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The debut of the highly anticipated Battlefield 6 garnered significant enthusiasm, especially for its flagship multiplayer mode. Exclusively on Steam, live player figures reached a high of nearly 750,000. Yet, despite its popularity, a growing number of players are voicing discontent with several of the title's hardest challenges, which are necessary to obtain particular firearms.

Players have started turning to tailored sessions set up using the Portal feature to complete them, underscoring just how arduous these challenges have become.

Grasping Battlefield 6 Objectives

Tasks represent Battlefield 6's permanent multiplayer tasks, in contrast to the periodically changed everyday and weekly missions. It features four classes of assignments, but where most only reward skins and a few gadgets, completing the weapon assignments is the exclusive means of obtaining 12 of the 41 main guns present in the game.

Several of these gated guns could shortly find their way on lists of the finest arms in Battlefield 6.

Player Outcry on Reddit

On Reddit, players are understandably voicing their concerns about how hard and tedious some of these challenges are. An individual player emphasized one of the most outrageous examples, required to unlock the KTS100 MK8 LMG:

• Suppress 300 enemies with LMGs
• Deal 10,000 close-range damage with LMGs

"This task is so terrible and entirely ill-conceived, I want to scream in frustration," is a quote that summarizes just how frustratingly difficult these tasks are.

Suppression in Battlefield is more diminished than before in the series, so it doesn't have anywhere near as many benefits in combat as it did in previous games. It only registers as suppression if you fire a burst without hitting the target.

At the same time, firing an LMG without aiming is wildly inaccurate and is effective only at point-blank proximity, which is seldom the location you prefer to be. The commenter also noted the contradiction in the SMG challenge, to unlock the SCW-10, which needs takedowns using ADS, when that task would be considerably more fitting to hipfire kills, and the other way around.

Another Ridiculously Tough Mission

One more community participant highlighted a further incredibly demanding challenge, this time in the marksman rifle class to obtain the PSR:

• Get 150 headshot kills over 200m with marksman guns

This is tough enough as it is, but there's another important point to consider: the majority of Battlefield 6 maps fail to facilitate combat at such a long range.

There is a decent selection of map sizes, but because there are just nine maps in the game currently, it implies you must stick to playing a specific urban map, a particular valley environment, and possibly Operation Firestorm in a best-case scenario if you plan to engage from afar from over 200m away.

The Workaround

Nevertheless, a method exists: the portal. The Battlefield Portal is a tool that allows you to design tailored experiences on any map you prefer, featuring computer-controlled players. This implies you can exploit the mechanics… but it isn't truly in line with the spirit of the game.

However, when doing the challenges in a proper game appears to work against fun, since you have to play in such an unconventional way that doesn't benefit you or your team, who can blame someone for finishing these in a personal session so squad members are not disadvantaged?

Future Adjustments

It should not be shocking if several of these tasks are made easier in the next few updates, because should they remain unchanged, a portion of the user base simply will never acquire the locked firearms.

At the moment, the community continues to express their views on these strenuous multiplayer missions, expecting a fairer overall gameplay in coming revisions.