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You aren't finishing your Battlefield 6 Conquest matches fast enough, so EA have made them shorter

Update 17th October: In a beautiful demonstration of the to-and-fro rhythms of Conquest, EA have now rolled back the spawn ticket changes after a negative response from players. Eurogamer has a slightly longer account.

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Too many Battlefield 6 rounds of Conquest have been ending in a dissatisfying time-out, Uncle EA have found, with rival teams failing to completely devour each other's supply of spawning tickets. We've all known engagements like that - tit-for-tat exchanges between mostly AFK recon players. Irresolutions that might yawn forever were it not for everybody's real enemy, the clock.

The gutsy response would have been to retitle Conquest "Bathos", or "War on Terror" if they wanted to sadden George Bush, or "Waiting for Bravo" if they wanted to amuse the Beckett fans, or "Deadlock" if they wanted to tweak Valve's whiskers. Instead, EA have taken the coward's way out and chopped the allowance of tickets on a per map basis.

The latest Battlefield 6 patch is another backend, server-side affair, just like the most recent release that nerfed Sniper Rifles. The focus of this latest update is on Conquest. More specifically, how slow matches on certain maps could be.

BATTLEFIELD 6 UPDATE 1.0.1.6

[p]This minor Quality of Life update focuses on backend stability to help us prepare ahead of the upcoming Battlefield 6 Season 1 update.[/p]

[p]Minor backend updates improving stability ahead of Season 1 update.[/p]

Battlefield 6 cuts Conquest matches down to avoid underwhelming endings, but it's gone in the wrong direction

A new Battlefield 6 update has just sliced the number of tickets teams start with on all Conquest maps, in an attempt to avoid games hitting the time limit. The zone-control mode has become Battlefield's go-to over the years (despite mild protestations from Rush enthusiasts such as myself), and it's symbolic of the grand-scale bombast that makes BF6 one of the best multiplayer games this year. But no-one wants an arbitrary countdown to blow the whistle and call time right as things are coming down to a climax.

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Battlefield 6 gets a hotfix targeting bugged hit damage and EA are busy inspecting bouncy ladders

Misbehaving bullets, your hour of reckoning is nigh. A Battlefield 6 hotfix has been deployed with the goal of stopping you from refusing to register hit damage when you embed yourselves in virtual flesh. Bouncy ladders, your time will likely come soon, as EA's Battlefield Studios are busy trying to work out the arcane secrets of your rubbery rungs.