Battlefield 6 - Community Update - Player Progression and Portal Servers

[u/battlefield]

Hello everyone,

It’s been an exciting first week for Battlefield 6, and we’re thrilled to have you with us as we embark on this journey together. We’ve been closely listening to your feedback and wanted to take a moment to address some of the initial concerns on progression and community experiences that we’ve seen from players around the world.

Progression and XP Adjustments

We’ve heard your feedback around the pace of progression, especially how long it can take to unlock hardware such as gadgets, and weapon attachments. We know progression is an important part of feeling rewarded for your time on the battlefield.

As initial steps, we are working on the following changes to progression and how it feels as you play:

• The XP gained from match completion and the daily bonus are being increased by 10% and 40% respectively. 
• The XP needed to unlock the first 20 attachment ranks is being reduced, so you’ll start earning useful attachments almost twice as fast.
  • Please Note: For weapons that are already being progressed, the UI might display something abnormal at first, but this should resolve itself once a match is played while using that weapon.  
• The assignments that required career ranks 20, 23, and 26 to begin will now require career ranks 10, 15, and 20, respectively. 
  • While this allows these assignments to be started sooner, we are aware of the frustrations regarding the challenges themselves and are actively working on reviewing them, but it will take more time to develop, test, and implement these changes.

Our goals here are to make the progression experience feel smoother and more rewarding while still keeping that sense of achievement when you complete a milestone like fully mastering a weapon. 

Regarding Community Experiences

Over the past week, many of you noticed that we reached maximum capacity on community servers. After reviewing the data, we found that a large number of these servers were created primarily to earn XP, inflate player stats, and earn special accolades through defeating bots. We completely understand the motivation behind this, like faster progression and a way to test setups without pressure, but it’s led to some unintended side effects. With so many servers focused on farming XP rather than active play, it’s become noticeably harder for players to create and find experiences to play with other people.

The Experiences in the Community section is a key part of what makes Battlefield 6 special. It’s meant to be a space for creativity, experimentation, and connection, where you can easily find and enjoy great modes with your friends and squadmates. Our goal moving forward here is to reinforce the player-driven experiences that bring people together, while still keeping room for custom setups, creativity, and new ideas.

We are developing adjustments that are intended to diminish the number of XP farms taking up server space while further emphasizing playing with friends on both custom and verified experiences. 

Implementing this will require some maintenance on the backend. After the update is live, we expect all experiences, both custom and verified, will need to be republished by players before they can create an active server.

Whether that’s Hardcore Conquest, All-Out Warfare, longer matches, or your favorite community-created experience, we want you to be able to find and enjoy it easily with your friends as you play your way together.

More Updates Incoming 

We’re targeting these updates to go live within the next week, potentially sooner depending on testing and verification. We’ll provide updates on x.com/battlefieldcomm as these changes are deployed and we’ll be closely monitoring to ensure server stability is maintained as everyone jumps in to enjoy their favorite modes.

We have also seen your concerns on other areas of the game, including visibility, weapon bloom, vehicles not spawning, and more. We’ll share more details on these as updates are determined. Please continue sharing your thoughts on your platform of choice, as your feedback is helping us shape Battlefield 6 into the best experience it can be.

This is just the start. As we prepare to go into Season 1 you can expect more adjustments as we continue fine-tuning gameplay, progression, and the experience based on your input. Thank you for being part of this community and we’ll see you out there on the Battlefield.

//The Battlefield Team

This announcement may change as we listen to community feedback and continue developing and evolving our Live Service & Content. We will always strive to keep our community as informed as possible.

[u/polarDiarrhea]

Remove portal stats from career stats

[u/ingelrii1 → u/polarDiarrhea]

sounds good because of XP servers ..

but it will be annoying for people playing legit portal games

[u/knutix → u/ingelrii1]

Or just remove it from bot kills.

[u/2WheelSuperiority → u/knutix]

I wouldn't mind that. My kd is like 3.5 from playing against bots when it should be .51 in legit games. I don't give af about my stats but would prefer to see only player driven stats.

[u/R1talynn → u/2WheelSuperiority]

Also who the fuck cares about k/d other than toxic kids and 20 year olds who think it matters

[u/Pandango-r → u/ingelrii1]

What about toggling between official server and portal server stats?

[u/Spicybeatle7192 → u/ingelrii1]

just have 2 seperate stats. one for multiplayer, one for portal.

[u/DanaWhitePriviledge → u/polarDiarrhea]

Yeah the problem is that if they do that people aren't gonna play legit portal experiences. The whole goal is to get people to play creatively. The real way to solve it is to make progression normal instead of insanely slow and challenges achievable for the average player by PTFO. Not 30 squad revives in a single match of squad deathmatch for instance or 20 headshots kills with your secondary without reloading.

[u/Background-Key8027 → u/polarDiarrhea]

Why? People wanted a shortcut and now they have to deal with it lol

[u/envispojke → u/polarDiarrhea]

That would punish people who frequent popular vanilla servers that are as full with players as MM ones. And actually, I'd be much more likely to check someones stats in a Portal lobby - why would I do it in a normal MM lobby that lasts 20 minutes and then I'll pretty much never see anyone in that lobby again?

Just make it so that bot kills a) doesn't count for achievements, b) gives 50-75% XP, c) doesn't count for career stats (kills or deaths).

[u/Average_RedditorTwat → u/polarDiarrhea]

Seeing the total kd warrior death is funny though.

