✅ Battlefield 6 Season 4: Phase 2 arrives August 18
Everything coming in the Top Gun Update 👇
🏝️ Wake Island returns
Reimagined for Battlefield 6 with carrier-based HQs, expanded naval warfare, and large scale combat across land, air and sea.
⚓ Carrier Strike
Capture sectors, push toward the enemy carrier, then launch a final assault inside the ship to finish the match.
✈️ Fighter Sweep
A new REDSEC Gauntlet mission where squads dogfight in jets while destroying objectives to score points.
🛩️ New hardware
Interdictor sniper rifle (longest range out of snipers)
F/A-81F Super Spectre
F-74A Seacat
📍 New Fort Lyndon POI
USS Grant crashes into Battle Royale as a new High Value Zone featuring high-tier loot during the first weeks of launch.
👥 Custom Lobbies & Spectator Mode
Launch through Battlefield Labs with support for Conquest and Battle Royale Quads, with additional modes planned over time.
🎯 Gameplay improvements
New optional ADS dispersion crosshair, airplane control assist, continued gunplay tuning, and matchmaking improvements.
🛠️ Portal updates
Wake Island and Tsuru Reef arrive in Portal, plus the rollout of the new Advanced Editor for selected creators.
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Upcoming #Battlefield6 Gameplay Updates - August 18th.
🔹️ Battlefield Studios is introducing an optional ADS Dispersion Crosshair.
"When firing an automatic weapon while aiming down sights, the indicator will expand as dispersion increases, showing that your weapon is becoming less accurate during sustained fire. Movement will also be reflected, helping you better understand how your accuracy changes while repositioning or engaging on the move.
By default, this option is enabled in the Firing Range only, but it can be turned off entirely or enabled in multiplayer experiences through the settings. It also includes its own opacity slider and color options so you can adjust its visibility to your preference."
🔹️ Battlefield Studios also wants to highlight Simple Jet Controls.
"This setting is designed to help more players get comfortable in the skies and better understand the control options available to them. Whether you’re a returning pilot or a player taking off for the first time, we encourage you to check your settings and try the control scheme that feels best for you."
🔹️ TTK / TTD: Battlefield Studios is reviewing weapon performance, identifying outliers, and exploring balance adjustments, including opportunities to improve underperforming weapons.
🔹️ Matchmaking: Battlefield Studios on why certain modes such as Rush, Squad Deathmatch and King of the Hill have been removed from playlists 👇
"We have recently made playlist adjustments across all regions to help improve matchmaking health, queue times, and match quality across the most active modes. These changes are intended to better align players around modes with strong activity while still keeping flexibility through Portal and Custom Search."
There will be a blog post about matchmaking, where they'll go deeper on their goals, what they're seeing in the data, and where further improvements can be made.
🔹️ New 'Advanced Editor Program' for Portal. This is where selected Portal creators gain access to new experimental tools, including baked lighting and terrain editing.
"These additions improve visual fidelity through baked lighting, improved performance, and unlock new creative possibilities by allowing creators to reshape landscapes through heightmap editing and terrain shader painting with materials such as grass, dirt, and rock."
As experiences are completed, reviewed, and approved, Battlefield Studios will publish selected builders' creations to the Portal SDK for the community to explore and build upon.
If you're interested in gaining access, they'll be introducing an interest sign-up in the future.
🔹️ Players will be able to create custom experiences on Tsuru Reef.
🔹️ Wake Island will be available for 'Verified Experiences' and later in the season for 'Custom Experiences.'
🔹️ Custom Lobbies and Spectator Mode capabilities are arriving with the Top Gun Update on August 18 through Battlefield Labs in Live.
"Building on Portal, Custom Lobbies are designed to give players more control over how they set up and run matches. We see these features supporting private sessions, community tournaments, creator-led events, and more organized ways to play with friends, squads, and wider community. Spectator Mode will also give players new ways to follow the action."
Initial support will include Battle Royale Quads and Conquest, with additional modes planned as the feature expands. Battlefield Studios will share a full dedicated article on Custom Lobbies and Spectator Mode before the Top Gun update launches, with more details on how these features work and how players can start using.