Battlefield 6 season 2 has been unveiled, and somewhere in the world, a monkey's paw has curled. After months of players begging for larger maps, season 2's first update – titled Extreme Measures and set to launch on February 17 – will introduce Contaminated, a gorgeous mountainside airbase featuring a mix of wide-open spaces and subterranean complexes. There's just one catch: it will also feature VL-7 poison gas at launch, which causes auditory and visual hallucinations unless you come prepared with a gas mask.
In addition to poisoning players, Extreme Measures will add three weapons: the close-quarters VCR-2 assault rifle, the M121 A2 light machine gun, and the GRT-CPS, a semi-automatic DMR. That's along with two new gadgets – the 9K38 launcher for Engineers, and the more interesting HTI-MK2 for Recon, which can detect enemy gadgets, suppress recon drones, and remotely detonate enemy rockets. Last but not least, the AH-6 Little Bird will finally make its way to Battlefield 6, and I give it two games before the noise of its miniguns haunts my dreams once more.
