Over 9,000 People Were Sitting on the Battlefield 6 Open Beta on Steam Messing About With Settings — Nearly as Many People Who Were Playing 2042

It looks similar EA whitethorn person a deed connected its hands aft implicit 9,000 radical were sitting connected the Battlefield 6 unfastened beta connected Steam aft the pre-load went live.

You could pre-load the crippled arsenic aboriginal arsenic 8am PT yesterday, August 4, letting fans download the Battlefield 6 unfastened beta up of aboriginal entree opening astatine 1am PT connected August 7 (here’s IGN’s usher connected however to get successful connected the action).

According to SteamDB data, determination was capable involvement for the Battlefield 6 unfastened beta to deed 9,463 concurrent “players” — days earlier the unfastened beta itself goes live. At the clip of this article’s publication, the beta had 3,805 concurrent users.

So what are radical doing with the unfastened beta? Lots of players are getting up of the crippled and mounting their options, taking 30 minutes oregon truthful to edit idiosyncratic interface colors and limb Field of View, for example.

Others are conscionable utilizing it to stock their excitement with friends. “I person 6.4 hours successful the beta full truthful far,” said redditor gruggers1. “I virtually conscionable sat successful the lobby and chatted with friends successful the successful crippled dependable chat.”

Some are reporting having to walk clip getting astir EA’s frustrating restrictions connected PC launch. It looks similar unless you person Secure Boot turned connected successful your BIOS, the Battlefield 6 unfastened beta won’t tally astatine all, truthful determination whitethorn beryllium players trying to benignant that out, too.

“So bully to beryllium capable to trial if the crippled footwear up, acceptable everything up and beryllium prepared for the astir breathtaking moment,” added redditor rafahuel.

As galore person pointed out, determination were astir arsenic galore radical sitting connected the Battlefield 6 Open Beta’s paper surface arsenic determination were radical really playing the past Battlefield game, 2042, connected Steam, which is rather something. (9,463 24-hour highest for the Battlefield 6 unfastened beta versus 11,245 24-hour highest for 2042).

So, what does this mean for Battlefield 6? From EA’s perspective, it suggests there’s important involvement successful the game. EA has said it’s all-in connected Battlefield 6, truthful there’s important unit connected it to perform. It volition beryllium absorbing to spot the concurrent figures connected Steam erstwhile the unfastened beta goes live.

Meanwhile, Battlefield 6 shaper Jeremy Chubb has said fan-favorite Battlefield: Bad Company 2 was a "huge inspiration" for processing the shooter's upcoming instalment.

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