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The debut of the eagerly awaited Battlefield 6 received widespread acclaim, especially for its premier multiplayer mode. Exclusively on Steam, live player figures surged to nearly 750,000. Nevertheless, regardless of its fanfare, a growing number of players are protesting against several of the title's toughest challenges, which are mandatory to obtain particular firearms.

Players have started turning to custom matches created through the custom game tool to finish these tasks, emphasizing just how grueling these assignments have become.

Comprehending BF6 Tasks

Missions serve as Battlefield 6's fixed in-game challenges, as opposed to the regularly refreshed daily and weekly challenges. The game includes four classes of assignments, but while the majority simply offer skins and a few gadgets, achieving the firearm tasks is the exclusive means of obtaining a dozen out of forty-one primary weapons available in the game.

Several of these locked weapons could shortly earn a place on rosters of the best guns in Battlefield 6.

Gamer Backlash via Reddit

Within Reddit, players are justifiably sharing their frustrations about how difficult and grindy a number of these challenges are. One user emphasized one of the most egregious examples, needed to obtain the KTS100 MK8 LMG:

• Suppress 300 enemies with LMGs
• Inflict 10,000 hipfire damage with LMGs

"This task is so atrocious and totally unreasonable, I want to scream in frustration," is a statement that captures just how excessively challenging these tasks are.

Suppression in Battlefield is less effective than in previous titles in the series, so it doesn't have anywhere near as many benefits in combat as it used to in previous games. It only tallies as suppression if you miss multiple shots in a row.

At the same time, hipfiring an LMG is wildly inaccurate and is effective only at point-blank proximity, which isn't typically where you aim to be. The commenter also highlighted the irony in the SMG challenge, to unlock the SCW-10, which demands eliminations when scoped in, when that task would be considerably more fitting to hipfire kills, and the other way around.

Another Ridiculously Tough Mission

A different forum member highlighted another ridiculously tough challenge, within the marksman rifle class to unlock the PSR:

• Secure 150 precision takedowns from more than 200 meters away with sniper rifles

This is tough enough by itself, but there's one more key thing 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 because there are just nine levels in the game at present, it means you're limited to playing a specific urban map, another expansive area, and possibly a classic map if you're lucky if you want to snipe from beyond 200 meters.

The Alternative Method

However, there is a solution: the custom game tool. The custom game creator is a tool that allows you to make custom game modes on the battleground of your choice, complete with bots. This implies you can exploit the mechanics… but it doesn't really seem like the developer's vision.

But when doing the challenges in a standard match seems counterproductive, since you have to play in such an atypical style that doesn't benefit you or your team, who can blame someone for finishing these in a custom game so teammates aren't hindered?

Future Adjustments

It should not be shocking if several of these tasks are adjusted to be less difficult in the near future, because should they remain unchanged, some players simply are unlikely to obtain the gated weapons.

Currently, the audience continues to voice their opinions on these challenging multiplayer missions, anticipating a less arduous overall gameplay in subsequent patches.