Battlefield 6 Devs Lay Out Game Plan After Winter Offensive Update Introduces Widespread Issues Across PC and Consoles

EA and Battlefield Studios person issued a lengthy connection aft the Battlefield 6 Winter Offensive 1.1.3.0 update saw players reporting wide issues related to the main paper UI, gameplay stuttering, Breakthrough, and much, overmuch more.

The message, posted some to Battlefield societal media accounts and the FPS franchise’s website, functions some arsenic an mentation and a crippled plan. BF Studios says hotfixes and updates volition present rotation retired successful the coming days arsenic it attempts to robust retired the galore kinks that started making waves successful the Battlefield 6 assemblage earlier this week.

Surprise Attack

Winter Offensive was primitively positioned to bring wintery caller contented hand-in-hand with audio fixes, much reliable deed registration, and equilibrium tweaks arsenic BF Studios continues to soma retired the caller Battlefield game’s archetypal season. However, arsenic update 1.1.3.0 made its mode to PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S Tuesday, players were alternatively met with an service of method hurdles.

Clunky main paper navigation and occupation registering hits connected firing scope targets were 2 of the much annoying issues being shared astir online. One occupation that really impacted moment-to-moment multiplayer gameplay for many, though, progressive micro stuttering that saw players freezing successful spot arsenic they ran into battle. Another, much bizarre effect of the caller update had to bash with what galore believed was a stealth nerf to movement, which, contempt being applauded by some, has since been reverted and labeled arsenic “unexpected behavior.”

"It benignant of feels similar there's an implicit deadline docket by which constituent worldly comes retired nary substance what," 1 Reddit idiosyncratic commented soon aft the update went live. "I cognize DICE ever had this 'fix X, interruption Y' modus operandi that's amusingly accordant amongst generations of radical who worked determination but truthful acold each update has been virtually that."

The occasional hiccup aside, BF Studios has been steadily moving done Battlefield 6 Season 1, but it feels similar that momentum has travel to a halt with Winter Offensive. Even if the halt is lone temporary, the update’s motorboat marks a infinitesimal of uncertainty for fans arsenic they await Season 2 and arsenic the holidays unreserved in. Winter Offensive has proven to beryllium truthful problematic, successful fact, that Battlefield REDSEC, the Battlefield 6 conflict royale offshoot experience, had its Elite Series postponed owed to “unforeseen method issues.”

“We privation to beryllium upfront: this is connected us,” the Battlefield squad said yesterday.

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Calling for Backup

BF Studios wants Battlefield 6 players to remainder casual knowing that, if these issues haven’t already been fixed, they volition beryllium fixed soon.

“We privation to springiness you a wide presumption update connected the issues we are tracking, the enactment already completed, and our near-term and aboriginal plans,” today’s connection says. “The squad has been reviewing each reports since the update, including items related to Breakthrough, the Firing Range, Portal, the Main Menu, and show topics specified arsenic micro-stuttering connected PC, on with respective different issues raised by the community.”

Technical difficulties related to incorrect summons sizes for Conquest, regular situation rewards, infantry momentum, and conflict walk tier skipping person already been resolved. More thorough hotfixes are present scheduled to statesman tomorrow, December 12, starting with fixes for micro stuttering, main paper navigation, and the firing scope for PC via Steam players. PS5 and Xbox players volition payment from their ain update travel December 15, which should bring an extremity to issues for the main paper and firing range.

Stat tracking, particularly pertaining to bot kills, is different contented that’s persisted done caller weeks that BF Studios plans to code soon, with rubber banding related to minimum spec PCs besides acceptable to beryllium addressed. Perhaps the astir heavy criticized aspects of Winter Offensive, though, were the changes to Breakthrough and conveyance placements announced via the update 1.1.3.0 spot notes past week.

BF Studios says it’s heard the complaints related to however the update whitethorn person made triumph excessively casual for the attacking team, specifically calling attraction to concerns astir nonsubjective placement, conveyance spawns, and attacker momentum. The developers explicate that immoderate fixes successful this regard, specifically pertaining to conveyance spawning, person already been published, but stops abbreviated of walking players done however oregon erstwhile it plans to code these concerns.

“Your feedback continues to usher the absorption of our Breakthrough improvements, and we volition stock much arsenic aboriginal adjustments instrumentality shape,” the connection adds.

More tweaks to vehicles should assistance the wide Battlefield 6 experience, too, with BF Studios saying it’s implemented updated conveyance harm zones, fixed deed registration for vehicle-mounted instrumentality guns, and adjusted immoderate maps for amended pacing during matches. Finally, those who bask flying jets should cognize that air-to-air combat is acceptable to person immoderate adjustments, including reduced pitchy canon damage, aboriginal adjacent year, with a dedicated aerial radar planned to motorboat aft Season 1.

“We volition proceed validating the resolutions already successful development, gathering further information from your reports, and prioritizing remaining issues based connected severity and subordinate impact,” BF Studios adds. “Several items person already been resolved, oregon volition beryllium done our upcoming hotfixes. More improvements are planned successful upcoming updates.”

Battlefield 6 launched October 10 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X | S. It’s been connected a spot of a rollercoaster ever since, arsenic players person logged connected to some praise and knock everything from representation sizes to equilibrium changes. Its aboriginal post-Season 1 is presently unclear, but with EA and BF Studios scheduled to marque immoderate benignant of quality astatine The Game Awards tonight, fans are hoping for astatine slightest a tiny glimpse astatine what Season 2 whitethorn person to offer.

Michael Cripe is simply a freelance writer with IGN. He's champion known for his enactment astatine sites similar The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be definite to springiness him a travel connected Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).