The Battlefield 6 beta is properly and actually behind us. By EA’s personal admission, it had essentially the most gamers in Battlefield historical past, for a beta or in any other case. There’s clearly vital curiosity within the sport, however the beta additionally garnered quite a lot of criticism.
Following the beta’s conclusion, the developer promised that it will come again with an replace on all the most popular subjects popping out of the beta, and the way it plans to deal with every concern. That day is now right here.
Battlefield Studios shared a response to a couple key areas of suggestions from the Battlefield 6 beta in a brand new weblog put up. The writeup addresses weapon mechanics, motion, modes, participant counts, playlist choices, and the number of maps.
Beginning off with weapons, the developer stated recoil is getting a move to make tap-firing and burst-firing extra rewarding. The total sport may even higher characterize the vary traits for every weapon, which possible refers to how SMGs have been unreasonably extra correct at vary in comparison with ARs.
After all, the ever-annoying M87A1 shotgun was touched upon within the put up. At launch, getting a kill would require extra pellets. Whereas Battlefield Studios does contact on discrepancies between time-to-kill and time-to-death in some conditions within the put up, the problem stays below investigation.
Whereas motion within the beta was typically praised, some gamers tried to push its limits in ways in which attempt to resemble Name of Obligation’s. In response, the total sport will cut back horizontal momentum carried from a slide right into a bounce. Consecutive jumps are additionally being penalised with a decrease top for every one. The inaccuracy gained by firing whereas leaping or sliding can also be being elevated. Lastly, parachutes now have decrease preliminary acceleration.
Map exploits are subsequent on the record. You could have seen cases of gamers reaching out-of-bound spots (primarily rooftops) through the beta, and the developer is engaged on making them unimaginable within the closing sport.
After all, the opposite criticism about maps is simply how small they have been, successfully making all of them virtually play the identical. The weblog put up stresses that there’s going to be extra selection at launch, but it surely additionally confirms that upcoming Battlefield Labs exams will characteristic Mirak Valley, and Operation Firestorm – two bigger maps that shall be accessible at launch.
One of the mentioned modes within the beta has been Rush, and the put up clarifies the developer’s intent with its implementation in Battlefield 6. The beta featured 12v12 matches that some stated have been too small, although primarily due to the map design.
Whereas the put up doesn’t contact particularly on the map sizes for Rush, it does affirm that it’s going to proceed to be a mode with a (comparatively) small participant rely, leaving Breakthrough to ship that giant Rush-ish expertise.
One of the attention-grabbing (and welcome) elements of the put up is a dialogue on the studio’s philosophy in terms of participant counts per mode/map. Battlefield Studios stated that maps and modes are every designed to suit totally different participant counts, which inevitably means these numbers are going to fluctuate.
In essence, participant counts aren’t set in stone, and as a substitute fluctuate based mostly on what works for every state of affairs. The weblog put up offers the instance of Breakthrough, a mode that shall be accessible on maps with 48 gamers, and others with the total 64.
One other controversial subject from the beta has been the supply (and visibility) of playlists. The developer reiterates that Open and Closed Weapon playlists will proceed to be choices at launch, and that it’s “in search of methods” to make these choices simply accessible.
The final takeaway from the put up is that a few of these modifications – together with the aforementioned bigger maps – shall be a part of the subsequent Labs periods, which is thrilling for individuals who have entry to that.
For everybody else, Battlefield 6 shall be accessible on October 10 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Collection X/S.
