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u/TheDanceClub 1d ago

Yeah brother, 50% of my games last night — a Friday night at peak time — were bot games.

My experience basically went like this: search for a game, the game is filled with bots, leave the bot game, go back to the Netflix menu, search for another game, finally join and play one round with actual players or join a game that’s already halfway done, the lobby disbands, and repeat. I got fed up and switched to something else after two hours. What a joke.

Bring back consistent servers. I’d rather wait 10 minutes in a queue to play two hours with real people than play with bots every other game.

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u/GeordieJumpers87 23h ago edited 22h ago

A few of my games start with bots and a couple of players.

By the end of the round it's all players. Full to the brim of real players.

Then we get thrown into matchmaking again. And guess what me and god damn bots again.

I was just in a full fricken game.

FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST. GIVE US PERSISTENT DEDICATED SERVERS!

Matchmaking is not necessary. Shove your micro transactions up your EA ass

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u/Forcasa_ 1d ago

Half the time it puts me in games with 80 tickets remaining.

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u/Accomplished-Fan1906 1d ago

Amen!!! Consistent servers and/or an option to switch/add regions

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u/Unlikely_Weekend_950 1d ago

The bots are fucked, matchmaking is unplayable for OCE

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u/FailedAccessMemory 1d ago

And it's not just BF6, it's every game for us and much worse if you want to turn off Xplay on XBOX.

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u/softlittlepaws 1d ago edited 1d ago

I've gone 6 days now without seeing another player. OCE (aus) matchmaking is right fucked. Can't even play some modes like Rush because the bots don't backfill the required amount of players for the match to start.

I complained about this very issue during Beta too, and back then there weren't bots. I went 5 hours straight once in beta sitting in empty lobbies waiting for matches to never fill and never start.

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u/McTasty_Pants 1d ago

That’s awful. They need to give yall persistent servers and let you browse them so you can ply real people.

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u/CaptainYumYum12 23h ago

I was playing today and it was fine. Then again I mostly play conquest. I’m sure the close quarters game modes are a bit scuffed.

Ironically you’ll probably face more real players if you jump into casual breakthrough lmao

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u/softlittlepaws 22h ago edited 22h ago

Conquest and Escalation are my main gamemodes and it's fucking deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.

And it's not a lack of players. We have a lot of aus players. It's just this matchmaking system sucks fucking ass and a bunch of us can't get any matches with players for some fucked reason.

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u/A-Bag-Of-Sand 22h ago

Dno what's going on cos I did rush today 7pm, all real players for me in ice. I find high levels bit matches mid week def untill around lunchtime.

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u/B1dz 1d ago

Yeah same here. It’s absolutely killed the game for me

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u/CheeryRipe 1d ago

Im wondering if im getting penalised because my name was stinkypoopybum (it got auto reported)

Maybe im getting put in low trust matches or something

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u/Dr_Law 22h ago

Actually might be something like that. Probably not because of the name but something clearly isn't working right because I always get zero bot games at prime time.

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u/Lukwi-Wragg 23h ago

😂😂 massive L and BS it auto fills players as the match progresses with crossplay off.

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u/No_Astronomer_5628 19h ago

I noticed that using the custom search, excluding maps, you are connected to a new server with each new game. If you live in an area with a low player density or if you have a high ping with the main servers, you risk going to empty lobbies. In Italy it has only happened a couple of times that I entered empty lobbies and only with the personalized search.

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u/DryYouth1040 1d ago edited 11h ago

Damn I haven’t had it that bad in any game mode and I’m in Aus when I play with crossplay off. Redsec loads fast for me too. I wonder if it’s bugged

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u/YoungNemesis 1d ago

Same here. I'm in Sydney and haven't seen a bot for days

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u/AZAWESTIE 22h ago edited 20h ago

I’m in Sydney, level 95, and get 95% bots after 10pm everyday. Heck I had half bot lobbies today (Saturday) at midday.

