many times to start an NA server, I had one fluke where another player was placed into my squad and an NA server did start.  When I asked friends from NA to attempt to join the server by hitting Play from the Tactical Conquest screen, they were placed into the South American BoB server.

There is something scuffed with the container manager and match maker which explains why we went from having a half dozen NA tactical conquest servers every day to zero for the last couple of weeks.  Can someone please look into this?

I've tried again with the following circumstances: morning time in Europe, zero DICE Tactical Conquest servers in any region, and zero players on Community Games with "tactical conquest" in their name.

I hit quickplay for Tactical Conquest and after ~2 minutes the matchmaker sent me to a Community Game with 0 players, instead of starting an Official server. So I quit, queued up for Strategic Conquest and it put me in a 200% damage Community Game immediately.

On the contrary, matchmaking for Outpost with 0 existing servers almost immediately started a new Official Outpost server in my region. This is the behavior I would expect, not being thrown around unrelated servers.

Sorry but this answer (danisoff's demand suggestion) was never a solution.  Not sure who is marking this but it wasn't me.

I had the same bullsh*t reply to a post I made about DICE servers in the Asia region, where I live and play. There are far more players on BF V than on BF 2042! There is something going on that EA are not telling us about and are trying to just blow smoke up our arses about it.

Yup, same in South America. 

All servers for a month, the only populated ones is Strategic.

Please Dice fix.

Tactical Conquest servers are still broken.   I'm on the east coast in North America.  Currently as I post there are no [DICE] tactical conquest servers in North America.  When I hit PLAY in the Multiplayer>Tactical Conquest menu, it should start an empty server an put me on it.  I just tried it and I was placed into a 24/7 Operation Underground server in Japan.  Please fix this.

A few hours ago I captured an obvious example of the matchmaker misbehaving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abm25CcneM8. The video is 12 minutes long (with a lot of painfully long black screens...) so here is a summary with timestamps:

Matchmaking for Tactical Conquest ignored an actual Official Tactical Conquest server in my region (shown at 1:19) and instead placed me on an unrelated Community Game running Breakthrough. This happened three times in a row (shown at 0:02, 1:40, 3:03) even though the Tactical Conquest server was sitting there waiting for more players the entire time. If this alone isn't enough to raise a few eyebrows, then nothing else will.

Eventually the matchmaker decided that the actual Tactical Conquest server was fine so it directed me there (4:57), but then on a subsequent attempt I was sent to another unrelated Community Game on the other side of the world! (6:20).

Testing with Outpost—a different playlist that is way less popular than Tactical Conquest and had zero servers running at the time (9:44)—produced the expected results: the matchmaker formed a squad with just me in it (no other players queuing up, actual low demand), then after a couple of minutes it spawned a fresh new server for me to seed (12:13), instead of throwing me on a completely unrelated Community Game.

Something is clearly wrong with the matchmaker.  danisoff​ please forward this to a CM if you can.