Battlefield 6 beta peaks at almost 10,000 concurrent gamers on Steam earlier than it is even out Players Area

your recreation is highly-anticipated when folks rush to obtain it as quickly because it turns into accessible, but additionally once they’re blissful to launch it effectively earlier than servers are even stay. That’s clearly true within the case of the Battlefield 6 beta.

The Battlefield 6 beta doesn’t go stay till Thursday, and even then, you want a code to play that early portion. That hasn’t stopped gamers from downloading it, solely to idle within the recreation’s menus.

The Battlefield 6 beta pre-load went stay yesterday throughout all platforms. That features Steam, the place you cannot solely seize the beta information in preparation for the 2 beta weekends, you can even launch the sport.

Sadly, there’s no technique to “play” it proper now, however you can entry the entire recreation’s menus. This consists of visuals, audio, graphics, controls, keybinds, HUD customisation, accessibility and just about the complete suite of choices you’ll discover when the beta goes stay.

That’s what 1000’s of gamers have been doing because the pre-load turned accessible. Over on Steam, the Battlefield 6 open beta achieved a concurrent participant rely of 9,463 (through SteamDB), over half of whom are at present “in-game” as of this writing.

Battlefield 6’s listing of tweakable choices is huge, and a few sub-sections supply the type of granular management that requires a bit of labor to dial in, so you may see why savvy gamers launched it instantly after ending the obtain. Now, whereas nearly all of choices received’t require you to be in a recreation to check out, many nonetheless do.

That stated, it’s extremely useful to get entry to such a large listing forward of time, even if you happen to’re solely keen on exploring the accessible choices. One other main purpose you’d wish to launch the beta earlier than servers go stay is that it’s additionally going to reveal issues you could possibly sort out forward of the beginning of the beta.

For example, the BF6 beta requires Safe Boot to be enabled in Home windows (and your BIOS). In actual fact, the beta won’t begin with out it. It additionally won’t launch for gamers utilizing something however the newest GPU drivers. Think about having to fiddle with that as your pals are ready for you on Discord the day the beta goes stay.

The BF6 beta’s Early Entry portion begins this Thursday, earlier than it opens as much as everybody on Saturday. You’ll be able to pre-load it now and be part of the 1000’s of gamers who’ve been idling in its menus.