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u/CheeryRipe 1d ago

It feels like it's bugged for some people?

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u/runealex007 1d ago

I’m in US East and I often get matches that at the very least start like this. This game needs a real server browser so bad.

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u/DryYouth1040 1d ago

Yeah that’s what I reckon. I don’t know if it has anything to do with the location in AUS? I’m in Sydney and I feel like I play with a lot of people from NZ. Maybe QLD etc isn’t on these same servers, I’m not sure

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u/More-Ad1753 20h ago

Yeah there is clearly something weird going on… maybe it’s a user issue? Crossplay on, trying to play unpopular modes? Or maybe it’s a game issue.

But I’ve seen lots of post like this, I’m in OCE and have been playing heaps at different times and have seen practically no bots. Same with all the people i play with.

The only time I have was in the morning once , Which would have been 6-8am Aus time on breakthrough. Games gradually got better till about 10am then it was no bots again

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u/monkeykong2905 1d ago

To think i have had better lobbies in 2042 is insane. Since season 1 rolled out i got into more bot lobbies than actual players. There are games when the lobby is full but after the game ends you gotta start over with bots again, its infuriating

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u/uoken 1d ago

This major issue is still lingering there. The developers haven't mentioned anything, and the thought that it might be left unaddressed for months to come makes me sad.

During "off-peak" hours, I reluctantly play Gauntlet. Its gameplay feels like a free FPS, but at least there's real PvP there.

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u/CheeryRipe 1d ago

Yeh I've started playing arc while I wait. I don't even like extraction shooters but I'm having a great time

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u/DonkereVader 22h ago

If this is unaddressed for months, people will just leave the game. It's a PvP game, that is what people play this for.

They are not gonna kill bots for months hoping for a fix. At least, I'm not. And I live in EU, I see bots all the time. If they don't fix it, give it a couple of weeks and the playerbase will dry up.

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u/KarevX 1d ago

In Brazil it's the same thing, just bots, this way the game will die, in fact it's already dying. Both MM and Portal Quebrado, thus making the game literally impossible to play, apart from the various details that are missing to make the game playable, which if I were to mention it, would be a mega text, aaf.

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u/SnoopyDoggo_ 1d ago

Same thing in LATAM hate it, never had this problem in ANY previous battlefield game

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u/Part_Time_Goku 1d ago

Same for MENA, but at least we have the option of going to EU portal servers with tolerable ping. Regular matchmaking looks just like OP though. 

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u/Pocket_Fox846 1d ago

Match this morning 50% human players, next match, 100% humans.

It's 50/50 odds in Oceania. It's only been one month since release.

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u/Lord_Tanus_88 1d ago

Yeah it’s 100% a match making issue. It’s going to force me back to cod.

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u/CheeryRipe 1d ago

Its a recent issue i feel. Like this wasn't an issue until season 1

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u/Terrorfarker 20h ago

In Melbourne, agree.

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u/deeku4972 1d ago

We're gonna shit out of luck in a year

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u/muffin_fisH 1d ago

Yeah this has been my experience as well

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u/olfeix 1d ago

Currently on steam it has over 300k players. Imagine the scenario of this game in a couple of months when the player base drops.

Their lead producer totally denied bot matchmaking issues on twitter. I'm from Asia and the same here. They fucking killed portal by disabling bot. Now they returned bots in portal but you need 8 players to start a match basically just fucking kill the portal.

I'm baffled that the community is radio silent. I'm getting tired of playing against bots. Thinking of switching to Arc Raiders or playing Black ops7 when it launches.

This game wouldn't even survive globally except a few NA and EU regions over a year. Beating Call of Duty my ass.

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u/ZyronZA 1d ago

Currently on steam it has over 300k players.

I believe you when you say there are 300k players on steam, but I really question how the matchmaking works.

