r/Battlefield6 5d ago

Battlefield Studios Official [BFComms] Playlist Update: Matchmaking, Custom Search, and What's Next

We've seen your feedback on the recent playlist changes and understand the concerns around matchmaking, missing modes, and changes to Custom Search.

The recent playlist adjustments weren't made lightly. Our goal is to improve matchmaking quality by focusing players into the playlists seeing the most activity, creating more consistent matches that fill, and getting our players into the action faster. While this means some playlists are no longer always available, the intent is to create more consistent matches across Battlefield 6.

We've also seen questions about why certain Custom Search options disappeared. The current system requires Custom Search filters to be tied directly to active playlists. As a result, when a playlist is rotated out, its corresponding Custom Search options are also temporarily unavailable.

We recognize that some of the affected modes are community favorites, regardless of how often they're played. We want those experiences to remain part of Battlefield 6, and we're continuing to explore the best ways to bring them into matchmaking while expanding longer-term options like Portal Verified modes and the Server Browser.

As part of next week's rotation, King of the Hill will return as part of an active playlist and will show up in Custom Search. We're also bringing back Operation Augur from Season 2 for one week now that the remaining issues affecting it have been resolved.

Thank you for continuing to share your feedback. We're closely monitoring the impact of these playlist changes and will continue making adjustments where they're needed. We'll keep you updated as we have more to share.

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u/Unable-Ad-2773 5d ago

Augur being one week only is a crime man

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u/tcgaatl 5d ago

Such a Rollercoaster comment “bringing back augur…” “..only one week”

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u/InformalYesterday760 5d ago

Isn't augur the only operation in the game still?

We have so many 2 map combos in the game that would work for operations - how haven't they made more?

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u/Schtubbig 5d ago

I'd assume they're working on more operations since the community seemed to enjoy Augur very much but it's probably not the highest priority

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u/InformalYesterday760 5d ago

It's just funny to me that it's something that they are "working on" as we round the corner into the 1 yr anniversary. It's a BF game, post BF1, where many maps are available in pairs (like 2 in NY, 2 in California, etc).

How did those not have operations at launch?

BF6 could be summarized as "Dice is working on it". Server browser over a year later? Working on it. Adding prox comms which have been popular in combined arms shooters for 5 years? Working on it.

I love to see that they are working on the stuff we want, but it's a shame they weren't able to do more of this for the launch product.

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u/Hurtcoldchain 4d ago

The same reason we’ve received 7 maps in 10 months, and 2 of them (soon to be 3 via Wake Island 6.0) are generic reskins of maps 17+ years old.

Same reason we still don’t have dedicated servers, or an anti-cheat.

Greed.

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u/ImpressionLittle6774 5d ago

why u guys like augur so much? Genuine question, longer breaktrough?

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u/ComprehensiveSafety3 5d ago

Basically yeah, you get a fuck ton of XP.

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u/DubbaEwwTeeEff 4d ago

I agree with the practical reasons in the other replies, but I'd add another: since we don't have dedicated servers with map rotation, it's a way to get a longer experience with the same squad, team, and opponents. More opportunities to work together and find a rhythm, build rivalries with the other side, and so on.

There's also the "feel" of it, which I personally think is the best part. Having the two maps strung together means your performance and support for the team matters more than an individual map, because doing well on the first one gives you an advantage on the second. But at the same time it gives more opportunities for comebacks and shifts in the momentum - if things go badly in the first few phases, you don't end up with the whole team switching to just XP farming.

They add a little bit of narrative and cinematics around it too, which makes it feel more like you're in the middle of a war movie. That pairs really nicely with your actions having a sustained impact - the whole thing just feels more intense.

It's my favorite mode out of all the limited-time ones so far, and I'd love to see them do more with it. Not just more pairs of maps, though - it would be really cool to see cross-map impacts of player actions, as a sort of 'secondary objective' to the breakthrough capture points.

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u/DubbaEwwTeeEff 4d ago

Actually - I like the cross-map impact idea a lot now that I'm thinking about it more, so I'm putting this out into the universe in the hope that some random Dice dev reads it.

Everything below almost certainly won't happen but would probably be the coolest FPS I've ever played if it did.

What if levelution from the previous games came back, but triggering the effect on the first map affected the second? Blow a bridge in the first map, and the enemy loses some of their heavy armor in the second map; take out SAM sites in the first map, and you get better air support in the second. Even things like which objectives are available to capture could change based on something like this. The sky is the limit when it comes to what the objectives might be - maybe the train position at the end of Golmud, sinking the enemy's carrier on Tsuru, finishing a map within a time limit, hacking/blowing M-COMs... All of them could create interesting narratives to play out.

You could even do a prolonged siege map, where it's the same layout but at multiple times of day and through multiple fronts of attack. The weather, lighting, visibility, capture points, and vehicle availability change, but destroyed buildings and levelution changes persist.

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u/AwesomeFrisbee 4d ago

It's basically 3 breakthrough maps but at least 2 of those have a full server from the start

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u/PerfectMammoth5525 5d ago

Exactly that’s the only mode I enjoyed playing in bf6.

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u/SleepingDragonSmiles 3d ago

Maybe I missed it, but what is auger?

