The Early Entry portion of the Battlefield 6 beta kicked off earlier at this time throughout all platforms. Out there at this time 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.
With no code, nonetheless, you’ll have to attend till the first proper weekend of the BF6 beta goes stay this Saturday, which is what makes these numbers very spectacular.
Moments after the Battlefield 6 beta went stay, gamers shortly discovered themselves caught in lengthy log-in queues, which EA said was intentional to manage the flow in moments of very excessive exercise, corresponding to when servers first go stay.
In the event 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 (through 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 isn’t exhibiting indicators of slowing down. Battlefield 6 has itself, after all, simply landed at quantity two on Steam’s global best sellers list, second solely to Counter-Strike 2, because the checklist 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 at this time. They’re prone to additionally explode on Staurday when the fully-open beta goes stay. It’s additionally price holding in thoughts that Steam isn’t the one place to play the beta, because it’s out there straight on EA’s personal app, in addition to the Epic Video games Retailer.
The Battlefield 6 beta is, after all, additionally stay on PS5 and Xbox Collection X/S proper alongside PC, so it’s not onerous to think about the overall concurrent being someplace near 800,000 or 900,000 gamers, judging by the Steam numbers alone.
We’ll control it, and allow you to know if any points come up.