Battlefield Redsec, the free-to-play battle royale mode inside Battlefield 6, went reside yesterday throughout all platforms, proper alongside the sport’s first season. That is the Battlefield sequence’ second try at a battle royale mode, after Battlefield 5’s ill-fated Firestorm.
A part of why Firestorm by no means actually made it massive was that it was locked behind the total value of the sport, successfully performing as a facet mode inside the current expertise, and never a method to draw a brand new sort of participant, one who isn’t taken with shopping for the premium sport.
Redsec corrects that a lot of that, but it surely doesn’t appear to be taking off.
Shortly after Redsec went reside, Battlefield 6’s rating on the Steam most performed charts went up, reaching round 550,000 concurrent gamers, which is up from the standard peak of 320,000 to 400,000 the sport has been settling into since launch, as seen on SteamDB.
That’s an honest increase, however you’ll discover that’s nowhere close to sufficient to achieve Battlefield 6’s launch peak concurrent of 747,440, which is slightly stunning contemplating it doesn’t price something to play Redsec, whereas that participant peak was made up solely of people that purchased the total sport.
There’s clearly a bit of PC gamers unaccounted for right here – anybody who grabbed it on the Epic Video games Retailer or by the EA app immediately gained’t be represented right here. Certainly, there’s additionally a big contingent of console gamers throughout PlayStation and Xbox the place Redsec might very effectively be doing lots higher than it appears to be doing on PC.
Twitch numbers began out robust, with Redsec (which is counted individually from Battlefield 6) reaching the highest spot for a time, earlier than it continued its pure slide down the ranks. On the time of this writing, the class has 80,000 viewers and sits within the quantity three spot.
These figures might very effectively enhance over the following a number of days, particularly as soon as the weekend rolls round. Nevertheless, contemplating how a lot hype there’s been for a Battlefield battle royale mode, it’s slightly stunning to see that it seemingly hasn’t attracted the type of consideration Warzone has, or herald as many gamers because the core sport of Battlefield 6 managed to.