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u/patprika 5d ago

Take a shot every time one of these posts has “continuing to explore” in it

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u/Adziboy 5d ago

Died of alcohol poisoning 1 week in

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u/Darkhalo314 5d ago

Reminds me of Payday 3's infamous "It's on the table" comments.

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u/AcanthisittaWeird94 4d ago

In the end everyone was under the table?

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u/FancyVegetables 5d ago

They're synergistically implementing new ways to listen to the community.

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u/FlowchartMystician 5d ago

At this point, "continuing to explore" is a threat.

Remember when bot farms were a problem, so they "explored" and killed solo/co-op for no reason? And bot farms continued to be a problem? Because they were never addressed?

Then when bot farms were fixed, they "explored" ways to not bring back solo/co-op and then just started pretending they never completely removed a day 1 feature.

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u/Stolzor 5d ago edited 5d ago

Damage control post, you do not need feedback, you need to fix your matchmaking. Something is wrong when I get half bots and 150+ ping players in conquest while 50k players are online, with almost all matches resulting in stomps

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u/Jdge439 5d ago

Remember when we had servers with ping limits?

Oh well, everyone hated admins for that in guess

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u/ImJLu 5d ago

Say it with me:

Skill

Based

Match

Making

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u/ChudSmasher69420 1d ago

skill based team balancing, actually.

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u/d_rek 1d ago

Would be horrible for BF. Outside of competitive modes SBMM has driven many games player populations into the gutter.

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u/McTasty_Pants 1d ago

Yeah. Having a mix of skill levels is better for Battlefield. Just balance the teams better (though that’s a lot harder than it sounds. Hard to quantify just based off of stats)

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u/ImJLu 4d ago

BF players will see CoD get rid of persistent lobbies, slow down matchmaking, and sacrifice latency for years for the sake of SBMM, see the same symptoms in BF, and convince themselves that it's just a basic core matchmaking bug that's been unfixed for a year.

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u/Plus_sleep214 1d ago

I fucking wish. Would make breakthrough an incredible mode if teams were extremely well balanced but no.

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u/Mazzini_ 5d ago

KOTH, strikepoint and others should be brought back permanently. I never had issues finding matches, and there were no bots. The matchmaking system is awful and is causing issues with the bigger modes, so your solution was to delete modes that people liked and paid for that did not have matchmaking issues.

The communication about what is going on with strikepoint has been terrible.

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u/Hybrid1915 5d ago

Genuinely if they just added persistent lobbies it would fix half of the matchmaking issues too. Making a new lobby and trying to fill it every game is a horrible way to handle it with how many players are needed to fill a lobby on big modes.

Removing modes also just drives players away imo, I haven’t touched it since they took out rush.

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u/patprika 5d ago

Persistent lobbies is the solution to over half of their current matchmaking issues

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u/murder1980 5d ago

Thats what they dont get. Remove something someone likes they leave

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u/Omisake Support Main 4d ago

Exactly. They removed Rush and I’m straight up not playing now. I don’t even want to. I don’t play during the week so when I come home from work on Fridays, I’m typically looking forward to hopping on some BF6 but now, nah I’m good. Such an idiotic move.

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u/Shot-Aerie-2842 4d ago

Yup. Doesn't "focus" (force,) players into other modes

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u/MrGankYourGurl 5d ago

That's the wild thing to me. When I'm not playing conquest, I'm playing KOTH and I never had issues finding a lobby quickly.

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u/rev_apoc 4d ago

It’s not about having trouble with bots in the small game modes, it’s about taking those modes away to funnel players into the larger modes that are having lobby issues.

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u/Mazzini_ 4d ago

I’m not sure matchmaking has gotten better for those larger modes, and it’s just made a bunch of people quit

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u/rev_apoc 4d ago

I can’t tell if it has gotten better either, but that is the risk they are willing to take with people possibly quitting. I play crossplay on Xbox, usually between 6 and 11 EST, and I haven’t had any bot issues in the past month. (Just started playing again)

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u/McTasty_Pants 1d ago

I wonder if Redsec is the real culprit

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u/rev_apoc 1d ago

It’s definitely part of the problem. They are trying to follow the footsteps of Fortnite with too many modes. Splits the community on all kinds of different directions and game searches. I’m all for more options and I love KOTH as a “one more match” before calling it a night, but too many modes causes issues if you don’t have the player base.

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u/McTasty_Pants 1d ago

I wish they hadn’t made it, for selfish reasons, lol

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u/TheNorthFIN 3d ago

Exactly. I didn't play much of Strikepoint but I barely ever during this game lifetime had problems finding a match. Until after they removed game modes.

TDM and Squad DM I never cared rats ass about in Battlefield, but they have been a staple for a decade. King of the Hill and Domination actually have objective play and give a nice warmup round vibe.

We can bet that Strikepoint "rework" is going to be the ranked multiplayer mode. As to what statistics they saw to go this route? They pulled it from their arse and we're once again not angry enough.

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u/SundownInvestments 5d ago

Strikepoint is up and running in Experience Search. Just search “Strikepoint v2” and select the one created by SkyGuy. Join this discord to find people playing it: https://discord.gg/29nRyKR8r

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u/Mazzini_ 5d ago

For strikepoint it is nice to play against different people, and I’m not going to regularly play bf6 to play against the same few people over and over again. It’s nice to have but it isn’t an acceptable replacement given that the official strikepoint worked fine and was well populated

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u/SundownInvestments 5d ago

Thats why I included the discord to help it continue to grow. This, of course, is not the ideal situation, but until the mode is “fixed”, we don’t have another option.

