The Early Entry portion of the Battlefield 6 beta kicked off earlier in the present day throughout all platforms. Accessible in the present day and tomorrow, this era of the beta doesn’t require pre-ordering a replica 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, corresponding to watching Twitch streamers play the beta.
And not using a code, nonetheless, you’ll have to attend till the primary correct weekend of the BF6 beta goes dwell this Saturday, which is what makes these numbers very spectacular.
Moments after the Battlefield 6 beta went dwell, gamers shortly discovered themselves caught in lengthy log-in queues, which EA mentioned was intentional to handle the movement in moments of very excessive exercise, corresponding to when servers first go dwell.
In case you guessed the beta have to 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 (by way of SteamDB), sufficient to land it in Steam’s high 5.
On the time of this writing, the sport sits within the third slot, and it is not exhibiting indicators of slowing down. Battlefield 6 has itself, after all, simply landed at quantity two on Steam’s world greatest sellers record, second solely to Counter-Strike 2, because the record is sorted by income.
These are all, with out query, unimaginable numbers.
For one, most gamers in Europe and the Center East are most likely at work, that means the figures can solely develop later in the present day. They’re more likely to additionally explode on Staurday when the fully-open beta goes dwell. It’s additionally value preserving in thoughts that Steam will not be the one place to play the beta, because it’s accessible instantly on EA’s personal app, in addition to the Epic Video games Retailer.
The Battlefield 6 beta is, after all, additionally dwell on PS5 and Xbox Collection X/S proper alongside PC, so it’s not laborious to think about the full concurrent being someplace near 800,000 or 900,000 gamers, judging by the Steam numbers alone.
We’ll regulate it, and allow you to know if any points come up.
