Absolutely brilliant look at this. Great video as always. I really like that you have covered the flaw in the data they seem to be using to say it isn't required. Hide an option then say nooone uses it so it's not needed. An alternative would be to make it super easy to use and push it as the main option or at least an equivalent. I remember so many community nights, competitive games, communities and platoons, everyone brought together....and now, a maximum of 3 friends can join 'easily' if you want to play on a public server and then its rinse and repeat on the same maps - or worse a server boots up with noone in it repeatedly. Let's hope someone, somewhere sees sense because what we have doesn't. Anyway, cracking video, you never know I guess.

Thank you!

As soon as I found and used the server browser I never used anything else.

Wished Star Wars Battlefront 2 and its predecessor had something like that

My absolute favorite part of 2042's matchmaking is it'll put me in an empty lobby on a map I despise (there are a lot of those in 2042), I'll leave to requeue, and then it'll continue to put me in the same dead lobby until I either alt+f4 or am forced to play another game mode. So much more convenient than say BF4 where I can just go to battlelog, click on a server I want to play on with the map and ruleset I like,, and be in the game in 30 seconds despite the game being over a decade old.

I still use Battlelog. Works great.

"Medic!"

Bf4 killed it for me Still get down on bf3, AND BF2MC on ps2 and ps2 emulator🔥🚀

You have done an incredible job! I hope people will appreciate your work and you will earn people's respect for covering this important topic! I wish you all the best!

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46 minute video lol. I haven't watched the video and tbqh I don't plan to but I'm sure that every conceivable argument in favor of the server browser can be explored in detail in under ten minutes. Brevity is the soul of wit, pal.

Can't wait for them not to include server browser for the next BF

I am an old Battlefield fan and I'm telling you, there is no way back. They are destroying franchise on purpose. RIP BF !

Thanks @GravityBFTV for the intro! Honestly, I cried a little when I watched it. It touched me to the core. After all, I had almost everything the same, only I started in 2005. God, there was so much going on, I met so many interesting people, we played so much together...Fan wars, clan wars, gathered detachments, united into clans, built giant communities, created mods, created creative videos...I keep a lot of recordings from teamspeak and the game itself. There are even people on them who, by coincidence, are no longer alive. I keep it as a memory, like photos or videos from a wedding are stored. Some of the players have become my friends in real life. All thanks to that very old bf2. The new parts can't give me that, they can hardly even satisfy the need for a banal game. How can we deal with current developers if nothing affects them and they do not understand our feelings? How? If they don't care, and money is more important to them.

I don't think these companies want you playing the old games as there might be a new game out or one under development

This reminds me of 2012/13 when my brother and I was finally allowed to play medal of honor allied assault breakthrough, I would go and join the same few servers and even though i was in my early teens and the rest were older guys I recognized others on a daily basis and eventually tallked to them in the chat or exchanged a hello. Still play, and see various same people, some from back then but not many. For battlefield i usually stick to a few same too, and on bf1 I joined [BUDz] I usually play alone but it's fun being part of it. BF2042 I enjoy but it sucks when you get a round with a great squad that works well together only to them part ways once the match is done. I enjoy the game but some times its annoying having to join a new server.

The fact this even needs to be discussed lmfaoo. Gave up a long long time ago!

Server browser does wonders for the longevity of a video game. Bf4 and bf1 are testament to this. Even the first gears of war had a server browser and now they fixed it you can find matches on it almost every other time

I'm pretty sure that in the future quality of life updates is going to be DICE improving the Server Browser that can look similar to bf3 and bf4. I'm looking forward to see some one map 24/7 matches like Metro 24/7 in bf3 and Locker 24/7 in bf4. Redacted and haven look really good as a 24/7 rotation. I think bf2042 is going to last a lot longer once DICE gives more love to the Server Browser.

Nailed every point. I started playing Battlefield with BF2 and the series has definitely suffered a sad decline in the most recent games, especially 2042. Extremely frustrating to experience the game without a server browser, basically removing any community aspect the game could have had and denying people the option to select a map to play. I would have honestly enjoyed 2042 so much more if I could have at least filtered out maps. If the next BF title doesn't have a server browser with community server support I may not even try it.

Thank you very much!

Part of why i am so god tier at Battlefield is due to in 3 and 4 my friends and I would play hardcore only clan servers. Harder rules, sweatier players. You get better much faster when you compete in the sweat leagues lol. Now its skill based, which kinda ruins it.

2042 has horrible maps, way too much open ground. No city maps like Sienne, Metro ect. I miss the BF3 maps and some BF4 maps

Battlefield 6 should definetly have a Sever Browser. I'm totally with you here. Had so much fun on so many different Servers. Admin Abuse is an excuse i've heard... The most/best Players always ignored those Servers. Only good Communitys had Full Servers so there cant be any complain if you choose to play on the wrong Servers.

the hard truth of our time they already value quantity over quality - they do their best not to buy their games ( in my opinion this is dying sector ) .

I’ve been saying this on every forum since 2042 began. I’m also really tired of the argument that a server browser and persistent servers leads to nothing but team stacks. This matchmaking and forced cross play has really pushed a lot of console veterans away. We are just remnants now of several platoons because of these awful decisions.

You should do more videos like this i loved it! Also love your Map review/rating/lore videos !

