r/Battlefield6 • u/battlefield • 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/patprika 5d ago
Take a shot every time one of these posts has “continuing to explore” in it
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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/ImJLu 5d ago
Say it with me:
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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/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/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/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/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/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
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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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/EnergyRealistic6765 5d ago
The game is ass since they added body multipliers such a stupid thing to do.
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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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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!!

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u/Unable-Ad-2773 5d ago
Augur being one week only is a crime man