{"id":1269950,"date":"2026-03-10T15:09:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/H7jqeXxzygkJ2R7Sd7nkF"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:09:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:09:01","slug":"battlefield-6-has-a-proper-forge-mode-with-scripting-level-editing-and-a-front-and-center-server-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/battlefield-6-has-a-proper-forge-mode-with-scripting-level-editing-and-a-front-and-center-server-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield 6 has a proper forge mode with scripting, level editing, and a ‘front and center’ server browser"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Live on stage from a Los Angeles warehouse on Wednesday, EA kicked off its Battlefield 6 multiplayer presentation with a crowd pleaser: Portal is back, and it’s way more powerful.<\/p>\n

The custom games toolset that debuted in Battlefield 2042 has undergone some serious upgrades that sure make it seem like a proper, Halo Forge-style mode.<\/p>\n

You can still tweak numbers and place bots in BF6 Portal, but now you can also add objects to the world, move some existing elements around, write custom UI, and create modes with more sophisticated scripting. Modes created by the community will be found in a “front and center” server browser with hand-picked highlights appearing regularly in official playlists.<\/p>\n

It’s all part of a renewed effort by Battlefield Studios to bring a little bit of Battlefield’s bygone server browser culture back (with obvious guardrails), and do better by the Portal community than it did with BF2042.<\/p>\n

“We’ve improved our main menu UI to make it easier to find, share, and create things,” said DICE producer Alexia Christofi in a Q&A with press and influencers.<\/p>\n

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“One of the things we heard last time was that [the server browser] was quite hidden. So we’ve made sure to do what we can to make it front and center in our main menu. We’re making it easy for you to search for servers created with community experiences.”<\/p>\n

Before you get too excited about the words “server browser”, know that Portal isn’t a traditional server browser suite with unique IPs, renting services, and 24\/7 access. Portal is more like Halo’s custom games browser, where players have to spin up a session each time to play and servers don’t persist without someone in them. It is a server browser by definition, but it’s still an entirely closed system, sadly.<\/p>\n

In a fact sheet provided to press, EA gave some examples of custom games (it calls them “community experiences”) that have already been created with Portal:<\/p>\n