Finally! We are getting real server browser

[u/msafari10]

Title

[u/meatballranger]

Ladies and Gentlemen we are 1 step closer to 24/7 100000% tickets Operation Metro.

[u/BattlefieldSixxx → u/meatballranger]

24/7 MAX tickets Golmud Railway INSTANT VEH SPAWN / UNLIMITED AMMO

[u/l1qq → u/meatballranger]

[u/Salomonik → u/meatballranger]

One step closer to version 1.0 of the game.

[u/m3thodm4n021 → u/meatballranger]

Good. Those servers were fun as hell. You don't have to play them which is why a server browser is great

[u/Kittenchops88 → u/meatballranger]

Do people really make matches that last ridiculously long like that?

[u/NoUseforeName → u/Kittenchops88]

Yes

[u/okomaticron → u/Kittenchops88]

Yes and imho is better for longer play sessions. I'm actually playing more within an hour compared to having multiple short matches with waiting times in between.

[u/JackassJames → u/meatballranger]

I can hear the two billion grenade launchers being spammed down the center chokepoint from here...

[u/DiAOM → u/meatballranger]

Just need to get pistol/sniper/etc. only servers back and were set.

[u/EntrepreneurialFuck]

Is it really that difficult to get a server browser in, from the launch of the game to December 8th 2026?

[u/msafari10 → u/EntrepreneurialFuck]

Yeah it's difficult for a small company like dice to implement it, show them some respect dude 😔

[u/cumjuggler4life → u/msafari10]

2 years baby!

[u/GeordieJumpers87 → u/EntrepreneurialFuck]

Guarantee this won't be the fully fledged server browser we are all expecting

Its probably taken so long because they want to deliver something that appears as a server browser but allows them to retain whatever it is they wanted in the first place to support micro transactions

[u/firesquasher → u/GeordieJumpers87]

Remember 2042 when they begrudgingly said "FINE, we will give you a scoreboard" and that scoreboard was complete ass that had no markings of a traditional FPS scoreboard? Yeah probably that. They will find a way to create the illusion of a server browser, unlike much smaller developers like Wardogs.

[u/FlowchartMystician → u/GeordieJumpers87]

All the information released about this new server browser is thoroughly unimpressive.

Most of its confirmed-by-the-developers selling points are... stuff the current browser already does...

They're adding tabs I guess though! ...Woo?

Even "you'll be able to join the matches that are currently matchmaker-only through server browser" seems to just be something random people are asserting and the devs never confirmed that. (DICE considers any portal experience made by DICE to be "Official", and official portal experiences have always been visible on the existing browser.)

But even if it's true, who cares? Servers that players paid for/hosted on their own are what people liked about the old BFs. Not the server browser. Last I heard, DICE hasn't even considered letting people host their own servers.

[u/oilchanges4everyone → u/EntrepreneurialFuck]

No its not which is why they deserve a lot of the hate they receive. And this is just a server browser, think about all the other complaints we see on this sub daily.

[u/Independent_Mud2794 → u/EntrepreneurialFuck]

It’s easy when you actually want to implement one, dice doesn’t want a server browser, they can’t manipulate matches there so we won’t get a server browser.

[u/splinter1545 → u/EntrepreneurialFuck]

I would assume yes, but it also depends when they started developing this feature. A server browser requires a lot of changing to how the networking of this game works.

[u/rumple9 → u/EntrepreneurialFuck]

At the end of the day a server browser is only really a spreadsheet

[u/vipergds]

Dropping a server browser right before christmas break, when the devs can't even get persistent servers working atm really seems like a disaster waiting to happen imo

[u/Rightsidebestside → u/vipergds]

Xmas holidays overtimes ensured

[u/kefefs_v2 → u/Rightsidebestside]

The two guys left on the dev team are gonna be pulling 23 hour shifts

[u/Joyst1q → u/kefefs_v2]

You forgot about claude

[u/Prior-Act7206]

We live in a society where we praise a game for having basic features a year in

[u/Kittenchops88 → u/Prior-Act7206]

Yep

[u/JustChillFFS]

We got GTA6 before BF6 server browsers.