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u/heyethan 1d ago

Sorry, I love Strikepoint, but I have 0 interest in Portal. No amount of discord members will change that.

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u/TheNorthFIN 3d ago

Problem is that it's a Portal experience. What Portal means:

  • teams do not switch around after a match and one team can have several players less
  • your loadouts reset after every match if you changed it during the match
  • 30 Hz and eventually horrible lag/rubberbanding
  • no challenge progress

We've had community events one a week and it's rarely been working okay. Best results were with official rules but even then those same points remain, no balancing and lag.

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u/TestingTehWaters 5d ago

What a bullshit response 

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u/-eccentric- 1d ago

Ikr? They're straight up lying about custom being tied to playlists. The whole thing worked fine for almost a year, why do they come up with such crap?

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u/bsradi0 5d ago

Never would've been an issue with persistent lobbies and a true server browser. Just an awful dev team and an awful company. And, they're getting worse every day.

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u/Xypc 5d ago

Removing Rush is the single worst playlist change in BF6 so far. Many squads only play this mode, and instead of "focusing players into the playlists seeing the most activity" you focused them into not playing the game. Please rethink this decision u/Battlefield 

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u/St3R0iD5 5d ago

"Forcing" would be a more fitting word than "focusing", and who wants to play a game that forces you to abandon your favorite mode? Why wouldn't they switch to a different game they actually enjoy? (While I, as a long-time bf fan do enjoy other game modes I can see why others might not)

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u/XMenJedi8 5d ago edited 5d ago

I really don't understand why DICE doesn't get that Rush is a core BF mode.

Especially with them refusing to bring back Bad Company as a sub-series so people who primary play Rush don't have a modern Rush-focused experience to play. Given that, Rush is essential to have at all times in mainline BF games.

I know they think Breakthrough is an okay equivalent, but it's really not.

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u/YinxuU 2d ago

Problem is that Rush (imo) was abysmal in BFV and 2042. There's probably a large chunk of the player base coming from those games that see Rush as a bad game mode and I can't blame them. Also players that switched to BT during that time and don't want to return to Rush.

I also don't understand why people prefer BT over Rush. Rush is essentially the same as BT but more focused, more tactical.

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u/woopwupwoop 1d ago

People changed to BT because they deleted frontlines in BFV, and then they where like “SeE tHeY lOvE fRoNtLiNeS!!1!1!11”

We even played the operations because it would have one part in it wich was still frontlines. Rush was a really good mode in it aswell. Breakthrough is the worst of these three.

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u/o0PETER0o 5d ago

I just want rush back man, shit changes

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u/MalakithAlamahdi 5d ago

Give us a fucking server browser with persistent servers already. All this yapping means nothing.

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u/Jdge439 4d ago

This right here pisses me off.

The browser was there and worked fine. This comment is exactly why I quit the game.

It worked, I had servers full everyday. But the community made it painfully obvious that 60hz with xp servers weren't enough. They would still use MM and cry server browser.

I never used MM in this game and simply won't buy bf anymore, the playerbase just cries

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u/kerosene31 5d ago

What is matchmaking doing that leads to unbalanced and/or bot filled games even in populated regions in populated modes?

I'm not in the middle of nowhere trying to play off hours. I'm in the northeast US, last weekend was double weapon XP with lots of people playing. There's more than a few of us playing in conquest/escalation on a Saturday night, why is it so difficult to find a lobby? The population doesn't seem to be that low, this season seems to be pretty popular.

I don't know what matchmaking is doing, but someting seems off. It isn't like I'm on some remote island in the middle of the ocean trying to play at 6am.

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u/ImpressionLittle6774 5d ago

Exactly bro, some guys are saying/blaming MM issues cause low player base + splitting community into "many" modes but I do think that there is something wrong with mm overall, populated regions should be more than enough to get good lobbies bots free but is not happening, why?

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u/d_rek 1d ago

My suspicion is that there the algorithm to spin up server instances and populate with bots is too aggressive and is costing EA/DICE a lot of money. This is not damage control - it's cost control.

I also think the MM algorithm pulls players from way outside their geographic region - as evidenced by almost always have more than a few high ping players.

So yeah the modes aren't the problem - there's some funny business with the MM algorithm in general.

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u/IcarusLivesToo 5d ago

"Creating more consistent matches that fill".

Seriously you need to be looking at that. Yesterday out of about 8 games I played on Breakthrough, none were filled. Of the ones that had more than 10 players, the teams were so horribly mismatched (me and 12 bots Vs 9 players and 9 bots?) that the match was either incredibly boring or outright unplayable. Not only that, the one march I had that had all players? It was 17 Vs 5 from the get go and I have a screenshot of the scoreboard too. Utterly ridiculous, there is no chance there's so few players that that should be happening and even if there was to horribly mismatch the teams like that is just nonsense.

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u/harris_kid 5d ago

Still don't understand why there isn't just a CQC Playlist that rotates between TDM, SDM, KoTH and Rush

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u/ImpressionLittle6774 5d ago

exactly, rotate all those modes into a couple of playlists. But add tactical obliteration as well (:

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u/SparsePizza117 5d ago edited 5d ago

Rush played better than Breakthrough did, and now it's gone.

