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The debut of the eagerly awaited Battlefield 6 received widespread acclaim, notably for its premier multiplayer mode. Exclusively on Steam, concurrent player counts peaked at nearly 750,000. However, regardless of its fanfare, a growing number of players are voicing discontent with a portion of the release's toughest challenges, which are necessary to access certain guns.

Users have commenced turning to custom matches made via Battlefield Portal to achieve these objectives, highlighting just how demanding these challenges have become.

Grasping Battlefield 6 Tasks

Missions serve as Battlefield 6's permanent multiplayer tasks, as opposed to the regularly refreshed daily and weekly challenges. The game includes four categories of assignments, but although many simply offer outfits and select equipment, achieving the firearm tasks is the sole method of obtaining twelve from the forty-one main guns found within the game.

Several of these gated guns might eventually make their appearance on rosters of the finest arms in Battlefield 6.

Community Frustration on Reddit

On Reddit, players are justifiably expressing their worries about how hard and tedious some of these challenges are. An individual player pointed out 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 challenge is so atrocious and completely out of mind, I want to scream in frustration," is a comment that illustrates just how annoyingly hard these tasks are.

Suppression in Battlefield is weaker than it's ever been in the series, so it doesn't have anywhere near as many positive effects in fights as it did 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 is effective only at extremely close range, which is seldom the location you aim to be. The same user also pointed out the paradox in the SMG challenge, needed to obtain the SCW-10, which needs takedowns using ADS, when that task would be much better suited to hipfire kills, and the other way around.

Another Extremely Difficult Challenge

One more community participant brought attention to a further incredibly demanding challenge, within the sniper rifle category to obtain the PSR:

• Secure 150 precision takedowns beyond 200 meters with sniper rifles

This is challenging enough on its own, but there's one more key thing to consider: the majority of Battlefield 6 maps fail to facilitate combat at such a long range.

There's a healthy variety of map sizes, but given there are merely nine maps in the game right now, it implies you must stick to playing New Sobek City, Mirak Valley, and maybe Operation Firestorm in a best-case scenario if you plan to engage from afar from over 200m away.

The Bypass

Nevertheless, a method exists: the portal. This portal feature is a system that permits you to make custom game modes on the battleground of your choice, complete with bots. This allows you can bypass the intended method… but it doesn't really seem like the intended gameplay experience.

However, when completing the missions in a standard match feels like anti-playing, since you must engage in such an unconventional way that offers no advantage to anyone, who can blame someone for completing them in a custom game so squad members are not disadvantaged?

Potential Changes

It should not be shocking if some of these assignments are adjusted to be less difficult in the near future, because if they're not, a portion of the user base simply will never acquire the locked firearms.

Currently, the community continues to express their views on these challenging multiplayer missions, hoping for a less arduous player experience in future updates.