Battlefield REDSEC Launches Alongside Battlefield 6 Season 1 With Battle Royale, Gauntlet, and Portal Modes — Here's Everything You Need to Know

The free-to-play Battlefield 6 conflict royale crippled mode has officially arrived successful the signifier of Battlefield REDSEC – but it’s astir apt not precisely what you deliberation it is.

EA and Battlefield Studios astonishment launched their Battlefield conflict royale acquisition crossed PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S conscionable moments ago, bringing months of rumors and leaks to an extremity with a standalone offering that’s escaped for some those who bash and bash not ain Battlefield 6. Its name, shorthand for “Redacted Sector,” teases an updated instrumentality connected a fashionable multiplayer pastime that’s been bundled successful with 2 further modes: Gauntlet and Portal. There’s much to REDSEC than fans whitethorn person expected, and it’s each tied successful with the Battlefield 6 acquisition nether 1 unified umbrella.

Battlefield Battle Royale

Battle royale is nary uncertainty the header here, offering entree to 100-player matches wherever classical conflict royale gameplay is mixed with the Battlefield 6 formula. Infantry tin beryllium seen parachuting implicit and into explosive firefights successful its archetypal trailer, which reveals however BF Studios translated acquainted elements into the Battlefield universe, each portion 2Pac and Dr. Dre’s California Love plays successful the background.

Finding uncommon loot, hoarding armor plates, mastering tiny and ample points of interest, and completing missions with friends are halfway parts of galore conflict royale experiences, and each is indispensable to past successful Battlefield, too. It's much Warzone than Fortnite, but REDSEC has immoderate features that assistance it basal apart.

Fort Lyndon, a Southern California determination that EA and BF Studios telephone the “biggest Battlefield representation ever,” serves arsenic the backdrop for each match. As the trailer highlights crumbling buildings, REDSEC aims to person players it tin physique connected conflict royale without sacrificing what truthful galore emotion astir the franchise: tactical destruction.

Map-altering vehicles are a mainstay for immoderate existent Battlefield experience, and that remains the lawsuit for Battlefield 6 conflict royale, which features everything from tanks to onslaught boats to play carts to find. As the ever-present, ever-shrinking ringing of occurrence (fans whitethorn retrieve it from Battlefield V: Firestorm) forces teams retired of the frying pan, discovering an M1 Abrams could mean the quality betwixt triumph and succumbing to the flames. There volition beryllium plentifulness of less-threatening vehicles to observe astir the caller conflict royale map, but those looking to thrust a heavy armored vessel volition archetypal request to implicit missions, nab a keycard reward, and past usage it to unlock circumstantial garages.

Battlefield 6 and REDSEC volition coexist, truthful those who person already enjoyed the erstwhile tin expect to find acquainted vehicles, guns, and gadgets successful the second – prevention for a fewer tweaks. Class upgrades are conscionable 1 constituent to see and springiness Assault, Engineer, Support, and Recon players upgrades to enactment toward. Earn capable XP arsenic the Recon class, for example, and you'll summation entree to an enhancement that powers up drones with bomb-dropping capabilities. Custom loadouts tin besides beryllium built and used, with players capable to gain them by completing missions oregon by betting connected the somewhat riskier enactment of waiting for constricted planetary driblet events.

Battlefield REDSEC: Fort Lyndon. Image courtesy of EA.

Battlefield 6 players person not-so-patiently waited for conflict royale updates for months. Now that REDSEC is yet present to flip Battlefield into a conflict royale blender, fans should cognize that it's not the lone caller acquisition dropping today.

Gauntlet

If you request a interruption from conflict royale, Gauntlet is simply a abstracted mode that is besides offered arsenic portion of today’s caller standalone free-to-play experience. While Battlefield conflict royale whitethorn spot squads prowling for loot successful betwixt shootouts passim longer matches, Gauntlet is propped up arsenic a comparatively short, elimination-driven gameplay experience.

Instead of 100-player matches, conscionable 32 players (eight squads with 4 players each) are dispersed crossed Fort Lyndon. BF Studios says Gauntlet is structured arsenic a tournament, with teams tasked with warring done fast-paced, round-based missions.

Players person 5 minutes to implicit the nonsubjective for each round, with Gauntlet keeping everyone connected their toes with rotating missions and locations. As objectives and settings shift, it’s teamwork that volition find which squad emerges victorious.

Portal

Battlefield fans person been acquainted with Portal since its inception successful Battlefield 2042. Although the assemblage has already taken to Battlefield 6 Portal to make bizarre crippled modes and recreate fan-favorite maps, REDSEC Portal opens a caller doorway of possibilities.

Battlefield REDSEC brings Portal to Fort Lyndon. Image courtesy of EA.

REDSEC takes the committedness of limitless game-creation tools and brings them implicit to Fort Lyndon’s monolithic play area. It’s much country for fans to fto their imaginations tally wild, with 1 illustration we’ve seen including a midair obstacle people that features play carts, colorful shipping containers, and constrictive paths.

REDSEC Portal looks much Grand Theft Auto Online than Battlefield, but that besides seems to beryllium what EA and BF Studios are going for. Two authoritative Portal maps volition beryllium disposable astatine launch, with much acceptable to travel successful the future.

How Does Battlefield 6 Work With REDSEC?

The basal Battlefield 6 acquisition takes aft Call of Duty, bundling successful REDSEC truthful that players tin entree it from 1 main menu. Those who don’t ain the precocious released Battlefield crippled tin inactive download REDSEC without contented and astatine nary other charge, but determination are a fewer differences for those who ain the full, premium acquisition and those who don’t.

Coinciding with the motorboat of Season 1 contiguous is Battlefield 6’s conflict walk system, which shares unlocked rewards and XP advancement betwixt some the basal crippled and its REDSEC counterpart. Though immoderate unsocial challenges and events volition beryllium tied to each experience, and immoderate Battlefield 6 conveyance skins won’t look successful definite REDSEC experiences, EA says “there are nary plans” for REDSEC-exclusive unlocks.

Portal is wherever things get somewhat complicated. Creative fans who ain Battlefield 6 tin bask the caller Portal tools introduced with REDSEC wholly unrestricted, gaining entree to each the caller standalone acquisition and Fort Lyndon person to offer. Those without the basal game, however, won’t person entree to immoderate Battlefield 6-exclusive content, specified arsenic maps, erstwhile making Portal creations. These restrictions don’t halt astatine the instauration broadside of the user-generated assemblage contented hub, either, arsenic EA clarifies that REDSEC-exclusive players won’t beryllium capable to make oregon play immoderate contented utilizing Battlefield 6 materials.

Battlefield REDSEC isn’t conscionable conflict royale – it’s a wholly antithetic beast. This three-pillar standalone acquisition volition alteration arsenic seasonal updates proceed to rotation out, and if the weeks pursuing the motorboat of Battlefield 6 are thing to spell by, it volition besides apt rapidly alteration arsenic assemblage feedback pours in.

The October 10 merchandise of Battlefield 6 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S proved to beryllium rather the infinitesimal for the series, but the existent trial of its imaginable begins with REDSEC and Season 1. While we hold to spot however EA and BF Studios program to support yet different large summation to the Battlefield universe, you tin work up connected each of the changes introduced with Season 1. You tin besides larn astir however Engineer players are putting their repair tools to bully use, arsenic good arsenic the multiplayer tegument that acceptable the assemblage ablaze.

Michael Cripe is simply a freelance writer with IGN. He's champion known for his enactment astatine sites similar The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be definite to springiness him a travel connected Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).