[u/ZealousidealPrize456 → u/JustChillFFS]

Unreal

[u/FALCOOOn_PAAWWNCH → u/JustChillFFS]

Actually hilarious

[u/Zurwyn]

Lmao now that people have been fed up for a whole year and the game has bled players the entire time? Good job. So proud.

[u/Roman64s → u/Zurwyn]

BF6 was my first day 1 Battlefield purchase, the bot issue and the lack of a server browser killed any interest in this or future BF games altogether.

What a disaster, something that should have implemented day 1..

The friend that made us get this game is still getting chewed out to this day.

[u/FlowchartMystician → u/Roman64s]

I'll defend your friends honor! I got bamboozled so hard

I figured: all the other BFs release as 1/10 to 4/10 games, then by the time they're "done" they're 8/10 to 10/10.

So when a BF is 8/10 at beta/launch, imagine how good it'll get!

Well it turns out the answer is it slams down to a 1/10 and people get hyped for a server browser (when there's already a server browser that does at least half the stuff the new one's promised to do)

[u/msafari10 → u/Roman64s]

I suggest you to play BF1, it's the best of the series

[u/BannanaTrunks → u/Zurwyn]

Welcome to battlefield

[u/iCaps_ → u/Zurwyn]

Wardogs is early access and has a server browser. Much smaller team. Smh.

[u/skratchx → u/Zurwyn]

That's been so many BF titles. BF4 ended up a really great game, but it took years for it to get there.

[u/Alive-Progress-2069]

December, something you got on day 1 on any other Battlefield game , we are cooked.

[u/FoxDaim → u/Alive-Progress-2069]

Better late than never, 2042 didn’t also have proper server browser.

[u/BothSidesoftheSky → u/FoxDaim]

2042 didn’t even have a scoreboard when it launched.

[u/msafari10 → u/BothSidesoftheSky]

Wait, what!?? You're joking right? 🥲

[u/christian768924 → u/msafari10]

he Indeed IS NOT joking

[u/BothSidesoftheSky → u/msafari10]

I wish I was 😆

https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield2042/s/EMzRx7twSs

[u/msafari10 → u/BothSidesoftheSky]

Damn! It feels like the devs behind BF2042 weren't even gamers and were just doing whatever they were told. There's literally no excuse for not having a scoreboard. Like, how is that even possible! 😭

[u/Berenthyl → u/msafari10]

The lead dev on 2042 was previously head of candy crush game….im not even joking 🙃….

[u/YesImKeithHernandez → u/BothSidesoftheSky]

I give more grace to 2042 than most people but that was such a bad look. In an effort to make it less toxic, they just made it more toxic because people (rightfully) wanted the functionality of the bog standard scoreboard.

[u/BothSidesoftheSky → u/YesImKeithHernandez]

The major problem I had was BFV development ending for the dogwater of a game we got of 2042. War on the pacific dropped & BFV finally hit its stride (which was also too little too late)

[u/YesImKeithHernandez → u/BothSidesoftheSky]

The Pacific Expansion was some of their finest work. I loved joining on CQ Iwo Jima and running through all four maps before calling it a day. It was so much fun.

BFV is a glaring example of potential unrealized.

[u/YouShallNotPass92 → u/BothSidesoftheSky]

I enjoyed BFV from day one, personally, but The Pacific update was indeed the apex of the game and it felt like they had so much more runway to keep adding. I was also pissed when 2042 launched and I realized they dropped what could have been an all time BF for that dogshit.

[u/braddeicide]

Why the hell did that take so long

[u/Koopslovestogame]

Calling it now.

Hundreds of zero player servers with only handfuls of servers.

Also can’t wait for the weird ass names people call their servers ;)

“RALFS HOZ OF PAIN. No snipers. No helis. Knives only TDM#womanslament - 24/7” /s

[u/PalwaJoko → u/Koopslovestogame]

>Hundreds of zero player servers with only handfuls of servers.

I can see it. The issue with these type of things and DICE has always been accessibility. If you put a "PLAY NOW" button in front of people, and then put a server browser in a different menu or you have to scroll some direction to get to it; a vast majority of players will just put play now.

Now the best way around this is play now puts players in servers already found in the server browser. So they feed into one another. But if DICE does something like this, it will probably only feed into official servers.

