EA Staff (Retired)Hi all - I had not been able to play any of the smaller modes for months (Xbox, Aus Ping site) until the last week when I cycled through other sites. Default ping never worked but so far I have found US Virginia to be reliable. Have managed to play Strike, Extraction, Blast & SA without problem. Tells me internet connection is slow (gone from Aus Site 23ms To Virginia 247ms) and may effect gameplay but I have not experience any lag nor dropouts. On the Aus site I can only play GA & HvsV. Cycling through ping sites might help some of you to get into games you want to play. Having said that, I don't believe that we (The Players) should have to spend time selecting ping sites. That should be an automatic function of the game and possibly a process that matchmaking should take care of.
On Matchmaking, I have had no real problems for the last 3 days. When going from one lobby to another, I have ended up in playable lobbies that filled. Sometimes the skill levels were uneven but generally evened up by the next map. Map rotation has been good and team sizing has only come into play once. Maybe I'm just lucky and have been able to play some enjoyable rounds.
Why is this match making system still on? The last "adjustments" EA made was to deleted half the ping sites/servers. Thanks no more local server for me and I am forced to always play on overseas servers with lag.
Map rotation is completely broken.
Squad system also broken as you can't play with friends in a squad thanks to match making.
Match making is also now throwing you into different game modes...
It's trash and the way EA/DICE is treating players is unacceptable.
It got slightly better for a little bit(at least for me), then yesterday evening it was the absolute worst its been. Literally every time at the end of every map when MM kicked in it didn't work, got the standard empty or near empty lobbies that don't fill. A fresh one for me though is that half the time it got 3/4 of the way through loading and then ended up back at the main menu not even an error message. Perfect thanks EA you finally listened. I had been moaning about those annoying and upsetting error messages blaming us for our Internet connection when it's not and is in fact the game/servers or whatever. Hopefully by now it's been realised I'm being sarcastic about what is clearly an error you guys have created that even your system doesn't recognise and won't produce an error message 👏. Sigh.
