Battlefield 6's lead oozes confidence by confirming that the servers 'should be' ready for its release on Friday, breaking a cycle of awful Battlefield launches

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The fates are yet to decide.

Battlefield 6: A soldier wearing a tan uniform, including a helmet, glasses, and mask, facing to the side with a sledgehammer over their shoulder while turning to look at the camera.
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It's T-minus three days until Battlefield 6's launch, and with every hour that passes, I get even more excited. But my sheer joy at the prospect of jumping into blissful chaos is also somewhat overshadowed by the rising dread that the servers simply won't be able to cope.

Battlefield games have a rather unfavourable track record of borking their servers on launch as more people than expected pile in. To be fair, so do most multiplayer online games. But Battlefield 6 lead producer David Sirland seems to think all will be OK when Friday rolls around. "Should be! We are planning for that, of course, and the open beta helped gauge the interest as well," Sirland said (via GamesRadar) in response to a fan question about whether the servers would be ready.

Battlefield 6 beta feedback: A side-on image of a soldier wearing full gear prone with a scoped LMG amongst rocks and other debris.

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The betas likely helped Battlefield Studios realise just how popular Battlefield 6 will be, as hundreds of thousands of players piled in to experience the joys and horrors that Iberian Offensive had to offer, and many were met with a 140,000 player queue.

The other pitfall that many were nervous about Battlefield 6 falling into is releasing in an unoptimised state (like Borderlands 4 last month). Although from what I've seen so far, this won't be the case: The beta played pretty smoothly, except for a slight hiccup on the second weekend of beta testing, with virtually no server issues to be seen.

Honestly, even the worst-case scenario, getting met with hour-long queues of hundreds of thousands of people, doesn't even suck too much. Sure, it would be nice to get to enjoy Battlefield 6 straight away, but the queues never last for long, and players will have all the time in the world to enjoy everything on offer in the coming months—and hopefully years.

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Elie Gould
Elie Gould
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Elie is a news writer with an unhealthy love of horror games—even though their greatest fear is being chased. When they're not screaming or hiding, there's a good chance you'll find them testing their metal in metroidvanias or just admiring their Pokemon TCG collection. Elie has previously worked at TechRadar Gaming as a staff writer and studied at JOMEC in International Journalism and Documentaries – spending their free time filming short docs about Smash Bros. or any indie game that crossed their path.

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