Battlefield 6: All-around War (and an iconic map) Return – It Rocks
Blog Andrew Joseph 18 Sep , 2025 0
If the Battlefield series is known for one thing, it is the massive, messy scale of destruction that happens on the largest multiplayer map, and when I entered the upcoming 64-time player game mode earlier this week, I got a refreshing taste. Mirak Valley is the largest map of launch launch, a great new war zone that reminds me of a larger version of the blood enema in Halo, fighting it on each side on huge, deadly unmanned land, while Remaster of Remaster the Iconic Operation Firestort's Firestorm kicks me out of my highlights in Nostalgia 3. Both are literal explosions playing in their own way, it's great to come back in a massive war game with bomb explosions and bullets flying all kinds of ways, especially in the environment that is easier to destroy than ever before, and change the map in creative ways. It's a good thing since I skipped Battlefield 2042, and for a long time I felt like I was hitting a military shooter with this crazy number of players and after hours of Battlefield 6, I don't know how I could do it for so long without it. It feels great to come back!
As I walked through the valley…
The first map I've played was Mirak Valley, which the Battlefield Studio said would be the biggest map at launch, and yes, it's very huge. Although it has small settlements and rocky terrain on each side of the dirt road, the main attraction is the two unfinished skyscrapers with many actions found in the center of the map. Fighting in these claustrophobic concrete boxes and stairwells allows for a lot of close-range gunfights, but the surrounding unfinished walls also bring you into contact with the outside world to grab your recruitment of missiles in your direction, which adds a unique challenge when you try to capture the holographic Zones in each building. Although the gradual destruction of these buildings can make them more difficult to control, they also allow interesting opportunities to change the geometry of the map, such as how a portion of a destroyed building falls to create a ramp that can then be used to reach the second floor of the skyscraper from the outside, to the second floor of the skyscraper from the outside, and to be more easily defended (but it is also difficult to avoid being attacked).
Mirak Valley ended up being an easy favorite of two maps I’ve ever played, both as a wonderfully well-designed and ridiculous large war zone, but also as the moment when these new destruction engines make themselves so clear. For example, in a game, I spent a lot of time on a small two-story building, picking up enemies from a distance and trying to stay hidden, but during the game (and many deaths), I continued to lose my own debris in my own building until there was almost nothing left. The window I shot out at the beginning turned into a half-room, and as I retreated to the stairs it fell down until the battle was over with little structure and I found myself staring behind the rubble and shooting. Moments like this are a great showcase of how much confusion you can cause during the game, all of which will happen organically during the battle rather than scheduled events that inevitably happen in every game.
Entering a fire (storm)
After almost enough time to explore (and blow up) the Mirak Valley, we advanced to more familiar terrain along the “Fire” map of the returned Operation Battlefield 3. If you've never played this before, it'll be on a refinery in a large warehouse where you can fill up close encounters, or you can ride the metal staircase and sidewalk maze of the refinery itself with incredible giant fuel tanks with gobbsmackmackmacksmint Gobsbacking from Beautsial Farrive the Business End the Business End the Business End sarsault ossault ossault ossault ossault ossault ossault ossault ossault ossault ossault ossault ossault ossault ossault special.
The return of this map will surely bring back the wonderful memories of good times and painful rivals being killed, but for me some old-fashioned map design choices aren't completely confused with modern multiplayer expectations. To their credit, the Battlefield Studio undoubtedly made some tweaks to the line of sight, destructive race fixtures, and available combat lanes that you can use to bring to the bad guys, but they also have to keep it in a lot of the same way to make it as recognizable as the map we know and like. This means you have to go through a lot of barren areas, especially in the suburbs of the arena, where you will be open to someone picking you up without hassle, or just a little bored, waiting to get to your destination and having nothing to do along the way.
That said, the virtues of this map are still as clear as ever, especially the long-range potential of refinery elevated sidewalks, which is my dream of making the most of the sniper. Also, being able to blow up key parts of the warehouse, for example, by blowing up the prone enemies hidden on the roof, by blowing up parts of the ceiling and shooting them through it, is just *chef's kiss*. By contrast, especially since this Battlefield 3's return feels like a tiny arena, it certainly doesn't hit like the gleaming New Mirak Valley.
On the goal
Regardless of which map I use, whether it’s customizable character categories, more grounded gunfights or a handful of game modes, my combat mode has made my combat ability to test, which has always impressed me. Each of these four courses (attack, support, reconnaissance and engineer) has their advantages, which makes it hard to stick to anyone, such as having my teammates re-fight with the support class, or having sniper fools disperse my enemies as reconciliation level. One cool aspect, though, is that when I decided to change, I was able to swap the weapons I like, like how I gave my assault characters a machine gun that supported the character so I didn't have to bother reloading between kills (because I tend to play with more fixedness than most people, so don't mind the accuracy of the list). It felt like a nice middle ground between using Arsenal’s lockdown courses, rather than part of their class, as the gadgets and unique abilities are still unique, but the weapons are free to trade, and I tried it from different combinations.
I am also very grateful for some of the adjustments to gunfights that have made less interaction, such as less accuracy in sports or in the air or when jumping, especially when the weapon is less accurate. This means I see less players bounce on cartoons to kill me, which is always an out-of-time military shooter, aiming to achieve a level of realism. Don't get me wrong, there's still a lot of couch spam and hiding around the corner to get shots, mastering mobility certainly plays a role in your ability to dominate the game, but I also feel it makes sense for calm because I calmed down and I was crazy about shooting percentages on the players.
The game modes we played on each map are variants of the area-controlled game types we saw before, and there is a new new game mode that adds chaos. Conquest is a classic game to control as many key parts of the map as possible while scoring kills, while breakouts put one team into an offense to control a specific area of the specific area that another team defends. On the other hand, there is an interesting concept that throughout the game, the capture points in the game are gradually reduced, forcing the conflict into some places that guide the combat flow and reduce stagnant terrain. This often messes up when everyone goes to certain areas for total war, which usually involves many tanks bragging about everything to Smithereens and may not be as balanced as the more vanilla game mode, but if it doesn't have a fun time, damn it.