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The launch of the eagerly awaited Battlefield 6 garnered significant enthusiasm, particularly for its flagship multiplayer mode. Just on Steam, concurrent player counts reached a high of nearly 750,000. However, in spite of its success, many players are expressing frustration over some of the game's toughest challenges, which are mandatory to obtain particular firearms.

Users have commenced turning to custom matches created through Battlefield Portal to achieve these objectives, emphasizing just how grueling these assignments have become.

Grasping BF6 Tasks

Missions serve as Battlefield 6's ongoing multiplayer objectives, in contrast to the periodically changed day-to-day and weekly tasks. It features four types of assignments, but while the majority merely grant skins and a few gadgets, achieving the firearm tasks is the exclusive means of getting twelve from the forty-one main guns found within the game.

A number of these locked weapons might eventually make their appearance on rankings for the top weapons in Battlefield 6.

Gamer Backlash via Reddit

Within Reddit, players are understandably expressing their worries about how hard and tedious a number of these challenges are. One user highlighted one of the most extreme examples, needed to obtain the KTS100 MK8 LMG:

• Subdue 300 opponents with LMGs
• Inflict 10,000 hipfire damage with LMGs

"This task is so atrocious and totally unreasonable, I want to gouge my eyes out," is a statement that captures just how frustratingly difficult these tasks are.

Suppression in Battlefield is less effective than in previous titles in the series, so it lacks nearly as many positive effects in fights as it had in previous games. It only registers as suppression if you fail to hit several consecutive shots.

Meanwhile, firing an LMG without aiming is extremely unreliable and functions solely at very short distances, which is not usually a position you aim to be. The commenter also highlighted the irony in the SMG challenge, needed to obtain the SCW-10, which demands eliminations when scoped in, when that task would be considerably more fitting to hipfire kills, and conversely.

Another Ridiculously Tough Task

Another Reddit user pointed out a further incredibly demanding challenge, this time in the sniper rifle category to access the PSR:

• Achieve 150 headshot eliminations from more than 200 meters away with marksman guns

This is challenging enough on its own, but there's one more key thing to consider: the majority of Battlefield 6 maps don't even support combat at those extended distances.

There's a healthy variety of map sizes, but given there are merely nine battlegrounds in the game currently, it restricts you to playing one of the larger locales, a particular valley environment, and maybe Operation Firestorm at a push if you aim to take long-range shots from a significant distance.

The Workaround

However, there is a solution: Battlefield Portal. This portal feature is a feature that enables you to make custom game modes on the battleground of your choice, including AI opponents. This means you can exploit the mechanics… but it isn't truly in line with the spirit of the game.

Yet, if completing the missions in a normal session seems counterproductive, since you have to play in such an atypical style that doesn't benefit you or your team, is it surprising for completing them in a private match so squad members are not disadvantaged?

Future Adjustments

It should not be shocking if a number of these missions are adjusted to be less difficult in the next few updates, because unless they are modified, some players simply are unlikely to obtain the restricted guns.

For now, the player base continues to express their views on these demanding multiplayer missions, hoping for a more balanced overall gameplay in coming revisions.