Not worth playing anymore
Season 3 has made Battlefield 6 almost unplayable for me – serious hit registration/desync issues
I genuinely don't know where to begin. Since Season 3 and the damage changes, Battlefield 6 has become one of the most frustrating FPS experiences I've ever had.
Before Season 3 I was sitting around a 2.60 K/D. I'm now down around 2.50, and more importantly, the actual gunfights feel completely inconsistent. There are matches where I'm struggling to get even 10 kills because opponents seem to delete me almost instantly while I'm putting large numbers of rounds into them without getting the same result.
This isn't simply a case of losing gunfights and blaming the game. I've actually tried to investigate what is happening.
My connection is 1Gb fibre, I'm using a wired Ethernet connection, and my PC was recently benchmarked after a repair and was performing around the 96th percentile. The game itself runs well from a performance/FPS perspective.
Yet I'm seeing things like:
- Full bursts/magazines apparently hitting a player without producing the damage I would expect.
- The SVK sometimes requiring three shots in situations where the hits on my screen appear clear.
- With a DMR, I've had periods where it feels like roughly one shot in every five isn't being represented properly.
- Gunfights where I clearly start firing first and land shots, yet I'm eliminated almost instantly.
- Major differences between what my client displays and what another player sees.
The most concerning example is a clip I have from a gunfight while playing with a friend. On my screen I'm aiming directly at the enemy and firing at them. On my friend's screen, my character appears to be firing into the ground.
That is a massive discrepancy.
If two clients are showing completely different information during the same gunfight, that strongly suggests some form of desynchronisation, networking or hit-registration problem rather than simply bad aim.
I've also checked the obvious things on my end. My system is more than powerful enough, my internet connection has huge bandwidth available, I'm wired rather than relying on Wi-Fi, and this problem became dramatically worse following the recent updates.
The frustrating part is that new maps and content don't fix the core FPS experience. Gunplay, hit registration and client/server synchronisation have to work reliably first.
Right now I genuinely feel as though I cannot trust what I'm seeing on my own screen. In an FPS, that's about as serious a problem as you can have.
EA/DICE, please investigate this properly rather than treating every report like this as a player's connection, hardware or aim. There are enough clips and examples now to justify looking closely at the networking, hit registration and desync introduced or worsened around Season 3 and the damage update.
I would happily provide the clips, system information and connection details if they help diagnose it.
I want Battlefield 6 to be good. That's exactly why this is so frustrating. But in its current state, I'm reaching the point where I simply don't want to play it anymore.