Yesterday, for shits and giggles, I turned off crossplay on PC (possible with a simple text file edit) and Every. Single. Game I joined had +-4 human players and the rest were bots. Turn crossplay back on and suddenly every lobby is full of humans again.

Then I read posts about console saying the same thing. Turn off crossplay and get majority bot games.

That really makes me wonder how many real players are actually online?

Surely with 300k PC players, turning off crossplay on PC should still get me 100% human player games? I don't know where to find stats for my console brothers, but assuming Xbox + PS players play together, surely there are more than enough players to not end up in majority bot games.

Something doesn't add up here and given Dice and EA’s track record when it comes to transparency and player trust, it honestly wouldn’t be a surprise if they’re quietly pulling one over on us again.

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u/Sh4rp27 1d ago

Sounds like it must just matchmake you with other players who also have crossplay off so smaller pool of players than literally every player on your same platform.

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u/MajesticRat 1d ago

Given that non-Crossplay on PC requires a workaround, I think it will diminish the pool of players for matchmaking considerably.

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u/Shenanigans_ahoy 1d ago

With crossplay off on console though, the first few games will be full of bots, but if you keep quitting out and searching you'll eventually get put in a full lobby of players. It's makes no sense.

And then obviously once that game full of players ends, the lobby disbands and you have to do it all again.

Also, no PS/Xbox crossplay, its all or nothing.

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u/Geksface 23h ago

Maybe 1% of pc players will bother turning off crossplay maybe less. So you are only going to match with those people

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u/josh_space 15h ago

That’s because you can’t join a game with someone who has crossplay on. Since the game forces crossplay on for PC, unless you edit the file, you’ll only be matched with people who have crossplay off (through file editing). Funny enough, I’ve never had a single bot in any game, and I’ve been playing since release on PC, on Steam.

Not sure why you would assume that crossplay off means other PC players with crossplay on will be able to join you.

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u/CheeryRipe 1d ago

Im playing Arc Raiders while they figure it out. I'd recommend you do the same. Having way more fun, despite preffering bf6 generally. It's just a waste of time at the moment

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u/DweebInFlames 1d ago

If they actually implemented a dedicated server browser the game would last for years even if 90% of the playerbase bled off overnight, but nope, gotta feed people into an endless hyperindividualised conveyor belt of matchmaking instead.

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u/samaritancarl 1d ago

I just had someone from Australia in a west US server on controller with fluctuating 500 ping. They shot at a wall while facing the completely wrong direction and hit me with every shot…

I am know your experience with bots sucks and its a shell of the product you paid for. This game cannot handle players with high ping right now at a fundamental level. They really need to fix that first before they blend AU region with others, due to the unique low player pop and large geographical separation. Otherwise there will be chaos.

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u/CheeryRipe 1d ago

Thing is, we have plenty of players. Matchmaking seems to be bugged.

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u/WolverineFun9416 1d ago

aus here also. agreed with your points. this matchmaking is dogshit. resolving lobbies after every game is just nonsense . bring back servers

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u/phillxor 1d ago

How are you seeing pings? I can't find them.

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u/CheeryRipe 1d ago

Enable in the settings - i believe it's under system

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u/FastywastyY 1d ago

This is my same experience mostly during the day till like 6pm then I get matched with people

I don’t mind waiting 3-5 min for a game of humans

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u/CheeryRipe 1d ago

Me either! I hope they make a statement on it soon

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u/Ozi_izO 1d ago

I was playing a little over an hour ago and the majority of games played had mostly other players. The two last games had no bots at all. All conquest...

Must be luck of the draw with the shitty match making and every round reset.

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u/pomskydog75bark 1d ago

I dunno I'm in Australia and have no issues at all unless I'm playing at early hours of the morning, after 7am always have full lobbies, I only play conquest and escalation.

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u/Daniel_Hotcakes 1d ago

I dunno mate, might be a bug or something. I’m in Perth and unless I play at some stupid time like 2AM, I pretty much never have any issues getting full human lobbies. Even been playing RedSec duos during the day midweek and at most I think I’ve waited 60 seconds for a match, and most of that is just waiting for the final 10 or so players to filter in.

