Battlefield 6

[Matt London]

hengti said:

Prepare for some frustration if you've spent ages in the settings as the update appears to have reset some stuff, have lost my key bind changes. Map is interesting, even has a hollywood sepia tint!

My controller bindings changed with the update. I threw grenades instead of spotting!

The new map seems to play quite CQB for infantry. Not what I expected and definitely doesn’t suit me.

[hengti]

That was the one that caught me out too, going to have a proper look tonight, have only just started to remap the tank/heli controls so hoping it hasn't hit those as well. Did notice new mode (sabotage?) is handy for the grenade damage challenge. I don't remember ever becoming distracted by the challenges in Battlefield before but they seem to be the driver here?!

[Buzz84]

Unlocked the incendiary airbust launcher last night and saw there was a challenge to use it and get damage.

Equipped it and spent about 5 rounds firing then off left, right and centre. Saw the hit markers going off around the cross hairs so I knew I was getting loads of people. I even saw about 4 kills from me credited to it.

Finished for the evening and went to check the progress... 20/2000 damage caused... WTF!

EDIT: I have googled it to see if there are any tips and it seems to be recognised as a broken challenge. People are getting round it by planting mines around vehicles in spawn then setting them off with the launcher.

Edited by Buzz84 on Wednesday 19th November 09:39

[C5_Steve]

Buzz84 said:

Unlocked the incendiary airbust launcher last night and saw there was a challenge to use it and get damage.

Equipped it and spent about 5 rounds firing then off left, right and centre. Saw the hit markers going off around the cross hairs so I knew I was getting loads of people. I even saw about 4 kills from me credited to it.

Finished for the evening and went to check the progress... 20/2000 damage caused... WTF!

EDIT: I have googled it to see if there are any tips and it seems to be recognised as a broken challenge. People are getting round it by planting mines around vehicles in spawn then setting them off with the launcher.

Edited by Buzz84 on Wednesday 19th November 09:39

Yeah it ONLY counts damage from the launcher impact, not the fire damage. Which doesn't seem like it should be set up like that given it's a challenge for the incendiary launcher...

[usn90]

Only had a couple of games last night, I didn’t experience my aiming issue since the aim assist has been reverted to the beta levels, so that’s promising, although I only played sniper on one of the games which is where I m the issue was more prominent.

I don’t want to complain too much, but I can’t help but feel like the games getting too many game modes, and all it does it dilute the player base to an extent.

Conquest, breakthrough, rush, Squad deathmatch and BR is all I feel it needs

[Jasandjules]

usn90 said:

I don t want to complain too much, but I can t help but feel like the games getting too many game modes, and all it does it dilute the player base to an extent.

Yup, I am pretty put out about the stupid COD copy online game they have done. Not battlefield IMHO.

Also found last night several games needing bots.. That's for Rush. Never expected that, Rush servers always used to be full.

[thetapeworm]

Buzz84 said:

Unlocked the incendiary airbust launcher last night and saw there was a challenge to use it and get damage.

Equipped it and spent about 5 rounds firing then off left, right and centre. Saw the hit markers going off around the cross hairs so I knew I was getting loads of people. I even saw about 4 kills from me credited to it.

Finished for the evening and went to check the progress... 20/2000 damage caused... WTF!

EDIT: I have googled it to see if there are any tips and it seems to be recognised as a broken challenge. People are getting round it by planting mines around vehicles in spawn then setting them off with the launcher.

That was the one I mentioned earlier in the topic, I worked on it for a few days before heading to Google and finding the same results you probably have with the mine workaround, I was so excited I captured my success



With the latest update I'm feeling even more overwhelmed by the number of game modes and all the different challenges linked to them. I know it's always been a bit that way and I've always struggled with my daft "gotta catch'em all" mentality in that respect like I do with a lot of stuff I get hyper-focused on but I think I'm just going to have to admit defeat on BF6 and try to just accept that I'm never going to unlock some of the stuff that's there unless I pack my job in and get a divorce, even then I'm not sure going through them would be much fun anyway, it feels like a bit of a chore at times.

I still haven't managed the headshots with a sidearm without reloading one, two isn't an issue but that third one constantly eludes me, even though it seems to be a bit broken and sometimes counts shots that aren't to the head. I probably need to switch back to a gun with more than 6 bullets

As a side question, it is right that you can't read your in-game inbox messages unless you have cross-play on? I'm on PS5, I have messages in my inbox (probably abusing me) but if I want to read them I have to enable cross-play, even though I've never had it on so chances are all the messages are from others on PS5.

Edited by thetapeworm on Wednesday 19th November 16:39

[Ruskie]

See they have managed to fk up breakthrough. Nearly impossible to breakthrough now on attack. Defence is just defib spam, and you can’t flank because of the map design. Very frustrating.

[usn90]

Jasandjules said:

usn90 said:

I don t want to complain too much, but I can t help but feel like the games getting too many game modes, and all it does it dilute the player base to an extent.

Yup, I am pretty put out about the stupid COD copy online game they have done. Not battlefield IMHO.

Also found last night several games needing bots.. That's for Rush. Never expected that, Rush servers always used to be full.

