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 servers? Because if it is empty, DICE should add bots to the multiplayer gamemodes URGENTLY!
Region: Brazil
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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.
Also if I were you I would hold on to this game until it works because it's a great game and it has amazing graphics. It's very fun and it's different from Battlefield. Also I do not see the overwhelming need to pay for additional content out of the box like people were saying.
EA continues to do nothing? no answers to these problems?....
But the question is:
1) Servers have problems ???
OR
2) This game is already dead???
Same problem here. And I can't even ask for a refund because of the time lapse, but I can't play until now!!! I know why EA leaved Steam and created Origin, so we cannot rank the games or comment this kind of problems to avoid other people to face the same problem! This is one reason of why I NEVER buy a Season Pass, and I will not buy any DLC until this bug is fixed.
The problem is their match making system. They even acknowledged this fact last year and attempted to patch it, which made things even worse... The problem is compounded further by the population dwindling away everyday. It's so low on PC, that I don't think it will recover no matter what they do.
I'm just amazed that they've made a choice to ignore issue. No word on the matter in a month at least.
EA - "Games fine, nothing to see here"
Out of curiosity, where are you located in the world?
Battlefront does some process in the background where it pings servers, and only allows you to join games running on servers that it deems acceptable.
If your internet latency (ping) is too high, or you are in a remote location far away from a server, you won't be able to play very well.
I'm in south africa and during quiet days I can't join any games either.
No port forwarding should be required (Port forwarding is for inbound connections, you don't have to port forward based on the inherent nature of dedicated servers and how you connect to them.)
Please visit www.speedtest.net and allow it to run a speedtest to the nearest capital city of an EA country (or if you know where the servers are located.)
I've seen plenty of games do this where they wont let you matchmake on a server if your ping to that server is above a pre-set limit. This is done to avoid people connecting to international servers and giving people a poor gameplay experience.
(personally I think not playing at all is a worse experience.)
Stats from http://swbstats.com/
