Bot farms in Battlefield 6 have now been gutted. You are not any longer capable of farm for experience, weapon attachments, and challenges inside Portal bot lobbies of your personal making. Adding to this, experience gained in Portal experiences has been drastically decreased after the primary two weeks of the sport saw the mode overrun with XP farming servers attempting to alleviate the sport’s otherwise glacial sense of progression. I’m torn on this, and it looks as if the complete community is, too.
Battlefield games have at all times been a grind. In Battlefield 2, it took literal years to rank up (I played for lots of of hours and I don’t think I ever made it to the highest). I actually appreciated how long it took to rank up. If you saw a player on the enemy team with such a level, you knew that they were seriously dedicated to the sport.
Nonetheless, the difficulty is just not with the rating system in Battlefield 6, but with how long it takes to unlock gun attachments. EA has addressed this by increasing the XP gain for attachments across the board, but some players are still unhappy that they must play the sport in any respect.
Bot Farming Has Been Rampant
That sounds a bit salty on my part, nevertheless it’s quite funny what number of players have spent dozens of hours killing bots in Battlefield 6 as an alternative of real people. Should you take a take a look at the handy Battlefield 6 tracker, you possibly can see players with literally tens of 1000’s of kills in only a handful of matches, all earning max rank and weapon experience. It’s not EA’s fault. There are a considerable number of people that will spend hours just farming bots to unlock all the things, and ultimately later complain that there’s nothing to do.
At the identical time, it’s obvious why players have chosen to do that: there was a shortcut to get the perfect things in the sport. EA saw this problem with the bot farming servers in Battlefield 2042 and made absolutely no effort to combat it in any respect. Just about all the weapons in Battlefield 6 grow to be substantially more powerful if you get the perfect unlocks, like Suppressors, Thermal Scopes, and expensive Vertical Grips to scale back recoil. The pre-patch grind had the experience values at somewhere like 10-15 hours of using just one single gun to max out its mastery level and unlock all possible attachments. I believe with the brand new experience system, it’s under 10.
A number of the challenges to unlock weapons and traits are also extremely tedious. To unlock the PSR sniper rifle, it’s essential to hit 200 200m+ headshots with a sniper. I’ve spoken about this before, however the maps in Battlefield are so rattling small that this is definitely unattainable on all but two or three of the maps. The engineer vehicle repair challenge, where it’s essential to repair 4,000 damage on vehicles in a single match, can also be practically unattainable: I spent a complete 35-minute-long game of Breakthrough repairing tanks and still didn’t get the challenge accomplished.
These arbitrary, grindy and excessively difficult challenges have pushed players into bot lobbies. I don’t like bot lobbies in any respect (I actually think they reduce the integrity of the sport and make the grind essentially meaningless), but I totally understand why so many players have opted for this approach. With the choice to farm and play the sport with full progression in PvE now completely removed, I do understand the sentiment that some players have that EA has broken its promise of how Portal was intended to work.
Except, the bot farms have completely destroyed how Portal works. It’s meant to be a spot where you’ll find user-generated content, from specific server and match types to maps players have constructed. In the mean time, there’s nothing on the list apart from XP farms. This is completely useless considering all of the hype across the potential of Portal just a few weeks ago, and I hope with some changes we will get back to the way in which it was intended to be: a dedicated fan rebuilding Battlefield 2’s Strike At Karkand from the bottom up. Please?