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The release of the highly anticipated Battlefield 6 received broad praise, especially for its premier multiplayer mode. On Steam alone, concurrent player counts reached a high of nearly 750,000. Nevertheless, despite its popularity, many players are voicing discontent with several of the title's hardest challenges, which are necessary to obtain particular firearms.

Players have started resorting to custom matches set up using Battlefield Portal to achieve these objectives, highlighting just how demanding these missions have become.

Grasping Battlefield 6 Assignments

Assignments are Battlefield 6's permanent multiplayer tasks, different from the periodically changed day-to-day and weekly tasks. It features four classes of assignments, but although many only reward cosmetics and some tools, completing the weapon assignments is the sole method of acquiring a dozen out of forty-one key firearms available in the game.

A number of these restricted firearms could shortly earn a place on lists of the top weapons in Battlefield 6.

Community Frustration on Reddit

On Reddit, players are reasonably sharing their frustrations about how difficult and grindy a number of these challenges are. One user pointed out one of the most egregious examples, mandatory for acquiring the KTS100 MK8 LMG:

• Neutralize 300 foes with LMGs
• Cause 10,000 non-ADS damage with LMGs

"This challenge is so terrible and totally unreasonable, I want to scream in frustration," is a comment that illustrates just how frustratingly difficult these tasks are.

The suppression feature in the game is more diminished than before in the series, so it doesn't have anywhere near as many positive effects in fights as it did in previous games. It only tallies as suppression if you fail to hit several consecutive shots.

Additionally, using an LMG from the hip is highly imprecise and only works at extremely close range, which is seldom the location you want to be. The commenter also pointed out the paradox in the SMG challenge, required for the SCW-10, which needs takedowns using ADS, when that task would be considerably more fitting to hipfire kills, and vice versa.

Another Overly Demanding Challenge

Another Reddit user brought attention to an additional excessively hard challenge, within the marksman rifle class to unlock the PSR:

• Get 150 headshot kills over 200m with marksman guns

This is difficult enough by itself, but there's one more key thing to consider: many Battlefield 6 maps don't even support combat at that kind of range.

There exists a reasonable assortment of map sizes, but because there are just nine battlegrounds in the game at present, it implies you must stick to playing New Sobek City, Mirak Valley, and maybe an additional option if you're lucky if you plan to engage from afar from beyond 200 meters.

The Alternative Method

However, there is a solution: the custom game tool. This portal feature is a system that permits you to make custom game modes on the battleground of your choice, including AI opponents. This allows you can exploit the mechanics… but it isn't truly in line with the developer's vision.

But when doing the challenges in a standard match seems counterproductive, since you have to play in such an unconventional way that doesn't benefit you or your team, who can fault a player for finishing these in a custom game so squad members are not disadvantaged?

Potential Changes

It should not be shocking if several of these tasks are toned down in the near future, because should they remain unchanged, a portion of the user base simply won't get their hands on the gated weapons.

At the moment, the community continues to voice their opinions on these strenuous multiplayer missions, anticipating a less arduous gaming experience in subsequent patches.