Dead in Australia?

[EUROPA]

Idk if its the time of day, but I search for every match and it just says "no servers found in your region", when I go to the server browser there is only 1 Australian server that's always full.

What happened? I played this game at launch and I would get into a match instantly. If I try switch regions I get kicked for high ping.

[Skele]

Yeah I don't know what is happening, I can't get into a game too. When I click the server browser there is only one AUS server. The other 2 are locked

[Zatara]

Feelin' ya pain here. Finishing work to pop on to see 1 official server full up - what happened to the others??

[EUROPA]

So is this a new thing or has it suddenly happened? Did the players just all leave or is this just a bug in matchmaking?

[Skele]

There is only one server and its constantly full because everyone is trying to play

[Sir Vix]

yep. annoying AF.

[MrDrWoo]

Weird, I feel like there's normally atleast 5 full servers at any time of day in Aus. What happened to them?

[baconboi]

Yeah there's only one 127v127 server at the moment and nothing else. Either no one is willing to wait in the queue for a new server or the game is dead during the day in OCE. If you happen to be that 255th player, you're SOL.

[Arnie Rimsy BSc.SSc.]

They need active servers running, atleast one for each mode, on rotations for maps and modes. Impossible to play 32vs32 rush right now, even though people want to. Screw cueing for half hour. Also easily drop the player requirements down to 1 per team. Let people play.

[Anthrax.]

Queueing is broken and not spinning up servers. I verified 10 people queuing for a server and it still said 0/32 queueing.

[Shork]

Regions other than EU and NA were relatively small to begin with. With the massive decline in players, yeah, those regions are gonna be next to dead. The developer doesn't exactly care for the small numbers, though. So you gotta be praying for any change on that or accept that you made a bad purchase.

[fheoiremapleeejker]

Originally posted by 󠀡󠀡:

Regions other than EU and NA were relatively small to begin with. With the massive decline in players, yeah, those regions are gonna be next to dead. The developer doesn't exactly care for the small numbers, though. So you gotta be praying for any change on that or accept that you made a bad purchase.

There was at least 5 full servers in Australia yesterday. It has nothing to do with the region being dead.

[Shork]

Originally posted by Impeccable aim:

Originally posted by 󠀡󠀡:

Regions other than EU and NA were relatively small to begin with. With the massive decline in players, yeah, those regions are gonna be next to dead. The developer doesn't exactly care for the small numbers, though. So you gotta be praying for any change on that or accept that you made a bad purchase.

There was at least 5 full servers in Australia yesterday. It has nothing to do with the region being dead.

At peak times, maybe. But most likely you'll only have those 5 full servers, with virtually just 0 everywhere else.
If OP uses the crappy queue function instead of the server browser, like the majority does, then that'll cause some issues with getting into any match.

Basically just do that: Pick a server, even if it's full, in the browser and keep clicking it. Normally someone hops off within a minute and you get to join.

[Arnie Rimsy BSc.SSc.]

Originally posted by Anthrax.:

Queueing is broken and not spinning up servers. I verified 10 people queuing for a server and it still said 0/32 queueing.

I second this, it seems broken. I was in a large game and many of us agreed to go try get 32 rush back... it said 4/16 max, kept dropping between 1-2-3-4 aswell. Really frustrating.

Originally posted by 󠀡󠀡:

Regions other than EU and NA were relatively small to begin with. With the massive decline in players, yeah, those regions are gonna be next to dead. The developer doesn't exactly care for the small numbers, though. So you gotta be praying for any change on that or accept that you made a bad purchase.

I really wish devs didn't do this. I often had this problem keeping BF1 and BF Hardline alive. I was running hardcore Heist and Operations servers almost 24/7 back then, joining groups, running and joining PS communities, sending tens of PMs to people, and literally sitting in lobbies that were empty for 1-3 hours waiting for action. I kept BF1 Operations servers running until a good 3 am with this absurd amount of effort to retain and invite and let players know it's happening.
You'd get 6 or 7 people or something, and because there was some arbitrary number, like say 16 players needed, you couldn't play. Worse, you'd finally start a match, play for 10 minutes, someone would leave and because you fall under the required player numbers the round would end, lose all XP, stop having fun and go into waiting lobby...

I'm really tired of companies and developers doing this. I'm considering trying to reach out to Battlebit devs HOPING they will change, but having this issue and conversation with every single new game, small or large dev team, is so tiring and frustrating.

Does anyone know how to reach out to the devs through a proper channel where they have a good chance of hearing and responding to this issue that is plaguing their smaller region servers?

Originally posted by Impeccable aim:

Originally posted by 󠀡󠀡:

Regions other than EU and NA were relatively small to begin with. With the massive decline in players, yeah, those regions are gonna be next to dead. The developer doesn't exactly care for the small numbers, though. So you gotta be praying for any change on that or accept that you made a bad purchase.

There was at least 5 full servers in Australia yesterday. It has nothing to do with the region being dead.

4 hours ago wasn't peak time, but I hopped on and saw only 1 server too. I feel like there may have been more and can't trust it, but also it just wasn't peak time, it was when majority where at work/school/commuting.

Originally posted by 󠀡󠀡:

Originally posted by Impeccable aim:

There was at least 5 full servers in Australia yesterday. It has nothing to do with the region being dead.

At peak times, maybe. But most likely you'll only have those 5 full servers, with virtually just 0 everywhere else.
If OP uses the crappy queue function instead of the server browser, like the majority does, then that'll cause some issues with getting into any match.

Basically just do that: Pick a server, even if it's full, in the browser and keep clicking it. Normally someone hops off within a minute and you get to join.

They need to add a proper cue, not clicking frenzy haha

[Arnie Rimsy BSc.SSc.]

P.S. Maybe I might look into running a server. I used to admin a BF4 hardcore defuse, but never paid for it. I wonder how expensive this would be, as I'm totally not loaded and may try to figure out how people do a crowd funded monthly server. Can see myself playing 32vs32 rush for a long time still...

P.P.S Hesitant to spend money when I paid for a game and devs could so easily add 1 server rotating maps for each mode, instead of 3-7 conquest large servers.

[Shork]

Originally posted by Arnold Judas Rimmer:

They need to add a proper cue, not clicking frenzy haha

I had to beg for over a year just to have the server browser filter save (it would reset each time you entered that menu) and to have an option to disable the auto refresh added (it's fun when you click a server, it refreshes and completely shifts the list...). The latter is still incomplete, because that option exists, but still doesn't save (on by default).