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Four hours of Battlefield 6 multiplayer made one thing extremely clear: Battlefield was perfect just the way it was.<\/p>\n

I’m no Battlefield 2042 hater\u2014in fact, I maintain it got really good<\/a>\u2014but it proved that the Battlefield formula doesn’t infinitely scale. Double the players was not automatically better, nor was its faux-class system that emphasized flashy gadgets over teamplay. It was a hard-learned lesson that left Battlefield’s ego badly bruised, and yet, those sunken expectations are setting the stage nicely for Battlefield 6.<\/p>\n

At any other time, Battlefield 6’s pitch of modern military soldiers, classic modes, 64-player lobbies, and four classes would come off as overly ordinary, but I just checked my calendar, and it’s been 12 years<\/em> since Battlefield has been this ordinary.<\/p>\n

It’s been nothing but curveballs and identity crises from this series for so long that the expected has become the unexpected. Battlefield 6 is a fastball straight over the plate, and it is good.<\/p>\n

The highest praise I can heap on my short time with BF6 is how often it gave me flashbacks to Bad Company 2. We played a map called Liberation Peak (one of nine launch maps) that feels like a love letter to Port Valdez with its fully destructible buildings, fluctuating elevation, and oblong shape. Holding a maximum of 64 players on its Conquest configuration, it has that magical goldilocks quality where vehicles have space, snipers have nooks, and infantry have options.<\/p>\n

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In one match, I had an “only in Battlefield” moment where a 2-minute firefight with a sniper ended with watching him get knifed from behind. Later, I ran up to a squadmate to revive them with defib paddles, only to accidentally zap and kill a bad guy laying next to him.<\/p>\n

Later on, I swapped to an engineer kit that was on the ground and ended up the permanent gunner in a tank, nursing its treads back from the brink a dozen times. Four hours passed in the blink of an eye. I could’ve Conquested all day.<\/p>\n

Battlefield 6’s biggest changes are felt in impactful details:<\/p>\n