Battlefield Redsec, the free-to-play battle royale mode inside Battlefield 6, went dwell yesterday throughout all platforms, proper alongside the sport’s first season. That is the Battlefield sequence’ second try at a battle royale mode, after Battlefield 5’s ill-fated Firestorm.
A part of why Firestorm by no means actually made it large was that it was locked behind the complete worth of the sport, successfully appearing as a aspect mode throughout the current expertise, and never a way to draw a brand new sort of participant, one who will not be involved in shopping for the premium sport.
Redsec corrects that a lot of that, nevertheless it doesn’t appear to be taking off.
Rapidly after Redsec went dwell, Battlefield 6’s rating on the Steam most performed charts went up, reaching round 550,000 concurrent gamers, which is up from the standard peak of 320,000 to 400,000 the sport has been settling into since launch, as seen on SteamDB.
That’s a good increase, however you’ll discover that’s nowhere close to sufficient to achieve Battlefield 6’s launch peak concurrent of 747,440, which is slightly stunning contemplating it doesn’t price something to play Redsec, whereas that participant peak was made up totally of people that purchased the complete sport.
There’s clearly a piece of PC gamers unaccounted for right here – anybody who grabbed it on the Epic Video games Retailer or by means of the EA app instantly received’t be represented right here. Certainly, there’s additionally a big contingent of console gamers throughout PlayStation and Xbox the place Redsec might very nicely be doing quite a bit higher than it appears to be doing on PC.
Twitch numbers began out robust, with Redsec (which is counted individually from Battlefield 6) reaching the highest spot for a time, earlier than it continued its pure slide down the ranks. On the time of this writing, the class has 80,000 viewers and sits within the quantity three spot.
These figures might very nicely enhance over the subsequent a number of days, particularly as soon as the weekend rolls round. Nevertheless, contemplating how a lot hype there’s been for a Battlefield battle royale mode, it’s slightly stunning to see that it seemingly hasn’t attracted the type of consideration Warzone has, or usher in as many gamers because the core sport of Battlefield 6 managed to.