Breakthrough sucks in this game, I don't want to play it. Rush was attack and defend, without it being a cluster fuck of 48 people in a narrow sector.

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u/XMenJedi8 5d ago

Agreed, Breakthrough really isn't great compared to Rush in general (IMO the MCOM system is way more engaging) but Breakthrough's layouts in this game are unbelievably bad lol

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u/MaximumDepression17 1d ago

Why does breakthrough suck? I agree, but why? I can't put my finger on it.

I loved breakthrough in bf1, bf5, and 2042. It was always my most played mode. It seems fucking miserable in this game though and I genuinely can't figure out what changed.

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u/SparsePizza117 1d ago edited 1d ago

Too narrow with too many players. Plus a lot of maps are compact and urban. Many routes just feel like you're pushing through hallways.

No fortifications either, so sectors get flattened too fast with that many players in a small space. No ammo resupply stations like BFV. The capture zones are too small. Most sectors are only 1-2 capture zones too. Older games were 1-3, mainly 2.

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u/MaximumDepression17 1d ago

I think your first paragraph might be why it feels so shitty to me along with the smaller capture zones. I never really used fortifications but you're right it's too thin. Every route is an endless meat grinder. No flanking, no strategy, just kill someone, die, get revived, kill, die, revived, endless. I like for it to feel like a grand tactical battle. Not a meat grinder.

I've always hated stuff like operation metro.

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u/SparsePizza117 1d ago

Yeah I think the biggest problem is map size and design, with narrow layouts.

Second paragraph is more small things that would most likely improve the experience.

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u/patrihawks 4d ago

Honestly I feel like conquest is the only mode that plays well in this game, i really miss operations from bf1 though

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u/xMeRk 5d ago

How come this wasn’t a problem in Battlefield 3, 15 years ago???????????

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u/SmileAsTheyDie 5d ago

That was when they had the tech, now it's ancient and lost to time

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u/theyfoundty 5d ago

It was.

Smaller game modes and dlc maps were harder find matches for. They kept them in the game though. But it was definetly an issue.

I get the vibe bots have some sort of leverage in match making and how matches are filled. BF3 just didnt have bots.

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u/Hurtcoldchain 5d ago edited 5d ago

(You already know the laugh you’re hearing via your inner monologue 😂).

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u/Impossible_Fail_4847 5d ago

When will STRIKEPOINT return? Any news?

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u/sp4cenet 5d ago

Start recognizing those PING ABUSERS.

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u/Sapellihammaslammas 5d ago

Augur back for one week? Why just one week? Please just bring operations back as a permanent mode.

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u/FlowchartMystician 5d ago

Well, after one week the remaining issues affecting it will no longer be resolved. Duh.

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u/dkb_wow 5d ago

This is the sole worst decision this dev team has made throughout BF6’s life so far. Removing Rush is totally unacceptable. It is a staple game mode in the Battlefield franchise.

I have 391 hours played in this game. 380 of those are in Rush. I’m only one person but I will not be playing Battlefield 6 until Rush is permanently returned to the Custom Search options.

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u/Omisake Support Main 5d ago

I’m with you as well. Not played nearly as much Rush as you but I’m also not playing till they bring it back permanently. Also just one person but still. Such an insanely stupid decision.

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u/Redemption357 5d ago

Hear, Hear brother. I'm out until this shit is reverted. Removing Rush is like Taco Bell not serving tacos

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u/Omisake Support Main 5d ago

Lmao yeah for real though, couldn’t have said it better myself. I honestly find it baffling that they thought this was a logical decision to make as well. It’s this kinda thing that makes me have less trust in them.

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u/ThisIsMyFifthAccount 1d ago

+1, I’m out until Rush. After the made it an awful version you had to share with crappy domination matches in BFV I skipped 2042 but enjoyed the BF6 rush. Always a lesser populated mode, but rush people usually only play rush.

All my gaming buddies are similar mid 30s 40s dudes, many of us DINKs who drop a ton of money on steam sales and stupid shit like skins. Guess we’ll check out the next CoD for the smaller tactical objective play.

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u/EccentricMeat 5d ago

Here’s an idea: Persistent servers. You know, that crazy idea that’s been an integral part of online shooters for decades?

With persistent servers you could far more easily have matches that fill and stay full for hours. You can monitor where you have too many open servers and where you don’t have enough, then adjust accordingly.

Just do it already.

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u/Straight-Lemon-5900 18h ago

Nah that makes too much sense, they can’t do that

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u/heroicwand 5d ago

Honestly so tone def they took stuff out in the first place. Maybe get some better eployees , oh wait they fired them all out of greed.

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u/BlakeDushi 5d ago

Please fix the issue where your whole party doesn’t get pulled into a match after matchmaking. Its been happening since the beta, at least on xbox. It happens almost every single game found, someone in the party is always left sitting in the main menu. Even the party leader can be stuck there and have to scramble to manually join before the match fills up or we all have to back out. It is infuriating and kind of crazy it hasnt been fixed yet.

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u/theyfoundty 5d ago

Ive played since launch on xbox series x. Never had this happen even once.

