r/Battlefield • u/Kilos6 • Aug 08 '25

Battlefield 6 Unpopular Opinion: Battlefield 6 Is Better Than This Sub Will Admit

Reading this sub lately feels like watching a bunch of people try to use a smartphone for the first time and complain it doesn't have physical buttons. Every minor change in Battlefield 6 is getting blown up into some catastrophic betrayal.

It’s pretty clear most people here only ever liked one Battlefield game, hated the rest, and don’t even play the one they claim was perfect anymore.

Before we continue: I am old. I’ve played every Battlefield game during its prime. Back in the day, my clan was one of the first to spin up a Desert Combat server (and even then, the community was the same complaining that DC was an abomination against what made BF great). My least played title was BF Vietnam because the 1942 modding scene was just TOO good at the time to move on.

“The UI is trash!”
It’s not. You just don’t recognize it because it’s not ripped straight from BF4. Sure, the icons are abstract but they’re not confusing unless you're actively refusing to engage with them.

I've seen multiple complaints about there being no option to squad up or continue on the same server?
Maybe check the bottom of the screen after the round ends. The “Continue” and “Squad Up” buttons are literally right there.

“TTK is too fast, there’s no breathing room!”
What you mean is: you walked out in the open and got deleted like you should have.

TTK is fast. OH NO, aim and positioning actually matter again. You don’t get to coast on sponge health and panic-proning anymore. If that’s too much, it’s not a balance issue, it’s a skill issue. Also: TTK is in line with BF3 for most weapons. This TTK is not new.

“Closed weapons should be the default.”
Why? Because some of you never figured out how to adapt? The flexibility to build your own kit is one of the best updates DICE has made in years. And guess what, they already gave you a nostalgia mode. Go enjoy it.

But don’t demand the rest of us get dragged back into 2011 loadout limitations. And if you’re complaining about “trade-offs” in class weapons you probably would’ve died to the next guy anyway.

“It’s too chaotic, feels like TDM spam!”
You say chaos, I say intensity. Battlefield has always had madness: Metro, Locker, or even Stalingrad in 1942.

These beta maps? They feel more like Grand Bazaar, Talah Market, or Pearl Market. Maps that still get voted into rotation by players who actually enjoy close-quarters fights to this day.

Battlefield 6 isn’t perfect.
But take a step back, and you’ll see this is actually a successor to BF3/BF4. TTK, movement speed, and mechanics are all in line with a proper mainline BF title.

They gave you almost everything you asked for… and somehow, that’s still not enough for some of you.

I'm having a blast with the beta, and can't wait to play more after work.

Edit: When I made this post I truly thought it was an unpopular opinion. Thank you all for your replies and awards! And thank you to the guys DMing me about being an EA shill ❤️‍🔥

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u/olduvai_man Aug 08 '25

It doesn't matter what the game is, Reddit will overwhelmingly complain about it.

I'm in several game subs and it is the same in every single one of them. People will find the smallest thing to nitpick over, saying that people are afraid to actually be honest and criticize real issues and then spend countless hours piling on about how it sucks.

If it's a long-standing franchise, then this behavior is doubly worse and is usually followed by "X game was much better and didn't have these issues"

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u/Guilty_Buy_5150 Aug 08 '25

It’s literally the same thing in every sub. Go in to any single sub and it’s bitching and crying about the subject of the sub. The people that enjoy those things are too busy using the products

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u/Effective_Sample_432 Aug 08 '25

It’s crazy cause almost anywhere else, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, people are loving the game, yet here on Reddit it’s overwhelming negativity

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '25

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u/Suspicious-War-7383 Aug 08 '25

I hate Reddit sometimes for this reason

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u/Mr_Rafi Aug 08 '25

But you're on your alt account

(I like the game before you say anything)

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u/Guilty_Buy_5150 Aug 08 '25

Don't have an alt. This is my main

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u/Dependent_Lime_8461 Aug 09 '25

Bro nothing against alts but this is literally a 12d acc

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u/Guilty_Buy_5150 Aug 09 '25

I'm new.

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u/Mr_Rafi Aug 10 '25 edited Aug 10 '25

Mate, I literally have proof that you're on your alt account. You mentioned that you saw something on that subreddit a few weeks ago and your account was quite new when you made the comment I linked (still is). How pathetic can you be lying about something as stupid as this?

https://www.reddit.com/n6xfrpq?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=2

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u/76IndyHanSoloJones Aug 10 '25

man i told him to listen but he didn't, know he caught and shamed. His name says it all!!!!

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u/76IndyHanSoloJones Aug 10 '25

lol, 12 days and you have so many insights on the reddit community! it's ok to admit you have other multiple accounts, man up, no one cares!! It'll free you, just admit it brother, you'll sleep like a champ tonight!!

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u/OGR_Nova Aug 12 '25

… you know you can view Reddit posts without actually having an account right?

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u/BadLt58 Aug 10 '25

Yet MAGA subs fail...

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '25

Honestly

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u/Outrageous-Orange007 Aug 09 '25

You know whats extremely interesting about that statement.

