Ho ho ho, is it Christmas already? In Battlefield 6, the snow is falling on the brand new Manhattan map Empire State, jingle bells are blaring from the speakers and it feels like a nice flashback to The Division. It was snowing in New York there too — and it was utilized in a smart way.
In Battlefield‘s version, we can anticipate enemy movements better because we can see footprints in the snow. And there is an ice axe. I wonder if we can use it to climb up the icy Brooklyn Bridge? Or what has DICE come up with here? We’ll find out from 9 December, but Season 1 is already in full swing!
Here are 10 pro tips for staying at the top of the leaderboard in Battlefield 6 .
Like Bruce Willis, we’re celebrating Christmas in the Big Apple this year with Battlefield 6 and DICE is promising a whole host of new gameplay features. Cold and heat are set to play a major role..
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10 pro tips for Battlefield 6 Season 1
Glistening HDR sunshine and the royal blue pool invite you to relax in this magnificent villa neighbourhood. It’s just a shame that Bradley armoured personnel carriers are already starting to blow down the palm trees and redecorate the roofs.
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The Golden State Eastwood map is reminiscent of Beverly Hills: finely manicured gardens, huge mansions, the main house of which is connected to guest houses on the left and right and really big. The vehicle fleet includes 2 helicopters, 3 tanks, 3 troop transporters and 12 golf carts.
Pro Tip 1: Golf carts are the ultimate tank killers
The Hollywood map introduces golf carts, which are amazingly efficient. Because they have four seats: One drives, one shoots forwards, at the back two soldiers can hedge to the sides or repair the vehicle with a soldering iron. It’s not armored and offers no protection, but it’s pretty fast. We can really speed around with it. If an Apache chases us, the two squad members in the back each unpack their rocket launchers and try their luck with the unguided rockets. This works even better with the FIM 92 Stinger, which fires heat-guided missiles.
Experienced squads even transform their golf cart into a real tank killer: if we speed towards a Leopard battle tank or M1 Abrams M4 from the side, the machine gunner usually needs a few seconds to aim at us. Meanwhile, we already land the first RPG hit. If we now race past the tank at full speed, the two soldiers behind can also fire a rocket. Three RPG hits will blow up any armored vehicle and score a lot of points. A tank kill like this earns 400 XP.
Pro Tip 2: The new Traverser APC is a mobile fortress with 3 MG guns and perfect for capturing flags
The Traverser Mark 2 is the new APC (Armoured Personal Carrier) and has some of the best armour in all of Battlefield. It is significantly faster than a main battle tank, but also needs three direct RPG hits. The driver and three passengers are also protected by thick armoured glass. You can kill the driver with a sniper, but assault rifles have little effect.
As the Traverser has a remote-controlled machine gun turret, which the Gunner operates from the safe protection of the armored SUV, machine gunners are much better protected than in the Bradley or main battle tank. As two additional gunners with mini-guns can also cover the flanks on the left and right, there is currently no better vehicle in Battlefield 6 for capturing and guarding flags.
We simply smash through the walls of the large main villa and can use the three MG guns to provide 360-degree cover.
Pro Tip 3: Season 1 brings Smart Rockets that can be steered around corners with the mouse
Golden Eastwood should make everyone happy who longs for larger city maps: The villas are arranged along a long street and are each separated by golf courses, tennis courts or smaller hills.
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Golden State Eastwood is one of the largest maps in Battlefield 6 and winds its way through a complete residential area on the outskirts of Los Angeles, including tennis courts, a golf course and plenty of pools. There is a mountain range at the edges, helicopter pilots can hide from the many RPG units here, because rockets are zooming towards us from virtually every balcony on Eastwood and the skybox is relatively low. So we can’t avoid the high ground.
However, we can fly low and use the new Smart Rockets – laser-guided missiles that we can aim with the mouse. This also works behind houses or mountain ranges. DICE has probably added this function because helicopter pilots have complained about the very limited types of attack. With Apaches, for example, you had to dive to launch in order to land missile hits. An Apache is not really a dive bomber and the low overflights make it difficult to defend the helicopter from the many RPG units everywhere.
Los Angeles will most likely be the Battle Royale map, and we’re looking forward to it: Battlefield 6 needs more variety in architecture, colour palette and how terrain is used.
