Battlefield 6’s Movement Changes Are “Not Drastic,” Says Dev

For those who’ve been utilizing the soar button somewhat too usually within the Battlefield 6 beta, then you are going to discover some modifications upon launch. DICE has introduced that there is now a penalty for making consecutive jumps that lowers the soar peak. Momentum carried from a slide right into a soar has additionally been tweaked to cut back its pace. Nonetheless, Battlefield 6 principal sport designer Florian “DRUNKKZ3” Le Bihan desires gamers to know that the motion modifications “are usually not drastic.”

“Motion can also be getting extra responsive on the whole in locations which have felt a bit clunky earlier than. so there may be much more that’s getting high quality enhancements [and] polish on this identical space,” wrote Le Bihan on X. “Including diminishing returns to leaping is what we’re truly doing, an preliminary slide or an preliminary jumps is not going to be affected. We’re nonetheless attempting to retain depth to motion with some talent curve to it, simply ensuring it would not turn into insane.”

The Battlefield 6 devs additionally not too long ago defended the changes to Rush mode within the beta, together with smaller lobbies of 24 gamers for 12v12 matches. In accordance with the programing crew, Rush mode would not work as effectively with greater than 24 gamers at a time.

One other upcoming change change before for launch is the nerfing of the M87A1 shotgun, which was overpowered within the beta. Now, the shotgun will “[require] extra pellets to safe a kill.”

In accordance EA, the current play take a look at was the biggest beta in Battlefield’s history in terms of players. Analysis agency Oppenheimer estimated that the beta reached more than 20 million people.

Battlefield 6 launches on October 10 for Xbox Collection X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC.