Original article: The second weekend of the Battlefield 6 Open Beta has officially kicked off, and like the first, it's off to an explosive start, with nearly 400K fans playing through Steam alone right now as I write this article, according to SteamDB. Once the weekend begins properly, it's expected to climb even higher to around the 500K mark, and may even surpass the first playtest's record of 521,079.
In addition to a new map set in Brooklyn, New York called Empire State and a Custom Search feature that lets players skew matchmaking towards specific maps and gametypes (more details here), one of the biggest things drawing players to Weekend 2 of the Open Beta across Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC, and PS5 is the introduction of the classic Battlefield mode Rush.
