Bunnyhop elsewhere, streamers: EA are making Battlefield 6 more strategic, less run-and-gun following the beta

The Battlefield 6 beta is officially a Thing That Happened, and now comes the terrible ordeal of Learning From The Experience. Here is what developers DICE, Criterion, Motive and Ripple Effect have learned from the experience: you are all playing the game far too much like Call Of Duty. Goodness me, it’s like 2007 never ended.

Doing headshots in midair? That’s an updatin’. Doing a parkour while carrying a light machinegun? That’s an updatin’. Bunny-hopping with prejudice? You’d best believe that’s an updatin’. Never mind that those multiplayer reveal montages emphasised footloose quickdraw almost as much as they incited a murderous contempt for helicopters. It’s time to play Battlefield the way Battlefield should be played: lying in a hole praying that one of your team-mates spawns on you before a tank rolls over your head.

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Editor-in-Chief for Robots Over Dinosaurs Anthony has been gaming since the 1980s. Working adjacent to the gaming industry for the last 20 years, his experience led him to open Robots Over Dinosaurs.

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