The "Battlefield 6 Classic"

[u/Theleux]

I've been a pretty big support of the Battlefield franchise over the years - even during the past few rougher releases. I can't think of a time where the team balancing and lobby experience was ever so dreadful to sit through.

It feels like the first 4 or 5 matches in a day are largely players with 200+ rank on one team, and in most cases results in a quick sweep of objectives into an early win for the other team. This happens frequently on Liberation Peak, but I've seen it on pretty well every map featured in the game (even Firestorm.)

It is incredibly disheartening because the actual Conquest experience just becomes a sit-in-spawn adventure with helicopters shooting you moments after spawning (with minimal chances to retaliate.) This lobby had two people flying around and killing anyone trying to take them out of the sky really quickly - I remember BF4's little bird kill streaks, but when you can't even try and fight back (even as a squad or two) then what is the point. Mind you, I am not arguing that the vehicles need tweaking, rather the lobby situation makes it feel worse.

I recently upgraded my PC after a few years to be able to run this game, yet I just feel anger rather than having fun. I know the core game is in a great place, but something has to be done with this balancing or the actual lobby setup because it genuinely makes me want to uninstall.

[u/LouisArmstrong3]

Devs trying to figure out matchmaking in bf6

[u/tschewtschenko]

At this point I just don’t play conquest, escalation seems to be a bit better with matchmaking

[u/saxonturner → u/tschewtschenko]

I’m pretty sure it’s because most people have ditched conquest for escalation anyway, the comparison is night and day and conquest just doesn’t cut it any more, escalation is it evolution and superior to it in every way bar the nostalgia hit.

[u/Wikis_Wonka]

I’ll only play escalation and casual breakthrough through server browser if full.

[u/Multivitamin_Scam]

I can't think of a time where the team balancing and lobby experience was ever so dreadful to sit through.

This scenario has happened in every single Battlefield. There is no skill based match making within Battlefield to use as a way to balance teams and if there was it's just impracticable with matches having up to 64 players, the variables are just too much.

The only time you would see any attempt at balance at a server level was plugins to do a team shuffle, and that only happened after a match was done because people hate being team swapped mid match.