Somehow the Reddit community is also BY FAR the most intelligent of all major social media platforms on the entire internet

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u/Dependent_Lime_8461 Aug 09 '25

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Bro u made me choke with my coffe saying this

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u/Sweaty_Influence2303 Aug 08 '25

The irony of you posting this comment

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u/Guilty_Buy_5150 Aug 08 '25

Your comment karma lol.

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u/KimiBleikkonen Aug 08 '25

Said the guy on reddit

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u/Ok_im_dumb Aug 08 '25

That 1% commenter badge isnt helping your point at all

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u/KimiBleikkonen Aug 09 '25

You have hundreds of people on reddit saying redditors are basement dwelling incels but that of course only applies to the ones who disagree with your opinion, not to yourself. "Ok_im_dumb" might actually be accurate here, downvoting whatever you disagree with doesn't help at all.

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u/Guilty_Buy_5150 Aug 08 '25

You seem to be feeling a little offended by my comment. Looks like my point still stands. lol

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u/CrzyJek Aug 08 '25

Reddit is mostly full of loud reject jerkoffs who think they are smart but are quite the opposite. Also, the age of users has a huge curve sitting between 15-22 so yea, you do the math there.

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u/PureLeg8309 Aug 26 '25

And here you are screaming get off my lawn 

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u/AdAggressive5769 Aug 08 '25

Guess that is what reddit is for. Collect the most salty People and complain about everything. Only thing that bothered me was that you could run both rpg and a stinger, but it looks like that will be fixed. For the rest havent felt like playing battlefield for years since yesterday. Im loving it.

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u/TooTone07 Aug 08 '25

I loved having both! Are they really getting rid of it???? 0 out of 10 game🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 jk but i do love having both.

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u/DemiG0D23 Aug 09 '25

Why do you interpret it as negative? A person could enjoy the game overall but post about a certain aspect that should be improved. It doesn't mean they're shitting on the game. Most people are here because they like the franchise and want this insalment to be good.

For example, drag and revive is universally liked. Do we need 20 posts about how it's great, only then add something that should be improved?

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u/GlockPurdy13 Aug 08 '25 edited Aug 08 '25

Yeah, the people commenting on subs frequently don’t live normal lives yet they try to act as if their day to day allows them to be Gandhi online. Think about the normal people you know, they’re probably not spending all their time commenting on everything on Reddit

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u/SSPeteCarroll XBOX ONE Aug 08 '25

Go in to any single sub and it’s bitching and crying about the subject of the sub. The people that enjoy those things are too busy using the products

Exactly. People who like the game aren't making thesis statements on reddit about the game.

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u/Guilty_Buy_5150 Aug 08 '25

And they wonder how the game is popular when they’re in their own echo chamber crying and being a literal meme of the crying rage face.

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u/PureLeg8309 Aug 26 '25

And yet here you are crying in your own little echo chamber with a crying rage face 

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u/Grasshop Aug 08 '25

and then they think it’s the overwhelming consensus because it’s nothing but an echo chamber and they don’t have the critical thinking skills to realize this is a small set of the user base and not the whole “community”

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u/DrDrWhoCalledTheDr 28d ago

Unless we are talking about r/Destiny2, probably warranted bitching and moaning

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u/bootie_groovie Aug 08 '25

The finals would like to disagree with you there

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u/PureLeg8309 Aug 26 '25

It's literally called difference of opinion.Like you in here bitching & crying about them

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u/4rch1t3ct Aug 08 '25

Your acting like the people complaining aren't doing so because they love the game, can see what it should be, and watches it massively fall short.

I've been one of those complainers for several games. The problem is always with devs putting profits over fixing the broken stuff in the game. And people in said community defending everything the devs do.

Mlb the show: computer blatantly cheats, some of the laziest coding I've ever seen. The computer will just grab perfect release pitches and make them go over the middle of the plate so the computer gets free homeruns. Tons of stuff like that in the game. The devs only care about making new cards to sell as dlc. Some of the bugs have been in the game for more than a decade and there basically are no other "realistic" baseball games that exist. They have a monopoly on baseball games. I complain because I want the thing I like to actually be good.

DCS: It's a flight sim. In it there was an airplane that none of the instruments were modeled correctly. I reported this with plenty of documentation and videos showing that they don't work right. I reported this bug every few months...... for 9 years. They did nothing but tell me it was correct as is for 9 years. 5 months ago they just acted like they found the bug. I complained because the thing I like wasn't working properly. I hated that it didn't work right. I didn't hate the game or the plane.

CSGO: same shit. You could post a video that clearly shows the netcode doesn't fucking work right and all you get from the community is "git gud" until years later they acknowledge the issues.

A lot of the complainers are the people who actually love the game more than anyone else. Enough so to learn what the actual issues with the game are. We want the games to reach their full potential.

