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Rich Stanton

Battlefield 6 fiddles with the pace of Conquest mode but somehow avoids giving the people what they want: 'Remove the timer'

Battlefield 6 weapon handling overhaul preview: Three US soldiers facing away as the Brooklyn Bridge explodes in the distance.

Battlefield 6 is here and it's really rather good. PCG's Morgan Park called it "a salve for an FPS scene that takes itself too seriously" in his review-in-progress, with the wider context of where shooters are in 2025 making its back-to-basics approach incredibly refreshing. Hell, it even runs like a dream.

That's not to say the game's entirely without issues, of course, and one persistent grumble since launch has been about Conquest mode, which is arguably the series' 'main' mode and one you'll likely be spending a lot of time in. The problem is time itself: Conquest is a mode designed around each team having a set number of 'reinforcement tickets', which tick down as the match progresses—the first team to run out of tickets loses.

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