This is why you suck at Battlefield 6...

Battlefield 6 season 3 released earlier this week with the fantastic addition of Gulma Railway. However, arguably the most important part of this update was the huge game-changing patch that released, massively impacting how the game plays. And if you've jumped on and played for yourself, you may have noticed that the game is perhaps a bit more difficult now. The guns feel different and the vehicles are slamming everyone. It's not just happening to you. And if you hadn't read the huge patch notes, you might be left scratching your head and asking yourself, "Am I just bad now?" Well, I'm going to let you know all of the most important changes and things that you need to know to help mitigate and adapt to some of these adjustments. First things first, I guess that you noticed the change in the gunplay. And maybe you aren't hitting as much as you used to. That's because of a few of these big updates. Check this out. Recall for all automatic weapons has been slightly increased to compensate for the recoil compensation bug fixes that came out in game update 1.2.1.0. Additionally, increased recoil for the high DPS automatic weapons, reducing their longrange and mid-range capabilities and giving them outsized opportunity costs and making other weapons more attractive to use. And the weapons they're most affected are the SG, the SCW10, the KB9, the CZ, the SGX, the TR7, M4 A1, M121, VCR2, M433, PW5, M123, and GRTBC. Then finally, reduce the amount of recoil reduction applied when using controller input. So recoil behavior is more closely aligned across control schemes, helping avoid a large handling advantage on one input over another. Overall then reading all that, whether you're using a mouse or a controller, recoil has increased on a lot of the most popular meta weapons in the game. If you used to like the TR7, you definitely won't like it anymore. They've also increased the random horizontal recoil variation, meaning that when you full auto, your gun is going to be bouncing side to side a bit more and be less predictable. And horizontal recoil is almost impossible to counteract. This just feels awful sometimes, and it's definitely a divisive change, but it's a change that DICE have made nonetheless. So, how can you counteract it best? Well, fundamentals, of course. Burst fire at longer distances, tap firing at longer distances. Think about when you're shooting a bit. Also, standing still when you're shooting, that can all help. In terms of the attachments, well, the linear compensator is a good pick for bringing down recoil variation. However, you would have to sacrifice a suppressor here, which as we all know, suppressors are pretty overpowered in BF6 because if you have one on, you don't self spot when you shoot. But if you want to have better beams, maybe think about trying that barrel attachment. As for the grip, classic vertical is a great shout, but it is very expensive at 35 points. If you want something a bit cheaper, the 6H64 vertical at 25 would help bring that recoil amount stat down. The new aftermarket buffer attachment in the ergonomics category will also bring down the visual recoil effect that's definitely more pronounced in the latest patch. Different sites can help with this, too. So, look at changing that up from your usual as well. How does this actually look in the game, then? Well, I've got a vanilla M4 A1 here. No attachments on that apart from the ones that you have to have. And the wall is 25 m away there. Going to walk up to here, aim at the bottom line, and I'm just going to magum. No recoil control whatsoever. And you can see where all the bullets are going there. So, it kind of just goes up and to the right. And now I'm going to go ahead and put a classic vertical on the bottom. And then for the muzzle, we're going to put that linear compensator on. And just to show you guys, they're on there now. And then we're going to do the same again. Obviously, just a bit further over to the right so we can contrast and compare. But it should be evident straight away. We got far less horizontal variation there. Much tighter at the top, too, and far less vertical recoil. So, that's the kind of effect that those attachments are going to have in game. Obviously, the the muzzle suppressor I think is very important. So, there could be other ways that you can balance this. You might have to change up your gameplay style a bit, but the benefits of the attachments are exacerbated when you start controlling recoil and burst firing a bit. I think a lot of people are going into this update expecting it to be exactly the same and they're just trying to like beam everyone at longer. I mean, look at that. The amount of side to side variation there. But man, it bounces around so much. I mean, here you're not really seeing that much of a difference, but those far away targets, like you've really got to think about firing a bit more. I mean, that's bit of a long shot, definitely. But you see what I mean? You're going to have to try a bit harder now. Moving on. As you've noticed, the vehicles in this patch are pretty strong, and you've been dying a lot to them. So, what changed? How can you use them more effectively if you want to go stomping with them? And how can you fight back when you're not in a vehicle? I want to caveat this by saying though that I'd bet a lot of you have been playing mostly GMO Railway this week, which by design is supposed to be a good map for vehicles, right? Vehicles have a lot of advantages there, especially versus infantry. But saying that, check out the most important bits from the patch