Battlefield 6 Players Are Convinced: Tasks Are Excessively Difficult

The debut of the much-awaited Battlefield 6 garnered significant enthusiasm, especially for its flagship multiplayer mode. Exclusively on Steam, concurrent player counts reached a high of nearly 750,000. However, despite its popularity, a growing number of players are protesting against several of the title's toughest challenges, which are necessary to access certain guns.

Players have started resorting to personalized games created through the custom game tool to complete them, highlighting just how grueling these challenges have become.

Comprehending Battlefield 6 Tasks

Tasks represent Battlefield 6's permanent multiplayer tasks, as opposed to the regularly refreshed day-to-day and weekly tasks. The game includes four classes of assignments, but while the majority only reward skins and a few gadgets, achieving the firearm tasks is the only way of getting 12 of the 41 main guns present in the game.

A number of these restricted firearms could shortly make their appearance on rosters of the best guns in Battlefield 6.

Community Frustration across Reddit

Over on Reddit, players are understandably sharing their frustrations about how challenging and repetitive some of these challenges are. An individual player emphasized one of the most egregious examples, needed to obtain the KTS100 MK8 LMG:

• Subdue 300 opponents with LMGs
• Cause 10,000 non-ADS damage with LMGs

"This task is so terrible and totally unreasonable, I want to tear my hair out," is a statement that captures just how excessively challenging these tasks are.

The suppression feature in the game is weaker than it's ever been in the series, so it has significantly fewer benefits in combat as it used to in previous games. It only tallies as suppression if you fail to hit several consecutive shots.

Meanwhile, firing an LMG without aiming is highly imprecise and functions solely at point-blank proximity, which is seldom the location you want to be. The commenter also noted the contradiction in the SMG challenge, required for the SCW-10, which needs takedowns using ADS, when that challenge would be considerably more fitting to hipfire kills, and vice versa.

Another Extremely Difficult Mission

One more community participant brought attention to a further incredibly demanding challenge, now in the sniper rifle category to unlock the PSR:

• Secure 150 precision takedowns beyond 200 meters with long-range weapons

This is challenging enough as it is, but there's another important point to consider: the majority of Battlefield 6 maps don't even support combat at those extended distances.

There is a decent selection of map sizes, but because there are just nine maps in the game at present, it means you're limited to playing New Sobek City, a particular valley environment, and perhaps an additional option in a best-case scenario if you plan to engage from afar from a significant distance.

The Bypass

There is a workaround though: Battlefield Portal. This portal feature is a tool that allows you to make custom game modes on whatever map you choose, complete with bots. This means you can bypass the intended method… but it doesn't exactly feel like the developer's vision.

But when doing the challenges in a normal session seems counterproductive, since you are forced to participate in such an unconventional way that doesn't benefit you or your team, who can fault a player for finishing these in a private match so allies are not impaired?

Potential Changes

It is expected if a number of these missions are toned down in the coming days or weeks, because if they're not, some players simply will never acquire the locked firearms.

At the moment, the audience continues to share their thoughts on these challenging multiplayer missions, anticipating a fairer overall gameplay in future updates.