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Pro Tip 4: The new DMR Mini Scout is surprisingly effective against helicopters
The new DMR will come as quite a surprise to some: It can be used to pluck helicopters out of the sky with just a few hits.
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Quite exciting: the new DMR Sniper Mini Scout is surprisingly efficient against helicopters: three direct hits and the Black Hawk crashes. Apart from that, it is optimized for quick-scoping, i.e. aiming is particularly fast and we don’t have to leave the scope when reloading.
A surprising bonus from DICE, because the BF6 maps are heaven for snipers anyway. There’s no need to make it any easier for snipers.
Tip 5: The Traverser APC serves as a mobile spawn point for the whole squad
The new APC (Armoured Personal Carrier) can be upgraded to a mobile command station. This allows us to capture points more quickly. Extremely practical, because the Traverser can withstand 3 RPGs or several frontal hits with a tank.
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The new Traverser APC is not only heavily armored, DICE has also come up with a number of upgrade paths. For example, we can install a medbay, i.e. a mobile infirmary. This is extremely exciting because it not only replenishes the health of all soldiers in the MRAP relatively quickly, but also in our immediate vicinity.
If other units use our armored troop carrier as cover, for example to fend off an enemy assault on a flag, their health is continuously replenished. Not as fast as if they were in the vehicle, but it works.
Pro tip 6: The B flag at the golf course has enough space to capture it quickly with a helicopter
Right at the starting point, the best helicopter pilot in the squad should grab the Black Hawk and fly it to the B flag at the golf course. The Eastwood map is quite densely built up overall, so helicopter pilots must be able to fly very low. However, the B flag is too far away for the enemy squad at the beginning, so you can take it quite easily with a short landing.
One of the squad should definitely pack the Stinger, as the only danger is from the enemy Tiger helicopter on the Pax Armata side. A landed Black Hawk is sitting on a platter and cannot shoot down any Flairs.
Pro tip 7: Golf carts are the new C4 buggies and brilliant for Battlefield moments
Although golf carts offer no protection, they are very maneuverable. With good timing, for example, we can race over a hill, grab the C4, jump out – press the button and boom goes the Leopard.
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In our Battlefield 6 guide, we already mentioned that the Traverser Mark 2 is one of the biggest threats to infantry. It is significantly more maneuverable and faster than a main battle tank, but has similar firepower and almost as strong armor. Accordingly, DICE has built in the ultimate counter: the C4 golf cart.
The ingenious thing about it is that C4 only activates when we press the button. So we can stick C4 packs to the front, shoot over a hill, fly towards a tank, jump out and only then press the button to turn every armored vehicle into a wall of fire. Ideally, we should crash into the rear of the Traverser, as this is where it is least heavily armored.
Pro Tip 8: Fly like in Top Gun Maverick: fighter jets win dogfights with rollovers
There’s that iconic scene in Top Gun Maverick where Tom Cruise brakes his F18E Super Hornet in mid-air, pulls the bird up and sits behind his opponent with a rollover. We can also do this in Battlefield 6 by braking and firing the afterburner at the same time – this is called Thrust Vectoring.
We can use this to fly very tight turns, for example to keep a flag point under fire for a longer period of time. And also to win dogfights. However, the whole thing also has a disadvantage, because this maneuver puts the entire width of the jet in the air for a short time – for experienced RPG gunners, this means we offer a maximum attack surface.
Pro tip 9: Whoever fires their flares first loses
This pro tip isn’t the most polite, but this is Battlefield after all. As soon as we lock on to an enemy fighter jet or helicopter, it receives a missile warning. Most pilots fire their flares straight away.
So if we wait until they fire their flares and then send the missile on its way, the enemy has no time to react.
Pro tip 10: Did someone say C4 drone?
Okay, we still have one slightly dirty trick: up to four C4 packets can be placed on the drone. That’s pretty nasty when we use them to crash into the flag point on the Hollywood map in the villa. These have enough explosive power to cause the upper floor to collapse.
Depending on how many opponents are guarding this point, several squads can be eliminated with one attack. Incidentally, this also works wonderfully when the enemy uses the new Traverser APC as a mobile fortress: simply land on the roof while driving, press the button – BOOM.
