Battlefield 6 Season 3 LEAKS are Insane and might save the game...

Today we've got some pretty promising leaks, news, and updates about Battlefield 6. Upcoming stuff that I think might actually be good for the game in the long run, too. And potentially three maps in season 3, which if they do deliver on that, it's a pretty big deal. Now, a lot of this stuff has come from the recent BF Labs playtest. So, this week they've done BF Labs testing on Golmud Railway. A lot of people just don't care about the NDA, they stream it. All the information's out there and it's revealed a much broader look at Golmud Railway, which is one of the new maps in season 3. Loaded gameplay mechanics that are in there, new weapons, guns, gameplay features. But, it's also enabled data miners to go in and look at the code and see upcoming stuff. And on top of this, we've literally, as I'm recording this video, got a brand new update, a blog post from Battlefield themselves about the patch next week, which has some good quality-of-life fixes and the return of operations mode. So, maybe things are starting to look on the bright side. Let's dive in. So, first things first, Golmud Railway. I watched all the videos that were posted on Reddit and Bilibili. The map looks really good in my opinion. It's huge. It's the biggest map in BF6 by far, way bigger than anything that's currently in the game, bigger than Firestorm, Mirai Valley, way bigger than those maps. And it looks like that they've captured the spirit of the original map, but they've also added a lot of cover in those infantry spaces where there wasn't much going on. So, I think it is going to be a fun sandbox map to return to. Yesterday, I also saw some jet gameplay footage and it looks like they've massively extended the area that the jets can fly around in. So, in most of the current maps, you don't really get to fly around that much and you often just get stopped by the out-of-bounds area. So, it's not ideal for dog fighting or lining up bombing runs, attack runs, that kind of thing. But, from what I saw, the play space for the jets and helicopters, it looks pretty huge in this. So, good. There's also rumors that they've done vehicle updates, too. So, some improvements to helicopter controls and tank and IFV gameplay, as well. Changes to rockets, as well. RPG, some rebalancing there with the Javelin, the LAW, the M136. Obviously, when that comes out, we'll get hands-on with that and we'll read the updates and experience it and see how that feels. But, I know a lot of people have been looking for vehicle updates for a long time. There's artillery strike battle pickups on the map, too. So, what I saw, this looks like some goggles that you can pick up, kind of like the ones that are in Battle Royale. You aim them at a location and then boom, artillery strike comes in. And the same for a smoke screen pickup, as well. I like that kind of thing in BF6 multiplayer. As long as it's not something that's happening all the time. want to be like constantly artillery strike. So, as long as that stuff actually requires a bit of skill to go and get the thing and then aim it and shoot it and a big cool down. I think that kind of stuff can be quite interesting, especially with all of the destruction in the game. There's plenty of new gun gameplay in the videos that were leaked, too. The L115, that's the AWP from Counter-Strike. That's an iconic sniper rifle. Obviously, we had that in BF4. Was it in BF3? Maybe it was in BF3 with a different name. I can't quite remember, but that's going to be a big hitter, for sure. The RPK-74. We kind of already have this in the game, but I'm guessing this will have different stats and they'll make it feel and perform differently. The M16. There's a bit of debate whether this is the M16A3 or the M16A4. So, is it burst or is it auto? From what I saw, you can actually have burst and auto with this gun. I guess it's going to be overpowered as hell. And then the PP-19 Bizon. I think I mentioned that the other day in a video, too. It's a little SMG. So, new guns coming to the game. According to Temporyal, who is one of the biggest data miners in the community, he was saying that obliteration mode is coming back. Obliteration mode was a mode that they introduced in BF4, where you have to grab a bomb with a timer on it and then take it to a location and then make something explode. That's coming back in BF6. For me, personally, I'm not a big fan of obliteration. I don't think it was that fun to play and I didn't really see it being that popular with the player base at the time, either, in BF4. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Obliteration, I didn't ever think it was like a big thing. It certainly wasn't for me in the circles that I was operating in. They tried to do a competitive thing with it early days when BF4 came out, but it just never took off. So, the rumors are that that's coming back to the game. I don't think that's going to be popular in BF6, being totally honest with you, but I'll try it out, for sure. Maybe they made some changes. Apparently, there's a ranked mode coming to the game, too. This is going to be pretty big for Red Sect. If you're playing Red Sect and you want to grind the ranks. I don't know if this is going to be in multiplayer. Maybe. Perhaps they're looking at introducing competitive stuff back into the game. We'll have to wait and see about that. But, definitely for Red Sect, ranked mode with leaderboards and stuff like that. I know those players who really get into it and only play competitive games will appreciate that. But, for the most part, the casual player base, I don't think they're going to care about ranked. The second map in season 