Battlefield 6 Season 2 Gets Roadmap and First Gameplay Trailer Following Delay

Following an unexpected hold successful January, the archetypal trailer for Battlefield 6 Season 2 is here, revealing a archetypal look astatine its three-month roadmap, a limited-time nightfall event, and gameplay for 2 caller maps.

EA and Battlefield Studios contiguous offered a elaborate breakdown and trailer for the 2nd seasonal contented update, on with a gameplay trailer for its troubled multiplayer FPS. Season 2 spans crossed 3 phases – Extreme Measures (phase one), Nightfall (phase two), and Hunter/Prey (phase three) – with the archetypal acceptable to motorboat adjacent week connected its antecedently announced merchandise day of February 17, 2026.

The forest-covered mountains of the archetypal caller map, Contaminated, are the backdrop for astir of the Battlefield 6 Season 2 trailer, providing a archetypal look astatine caller vehicles, specified arsenic the AH-6 Little Bird, and a caller psychoactive fume mechanic. First gameplay for the location, which supports each combat sizes, shows tanks and helicopters chasing infantry into astatine slightest partially destructible tunnels. Players tin bask each it has to connection crossed modular multiplayer crippled mode arsenic good arsenic the caller VL-7 Strike limited-time mode, which sees players battling (and hallucinating) done the fume successful its ain dedicated playlist.

Extreme Measures kicks things disconnected with Contaminated, the Little Bird, VL-7 smoke, caller weapons, and much adjacent week. Come March 17, signifier two, Nightfall, volition past yet adhd 1 of the community’s most-asked-for features… benignant of.

Along with its caller close-quarters infantry map, Hagental Base, Nightfall brings nighttime gameplay to Battlefield 6. Players person wanted to crook retired the lights since the sixth mainline installment launched for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S past October. Unfortunately, it seems lights-out enactment volition beryllium restricted lone to the limited-time Nightfall event, which itself is lone disposable connected Hagental Base. REDSEC players tin besides effort retired the nighttime representation via the limited-time Gauntlet mode, with the Nightfall signifier besides adding the Defense Testing Complex 3 constituent of involvement to Fort Lyndon, arsenic good arsenic the ungraded bike, CZ3A1 submachine gun, and VZ.61 sidearm crossed some experiences.

Finally, signifier three, Hunter / Prey, launches April 14. It does not adhd a caller map, and alternatively brings the Operation Augur limited-time mode, Portal updates, a caller bonus way for the conflict pass, the LTV vehicle, and the Ripper 14” machete.

Battlefield 6 Season 2 Roadmap. Image courtesy of EA.

BF Studios says update 1.2.1.0 volition motorboat alongside Battlefield 6 Season 2 and adds “hundreds of gameplay improvements, fixes, and idiosyncratic updates.” Included successful the update are equilibrium adjustments for weapons, specified arsenic what it calls “widespread recoil tuning crossed automatic weapons.” Patch notes are not disposable yet but are promised to get anterior to the motorboat of Extreme Measures adjacent week.

Battlefield 6 got disconnected to a beardown commencement successful 2025 but has faced backlash from its assemblage successful caller weeks. As immoderate players review-bombed its conflict royale REDSEC offshoot and others pleaded for larger maps, galore began to question if 2 maps per play were capable to support players engaged. Confusion past reached caller levels successful January, erstwhile EA and BF Studios announced Season 2 had been delayed to its February 17 merchandise date.

It’s unclear if the contented revealed contiguous volition beryllium capable to fulfill those displeased with the post-launch contented truthful far. While we hold to spot however the squad plans to proceed gathering connected Battlefield 6, you tin work astir immoderate of the ways BF Studios is adjusting its arguable cosmetics.

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