You understand your sport is highly-anticipated when folks rush to obtain it as quickly because it turns into accessible, but additionally once they’re completely happy to launch it properly 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 live until 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 sport’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 two beta weekends, you too can launch the sport.
Sadly, there’s no approach to “play” it proper now, however you can entry all the sport’s menus. This contains visuals, audio, graphics, controls, keybinds, HUD customisation, accessibility and just about the whole 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 grew to become accessible. Over on Steam, the Battlefield 6 open beta achieved a concurrent participant rely of 9,463 (by way of SteamDB), over half of whom are at present “in-game” as of this writing.
Battlefield 6’s listing of tweakable choices is very large, and a few sub-sections supply the kind of granular management that requires a bit of labor to dial in, so you may see why savvy gamers launched it instantly after ending the obtain. Now, whereas nearly all of choices gained’t require you to be in a sport to check out, many nonetheless do.
That stated, it’s extremely useful to get entry to such an enormous listing forward of time, even in the event you’re solely concerned with exploring the accessible choices. One other main motive you’d wish 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 illustration, the BF6 beta requires Secure Boot to be enabled in Windows (and your BIOS). In reality, the beta won’t begin with out it. It additionally won’t launch for gamers utilizing something however the newest 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 Access portion begins this Thursday, earlier than it opens as much as everybody on Saturday. You may pre-load it now and be part of the 1000’s of gamers who’ve been idling in its menus.