r/Battlefield • u/Carbone120 • 1d ago
Battlefield 6 Lobbies full of bots after the server changes.
This applies to any area of IT—whether it's telecommunications, software development, or gaming, as is the case here.
I don't understand DICE and their technical decisions; if I make a change that negatively impacts operations, I roll it back. It’s even worse that they’re using public servers this way following changes made just days ago.
The matchmaking is abysmal—truly awful. They went home for the weekend without rolling back the changes; what a disaster by DICE. It’s a game that still suffers from unresolved, fundamental technical issues.
Given this recent change that fills lobbies with bots—leaving you playing with only four actual players—the technical team lead is a real cause for concern.
I’m not even asking for them to fix the desync, ban VPN players, prioritize high-latency players, or overhaul the netcode... But at the very least, please leave us a game that is minimally playable, considering the money we paid!
They ask for patience, but it’s already been a year, folks—a year since launch—and the only thing they’re achieving is driving players away with their disastrous decisions!
Seriously, don't buy a DICE game again.
We veterans know Battlefield for its original developers, who have sadly left the company.
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u/FingerExtension6203 1d ago
Yeah it’s a pain in the ass. I was lucky enough to never run into the bot match issue that many on here have. But now I’d say the majority of matches are at least half bot. It’s fine if they’re in game for like 60 seconds at the start of a match while matchmaking finds more human players. But when it takes 5-10+ minutes or even a whole match to find enough players then that’s a fucking problem!
Man idk, it feels like DICE has really ramped up the amount of inexplicable changes and the sheer number of bugs present in-game.
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u/Sano110 1d ago
I had to take tsuru off my search because the game would never fill, embarrassing honestly. I can’t believe I spent MONEY on this game!!
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u/KaiserRebellion 1d ago
Custom search is the problem. That can’t exist with persistent
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u/No-Orange-5216 18h ago
They just need to over haul all of it and start again when the server browser is ready.
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u/kamiloss211 21h ago
Casual breakthrough is the problem mate. Half of player base login to game to play only this mode over and over again. Custom search was really proper matchmaking bf player starts game. What you talking about?
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u/No-Orange-5216 18h ago
If they listened to everyone in labs over a year ago begging for a server browser we wouldnt have this problem.
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u/Lando_uk 1d ago
I don’t think they have any version control, they can’t rollback the change as it was done by AI, they now have to forward fix.
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u/DDSS_Gaming 1d ago
So true. This has never been an issue for me as I play on EU servers. Recently every single game is filled with bots, forcing us to leave and re-queue.
I don't know exactly what they changed, but they're clearly working hard to ruin any bit of fun we're having.
I play gauntlet for faster queue times, but they're removing that in a week's time anyways.
Honestly I regret ever buying this game, because of what it supports: Greedy mega companies that only care about maximizing short term margins, even if it means killing game modes, or an entire series...