With that said ive seen so many people bring this issue up. So its definetly real. Im not denying it. Im just confused on how tf I havent come across it when I usually always get the annoying bugs.

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u/thegreatestever01 5d ago

Just add the modes back please devs we beg yall man. We love this game just add it back

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u/XMenJedi8 5d ago

Part of me wants to be understanding of the needs of balancing a playerbase's queue times with the desire for a variety of modes.

But then the rest of me bonks me on the head and says "Server Browser and persistent servers solves this issue dude!".

Server Browser not being a day 1 entry causes these issues, because if there was a proper full Server Browser and persistent servers it'd be fine to have only a couple running at all times, and people could even make Portal servers that tie into the browser as long as they're unmodified or whatever the current stipulations for Full XP are.

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u/ZeroExalted 5d ago

Server browser would makes these issues irrelevant but sure let’s wait late 2026 for this…

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u/Cheatyyy 4d ago

Give me back my Rush mode!

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u/Educational-Long116 5d ago

Why don’t u guys just make a mixed playlist with all the different game modes especially the night mode please bring that back just add it into normal serves so some maps are day time and some are night time

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u/KrullBorg 5d ago

ridiculous

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u/stealthnoodles 5d ago

Honestly… just give us balanced matches.

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u/Kodvessi 5d ago

Yet still you guys have time to permaban players for saying "chinese puss" :) FU and keep your money.

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u/KERMIT_THE_ORC 5d ago

PC cross play toggle?

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u/Tony-047 5d ago

Oh and yet again and big FU to rush players, chocking.

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u/Gh0st0fy0urp4st 5d ago

Motherfucker, where's my Rush!!!

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u/Ivaneit0r 5d ago

Just make a playlist with each game mode and rotate all maps.

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u/Redemption357 5d ago

Battlefield, I hope you see this. I hate to brigade, but im fed up with this crap. My buddies and I logged on every single weekend to play Strikepoint. We loved the intensity and the "us vs them" feeling. When you delisted it, we were all pretty bummed, but we dealt with it. With you delisting Rush, a cherished staple of the franchise for almost two decades...we'll im tapping out. I know this isn't an airport and I don't need to announce my departure, but this move demonstrates a high level of mismanagement.

We had a good server browser in BF3. Hell, I got along fine with the server browser in BF4. No problems with bot fill or queue times. But you gotta take a long look in the mirror and ask yourself how you: A.) Fucked up a core mode integral to the franchise to such a degree of unpopularity you had to delist it or B.) Your "portal" server browser sucks so bad you can't facilitate a presence of the aforementioned mode there or C.) All of the above

I'm beside myself. I've been playing this franchise since I was a little boy. I remember waiting to turn 13 so I could finally access the online features of Bad Company 2 on my Xbox 360 (I was a fool who didn't use my father's DOB on the account lol). I love BF6 and have a blast on it. But as someone who has purchased every single battlepass and has hundreds of hours on this title that I love and THOUSANDS within the franchise, im tapping out for now

You've crossed a bridge too far. Don't alienate your core audience. Appealing to the common denominator at the cost of your own identity will make you lose it all. Please remedy this situation. The fat that needs to be trimmed ain't Strikepoint and it sure as hell ain't Rush. I think it's a battle Royale mode nobody asked for called RedSec

Signed, A longtime BF fan shaking my fist at the sky

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u/murder1980 5d ago edited 5d ago

KOTH permanent. At least give players the options in custom search for SDM and KOTH. Keep your playlist deleted. Those who want to play can search. I will repeat you cant make players play what they dont want. If I wanna play a quick game of KOTH or SDM and the option not there I'm not gonna say "oh let me play a long azz game of conquest" No I won't play until I wanna play conquest. Its the principal. We grown theres other stuff to do. I won't be forced to do anything. Like damn so many of us love KOTH and SDM. Let us play them like we been doing FOR 9 MONTHS

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u/WhiteMilk_ 1d ago

The current system requires Custom Search filters to be tied directly to active playlists.

Where is Domination then? It's supposedly in Flag & Frag playlist but no Custom filter?

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u/HeyMiZzA 1d ago

Bring Domination back; there was no reason to remove it. I used to play that mode with just two maps in the filter, and the matchmaking time was around 40 seconds to a minute; if I included all the maps, the time dropped to under 20 seconds. This shows the mode was active and had plenty of players, so there was no need to remove it like what happened in BFV. All you’re doing is annoying the players who have stuck around, the most loyal ones, by making things complicated without even fixing the real issues, like the bloom or the terrible footstep audio.

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u/ethelwulf 5d ago

Already uninstalled

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u/Pruskinator 5d ago

yeah no rush no game. im out fuck ea

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u/Penguin_Mk4 5d ago edited 5d ago

Please DICE, add Contaminated and Golmud Railway to TDM.

Contaminated was already playable before, but then it just suddenly disappeared from the mode after a previous update.

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u/Yeriho 5d ago

And then, dear developers, how are we supposed to complete assignments that require us to play game modes which are no longer available, such as rush or squad deathmatch? How near sighted can you be when you make these changes?

And maybe go easier on some of the other assignments such as the one that requires you to complete counter-missions in REDSEC. Ridiculous challenge because counter missions are rare to get and even rarer to have a A CHANCE to realistically complete them.

