Battlefield 6 beta peaks at nearly 10,000 concurrent players on Steam before it’s even out

You recognize your sport is highly-anticipated when individuals rush to obtain it as quickly because it turns into obtainable, but additionally after they’re completely happy to launch it effectively earlier than servers are even stay. That’s clearly true within the case of the Battlefield 6 beta.

The Battlefield 6 beta doesn’t go live until Thursday, and even then, you want a code to play that early portion. That hasn’t stopped gamers from downloading it, solely to idle within the sport’s menus.

The Battlefield 6 beta pre-load went stay yesterday throughout all platforms. That features Steam, the place you can’t solely seize the beta information in preparation for the two beta weekends, you can too launch the sport.

Sadly, there’s no option to “play” it proper now, however you can entry all the sport’s menus. This consists of visuals, audio, graphics, controls, keybinds, HUD customisation, accessibility and just about your entire suite of choices you’ll discover when the beta goes stay.

That’s what 1000’s of gamers have been doing because the pre-load turned obtainable. Over on Steam, the Battlefield 6 open beta achieved a concurrent participant rely of 9,463 (through SteamDB), over half of whom are presently “in-game” as of this writing.

Battlefield 6’s listing of tweakable choices is huge, and a few sub-sections provide the type of granular management that requires a bit of labor to dial in, so you’ll be able to see why savvy gamers launched it instantly after ending the obtain. Now, whereas nearly all of choices gained’t require you to be in a sport to check out, many nonetheless do.

That stated, it’s extremely useful to get entry to such a large listing forward of time, even should you’re solely curious about exploring the obtainable choices. One other main cause you’d need to launch the beta earlier than servers go stay is that it’s additionally going to show issues you could possibly sort out forward of the beginning of the beta.

For example, the BF6 beta requires Secure Boot to be enabled in Windows (and your BIOS). The truth is, the beta won’t begin with out it. It additionally won’t launch for gamers utilizing something however the newest GPU drivers. Think about having to fiddle with that as your pals are ready for you on Discord the day the beta goes stay.

The BF6 beta’s Early Access portion begins this Thursday, earlier than it opens as much as everybody on Saturday. You’ll be able to pre-load it now and be a part of the 1000’s of gamers who’ve been idling in its menus.