Battlefield 6 Beta has 300K concurrent players, beats Battlefield 2042 highest all-time record

Battlefield 6 is still months away from release, but hundreds of thousands of gamers have jumped into the open beta, which has already broken the concurrent player count of Battlefield 2042, which just... wasn't good at all.

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The Battlefield 6 Open Beta has had a huge all-time peak of 334,549 gamers play the game on Steam, beating out Battlefield 2042 and its all-time peak from nearly two years ago with 107,376 players according to SteamDB. This is an amazing achievement for Battlefield 6, showing that just like John Wick... yeah... Battlefield is back.

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This weekend is the Battlefield 6 Early Access and Open Beta weekend, where early access was granted to those who pre-ordered, while the open beta was open to anyone who simply streamed more than 30 minutes of the game through Twitch. I did that last night and put some time into Battlefield 6 and my early impressions are very high, I need some more time on it, but it gives me some crazy Bad Company 2 + Battlefield 4 vibes, which were my favorite entries in the franchise.

Battlefield 6 has recommended settings for either 1080p @ 60FPS on Low settings (using AI upscaling on Performance mode) or 1440p @ 60FPS on High settings (using AI upscaling on Balanced mode) requires a stronger Intel Core i7-10700 or AMD Ryzen 7 3700X processor, and a choice between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT, or Intel Arc B580 graphics cards.

• Battlefield 6 Early Access = August 7-8
• Battlefield 6 Open Beta Weekend 1 = August 9-10
• Battlefield 6 Open Beta Weekend 2 = August 14-17

The upcoming Battlefield 6 open beta begins in just a few hours' time at 1AM PST on August 9, running through until August 11. The second weekend takes place at 1AM PST August 14, running through until August 16. This means you'll have a few chances to play Battlefield 6 before it officially launches on October 10.

In recent news, NVIDIA has confirmed that Battlefield 6 will be infused with a bunch of its technologies, including DLSS 4 MFG, DLAA, and Reflex technologies for GeForce RTX series GPU owners on the PC. It's been reported that Battlefield 6 runs at 1440p 300FPS+ on an AMD Ryzen 9 9800X3D + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 system, and that's without DLSS 4 enabled, so we should expect some uber-smooth BF6 gameplay on decent PC hardware.