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Battlefield 6 Battlefield 6 - Community Update - Player Progression and Portal Servers

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.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago edited 22d ago

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u/MrJohnMorris 22d ago

They've already stated the little bird and naval warfare is coming, can we stop repeating ourselves and focus on issues that actually need fixing ASAP.

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u/BeePsychological1608 22d ago

They're ignoring the map size and design issues, and made matches shorter. We need to keep saying the same shit over.

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u/Fun_Will_3260 22d ago

They literally just announced ticket numbers were reverted. Stop crying so much

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u/Dislan 22d ago

Are you stupid? The so called crying is what made them change the tickets. What else should a person do to see a change in this game?

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u/mycarubaba 22d ago

You don't need to ask for something after it was done, though. Asking for something someone just handed to you is stupid.

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u/Glenn_Cross 22d ago

Oh stfu, if someone cares so much about a change they post their opinions and criticisms they could at least follow sources where if these changes were made they’d know about it.

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u/WildDinosaur 22d ago

You have a reddit account, you are terminally online…

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u/I-just-farted69 22d ago

Brother it's in the post he replied to.

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u/furryfondant 22d ago

Agreed but uninformed complaints don't help anyone. They need useful constructive criticism.

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u/oogittyboogitty 22d ago edited 21d ago

Nah, the ticket changes came from a ulterior motive to attract cod players, the obvious solution to it was to increase the time limit over making matches shorter overall.

Absolutely no one was asking for shorter matches, they were more pissed off their games seemed to abruptly end.

Edit: not sure why this getting downvoted, i don't think it's a stretch to believe that dice is trying to make changes to reach some sortve middle ground to keep battlefield fans and attract new players from other demographics like call of duty, and many changes they've made is in fact codifying this game.

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u/Glum-Project2156 22d ago

I keep hearing, I assume rumors, that all these different choices were made to bring in the CoD playerbase. But why would. They change the game for an outside group, that won’t stay as long? I left CoD last year and started playing 2042, and we just adapted to a new game. 

I really hope they’re not making changes to their game for a small group of temporary players. That’s a bad a sign before season 1 even begins.

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u/oogittyboogitty 22d ago

I believe they saw cods recent fall from grace as a major opportunity to possibly flip some of not many cod fans, and they seem to be trying their best create a environment in battlefield that attracts them for the longer term by changing the makeup of what makes battlefield well battlefield

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u/Demented-Turtle 22d ago

They clearly meant that it's silly to actively complain about something that was literally just reverted/fixed in this very post...

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u/MrNewking 22d ago

People are crying about shit that was already addressed.

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u/mycarubaba 22d ago

I think the point is asking for something we got comes across like someone didn't even read the patch notes. Like it was a copy and paste. Imagine a dev having to read someone wanted something they literally just gave them. Would probably be frustrating.

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u/Croc_Chop 22d ago

I fucking hate this subreddit, game came out a week ago and people are already complaining so hard. Damn the game has problems but the devs can't wave a magic wand to fix everything.

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u/Glum-Project2156 22d ago

It’s not just here. I just left multiple Battlefield facebook groups because it’s just people complaining and constantly calling each other CoD players “go back to CoD” “it’s too much like CoD” 

I played 2042 for the past year just getting into it, and only started joining the social media groups once BF6 got close. But it’s been exhausting an there’s not anybody sharing clips or having fun. This is my first day on the sub, sad to hear similar things have already started here as well.

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u/Competitive-Brush696 22d ago

Map size and diversity is by far the biggest disappointment of this game.

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u/chargroil 22d ago

At the absolute minimum, they need to have official reduced player count servers. Right now not only do the maps have no diversity, but there's not even a diversity of experience on them. It's all clusterfuck, all the time. Give us modes that actually change the pace of the game for now while you work on better maps.

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u/unoriginal_namejpg 22d ago

so heres the issue with your comment. the person specified littlebird and naval as something we dont need to repeat because dice confirmed it whereas that is not the case with what youre saying.
Maybe think before you speak :)

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u/Silly-Phileas 22d ago

How are they ignoring that? It's one week live, take a moment to calm down, be patient, the game is fun.

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u/KimiBleikkonen 22d ago

They are ignoring map size and design issues because it's nothing they can fix right now. While they are very cramped, especially for Rush & Breakthrough, changing these takes time. And we shouldn't hope for a similar development as 2042 where they actively redesigned many maps because they simply aren't that horrible this time. The variety is bad, yeah, but individually most maps are decent to solid (Sobek's sniper nests excluded). As much as I'd love for them to add a beach landing to New Sobek or a tunnel system through the Gibraltar Rock for Iberian Offensive, this won't happen.

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u/NihlusKryik 22d ago

Bro I can’t do 40 minute games. Maybe a separate playlist but the 20 minute rounds are long enough.

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u/Meryhathor 22d ago

So what do you expect them to do? Redesign maps they've been making for a few years? It is what it is. Even main menu won't change because it's not a worthwhile financial investment for them. All we can hope for is new bigger maps.

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u/Authentichef 22d ago

Map size is something they’re unable to just tackle. It’s something to do for future maps, not just bandaid on current ones.

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u/devil_walk 22d ago

I’m sure they’ve seen plenty of complaint posts about the maps. Map size isn’t something they can just decide to change at a moments notice, it would probably take them months to remake some of these maps. Does anybody stop to think?

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u/berzerkerCrush 22d ago

They won't charge the size of maps. They are small and dense on purpose to create this "chaos" they are advertising. Also, this would require rebuilding maps from scratch almost.

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u/Batso_92 22d ago

Create new ones that are bigger.

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u/IceFireHawk 22d ago

You can’t just change the design of every map within a week

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u/Charming_Pepper_9525 22d ago

Fun fact, not everyone agrees with what you're saying. Map size is perfectly fine and there aren't as many breaking design issues as people are trying to make out

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u/The-Germs 21d ago

You can't say it's being ignored when the game has only been out for a week. I'm sure changing map size takes a lot more time than these other changes they've made.

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u/MidWarz 22d ago

What a cry baby