The release of the much-awaited Battlefield 6 received broad praise, especially for its premier multiplayer mode. On Steam alone, concurrent player counts peaked at nearly 750,000. However, regardless of its fanfare, a growing number of players are voicing discontent with a portion of the release's hardest challenges, which are necessary to unlock specific weapons.
Users have commenced using tailored sessions made via the custom game tool to finish these tasks, emphasizing just how arduous these assignments have become.
Comprehending BF6 Tasks
Tasks represent Battlefield 6's fixed in-game challenges, different from the frequently updated day-to-day and weekly tasks. There are four categories of assignments, but while the majority simply offer outfits and select equipment, finishing the gun missions is the sole method of getting 12 of the 41 key firearms available in the game.
Several of these gated guns could shortly earn a place on lists of the top weapons in Battlefield 6.
Player Outcry on Reddit
Over on Reddit, players are justifiably expressing their worries about how challenging and repetitive a number of these challenges are. One user emphasized one of the most outrageous examples, mandatory for acquiring the KTS100 MK8 LMG:
- Neutralize 300 foes with LMGs
- Cause 10,000 non-ADS damage with LMGs
"This mission is so awful and completely out of mind, I want to gouge my eyes out," is a quote that summarizes just how excessively challenging these tasks are.
The suppression feature in the game is more diminished than before in the series, so it doesn't have anywhere near as many benefits in combat as it did in previous games. It only registers as suppression if you miss multiple shots in a row.
Additionally, hipfiring an LMG is highly imprecise and functions solely at extremely close range, which is seldom the location you want to be. The same user also highlighted the irony in the SMG challenge, required for the SCW-10, which demands eliminations when scoped in, when that mission would be much better suited to hipfire kills, and the other way around.
Another Extremely Difficult Challenge
A different forum member pointed out an additional excessively hard challenge, within the long-range weapon type to access the PSR:
- Achieve 150 headshot eliminations beyond 200 meters with sniper rifles
This is challenging enough on its own, but there's one more key thing to consider: the majority of Battlefield 6 maps don't even support combat at those extended distances.
There's a healthy variety of map sizes, but because there are just nine battlegrounds in the game currently, it implies you must stick to playing a specific urban map, another expansive area, and perhaps an additional option at a push if you plan to engage from afar from a significant distance.
The Bypass
However, there is a solution: the portal. This portal feature is a tool that allows you to design tailored experiences on whatever map you choose, complete with bots. This means you can cheese the system… but it doesn't exactly feel like the spirit of the game.
However, when tackling the tasks in a proper game appears to work against fun, since you must engage in such an unorthodox manner that offers no advantage to anyone, who can blame someone for finishing these in a personal session so allies are not impaired?
Upcoming Tweaks
It is expected if a number of these missions are made easier in the next few updates, because if they're not, certain gamers simply will never acquire the gated weapons.
For now, the community continues to express their views on these strenuous in-game tasks, hoping for a less arduous overall gameplay in future updates.
