Battlefield 6 beta isn’t for two days but 9,000 people are already in the app

Thousands of Battlefield 6 fans have pre-loaded the beta and seem to be spending a lot of time tinkering with the settings.

Given how much of a letdown Battlefield 2042 wound up being, EA and the many studios tasked with making Battlefield 6 need to do a lot to win back fans’ favour.

So far though, Battlefield 6 is making a good first impression, with its multiplayer gameplay reveal and promises of no wacky crossover skins. Even Call Of Duty fans seem eager to jump ship.

It’s far too early to tell if Battlefield 6 will achieve EA’s very lofty player count targets, but at the very least the upcoming beta has captured the attention of over 9,000 people on PC.

We don’t just mean over 9,000 people have signed up to participate in the beta; we mean over 9,000 people opened the app and apparently just sat there waiting for it to start.

The first beta doesn’t begin until August 7, for those with early access, and then August 9 for everyone else, but pre-loads did go live Monday afternoon, on August 4.

According to player data from SteamDB, it didn’t take long for 9,463 people to get the beta installed in preparation, though the fact that SteamDB even has this data means thousands of people chose to open the beta, rather than just install it and leave it, even though it doesn’t do anything yet.

Well, that’s not entirely accurate. You can adjust the beta’s settings and as someone has shared on the Battlefield subreddit, there’s a lot for you to tinker with, including graphics settings, aiming sensitivity, and pre-sets for controllers and keyboards.

Even at time of writing, there’s still about 3,800 people in the beta, meaning either new players have jumped in to sort out their settings after the early adopters left, or players are keeping the beta open in excited anticipation.

Unfortunately, there’s no way to check if anything similar is happening with the versions of the beta on the Epic Games Store or EA’s own PC app, or the console versions on PlayStation 5 and Xbox.

EA also hasn’t said anything about how many sign-ups the beta has received, although it will most likely brag about player counts once the beta goes live… assuming those thousands of excited fans stick around.

Despite all the positive buzz so far, the beta itself will be the first real indicator for how popular Battlefield 6 will be. There are already plans for a second open beta from August 14 to August 17 and, if the first one’s a hit, word of mouth could make the second even more popular.

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