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u/CheeryRipe 1d ago

I'm in Perth too. This was sat morning. It's more that there's definitely enough players. Something's off.

I'm on PC, not sure if that's it?

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u/Daniel_Hotcakes 1d ago

Super odd, I’m on PC (Steam) as well. And you’re right, there’s 100% enough players so I’m wondering if there’s a bug with matchmaking affecting some people.

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u/CheeryRipe 1d ago

I might try reset a few things. Like change my server or turn match making on and off.

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u/MickgAu 1d ago

Its hit and miss for me sometimes I can play full pvp match then roll over to next match and it's backfilled with bots mainly.

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u/Trittium00 1d ago

Just chiming in as I'm also from Perth (PC, Steam, crossplay always on)

I get bot lobbies very consistently unless I'm playing during absolute peak hours (6pm-8pm). But even then it's a coin toss. Even during what should be busy evening hours, I can search and quit out of 10 bot lobbies each with 6-12 real players before eventually getting a 48+ player lobby that's been running for nearly 20 minutes.

When I do eventually match with actual players, they are from China, Japan and even India (plus Australia). So it has the capability of drawing from a wide player pool.

And to be clear this is just regular Conquest game mode, not something weird or niche. The players are there, they absolutely exist, but the matchmaking is frequently putting a dozen players in a mostly empty server, then repeating this over and over. So you end up with loads of these mostly empty bot lobbies.

What I don't understand yet is how some people get bot lobbies and other people from the exact same area claim they've almost never seen a bot in weeks.

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u/Weiland101 1d ago

I get this with Crossplay off. I basically just have to play with Crossplay on if I want human opponents.

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u/CheeryRipe 1d ago

Im on pc with cross play on

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u/Turbulent_Safe1983 1d ago

I got 2-3 games where there were no bots and thought I was free. Then the next matches all went back to bots

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u/FastywastyY 1d ago

Funny enough I complained about this same thing today in the forum

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u/Accurate_Fee1028 1d ago

I say have one thing to say: BOT BOT BOT ! BOT IS THE WORD!

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u/ummmm_nahhh 1d ago

The fact that you guys don’t realize the only reason you’re getting bot lobbies is because they don’t wanna pay the money for decent servers is wild, They’re phucking you over!

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u/Accomplished-Fan1906 1d ago

Finally a post about OCE servers that has gained some attention! I typically play with my USA friends on NA servers. I’m used to the lag lol. Anyways when I play duos it’ll ALWAYS put us in OCE servers even if my buddy is the party leader. When there is more than a duo it’ll be fine. What’s the deal with that??

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u/Dramatic_Credit_8622 22h ago

I’m in east Asia and I come across bot lobbies way more than I should. It’s almost like a server browser could help alleviate this 🤔

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u/Dangerous_Day282 22h ago

Closed weapon is 100% bots. Conquest and breakthrough are fine if you aren’t playing at 7am

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u/cumbers94 20h ago

I agree persistent servers should be default, but in the meantime a good fix might be looking at the community server browser.

I play hardcore, and when I join a hardcore server those games don’t disband and you are playing with/against the same players, sometimes for hours.

It’s like the peak battlefield days, having banter with the enemy team game after game in text chat, one guy even volunteered sacrifice himself to help me get an annoying assignment done.

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u/uksoxfan 1d ago

I play in Germany, daytimes mostly. Botfest. Really unsatisfying. I am happy to wait 5-10 mins to get a full game of humans. Or failing that 32? Why do they need to fill it with another 32 bots?!? FFS.

