Season 5 launched in Battlefield 6 this week as deliberate, and although a lot of the new additions – new maps, weapons and autos, and gameplay adjustments – had been properly acquired, the season started on a low notice as a result of accusations of generative AI use and due to a serious hit to XP achieve.
Upon launch, Season 5 gamers found they weren’t incomes as a lot XP as they used to. To make issues extra complicated, Battlefield Studios didn’t talk any change to XP earn charges previous to the patch’s launch. The developer has now stated the change was “unintended” and reverted XP earn-rates to their earlier values.
“Following the launch of Season 5, backend configuration adjustments resulted in an unintended difficulty affecting XP earn charges throughout modes and {hardware} development (similar to weapons),” the official Battlefield Comms X account stated. “These backend adjustments have now been reverted, and our crew is actively monitoring telemetry to make sure earn charges return to supposed ranges throughout all experiences. Thanks in your persistence and studies whereas we proceed to trace this.”
Based mostly on some testing, gamers might solely earn a most of 300 XP per minute, which was properly under the pre-patch charges. Within the two days it took Battlefield Studios to reply, many assumed the quantity of XP that may very well be earned had been quietly nerfed as a result of the cuts coincided with the launch of Battlefield 6’s Final Shortcut Equipment, which was made available for purchase alongside Season 5’s launch.
The Final Shortcut Equipment is a $30 / £25 buy that totally ranges up all courses (together with devices and Coaching Paths) in addition to 28 weapons and eight autos. In a single click on, you’ll be able to unlock all the weapons and autos’ related attachments and upgrades, to not point out skins and different level-gated customisation choices. The Battlefield sequence has had related shortcut packs up to now, however the proximity of this newest launch to the unintended XP adjustments made gamers assume the worst.
It additionally did not assist that the season launched with a serious returning exploit, and that some content material prompted suspicions of being created with generative AI, similar to the Audacious Breach character pores and skin. The arm patch of this pores and skin spells ‘Secuty’ fairly than ‘Safety”.
Battlefield 6 has had points with XP earn charges earlier than – particularly weapon XP. BF Studios spent months altering how XP and rating had been earned throughout the sport, culminating in one other enhance at the beginning of Season 4.
However the sport continues to run into unintended errors on occasion on this regard. In June, BF Studios instructed gamers it modified XP Boosters to depend down in-match, and never in real-world time. Gamers celebrated, just for the change to be reversed – and an analogous factor occurred once more in the identical month. Just a few weeks later, rival sequence Name of Responsibility introduced that double XP tokens in Trendy Warfare 4 and Warzone would solely depend down in matches, to a lot participant celebration.