You recognize your recreation is highly-anticipated when individuals rush to obtain it as quickly because it turns into accessible, but in addition once they’re pleased to launch it nicely earlier than servers are even stay. That’s clearly true within the case of the Battlefield 6 beta.
The Battlefield 6 beta doesn’t go stay till Thursday, and even then, you want a code to play that early portion. That hasn’t stopped gamers from downloading it, solely to idle within the recreation’s menus.
The Battlefield 6 beta pre-load went stay yesterday throughout all platforms. That features Steam, the place you cannot solely seize the beta recordsdata in preparation for the 2 beta weekends, you may as well launch the sport.
Sadly, there’s no option to “play” it proper now, however you can entry all the recreation’s menus. This consists of visuals, audio, graphics, controls, keybinds, HUD customisation, accessibility and just about all the suite of choices you’ll discover when the beta goes stay.
That’s what 1000’s of gamers have been doing for the reason that pre-load turned accessible. Over on Steam, the Battlefield 6 open beta achieved a concurrent participant rely of 9,463 (through SteamDB), over half of whom are at the moment “in-game” as of this writing.
Battlefield 6’s listing of tweakable choices is very large, and a few sub-sections provide the form of granular management that requires a bit of labor to dial in, so you possibly can see why savvy gamers launched it instantly after ending the obtain. Now, whereas the vast majority of choices gained’t require you to be in a recreation to check out, many nonetheless do.
That mentioned, it’s extremely useful to get entry to such a large listing forward of time, even for those who’re solely desirous about exploring the accessible choices. One other main motive you’d wish to launch the beta earlier than servers go stay is that it’s additionally going to show issues you might be able to sort out forward of the beginning of the beta.
As an illustration, the BF6 beta requires Safe Boot to be enabled in Home windows (and your BIOS). In actual fact, the beta won’t begin with out it. It additionally won’t launch for gamers utilizing something however the latest GPU drivers. Think about having to fiddle with that as your pals are ready for you on Discord the day the beta goes stay.
The BF6 beta’s Early Entry portion begins this Thursday, earlier than it opens as much as everybody on Saturday. You may pre-load it now and be part of the 1000’s of gamers who’ve been idling in its menus.
