Battlefield 6 Devs Respond to REDSEC Review-Bombing: ‘This Is Just the Beginning of the Experience’

The Battlefield Studios squad says REDSEC has plentifulness of clip to regain mislaid crushed with fans aft the free-to-play offshoot was deed with a review-bombing run by Battlefield 6 players astatine launch.

IGN spoke with plan manager Justin Wiebe and originative manager Thomas Andersson earlier this week to larn much astir REDSEC, however it got started, and what its aboriginal holds. We besides asked astir the team’s effect to the inaugural that sought to bring down its idiosyncratic reappraisal people connected storefronts similar Steam.

Even arsenic online instrumentality feedback bounces betwixt endless praise and targeted negativity, Wiebe says BF Studios is “extremely passionate and proud” of what it has done truthful acold and is lone looking guardant to the future. The main happening fans should note, though, is the developers are “always listening.”

“I mean, arsenic soon arsenic the crippled launched, we had radical benignant of looking astatine each forms of subordinate communication, and taking notes and saying, ‘OK, well, we had planned to bash this successful unrecorded service, but we're proceeding that this is simply a occupation for the community,’” helium explained. “If it's a occupation for the community, past let's speech astir it. Let's spot however we tin prioritize that.”

Wiebe adds that BF Studios has engaged successful “mad note-taking” successful the aftermath of REDSEC’s motorboat arsenic it pivots to prioritize fixes for problems that tin beryllium rapidly patched. One illustration helium calls attraction to involves challenges and situation requirements successful Battlefield 6, with galore of the much problematic issues successful this country already addressed successful an update past week.

“For me, I ever say, unrecorded service, you person a large clock,” helium explains, “and each clip there's a subordinate issue, you commencement the timepiece and you measurement and worth your clip to the player, truthful that you tin marque definite that the subordinate and the assemblage knows that we're listening, and we're going to beryllium capable to bash what we tin to react.

“But we're besides weighing that against our aboriginal ambitions of each the antithetic contented and experiences we privation to make from unrecorded services, due to the fact that this is conscionable the opening of the experience, and we privation to marque definite that we're addressing subordinate feedback, and we're besides adding caller and breathtaking experiences for players to play.”

REDSEC volition proceed to coexist alongside Battlefield 6, meaning players tin expect seasonal updates to present caller contented to some experiences. The REDSEC Season 1 roadmap has already provided a sensation of what’s to come, teasing a caller vehicle-based Gauntlet ngo called Rodeo for November 18 and an Ice Lock Gauntlet limited-time lawsuit for December 9.

We asked if seasonal updates could interaction REDSEC’s map, Fort Lyndon, arsenic Battlefield 6, conflict royale, Gauntlet, and Portal updates rotation out. BF Studios isn’t acceptable to speech representation updates conscionable yet, but erstwhile changes similar that yet arrive, don’t expect the developers to present surface-level changes.

“For me, erstwhile we bash representation updates, if we're going to walk a clump of clip moving connected the map, I privation to marque definite that it's additive to the subordinate experience,” Wiebe said. “That it's not conscionable a speedy cosmetic hit, right? That there's caller amusive things to research there. It adds to gameplay successful caller and meaningful ways. I think, for me, that's the important constituent moving forward.”

He adds that Gauntlet, the caller crippled mode the Battlefield 6 assemblage has welcomed with unfastened arms, volition proceed to beryllium a “tool successful our toolbelt” erstwhile it comes to thematic seasonal content, calling the mode “the perfect, eventual live-service crippled mode.”

“It's not ever looking at, ‘What bash we bash with the conflict royale oregon Fort Lyndon map?’ but also, ‘How bash we leverage Gauntlet and utilize it successful caller and unsocial ways to besides deed immoderate of those unrecorded service, thematic beats?’” Wiebe said.

Battlefield 6 and REDSEC launched into Season 1 October 28. The three-part introductory play volition present caller modes, maps, and weapons passim its run.

While BF Studios does its champion to retake mislaid ground, you tin cheque retired our 7/10 REDSEC reappraisal and our 8/10 multiplayer review. You tin besides work up connected the astir caller Battlefield 6 update, which brought bug fixes and aiming tweaks to players yesterday.

Michael Cripe is simply a freelance writer with IGN. He's champion known for his enactment astatine sites similar The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be definite to springiness him a travel connected Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).