{"id":15904,"date":"2025-08-15T08:32:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T08:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=15904"},"modified":"2025-08-15T08:32:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T08:32:05","slug":"big-updates-for-battlefield-6-open-beta-in-second-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=15904","title":{"rendered":"Big Updates for Battlefield 6 Open Beta in Second Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"u-speakableText-p1\">The Battlefield 6 Beta is raging with players free to jump into the fray now through the end of Sunday, Aug. 17. As the second weekend of the preview period, there are a few changes that open up the beta with more modes, maps and play options.<\/p>\n<p class=\"u-speakableText-p2\">Those enjoying the beta on PS5 have to be subscribed to PS Plus to play online, but for their trouble, they&#8217;re getting 2x XP and can earn an exclusive skin, as the official PlayStation account posted on X.<\/p>\n<p>For all players, here are the changes for Battlefield 6 Beta&#8217;s weekend two.<\/p>\n<h2>Battlefield 6 Beta new maps and modes<\/h2>\n<p>While the first weekend introduced the maps Liberation Peak, Siege of Cairo and Iberian Offensive, the second weekend has added Empire State, a close-quarters map mixing unfinished buildings and blacktop basketball courts for players to take to the New York City streets.<\/p>\n<p>As for new modes, the first weekend featured Conquest (as well as a Closed Weapons Conquest version that locks certain guns to specific classes), Domination, King of the Hill and Breakthrough. The second weekend adds Rush, Squad Deathmatch and several playlists that combine a few of these modes into a rotation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the second weekend, players will also get to select which maps and modes they want to queue up for with Custom Search. Note that this will ensure that &#8220;matchmaking will prioritize putting you in a match with this combo [of maps and modes], if available,&#8221; according to a Battlefield 6 Beta information page &#8212; which suggests that players may end up getting stuck with maps and modes they haven&#8217;t selected if there aren&#8217;t other options.<\/p>\n<p>      <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-inner-spacing-right-small g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall g-color-text-meta g-text-xxxsmall\">EA DICE<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Broken down by day, with some modes and playlists rotating in and out, the BF6 Open Beta&#8217;s weekend two looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, Aug. 14 &#8212; Day One<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Conquest<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Rush<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Attack &amp; Defend playlist (Breakthrough, Rush)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Close Quarters playlist for smaller maps (Domination, King of the Hill)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Closed Weapons All-Out Warfare for larger maps (Conquest, Breakthrough)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Friday, Aug. 15 &#8212; Day Two<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Conquest<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Squad Deathmatch\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Close Quarters playlist (Domination, King of the Hill, Squad Deathmatch)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>All-Out Warfare (Conquest, Breakthrough, Rush)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Closed Weapons All-Out Warfare (Conquest, Breakthrough)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Saturday, Aug. 16 and Sunday, Aug. 17 &#8212; Days Three and Four<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Conquest<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Close Quarters (Domination, King of the Hill, Squad Deathmatch)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>All-Out Warfare (Conquest, Breakthrough, Rush)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Closed Weapons All-Out Warfare (Conquest, Breakthrough)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Publisher EA noted on the beta&#8217;s website that this playlist rotation is just for gathering player feedback and won&#8217;t be a feature in the final version of the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Battlefield 6 Beta is raging with players free to jump into the fray now through the end of Sunday, Aug. 17. As the second weekend of the preview period, there are a few changes that open up the beta with more modes, maps and play options. Those enjoying the beta on PS5 have to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[7619,5692,1285,3866,127,2780],"class_list":{"0":"post-15904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-battlefield","9":"tag-beta","10":"tag-big","11":"tag-open","12":"tag-updates","13":"tag-weekend"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}