Battlefield 6 Developer Triggers Queue System for Launch as Fans Immediately Face Full Servers

Battlefield 6 is retired now, and successful the blink of an oculus the game's servers became afloat with hundreds of thousands of players waiting to get successful connected the action.

IGN was among the galore facing server queues today, October 10, arsenic the developers astatine Battlefield Studios braced themselves for the incoming horde.

At the clip of this article's publication, little than an hr aft Battlefield 6 went live, it had a staggering 606,000 concurrent players connected Steam. The existent concurrent fig volition beryllium overmuch bigger, but Microsoft and Sony bash not marque Xbox and PlayStation subordinate numbers public.

Battlefield 6 motorboat players look a hold to login. Image credit: EA / IGN.

EA issued a connection saying it anticipated galore players logging successful astatine the aforesaid clip astatine launch, and had added a queue strategy for this “peak” moment.

“A abbreviated update connected login queues arsenic we hole for the motorboat of Battlefield 6 aboriginal today,” reads the statement.

“Battlefield 6 launches contiguous astatine 15:00 UTC and we expect galore of you to login astatine the aforesaid clip during this archetypal moment.

“To assistance guarantee a creaseless and unchangeable login acquisition for everyone, we’re adding a queue strategy during this and different highest moments.

“Thanks for your patience arsenic we motorboat Battlefield 6!”

In a much caller statement, EA said it was letting arsenic galore players successful arsenic it could, truthful queues should beryllium "relatively short."

"With the crippled present live, galore of you are jumping successful astatine the aforesaid time," EA said. "To assistance support things creaseless and unchangeable for everyone, login queues are progressive during this highest motorboat moment. We're letting arsenic galore of you successful arsenic we can, truthful queues should beryllium comparatively short. Steam users delight enactment that if the “Play” fastener does not show, restarting the Steam lawsuit volition resoluteness this issue. Thanks for your patience, and bask the motorboat of Battlefield 6!"

The large motorboat queues travel comments from 1 Battlefield 6 developer who said the game's servers “should” beryllium acceptable for today's merchandise date, and that the caller unfastened beta “helped gauge the interest.” While you wait, cheque retired IGN's Battlefield 6 multiplayer reappraisal successful progress, our Battlefield 6 run review, and what to expect from Battlefield Season 1.

Based connected our clip with the Battlefield 6 beta, we’ve got a BF6 Beginner’s Guide and Tips, positive the champion Battlefield 6 Loadouts and however to usage the Range Finder, deploy the Bipod, and however to crook disconnected Haptic Feedback successful Battlefield 6. Be definite to cheque retired our study connected the biggest talking constituent going into the Battlefield 6 launch: Open vs. Closed weapons.

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