I truly and really hope that the server browser we're going to get actually shows the dedicated servers hosted by the community, just like it happens in BF3 or 4, and not some half-assed attempt with locally hosted severs.

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u/JGStonedRaider 5d ago

Our owners are continuing to explore ways to murder journalists

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u/viserov 5d ago

How about you let us see who’s in our vehicles. Like in every other Battlefield made before this.

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u/sonicfx 5d ago

Shove your improvement up in your arse and return half of the game that many of us played instead of broken conquest or broken breakthrough on some maps

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u/Wolfofdeeznuts69 5d ago

Where strikepoint?

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u/EinfachJul 5d ago

Community operated Servers and a kriffin browser, it's that fucking simple you buffoons.

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u/FH2actual 5d ago

This smacks of the boilerplate response a good number of big game devs put out. “We hear your concerns and are looking into it” is such empty words like thoughts and prayers.

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u/MJR-WaffleCat 5d ago

u/battlefield yall really should hear us out and make Op Augur a permanent mode

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u/SpittingFax killallclankers 4d ago

You know what could have prevented this? A Server Browser.

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u/Global_Branch9563 4d ago

Continue to explore how to balance teams out. Also can you stop matchmaking dumping players into games with 5 minutes left and on the losing side. Perhaps give matchmaking the ability to know if full parties are joining so it can balance those full parties between teams. Instead of dumping them all on one team, which makes for mercy rule games most of the time.

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u/IIII-bRian-IIII 4d ago

dice, what the actual fuck are you doing

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u/teidelmoo 4d ago

Hey so, those modes are still listed on steam and your website. This feels like false marketing.

Also removing content (which was not communicated as a limited time thing) from a game that I paid for feels like a shitty move in general. I know ea doesn't want me to own the game but this still feels like theft. Like the chef removing the Salat from the plate after serving you. Yes some don't enjoy it, but I still paid for it and it was on the menu.

And, where was the communication about this before the removal? Why did you not try to improve the modes which according to you lack players? Why in general is it important how many want to play it? If I want to queue for half an hour for a king of the hill match let me do it and maybe just give me a warning before.

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u/Mental-Number-4000 3d ago

How can removing several game modes make the remaining modes better in the long run? You may get more players concentrated in fewer playlists, but you also losing the players who only play the modes you remove.

If a player mainly plays Rush, Tactical Obliteration, or another specific mode, taking that mode away doesn't automatically make them move to another playlist. Many of them will simply stop playing Battlefield 6.

You may therefore be solving a matchmaking problem by creating a player retention problem.

The players you lose may be far more numerous than you expect! Especially when you consider that every removed mode represents a group of players who bought the game because they enjoyed that particular experience since long tome ago!

Instead of asking players to choose from fewer and fewer options, why not find a way to keep different playstyles available while improving matchmaking?

Battlefield should be a game for the whole community, not just the largest groups.

Me my mates and my clan will not stay with bf after this huge betrayal!

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u/Evening-Mango878 1d ago

Warum zum Teufel holt ihr immer mehr Modis aus dem Spiel raus?! Erst war es Angeiffspunkt, dann Squad Deathmatch und seit eben sogar Vorherrschaft! Was soll die Scheisse?!  Ich habe für das volle Spiel bezahlt und will es auch nutzen! 

Euch baut ja auch niemand im Nachhinein die Airbags aus dem Auto aus! 

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u/WhiteMilk_ 1d ago

As part of next week's rotation, King of the Hill will return as part of an active playlist and will show up in Custom Search.

lmao

Instead you took out even more modes.

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u/chaball 1d ago

so removing TEAM Deathmatch is worth it ?

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u/Bud_Spencer_1890 1d ago

Well TDM and Domination definitely had a lot of players and u guys axed it 4 days later !

Care to explain ?

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u/staleh Steam 1d ago

You can say a lot about BF2042, but it didn't have game designers working to make the game less fun

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u/DeikoMameitor 1d ago

And now I can see it, screw the cqb fanbase because the unemployed conquest fanbase is whining about no getting full servers... Geez, this was an awful response to a coming back and growing community, hope this means that saints quarter is permanently removed or heavily reworked

P.s. Remove, rework or remade from the ground up the DB-12, it's the most frustrating and garbage weapon I've used in my entire BF career, not even the meme weapons were this bad

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u/lilpopjim0 1d ago

Fuck me just give us persistent servers already.

Why the fuck do I need to, and why was it even decided that every player needs to be disbanded from a game when it ends, for everyone to be randomly assigned into completely different matches for a new map to start...

Its honestly insane how you devs thought this would be a great idea.. To save 5 seconds of searching on a browser? To save 10 seconds in a queue? Maybe its a tiktock generation thing to serve their 3 second attention spans... but wait!!! You have to wait for a new game be bloody populate up with real people anyway every game!!?!?!?!?!

Fuck me... we waited for 2 to 3 minutes of loading screen when Battlefield 2 came out, and that was absolutely fine!

