Matchmaking-Netcode (Consoles)

Battlefield 1 General Discussion
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Hi , a little rant about bf4 and bf1 mixed in together …

As many people realises , and experiences battlefield games can be attrocious to play at certain instances …

We blame it to netcode , we blame it to internet , we blame it to other players with high pings and such …

But most people here on the forums and on reddit believes that these so called “OOR problem” are related to evil , demonic players that wants to ruin our gaming experience by joining purposely on far away servers …

But i doubt that is the reality . the reality is , at least 80-90% of the player base uses the "Quickmatch " option … the reality is , that the matchmaking in current battlefield titles are so badly developped , that it does throw people all around the world regardless their ping - location etc …

By no means this is a suggestion of removal of server browser . Server browser is a good reliable tool that gives people more options when it comes to picking a game session … I use server browser , this is my main tool to pick a game …

But I am just pointing that , the main game choosing tool in the game wich is used by majority of battlefield playerbase , is flawed big time … i occasionally use quickmatch option every once in a month or two , just to see where am i going to end up , and 50% of the time i end up in a game happening on west us , asia , or even australia …

And this is a very big flaw that should be fixed … No matter how well they improve the netcode , play around with tickrates , change frame history times and other stuff , as long as they dont improve the matchmaking , people will experience same problem that have been facing …

Also i realise that some people like to join purposely out of region servers just for the lols , but i think they are at very few numbers , and i doubt this is their go to playstyle … spending your game sessions while yourself also experiencing issues on your gameplay does not makes sense in the long run …

Improving matchmaking is not going to solve all the problems , and magically make the game flawless , but i think it will be a big improvement , and all the other improvements made on top of that improvement will have even a better effect on gameplay …

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Amen to that.

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I never use matchmaking/quickmatch, it should not even exist when there’s an in-game server browser.

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I have the question why such thing exists… Maybe its for the non frequent users of the game?

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Quick match is broken but there are plenty of OOR who join through ranked servers through the server browser not just for lols. They see that there aren’t many servers in their region & they end up going in an OOR server. There needs to be more servers and OOR restrictions…

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Have official regional servers that are region locked. Also have international servers that are not region locked. And give private servers the option to be either, plus a ping limiter.

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its just unbelievable. On the games where there is region locks they are crying why and where there is no region lock they’re crying for a region lock…

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Give them both.

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From what I understand, quickmatch HAS to be in the game due to MS/Sony. Just like there can’t be region locked servers and non region locked servers. It is one way or the other, not both. And again, this is due to MS/Sony.

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if quickmatch would have worked properly i would use it also .. at least when i go lone wolf . i think most people that are not using it would prefer to use it when they really wanna quickie …

the thing is it does not work as it supposed to . it throws you on empty servers , martian servers etc …

and causes many problems …

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Not sure what you mean here but region lock isn’t on console which a ton of people want..

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I believe he is referring to other games out there. The ones that are region locked people cry “why is this game region locked” and then there are games that aren’t region locked and people cry “why isn’t it region locked”.

Just say NO to region locked. Think things through before such claims should be suggested. And think worse case scenario.

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Thanks you clearing it up.

I’ve thought this through for 5 years now, still hasn’t be implemented.. Tired of emptying clips on OOR just to have them one shot me… I want the ABILITY to region lock my server(s), not have every server to have region locks btw..

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Perhaps…drop the hammer on people from people that are “rubber banding” and lagging super bad? Like the players from South America on North america servers? Or stop allowing them to play after a certain high level ping? It makes the game almost unplayable when you are unable to shoot people, and the screen freezes when you shoot these people, or they are running in place or will jump forward on screen then immediately a couple feet back?

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I am with Say_Hellir..I think the user and certain servers should have the option to be region locked. This would cut out a bunch of the lag issues with other countries in other servers. For instance, when you are playing on an NA server, and get a bunch of people from SAmerica or Australia playing…It causes some major delays on the Hits from the game. I have shot many vehicles, players, etc…to have the shells, rockets…etc to go through them or not even register hit markers. I have even saved the videos for when I submitted the claims to EA for proof letting them know they need to fix this. This is something that needs to be addressed.

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They should have the option I agree. But it will never happen until MS/Sony allows for these types of things to happen. PC is where it is at for these types of freedoms.

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Should at least have a ping kicker. Nothing past 125+

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Again. That is determined by MS/Sony. Besides. +125ms is a little harsh (and done by a 3rd party plug in on pc) and MS/Sony limits are not strict enough either.

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Here we go its all ms and Sony’s fault yet again.
Not strict enough limits erm how do you know?

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That’s classified.