S4 has absolutely RUINED matchmaking. It is either the easiest games I have ever played or stomps you have no choice but to leave. I have yet to see a single fair fight in the entirety of S4- and with the netcode being in the worst condition it has been since launch, this is hardly playable at this point.

Thanks for sharing your experience.
Could you share which modes and region you normally play in, along with your approximate ping? It would also help to know whether the imbalance persists throughout the day or becomes more pronounced at certain times. I’ll pass your feedback about the matchmaking.

I think it's been the case since the game's launch.

match making is not good since season 1. you may not have noticed it at launch because there were so many players that you didn't had to wait for a game to be filled. but it feels like every season made it worse
i usualy play rush in europe.
games are almost always filled unbalanced, especially when playing with filler bots.
most times those games start 2vs4-6 humans.
worst part: when players join the game lately they are not going to be added to outnumbered team, no - they are added to the first team until it's almost full. okay, there is no autobalance at start or while the game is running. but it should be 1-2 lines of code to check which team a new player should be put in.
just today i played a round with full team of humans vs 2 + filler bots.
it's not just unfair, it's boring for both sides!
and: sometimes it works for me to leave game and start search immediately to join the same game in the outnumbered team. but most times matchmaking adds me to 4 different fresh servers with 4 players waiting even if i know there is a server where people playing 12v2+bots but i have no chance to get in! at least this explains why i hardly find a full server when you create multiple new servers with 4 players.
and btw: if you will change something there please keep in mind: IF the game needs to be unbalanced - defenders should be the team with more players. thanks

We can only hope that promised server browser and persistent servers will change current situation.

Thanks for sharing your experience.
Could you share which modes and region you normally play in, along with your approximate ping? It would also help to know whether the imbalance persists throughout the day or becomes more pronounced at certain times. I’ll pass your feedback about the matchmaking.
Same problem here...
I have 13900k 4080 and fiber with 12ms . I am in EU France and i see many players with 150 ping....its Very boring

What ive noticed is that the hit reg seems one sided. Like all one team are positive kd the others have more deaths. Seems like its a rigged match. You cannot possibly say all the bad payers get put on one team and all the good on the other as that also is match fixing.
Put this along side the new gun mechanics which sux, desync to the console from pc and the roller bois with there free aimbots makes the game not so nice to play. Im a BF vet from the start i love the franchise but this is the first season i ive not bought the pro for.
Its pretty much a bad play experience for me.

Thanks for sharing your experience.
Could you share which modes and region you normally play in, along with your approximate ping? It would also help to know whether the imbalance persists throughout the day or becomes more pronounced at certain times. I’ll pass your feedback about the matchmaking.
I find most games are as the op said, either you win easily or get stomped ,with the odd close game. The game needs some sort of balancing to stop this closer games are more enjoyable. I'm playing on Eu servers.

Thanks for sharing your experience.
Could you share which modes and region you normally play in, along with your approximate ping? It would also help to know whether the imbalance persists throughout the day or becomes more pronounced at certain times. I’ll pass your feedback about the matchmaking.
EA staff have audacity ask for regions, when Eu servers filled with high ping Asians, make ping limit like back in the day Bf games had. Oh yes you to choose not to care and not to do anything, cause money its already in the bank. Yes thats the EA :D

End of last season I had so many close games, this season netcode and lag hit reg all of it is terrible.
Dropping 100 kill games back to back
Now I cant even stand playing cause when I die its in a situation that shouldn't of played out the way it did.
I also dislike the eomm, that enables new players to have protections and against good players, or the nerfing of good players mid match for a comeback mechanic.
Game is so manipulative I had to buy a 2nd account that didn't own battlepass to escape their algorithms attatchec to my main account.
2nd account has a full 1.2kd higher than my other, 3.3 on main and 4.4 on 2nd, both about same account lvl

Thanks for sharing your experience.
Could you share which modes and region you normally play in, along with your approximate ping? It would also help to know whether the imbalance persists throughout the day or becomes more pronounced at certain times. I’ll pass your feedback about the matchmaking.
I play on US servers exclusively. Ping is usually between 15-60, depending on the time of day. I can say with complete certainty that the imbalance kicks up DRAMATICALLY during weekdays, notably Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and sometimes Thursday. There are still far more games that are imbalanced on weekends than not, but during weekdays I get exclusively total stomps to a near unplayable degree, with maybe 1-2 "fair" matches for every 30 stomps. I typically play from 3pm to 1am, but I also play during mornings when I am free and time of day doesn't seem to have much impact- though I would say it might be more pronounced during mid day.

yep

Thanks to everyone who has shared specific examples.
I understand that consistently one-sided matches can be frustrating.
The most useful reports in this thread are those that describe observable situations, such as matches that begin with unequal numbers of human players and new players joining the larger team.
Please avoid presenting speculation about intentionally rigged matches, player-specific nerfs, or hidden protection systems as confirmed facts.
Please keep the discussion focused on specific matchmaking behavior you have observed and remain respectful toward other players. That will make the feedback easier to review and keep the thread constructive.

Thanks to everyone who has shared specific examples.
I understand that consistently one-sided matches can be frustrating.
The most useful reports in this thread are those that describe observable situations, such as matches that begin with unequal numbers of human players and new players joining the larger team.
Please avoid presenting speculation about intentionally rigged matches, player-specific nerfs, or hidden protection systems as confirmed facts.
Please keep the discussion focused on specific matchmaking behavior you have observed and remain respectful toward other players. That will make the feedback easier to review and keep the thread constructive.
Since i playing with players with High ping [150ms] i have a terrible experience against them. There is many players with high ping in EU server. What are doing to fix it ?

Thanks for sharing your experience.
Could you share which modes and region you normally play in, along with your approximate ping? It would also help to know whether the imbalance persists throughout the day or becomes more pronounced at certain times. I’ll pass your feedback about the matchmaking.
north America.....ping of 90 as i always end up in Cali servers being in Florida......

How come mods/developers are active in this forum all the time but we get pretty much no bug fixes?