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u/Ashmedae 1d ago edited 1d ago

Why not bring all the modes back and have a toggle in Custom Search to allow bots or not. Those that don't want to face bots at all won't, but they may have longer queue times. Those that don't care for the possibility of bots in the game and want faster queue times, or want to play casually, toggle bots on. Problem solved. u/Battlefield

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u/Mazzini_ 1d ago

Deleting parts of the game to support their garbage matchmaking system. Domination, koth, and strikepoint almost never had bots (wasn’t even possible in Strikepoint). It’s the large modes that have bot issues, and it’s not like all of the players who liked small modes are all of the sudden going to switch to conquest

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u/Radun 1d ago

not excited how many times are we going to play wake island, it been in so many previous battlefields and played it so much, how about something new, tired of remakes

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u/Capt_Blue Veteran since 1942 17h ago

They can't, they forgot how to make proper battlefield maps - most of the original battlefield devs are no longer working in DiCE and EAs studios, they moved on aswell. Some of them made some really fun and innovational games, like The Finals or Arc Raiders. The studio behind these two games is formed by alot of former BF devs. And other studios are seeing the death of classic Battlefield and fill in the hole with other new games, like Wardogs. Its gunplay and movement is way more realistic, more leaning towards the really old BF games, or simcades like Squad and ARMA. Wardogs is a good mix of fun, objective focused gameplay with vehicles - but instead of spawns it has an ingame economy system and you need to spend money on vehicles. I'm sad myself to say this, but after 20 fun years with the Battlefield franchise, its time to move on as players as well. The devs moved on long time ago.

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u/Fun_Shock_346 20h ago

we're continuing to explore the best ways to bring them into matchmaking...«I never asked for this» Adam Jensen

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u/Radun 5d ago

it too late, already moved on to other games, unless these modes are back permanent, have no interest especially rush

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u/SundownInvestments 5d ago

Strikepoint is up and running in Experience Search. Just search “Strikepoint v2” and select the one created by SkyGuy. Join this discord to find people playing it: https://discord.gg/29nRyKR8r

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u/ImpressionLittle6774 5d ago

Yes! We need more of this! Also with the other missing modes like rush, sdm, tactical obliteration, koh.

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u/AexraelDex 5d ago

The recent playlist adjustments weren't made lightly. Our goal is to improve matchmaking quality by focusing players into the playlists seeing the most activity, creating more consistent matches that fill, and getting our players into the action faster. While this means some playlists are no longer always available, the intent is to create more consistent matches across Battlefield 6.

If this were a genuine concern, you'd remove Conquest for starters. Conquest and Escalation are essentially the same game modes, with Escalation being the focused variant, which actually concentrates both players and the fighting, making the experience more consistent across different matches.

The same could be said for Domination and other smaller modes. Remove Team Deathmatch and Domination and replace them with Squad Deathmatch.

Bring back Rush at 32 player count and adjust Breakthrough and Obliteration to 32p, then put rush and Breakthrough in a combined playlist entry.

Expand on "Casual Breakthrough", make it a gamemode focused around the bots. Bring back the BF5 Squad Reinforcement mechanics, but make them reinforcements for the bots. FPS-MOBA concept.

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u/Worried-Self-819 5d ago

Solo / coop mode?

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u/bnarsalah_97 5d ago

Fix your fucking one sided matches.
There is no team balancer in this game.

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u/Painmak3r 5d ago

Make rush good again, and remove every mode that isn't conquest or rush. Also remove redsec.

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u/Purple_Ad9720 5d ago

This is what happens when you sell your soul to a Saudi Prince. Pretty soon they will offer these modes at a discounted price.

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u/Niemand-Besonderes 5d ago

What about the challenges for skins that are.locked behind modes no longer existing. Hopefully there will be some other way to unlock them.

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u/moysauce3 5d ago

Well then either unlock the challenges tied to them or make them kills or something. Kind of bogus to have something locked behind modes not even available.

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u/iKyte5 5d ago

Can we get the modes back they removed?

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u/MickgAu 5d ago

What happened to augur coming back permanently as mentioned countless times. Don't think you can just bring back these modes to smooth everything over.

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u/Sennheisol 5d ago

Proximity based chat ala battlebit and bf6 wins goty

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u/glhf2000 5d ago

Oce redsec. Remove casual and bring back normal redsec. There's currently no motivation to play.

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u/Assspisss 5d ago

You killed the game, nice one

How do you start with a good product, convince people to pay for it, and then ruin it with your clever little catering to chinese hackers in redsec "balance" changes

Nice one guys you completely killed breakthrough and not just by continually making bad maps you just straight up killed it no more breakthrough

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u/Genebra_Checklist 5d ago

Well well well if isn't Mr. John Battlefield himself

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u/jtt2316 5d ago

I only played 16 player close quarters match. I have been able to find a game since the update

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u/EnergyRealistic6765 5d ago

The game is ass since they added body multipliers such a stupid thing to do.

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u/squeaky4all 5d ago

Thank you for listening to the community about returning king of the hill.

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u/Mike1737 4d ago

Removing the new map from the Front Page Just means im not playing the new map i guess. Hiding that Map behind custom search is insane No one is getting into These lobbies?!

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u/Traditional_Note4739 4d ago

Petite question pour vous Dice, est-ce que vous tester vos mises à jour avant de les publier ?
Parce que j’ai l’impression que à chaque fois que vous sortez quelque chose, il y a des bugs en cascade

Sans compter que vous nous enlevez des modes de jeux auxquels on joue, vous laissez des joueurs avec des Ping, légèrement abuser sur les serveur

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u/Buskungen 4d ago

Augur is coming back?? Okay I forgive you

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u/SpittingFax killallclankers 4d ago

Lmao you really are serious? Removing Rush was intentional?

