Empty servers - Almost every game mode
I'm trying to play other gamemodes to complete missions, but I cant find full servers, 80%, 70%, ... even 10%. Only the regular deathmatch is available with about 20 players. Is this a BUG or empty ...
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Same here. Seems all I can find is a Walker match. Even them I'M waiting 10+ minutes.
OPEN LETTER to EA -
"Report a Bug" gave me zero options to contact you, instead, redirecting me to your community help page. That for one, is EXTREMELY frustrating. Support forums are the FIRST place I look when I have a problem. Well sure enough, my problem is there, and it's completely unanswered by anyone. Pretty unhelpful. So I go to reddit and look around, google, anywhere, nothing. So I finally turn to contact you, and you send me right back to the damn forums where I started. Can you see my anger? Am I unjustified? I paid $60 for a game that wont work and you drag me through a complex support menu that shoves me into a useless forum.
Other than my issue with you unethical business practice there, I'm having real trouble connecting to any server in Star Wars: Battlefront for the PC. Every time I try to connect I wait for like 3-5 min before it puts me in an empty lobby where I wait in vain for 39 other people to pop in. This has been happening all the time, for multiple game modes. Can you provide me with statistics on the population of your game modes? Are they truly this desolate? Am I the only person in the world trying to connect to a game at that given time? I've already tried opening ports in my router (which i took 2 hours out of my life to teach myself how to do) and it didn't help. I'm using a Linksys router and it only has 10 openings for Port Range Forwarding and I can't enter in each one you recommend (your recommendations are quite confusing, it took me forever to figure out what to do with the block of numbers you provide). Are some ports more important than others? Given that I have 10 slots, what would be your top 10?
Please help me out here, I don't want to feel like an idiot for spending my money on an EA game that I can't play (I can and do play many other online games with no problems whatsoever). I read the back of the game box and it doesn't say anything about Forwarding ports in your router under the game requirements, so I already feel cheated.
This issue needs a bump and a devs attention.
Is this not the Technical Support forums, you know where you receive support for technical issues? Cause I and many others here can't find servers with people in them. It's a bit of a problem in a multiplayer only game.
No server at all, no game mode playable. What a * game. This is the worst matchmaking ever, and I say that after playing GTA-IV and GTA-V.
This needs instant patching, if not the players will go back to Battlefield 4 or whatever.
OK so now I know what works for me. I did not have to connect directly to my modem instead of my router nor did I have to disable my firewall. I noticed that the windows firewall was allowing all ports and pretty much routers and firewalls don't need to be configured to join or host a server any more so it's not helpful to tell people what ports the game uses.
It is the matchmaking system itself. It is exceedingly rare for some people or all people to find a populated server. I have found that drop zone and heroes vs. villains sometimes have matches I can join depending on time of day (drop zone during the day and heroes vs. villains at night pacific time).
I suggest you continue trying to connect to servers. It is helpful to know that you do NOT HAVE TO WAIT forever to find a game! If a game exists you will connect immediately so after the search goes down to 50-60% I would stop trying and attempt another game mode.
Never select an individual map: just search for games by game mode or else you will truly never find a match.
Don't bother configuring your firewall or router because it's the game and not your configuration. Keep trying and don't give up but don't spend a long time every time you start up the game because you will just get frustrated. Try drop zone and heroes vs. villains and if you don't connect try a couple other modes and then quit and try again in a few hours.
That's how I got some gametime in.