3, according to data miners, is a map called Plaza, which is Grand Bazaar from BF3. It's a fan favorite map in BF3. It's one of my favorite Battlefield maps ever, because it just had this really great design with all the different lanes and you could use the exterior orbital area to do big flanks and take the IFVs around and put a bit of pressure on certain flags that you were coming across. Loads of rubble drop potential in the middle flags, too. It was a great BF3 map, in my opinion. Apparently, that's the second map in season 3. I know a lot of people are going to like that. So, we've got a BF4 map in Golmud Railway, BF3 map in Grand Bazaar. I appreciate the fact that they're remaking old maps, but at the same time, I do want to see new stuff. Now, the new stuff, this could be this third potential map. Again, this has come from Temporyal. Apparently, there's a third map in season 3 called Isolated. There's not much more information than that. Three maps in a season, rather than two. Obviously, that's better. We've discussed this many times before. DICE, since 2018 with BF5, when live service started in Battlefield games, they've not delivered a good live service. It's just not happened. BF5, 2042, and now BF6. It's been 7 to 8 years and they just haven't managed to do it. I don't know why. When you've got such a big studio like DICE and all the others that support DICE, like Criterion, Motive, Ripple Effect. There's a lot of talent there, for sure. All the might and money of EA to back them, as well. For some reason, they've not been able to nail the production pipeline and deliver more maps per season, which is what people want, especially when you make a game that leans towards the more casual, accessible FPS audience. When there's not as much depth or teamwork in the core gameplay, you have to keep giving them new playgrounds to play in. You have to keep giving them new toys, new guns, gadgets, vehicles, at a much faster cadence than what they've delivered. I don't know why they haven't managed to do it. I don't know if it's a a money thing, a dev thing. Maybe it's on purpose. Maybe they just like, ah, two maps is enough. It isn't. I think if you want the game to stay relevant and you want to maintain an audience when you make this type of Battlefield game, you have to have more maps per season. So, at least, it looks like maybe, again, pinch of salt, this is from the Temporyal data mines, perhaps we're going to get a third map in season 3. If they can keep that up for the life cycle of BF6 and do three or four maps per season going forward, I'll hold my hand up and say, "Hey, amazing. You guys are actually delivering here." But, if it's only going to be two going forward, I think that's going to be a big disappointment for a lot of the players. But, we will see how that turns out. Now, there were also a couple of posts on the BF Reddit about experimental functions that are being tested in BF Labs. So, again, these are things that might come to the game, they might not. One of them I thought was really interesting. This was called show dispersion in ADS, so aimed down the sight. And the description was, "This function displays a circular crosshair that shows the current amount of dispersion of the weapon when firing it. This functionality is aimed at improving the visibility of dispersion, allowing for increased accuracy when zoomed. The bigger the size of the crosshair, the more dispersion you will be impacted with." So, I think they had this in Overwatch originally. That's maybe the first time that I saw it. So, as you're shooting, some kind of dot or crosshair within the center, it could just be the red dot, blooms and grows as you shoot. So, you have a better understanding of how much spread or dispersion, in this case, is currently being applied to your gun. It looks like if they do put it in the game permanently, it will be a option, so you don't have to use it. And it makes me think perhaps they might be changing the gunplay. They might actually be adding more spread and dispersion to the gunplay, because almost every single gun in BF6 is an absolute laser beam. We'll see. I'm thinking, why else would they do something like this? Maybe just for accessibility, I'm not sure. See how that turns out. And the other experimental feature was super input polling. This one is aimed at improving mouse and controller input and is a response towards individuals that feel as though their inputs are jittery since launch, specifically mouse players, as we continue to improve on the experience for you. So, I'm all about this. I mean, if there's anything they add to the game that can improve how the mouse feels, make it less jittery, make it more responsive, lower latency, I'm going to try that out if it makes it to the full game. Good stuff. And before we move on to the blog post, there was another little feature that I saw in the BF Labs gameplay leaks, graffiti. So, this goes back as far as Half-Life. From Was Half-Life '98, '99? And Counter-Strike, where you could spray graffiti on walls. You would just press T, I think it was, in Counter-Strike and spray whatever symbol or pattern you had selected in the game onto the wall. Obviously, a lot of games have copied that since. I think in mainstream, maybe MW19 introduced it to a lot more players. It was in MW2, as well, I think. Warzone, it was very popular. But, they're bringing that to BF6. Just a bit of fun. There was a video of somebody spraying it on various different walls on Golmud Railway. You can pick between a variety of sprays, by the looks of it. Don't know if you can spray players, though, like you could in MW19. I'll have to test that if it comes to the main