Portal: cannot populate the game with bots on smaller servers

It won't start unless you have 8 humans join first. Including the host.

This is why people keep moving away from Battlefield platforms. It's embarrassing for the franchise but they don't seem to care much. I thought when the new guy moved over from COD this game platform would be better. Not so much. 

Still no fix for this issue. I just want to create a solo mode vs bots in portal (with XP or no XP) with the ability to modify bots health and settings. The bot modifiers seem pretty limited and I can’t get a single portal match to start with bots as it gets stuck trying fill the lobby or backfill and never completes. This was easy on BF 2042 portal and is annoying to pay for BF6 and can’t even do this in the portal mode. Come on EA devs, fix this issue asap!!!

same issue here too!

I have the same issue. No fix yet is unacceptable. 

Have the same issue. Custom host is populated with only 12 bots no matter what number of players is adjusted (24/32/64)

Mind you this happens on official servers as well.

It says populating with bots but the server gets stuck as the number of bots do not fill the server (Domination/King of the Hill and TDM)

So many of us having this issue, what is EA/DICE doing ???

Same issue. I'd like to do the Solo play I had in 2042, and the one server per person I read would be in BF6, which we'd be able to host. I play public games, but sometimes, after work, I just need something a little more casual. 

Yeah, Ive created so many that I can connect to, but im stuck waiting at 24/32 players. A few people join for a minute but leave bc whos gonna sit here for 2 hours waiting? This is not a good system. I know these guys can afford more servers with all the $70 copies they just sold. But on the other hand, the games not even a week old but come on, were all sitting here with our thumbs up our **bleep** waiting to play our servers.