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The release of the eagerly awaited Battlefield 6 garnered significant enthusiasm, especially for its flagship multiplayer mode. Just on Steam, concurrent player counts reached a high of nearly 750,000. Nevertheless, in spite of its success, many players are protesting against several of the title's toughest challenges, which are necessary to obtain particular firearms.

Players have started turning to personalized games set up using Battlefield Portal to complete them, underscoring just how demanding these assignments have become.

Comprehending BF6 Objectives

Assignments are Battlefield 6's ongoing multiplayer objectives, as opposed to the regularly refreshed daily and weekly challenges. There are four types of assignments, but where most merely grant skins and a few gadgets, finishing the gun missions is the only way of acquiring a dozen out of forty-one key firearms present in the game.

Some of these gated guns might eventually make their appearance on lists of the top weapons in Battlefield 6.

Community Frustration on Reddit

Over on Reddit, players are understandably sharing their frustrations about how challenging and repetitive several of these challenges are. One user emphasized one of the most extreme examples, needed to obtain the KTS100 MK8 LMG:

• Suppress 300 enemies with LMGs
• Cause 10,000 non-ADS damage with LMGs

"This mission is so terrible and completely out of mind, I want to gouge my eyes out," is a statement that captures just how annoyingly hard these tasks are.

The suppression mechanic in Battlefield is more diminished than before in the series, so it lacks nearly as many positive effects in fights as it did in previous games. It only registers as suppression if you miss multiple shots in a row.

Meanwhile, hipfiring an LMG is wildly inaccurate and functions solely at extremely close range, which isn't typically where you aim to be. The commenter also highlighted the irony in the SMG challenge, required for the SCW-10, which needs takedowns using ADS, when that mission would be considerably more fitting to hipfire kills, and the other way around.

Another Extremely Difficult Task

A different forum member pointed out another ridiculously tough challenge, within the marksman rifle class to unlock the PSR:

• Get 150 headshot kills beyond 200 meters with sniper rifles

This is difficult enough on its own, but there's an additional crucial factor to consider: many Battlefield 6 maps fail to facilitate combat at that kind of range.

There's a healthy variety of map sizes, but since there are only nine battlegrounds in the game at present, it restricts you to playing one of the larger locales, Mirak Valley, and perhaps a classic map if you're lucky if you want to snipe from a significant distance.

The Alternative Method

Nevertheless, a method exists: Battlefield Portal. The custom game creator is a system that permits you to create personalized matches on whatever map you choose, including AI opponents. This implies you can cheese the system… but it doesn't exactly feel like the spirit of the game.

But when doing the challenges in a normal session appears to work against fun, since you are forced to participate in such an atypical style that harms both you and your squad, who can fault a player for grinding them out in a private match so teammates aren't hindered?

Potential Changes

It is expected if a number of these missions are adjusted to be less difficult in the coming days or weeks, because unless they are modified, a portion of the user base simply will never acquire the restricted guns.

For now, the player base continues to share their thoughts on these demanding in-game tasks, expecting a fairer player experience in future updates.