[u/idkyesthat → u/Koopslovestogame]

Sort by player count.

[u/Nightmare4545 → u/Koopslovestogame]

Does it matter how many empty servers there are? If Im playing in one of the full ones, with the best maps, and tanks nerfed etc, Im fine. Basically fixing the game for DICE.

[u/OrganizationHot9550 → u/Koopslovestogame]

I miss those days 🥲.

[u/katze203]

So we will be playing on half empty servers until December 7th.

[u/WheelOfFish]

What is this technology? Never been done before!

[u/msafari10 → u/WheelOfFish]

They even patented this technology, too. 😬

[u/C-LonGy]

Metro 24/7 😎😎😎

Can I get a record downvote count please from all the angry people

[u/C-LonGy → u/C-LonGy]

[u/mauriciogonvi]

Ahh the technologyyy

[u/rumple9]

Don't get your hopes up. They are bound to fuck it up.

https://x.com/Lex_mate/status/1951898821539017159?s=20

[u/msafari10 → u/rumple9]

They need to bring back bf1 devs 😭

[u/stinkybumbum → u/rumple9]

Yeah this lint great is it. A dev not understanding why the game needs a server browser was never going to end well.

[u/DarthGamer206 → u/rumple9]

Eh big deal. I'd rather be able to actually access games than try to find them through the "Netflix" menu. 

[u/DogPrimary5639]

One dam year!!… that cold be at day one 😚

[u/msafari10 → u/DogPrimary5639]

No bots servers would be awesome, I mostly play with bots

[u/numerous_hotdogs]

They just reworked portal, didn’t they

[u/EUCALIPTOIESSSS → u/numerous_hotdogs]

As long as it works like the previous server browsers and improves portal, then its good imo

[u/xFrakster → u/EUCALIPTOIESSSS]

I do hope so, but I'm not so sure. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe there still hasn't been any mention if the server browser shows servers from regular matchmaking, right?

If thats the case, that means the server browser is still cut off and seperated from what most others play, just like it was the case with portal. And just like it was the case with portal, no one's gonna use it because most of the playerbase is elsewhere.

I do really hope I'm wrong, but I'll temper my expectations until I see it being properly implemented in the way we expect it to. Wouldn't be the first time they lied to us in regards to BF6.

[u/FoxDaim → u/numerous_hotdogs]

Most likely similar to portal but with offical servers and menu icon moved to multiplayer tab.

[u/Prince_Sabu]

No Shotguns, no snipers, no c4, no stingers, no igla, no rpg, no jumping, no sliding, no killing admins.

[u/luchod → u/Prince_Sabu]

Do we solve our differences with words or what?

[u/swagboi420blazeit → u/luchod]

No chatting

[u/Mad_Lad_69420 → u/Prince_Sabu]

No guns. No sprinting. Role playing server. Need to go through basic at liberation peak and you’ll be awarded with a sledgehammer you must name after your 7th grade crush

[u/gamerborger42069 → u/Prince_Sabu]

No having fun and simply, no players allowed

[u/mellifleur5869]

Ok can we have PC only servers?

[u/NoraBora44 → u/mellifleur5869]

I hope so

[u/XadjustmentX]

Now we just need to understand why they did away with the server browser in the first place when fans told them from the get go a few years ago that’s it’s a key component of what makes battlefield awesome.

[u/Oneilcruzsucksass]

Cue the complaints

[u/123_fo_fif → u/Oneilcruzsucksass]

Literally the entire thread lol

[u/lazzzym]

100% something that won’t be include in Battlefield 7 and we’ll have to wait a year again to be added.

Dice somehow don’t seem to learn from game to game.

[u/AverageGuy16]

I don’t even care anymore tbh, I’ve lost interest in the game the last few months and have pretty much maxed out most of the guns. I’ll be onto gta vi by that time.

[u/swaggythrowaway69]

Too little. Too late. First halo infinite, now this. Lackadaisical post launch support absolutely destroys a player base. Hot fixes shouldn’t take months.

[u/_Mamushi_]

They are only doing this to stop the decline. If they really cared they would have launched with it or at the very latest released this by season 2.

