You realize your sport is highly-anticipated when folks rush to obtain it as quickly because it turns into accessible, but in addition after they’re pleased to launch it nicely earlier than servers are even stay. That’s clearly true within the case of the Battlefield 6 beta.
The Battlefield 6 beta doesn’t go stay till Thursday, and even then, you want a code to play that early portion. That hasn’t stopped gamers from downloading it, solely to idle within the sport’s menus.
The Battlefield 6 beta pre-load went stay yesterday throughout all platforms. That features Steam, the place you can’t solely seize the beta recordsdata in preparation for the 2 beta weekends, you can even launch the sport.
Sadly, there’s no approach to “play” it proper now, however you can entry the entire sport’s menus. This consists of visuals, audio, graphics, controls, keybinds, HUD customisation, accessibility and just about all the suite of choices you’ll discover when the beta goes stay.
That’s what 1000’s of gamers have been doing for the reason that pre-load grew to become accessible. Over on Steam, the Battlefield 6 open beta achieved a concurrent participant rely of 9,463 (through SteamDB), over half of whom are at present “in-game” as of this writing.
Battlefield 6’s record of tweakable choices is huge, and a few sub-sections supply the form of granular management that requires a bit of labor to dial in, so you may see why savvy gamers launched it instantly after ending the obtain. Now, whereas nearly all of choices gained’t require you to be in a sport to check out, many nonetheless do.
That mentioned, it’s extremely useful to get entry to such a large record forward of time, even should you’re solely interested by exploring the accessible choices. One other main cause you’d wish to launch the beta earlier than servers go stay is that it’s additionally going to show issues you might be able to deal with forward of the beginning of the beta.
For example, the BF6 beta requires Safe Boot to be enabled in Home windows (and your BIOS). Actually, the beta is not going to begin with out it. It additionally is not going to launch for gamers utilizing something however the newest GPU drivers. Think about having to fiddle with that as your folks are ready for you on Discord the day the beta goes stay.
The BF6 beta’s Early Entry portion begins this Thursday, earlier than it opens as much as everybody on Saturday. You’ll be able to pre-load it now and be a part of the 1000’s of gamers who’ve been idling in its menus.
