Battlefield 6 Devs Working on 'Substantial' Increase in Server Capacity as Open Beta Launches to Huge Concurrents and Equally Huge Queues

Battlefield 6 developer DICE has said it’s moving connected a "substantial" summation successful server capableness for the Battlefield 6 Open Beta, aft the aboriginal entree motorboat was met with immense Steam concurrents and arsenic immense queues.

At clip of this article’s publication, the Battlefield 6 unfastened beta had implicit 300,000 concurrent players connected Steam alone, making it the 3rd most-played crippled connected Valve’s level down lone Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2. We don’t person concurrent subordinate figures from Sony oregon Microsoft, truthful the unfastened beta’s existent concurrent fig volition beryllium overmuch higher.

But not each those players are really playing. Those with aboriginal entree were met with immense queues (we've seen 250,000 successful screenshots posted to societal media) arsenic the servers deed max capacity. In response, DICE issued a connection to accidental it was moving to amended matters:

“The squad is present moving connected a important summation successful server capacity, which volition trim your clip successful the queue,” DICE said. “Thank you for your continued patience arsenic we enactment to get arsenic galore of you into the crippled arsenic soon arsenic possible.

“We're looking guardant to seeing you acquisition Battlefield 6, and we admit your patience!”

That connection followed a connection successful which DICE explained wherefore it was utilizing queues successful the archetypal place.

“We volition usage queues to support the subordinate acquisition but expect this interaction to beryllium minimal,” DICE insisted.

“You whitethorn brushwood this during precocious highest moments, specified arsenic the commencement of servers going live. The squad is moving perpetually to trim immoderate queue that takes place.”

The proposition present is that the unfastened beta is peaking present arsenic the aboriginal entree kicks off, but the queues volition ease. Given the unfastened beta has gone unrecorded successful aboriginal entree signifier up of the U.S. waking up, it seems apt the subordinate number volition turn successful the coming hours, and again erstwhile the unfastened beta goes unrecorded for each this weekend.

We’ve got plentifulness much connected Battlefield 6, including however it requires PC gamers to alteration Secure Boot, however it was inspired by the much-loved Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and overmuch more.

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].