General Feedback
The game itself is great when you get into the core loop of fighting and capturing points. The issues with the game are mostly QOL issues, but they're fairly major.
Pros:
BF6 runs decently well. The devs did a good job getting it to a state where performance isn't a issue, but the performance isn't amazing like a lot of other reviews have been saying. It's just that a lot of other games recently have had horrendous performance, and so BF6 looks amazing in comparison. Amazing performance would be about 30% better from here.
The game feels good to play.
Sound design and directionality is great. The vehicles sound great.
Ziplines and parachutes work well, the sound on them is good too, so you can know when they're being used.
Cons:
The UI is in general fairly terrible. The only good part of the UI is showing the numerical weapon stats. Everything else should be thrown out and rebuilt from scratch. If you don't want to throw it all out, then at least add a search bar and remove the input lag or very low framerate limit on the UI. It feels horrible to use with the input lag. Scrolling is nearly broken. The devs should go buy a logitech g502 mouse that has an unlockable scroll wheel, then try to scroll through the menu with it unlocked. Get rid of those big cards, just give me a list. You could turn the cards into a grid, and that would be a bit better. Heavily played game modes on the top row, and other things on other rows. Get rid of that weapon glitch effect when trying to view a weapon. If it's about load times, then use an LOD texture instead of that effect, or try to prefetch the models. Make it easier to get to the weapon loadout modification screen. It's like 4 sub menus deep right now. Allow me to access the loadout screen from the end game stats screen, then leave it up until I exit out of it, even if another match is loading.
Add a vehicle test option, or at least make it easy to create one in portal. I'm not sure if all the 'vehicle test' maps in portal currently are just spam, but they're all broken. Nothing spawns. All I want is for me and my friends to jump into a vehicle test map, so we can learn to fly and 1v1 each other. This should've been a feature in the beta.
Squad size of 4 is too low. Add an option to queue together as multiple squads, or just give us a real server browser and self-hosting capabilities.
Maps need to be bigger and have some adjustments. There's a lot less of feeling like you're moving forward as a whole team compared to previous games. It's too easy to end up in a loop of spawn, get shot in the back within a few seconds, respawn again.
The secure boot requirement is dumb. It's trivial to add a custom key to your motherboard, because that's a core feature of it. Even if you check for custom keys (which you shouldn't, as custom keys have real uses other than cheating), people can use the shim to bypass it with just the Microsoft 3rd party certificate and a bit of grub bootloader configuration.
Other:
Is the warfighter variant of a weapon the same as the normal one? The stats don't change. I don't know if that's a bug, or if there's a real difference.
The shotgun is still too strong.
Mines do a bit too much damage to vehicles. However, once you get the countermeasures for them and you're looking out for them, they're not too bad.
A mechanic I thought of is that it would be really cool if you could hijack a tank if you get on top of it. There could be an animation of burning out the lock on the hatch, then shooting into the tank.
There seems to be a bug where your loadout can randomly change. It's happened to me a few times where I respawned and had a different loadout than the one I had previously. There's another bug where sometimes the respawn map UI gets locked into 'console mode', and the mouse selection becomes almost useless so you have to use WASD.
Overall, DICE/EA did a good job with BF6. Please fix the QOL issues of UI, vehicle test maps, and squad size. I'll rate it 7.5/10. 8.5/10 if you fix the QOL issues. 10/10 if you fix the maps and bring performance up a good bit more, along with the QOL issues.
