Battlefield Redsec, the free-to-play battle royale mode within Battlefield 6, went reside yesterday throughout all platforms, proper alongside the sport’s first season. That is the Battlefield collection’ second try at a battle royale mode, after Battlefield 5’s ill-fated Firestorm.
A part of why Firestorm by no means actually made it large was that it was locked behind the complete value of the sport, successfully appearing as a facet mode throughout the present expertise, and never a way to draw a brand new kind of participant, one who just isn’t concerned with shopping for the premium recreation.
Redsec corrects that a lot of that, however it doesn’t appear to be taking off.
Rapidly after Redsec went reside, Battlefield 6’s rating on the Steam most performed charts went up, reaching round 550,000 concurrent gamers, which is up from the standard peak of 320,000 to 400,000 the sport has been settling into since launch, as seen on SteamDB.
That’s a good enhance, however you’ll discover that’s nowhere close to sufficient to achieve Battlefield 6’s launch peak concurrent of 747,440, which is a bit stunning contemplating it doesn’t price something to play Redsec, whereas that participant peak was made up totally of people that purchased the complete recreation.
There’s clearly a piece of PC gamers unaccounted for right here – anybody who grabbed it on the Epic Video games Retailer or by way of the EA app straight received’t be represented right here. Certainly, there’s additionally a big contingent of console gamers throughout PlayStation and Xbox the place Redsec could very properly be doing loads higher than it appears to be doing on PC.
Twitch numbers began out sturdy, with Redsec (which is counted individually from Battlefield 6) reaching the highest spot for a time, earlier than it continued its pure slide down the ranks. On the time of this writing, the class has 80,000 viewers and sits within the quantity three spot.
These figures could very properly enhance over the subsequent a number of days, particularly as soon as the weekend rolls round. Nevertheless, contemplating how a lot hype there’s been for a Battlefield battle royale mode, it’s a bit stunning to see that it seemingly hasn’t attracted the form of consideration Warzone has, or usher in as many gamers because the core recreation of Battlefield 6 managed to.
