Battlefield 6 is kicking off its second season, and we’ve already had an opportunity to check out the primary new map. It’s good, however the shooter remains to be in bother.
Battlefield 6 kicks off its second season on February 17, 2026. Lastly, one may say, after the discharge, initially deliberate for January, was postponed. I’ve already had the possibility to check the primary new map for 2 hours and am now actually wanting ahead to the discharge. Nevertheless, I’m nonetheless frightened about Battlefield 6, as a result of even when the standard is true this time, Season 2 is just too small.
How good is the brand new map?
After solely two hours on Contaminated, I can’t draw any remaining conclusions in regards to the map, after all. To this point, I’ve solely been in a position to check out Escalation and Conquest, however each modes left an excellent impression on me.
First issues first: Contaminated provides me house! The map isn’t big, particularly in comparison with earlier video games, but it surely’s large enough for snipers, tanks, and flanking maneuvers. I’m combating for a complete of 6 seize factors:
- A: A small village
- B: An underground bunker within the mountains
- C: A satisfactory tunnel with a number of aspect passages
- D: The ruins of a bigger constructing
- E: One other bunker
- F: An plane hangar
Contaminated gives loads of selection: there are areas the place solely infantry battle one another and seize factors the place tanks and plane give a transparent benefit. Each class and each play fashion has its place.
Snipers can place themselves within the hills and canopy a great a part of the map, however they don’t seem to be practically as tough to succeed in and take out as they’re on Liberation Peak, for instance, or as annoying as they’re on New Sobek. In any case, there are three seize factors that snipers can hardly see in any respect.
So the steadiness is fairly good on Contaminated. As an infantryman, timber, rocks, and trenches present me with sufficient cowl between seize factors to flee tanks or snipers. Nevertheless, if I’m a tank driver and my enemies coordinate an assault, I received’t survive lengthy and not using a horde of engineers continually repairing my automobile. However this doesn’t simply apply to the brand new map in Battlefield 6.
Helicopter pilots undoubtedly have it simpler than on the mediocre Season 1 map Blackwell. They will quickly take cowl behind mountains and forests when guided missiles are making life tough for them.
In my view, Contaminated may very well be the most effective maps in Battlefield 6 to date. Nevertheless, I can’t but decide the way it will fare in sport modes corresponding to Rush or Breakthrough. The map can also be a deal with for the various followers who need extra massive maps with autos. Solely jet pilots are unnoticed, as Contaminated isn’t large enough for them.
A lot ado about nothing?
As a brand new time-limited mechanic, Battlefield 6 additionally introduces fuel clouds protecting components of the map within the first a part of the season. On Contimated, two seize factors are fully fogged in. As an infantryman, I ought to placed on a fuel masks (which is all the time a part of my gear) when getting into the cloud, in any other case I’ll begin to hallucinate. The masks solely lasts for a short while and restricts my imaginative and prescient, so I choose to maintain my keep within the fuel brief.
Nevertheless, the hallucinations are simply recognizable distractions:
Clearly false enemy markings on the minimap and shadowy figures are unlikely to idiot you any greater than they idiot me.
The fuel has a higher impact on autos, though the occupants are shielded from its results. Nevertheless, the cloud makes visibility so poor that enemy infantry can simply cover or sneak up on my automobile.
Total, the fuel is a pleasant change from on a regular basis Battlefield life. It’s only a disgrace that, not like in Battlefield 1, it’s not being launched as a fully-fledged mechanic, however solely as a gimmick that may stay for a couple of weeks.
Battlefield 6 might be saved alive
Let’s transfer on to the massive downside with Season 2. Though the brand new Contaminated map is a good addition to Battlefield 6, the builders aren’t delivering sufficient new content material, identical to in Season 1. As soon as once more, there are solely two maps – regardless of the delay, the season won’t be any larger. On prime of that, solely a pure infantry map might be launched in March, whereas many followers would have appreciated to see extra battles with tanks and plane.
What’s in Season 2
2 maps
- Contamination: A big map (for Battlefield 6) with tanks and helicopters. We battle for a navy base within the Bavarian Alps.
- Hagental Base: An infantry-only map in the identical location. Right here, the combating takes place at midnight corridors of a big bunker.
