Battlefield 6 Season 1 Maps Leak Online — But Not For Long

Battlefield 6's playtests proceed to beryllium leakier than a sieve, and this time, a 10-minute video purporting to uncover Season 1's maps has popped up online.

Only yesterday, we highlighted a nine-minute portion of Battlefield 6's conflict royale mode that besides leaked. This peculiar video not lone gave america a bully look astatine what to expect from the mode, but besides reveals a mates of gameplay mechanics we didn't antecedently cognize about, including swimming, 1 of the gadgets, and its "massive map."

Now, the aforesaid root down that leak has shared a clip of Blackwell Field (or perchance Blackwell Farm), which is thought to beryllium acceptable successful Kern County, California, arsenic good arsenic a snippet of a 2nd representation called Eastwood, which is likewise acceptable successful California.

While EA has seemingly been nonplussed astir the leaked contented to date, this 1 was zinged with a copyright assertion wrong hours. Before it was removed, however, players were treated to a beauteous immense representation that included a bully scope of environments and points of interest, including lipid rigs, a village, a landing strip, and rocky clifftops. Overall, it's mostly gone down good with commenters connected the GamingLeaksandRumours subreddit who saw the video earlier it was pulled.

Battlefield 6 releases connected October 10. We're having a large clip with what we've played truthful far, penning successful our Battlefield 6 review-in-progress: "Right now, adjacent successful beta form, Battlefield 6 mightiness beryllium the astir amusive shooter I’ve played this year."

Battlefield 6 won't person ray-tracing, though, and its developer has said determination are nary plans to adhd the diagnostic down the line. Despite being a fashionable inclusion successful immoderate games, ray-tracing's much earthy method of simulating lighting tin besides beryllium to beryllium draining connected your PC oregon console's strategy resources — and it's for this crushed that the competitory shooter won't see it.

We've besides got comments from a developer astatine DICE admitting Battlefield 6 anti-cheat measures similar Secure Boot mean immoderate PC gamers conscionable won't beryllium capable to play the game.

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.