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The launch of the highly anticipated Battlefield 6 was met with widespread acclaim, notably for its top-tier multiplayer mode. Exclusively on Steam, simultaneous player numbers peaked at nearly 750,000. However, in spite of its success, a growing number of players are voicing discontent with several of the title's toughest challenges, which are mandatory to unlock specific weapons.

Users have commenced using custom matches made via the Portal feature to achieve these objectives, emphasizing just how grueling these challenges have become.

Understanding Battlefield 6 Assignments

Missions serve as Battlefield 6's fixed in-game challenges, as opposed to the frequently updated daily and weekly challenges. The game includes four categories of assignments, but while the majority merely grant outfits and select equipment, achieving the firearm tasks is the exclusive means of acquiring twelve from the forty-one key firearms present in the game.

A number of these gated guns may soon earn a place on lists of the top weapons in Battlefield 6.

Gamer Backlash on Reddit

Within Reddit, players are understandably expressing their worries about how difficult and grindy some of these challenges are. One user emphasized one of the most egregious examples, required to unlock the KTS100 MK8 LMG:

• Neutralize 300 foes with LMGs
• Inflict 10,000 hipfire damage with LMGs

"This challenge is so terrible and entirely ill-conceived, I want to scream in frustration," is a statement that captures just how excessively challenging these tasks are.

The suppression mechanic 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, firing an LMG without aiming is highly imprecise and functions solely at point-blank proximity, which is seldom the location you aim to be. The same user also noted the contradiction in the SMG challenge, required for the SCW-10, which requires kills while aiming down the sights, when that challenge would be much better suited to hipfire kills, and the other way around.

Another Extremely Difficult Challenge

A different forum member highlighted an additional excessively hard challenge, within the marksman rifle class to obtain the PSR:

• Get 150 headshot kills over 200m with long-range weapons

This is difficult enough by itself, but there's another important point to consider: most Battlefield 6 maps do not even allow combat at such a long range.

There exists a reasonable assortment of map sizes, but given there are merely nine battlegrounds in the game at present, it means you're limited to playing one of the larger locales, a particular valley environment, and maybe a classic map if you're lucky if you want to snipe from a significant distance.

The Bypass

There is a workaround though: Battlefield Portal. The Battlefield Portal is a feature that enables you to make custom game modes on whatever map you choose, including AI opponents. This allows you can cheese the system… but it doesn't exactly feel like the spirit of the game.

However, when completing the missions in a normal session appears to work against fun, since you are forced to participate in such an unorthodox manner that doesn't benefit you or your team, who can blame someone for grinding them out in a custom game so squad members are not disadvantaged?

Potential Changes

It is expected if a number of these missions are adjusted to be less difficult in the next few updates, because unless they are modified, some players simply won't get their hands on the locked firearms.

At the moment, the player base continues to voice their opinions on these challenging multiplayer missions, hoping for a fairer gaming experience in subsequent patches.