It’s a big day for Battlefield 6, with both its Season 1 update now live for players to jump into, and its new free-to-play battle royale mode, Battlefield REDSEC, also now available. EA and Battlefield Studios confirmed yesterday what was already rumored, that REDSEC would be revealed and launched today, and now it’s here for all players on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.
Once the gameplay trailer that was teased yesterday was over, the mode and the new season was officially live for all players to jump into, and we got our first major question of the day answered. Battlefield REDSEC can be accessed as an added DLC through Battlefield 6 and will be available in the menu for players who already own the game and have it downloaded.
If you don’t already own Battlefield 6, then when you go to download REDSEC, you’ll have to access it through Battlefield 6. At least for now, EA and Battlefield Studios have not broken it off into a separate app.
We also learned that the roadmap shared earlier this year was not at all the complete roadmap, which has now been shared along with the release of REDSEC and Season 1.
On top of the new game modes and the new Conquest map, Blackwell Ridge, that arrives in Battlefield 6 with Season 1 today (which you can learn more about in our Season 1 preview), REDSEC arrives with two different game modes: a core battle royale mode and a multiplayer-inspired mode, Gauntlet.
Both modes are set on one map called Fort Lyndon, a government testing ground that is basically your own personal battlefield for REDSEC and its two modes. The battle royale mode is your bog-standard battle royale of 100 players entering a map that continuously gets smaller with a toxic circle pushing everyone to one area, and the last squad standing wins. Squads can be either two or four players, with no solo queue available at launch.
You’ll decide on your class and sidearm before dropping in, and acquire the rest of your loadout during the match, including primary weapons, gadgets, etc. It’s even possible to find keycards that’ll grant access to vehicles like tanks, though they come with limited fuel and ammo.
The new Gauntlet mode is a “knockout-style” mode with eight squads entering the fray, each trying to complete a set of missions to end up on top.
“Every Gauntlet ’round’ is a different mode or ‘missions,’ such as Deadlock, a multi-team variant of King of the Hill, or Wreckage, which is similar to Rush,” the Battlefield 6 website reads in its explanation of Gauntlet. “With eight mission types and numerous Combat Zones, it is incredibly rare to have the exact same Gauntlet mission sequence in back-to-back matches.“
You’ll also be able to create your own versions of REDSEC through Portal, which can let you really up the ante and adjust REDSEC to create whatever crazed and chaotic version of REDSEC you want for both the core battle royale mode and Gauntlet.
It’s also worth mentioning that the first battle pass for Battlefield 6 is now live for players to start working their way through. Of course, you can mostly ignore the battle pass if you’re not a fan of the weapon and character skins it is mostly filled with, but you will have to work through them if you want to unlock the new weapons like the SOR-300SC carbine or the new Mini-Scout sniper rifle.
Beyond that, it’s exciting to see REDSEC now live for players to try out, and it’ll be interesting to see what players think of it as we get ever closer to a new year of Call of Duty and Warzone. We’ll have a better idea by the end of the year if REDSEC can stand up to Warzone and keep players interested.
And for EA and Battlefield Studios sake, hopefully today’s launch doesn’t also come with a slew of technical issues.
For more on Battlefield 6, check out our dedicated page for the game to catch up on all our coverage so far. There, you’ll find our PC benchmarks and optimized settings guide, our guide on which graphics cards are the best for Battlefield 6 at different resolutions, a general tips guide to help you be a better player, a guide for the best early weapons and loadouts when for when you’ve just started playing multiplayer, and if you’ve been unfortunate enough to have issues with the game on PC, our guide on how to solve several common issues for PC users. You can also check out my full review of the game when it launched earlier this month.
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