Battlefield 6 publisher EA is making “changes” to Rush mode to “better balance” the gameplay between attacking and defending players.
The changes arrive just as fans step into Battlefield 6’s Open Beta Weekend 2, which is live now (August 15) and will run until Sunday, August 17. The All-Out Warfare playlist includes Breakthrough, Conquest, and Rush… and it’s the latter that doesn’t seem to be going down all that well.
For those who’ve yet to play, Rush tasks players with destroying military communications — better known as MCOMs. You can either do this with a heavy explosive assault or by placing a bomb. It’s placing a bomb, however, that has been causing problems: with a lengthy 45 seconds between placement and detonating, the timer was too long and giving one side an unfair advantage.
Developer DICE is already on the case, though. In a post on social media, the team confirmed “we’ve just made a change to Rush: the MCOM timer is now reduced from 45 to 30 seconds to better the balance between attacking and defending players.”
The team said it would “continue to monitor and are ready and able to make further balance adjustments,” which is just as well, as the timer is not the only problem upsetting players right now. Others have criticized the spacing between MCOM objectives and spawn points, making for some unpleasant spawn traps on maps like Iberian, Empire, and Siege of Cairo.
“I think the Rush game mode should be disabled in Battlefield 6 until it’s been properly worked on,” suggested one unhappy player. “Every map has insane balance problems, ZERO space between sectors/MCOM locations and even 12v12 feels like an utter clusterf**k. Such a shame. Rush used to be great.” The post has secured over 3,000 likes at the time of writing.
Earlier this week, EA issued a statement acknowledging the cheating occurring in Battlefield 6, and highlighting its efforts to combat it on top of its requirement for players to enable Secure Boot in their BIOS. In the post, the publisher said its existing tech has already prevented 330,000 attempts to cheat or tamper with anti-cheat controls. Additionally, players reported 44,000 instances of cheating on day one and another 60,000 today so far. EA says it will continue to evolve its efforts to combat cheating, and encourages users to continue reporting issues.
If you’re looking for information on how to join the Battlefield 6 Open Beta, head to our BF6 Open Beta Guide, where you’ll find details on how to get into the BF6 Open Beta, the dates and times, available maps, and more. If you’re confused about how to get Twitch drops or how to link your EA Account to Twitch, our Open Beta Twitch Drops guide has all the intel you need to get set up.
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