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The debut of the much-awaited Battlefield 6 garnered broad praise, notably for its premier multiplayer mode. On Steam alone, live player figures peaked at nearly 750,000. However, regardless of its fanfare, many players are expressing frustration over some of the game's most difficult challenges, which are necessary to unlock specific weapons.

Users have commenced resorting to personalized games made via the Portal feature to finish these tasks, highlighting just how grueling these missions have become.

Understanding BF6 Objectives

Assignments are Battlefield 6's permanent multiplayer tasks, in contrast to the regularly refreshed day-to-day and weekly tasks. There are four types of assignments, but while the majority simply offer outfits and select equipment, completing the weapon assignments is the sole method of obtaining twelve from the forty-one main guns found within the game.

A number of these restricted firearms could shortly find their way on lists of the finest arms in Battlefield 6.

Player Outcry on Reddit

Within Reddit, players are reasonably voicing their concerns about how challenging and repetitive several of these challenges are. One user pointed out one of the most extreme examples, needed to obtain the KTS100 MK8 LMG:

• Subdue 300 opponents with LMGs
• Deal 10,000 close-range damage with LMGs

"This mission is so terrible and completely out of mind, I want to gouge my eyes out," is a quote that summarizes just how excessively challenging these tasks are.

The suppression mechanic in Battlefield is weaker than it's ever been in the series, so it has significantly fewer positive effects in fights as it had in previous games. It only registers as suppression if you fire a burst without hitting the target.

At the same time, using an LMG from the hip is wildly inaccurate and only works at point-blank proximity, which is seldom the location you want to be. The commenter also highlighted the irony in the SMG challenge, to unlock the SCW-10, which requires kills while aiming down the sights, when that mission would be considerably more fitting to hipfire kills, and conversely.

Another Ridiculously Tough Challenge

A different forum member brought attention to an additional excessively hard challenge, within the long-range weapon type to unlock the PSR:

• Secure 150 precision takedowns from more than 200 meters away with marksman guns

This is challenging enough on its own, but there's another important point to consider: the majority of Battlefield 6 maps fail to facilitate combat at that kind of range.

There is a decent selection of map sizes, but since there are only nine battlegrounds in the game right now, it implies you must stick to playing one of the larger locales, another expansive area, and perhaps Operation Firestorm in a best-case scenario if you plan to engage from afar from beyond 200 meters.

The Alternative Method

Nevertheless, a method exists: Battlefield Portal. The Battlefield Portal is a system that permits you to make custom game modes on the battleground of your choice, complete with bots. This allows you can exploit the mechanics… but it doesn't exactly feel like the spirit of the game.

But when completing the missions in a standard match feels like anti-playing, since you must engage in such an unconventional way that harms both you and your squad, is it surprising for finishing these in a custom game so allies are not impaired?

Upcoming Tweaks

It is expected if some of these assignments are adjusted to be less difficult in the coming days or weeks, because if they're not, some players simply are unlikely to obtain the gated weapons.

Currently, the audience continues to share their thoughts on these strenuous multiplayer missions, hoping for a fairer player experience in subsequent patches.