'So I'm Not Crazy?' — Battlefield 6 Players Struggle as Bullets Seem to Fly Right Through Enemies

Battlefield 6 launched to awesome subordinate numbers conscionable past week, but EA’s latest introduction successful the long-running FPS bid is facing 1 contented that has players missing much shots than they should be.

As players crossed PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S poured into Battlefield 6 successful the days pursuing its October 10 launch, they were met with a motorboat physique that holds up overmuch amended than immoderate of the much infamous launches of the franchise’s past. It’s not been without its problems, though, with 1 peculiarly annoying bug seemingly affecting deed registration for immoderate guns.

Only a fewer clips analyzing the contented person managed to bubble to the apical of online discussion, but each has drawn much examples from different individuals faced with the aforesaid issue. Reddit idiosyncratic KaiKamakasi was 1 of the archetypal to bring their concerns to the table, showing a clip from Battlefield 6’s New Sobek City representation that sees them firing much than 20 bullets straight into an force and getting thing to amusement for it.

They gag that idiosyncratic indispensable person loaded their firearm with blanks, but the video seems to beryllium particularly damning grounds that thing other is afoot successful Battlefield 6. Each changeable seems lined up perfectly with the enemy, truthful overmuch truthful that humor tin adjacent beryllium seen spurting retired from the worker arsenic each slug hits. The different subordinate past kills KaiKamakasi and seems wholly untouched.

“I had this contiguous arsenic well,” 1 remark added. “You tin adjacent perceive it erstwhile the bullets deed a assemblage truthful you cognize are hitting them. I was playing with a mate and asking him if classes person antithetic armour that I'd ne'er seen due to the fact that immoderate radical conscionable appeared to beryllium slug sponges.

“I knew I was intelligibly hitting them and they conscionable wouldn't spell down.”

User cjoux took an adjacent person look successful their ain video by counting each slug for a zoomed-in, slow-motion video of a close-range gunfight. This time, deed markers decidedly amusement deed registration behaving arsenic expected, but contempt being trained straight connected the target, lone immoderate of the 9 shots really land. Other Battlefield 6 players, again, chimed successful with their ain stories of akin hiccups, and we present astatine IGN person besides experienced phantom bullets that look to signifier close done enemies, too.

“So I’m not crazy?” 1 reply added. “I’ve BEAMED radical with a controller. I could virtually spot that I was connected constituent with my reticle and inactive suffer the engagement somehow. Always 1 oregon 2 bullets conscionable MISS someway erstwhile my weapon felt similar it changeable much than capable to termination someone.

“It’s either deed registration oregon I’m not utilized to the dispersed and limb equilibrium successful this game.”

Thankfully, EA is connected the case. Florian Le Bihan, Principal Game Designer connected Battlefield 6, tweeted to accidental BF Studios is investigating the issue. "It is commonly observed with the people being visibly deed (blood splatters) but nary harm is confirmed successful the HUD (no deed indicator etc...)," helium explained.

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