Breakthrough is my go to, I do enjoy some squad deathmatch too.

I get what you mean about cod, a lot of these game modes come from there

[Remal]

usn90 said:

Jasandjules said:

usn90 said:

I don t want to complain too much, but I can t help but feel like the games getting too many game modes, and all it does it dilute the player base to an extent.

Yup, I am pretty put out about the stupid COD copy online game they have done. Not battlefield IMHO.

Also found last night several games needing bots.. That's for Rush. Never expected that, Rush servers always used to be full.

Breakthrough is my go to, I do enjoy some squad deathmatch too.

I get what you mean about cod, a lot of these game modes come from there

Remal2024 on PS.

playing a lot but get the normal good game horrid game. just trying to get as many challenges sorted

[fiatpower]

Ruskie said:

See they have managed to fk up breakthrough. Nearly impossible to breakthrough now on attack. Defence is just defib spam, and you can t flank because of the map design. Very frustrating.

It needs a lot more team work because of the map designs now. Most of the games are just like going through a grinder when you're attacking.

Occasionally you get a team who work together well and makes it much easier. I was on a team last night with two of us as support throwing smoke grenades everywhere so that the whole team could rush through to the point. Then it was just a case of grinding it out and counting the clock down. I do sort of enjoy that though.

[p1stonhead]

fiatpower said:

Ruskie said:

See they have managed to fk up breakthrough. Nearly impossible to breakthrough now on attack. Defence is just defib spam, and you can t flank because of the map design. Very frustrating.

It needs a lot more team work because of the map designs now. Most of the games are just like going through a grinder when you're attacking.

Occasionally you get a team who work together well and makes it much easier. I was on a team last night with two of us as support throwing smoke grenades everywhere so that the whole team could rush through to the point. Then it was just a case of grinding it out and counting the clock down. I do sort of enjoy that though.

I feel like given now all classes can revive, they need to give all classes a delay of even like 30 seconds. And maybe 10 seconds for the defib?

As you say taking a building / a thing with a well organised crew in it is basically impossible now.

[Ruskie]

[/quote] As you say taking a building / a thing with a well organised crew in it is basically impossible now.
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I turned it off tonight. Breakthrough and put on defence 4 games in a row with 4 poor teams. Tired of PTO solo. Said it weeks ago, it’s impossible to find a random squad and stay together. All you come up against are squads playing together, running defibs and you’re outgunned.

[Buzz84]

Saw a weird yellow gun icon on the mini map the other day, made my way over to that location.

It's was a shoulder mounted rail gun. You can pick it up to use but if you swap to another weapon you throw it away.

I used it and got 3 good shots on a tank but I think he had an engineer repairing him so didn't get any damage and he blew me up.

But I did go away thinking, so much for the realised more grounded FPS they said this was going to be...

[C5_Steve]

Buzz84 said:

Saw a weird yellow gun icon on the mini map the other day, made my way over to that location.

It's was a shoulder mounted rail gun. You can pick it up to use but if you swap to another weapon you throw it away.

I used it and got 3 good shots on a tank but I think he had an engineer repairing him so didn't get any damage and he blew me up.

But I did go away thinking, so much for the realised more grounded FPS they said this was going to be...

There's a mini gun as well, I'll be honest having tried them both I thought it they were pretty useless. Mini gun has ridiculous recoil and the rail gun takes an age to fire meaning it's such a gap between getting shots off engineers easily repair whatever you're shooting. It won't even one shot a Jeep.

Apparently it's a call back to BF4, just seems a gimmick right now rather than game changing (not been killed by either yet).

[Buzz84]

So this happened last night:



I jumped into the gunner seat on an IFV on breakthrough. The driver was rather good and managed to stay alive the whole round with us just mowing down all comers!
Was very fun and I went up by about 3 mastery levels too!

I do enjoy being a gunner and finding that the machine guns are far better than the grenade launcher. Best to burst fire so it doesn't overheat and needs a cooldown, and I tend to spend a lot of time looking the opposite way to the main turret as "rear defence".

[fiatpower]

Really enjoying the new Eastwood map. Played an all out warfare game last night where you start with 1000 or 1100 tickets (can't remember which). We lost in the last second 1v0.

[Ruskie]

Too much going on now? Too many game options? Noticed it’s getting harder to fill lobbies unless you want to play with crossplay off.

[Crudeoink]

Ruskie said:

Too much going on now? Too many game options? Noticed it s getting harder to fill lobbies unless you want to play with crossplay off.

Too many game modes I think. I played a few tonight, prefer the bigger game modes but i found it would sit for ages with about 24 players before populating the rest with bots. That said it does seem after the game starts it continues to filling with real people and is 95% human players within a couple of minutes.

[Buzz84]

Looks like the "exploit" to used mines and vehicles to achieve the "airbust launcher" 500 points was patched at the last update.

Only direct hits register as points towards this challenge. The burning after effects, which has given me quite a few kills, don't count at all.

Only choice now is to keep plugging away at it, Running around and using it as a point blank form of shotgun. I am on 298/500 so far...
Breakthrough seems good for this so far as routes people take are fairly predictable.