Pat T

I’ve been playing Battlefield since the early days, and I honestly don’t even recognize what this series has become. Battlefield 6 feels like a shell of what made it great — chaotic for all the wrong reasons, glitchy, and stripped of everything that gave it identity. They completely removed bot backfill in Portal, which means I can’t even test or enjoy my custom game modes anymore. I used to be able to play solo or casually and still feel like I was part of the action. Now it’s just empty lobbies, unbalanced matches, and frustration. How do they expect players to stay loyal or keep buying season passes when they’ve taken away the one way many of us liked to play? Gameplay-wise, it’s a mess. The maps feel too small and cluttered, you spawn straight into explosions, and weapon balance is nonexistent. SMGs laser people from 100 meters away while shotguns can knock you across the map. Meanwhile, hackers and meta-chasers ruin every match, and the so-called “team gameplay” that Battlefield was built on is completely gone — nobody revives, nobody plays objectives, it’s just run-and-gun chaos. And don’t even get me started on the bugs and performance issues. Glitches everywhere, bloom and aim assist completely broken, and random physics sending you flying mid-fight. It’s not just annoying — it’s insulting for a $70–$80 game in 2025. This isn’t the Battlefield experience I grew up with. It’s turned into a COD-style arcade shooter built for stream clips and short attention spans, not the tactical, team-based warfare the series used to stand for. I’m done buying passes or supporting updates until EA and DICE remember who their core players are and bring back what made Battlefield special — like bot backfill, large-scale strategy, and balance. Right now, it’s just spawn, die, repeat — and that’s not the Battlefield I fell in love with.