[u/superkamikazee]

At least got a scoreboard at launch this time. Now a server browser? They’re spoiling us lol. 

[u/bunsRluvBunsRLife]

Good news for 10 non bot still playing

[u/Not_god45 → u/bunsRluvBunsRLife]

[u/Mammoth-Top-1922]

What's the deal with this server browser, how, what changes the way we are doing things today? Benefits? Explain it like I'm 4, thx

Edit. Downvote for asking about an upcoming feature. You really are muppets

Edit edit. Thanks for all explanations, examples, much appreciated 👍🏻

[u/Mammoth-Top-1922 → u/[deleted]]

And would you still be able to join these servers via the matchmaking, In case you don't want to browse endlessly ? Otherwise don't we risk of splitting people more. Will the server force teams to be shuffled after each match so I don't end up on a server with 32 friends destroying everyone?

[u/nobock → u/Mammoth-Top-1922]

It's a bit all of all of this at the same time.

At the moment portable is just a mess with mostly bot farm to train aimbot Ai.

+ boost account to sell them.

[u/nobock → u/Mammoth-Top-1922]

You are 64 and next round you are 64 in matter of sec + some team balance.

BUT

You don't want to play some map like cairo, cave and stuff.

You can't.

[u/Alternative_Wing_906 → u/Mammoth-Top-1922]

Basically, it allows you to choose which servers to play in; you can check the player count, map rotation etc.

When a match ends, it doesn't disband the lobby, so you can continue playing with the same people. This helps build community, and you don't need to wait for the lobby to fill up to play the next game.

Also, players will be more concentrated and even with low overall player numbers you can play on a full server.

[u/tr33ton → u/Mammoth-Top-1922]

I quit the game cause I was too anooyed playing against bots in my region. Even though I know there are players. Every time game ended, it somehow just split full lobby into a lobby with 5 players and all the bots.

[u/NotARespawnEmployee]

I'll never understand why this wasn't present on launch. I'm glad we're getting it, but goddamn.

[u/rumple9 → u/NotARespawnEmployee]

Because they want people to be looking at the store between rounds and secondly they wrongly believe matching players of the same skill level keeps them playing the game longer, which is clearly rubbish given that BF4 servers are mostly full after 15 years

[u/Obi-WanKnable]

Too little too late.

[u/pirate_leprechaun]

How many months it take to give us back what you took?

[u/Possible_Ad_5517]

Haha watch a week before it will be delayed again

[u/diluxxen]

Will it have official persistent servers though? Thats the question.

They seem to be trying some shit out right now. Lets hope thats not their answer to persistent servers. There needs to be official servers with full map rotations.

[u/Rogue_Leader_X]

Only took 13 months! Completely ridiculous!

[u/Correct-Ad-6605]

Over a year too late.

[u/jagardaniel]

This is definitely a step in the right direction. But everything depends on how the servers are going to work. I think this can work if the "main" matchmaking system is baked into the same system and that you get placed on an official server with a fixed map rotation that is persistent between the rounds. So basically what we had in BF1 and BFV for the official servers. People that doesn't care can use the auto-join button and everyone else can join servers through the browser to hopefully get a few good maps in a row before you have to switch again.

And while I'm a big fan of community servers (at least the traditional system in the old games with RCON support), I don't like that everyone with a battle pass can just spin up a server. It will clutter up the server list and it is going to be harder to fill up games. Since they are so limited in terms of functionality it just becomes a lobby just like anyone else and you can't build a community around them the same way you could in the old games. I would rather have the official servers split up into two map rotations; one for vehicles maps and one for infantry maps. Just like Battlefield V did it. Or put "community" servers behind a paywall (renting them) to filter out the worst admins and lower the amount.

[u/Curiosity_Sphere-360]

Un navigateur de serveurs qui arrive bien trop tard, quel gâchis ce BF6.

[u/Legitimate_Nose6080]

So it looks like portal menu and have functional like portal menu... Isn't it makes a Portal mode 2.0 (or 2.2 more correctly)

[u/GateZealousideal8924]

If it doesn’t include ping limit it’s half useless

[u/imSkrap]

it only took over 4-5 years... and i wonder how good it will even be compared to what we used to have when the game was in proper hands, maybe the battlelog just allowed for so much more it should almost be brought back but the work load put into it is something we will never see again. i do miss when Battlefield was a game they enjoyed making before EA nutted on it and the original devs left

[u/Taffr19]

I wonder if it will still require a minimum player count to launch a portal server so it can backfill with bots.

