Earlier this week, Battlefield 6 — Electronic Arts’ (EA) and Battlefield Studio’s hot new multiplayer FPS — got the Winter Offensive update, the third and final limited-time content drop of Battlefield 6 Season 1. The patch included a new winter-themed bonus path for the Season 1 Battle Pass and a special “Ice Lock” mode set on a snowy variant of the Empire State map.
These mainly consist of some intense stutters on the PC (Steam) version of the title that have often made Battlefield 6’s moment-to-moment gameplay feel choppy and nigh-unplayable, along with UI bugs making options in the main menu difficult or impossible to select across all platforms.
The Firing Range — a space you can load into to shoot targets various distances away from you to test your weapon builds — is also borked right now, with damage values not being correctly displayed and targets not having consistent hitboxes.
Now, a few days after Game Update 1.1.3.0 and Winter Offensive were released, Battlefield Studios has responded, promising fixes and hotfix patches that are slated to come throughout the next few days.
Specifically, one patch is coming to Steam on December 12 (tomorrow) that should resolve the stuttering, menu, and Firing Range issues on that platform, while another is scheduled to come to Xbox, PS5, and the EA app on December 15 to fix the main menu and Firing Range glitches in those versions of Battlefield 6.
“I want to make it clear, your experience and your feedback matter. All of our Battlefield Studios teams are working to address the issues picked up and ensure your experience is the best it can be,” wrote Battlefield global community manager Kevin Johnson. “Thank you for keeping us focused, fixes are either here — or on the way.”
The studio went on to highlight a variety of Winter Offensive’s other bugs that have already been fixed, and confirmed that solutions for two remaining ones — deaths to bots not being excluded from player stat pages, and instances of rubber-banding and hit registration issues for players with low-spec hardware — are in development.
Battlefield Studios is also aware of widespread player complaints about the Breakthrough mode, which recently got some major changes that added extra vehicles to attacker spawns. A new fix has ensured new vehicles in new sectors can’t spawn until ones from older ones have been destroyed, and spawn positions have been adjusted as well. The devs “will share more as future adjustments take shape.”
Vehicles themselves were also updated to solve issues with inconsistent damage taken from projectiles, along with vehicle machine guns sometimes not registering damage properly. And finally, there are plans to reduce jet cannon damage to make jets a bit more durable in dogfights, with a “dedicated air radar system” coming after Season 1 to help with situational awareness in air-to-air engagements.
Ultimately, it’s good to see that Battlefield 6 is getting some crucial fixes quickly, though it’s unfortunate that the Winter Offensive update didn’t land as well as it would have if it didn’t introduce these issues to the FPS (notably, they resulted in the postponement of Battlefield REDSEC’s competitive Elite Series). We can only hope that future content releases won’t be this buggy.
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