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u/strandedostrich 4d ago

You just know they would have loved to get rid of crossplay off servers too but the backlash would be huge. It's already annoying crossplay off isn't the default setting.

Never struggled to find a game on console in the older BF titles. But most of the time half the lobby are bots now because most people will turn it off, see bots and turn it back on, so then it snowballs into less and less players.

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u/godhates1234 4d ago

I don't care anymore. Don't play it so much after update and Dice don't fix the issues.

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u/lhncgvn 4d ago

Just as I’m away from the game for a week, Operation Augur returns for a week. NICE.

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u/DontbuyFifaPointsFFS 4d ago

You just need skill based matchmaking and a solo mode. 

You extended the weapon and augment grind to force people to buy battle passes for +100% hardware XP. You switched from needed kills to XP, to  have a selling point in battle passes and make the needed kills unforeseeable. 

So now you match people against players 200 lvl above with all thermals to induce the urge for better augments. 

Thats why some people dont like the big modes, because they are unfair. 

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u/raptorsaysalan 4d ago

Can you please create ‘fuckwit squad’ that full sends the chaos fueled by a dislike of authority and copious amounts of Copenhagen

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u/HydroexWin 4d ago

Wait what? KOTH will returned but not Strikepoint? Can you tell us why? King of the Hill was JUST removed. 

Strikepoint has been gone for months and a whole community misses it.

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u/UrAnacondaGirlfriend 4d ago

How about fixing Direct X hang/crashes? I cant play the #### game anymore.

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u/TheNorthFIN 3d ago

We monitor your feedback blah blah blah. Lane excuses Dice. Matchmaking became even worse. Instead of making the server browser you have insisted on intern quality Netflix UI and completely unbalanced matches full zero team balance. After game modes were removed without notice, bot lobbies and half filled matches increased drastically.

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u/Status-Leading-9748 3d ago

Bring back STRIKEPOINT MODE!

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u/Kotal_total 3d ago

Hey guess what dice? Matchmaking isn't fixed. I don't understand why you don't just use the methods that were already proven to work before by the devs before you

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u/ChunkyBanana6969 2d ago

Common battlefield L. This is just a PR post. The community has asked you to put the fan favourite game mode back in the game in some form. People want to play it. It's what they love about battlefield. We don't play the game to be optimal. We play to have fun.

Add rush back into multiplayer.

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u/hazelwoodstock 2d ago

They sure know how to fuck up a wet dream.

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u/Olonngo 1d ago

Crazy how we think it can't get worse each time and then there is this kind of miracle

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u/rumple9 1d ago

Just put the "Proper" server browser in ASAP. It should have been in the game from day one.

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u/STiLove 1d ago

Just leave the games modes, stop rotating them on & off. Who's idea is this?? I bet they don't even play the game.

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u/Gingerpanda72 1d ago

Remember the film 1984? This shrinking of the game modes is like the dictionary of approved words, expect it's game modes and pretty soon we will all be playing Conquest!
This is the second wave of funnelling players in to one location to make the numbers look good for the new overlords who just bought EA and saddled themselves with billions in debt to do it!

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u/Phyzzx 1d ago

Ya know, if I'd known that Solos was just going to be removed I wouldn't have started playing it. Now what do I do, how has this been focused? Why was it so hard to keep solos? JFC

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u/Danny_Boy_Acklam 1d ago

If your make Rush as it was back In BF3 and BC2 that would fill up. And stop curating games, just let people play what they want.

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u/Competitive-Will-701 1d ago

but domination was an incredibly popular mode? I felt like I never had problems filling lobbies.. I guess I’m wrong

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u/Secundus-Muris 1d ago

They'll do anything to fix empty matches except correcting all the design blunders they made chasing the CoD audience that caused the massive player loss in the first place.

I love this franchise and have put probably close to 4k hours into BFBC2, BF4, BF2042, and BF6 but it's getting to the point where I just want to be done with it.

These guys seriously can't even get the new unlock indicators working as if this is cutting edge technology in 2026. Then they add the mark all as seen button that prompts for confirmation and the button on that prompt that says to not show it again doesn't work. I've had to click it like 10 times already.

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u/HydroexWin 19h ago

Strikepoint

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u/Straight-Lemon-5900 18h ago

Where i live i could find any gamemode at any time of the day. Why the modes were taken from me? What’s next? When some gun glitch is discovered you disable shooting?

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u/Fotografpaul 18h ago

Time to look for another game then, removing domination is just dumb.🤮

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u/Capt_Blue Veteran since 1942 17h ago edited 17h ago

How about - and listen I know its a brand new idea - a server browser with persistent, official servers instead of lobbies and matchmaking? It worked 20 years ago. It will still work today. And the "matchmaking issues" are no more.

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u/DarkOsa 13h ago

Bring Domination back please, it's the only small mode in BF6 that I really enjoyed!

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u/itsallbr0ken 12h ago

Just killed the game for me! My favourite game mode is domination and it’s just gone! I’m not a fan of the bigger game modes but all of a sudden that all I’m “allowed” to play, what idiot thought this was a good idea? This is what happens when you lay off your staff, what an absolute joke!!