Battlefield 6 Gets Off to Huge Start on Steam With Over 740,000 Concurrent Players Just Hours After Launch

Battlefield 6 has enjoyed an tremendous commencement connected Steam, with implicit 740,000 concurrent players.

At the clip of this article’s publication, Battlefield 6 had 747,440 concurrent players connected Steam. That’s capable to marque EA’s caller first-person shooter the 2nd most-played crippled connected Valve’s platform, down lone Counter-Strike 2. Battlefield 6 is already the 14th most-played crippled ever connected Steam, with Larian’s Baldur’s Gate 3 successful its sights.

For context, the Battlefield 6 unfastened beta deed a highest concurrent subordinate number of 521,079. No different Battlefield crippled has ever travel adjacent to these numbers connected Steam before. Indeed, Battlefield 6 already has much players than EA's erstwhile Steam record-holder, the free-to-play Apex Legends, which makes the $70 Battlefield 6's accomplishment each the much impressive.

And if you’re wondering, the Call of Duty app, which encompasses each Call of Duty games, has a highest concurrent subordinate number of 491,670 connected Steam, which means Battlefield 6 is good connected its mode to doubling the grounds acceptable by its FPS rival.

The existent concurrent subordinate number volition beryllium overmuch higher, erstwhile you see players connected PlayStation and Xbox, but neither Sony nor Microsoft marque those numbers public. (This of people besides counts for Call of Duty, which historically is stronger connected console than PC.) Perhaps inevitably, Battlefield 6 players look server queues, though it doesn't instrumentality excessively agelong to log successful close now. It’s aboriginal days, of course, but it looks similar Battlefield 6 is simply a smash deed for EA.

Battlefield 6 already has a immense fig of players, but it besides already has Call of Duty maps, with 1 anxious instrumentality recreating Modern Warfare favourite Shipment successful Portal.

While you hold to play, 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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