[PS4][Hardline] Can't go online at all
Hello everyone, I own Hardline on disc, and remember playing the multiplayer years ago. I wanted to play again today, but I keep getting hit with an error that reads "You have lost your connection to PSN and thus lost your connection to the EA Servers. Please check your ethernet cable. You will be unable to access any online features until you sign in to PSN and the EA Servers again." any time I try to access any online functionality from the menu (Multiplayer, Premium, Store, Battlelog). However, I'm clearly online on PSN, and able to play Battlefield 1 without any issues on that fronts, so I'm not sure what's wrong. I tried opening up a case with EA support through the help EA website but I'm completely unable to access a chatroom, both on pc and phone, so I'm here. Of note, I also own the game on PC, and made sure that my PS4 account was marked as active on Battlelog, and that's when I noticed that none of my stats from PS4 were synced (no campaign progress when I clearly finished it for example). I don't know if it's a problem with my account, but I was also unable to do simple things on my battlelog agent page, like change my avatar, when I was able to do it for my PC agent. If anyone has any clues on how I can either contact support properly or solve this issue I would be open to suggestions. I already followed the guides on how to contact support and have an active case but I haven't been contacted yet, and I already checked many EA Help support pages regarding Hardline, to no avail.BF4 Private Servers Getting Prioritized Over DICE Official Ones
How do some privately owned servers receive players from quicksearch when they're not even started up? For example, you can join Large Scale Battles through quicksearch and instead of being directed to an official Dice server, you end up on a privately owned server that, aside from you, has no players in it. As a server admin, it feels unfair that I need to reach a minimum of 6 players before my server receives players from quicksearch, while these other servers seem to populate completely automatically. Side note I'm on console and below I have attached a clip of me getting directed into a private & empty server.
Im Sad Cuz of BF LAbs
yes I know it's weird guys, but I'm really a huge fan of EA and I played every single battlefield released. I just feel sad cause I applied for the latest of the new battlefield and I couldn't get any invites. I'm begging you guys if I get the invite that will change my life. i'm really sorry for messaging you guys for that, but I really wanted to try this game. I've been waiting for years and I promise you I will never lick or share any photos of the game to anyone anywhere And I hope I can get the invite to try this masterpiece. Have a nice nightBattlefield 6 - No to SBMM and YES to Server Browser
Been a huge fan of the Battlefield Franchise since I first started to play Battlefield 3 back in 2011. Ever since then I have purchased every Battlefield Game, DLC Pack and what have you and and almost exclusively played only Battlefield. Before this I was a COD player. COD never attracted me back once I got in on the Battlefield Sandbox and begun to play the game as part of a squad, choosing which class I was going to be based on what was happening in the game and how I could react to this to help my team and squad out. One of the great things I liked about it too was that every game was not the same because of the Sandbox, squad and class experience. If I was playing for a couple of hours, I don't think that I ever felt that I played the same round twice in that they played out differently every time, even if I was with the same squad and on the same map. Now that BF6 or whatever the new Battlefield will be called is coming closer to releasing, I hope some things from these older BF games come back. One of these is the Server Browser and Persistent Servers. Recently I have begun playing BF4 again consistently. It is great to see the old Server Browser there and being able to pick a game mode and series of maps that I want to play that are not like Portals 1000% Hardcore servers. Just normal BF with good maps and rotations. Being able to change my region and filter by ping has also been fantastic. I really hope that the new BF6 brings this back, or somehow splits it with Portal. Maybe portal has two options, Server Browser with Persistent Servers and then the custom side which we all get to make our own games in. With the launch of BF2042 we saw that there was no Server Browser and that what we got instead was Match Making. MM has been a big pain for a lot of reasons. We cant pick what map we want to play, we cant see what map is coming up next, if we load into a map we don't want to play we have to exit out and then try MM again which sometimes loads us back into the same map. There is no region filter or ping filter. A lot of the time MM can not happen because there are not enough people to start the game in my region (Australia) and this MM saga goes round and round. This all takes a lot of time and ruins the gaming experience, ultimately damaging the franchise. Which isn't good for us players or the BF franchise either. The second thing I would not like to see happen is Skill Based Match Making come into BF6. We all see and hear people complain about SBMM in the COD community. It's a little bit in Delta Force now as well and people are complaining that they are getting loaded into lobbies with bad ping because of their skill and all sorts. IMO SBMM would kill the next BF if it is brought in. Like everything, the more you do something the better you get at it. There are some guy's that spends hours and hours just practicing sniping, or flying choppers and they are elite at it. Part of the BF experience is the cannon fodder, is learning the classes, the weapons and their attachments, the various vehicle setups and maps. This is what contributes massively to the sandbox environment IMO. It's because of all these variables as well as other players, that makes every game different. If SBMM is brought in, then I feel we will loose that experience and pretty soon, every game will start to feel the same and turn into a sweaty grindfest which looses all those cool quirky BF moments. Anyhow, it's something I have been thinking about for a while. Thought I would share it and see what others thought or felt about the same two issues.
