The Early Entry portion of the Battlefield 6 beta kicked off earlier right this moment throughout all platforms. Out there right this moment and tomorrow, this era of the beta doesn’t require pre-ordering a duplicate of the sport, however you do want a code to entry it.
Those that signed up for Battlefield Labs when it was initially introduced are assured entry, however there are different methods to get codes, too, equivalent to watching Twitch streamers play the beta.
With out a code, nevertheless, you’ll have to attend till the primary correct weekend of the BF6 beta goes reside this Saturday, which is what makes these numbers very spectacular.
Moments after the Battlefield 6 beta went reside, gamers rapidly discovered themselves caught in lengthy log-in queues, which EA stated was intentional to handle the move in moments of very excessive exercise, equivalent to when servers first go reside.
When you guessed the beta should be extremely popular, you’d be appropriate. Over on Steam, the beta has shot to close the highest of the platform’s most performed video games, peaking at 296,550 concurrent gamers (through SteamDB), sufficient to land it in Steam’s prime 5.
On the time of this writing, the sport sits within the third slot, and it is not displaying indicators of slowing down. Battlefield 6 has itself, after all, simply landed at quantity two on Steam’s international finest sellers listing, second solely to Counter-Strike 2, because the listing is sorted by income.
These are all, with out query, unimaginable numbers.
For one, most gamers in Europe and the Center East are in all probability at work, that means the figures can solely develop later right this moment. They’re more likely to additionally explode on Staurday when the fully-open beta goes reside. It’s additionally price protecting in thoughts that Steam is just not the one place to play the beta, because it’s out there straight on EA’s personal app, in addition to the Epic Video games Retailer.
The Battlefield 6 beta is, after all, additionally reside on PS5 and Xbox Collection X/S proper alongside PC, so it’s not onerous to think about the full concurrent being someplace near 800,000 or 900,000 gamers, judging by the Steam numbers alone.
We’ll control it, and allow you to know if any points come up.