5 weapons + 1 melee weapon
February 17:
- GRT-CPS (DMR): Semi-automatic rifle for long-range fight. Low injury, however massive journal and relatively excessive price of fireside.
- VCR-2 (Assault Rifle): Totally computerized, particularly highly effective in shut fight: Excessive price of fireside, common injury.
- M121 A2 (Gentle Machine Gun): A weapon with a low price of fireside however excessive injury. 50-round journal in the usual model.
March 17:
- CZA31 (submachine gun): A submachine gun with a excessive price of fireside.
- VZ. 61 (aspect arm): Really a submachine gun, you equip the VZ. 61 as your first absolutely computerized aspect arm.
April 14:
- Ripper Machete (melee weapon): A nasty-looking bladed weapon
3 Automobiles
- AH-6 Little Chook (February 17): The sunshine fight helicopter with 4 seats, already acquainted from Battlefield 3 and 4.
- M1030-1 (March 17): A quick and agile bike with two seats. You could acknowledge the same mannequin from Battlefield 4.
- LTV (April 14): There is no such thing as a detailed details about this automobile but, but it surely resembles the transport automobile launched in Season 1. The picture within the roadmap reveals a number of antennas and units, so the LTV could also be supposed for reconnaissance of enemies.
2 Devices
February 17:
- 9K38 Igla: Anti-aircraft missile launcher whose projectile routinely tracks enemy jets and helicopters, however provided that you proceed to purpose on the enemy with the crosshairs.
- HTI-MK2: Can jam enemy devices and destroy missiles.
Varied limited-time sport modes/occasions
- VL7 Strike (beginning February 17): In each multiplayer and Redsec, components of the map are shrouded in poison fuel clouds. You’ll be able to shield your self for some time with fuel masks (which you all the time have with you); and not using a masks, you’ll begin to hallucinate.
- Dusk (beginning March 17): The brand new Hagental Base map might be shrouded in full darkness in multiplayer and Gauntlet. All gamers will obtain evening imaginative and prescient goggles, or alternatively, flashlights or thermal imaging sights may even assist.
- Operation Augur (beginning April 14): A mode impressed by the operations in Battlefield 1. The attackers should first seize all sections of Contamination after which advance to the Hagental Base map. The defenders should maintain off the attackers for so long as attainable. The mode is much like a bigger model of Breakthrough.
Season 2 is already inflicting concern and disappointment among the many group. Regardless of grandiose guarantees earlier than the discharge and three studios engaged on Battlefield, the shooter collection has as soon as once more didn’t implement the season mannequin convincingly.
The comparability to Battlefield 3 and 4 is typically flawed. However nobody can blame the followers for considering again fondly to the times when a whole map pack was launched in a single fell swoop.
The state of affairs could be much less alarming if there have been no different issues moreover the map drought. However the extraordinarily clumsy dealing with of community-created servers and maps alone might fill a number of pages. Battlefield 6 additionally has issues with netcode, audio, weapon and automobile steadiness, complicated menus, the design of some maps, and sluggish progress.
A few of these, together with defective audio tracks, weapon steadiness, and sluggish leveling within the Battle Go, are to be addressed within the February 17 replace. Nevertheless, it stays to be seen how profitable the options might be. I actually hope that no less than the bug fixes and enhancements might be convincing, as a result of Battlefield 6 is slowly working out of time and followers are working out of persistence.
Editor’s conclusion
Even months after its launch, I maintain coming again to Battlefield 6. Why? As a result of I benefit from the shooter regardless of all its flaws and since there’s merely no various: To this point, I haven’t discovered a comparable, trendy multiplayer shooter with tanks and planes that I can play casually with pals on occasion.
However one factor can also be clear: the world of multiplayer shooters is very aggressive, and for a lot of gamers, there are alternate options to Battlefield 6. With what Cube has delivered by way of post-launch content material to date, it received’t be attainable to win any battles in the long term. And even when the shooter has sufficient maps and no main issues by the tip of its life cycle, it is going to merely be too late.
In my view, there is just one method out: Cube should now begin delivering new maps on a big scale. A 3rd map within the third section of the season would already assist quite a bit. Builders ought to spend much less time planning new occasions and modes which might be then met with little enthusiasm.
Will that occur? After the reveal of Season 2, I’ve little hope. However I nonetheless have a spark of hope till Season 3.