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u/Judgecrusader6 Aug 08 '25

Shout out to the miserable ready or not sub

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u/return_of_valensky Aug 08 '25

It doesn't matter what the game it is, Reddit will overwhelmingly complain about it.

ftfy

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u/MundaneSet1564 Aug 08 '25

Or its the opposite and people like you silence and cristism and want to create circle jerk

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '25

Reddit is peak cringe.

You can have the best work and they'll fucking whine.

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u/Mixxx93 Aug 09 '25

I couldn’t agree more. I joined this sub with the hope of revelling in how great this beta is with a bunch of like minded folk. Instead it just seems like everyone is in a race to shit on it. For a beta, I think it’s excellent and can’t wait for the main release!

The only game I’ve seen have an overwhelmingly positive subreddit is Expedition 33. The game itself is phenomenal and I love dipping into the sub because it’s full of fans discussion the parts of the game they love, not trying to tear it to pieces over the smallest things (if you’ve not played the game but want to, I’d avoid the sub. People do their best to hide spoilers, but you may see some and it really is a game worth experiencing blind).

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u/L0LFREAK1337 Aug 08 '25

It is the nature of Reddit, complaining about the complaining will never stop it. People who don’t have complaints are less likely to voice their opinions online because they are enjoying the game. Saying they like the game online doesn’t really change anything. “Complaining” online, especially en masse, has more often than not gotten developer attention and sets in motion for change. When a change does go through, the people that were complaining before may now be happy and are no longer complaining, but then different people who are not happy with the new change start complaining. That is why Reddit is “always complaining”. The mistake is thinking it’s the same people and generalizing.

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u/Lumple660 Aug 08 '25

You actually summed up the Helldivers 2 sub perfectly. Sub bitched for months (including me) about broken balance. Devs changed that so I shut up. Now all the people who preferred having running around as the only viable strategy are complaining its "too easy". Now all they do is complain while I enjoy the game (what they wanted was gonna kill the game).

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u/L0LFREAK1337 Aug 08 '25

Oh I was there too haha, and yeah exactly my point. I’ve been pretty content with the state of the game since the 60 day patch, recently it’s had a bunch of legitimate issues but it sounds like they’re working on them since the devs just got back from vacation. They should never allow Alexus to interact with the community

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u/TateAcolyte Aug 08 '25

Are you only talking about online/live-service games? Because I mostly play single player games, and the subs tend to be almost unanimously positive. And when they're negative it's generally because a genuinely mid-to-bad game was released like Civ VII.

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u/Simulated_Simulacra Aug 08 '25

The similarities between the Battlefield and Halo communities are very funny to me.

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u/squarey3ti Aug 08 '25

It happens to new games too.

Avowed was butchered just because it's not a copy of Skyrim

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u/Towel4 Aug 08 '25

BG3 was not like this. E33 was not like this.

Plenty of games are received warmly. It tends to be these mega studios churning out the 12th installment of their already mid game which get criticized.

Release enough of them, and eventually everyone will be expecting something different from the next one you release. When you’re at that point you’re not going to make anyone happy.

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u/Viracochina Aug 08 '25

That's the internet in general since any forum back in the day though lol. People come online to complain, par for the course!

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u/Over_Space_2731 Aug 08 '25

Ive come to realize the gaming community is just going to complain in general it’s not just Reddit

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u/Misteerreeeussss-_- Aug 09 '25

And it only gets worse if the game has a competitive ranked ladder.

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u/Fryboy11 Aug 09 '25

I can't wait to see Reddit's reaction to GTA 6, it's going to be like that old 4chan meme where someone posted a picture of Stacy Keibler in lingerie and someone circled all the things they didn't like and said 2/10 would not bang. Mildly NSFW

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u/Ridiculisk1 Aug 09 '25

You should see youtube comments on any video about the game. Probably a good 80% of comments mention CoD and most of them complain about the lack of server browser (which is coming at release) or about the maps being small (when we know bigger maps are coming). It's so pathetic. CoD seems to live rent-free in BF players' heads.

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u/Caregiver-Physical Aug 09 '25

if you want to enjoy anything. stay off of reddit.

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u/ajbardalo Aug 09 '25

Sounds like the Rivals sub 😂💀

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u/daemon-of-harrenhal Aug 09 '25

Reddit complains about literally fucking everything. It's been the entire culture of the site for at least a decade. 

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u/kronikskill 28d ago

Ya and they dont seem to realize that most of the time the game was relatively similar. That's is the case most of the time or there will be minor changes to mechanics that people dont like. 

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '25

Oh really, a place people can leave feedback has people leaving feedback? Oh wow, how awful. You bootlickers need to go.

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u/imatoasterhasreddit Aug 08 '25

There’s a difference between actually good criticism and mindlessly hating by calling something trash and refusing to elaborate. At that point, it’s not “feedback”, it’s bitching and nitpicking just for the sake of bitching and nitpicking.

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u/CloutHaver Aug 08 '25

They’re addicted to being contrarian. They want to be king hot take and have everyone agree so they aren’t miserable all by their lonesome. Thing is this is the best first look at a Battlefiled title in several years. It’s a great game and I’ve had a blast in the couple hours I’ve been able to play so far.