Bunnyhop elsewhere, streamers: EA are making Battlefield 6 more strategic, less run-and-gun following the beta

Also lowering Rush headcounts and tweaking the guns

The Battlefield 6 beta is officially a Thing That Happened, and present comes the unspeakable ordeal of Learning From The Experience. Here is what developers DICE, Criterion, Motive and Ripple Effect person learned from the experience: you are each playing the crippled acold excessively overmuch similar Call Of Duty. Goodness me, it's similar 2007 ne'er ended.

Doing headshots successful midair? That's an updatin'. Doing a parkour portion carrying a airy machinegun? That's an updatin'. Bunny-hopping with prejudice? You'd champion judge that's an updatin'. Never caput that those multiplayer uncover montages emphasised footloose quickdraw astir arsenic overmuch arsenic they incited a murderous contempt for helicopters. It's clip to play Battlefield the mode Battlefield should beryllium played: lying successful a spread praying that 1 of your team-mates spawns connected you earlier a vessel rolls implicit your head.

This, astatine least, is my addled Friday day summary of EA's just-announced post-beta plans, via Mecha-Hitler.com. Let's compression into our reasoning caps and interruption it each down.

Firstly, the developers are doing a "general walk connected recoil and tap-fire characteristics crossed each weapons", to marque them consciousness much unique, particularly successful presumption of range. They're besides making changes to promote much controlled pat and burst-firing. In particular, the M87A1 shotgun has been defanged, and they're "investigating the Time-to-Kill and Time-to-Death experiences", with quality of changes to follow.

As for movement, they privation it to consciousness much "balanced and traditional" successful the last mentation of Battlefield 6. There volition beryllium little carry-over of momentum and peculiarly horizontal velocity from a descent to a jump. Jump tallness volition besides beryllium lowered during consecutive jumps, and you'll beryllium little close portion jumping oregon sliding.

"These changes are designed to marque sliding and jumping much situational, truthful they are nary longer perfect options for engaging successful gunfights, and volition lend to a gameplay gait that rewards skillful question without becoming excessively accelerated oregon unpredictable," the devs comment. You won't get arsenic overmuch acceleration erstwhile opening a parachute, either, "for much controlled aerial movement". I hatred being successful power of my aerial movement. In practice, it conscionable makes it easier for radical connected the crushed to sprout me.

The game's smaller maps are being tweaked to halt naughty radical getting onto rooftops and venturing retired of bounds. "This gameplay is not intended for these maps, and the upcoming ladder for the Assault people is besides not designed to entree these areas," the devs sternly explain. Bad ladder! Down!

They'll beryllium investigating 2 much maps successful Battlefield Labs earlier release, a remake of Battlefield 3's Operation Firestorm and different representation acceptable successful Mirak Valley, some of which connection "the afloat complement of vehicles" and "a much immense combat space". Vaster, EA, vaster! How americium I expected to spot you to fine-tune parachute physics erstwhile you can't adjacent optimise your sentences. Yes, I realise I person conscionable held up a reddish cape to each the amateur copyeditors successful the comments.

Modes? Well, they've recovered that Rush gets a spot smeary erstwhile determination are excessively galore players involved. Apparently, "when a subordinate tries to limb the M-COM portion much than 20 opponents are defending, the intended gameplay becomes little tangible", presumably due to the fact that the attacking player's caput and torso besides go little tangible. As such, they're lowering the subordinate number for Rush "to amended the travel of combat and reconstruct the tactical, methodical acquisition that defines the mode".

Anticipating pushback connected this front, the station points retired that radical tin messiness with the number arsenic they delight erstwhile playing Rush via the Portal editor. Breakthrough, meanwhile, volition person "map-by-map equilibrium adjustments towards our extremity of 50/50 triumph ratio for some Attackers and Defenders".

In general, EA are taking an advertisement hoc attack to subordinate counts based connected the idiosyncratic representation and mode. "For example, astatine launch, immoderate Breakthrough layouts volition enactment 48 players, portion others volition person 64," the station comments. "It's the 1 of galore factors we set to make the close equilibrium and consciousness for each scenario. In Breakthrough higher subordinate counts enactment good connected open, dynamic maps, portion smaller player-groups connection a much focused acquisition connected denser maps." They've recovered that "8v8 provides a coagulated starting constituent for small-scale, fast-paced modes similar Team Death Match, Squad Death Match, Domination, and [King of the Hill]". Again, you tin jimmy the workings successful Portal if you wish.

Some last bits: unfastened and closed limb playlists volition proceed to beryllium disposable successful Battlefield 6, "and we are looking for ways to support them easy accessible". I'm not definite wherefore that would beryllium difficult? They're besides trying to hole matchmaking truthful that you won't person excessively overmuch trouble uncovering games successful which to implicit the Challenge of capturing sectors successful Breakthrough oregon Rush.

Expect immoderate of these improvements to materialise successful forthcoming Battlefield Labs playtests. The crippled launches connected 10th October. Our hardware exertion James attended a preview lawsuit precocious and came distant with the verdict that it "looks similar a Battlefield game", thereby demonstrating the granular penetration that got him promoted to CPU Wrangler First Class.

Even much granularistically, James noted that "there are besides reasons to beryllium optimistic that this is simply a bid getting itself backmost connected track, from its renewed accent connected breaking crap to the replacement of show-off specialists with that aged unspoken regularisation of 'Stick with your squad oregon perish.'" Did you play the beta? How did you find it?