Battlefield 6

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Season 1  trailer

 

 

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Two new maps it seems

 

 

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So Season 1 launched today along with the Battle Royale mode and the game has nosedived into an absolute tacky mess and has gone full-Call of Duty. The user interface is absolutely atrocious and resembles that of MW2 back in 2022 with its TV streaming-style panel menus. It was bad before but now the bloat is horrendous especially with monetisation and locked items. They said the BR mode was standalone yet progression and challenges have been forced into the core BF6 game so it really is nothing more than a shameful bait and switch hook to get people playing that. I want challenges for things like conquest, breakthrough and escalation and not shite attributed to the BR like getting 100 kills within 10 seconds of landing. 

 

I played on the new Blackwell Oil Fields map which was an extremely dissatisfying experience. Another very small environment with a terrible layout that is way too open and has absolutely shocking visibility. In BF4 we were getting themed map packs of the highest quality but this is just a shameful offering even for free. This is what the map looks like and it's just so uninspired and hideous. 

 

I think this game will ultimately lose a lot of players in the next couple of weeks. The battle pass is a pathetic cash grab and the progression in core and on the pass is just so tedious and boring. The maps are fast becoming stale and even new gimmick modes wont change anything. The battle royale will split the community further and I expect a fair few people will go running back to COD irrespective of how potentially poor that may be also. This isn't Battlefield anymore by gameplay or its design framework - it's another Call of Duty in a slightly different skin.

 

I have zero interest in BO7 but that game does have a strong launch line up and the season one content offering seems solid also. 

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On 10/15/2025 at 12:54 AM, techno said:

The game is ok, it's nowhere near peak bf imo and when you get someone to actually list what's missing etc you can kind of see why there's reasonable criticism.

 

 

 

Whilst the first thing he says he has a point that the overall gaming state is really poor right now so this shines out easily, however me playing a BF game this much tells me that the gunplay is the best i've ever tried in a BF game. He's playing solo in a team oriented game outside of that, so the rest of it doesn't make much sense. FGers over the past 2 weeks are continually coming top squads and my win % is at 70, so it can't all be that bad.

 

On 10/15/2025 at 6:49 PM, techno said:

I get that but regardless he's not wrong we pay more money for less things, things that made the series great. I also think these days we've been given so many crap products we are happy with things being mediocre. It's a shame that as a franchise, much like CoD it's best years and games are behind it.

 

We have to evolve and move with the times, whether we like it or not from a gaming viewpoint. Games won't deliver all the content we used to get because the demand is needed yesterday and the overall player base gets bored if you don't iterate and keep making small patches over time. I don't blame them if they have made stuff and drip feed it out. Annoying for us oldies, but not for the new generation - if that keeps the player base high, which allows us to play more and dominate more then I'm all for it.

 

 

BF6 so far has been a pretty decent revelation in the current drought of good games. They've spent time making the gunplay and movement solid and for that I have to commend them on it. Escalation is a fantastic game mode and really does give you lots of tight games without the worry of dying loads. First game in ages that has brought so many FGers back to online gaming and you can't ignore that from a positive POV. They must be doing something right 🤷‍♂️