Battlefield Redsec, the free-to-play battle royale mode within Battlefield 6, went live yesterday across all platforms, proper alongside the sport’s first season. That is the Battlefield collection’ second try at a battle royale mode, after Battlefield 5’s ill-fated Firestorm.
A part of why Firestorm by no means actually made it massive was that it was locked behind the complete value of the sport, successfully performing as a aspect mode inside the present expertise, and never a method to draw a brand new kind of participant, one who just isn’t focused on shopping for the premium sport.
Redsec corrects that a lot of that, but it surely doesn’t appear to be taking off.
Rapidly after Redsec went dwell, Battlefield 6’s rating on the Steam most performed charts went up, reaching round 550,000 concurrent gamers, which is up from the same old peak of 320,000 to 400,000 the sport has been settling into since launch, as seen on SteamDB.
That’s an honest enhance, however you’ll discover that’s nowhere close to sufficient to achieve Battlefield 6’s launch peak concurrent of 747,440, which is slightly shocking contemplating it doesn’t value something to play Redsec, whereas that participant peak was made up fully of people that purchased the complete sport.
There’s clearly a piece of PC gamers unaccounted for right here – anybody who grabbed it on the Epic Video games Retailer or via the EA app instantly gained’t be represented right here. Certainly, there’s additionally a big contingent of console gamers throughout PlayStation and Xbox the place Redsec could very properly be doing quite a bit higher than it appears to be doing on PC.
Twitch numbers began out robust, with Redsec (which is counted individually from Battlefield 6) reaching the highest spot for a time, earlier than it continued its pure slide down the ranks. On the time of this writing, the class has 80,000 viewers and sits within the quantity three spot.
These figures could very properly enhance over the following a number of days, particularly as soon as the weekend rolls round. Nonetheless, contemplating how a lot hype there’s been for a Battlefield battle royale mode, it’s slightly shocking to see that it seemingly hasn’t attracted the form of consideration Warzone has, or usher in as many gamers because the core sport of Battlefield 6 managed to.
