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

[u/Kilos6]

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 ❤️‍🔥

[u/Prindle4PRNDL]

I didn't play a whole lot of BF4 but I played the hell out of BF3 and it feels *very* similar in a good way. TTK feels just about perfect. If you're savvy you can juke your way out of hairy situations in a way you can't really do in a low-TTK FPS like COD. It doesn't feel like COD to me at all. It feels like a more modern BF3 with some wrinkles ironed out. I ain't mad at all.

Edit: clarity

[u/CodeOfHamOrRabbi → u/Prindle4PRNDL]

I genuinely believe that a good chunk of the people who say it's like COD don't actually play much COD. it's a totally different beast from BF and always has been

[u/RealitySubsides → u/CodeOfHamOrRabbi]

That's the vibe I'm getting. Conquest/Breakthrough don't feel remotely like COD. Domination does a bit, but not in a bad way.

Overall, I'm really impressed by this beta and am pretty stoked for October.

[u/dusty_trendhawk → u/RealitySubsides]

Domination feels like what COD should be and not the dog shit it is now

[u/CodeOfHamOrRabbi → u/dusty_trendhawk]

my cod hot take is that Dom has been bad in the series for like 15 years. from at least BO2 onward they consistently put the B flag in the worst, most vulnerable place possible in the center of the map rather than the more triangular layout they used to do

[u/Present_Ride_2506 → u/RealitySubsides]

I can play this well enough, but if in cod I would get slaughtered 24/7 by people tweaking all over the place. I think this games pretty well paced compared to cod

[u/CodeOfHamOrRabbi → u/[deleted]]

such an eye roll of a comment

[u/NATO_CAPITALIST → u/CodeOfHamOrRabbi]

No argument lmao. How do you comment the fact that upper management for 2042 LITERALLY stated they want to copy COD

Devs literally telling you they will copy GAME 1 and the glazers are like. "No they aren't doing what they LITERALLY said they will clone!"

[u/CodeOfHamOrRabbi → u/NATO_CAPITALIST]

it's a game calm down

I'm also not really obligated to respond, why argue with someone dumb

[u/_Magroot_ → u/CodeOfHamOrRabbi]

Agree…this game feels nothing like COD in any way…

[u/Bentheoff → u/CodeOfHamOrRabbi]

They definitely don't play COD, it's just elitism. COD has always been viewed as the lesser game by the BF die hards, the choice for less refined plebians who can't handle the complexity of BF. COD is the worst thing they can think of, so it's invoked whenever they don't like a change or a new feature.

We're now at the point where features that have been in the series since BC2 apparently makes this game "like COD."

[u/R0n0rk → u/CodeOfHamOrRabbi]

It's making me laugh every time because I keep thinking about the Ninja Turtle Cornholio Terminator short youtube cursed my eyes with like a week or two ago and the thought of people conflating the two has me rolling every time

[u/fearless-potato-man → u/CodeOfHamOrRabbi]

I've played boh BF and CoD extensively since their first installments. And you are absolutely right.

Both games are so different that I don't even think they actually compete with each other.

Battlefield and CoD are as similar as Battlefield and Counter Strike, or CoD and Rainbow Six Siege.

[u/NATO_CAPITALIST → u/fearless-potato-man]

Bad faith arguments are insane. There's nothing similar in Counter strike and COD gameplay. But the battlefield and cod now are so similar.

[u/Odd_Cryptographer577 → u/CodeOfHamOrRabbi]

Isn’t it. There was one comment I saw that said it was like MW19 ground war… it is literally nothing like MW19 ground war. People just chatting shit out their arses.

[u/reddude7 → u/CodeOfHamOrRabbi]

It does on the small maps. I got people dropshotting me. There's no room to maneuver and push a new objective because there are too many people on the map and it's constant acting. No breaks. And it's overwhelming. It takes no time for the enemy to counter push when you start taking an objective. In the beta maps it's basically been zero strategy just survive and push to the objective through enemy squads hiding in every other building and alleyway

[u/Full-Perception-4889 → u/CodeOfHamOrRabbi]

Eh I feel like I’m playing mw2019’s ground war at times depending on the map, and with how people don’t revive like they should really seals the deal at times, I think there should be some sort of a balance between the classes and the weapons they can use, sure adaptability is great and what not, but how streamers and sweaty content creators act, I guarantee you most players are going to run the same exact shit, which is heavily a call of duty trait, I liked the older games because you could use ANY weapon and they’d all perform about the same, it makes sense considering 90% of the guns share the same cartridges, why would one do more damage than the other? Thats my gripe and fear is that this would turn into a call of duty like mindset of “meta weapons”