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If you've been playing Battlefield 6 and wondering why some of your pinpoint shots don't seem to be connecting with enemies, you're not the only one. Since the game's launch on October 10, numerous players have been sharing clips and stories of the bug costing them gunfights online.
As reported by PC Gamer, what players are experiencing is an exceptionally gnarly bug related to the bloom on weapons in Battlefield 6. The mechanic, which increases the spread of bullets and reduces player accuracy the longer they're firing, seems to be affecting players regardless of how long they've been firing and the range at which they're engaging with enemies.
As a result, many players are losing fights they shouldn't be and getting inconsistent visual feedback--often showing enemies bleeding without hit markers--while firing on enemies.
The Beta bug was actually fixed but we've identified another issue (two in fact) that impacts dispersion/bloom in an unintended way and will cause you to have more dispersion at times.
The team is working on this and we're looking at general balance/tuning of dispersion too.
Per comments online, the bug appears to be pretty similar to one that players encountered while during Battlefield 6's open beta back in August. However, in response to these claims, Florian Le Bihan, a principal designer on Battlefield, stated that the team had managed to squash the issue found in the beta. It turns out that the problem now is in fact "another issue (two in fact) that impacts dispersion/bloom in an unintended way and will cause you to have more dispersion at times," according to Le Bihan.
Since discovering how widespread this bloom bug is, Le Bihan has been fielding evidence from players so that the Battlefield team can diagnose the exact cause of the issue. Thus far, the developers haven't seemed able to trace it back to a certain weapon acting inappropriately, but some of Le Bihan's responses suggest the team suspects a certain combination of weapon attachments might be the culprit responsible for these accuracy issues.
There's no word yet on an official fix, but I reckon one is coming sooner rather than later. In the meantime though, these issues have hardly slowed Battlefield 6 down, which spent the weekend on top of the Steam charts and has reportedly already sold more than 6.5 million copies within its first week.
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