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The launch of the highly anticipated Battlefield 6 received significant enthusiasm, particularly for its flagship multiplayer mode. Just on Steam, simultaneous player numbers surged to nearly 750,000. Yet, in spite of its success, a growing number of players are expressing frustration over several of the title's hardest challenges, which are required to obtain particular firearms.

Players have started turning to tailored sessions set up using the custom game tool to achieve these objectives, highlighting just how grueling these missions have become.

Grasping Battlefield 6 Objectives

Tasks represent Battlefield 6's fixed in-game challenges, different from the frequently updated daily and weekly challenges. There are four classes of assignments, but while the majority simply offer outfits and select equipment, achieving the firearm tasks is the sole method of getting a dozen out of forty-one primary weapons present in the game.

Several of these locked weapons could shortly find their way on lists of the finest arms in Battlefield 6.

Player Outcry across Reddit

On Reddit, players are reasonably voicing their concerns about how hard and tedious some of these challenges are. One user pointed out one of the most outrageous examples, required to unlock the KTS100 MK8 LMG:

• Subdue 300 opponents with LMGs
• Cause 10,000 non-ADS damage with LMGs

"This mission is so awful and entirely ill-conceived, I want to gouge my eyes out," is a quote that summarizes just how frustratingly difficult these tasks are.

Suppression in Battlefield is less effective than in previous titles in the series, so it doesn't have anywhere near as many advantages in battle as it did in previous games. It only registers as suppression if you fire a burst without hitting the target.

At the same time, hipfiring an LMG is wildly inaccurate and only works at extremely close range, which is seldom the location you prefer to be. The commenter also highlighted the irony in the SMG challenge, needed to obtain the SCW-10, which needs takedowns using ADS, when that challenge would be far more appropriate to hipfire kills, and vice versa.

Another Extremely Difficult Challenge

One more community participant pointed out a further incredibly demanding challenge, within the marksman rifle class to unlock the PSR:

• Achieve 150 headshot eliminations from more than 200 meters away with marksman guns

This is difficult enough as it is, but there's one more key thing to consider: the majority of Battlefield 6 maps don't even support combat at those extended distances.

There exists a reasonable assortment of map sizes, but given there are merely nine levels in the game currently, it restricts you to playing one of the larger locales, Mirak Valley, and maybe a classic map in a best-case scenario if you want to snipe from beyond 200 meters.

The Workaround

There is a workaround though: the custom game tool. This portal feature is a feature that enables you to make custom game modes on the battleground of your choice, complete with bots. This allows you can exploit the mechanics… but it doesn't exactly feel like the spirit of the game.

But when tackling the tasks in a standard match seems counterproductive, since you have to play in such an unconventional way that offers no advantage to anyone, who can fault a player for finishing these in a private match so allies are not impaired?

Upcoming Tweaks

It is expected if some of these assignments are made easier in the coming days or weeks, because should they remain unchanged, a portion of the user base simply won't get their hands on the gated weapons.

For now, the audience continues to voice their opinions on these demanding in-game tasks, hoping for a less arduous overall gameplay in coming revisions.