Can a shooter pierce your liver with its sound? If it’s called Battlefield 6, yes.
The new chapter in the series isn’t trying to surprise you with anything new. It’s trying to remind you why you loved it.
AND IT SUCCEEDS!
With a 64-player mayhem that smacks of Battlefield 3 and 4, it brings back the class system, brings out the cringe of the Specialists of 2042, and throws you back into maps that collapse around you as you shoot. Literally.
Multiplayer: The battle is real again
Jets, tag teams, RPGs that knock down skyscrapers, and 4 class archetypes (Assault, Engineer, Support, Recon) that finally have a reason to exist again. From Mirak Valley in Tajikistan to Siege of Cairo and Manhattan Bridge, the maps are huge, devastating and designed for epic objective-based modes like Conquest, Breakthrough and the new Escalation.
Even the mid-sized maps are painful, and if you play with a group, the feeling is “we are on a combat mission with the squad” – not “I’m running alone in a CoD arena to do a killstreak”.
Movement, gadgets & tactics
The new Kinesthetic Combat System brings crouch sprint, drag-to-cover revive, weapon mounting, grappling, and sliding. Some work well (especially on large maps), others not so much (we’re looking at you, knee-slide on the Brooklyn Bridge).
You can mix weapons with classes (not just SMGs on the Engineer, for example), but class identity is maintained with special perks. Each role also has an ultimate ability, while training paths open up more builds. Yes, there are those quality moments when the Support builds an LMG fortress behind a broken wardrobe.
Singleplayer: The developers were bored
The Campaign? It exists, to exist. The enemy is called Pax Armata (i.e. Evil Corp #578), the characters are what’s left of Call of Duty, and the clichés in every cutscene are so many that they could open their own franchise.
Some missions are interesting (HALO drop in Gibraltar, escort mission in New York with the President), but overall it’s a mediocre showcase to try out the weapons before entering multiplayer. Which OK, it’s not bad, but it’s not a reason to play either.
EXTREME success on Steam
According to IGN Greece, BF6 set a record with over 740,000 concurrent players on Steam. It even surpassed Apex Legends. And that’s just on PC.
If we count console gamers, Battlefield 6 is already EA’s biggest multiplayer FPS in recent years.
Performance and graphics
It runs on the new Frostbite Engine, without ray tracing, but with DLSS / FSR / XeSS and amazing environmental destruction. Excellent performance even on mid-range cards, according to TechPowerUp. And yes, the frames don’t break, nor do your nerves.
Conclusion: Battlefield is back – almost as you wanted it
Battlefield 6 doesn’t reinvent the wheel. But it remembers how you’ve driven it in the past. It returns to the chaotic multiplayer that sucks you in. The campaign is boring, the cosmetics are mediocre, but the sound, the destruction and the twists in the battles make you want to go back in.
CoD does individual stunts. Battlefield does… war.
