Official Matchmaking not populating small modes with AI to start the round
‼️STILL AFFECTING MATCHMAKING AFTER SEASON 1 UPDATE‼️
This is the same bug that had its page locked: Latest Game Update Broke Matchmaking!!!!!! | EA Forums - 12808903
In summary there's 3 bugs affecting Official Matchmaking servers:
1. Bot Backfill is not filling small team modes to full capacity. Making CQC modes unplayable.
2. Bot Backfill is not filling large team modes to 64/64 capacity. Causing imbalance and empty games.
3. Bot Backfill is not replacing bots after a human leaves the server.
4. Possible bug with "Casual Breakthrough" or just an oversight, the game doesn't start until there's 8 players in the game. This is counter-intuitive.
These bugs are not isolated incidents, they're widespread continuously affecting the global span of servers.
Domination from 1st Nov 2025 where Bots never filled the lobby:
Low player count regions can't play small modes because bot fill is not working as intended. As players join, the bots are kicked and the round never starts. It seems to affect smaller modes. Larger modes are also not bot backfilling to capacity leading to "empty games".
Even when players join, it never begins the game until it's absolutely full, and now that RedSec is out, these lobbies almost never fill up with humans. As the players join, the bots are kicked out the game thus defeating the point of bot fill. This severe bug is not yet fixed, leading to lower player count regions being unable to play small team modes.
Furthermore this is part of another bug which continues into larger lobbies, where bots vanish and reduce the overall player count on a team for every human that joins, they should instead fill every single remaining slot on the team up to 32. If the server has 32 humans, the remaining 32 slots should be filled with bots until more humans join. This has also led into another bug where in some instances, the Bots never re-fill after a human leaves the server.
I cannot overstate enough how boring the games are when lobbies are not filling to 64/64 by not properly supplementing with bots. The whole integration of bots into matchmaking is seriously bugged and needs to be looked at ASAP, especially with RedSec siphoning away players in the lower player count regions.
Domination is literally unplayable, as is TDM. Please just make bots backfill entire lobbies and make the matchmaker keep humans together between games instead of starting new lobbies.
This bug is without a doubt collateral damage from the recent backend changes to how the matchmaker works shortly before Season 1's update. The issue has persisted since then, well into Season 1.