game. So, that's the stuff from BF Labs leaks and data mines. Now, we're moving on to the update notes that they've released and we'll just quickly skim through these and we'll talk about the the important big bits here. So, we've got Operation Orge coming next week, which is basically connecting contaminated and Horgan Fell base together in a new limited-time operations mode. Yes, operations mode is going to be limited time in BF6. I don't know why cuz I think a lot of people are going to play this. BF1 operations was incredible and I think it was on all the maps, right? So, that's definitely a good update for the game that we have operations, but it being an LTM, I'm like, "Uh, why? Can't we have this on all the other maps?" There's a new vehicle, the LTV, and this is the NATO variant of the Traverse Mark II. I like that they're doing faction-based vehicles. Pretty cool. Heavily armored vehicle with a gun on the top, basically. There's a new melee weapon, the Ripper 14. Don't really care about that. The progression thing was quite interesting. Progression feels more rewarding, they're saying here. Weapon XP and vehicle XP now earned through active use alongside kills and assists. XP rates have been increased slightly across multiplayer and Battle Royale and Gauntlet progression now plays more weight on time spent in a match. With Battle Royale also awarding higher scores for kills and damage assists. So, you'll be earning XP more and you'll also be earning weapon XP and vehicle XP by doing other things than kills. So, again, I think this is kind of like it was in Modern Warfare and Warzone, right? Like, you don't just have to get kills with the guns. You can be using them at the time that you're performing actions like capping objectives, blowing up M-COMs, healing teammates. So, you're just going to get gun and vehicle XP for a lot of different things now. Good. Combat feedback and gameplay clarity. Incoming hit audio is now clearer. Rapid damage is easier to read. Projectile and tracer behavior is more consistent and network warning indicators now provide better visibility during live combat. That all sounds great. UI and HUD's been improved. Weapons and gadgets receive a broad balance pass. There's a bit more about this in a second. If I just take a look here, the defibrillator has had quite a big change. It's going to be quite divisive, this one. Some people will just be like, "Why? Isn't this just going to lead to fewer players being revived?" The defib now uses a charge system similar to earlier Battlefield titles, starting with three charges that allow for a few rapid revives before needing to recharge. Revive health scales with charge time, 50% instantly up to 100% when fully charged with smooth steps in between. A new UI indicator shows your charge progress to help you time revives effectively. In addition, the health given with the charge duration can also be dealt as damage against enemies. This means that you can once again kill a player in one zap if you've charged the defib fully. And there's a little dev note on this. This update brings a meaningful balance pass to the defibrillator, aimed at improving game flow and overall combat pacing while keeping revives impactful and rewarding. After reviewing its behavior over the past few months, we found it was too easy to revive multiple teammates in quick succession with minimal risk. Our goal is to preserve these clutch moments where you can get your squad back on their feet quickly while encouraging more deliberate use. So, I think overall, that's kind of a nerf to defibs and you've got to think about it a little bit more. So, we'll see in reality how that plays out in public matches and whether it's received as a good or a bad thing. Let me know what you think below. And then there's a load of other stuff, improvements, general general patches, bug fixes, some improvements to portal audio, AI, loads of stuff for Redacted as well. So, yeah, pretty big update coming next week. I mean, there's no new content, per se. Operations, yeah, that's kind of new, but not at the same time and only an LTM, disappointing. And still no mention or anything about a proper server browser coming to the game. Me, personally, I think that's one of the biggest things that they could add that would improve the player experience, just having the official servers in some kind of server browser that you can see and browse. If they were going to do it, I feel like they would have mentioned it already. Now, we're 6 months to the day, actually, I think, since the game released. 10th of October, wasn't it, it came out? Wow. Yeah, so it's been out 6 months, but they haven't mentioned server browser, so dead game. Probably not coming. Maybe in the next one. But yeah, I think overall, this reads and sounds like a great update next week. Plus, the information and leaks, again, pinch of salt that we've got about season 3, maybe things are looking up for the game cuz there's a lot of quality of life features there as well as potentially more maps and content coming to the game in the next season. Time will tell. And I've just remembered on Golmud Railway, too. They've got the train. The train is back. So, if you own that point, it goes towards your deployment and it pushes everything out the way. Can't be destroyed. I wonder if they'll bring the Yeti Easter egg back, though. Fingers crossed. With that said, guys, thanks so much for watching. Appreciate your support on the Battlefield videos recently. Loads of great comments, views, likes, new subscribers, as well. So, thank you, guys. Drop a like on this video, that'd be amazing. Subscribe if you are new watching this video, and I'll see you next time. Bye-bye.