The fact that we could choose what sphere of war we wanted to participate in was a major selling point for this game. I have no idea why they removed this from the game. I want to pick where I go and now I never ever get my favorite campaigns like Tunisia or Normandy.
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Because some campaigns were ‘empty’.
Not enough players selected them so they were mostly filled with bots.
Now the game chooses the map for you and there are no more empty bot battles.
Yes I also prefer selecting the campaign I want to play, but I can say that since the merge almost all my battles were great fun, better than before.
Some things need more work, like some campaigns we dont get enough while we should.
I love Tunisia, been playing Germany BR 2 lately for at least 15 battles, and got NO tunisia at all.
That’s terrible but at least the battles were good.
The random map idea is kinda ok but then it should be really random and not exclude maps which shouldnt be excluded.
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Instead of bot lobbies now we get half the team leaving after the first 5 minutes regularly
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and yet deserter number is mostly consistent pre and post merge…
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btw calling update that happened 7 months ago “new”…
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I know I know, not enough people to play certain maps, so they fill them with bots. I get it. However, if the gameplay is going to continually suck because of crappy match making, then what is the difference if your fighting a bot? 
If the game play sucks and people are going to waste time in lopsided matches anyway, then let them waste their time against the bots on a map they want to play. That is of course if DF is capable of programming a bot that does more then just stand there 
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New update? Then why are you talking about something that happened over six months ago?
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is this the first 2024 caveman? or am i misremembering
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Maybe remembered his/hers password just now.
Not the 1st one and surely not the last one to be seen here.
well i remember saying something like “im sure we will see more caveman appear throughout the year” problem is i forgot which year i said that
What new update?
God damn it, I thought the new rzhev dropped.
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For some reason, he or she meant the merge
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All DF devs need to do is give people a choice longer / wait times with possible bots or auto Mm’ing, they might be surprised
Or in short term strengthen soft rule so certain vehicles will be drawn to certain maps…
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if there was option of PvE it wouldnt matter. problem is that you regularly got 1 axis human player for every 2 allies human player on tunisia (or vice versa). you regularly got even worse roflstomps that are currently ingame on some campaigns.
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It was more of a problem with some campaigns over others. Campaigns like Berlin, Moscow, and Normandy were “relatively full” however Stalingrad, Pacific, and Tunisia were often very much empty. This is what the merge was supposed to do. Fix it so we received less bot matches. That was the primary concern, as the additions of new campaigns were fragmenting the community more and more. The reason we had the BR restrictions on maps were there were people complaining (and still are) for more Historical accuracy. That has since begun to be lessoned. Personally, I think its doable to simply set them to all BR’s but have a map selection based on map families …
Have an advanced matchfinder setting that allows 2 things:
1: Select Game Modes
2: Select Map Families
What is a map family? well you could do this one of two ways. You could do it Normandy, Tunisia, etc. Or, what I would prefer to see is each map, but all of its variants.
Beloe Lake would include both North and South Variants for example.