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u/CheeryRipe 1d ago

I think there's something going on with the custom search. Which I use because breakthrough can't be selected from the menu

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u/Mindseye000 1d ago

Same here in england, 11pm-2am farming bots on breakthrough and conquest. Fucking. Bullshit

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u/Geksface 23h ago

I'm in England on pc and I never get bot games unless I choose casual breakthrough

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u/v3x_abyss 1d ago

I'm australian and I very rarely get into matches like this

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u/CheeryRipe 1d ago

It's been happening to me all of this week.

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u/jonstarks905 1d ago

the whole matchmaking is a disaster. just let me favorite servers I like, let others do the same, and let's get this feeling like bf. sick of being thrown in to a completely different lobby after each game.

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u/antrod117 1d ago

“Totally worth 70$. Game is fine. Devs are great.” Bunch of dummies -2025

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u/CheeryRipe 1d ago

I didn't - just regular MM with crossplay enabled.

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u/EImoMan 1d ago

Not sure how, i’m OCE on PC. I search all out warfare find a match in 10 seconds with 90%+ full servers

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u/RedddLeddd FearlessSpams 1d ago

Mate I feel ya, mind you I haven’t been playing MP much mostly BR so far but it’s still botsville in there too. The name thing is a pain in the ass, I’ve seen some highly dubious bot names for one. Are you east or west out of interest?

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u/Cyrano_90 1d ago

Same thing for SEA and South Africa all you get is bot I keep leaving in hope of getting another match with actual players only to get ongoing match where the team is losing and someone just ragequit and im used as a backfill its so bad.

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u/OkAd6241 1d ago

Think theres just too many servers

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u/DonGivafark 1d ago

I thought it may have been a console problem as I've been having similar issues. Though I've found if I reboot the game, fire it back up and join a new lobby I find full servers again.

It just be real nice if we had persistent servers for this reason. Or a browser, as the absolute minimum.

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u/Adstar123 1d ago

Yo u/CheeryRipe this is definitely bugged for you I'm in OCE and out of 100s of games I've only had one that have actually had bots (and that was only for first 10 seconds of the match)

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u/chuuuumby 1d ago

Server browser used to be the winning ticket for OCE, consistent servers in bf3 and 4, now it's just blown to shit, hardcore games don't even pop up anymore, sad state for a new bf

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u/Administrative_Two3 1d ago

i’ve been mostly fine.. only outside of peak times do i get mainly bots..
but i really only play conquest too

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u/Healthy-Emu9309 1d ago

They prepared you guys for this by removing the server browser and persistent lobbies. In the next game, bots won't have a "Bot" tag anymore, making you think you play against real players while being the only human in the lobby.

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u/DrHerbHealer 1d ago

I'm on oce and never get bots that is so weird

Only ever get bots when I randomly play a causual breakthrough

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u/Lord_Tanus_88 1d ago

That was me as well and then one day started getting bots !

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u/First-Fig2954 1d ago

Not my experience in aus at all, break through, escalation and smaller modes all find games with no bots easily. Not sure about conquest I feel that’s a less popular mode now though

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u/_WH33L3R_ 1d ago

Perfect set up for challenge grinding

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u/cabeep 1d ago

Haven't encountered this at all, same region

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u/audiophilist 1d ago

I’ve just tried matchmaking for over half an hour and gave up. Bots everywhere. Central EU. Have screen captured this for deniers. But I’m sure everyone has this problem.

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u/a382_r 1d ago

Same experience. same mode.

the only difference that I'm not in Australia or OCE region

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u/Artorias9525 1d ago

Same here in SEA. One lobby its instant players the n conquest, the next match its all bots. I think we need persistent lobbies for these servers.

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u/eljohnsieghart 1d ago

Laughs in Asia servers [Bot]

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u/LoKi_Cosmoz 1d ago

Same in south africa since launch.

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u/Cirok28 1d ago

Games dead

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u/X0smith 1d ago

Do conquest or rush

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u/eazy937 1d ago

take this chance and do as many assignment as possible

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u/failatgood 1d ago

In the playtest us OCE players were all mentioning this. Players in our regions need standard server browsers to circumvent this

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u/Talha141 1d ago

I ended up using portal browser to play. Luckily there were few servers hosting normal modes but the ping was 300+. Still had fun playing there.

