You understand your recreation is highly-anticipated when folks rush to obtain it as quickly because it turns into accessible, but in addition after they’re completely happy to launch it effectively earlier than servers are even reside. That’s clearly true within the case of the Battlefield 6 beta.
The Battlefield 6 beta doesn’t go reside 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 reside yesterday throughout all platforms. That features Steam, the place you cannot solely seize the beta information in preparation for the 2 beta weekends, you may also launch the sport.
Sadly, there’s no solution to “play” it proper now, however you can entry all the recreation’s menus. This contains visuals, audio, graphics, controls, keybinds, HUD customisation, accessibility and just about the complete suite of choices you’ll discover when the beta goes reside.
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 depend of 9,463 (by way of SteamDB), over half of whom are presently “in-game” as of this writing.
Battlefield 6’s listing of tweakable choices is huge, and a few sub-sections provide the kind 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 received’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 should you’re solely concerned about exploring the accessible choices. One other main cause you’d need to launch the beta earlier than servers go reside 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 example, the BF6 beta requires Safe Boot to be enabled in Home windows (and your BIOS). The truth is, 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 mates are ready for you on Discord the day the beta goes reside.
The BF6 beta’s Early Entry portion begins this Thursday, earlier than it opens as much as everybody on Saturday. You’ll be able to pre-load it now and be part of the 1000’s of gamers who’ve been idling in its menus.
