In my research i found some fixes. 1) Check your firewall (Windows Defender, Antivirus) 2) Check your ISP (Internet Service Provider) some providers can block your connection. Try to reconnect using phone or VPN. 3) Check X info from Battlefield Community about servers situation. In last 4 days servers has a problem with connection.
Issue started after updating to Season 3 (patch 1.3.1.0, May 12). Did not have this problem before.
Two separate symptoms:
1. NETWORK DISCONNECTED on initial connection to multiplayer servers — error code 0:85008S:1605488263O:-2146631680Q. Works after hitting Retry, but fails every first attempt.
2. TIMED OUT during loading screen after selecting a game mode — screen freezes on load and the game claims inactivity disconnect.
Troubleshooting already completed with no improvement:
- Reinstalled game and EA App
- Updated NIC driver to latest (1168.26.50.2025)
- Disabled RSS and LSO via Device Manager
- Reset Winsock and TCP/IP stack
- Disabled IPv6
- Cleared EA App cache
- Verified firewall exceptions for BF6 and EA Desktop
- Adjusted MTU to 1492
- Switched DNS to Cloudflare (1.1.1.1)
Given the timing and the number of similar reports since May 12, this appears to be a server-side or anti-cheat regression introduced in the Season 3 patch rather than a client-side issue. Please investigate.
I have been having the exact same issue. I did the troubleshooting — with the ISP provider nothing is wrong, the router is fine, I have a great connection 10gb conection, in this case 2.5 gb board limit, LAN drivers updated, all other games and activities are running fine, except BF6 for some reason. I even reinstalled Windows just for a sanity check — no problems with other games and apps, just Battlefield 6. they keep marking it as solved but nothing is solved and i have seen many people ho did not have this problem before having it now as well.
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