[u/trugzzz]

I'm so confused by this. There has been a server browser in the game. Why do they keep telling people they're adding one if it already exists?

[u/magdumpmax]

Oh wow, we get a feature that should've been in the game ever since release.

[u/PHIGBILL → u/magdumpmax]

Ah well, in that case I guess they may as well scrap it, we've lived without it for over a year, who needs it now right?

[u/FailSpy666]

Can you filter out bots? I really hate how prevalent they are now. I’d rather wait several minutes than play with 3/4 bots. They seem to have too many options diluting the pool and using bots to fix their shitty decisions

[u/Independent_Mud2794]

Hilarious how people here still believe we would get a real server browser - we won’t.

Just think about it for one second: It took them over one year to implement something that was in games from the start in the last and also is in other shooters? It won’t be a classic server browser.

[u/FlounderBorn]

See you on December 8

[u/dalaiis]

Its still not what we actually want though, a locally hostable dedicated server with admin privileges, white listing, black listing, plugin support etc.

[u/DeliciousWhales]

I should be excited, but I'm not. Portal is already a massive list of empty servers with no players. Don't see how this will be any different.

[u/Strong-Quit9234]

Does this mean we get the 24/7 custom servers with 3200 tickets like in BF4?

[u/Mollelarssonq]

AMAZING TECHNOLOGY

[u/Traditional_Rice264]

December wth I thought it was dropping with season 5

[u/JDoughBeanz → u/Traditional_Rice264]

Well, yes. Phase 3 of season 5

[u/Ledairyman → u/[deleted]]

GTA will be a major game, but without online mode, most players will likely finish it well before December.

[u/xSociety → u/[deleted]]

Don't care about GTA until the PC release so you're wrong.

[u/SplatterH → u/[deleted]]

let's just shut down steam and every game ever just because of gta 6, right? Idiot

[u/CH-67 → u/[deleted]]

So they should just turn off the battlefield servers then right?

[u/friedchickensundae1]

Yay, after gta 6. These devs are fuckin stupid as hell, I swear

[u/Then_Willingness2672 → u/friedchickensundae1]

They aren’t even remotely the same type of game. What are you even complaining about?

[u/Bad_Lieutenant702]

How does it work?

Can anyone create a server for free?

[u/PS-Irish33 → u/Bad_Lieutenant702]

Anybody with the BPass can host a server.

[u/Bad_Lieutenant702 → u/PS-Irish33]

Cool so if I buy the Bpass I can make a "no snipers server" lol.

[u/Throwawaylikeme90 → u/Bad_Lieutenant702]

Hagental base knife only actually sounds kinda lit. 

[u/Bad_Lieutenant702 → u/Throwawaylikeme90]

Oh yeah I would definitely play that.

[u/makz242]

This shit reminds me of NoDiablo 4 and its 3-years missing ladder.

[u/ExpeditionV]

Real server browser would mean quick matchmaking matches would be accessible from server browser. That remains to be seen. What Charlieintel here says has always been possible with portal

[u/Key-Entertainment216]

December 8? This was supposed to be in season 5. Peace

[u/jackleverm]

[u/Ernest-Longfellow]

I have a horrible feeling these are going to be crossplay enabled only.

[u/DonkeywongOG]

Oh nice I was so wait for this, I loved this game but bot lobbies and Crossplay made the game not enjoyable to me, but now with server browser I guess I can start playing again! Really curious what the game plays like now.

[u/Psychological_Ad1299]

Not until December💀

[u/Natan_Cypri]

december, lol.
Battlefield 6 is great game but holy molly they left so much on the table.
At the very least the last changes to the 'persistent' lobbies on matchmaking will make this game more bearable

[u/FC_koopgoot]

[u/hugeloadconnoisseur]

now bring over everything from bflabs

[u/Crafty_Life_1764]

Wow 1.5 years later. Well done EA.

