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OsamaBinLiften29
Rising Novice
6 days ago

Squads Frozen After Matchmaking

My friend and I have been playing alot of squads. I prefer to run the offense while he runs the defense. We currently get stuck in the black loading screen between the lobby matchmaking screen and the field/gameplay. After a week of troubleshooting this only seems to happen when I play offense and he plays defense. 

 

Oddly enough, the game loads just fine when we queue for trios. Myself as offense and him as defense. So why doesn't it work in duos? We have swapped our lineups around dozens of times. Going for the generate best lineup, removing players who play two secondary positions. We have both reinstalled fresh copies of the game, we don't run any extra apps, we communicate over discord on our PCs while we play on PS5 even. 

 

This is somewhat frustrating because we've both spent money on the game and to unlock new better players. The longer we are locked out the more devalued our cards become meaning we've wasted money on packs we can't even use. 

 

It's not a network issue since I can play the defense and he can play offense, it also works in trios just fine. The only thing that isn't the same from duos to trios is my friends team name, and stadiums. We've changed all of that around aside from the team name (will try that tonight) and haven't had any luck. 

 

It's been about a week and half of troubleshooting for us now and we haven't been able to lift this curse. I contacted the support line and while Alvin was very helpful, they didn't have a fix there. If anyone knows of any fixes please reach out! I want to get back to slingin the pigskin for pick 6's! 

 

 

9 Replies

  • Drewiordan23's avatar
    Drewiordan23
    New Novice
    2 days ago

    You just found the way it I don’t get frozen anymore on duos tell everyone 

  • I found a solution for mine.  It’s a lineup bug.  Create a new lineup and manually add in each position (do not generate new lineup).  Try to limit your out-of-position players and make all specialists come from your players in your lineup.  Not sure what the issue was, but a new lineup worked for me and my friend. 

  • AlexOkey43's avatar
    AlexOkey43
    Seasoned Newcomer
    3 days ago

    This was happening to me too. Turns out, I had 2 of the same Stand Outs strategy items on (defense and program). Changed that and it’s working for me now. Hope this helps! 

  • I have heard nothing. Looking everywhere, only hope is an update for this issue that they haven't acknowledged while our cards grow old and get power-crept as the weeks go on. 

  • abcPL7Mie22KiS's avatar
    abcPL7Mie22KiS
    Seasoned Newcomer
    4 days ago

    Same issue. Any update from EA about when I will actually be able to play duos? Trios is working just fine.

  • Nice to see others are having the same issue, unfortunate nobody has found a solution though. Seems to be alot of bugs that are game breaking to the ultimate team mode. 

  • I been having this since the maintenance nobody wants to help or know what’s wrong trios works fine but duos just look at the loading screen 

  • Same issue for 3 days.  Tried all combinations of friends playing different roles, but nothing works.  Sometimes it happens in duos, then trios will work.  Sometimes trios doesn’t work, and duos will.  Sometimes neither works.  It’s really strange.  Knowing EA, and based on similar issues with CFB25, it’s likely something weird like having a non-starter in a specialist position.  I’ve tried a few things with no success.

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