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The release of the eagerly awaited Battlefield 6 garnered broad praise, particularly for its flagship multiplayer mode. On Steam alone, concurrent player counts peaked at nearly 750,000. Nevertheless, in spite of its success, many players are protesting against a portion of the release's hardest challenges, which are required to unlock specific weapons.

Players have started turning to custom matches set up using Battlefield Portal to finish these tasks, emphasizing just how arduous these missions have become.

Comprehending BF6 Assignments

Missions serve as Battlefield 6's ongoing multiplayer objectives, as opposed to the frequently updated day-to-day and weekly tasks. It features four categories of assignments, but while the majority only reward outfits and select equipment, completing the weapon assignments is the exclusive means of obtaining 12 of the 41 main guns available in the game.

Several of these gated guns could shortly earn a place on rankings for the finest arms in Battlefield 6.

Community Frustration on Reddit

On Reddit, players are reasonably voicing their concerns about how difficult and grindy a number of these challenges are. An individual player pointed out one of the most extreme examples, required to unlock the KTS100 MK8 LMG:

• Neutralize 300 foes with LMGs
• Deal 10,000 close-range damage with LMGs

"This task is so awful and totally unreasonable, I want to scream in frustration," is a quote that summarizes just how frustratingly difficult these tasks are.

Suppression in Battlefield is more diminished than before in the series, so it has significantly fewer positive effects in fights as it did in previous games. It only counts as suppression if you miss multiple shots in a row.

Meanwhile, hipfiring an LMG is wildly inaccurate and functions solely at extremely close range, which isn't typically where you want to be. That player also noted the contradiction in the SMG challenge, required for the SCW-10, which demands eliminations when scoped in, when that task would be much better suited to hipfire kills, and conversely.

Another Extremely Difficult Challenge

One more community participant brought attention to another ridiculously tough challenge, now in the marksman rifle class to access the PSR:

• Achieve 150 headshot eliminations over 200m with long-range weapons

This is difficult enough as it is, but there's an additional crucial factor to consider: many Battlefield 6 maps do not even allow combat at such a long range.

There exists a reasonable assortment of map sizes, but since there are only nine battlegrounds in the game right now, it means you're limited to playing one of the larger locales, another expansive area, and possibly an additional option at a push if you plan to engage from afar from a significant distance.

The Alternative Method

However, there is a solution: the portal. The Battlefield Portal is a system that permits you to make custom game modes on whatever map you choose, featuring computer-controlled players. This means you can cheese the system… but it doesn't really seem like the developer's vision.

But when doing the challenges in a normal session appears to work against fun, since you are forced to participate in such an atypical style that doesn't benefit you or your team, who can blame someone for completing them in a private match so allies are not impaired?

Potential Changes

It should not be shocking if a number of these missions are toned down in the next few updates, because should they remain unchanged, certain gamers simply won't get their hands on the gated weapons.

At the moment, the player base continues to express their views on these strenuous battlefield assignments, hoping for a more balanced gaming experience in future updates.