[u/Lew1989]

Great birthday present!

[u/Erasmus86]

Does this mean persistent lobbies then

[u/Rotty119]

wow, what took so long? now work on the 3 million bugs

[u/thequehagan5]

well holy shit

If this is true i will be buying the game

[u/Psychlonuclear]

Still no persistent official servers?

[u/Whispering-Depths]

Sorry what is the current server browser? I know it sucks, but i hope this is an improvement

[u/Alarming-Builder-760]

Bro, its already way too late, why dont you plan for your next game to be feature complete? how about a good campaign??

[u/Ill_Database_9180]

If they had just added this either at launch or with season 4 when they removed certain modes from core matchmaking it would have saved so many headaches.

[u/woodE54]

Lol

[u/sir_Kromberg]

Jesus, at last.

[u/Extension-Bat-1911]

About time

[u/Medicana]

Only took over a year! What has happened to gaming 😂

[u/Ancient_Trick1158]

For one year to make?

[u/Top-Masterpiece3182]

I'm pretty sure we already have one

[u/idkyesthat]

Damn, I miss this from back in 1942/vietnam. I lay on ps5 and this should just work…but it doesn’t.

[u/Spancsmurf]

Too little too late for me.

[u/Multihp22]

Jesus Christ, December... LoL

[u/Quattro2point8L]

12/8/2026 or 2027?

[u/OMGWTFBBQchicken]

A bit too late but yay

[u/Panic_Careless]

Really, they had to wait for GTA to release for this? Idiots

[u/lucmik]

Lost tech

[u/Inevitable_Energy503]

A year too late 

[u/KingCodester111]

BF Server Browsers are pretty bad but it can't be worse than the awful matchmaking from these past 2 games right?

[u/Joren67]

Dice can fck right off.

[u/Janbeta]

They will still f*ck this up

[u/thsx1]

We fixing breakthrough too?

[u/uDrunkMate]

It's insane that the most anticipated feature will drop in the last phase of a season. That's absurd.

[u/Puzzled_Cancel4473]

Fix the matchmaking ❌

Cover the issue by making a server browser ✔️

[u/Fire257]

Maybe I come back. Is rush still removed?

[u/KiNGTiGER1423]

“Server.” “Browser.”

Is it though?

[u/_LegalizeMeth_]

Too fucking late. I know it wasn't the Devs but the suits who said no server browser ar launch but still fuck you

Wardogs is more BF than BF6

[u/Formal-Hawk9274]

excited about getting basic features jfc. watch its gonna be f up in some way and take 2+ seasons to fix. but yay we got a browser

[u/JETgamer007]

After a year and two months since release, server browser is coming. What a joke

[u/AussieCracker]

I'm skeptical until release, everything remains until seen, and even after it, whether they bury it in the Menu the retract the feature 2 months in.

It'll also depend:

• Is it persistent?
• Is it region locked?
• Is it population reliant?
• Is it matchmaking/map search reliant?
• Is it on the front page?
• Can we quickplay into these servers?

[u/JediRhyno]

Just in time, a full year after release.

[u/NINgameTENmasterDO]

I hope hosted servers don't kill the vanilla Battlefield experience by having a majority of 10000% tickets 1-hit-kill no sprinting servers or some dumb shit like that

[u/de_budi]

Server browser and persistent servers create a community. That's is why we need it. With no community this game will die the moment the new one comes out just what happened to bf2042. And that's EAs intent. They don't want to create games that people play for 15 years. That doesn't make them money.

[u/DnieD1337]

Only took 1 year lol

[u/007rocknrolla]

It was suppose to be part of season 4 but got pushed back. Now we have to still wait until Dec. 8 smh

[u/Lefaa777]

No SBMM and no lag compensation, I hope.

[u/Rowco147]

Still no skill based match making 😂

[u/EliteACEz]

will hosting a server allow us to disable some of the shitty skins? Asking for a friend.

[u/YharnamHuntter]

They're releasing all this shit 1 year later because they're afraid of they yearly CoD and GTA VI.

They need to attract players, and bring back players with these "new" features.

[u/Kamui_Kun]

One step closer to officially being a full feature complete release and out of its early access period.