Having gotten access to Battlefield 6 ten days before the general public as part of the game’s review event, one thing stood out to me more than anything else in the game’s multiplayer sandbox: it takes too damn long to level up.
This is usually not a big issue, since everything you do in the game earns you career XP, so you’re bound to reach higher ranks sooner or later. The real problem, however, is how much slower weapon attachments are unlocked.
A week on from launch, Battlefield Studios is finally acknowledging that there’s a problem.
In a new Community Update blog post, the developer went directly into player feedback about the slow speed of progression for career/characters, as well as how long it takes to unlock weapon attachments.
The developer is addressing these concerns in a number of ways. First, the XP earned by completing a match is going up by 10%, and the daily bonus XP is getting a 40% boost. For weapon XP, BF Studios is reducing the XP needed to unlock any weapon’s first 20 attachments. The developer said you can expect that process to be about twice as fast.
Battlefield 6 has assignments that unlock new class Training Paths, weapons, as well as gadgets. However, they do not become available to even progress until levels 20, 23, and 26. The developer is dropping those rank requirements to 10, 15, and 20, respectively.
While that’s certainly welcome, it doesn’t address the problem with some of the assignments themselves, including how situational many of them are, not to mention long and arduous the process is for others. Something is being done about that, but don’t hold your breath.
“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,” the developer said.
As a response to Battlefield 6’s long and cumbersome XP earn situation, many players have taken to the game’s Portal mode to create what are essentially bot farms, which exist to help players kill a large number of AI enemies very quickly, or create perfect environments to make it easier to complete some of the more ridiculous weapon challenges.
Battlefield Studios obviously isn’t thrilled about that, and the developer revealed in the blog that “a large number” of Portal servers were created “primarily to earn XP, inflate player stats, and earn special accolades” which the developer says is what lead to servers reaching capacity faster than anticipated, preventing new players from being able to create their own Portal experiences.
That obviously defeats the purpose of Portal, so the developer is going to implement changes that re-focus the Community tab on exposing actually unique experiences. You can also expect some work on the backend to “diminish the number of XP farms taking up server space.”
BF Studios says we can expect all of those changes to arrive “within the next week,” if not sooner. As for the Portal side of things, the proposed changes will require maintenance that’s going to kill all currently active experiences – including Verified – forcing everyone to republish their work.
Other ongoing concerns, such as vehicles sometimes not spawning for certain teams on certain maps, player visibility, weapon bloom (spread), and more are also being looked at, though the post doesn’t offer much beyond that.
While we all wait for those XP adjustments to come in, you can have a look at our top meta weapons for every category so you can focus your precious time on the right builds.