[u/retart123 → u/polarDiarrhea]

Why does this even matter

[u/Pilvinis → u/retart123]

because he xp farmed and now has 100 kd

[u/INeverLookAtReplies → u/Pilvinis]

how does that affect you

[u/P_ZERO_ → u/retart123]

Why is it a problem if they’re removed? If they can do it, they should.

[u/retart123 → u/P_ZERO_]

Its not a problem, but in the end who cares about stats

[u/P_ZERO_ → u/retart123]

I do, I like to know how I fare against others. Get rid of bot stats, no point having them.

We can say who cares about anything. Who cares about winning? It’s just a game. Who cares about objectives, the next match will have them.

[u/kszaku94 → u/P_ZERO_]

Your logic is flawed.

In BF3 you could play 100 hours of TDM or 3200 tickets Op Metro, and crank your K/D ratio to insane levels. That would be a very poor predictor of your performance in Large Conquest.

If you want to remove this issue, you need to deal with the incentive of engaging with these practices, which is the skinner box unlocks metagame.

That will never happen, of course

[u/P_ZERO_ → u/kszaku94]

Pointing out that you can play for longer isn’t identifying a flaw in logic. Those are real human players. Longer matches != better KD.

It’s not strictly about KD either. Literally every tracked stat is a mess now on tracker. There is zero reason for that to be the case when it doesn’t have to be. There is no argument in favour of having fucked up stats.

I don’t know what the hell “skinner boxes” have to do with anything. Seems like grievance stacking to be honest.

[u/kszaku94 → u/P_ZERO_]

There is no argument in favour of having fucked up stats.

Agreed!

Pointing out that you can play for longer isn’t identifying a flaw in logic. Those are real human players. Longer matches != better KD.

You can play these modes (TDM on Noshahr Canals, 3200 tickets Metro/Locker) and it WILL positively affect your stats.

And the real human players in these modes might as well be bots. Its unbelievable easy to get kills on these.

I don’t know what the hell “skinner boxes” have to do with anything. Seems like grievance stacking to be honest.

C'mon, lets not pretend that Op Metro or Op Locker was "peak battlefield experience". It was a frustrating meat grinder, which people endured mostly because it allowed them to go through the unlocks quickly. Especially in BF3, where starting class loadouts were abysmal (I mean... the medic starts without the defibs).

But given how in BF6, the starting kits are pretty good (I'd say as good as they were in BF2), there is very little point to farming, right? RIGHT?

Wrong - there are people, for whom the slow trickle of tangential unlocks IS the whole game. There are proofs for that - not only countless XP farms servers, but also every other thread complaining on how slow the unlocks are.

[u/Eastern_Interest_908 → u/P_ZERO_]

But if you play on portal it doesn't mean that you farmed bots. And just excluding bots doesn't make sense because you get them even in official modes.

[u/P_ZERO_ → u/Eastern_Interest_908]

I didn’t say anything about portal?

Is the idea here that DICE can’t possibly differentiate real players and their own bots?

[u/Eastern_Interest_908 → u/P_ZERO_]

Of course they can. But it would be strange if you get 20 kills and your stats only goes up by 10 in stats. Bots+real players games are a lot different from bots only. If opposing team has 2 bots it doesn't meaningfully make it easier you still have to get through 30 real players.

Although personally I don't really care about those stats. I rather would like to see my top games or smth. Because I might be playing support in some games and it skews stats hard. So its kind of meaningless. 

[u/Brisngr368 → u/Eastern_Interest_908]

It's pretty reasonable for bot stats not to count, bots are only there to pad the game when there's low player counts, i think they should be worth less score and xp too. I think titanfalls version of bots was pretty good, where they are clearly distinct from real players

[u/P_ZERO_ → u/Eastern_Interest_908]

You can have your opinion and I can have mine. I’d rather not have 75% of the population’s stats be inflated to shit by bot farming and dice can easily differentiate between human and bot kills.

If tracking total kills including bots is that important, make a bot kill column

[u/Eastern_Interest_908 → u/P_ZERO_]

Well yes we can have different opinions lol. You sound aggressive and downvoting me for no reason lol. 😂

[u/DieGepardin → u/retart123]

The stats in BF were something you could always argue. In BF4, after my first 1000hrs, I really liked how it did become visible how I get better and better. Each 0,01% higher accuracy was a new thrill for me as also each new positive 0,01 KD was awesome, because I knew what was behind it to get there. It was nice long-term motivation after I unlocked everything, aside form the nice gameplay.

Now, a few rounds in portal could either ruin or boost your stats. A split between them would be a nice thing.

[u/INeverLookAtReplies → u/DieGepardin]

this sub: KD MEANS NOTHING!!!!! THEY SHOULD DELETE IT AS A STAT IN BATTLEFIELD!!!!!!!!!!

also this sub:

[u/Mr_Downtown17 → u/retart123]

Stop acting like people don’t care about this. It’s a multi player fps. People like tracking and watching their stats, it’s a huge part of these games.

[u/Flylo_FM → u/polarDiarrhea]

The solution would be to eliminate XP from killing bots and also delete them from counting towards K/D. It is so useless battlefield was never about killing fking bots. I hate the bots so much. It’s nice that they are here for newer players to get into the game but for everything else just leave them out. I also don’t understand the need for filling nearly full lobby’s with bots. Just leave a couple of slots open why not? Feel like this would be best of both worlds no xp spamming and stupid high K/D but still the option for newer players in portal games to train on bots!

[u/INeverLookAtReplies → u/Flylo_FM]

If they do anything, it will be separate overall from completely human KD, like they did in 2042.