The publisher and Battlefield Studios are addressing one of the game’s biggest pain points – a sweeping rework of Challenges and Assignments aims to speed up progression to a reasonable session length while keeping skill-driven rewards intact.

Battlefield 6 launched strong: over seven million copies sold in three days, and Steam concurrency never dipped below 200,000. That does not mean the game is flawless. Encouragingly, Electronic Arts and Battlefield Studios are acting on community feedback – they are overhauling the pace of progression tied to Challenges and Assignments that feed battle pass tiers, weapon attachments, and in many cases entirely new guns. Several weapons in Battlefield 6 cannot be unlocked by level-ups alone.

“As we continue to build on previously mentioned improvements, we are delivering a major overhaul of Challenges and Assignments, guided by gameplay data and your feedback. This update significantly reduces requirements, cutting down on time investment while maintaining a focus on skill-driven progression that rewards consistent play. Challenges and Assignments are tuned around defined playtime targets, and these changes align requirements with those goals to make them achievable within a reasonable session length.” the studio wrote.

Progression frustrations were compounded when players mass-farmed XP in bot-filled PvE Portal matches. EA moved to curb that behavior, but more importantly it targeted the root issue – in Battlefield 6, earning almost anything demanded too much effort.

The latest patch brings more than 90 tweaks across Challenges and Assignments. Highlights include simplified weapon tasks across all categories, a damage requirement cut from 10,000 to 3,000, standardized mode-specific tasks that now require two wins per tier instead of five, and multi-kill or kill-streak objectives reduced from twenty to five. Class-specific Challenges are also markedly faster to complete.

It is a positive sign that EA and Battlefield Studios are responding materially to progression concerns. If the cadence continues, overall progression should look healthier within a month.

Source: WCCFTech, Twitter