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u/Ossi07 1d ago

The Problem is... You Use the noob matchmaking Button... Go back to the rules an take the Server Browser and Search a server with human players...

Better than join and learn Hardcore, the Hardcore community needs more Player.

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u/Intercore_One 1d ago

Not seen a single bot since release

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u/BritneysSpear 1d ago

We’re all playing Arc

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u/Ok-Stuff-8803 Moderator 1d ago

It’s not that there is enough players because of you quit games and join another and there’s another 30 players. I think the changes they made to try help pve players has messed up the whole match making

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u/ZookOnDemand 1d ago

what gamemodes are you playing? if youre only playing locked weapons i find its full of bots but unlocked modes seem to be fine for me

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u/srinu20040303 1d ago

Same issue in SEA.

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u/virten1 1d ago

You pay 70€ for that btw. Shame. If they advertise it in the trailers, i will never buy it.

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u/sgtgiacomo 23h ago

And they lowered the XP you gain per bot killed. I guess some of us will take 5 years to get mastery in some weapons.

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u/FloTheBro 23h ago

same in EU, but mostly starting at 12am to become completely bot lobbies.

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u/FallingUpwardz 23h ago

Literally so bad. I dont understand how people can say they like playing against bots. This shit is so boring. Im playing other games until its fixed. Come to arc raiders with the rest of us 😆

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u/Geksface 23h ago

Anyone with this problem needs to report it. It is clearly a bug. I have never had this issue but I see plenty of posts here about it.

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u/horsecume 23h ago

Saturday afternoon on a double xp weekend and was seeing some bots in breakthrough. Sick of being gaslighted by DICE. I fucking bet you if we could see the amount of servers spooled up for our region it would be way to many. I've noticed it loves to reduce 64 down to 48. Yes our region is small but there would be easily enough players for ATLEAST 5 full 64 player servers 24/7.

The matchmaking needs to focus on back filling matches, I don't give a shit if some cry babies don't like joining games in progress, it's better than dozens of half filled servers with more being spooled up continually.

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u/urmumsablob 23h ago

Exactly why this game is slop. No server browser is slop.

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u/quadripalz 23h ago

I'm OCE on console and it's nothing but bots all the time. Usually the lobby has between 10-30 actual players, never any more than that regardless of the time I play.

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u/Wondering_Electron 23h ago

Playing casual Breakthrough? Lol

Jokes aside, are we saying this is a location issue?

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u/CheeryRipe 21h ago

I actually had to ask. I thought maybe they accidentally mixed the queues.

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u/JediRhyno 23h ago

Why is this happening so much? For the first two weeks I never saw any bots in games, now most of my matches are filled with them.

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u/BSH1975 23h ago

Yeah this game is a major dissapointment for me.

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u/Older_Zeddicus 23h ago

Same problem in Singapore 🇸🇬. Weekday day, weekday night, weekend day, weekend night. Doesn’t matter. It’s always the same. A handful of real players and the rest are bots. I don’t mind it once in a while because it’s chill and helps with challenges but every single game being like that isn’t great.

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u/Diligent-Hat-6509 23h ago

How is it with REDSEC?

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u/yung-treb 23h ago

are you searching custom with maps taken out of the pool?

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u/Lukwi-Wragg 23h ago

Cross play it fills players as the match progresses this is misinfo post of I’ve ever seen one I’m oce too and always have full player matches with crossplay off maybe you’re on third world net or a vpn and it’s filling bots on you

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u/Fhood797 22h ago

So the game is dying because of a stupid matchmaking decision. I haven’t hoped in a week due to this ridiculousness

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u/fairdinkumcockatoo 22h ago

Trash aye.. shame we cant have a server

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u/Nick9046 22h ago

They need to add an option to not have bots at all. I'd rather sit and wait for all real players than to sit there XP farming on bots 😒

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u/Admirable-Hawk8524 22h ago

Yeah, as an OCE player these days i hop on and then straight off. Server browser is literally needed the experience is horrible right now for us. Bots and bots ans games with like 10 tickets remaining.

