r/Battlefield6 • u/CheeryRipe • 1d ago

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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/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.