Early Battlefield 6 players are growing critical of how the game handles sliding, lamenting that it’s an overpowered move that some are exploiting to an annoying degree. There’s still about two months until the full official release of Battlefield 6, and many players accessing a beta build are hoping the development team changes the way it handles sliding before its October 10 launch date.
A two-day open beta for Battlefield 6 opened up on August 9, with a second one planned to run between August 14 and 17. So far, the first beta session has proven to be incredibly successful, with its massive player counts making Battlefield 6 appear to be a real contender to meet or exceed the popularity of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, which is also expected for release before the end of 2025.
Sliding in Battlefield 6 Is Causing Problems
While Battlefield 6‘s open beta is breaking player records for the series, with more than 470,000 concurrent players recorded on Steam, the pre-release build of the game is also giving the development team a chance at identifying aspects that players think could use some changes. One of those seems to be the ability to slide immediately after a jump, which, in its current form, also allows players to peer down the sights of their weapons while a slide is active. Many players have reacted negatively to this ability, believing that sliding should be a situational defensive tactic used for taking cover and not a quick way to advance on opponents while actively taking aim at them. While not all players have experienced opponents using this tactic, some fear that it will become the standard once players decode the game’s meta mechanics.
Some players in a thread on Reddit are derisively comparing the slide-and-aim strategy to movement in Call of Duty games. The Call of Duty franchise continues to make enhancements to mobility features like sliding, sprinting, and diving, which has resulted in some division among its massive fan base, and many players in the Battlefield 6 beta have indicated that they were hoping for an experience that doesn’t lean so heavily into such movement-heavy mechanics.
Aiming down sights while shooting isn’t the only controversial feature revealed for Battlefield 6. Development Director Anna Narrevik explained a few days ago that the game will add AI bots to lobbies when multiplayer servers are lacking enough humans to fill them completely. Given the massive appeal of the open beta, that’s probably not something a lot of players are experiencing now, but it could lead to some complaining down the road.
