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The debut of the eagerly awaited Battlefield 6 received significant enthusiasm, especially for its top-tier multiplayer mode. Just on Steam, concurrent player counts peaked at nearly 750,000. Nevertheless, despite its popularity, a growing number of players are protesting against a portion of the release's hardest challenges, which are required to unlock specific weapons.

Players have started using tailored sessions set up using the custom game tool to complete them, emphasizing just how demanding these challenges have become.

Understanding Battlefield 6 Tasks

Tasks represent Battlefield 6's ongoing multiplayer objectives, different from the frequently updated everyday and weekly missions. The game includes four categories of assignments, but while the majority merely grant outfits and select equipment, completing the weapon assignments is the exclusive means of acquiring twelve from the forty-one key firearms available in the game.

A number of these locked weapons might eventually make their appearance on rosters of the top weapons in Battlefield 6.

Community Frustration on Reddit

On Reddit, players are understandably sharing their frustrations about how difficult and grindy several of these challenges are. One user pointed out one of the most extreme examples, needed to obtain the KTS100 MK8 LMG:

• Subdue 300 opponents with LMGs
• Deal 10,000 close-range damage with LMGs

"This task is so awful and completely out of mind, I want to tear my hair out," is a comment that illustrates just how excessively challenging these tasks are.

Suppression in Battlefield is less effective than in previous titles in the series, so it has significantly fewer positive effects in fights as it had in previous games. It only registers as suppression if you fail to hit several consecutive shots.

Meanwhile, using an LMG from the hip is extremely unreliable and functions solely at extremely close range, which isn't typically where you want to be. The same user also noted the contradiction in the SMG challenge, to unlock the SCW-10, which requires kills while aiming down the sights, when that mission would be much better suited to hipfire kills, and the other way around.

Another Overly Demanding Task

Another Reddit user highlighted an additional excessively hard challenge, this time in the marksman rifle class to obtain the PSR:

• Achieve 150 headshot eliminations beyond 200 meters with sniper rifles

This is tough enough by itself, but there's an additional crucial factor to consider: the majority of Battlefield 6 maps fail to facilitate combat at those extended distances.

There exists a reasonable assortment of map sizes, but because there are just nine levels in the game right now, it restricts you to playing a specific urban map, a particular valley environment, and perhaps a classic map in a best-case scenario if you plan to engage from afar from a significant distance.

The Workaround

However, there is a solution: Battlefield Portal. This portal feature is a system that permits you to design tailored experiences on whatever map you choose, featuring computer-controlled players. This means you can exploit the mechanics… but it doesn't really seem like the intended gameplay experience.

But when doing the challenges in a proper game feels like anti-playing, since you have to play in such an unconventional way 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 several of these tasks are made easier in the near future, because if they're not, certain gamers simply are unlikely to obtain the locked firearms.

At the moment, the audience continues to share their thoughts on these demanding battlefield assignments, expecting a less arduous gaming experience in subsequent patches.