EA Staff (Retired)They also abandoned the game on the exact day of an update and never returned either.
which in itself is odd, are EA actually admitting to the world that no one is playing the game? Why would anyone buy it?
I just got back from 2 weeks holiday, was hoping to open this thread to some kind of progress. I see there has been nothing.
I've been wondering if the "group matchmaking" issues are more of a "group" issue than a "matchmaking" issue. It's just that the problems seem to manifest themselves during the matchmaking phase of the games. The past few days have seen so many issues in my groups, primarily with people getting booted out of the game even though they stay in the group. This is not internet connectivity, but connectivity with the games themselves.
Once a person gets kicked to the menus during the matchmaking phase (when all others in the group remain in the game), it becomes impossible for us to join back in with the group. Here's some details on what we see:
Often (though not always) the next map begins to load. Then the Battlefront loading screen appears instead and the player is back in the social hub or menus.
In an attempt to regain connectivity with that game, someone may leave the group and ask for another invite. Usually, pushing "X" allows us to jump to a screen where we can hit "join" to accept the invite, but this option is dead. We can accept the invite by pushing the PS button and going to our notifications, but even then, accepting the invitation may or may not draw us into the game where our group is playing.
If we cannot join that game, it is worth noting that we CAN join other games with a different group of friends or start another game on our own, we just cannot join the game that we were just kicked out of. Even if we do manage to get in the queue if this game has filled up, we may or may not be drawn into the game when someone else leaves.
Restarting the game or rebooting the PS4 do not usually resolve this long term. If it happens to a person once in an evening, it will usually keep happening to them, even if they manage to get back into our games. We can all restart, and that person has trouble again.
It does not happen to the same person every night. It's been affecting different players in different regions every night. One person will have no trouble one night, but awful trouble the next night, when no one else is having problems. So it doesn't appear to be any one person's PS4 or EA account that is having issues, but a problem with the game itself.
It does not seem to be sequential, in other words, it doesn't seem to be affecting "the last person who joined", for example.
Group size and game mode seems irrelevant to whether this happens. Whether we have 8 people in a SA game or 4 people in an HvV game doesn't seem to change the issue.
Like I mentioned before, I don't really know if this is a matchmaking issue, but it always seems to start after a game ends and right at the point that game is matchmaking us that a player starts to experience problems.
