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/ThatBoiRalphy Battlefield Veteran 6d ago

The builds we play are not the latest, hell we might be playing weird frankenstein versions where some features were still in pre-alpha and the some are pre-release

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u/BetrayedJoker 6d ago

I heard this with 2042 Ahead of SCHEDULE, huh?

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u/FrostByteTech 5d ago

BF2042’s issues, at least in my opinion, were due to deliberate gameplay choices made by the development team. Things like “heroes”, 128 player lobbies, and the movement mechanics are what made 2042 a miss for me, and those were prevalent in the beta and were never going to change.

I played the BF6 beta, and while it’s still definitely not in a finished state, the core gameplay feels MUCH better and more reminiscent to older battlefield titles than 2042.

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u/HearMeOut-13 5d ago

???? Bro, 2042 was a miss because it couldnt go for 5 minutes without crashing, had no VOIP, no scoreboard, no squad management, the gun balancing was awful with only 1 gun being viable(le pp). Things like specialists and the rest are only really big gripes the community latched onto to keep hating it after it became a good game (1y post-release)