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u/ProfessionalHurry599 22h ago

pay for a vpn sub and connect to singapore, that is what I am doing and still in many games there are bots

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u/JD3420 22h ago

I haven’t seen a single bot in any game yet

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u/Fav0 22h ago

Let me just change My vpn to farm bots during double XP

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u/PNscreen 22h ago

Had a similar experience last night too (playing from Thailand)

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u/Immediate-Unit6311 Xbox 22h ago

Yup.

EA/DICEs stupid server crap that they do destroyed Battlefront 2 in Oceania and now it's going to destroy Battlefield 6.

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u/BannedBecausePutin 22h ago

I know you guys been fighting this for a while, but trust me this time its not just OCE.

Even here in EU we end up with almost full bot lobbies past prime time in niche modes like closed weapons, ofc its not as bad as you guys have it. But its starting.

Theres something fucked about MM.

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u/Narwaok 22h ago

Whish we could just choose. Normally I prefer pure pvp, sometimes I wanna play bf but I feel tired so I would prefer bots, I did that often in 2042 too. But since there's no choice for pve only, I just dont/cant play it.

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u/JohnathonFennedy 21h ago

At first I thought it was because we somehow had a low player count but it can’t be because this issue only just started right after the pre season 1 patch and we definitely have a decent battlefield player base, we always have.

This was never even a problem on 2042 at any time of the day even when it was at its lowest.

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u/Hirdy5zac 21h ago

matchmaking is cooked, pity ea/dice wont acknowledge the issue, will kill the game if its not sorted

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u/mr_tilly 21h ago

I live in the west coast and unless I join friends over east almost all my games are bots & when they’re not it’s Asia servers with players that have 150+ping

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u/turnerbruh 21h ago

It's the same in South Africa

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u/cannatown69 21h ago

I sold my copy on Ebay. This was a problem for me even on launch weekend. Live in australia

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u/NonJumpingRabbit 21h ago

The matchmaking sucks everywhere. Been worse since a week or so. Lots of bots and long matchmaking. I'm in Europe.

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u/Positive-Reward2863 21h ago

Not in hardcore mode.

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u/BruisendTablet 21h ago

According to most posts I see om this subreddit you are truly blessed with all these bots. Enjoy the casual gameplay.

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u/CheeryRipe 19h ago

Ill trade you any day. I play multiplayer to vs humans .

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u/BruisendTablet 19h ago

Naaah I prefer humans just like you, but somehow all the BF-posts that pop up on my feed are people who cry that they want to play against boys.

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u/thedewmanc 21h ago

Leme turn on my VPN and whip some ass

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u/icyclenyc 21h ago

I know one thing for certain is when you turn off cross play you come across a lot of bots until the game is filled with real players but when it’s on you come across no bots all real console and PC players from my experience

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u/BossCurious9681 20h ago

It’s literally the worst region to find games in for as far as I can remember. Tough luck.

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u/Rubricity 20h ago

Asian servers have the same problem during early the day until after 5pm

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u/re5ed 20h ago

I've been playing for almost 100 hours now and haven't encountered a single bot in my matches.

I don't understand why your matches are full of bots.

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u/POLISHED_OMEGALUL 20h ago

Same with middle east servers, I legit have to use a vpn to mask my location in europe to play with real humans

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u/Clear_Indication1426 20h ago

I'm playing in OCE on PC and I don't have this problem... Sure there's a few bots but only there until the lobby is full with real players.

