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The second weekend of the Battlefield 6 open beta is now in full swing, and Battlefield Studios is not losing time in the case of making some changes to the sport’s Rush mode.
As introduced by the official Battlefield Comms account on X, MCOM timers on Rush have been lowered from 45 to 30 seconds to “higher steadiness between attacking and defending gamers.” Moreover, respawn timers have been adjusted on each Rush and Breakthrough in order that defender respawns are actually fastened at 12 seconds, having beforehand been between 6-12 seconds. One different change on Breakthrough makes it so fewer gamers are wanted on an goal so as to pace up the seize time.
Balance Changes to Breakthrough and Rush
We’ve simply made some balancing modifications: In Breakthrough, it now takes fewer gamers on an goal to hurry up seize. Additionally, defender respawn timers in each Breakthrough and Rush are actually fastened at 12 seconds as a substitute of the earlier 6-12…— Battlefield Comms (@BattlefieldComm) August 15, 2025
These modifications ought to assist attackers on Rush and Breakthrough declare extra sectors, however to date Battlefield Studios hasn’t addressed the primary elephant within the room in the case of Rush–its small 12v12 dimension and an entire lack of autos.
Earlier iterations of Rush sometimes featured 16v16 gamers and included autos, one thing Battlefield 6’s model doesn’t have. Mixed with the smaller sizes of the maps featured within the Battlefield 6 beta, and this iteration of Rush does not appear to have gained over many followers, with one longtime Battlefield content creator stating he would quite see the mode eliminated till it is “been correctly labored on,” citing poor map steadiness.
It’s attainable larger maps could alleviate a number of the points followers have had with Rush in Battlefield 6, one thing that one of many sport’s producers stated the total sport could have. Battlefield 6 will launch with a complete of 9 maps, 4 of that are at the moment playable within the second open beta weekend.
Regardless of the Rush complaints and a few points revolving round its Safe Boot requirement on PC, Battlefield 6’s beta has already been a giant success, surpassing each Name of Obligation’s concurrent-player file and that of earlier Battlefield video games on Steam. The Battlefield 6 open beta ends August 17.