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Kaan Serin

Battlefield 6 devs have a big button that blows up everything on a map, but it isn't just for fun – DICE uses it to make sure maps are fun in all "3 different states" of destruction

Battlefield 6 multiplayer screenshot showing soldiers running away from a collapsing building.

Battlefield 6 continues the series' tradition of finding increasingly bombastic and intricate ways of blowing stuff up. Walls can disappear, ceilings can crumble down, and even entire buildings can turn to mush under the weight of a tank, but the developers at DICE Studios had access to a "big red button" that blows up everything, everywhere, on any map with a single tap – and I couldn't be more jealous.

Battlefield 6 producer Jeremy Chubb and design director Shashank Uchil confirm as much in an interview with Kotaku and apparently it's just as fun as it sounds. "It usually causes some big meltdowns in teams working on performance because we designed the maps not to be instantly triggered, like every instance of destruction," Chubb says, which led to some "raised eyebrows."

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