Really poppin off on those tank to air kills

It's so funny because I thought I stopped playing the game as I was getting out of high school and becoming an adult just because life took over. But I remember getting on battlefield 1 in battlefield v and there was no server browser on the PS4 and it just being annoying and I actually played battlefield 4 a couple years ago on the PC and it was amazing cuz it had the server browser and I was always playing on the same server. It was fun

Great video with great points. You speak for me and I suspect thousands of others who were infuriated with the dilution of the SB and its ultimate culling in 2042. I really hope DICE pay attention and bring back this "legacy feature" although I suspect that's a brutal expectation!

Dirty bomb and Enemy Territory are still playable thanks to the server browser. Tribes 3 is already unplayable without server browser. Matchmaking can only work is the game has a huge number of players when it's released.

They have so much work to do for the next BF (60% games with terrible server sync been the main one for me, closely followed by balancing the airpower) Private servers were always a great thing to have. Going back to BF1942 there were some great communities. We could have clan friendlies or just all jump on randomly. Games were so much better. We also had control kicking cheats and trolls. Now you have to server jump. Been gaming with some of the same people I joined over 20 years ago. (BF V had the best inf based mechanics)

Bad Company 2 on PC was magnificent game. I miss it.

Well said

I'm in a clan, [EWE], that I joined when I was pretty young, playing AA and BF2. I'm still in that clan line 20+ years later 😅

Battlefield Vietnam was my first battlefield game even though I got it before Battlefield 3 came out but to me I always hated the Jet controls because I always ended up crashing or couldn't help my teammates on the ground.

Frankly unbelievable when i get to see your UI design just as im warming up to 2042 only to be reminded that modern DICE cant design anything and it takes someone like you to design an actually decent UI that caters to both casuals and hardcore fans

Thanks for this! Ive played all BF iterations up to BF1 since 1942. You sir are 100% correct. I played BF4 in a competitive league, I was introduced while being teamed up with a league team and I didn't even know. But they were impressed by my Tank skills and they needed a tank operator in 5 v 5s. The chat and comm's allowed them to contact me while in game and well that is how I got into competitive BF gaming. We also used to run a practice server for the team. How do teams even do that now? BF1 I purchased, but its not BF, so I didn't play it much. You just nailed the reason this franchise is dying. (Has died) Adding my 2 cents to your vid. The introduction of console gaming is destroying PC gaming. BF is at its roots a PC game and this added to its downfall.

Really good video, agree on all points. It's hard fact that good old DICE is dead, most veteran devs left after BF1 and you really feel it. EA don't care about the old school gamers which made the BF series so big. So I don't care anymore too, I switched to the "hardcore shooters" like Arma, Squad and HLL. When Delta Force (new) is more BF then BF5 and BF2042, then you know they are in bad shape.

Those unique games and friendships defined Battlefield for us. We need this magic in the next Battlefield. Some of my best friends today, were from meeting on a community server in Battlefield.

BF3 [TNT] 24/7 Gulf of Oman is my Home visit if you want…

I’ve been saying for years now “how can they release 2042 with no browser??!!” They actively delete Reddit posts that ask this question. Makes no sense other than my theory they simply don’t want anyone seeing actual player numbers.

True i'm a fan of BF Series since BF bad company 2 but now with 2042 i can't find games because i'm in middle east with region locked all the games are empty unless i use another 3rd party apps to change the servers or block middle east ip to force the game to get me in Europe servers

7:20 speechless

Server browser is essentially the thing that gave me my first online community and friends. I can still see several people from Battlefield 3 era who are using the same online nickname in my Discord channels, which has replaced the forums, teamspeak and/or mumble. Deteriorated Battlefield franchise opened other games and activities to me, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Content creators on KZbin, Twitch or elsewhere cannot rely on this franchise to keep an active audience. Community of a game needs a server browser or a clan based hub. Both preferably. Casual and not hardcover players both are wasting the most precious commodity without server browser: Time. Time between active playing is longer than ever in BF 2042. Battlefield was my first and biggest online game, close to being biggest ever video game of my 50 years on this earth. I've accepted that will most assuredly never return, but a feature complete product that values my TIME is still a dream. Great video again, hope Dice and EA see this and hear our voice.

2042 was so soul draining but I managed to find a small group on PS5. Most have moved on but there is one guy that has even come to a recent bbq I had. That is a friend for life.

My personal story is I found my current platoon during the BF3 (though i started playing in BF2) days and we still play to this day people come and go there used to be maybe 11-16 of us in a game and in TS at a time during those day now there is 2 of us left who actively still play together, while adding some new fresh faces when we find them. Most of the old team left due to the lack of server hosting. But the one who still plays with me on a regular basis is invited to my wedding next year as we've met a fair few times over the years and we've been gaming together on Battlefield for over a decade! I think i know few other people who ive made such bonds with and those were during the PEAK WoW days. A serverbrowser is a MUST HAVE community feature and i think the future of Battlefield actually depends on it, 2042s match making has torn down all forms community building and most of portal is just nonsense servers and XP farms....

BF1 was the last great bf

8:41 ❤ BF2 Battleracer

still so incredibly frustrated with DICE’s decision to not include a server browser with their star wars battlefront games AND with a future update in SWBFII that forced players to search for a new game only after two matches, like 2042’s core matchmaking it is so difficult to play certain maps due to the constant server switchover and renders less popular game modes completely dead due to matchmaking taking hours (which didn’t need to happen)