notes here in my opinion. Updated all track vehicles with a new transmission and steering system, delivering smoother and more responsive acceleration, tighter and more consistent turning at all speeds, a smoother steering feel, and more effective handbrake turns. Tank type vehicles are no longer immobilized by taking high damage, but anti-tank mines will still immobilize tanks. The ground vehicle boost bar is no longer emptied when interrupting boost. Boost can now be reapplied even when the bar is recharging, except when it's been fully emptied. Turret speeds for the MBT and IF have been modestly improved. Aiming in first person and zoomed views in the tanks has been tuned to be faster and more responsive. So, to start with, big chunky armored vehicles are now generally quicker. They have more mobility and they're going to be able to aim at you much faster. That in itself makes them more threatening. On top of this, regen has been buffed, too. One of the biggest changes comes though with an nerf to RPGs. Updated the RPG, so it now deals 173 to 460 damage against tanks. In practice, this means that you can no longer two-shot RPG a tank from behind with critical hits. You used to be able to. Not anymore. It takes three now. So, we've got a tank here, and I'm just going to hit it three times in the rear. One, two, three. Three shots. And they are perfect hits as well from the side. One, two, three, four. Four shots from the side. And again, the rear shots and the side shots there were at the perfect angle. If you're on an off angle like this, for example, it's going to take more shots. One, two, three, four, five, six. And bear in mind that this is a stationary target. This guy isn't using any emergency repair. Stationary and I don't have reloads on. So you can see now overall generally how much better the tanks are. Another buff that the tanks have had is with the smoke. So previously if you pop the smoke in a tank it would give you a bit of cover and it would prevent things from locking on to you. Certain anti-tank weapons, whatever. But now if infantry are around you trying to kill you with C4 mines, whatever repair tool mess with you, all you got to do is pop the smoke and it will actually damage them and eventually kill them. It also blocks the AV mine from attacking you. All hits on you while you're in the smoke are registered as minimum damage hits at 75% damage and it destroys any C4 that's on or around you. So, if a recon player comes up to you thinking, "Hey, I'm just going to run up to this guy in C4." If you've got that smoke off cool down, you can pop it and it's going to boom, instantly delete all the C4 that's on you. That is wild. And it reduced the cool down of it, too. I can't understate this huge vehicle buff in this patch. So, how do you mitigate this? Well, if you're an infantry player and you're firing at tanks with RPGs, focus on shots that are on the side or the back. And also make sure that you're as straight on as you can be. So that's a good shot because I'm perfectly straight on. This, like I showed you earlier here, that's a bad shot. Unless, of course, you just need to do damage. This is a bad shot. Straight on. That's a much better shot. But of course, that's where the tank's got the most armor at the front. So ideally, you want to be hitting straight on on the side or directly at the back. And of course, working with your teammates is important, too. It's going to be a lot more difficult now as a player to solo kill a tank. So, communicate with your squad. If you're playing with mates on voicecoms, make sure at least one or two of you in the squad are engineer with RPGs. And you can still gang up on tanks. You just have to coordinate it a bit better. Shots to the turret have also had their damage nerfed as well. So, you can see that barely did anything. So, if you can try not to shoot the turret, go for the sides and the back and you're going to be a lot more effective that way. From what I was reading too, it looked like the law and the javelin got a bit of a buff. So, they could be good options to try out as well. But, I think close to mid-range, the RPG is definitely the most effective. Versus helicopters, close range, I'd still take the RPG. Medium to long range, I'll take the AT4. Wrapping things up then, those two categories of changes are having the biggest impact on the game right now based on what I've experienced. the gunplay and the armored vehicles. And what it all boils down to is as an infantry player, which I think most of you are, you're going to have to think about gun builds a bit more, where you want to put those points. And you're going to have to think a lot more about controlling recoil, bursting, and tap firing at medium to long distances. And for the vehicles, well, you're going to have to start respecting enemy vehicles a lot more, especially the tanks. You're going to have to flank them more effectively. You're going to have to hide from them more. you're going to have to focus on ganging up on them with teammates and carefully picking your anti-tank shots to do the most effective damage. Slams might also be a better shot. Now, if you're the player in the tank, however, you've now got way more survivability and mobility. And make sure that you're using the smoke to your advantage because it's super overpowered at the moment. And that's all. Let me know your thoughts down in the comments below. How's your experience been so far? And I hope that this video helped you in some way. If it did, drop a like. That would be much appreciated. Thank you. Subscribe if you're new here. And I'll see you next time.