New Battlefield 6 update extends one of its best modes, and fixes a challenging issue
A new Battlefield 6 update has extended the time required to capture objectives in one of its major game modes, and has gone back to fix an ongoing issue with its challenge system. In addition, somehow, many players had their controls reset. Accidentally, one assumes.
The major game mode change comes to Escalation, a new mode to Battlefield 6, where large teams of players fight over a limited number of control points. When one of these is captured, a control point is removed from the match.
The official statement released alongside this change states: “Following your feedback to our communication last week, Escalation now has had its time increased for capturing objectives by roughly 20 percent, extending the length of each phase for a smoother, more tactical flow. This change gives your squad more time to react, reposition, and coordinate vehicle spawns while maintaining the mode’s fast-paced intensity.”
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Next up, a fix to challenges not being registered as completed despite players reaching the required milestone. This appears to have been a consequence of the widespread challenge adjustments made a short while ago, shifting them to be easier to finish in response to player frustrations at how difficult completing some challenges were.
The statement explains this should now be remedied in the latest update. It reads: “We’ve also deployed backend fixes for challenge rewards not unlocking correctly. These updates address issues where completed challenges could fail to grant rewards or appear multiple times. Participating in a match should now reward you with any outstanding rewards from challenges.”
Finally, a fun little change to kill-death statistics has been made, so kills made against computer-controlled bots no longer count for player statistics (often used as evidence of player skill). Funnily enough, deaths to bots still appear to be counted, so bots may still be able to make you look worse at Battlefield 6.
The Battlefield update statement concludes with: “Additionally, we have also rolled out a small change to how Player Kill/Death statistics are shown within your Player Profile. Going forward Portal Kill/Death Statistics will no longer be listed within the Kill/Death amount on your profile and Kill will only showcase Human Kills. Portal statistics will be shown in a different capacity in a future time.”
Then there’s what is clearly an unintended consequence of this update, which are widespread reports of reset controls following its addition to Battlefield 6. Across social media and community hubs like Discord and Reddit, users are complaining about their own custom control schemes being reset to the default. Take Spetsnaz_420, who wrote: “You left out the part where you reset our controls”.
This marks the latest in an extensive spree of updates made to Battlefield 6. It was just over a week ago when Battlefield Studios killed the Recon Drone bug letting players float far up into the sky. All while the game remains incredibly popular.