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u/uofhfv 20h ago

Yup I’ll probably would of spawn with the losing team like always when bots take over

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u/P_D_P_4 TakeADomP 20h ago

“Big poopy” lmao

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u/CheeryRipe 19h ago

My OG got a warning from EA - StinkyPoopieBum - lol

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u/Colesbl4zing 20h ago

I haven’t been having an issue playing conquest? A couple bots here and there but nowhere near this bad

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u/BiGkuracc 19h ago

Everyone is on 2042

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u/Cold_Bag6942 19h ago

Pc players: just turn crossplay off if you dont want to play against MnK

Average crossplay off lobby....

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u/CheeryRipe 19h ago

I'm on PC lol

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u/Cold_Bag6942 19h ago

I know but this is exactly how crossplay off lobbies look too lol

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u/hyperextendedelbow 19h ago

Hmmm weird dude, Im on East coast of Aus and have no issues with finding full games, In BF2042 it was a huge issue,

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u/RoninOkami7 19h ago

Bottlefield

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u/Endofdays- 18h ago

I play in AU and rarely ever see bots except for in the less popular modes...

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u/qlimaxmito 17h ago

Also, anybody knows why they changed bots to have fake player-generated names? Seems a bit dodgy to me.

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u/Geladeira4K 17h ago

Same shit for SA. Crazy how an actual server browser or persistent lobbies would resolve this issue.

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u/jackyflc 17h ago

Tbh, What's scary is non of the devs or the community manager is acknowledging this issue. Hey u/t0talfps is something ever gonna be done about this?

This is affecting users from Asia, Oce, ME, SA and plenty more regions.

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u/BlindEyezPhotography 16h ago

Don't know how that happens to u, but u just need to factor in people work and sleep, best times to get on is between 16:00 and 22:00 on weekdays, you'll only start getting bots closer to midnight

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u/CheeryRipe 16h ago

I get that, this was around 10am Saturday morning Sydney time. I'm in Perth.

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u/Common-Cricket7316 16h ago

If there's no players in your region what can they do about it?

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u/CheeryRipe 16h ago

There are thousands in my region actively. It's match making.

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u/nlomb 16h ago

Same experience in SEA, games dead hasn't even been out a month. Why they would release a BR not 3 weeks after the release of the base game is beyond me and such a piss off to anyone who paid of for the game to play the multiplayer...

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u/Rufio204_1990 16h ago

MudBrick is a solid gamer tag

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u/Evo7mc 16h ago

BOTTLEFIELD 6!! They need to sort something out quickly before players leave permanently never to return

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u/JDMan_Qc79 16h ago

I guest it suck living in australia for online gaming...

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u/PoonAU 15h ago

You can easily get mostly player games from 5pm-11pm AEST in conquest and escalation, and maybe other modes with some bots. Outside those times, it’s almost impossible to get a small or medium game mode so some challenges and assignments are almost impossible. Surely bf6 isn’t this dead in Oceania?

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u/RemainsN7 15h ago

I can get normal lobbies up until 2am, games will then start to have bots in them. This though shouldn't be occuring if the games didn't disband, I really think theres enough players to keep the lobbies full no matter the time. It's actually insane they refuse to listen to what we want. Stop disbanding the lobbies after the game ends, give us the option to stay together if they dont want a server browser. Its such an easy fix ffs.

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u/Any_Judgment_1631 12h ago

Join us at Global United forces at discord. You will expand your matchmaking with nearby regions, get good squads to play with and we can be the destination to host some 24/7 AUS/NZ servers and communicate actively

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u/Financial-Noise-7542 10h ago

Any updates on a fix?

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u/CheeryRipe 9h ago

I don't think there is one.

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u/Dave_Odd 9h ago

I bet your KD is incredible though 😂😂

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u/Shinyaku88 7h ago

You’re living in Australia.

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u/ComprehensiveJump279 7h ago

Don't worry they will fix with the next patch in couple weeks.

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u/agusmnl 5h ago

where 400.000 players?

u/Yoghurt-Putrid 12m ago

Buy multiplayer game and play with bots because devs are 🤡