Battlefield™ 6 News

The Battlefield 6 open beta is over, and encouraging whispers of its oo-rahhable player count – peaking at over 500,000 on PC alone, so sayeth SteamDB – have been tempered with widespread reports of invading cheaters. That’s despite BF6’s new and unusual requirement to enable Secure Boot, a BIOS-level security feature in Windows, ostensibly to prevent such do-badding.

In response, a forum post attributed to EA’s anti-cheat team has played up successes in tracking and catching the beta’s cheaters, whose crimes allegedly range from classic wallhacks, speed hacks, and aimbots to cheats that reduce recoil or display enemy health and weapon info. However, it also concedes that Secure Boot "is not, and was not intended to be a silver bullet" – and in doing so, highlights the immense, perhaps impossible task that developers have of keeping cheater users out of their games.

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If you’re after more evidence that this year’s Battlefield 6 launch is going to be one of the biggest ever for the series, the game's beta has plenty to offer there. Over the weekend, the beta’s first open weekend took place, and it’s been dominating the charts on Steam.

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[p]Get to the frontline. Battlefield’s biggest Open Beta ever is LIVE for two-weekends only, August 9-10 and 14-17. Jump in today and experience ultimate all-out warfare.[/p][p][/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p][p]Drop into intense urban combat on the streets of central Cairo, take to the skies in an aerial dogfight along Tajikistan’s glorious mountainside, and sprint through Gibraltar’s winding streets, stalk its alleyways, dodge heavily-armored tanks, and tear through buildings.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Rally your squad for Weekend 1 modes. [/p][p][/p]

• [p]Experience Battlefield's signature all-out warfare in Conquest, where tanks, jets, and attack helicopters turn the tides of battle.[/p]
• [p]Push or hold the line in the intense, objective-driven Breakthrough. Capture and hold multiple control points to outpace the enemy, and don’t hold back, in Domination. [/p]
• [p]Battle to control a single capture point as the fighting gets fiercer the more time ticks down in King of the Hill.[/p]
• [p]Tackle 7 challenges during Weekend 1 and unlock rewards that are redeemable at game launch.[/p]

[p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]It's go time, Soldier.[/p][p][/p][p]*Conditions & restrictions apply. See https://www.ea.com/games/battlefield/battlefield-6/game-disclaimers for details.[/p]

[p]It's go time, Soldier. Weekend 1 of Battlefield’s biggest Open Beta ever starts tomorrow! [/p][p][/p][p]From the intense urban combat on the streets of central Cairo to the winding streets of Gibraltar's Iberian Offensive, wage war in iconic maps from around the globe. [/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Experience Battlefield's signature all-out warfare in Conquest, where tanks, jets, and attack helicopters turn the tides of battle. [/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Push or hold the line in the intense, objective-driven Breakthrough. [/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Capture and hold multiple control points to outpace the enemy, and don’t hold back, in Domination. Battle to control a single capture point as the fighting gets fiercer the more time ticks down in King of the Hill. [/p][p][/p][p]Tackle progression challenges and unlock rewards that are redeemable at game launch. [/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Lock and load for two weekends of non-stop action, August 9-10 and 14-17.[/p][p][/p][p]To run Battlefield 6 on your PC, here are the minimum, recommended, and ultra requirements.[/p][p][/p][h2][/h2][p][/p][p]You’ll also get a prompt to enable Secure Boot if you haven’t already—it’s a requirement to play the Open Beta. For guidance about Secure Boot, head over to our EA Help article.[/p][p][/p][p]Get to the frontline and pre-load the Open Beta now.[/p][p][/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p][p][/p][p]*Conditions & restrictions apply. See https://www.ea.com/games/battlefield/battlefield-6/game-disclaimers for details.[/p]

Waiting's been a bit of theme during the early stages of the Battlefield 6 open beta, which has otherwise been earning a lot of thumbs up from FPS heads. If you've recently run into an never-ending loading screen while trying to jump into a Conquest match, the good news is that the devs have been working to solve those issues.

While EA reckon the problem's specific to that game mode and the Siege of Cairo map, that doesn't look to have stopped plenty of players from running into it over the past 24 hours. Cue a number of frustrated Reddit posts that boil down to the word 'stuck' being yelled so loud it could bring down a helicopter.

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