‘Keep Your Ear to the Ground’ – Battlefield 6 Devs Hear the Cries for Battle Royale Solo Queue in REDSEC

Battlefield Studios is telling Battlefield 6 players to "keep your receptor to the ground" erstwhile it comes to a conflict royale solo queue enactment for REDSEC.

We spoke with the Battlefield squad to larn much astir REDSEC and its conflict royale, Gauntlet, and Portal modes earlier this week. During our chat, we asked if solo conflict royale fans volition ever beryllium capable to driblet into Fort Lyndon without grouping up with others. Design manager Justin Wiebe stopped abbreviated of confirming whether further queue options are connected the way, but helium does privation fans to cognize the BF Studios squad is listening.

“I would accidental support your receptor to the crushed connected the aboriginal of solos,” Wiebe told us.

Battlefield REDSEC was met with a review-bombing run upon its motorboat precocious past period arsenic disgruntled Battlefield 6 players gathered to inquire for assorted changes, including a solo conflict royale queue. It’s existent the Battlefield conflict royale offshoot launched without an enactment for single-player-minded fans, but Wiebe says adding solos into a squad-based shooter isn’t arsenic casual arsenic it seems.

“In my mind, that's not thing you conscionable crook connected and conscionable say, ‘OK, solos,’” helium said. “There needs to beryllium capable thought enactment into it due to the fact that we built a squad-based experience. At its foundation, the crippled was designed for squads to play together, with each of them having tactical abilities and options, and grooming paths that unlock caller perks. A batch of those perks are precise oriented towards helping the squad, not helping the individual.”

Wiebe continued: “If we were conscionable to propulsion that retired and say, ‘Well, present you tin conscionable play solos, and you're unlocking these abilities that don't adjacent substance to you,’ that feels similar a fail.”

Battlefield 6 and REDSEC are designed astir 4 superior classes: Assault, Engineer, Support, and Recon. Aside from a fewer tweaks betwixt immoderate modes, each tin bring everything from speedy revives to conveyance repairs to a gunfight. Even vehicles themselves are typically successful amended attraction with much than 1 subordinate down the wheel.

These are the kinds of mechanics BF Studios is considering erstwhile holding disconnected connected solos for conflict royale successful REDSEC. Still, it sounds similar the enactment is acold from disconnected the table. Should players beryllium allowed to queue up without teammates successful conflict royale, Wiebe tells fans they would request to motorboat “with the close abilities and grooming paths.”

“If we were going to motorboat thing similar solos,” helium added, “we privation to bash it successful a mode that makes consciousness for players, that really takes the mechanics and makes them enactment for making solos play better.”

Battlefield 6 launched October 10 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S. REDSEC followed intimately down with its motorboat for the aforesaid platforms arriving October 28, conscionable weeks later. Despite archetypal review-bombing efforts bringing the free-to-play subdivision down to “Mostly Negative” Steam ratings, it has since bounced backmost slightly, present sitting astatine “Mixed” crossed the board.

We gave REDSEC a 7/10. In our review, we said, “Battlefield REDSEC offers an uninspired conflict royale mode that dilutes what makes Battlefield 6’s regular multiplayer truthful overmuch fun, but its Gauntlet enactment alternatively concentrates that look into 1 of the coolest crippled modes I’ve seen from a subject shooter.”

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