🔗 Share this article

Over the weekend, the game developers launched a new game mode titled Casual Breakthrough. In essence, this option resembles the standard Breakthrough format but includes several notable adjustments:

• Every squad includes only 8 real players, with the remaining filled by 32 bots.
• Activities done by human gamers grant complete experience points, while AI activities offer lower rewards.
• Just a pair of locations are available: Cairo Siege and Empire State.
• Elements like Player tags, achievements, and stat tracking are disabled.

So essentially, the playlist delivers on its name: it offers a laid-back take of Breakthrough. At face value, one could assume there's nothing wrong, as it provides additional choices for gamers seeking different ways to have fun with the title. However, gaming history have taught us anything, it's that not everyone will be happy. In other words, a lot of Battlefield 6 players are upset.

Community Reactions: From Fury to Support

"People want real players. Avoid making the mistakes of your rivals," states one reply to the official announcement. "Truly disappointing idea," says a different user. At the same time, in community forums, a player remarks, "It's unclear where we are headed with this game," and another details all the issues they consider to be problematic in the game: "Resolve glitches, address drone issues, correct rocket mechanics, fix [the] bloom after sprinting bug, fix awful hit registration. We don't need this AI-heavy playlist."

On the other hand, for every complaint, some gamers explaining how much they're liking the new mode. "It's enjoyable to practice, real players keep it from being a complete grind but it's quite laid-back," reads a forum post. "The community fails to see that there are gamers who have lives and can't play this game 24/7. Let them strike a balance," states another. A response via social media explains that as they're "a parent gamer with limited time, this is perfect for me," and another applauds the mode for "not being overcompetitive."

Valid Concerns and Player Feedback

All that said, players have constructive reasons to complain about Casual Breakthrough. A few folks have pointed out that it could increase wait times more extended for different playlists because of the large amount of playlists in the game already. On a similar note, some areas often face mostly bots in the existing playlists. Additionally, it appears somewhat counterintuitive that the mode does not begin without a minimum number of human gamers, even though it primarily centers on combat against bots.

Finally, a major grievances is that a previous feature was promised to provide complete rewards, including AI matches, but that was removed when they tried to eliminate XP farming from the mode. So Casual Breakthrough feels like the community meeting them in the middle, according to forum feedback. Another labels this addition as the devs "making a mistake significantly, I experienced great enjoyment in the first couple of days, why did they feel the need to change it?"

Future Prospects: Adjustments Occur?

Should the development team has demonstrated something so far with the latest installment, it is that they're paying attention and acting on player input. Assignments being too difficult got fixed rapidly, as did the required Redsec challenges. Chances are that, should analytics indicates this new playlist isn't performing to their expectations, they won't be shy to change it again.