Battlefield 6 launched last week to great acclaim, particularly for its flagship multiplayer mode, with concurrent player counts on Steam alone reaching just under 750,000. However, despite its popularity, players are protesting some of the game’s toughest challenges, which are required to unlock specific weapons. These challenges are so challenging that players have started using custom matches created in the Battlefield Portal to complete them.
Tasks are basically Battlefield 6ongoing multiplayer quests, as opposed to regularly refreshed daily and weekly challenges. There are four categories of assignments, but most of them only reward skins and a few gadgets, completing weapon assignments is the only way to get 12 of the 41 main weapons available in the game, and some of them may soon make our list of the best weapons in the game. Battlefield 6.
On Reddit, players are understandably voicing their concerns about how challenging and tedious some of these challenges are. User 0uyaa highlights one of the most glaring which is required to unlock the KTS100 MK8 LMG:
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Crush 300 enemies with LMGs
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Deal 10,000 hipfire damage with LMGs
“This challenge is so terrible and completely inconceivable that it makes me want to gouge my eyes out” is a quote that sums up how frustratingly challenging these tasks are. Suppression in Battlefield is weaker than ever in the series, so it doesn’t provide as many benefits in combat as it did in previous games, and it only counts as suppression when you miss multiple shots in a row.
Meanwhile, firing from the hip with an LMG is wildly faulty and only works at very close range, which is usually not where you want it to be. 0uyaa highlights the irony in the submachine gun challenge to unlock the SCW-10 requiring a kill while aiming while This the challenge would be much better suited to hip kills and vice versa.
Another Reddit user, WorstSourceOfAdvice, highlights another ridiculously challenging challenge, this time in the sniper rifle category, to unlock the PSR:
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Kill 150 enemies with headshots at a distance of 200 m using sniper rifles
This is tough enough as it is, but there is another key issue to consider: the majority Battlefield 6 the maps don’t even support combat at such a long distance. There’s a wide variety of map sizes, but since there are only nine maps in the game right now, it means you’re circumscribed to playing New Sobek City, Mirak Valley, and maybe Operation Firestorm at the press of a button if you want to shoot from over 200 meters away.
However, there is a workaround to this problem detailed here by user worldsurf111: portal. Battlefield Portal is a tool that allows you to create custom game modes on any map you choose, including bots. This means you can play around with the system… but it doesn’t quite feel like it’s in the spirit of the game. But when completing challenges in a proper game feels like anti-gaming because you have to play in such an unconventional way that doesn’t benefit you or your team, who can blame someone for working them out in a private match so as not to disturb their teammates?
It won’t be a surprise if some of these tasks become easier in the coming days or weeks, because if they don’t, some players simply won’t get their hands on a goal-scoring weapon. More thoughts on this topic Battlefield 6specifically the single-player campaign, check out our review.
