DICE Finally Explains Why Battlefield 6 Is Filled With AI Bots
If you’re outside the US, and you’re playing Battlefield 6, chances are high that you’ve matched with bots. While seeing 1-2 bots a game is fine, the server populated by a majority of bots isn’t.
It has become so severe that we dug deeper and even wrote an article about it.
Sadly, even after the Season 1 update, the situation is the same, with DICE and EA silent about the issue…at least until today. Finally, someone at DICE has commented about the bot situation, explaining why the servers are filled with bots.
Battlefield 6’s Bot Situation Finally Gets Noticed by DICE
Over on X (formerly Twitter), David Sirland, the Lead Producer of the Battlefield franchise, made a PSA (Public Service Announcement) on the confusion among the BF6 community on what makes bots be in games.
Sirland explained:
Bots enter the game on regular playlists ONLY under these conditions:
– players kickstart a lobby for a playlist, and the pre-round takes longer than X minutes (I believe 3 minutes)
At that point, the bots fill the server to the necessary limit to start the gameAs in 24 per side I believe for CQ for ex.
At that point, the game starts, and you can play with the bots instead of waiting.
Other players in the same region matchmaking on that same playlist – will join this server (as it has you on it). Each time a player joins, a bot leavesOnce 24 players per team has entered, the server is no longer seeded with bots, and all players. Leaving the rest of the slots for players as well (32v32)
These servers are all 64 player (or whatever the max of the playlist states) – not “smaller” ones at all.The alternative to doing this, would be full on waiting (possibly forever) to play on the playlist of your choice in regions with low population.
but to fill a server (the first in the region) – you need to stay with the bots.
if you keep leaving because: 1: you see bots2: you see no other players
Well, the reason for that is you are first. You need to stick it out (or atleast give it a minute or two, or how may you are willing to try and wait for)
We can and will test longer wait limits for the seed bots to kick in, but please spread the word!Final add:
There is also “onboarding bots” which is used in certain gamemodes for new players (called introduction breakthrough I think) – these bot games are different from the seeded ones. They stick around and populate a big chunk of the total players on each team.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like DICE sees this as a problem, so it doesn’t look like there’s a solution. One response to Sirland’s tweets caught our eye since it captures what people are feeling right now:
My man, no. Everyone from different areas of the globe is facing the same problem, the matchmaking isn’t working properly. It spawns new servers without ever filling the already existing servers as if it were full at 24 v 24, even on big maps
In the end it just becomes PvE
— Danz🍵⛩ (@Danz_abella) November 5, 2025
While I’m still hoping that DICE adds a proper server browser to Battlefield 6 to help “fix” this, that doesn’t seem like it’s happening anytime soon. Let’s hope this doesn’t deter players from pouring more time into the game because of this, especially when you consider that there are a lot of games in competition for gamers’ time.
If we get another update about this or find a solution, we’ll let our readers know. For now, we have to do with what we got, no matter how hard it is to play a match at off-peak hours with no bots.
In other Battlefield 6 news, DICE quietly removed the neon blue infantry skin following community backlash.
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