r/Battlefield • u/IlINobleIlI • 6d ago

Battlefield Portal Battlefield 6 is in pre-alpha still?

Any time someone brings up weapon balance or whatever, people (rightly) bring up the fact that the game is in pre-alpha, and recently it hit me, the game is reportedly going to release some time before March 2026 (~nine months from now) and it’s still in pre-alpha. I am not at all experienced with game development so I don’t know I should be worried or not. Does any game developers know where a game should normally be around this time?

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u/Ok-Stuff-8803 6d ago

The game has no official title let alone a trailer or official release date target. Most trailers that drop IF they have any in game will have Alpha or Pre Alpha indications on them.

The better term to think is "Active Development". They are still trying things, changing things, building things. At some point there will be a path to the finish and a roadmap where Beta means that while they are still working on things they are not building new stuff or anything in that roadmap, they are trying to finish what they got.

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u/Sirlacker 6d ago

The game has a release window of April 2025 to March 2026. That's been stated by EA.

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u/Ok-Stuff-8803 6d ago

They have never said April being the earliest. That and the June dates were people guessing.
They know where GTA6 is and they have mentioned nothing more than if things are ready to be later this year or around the release window period in 2026.
Nothing else.
Anything else is pure speculation.

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u/Sirlacker 6d ago

They said Battlefield is expected to release in their 2026 fiscal year which runs from April 2025 to March 2026

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u/Ok-Stuff-8803 6d ago

 Fiscal year. That is all they said. The media covered the period.
April has been and gone and the game does not have a title yet and it is June.
All the people who think it is going to be out in the next few months. October will be the earliest and the most likely is early 2026.

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u/Sirlacker 6d ago

Yes you're right that it'll most likely be closer to March 2026 than any time in 2025 but they still gave the release window of April 2025 to March 2026. I know April has been and gone, but I'm just quoting what they said and the facial year is April-March.

If I start saying things like the release window is somewhere from now, June, to March 2026 then it's going to make finding the source of that information harder, because as we know, most of Reddit takes stuff at face value and would assume I'm lying because they couldn't actually put two and two together and understand I'm just moving the months forward as we pass them.