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Neat Things You Didn’t Know About Battlefield 6

There’s a lot going on in Battlefield 6, from its classes, their abilities and equipment, weapons, vehicles, and destruction. But did you know there are also tons of little details that make your life easier or otherwise improve the experience? We’re cataloging as many of them as we can find here.

These little details won’t change how you play Battlefield 6, but most make playing it a more enjoyable and, sometimes, immersive experience.

Pull Out Your Class Gadget or Knife to Run Faster

If you’ve ever seen your teammates running out of spawn or toward an objective with their knife out, it’s because you run about 10-15% faster while doing so. You are, of course, completely helpless if you encounter an enemy with a gun. Provided you’re sure it’s safe, you will get where you’re going much faster.

The melee speed boost does not apply when you’re using the sledgehammer, as that somehow makes more sense than the knife bonus. You run faster with both the default knife and the one you get for completing the campaign.

One thing to note is the speed boost also applies to holding most class gadgets, like the Repair Tool and Defibrillator, so if you’re running a sledgehammer, pulling out either will get your feet a-movin’.

Holding Down the Defib Paddle Until It Beeps Revives Teammates at Full Health

Sure, you can simply press the defib button quickly to spam revive an entire legion of downed teammates, but they’ll all come back at 50% health. If you hold down the defib use button for a few seconds, however, you’ll hear a high-pitched beep.

Reviving someone after you hear the beep brings that teammate back at 100% health, ensuring they’re as ready for a fight as they can be. Note that Support players can drag revive twice as fast as other classes, and dragging also revives at 100% health.

Neither function reloads your teammate’s weapons, sadly, so if their gun is empty, that will quickly become a problem.

Shooting Enemy Tanks in the Back Armor Does Much More Damage

We go into greater detail about this in our guide on how to destroy tanks, but every type of tank has weaker armor in the rear — weak enough that you deal double damage with any launcher that can actually strike it.

I’d recommend sticking to the RPG-7V2, as it has the highest raw DPS in the game.

You Can Overflow Your Default Gadget Inventory Limit Using a Support Supply Bag

Running out of rockets before you can destroy an enemy vehicle is the worst feeling as an Engineer. Did you know that if you stand next to a Support Supply Bag for a little while, you can get more than your starting amount of rockets and other consumable gadgets?

You can have up to five RPG shots, six mines, and so on. This mechanic applies to other class gadgets as well, including Assault grenade launchers, Recon C-4, etc.

You Can Strap C-4 to a Recon Drone and Fly It Over to a Tank, Then Blow It Up

It sounds silly, and it is, but once you unlock C-4 as a Recon, you can deploy your Recon Drone, strap some explosives to it, and then fly it over a tank and destroy it.

There are a couple of catches, however. First, the extra weight eats through the drone’s battery incredibly fast, so your range is limited. Second, the delay between exiting the drone and pulling out the C-4 detonator gives tanks plenty of time to escape the blast.

You’ll need to pick your timing wisely, but obliterating tanks using the Recon Drone is hilarious every time. You can also use the drone to detonate mines from a distance, but that’s less fun.

There’s an Anti-Camper Button That Activates the Smokestack on Operation Firestorm

While I’ve not encountered too many Recon players sitting on the top of the highest smokestack on Operation Firestorm, there is a way to get any and all of them off it built into the map.

Near the base of the stack on the Conquest C flag is a button that says “Warning Valve Purge.” Pressing it causes the stack to spew out massive gouts of fire, burning anything at its highest reaches to a crisp.

You Can Pick Up Your Supply Bag as a Support to Lower the Cooldown of Your Next One

The Supply Bag is one of the most powerful and universally useful gadgets in Battlefield 6, but its default cooldown is restrictive to say the least.

If you interact with one you put down, but before that cooldown ends, you’ll pick the bag up and almost clear the timer entirely. You’ll therefore always want to pick up your bag, whether you’re using it to heal yourself or others.

You Can Resupply Off a Support Player’s Back

Are your Support teammates never dropping Supply Bags? You’re not alone, but the developers thought of that. If you run up to a Support, you can interact with their in-game character and get a one-time resupply without their input.

You Can Destroy Enemy Equipment with a Recon Drone

If you fly your Recon Drone within 40 meters of enemy equipment — Deploy Beacons, Mines, Target Designators, etc. — you can destroy them by aiming at them and pressing the Fire button.

Destroying mines and other lethal equipment causes them to explode, and if an enemy player is within the lethal radius, they’ll die to their own teammate’s equipment. Kudos to Jackfrags for showcasing that little detail.

You Can Move Slowly in a Tank to Avoid Activating Mines

At the bottom of the screen, when you’re driving a tank, you’ll see the command for Crawl. Holding down that button causes your tank to move much slower, and you won’t set off mines so long as you move at that reduced speed.

You Can Destroy Vehicles with the Sledgehammer

The sledgehammer can deal damage to vehicles like it can destructible parts of the environment. You won’t be doing much damage, but find a particularly oblivious tank or truck driver and even Support players have options against armor.

This strategy technically works on jets and helicopters, but unless they add a wingsuit to BF6, you probably won’t be sledging any air vehicles anytime soon.

If You’re on Fire, Go Prone to Put It Out

Battlefield Studios was listening in fire safety class, because if someone throws an incendiary grenade at you or you’re otherwise on fire, diving to prone puts it out. Stop, drop, and “roll” indeed.

Shoot the Concrete Tube and Crane Counterweight to Drop Them on Mirak Valley

You can bring down the crane between the C and D Conquest points on Mirak Valley, as well as the concrete cylinder hanging from it.

Shooting a single rocket or a lot of bullets will bring down the cylinder, but it takes two rockets and even more bullets to bring down the crane. Both are lethal to anyone unfortunate enough to be in the middle when they land.

Those are the neat little things we could find that you probably didn’t know about Battlefield 6. We’ll add any more we encounter as we continue progressing in the game.

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