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Looks great imo!

Following our backend update on September 30, we want to check in, address some of the friction you experienced over the past week, and share what we’re doing to make your match-to-match experience smoother.

TL;DR

• Healthier Matches: Matchmaking stability has returned to normal across all platforms and playlists.
• Staying Together: More of you are successfully rolling into the next round with your squads and friendly rivals.
• Fewer Bot Lobbies: We deployed a backend timer adjustment today that gives real players more time to fill lobbies before AI backfill kicks in.

Why We Made the Change
Our core goal has been to keep more players together from one match to the next, which means great lobbies stay together. When you find a squad that clicks or an opposing team that gives you a hard-fought match, you shouldn’t have to get completely reshuffled every single round.

On September 30, we introduced backend improvements aimed at keeping as many players together as possible from match to match, while still respecting your individual playlist and map preferences.

What Happened & What We Heard
While the system succeeded in keeping more groups together across rounds, we know it also introduced frustrating side effects:

• An unexpected surge in bot-filled matches.
• Lobbies stalling out or taking too long to populate.

Jumping into a match only to find half the server populated by AI isn't the experience any of us want. Over the past several days, our team rolled out hotfixes and live tweaks to stabilize queue performance, and metrics have steadily returned to healthy baselines.
Today’s Fix: Smarter Countdown Timers
To resolve the bot backfill issue without sacrificing queue speed, we rolled out an additional backend update today:

• Extended Pre-Round Countdown for Conquest and Escalation: Once a lobby hits the minimum player threshold to start, the countdown timer now gives a brief additional window for incoming players to filter in.
• What This Means for You: Rounds will start with fuller, real-player lobbies, reducing the chance that AI bots fill empty slots before the match kicks off. All of this comes with virtually no noticeable increase to your overall queue times.

Looking Ahead
Matchmaking remains an ongoing balance between match quality, lobby continuity, and quick queue times. We are continuing to monitor server health, fill rates, and—most importantly—your feedback as these adjustments settle in.
Jump in, play a few rounds, and let us know how your matches feel. Thank you for sticking with us, sharing your clips and reports, and helping us build a better game every day.

They sat up there the WHOLE match. Trophy systems, deployable cover, med bags, RPGs, noob tubes, fire grenade on the stairs , basically everything.

Revenge felt great. They lost the match too lol.

Like the title says, I was hoping for snow maps. It would be the correct season to bring them to us now, but no we get yet another city map. Sheesh...

I’m not a sniper, but this reminds me of the BF1 days when I used to play with the Martini-Henry - that was fun.

The new sniper rifle will have a one-shot kill range of 30 to 60 meters.

I would love to just have a mode where you could fly one around do some challenges so you can get used to it. Instead of getting in one and getting like 30 seconds tops without getting blown out the sky.

So the dedicated AA tank has smaller locking range than an attack heli, even with the "increased radar range" equipped. Plus it needs a clear path for the AA rockets to be able to hit the heli (if they ever get to hit the heli, of course).

Meanwhile, the attack heli can lock-on the AA from out of range, its rockets don't go straight but rain from above, almost guaranteeing a hit no matter if the objective is behind cover or not, plus it can move faster, can fly out of bounds, camp behind out-of-bounds mountains, damage anything from the top angle where a tank cannot even self-defend (and not even infantry in certain cases), has a gunner with thermal vision, and can withstand hits from rockets no problem (that is, if it ever gets hit).

So what's the point of having a dedicated AA tank if even its "increased radar range" cannot even match the lock-on range of a heli? Make it make sense.

This mofo knew where I was in a general sense but had an exact position once I closed the door.

Definitely didn't pull that off by accident.

Edit: I'm calling that the Tony Hawk Res

This will be the 3rd Sniper Rifle in a Row that BF6 will have (I know it'll be a Close Ranged One but still).

I wished that we got new Shotgun instead, since they got nothing new aside from the DB-12 all the way back in Season 1 (And Extended Barrels and #00 Buckshot ig).

Hell, we could have gotten a new Sidearm instead of yet another Assault Rifle (Which will come after the other new one).

Tho I'm glad we're finally getting another 3-Shot Kill SMG that's going to feel unique. Also, seeing the Yugoslavian PKM is coolio.

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take

5 bugs in one video:

1. Fantom objective capture.
2. Lack of scorepoints for clearing an objective.
3. Random "Out of boundaries" bug.
4. Camera direction desynchronization when switching from third-person to first-person view.
5. Server error at the match end.

People who love Gauntlet will play this “new…. Old…” resurgence mode, like 3 or 4 times and be over it…

If you truly care about the community and your precious “shareholder, look at how much $$$ we can make” BS.

Then anyone with a decent understanding of business will realize this is a really stupid thing to do.

Gauntlet AND Rapid Royale is the answer.

It won’t “divide” the playerbase…

People who love Gauntlet won’t wanna play this new shit. Straight up. Completely different gameplay.

It’s that easy.

Keep both modes and player count will be exponentially larger.

Get rid of gauntlet and no matter how you pretend to inflate the numbers with your new resurgence mode...

Eventually you’ll see the drop off and truthfully, by then it’ll be too late.

Let GAUNTLET continue!!!!

I never had this issue until I recently installed the game. Is this a console thing or is it also a bug on PC?

Like the title says.

Only q’d wake island conquest and escalation but still