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Over the weekend, the game developers introduced a new playlist called Relaxed Breakthrough. To put it simply, this option resembles the standard Breakthrough setup but features a few key changes:

• Each team has only 8 human participants, with the rest filled by 32 bots.
• Activities performed by real players award full XP, while bot actions offer lower rewards.
• Just a pair of locations are available: Cairo Siege and Empire State map.
• Elements like Dogtags, accolades, and career stat updates are disabled.

So essentially, the playlist lives up to its title: it's a casual take of Breakthrough. On the surface, you might think there's nothing wrong, as it provides more options for players looking for different methods to have fun with the title. However, if video games has shown one thing, it is that you can't please everyone. In other words, many Battlefield 6 fans are upset.

Community Responses: Anger to Praise

"Gamers prefer human opponents. Avoid making the errors of your rivals," states one reply to the mode reveal. "Absolutely shocking concept," says a different user. At the same time, in community forums, a player notes, "It's unclear where we are going with this game," while another details everything they consider to be broken in the game: "Resolve glitches, fix drone glitch, correct rocket mechanics, adjust aiming after sprinting, fix awful hit registration. We do not require this bot mode."

On the other hand, for every complaint, some gamers sharing how much they're liking the recent addition. "It's enjoyable to practice, human participants prevent it from being a total farmfest but it's quite laid-back," reads a forum post. "This subreddit doesn't understand that there are gamers who actually go outside and don't play this title 24/7. Let them find a middle ground," adds another. One reply on Twitter explains that as they're "a battledad with limited time, this is perfect for me," while someone else praises the mode for "avoiding intense competition."

Constructive Concerns and Community Input

All that said, players have constructive reasons to complain about Casual Breakthrough. A few folks have highlighted that it could increase wait times even longer for other modes because of the large amount of options currently available. On a similar note, certain regions already encounter mostly bots in the existing playlists. It also seems a little backwards that the mode won't start without a minimum number of human gamers, even though it focuses mostly on fighting AI opponents.

Lastly, one of the biggest grievances is that Battlefield Portal was promised to offer full XP, including AI matches, but that got canned when they tried to eliminate bot farms from the system. Thus this new playlist feels like the community meeting them in the middle, according to forum feedback. Another describes this addition as the devs "making a mistake so hard, I experienced so much fun in the initial release, why did they feel the need to adjust it?"

Future Prospects: Adjustments Occur?

If the development team has proven anything to date with the latest installment, it is that they're listening and responding to player input. Assignments being too difficult got fixed very quickly, just like the specific battle pass objectives. Chances are that, if their data shows this recent mode isn't performing to their expectations, they won't be shy to make further modifications.