Have you been struggling to hit other players in Battlefield 6, especially when shooting for extended periods of time? Well, it turns out it may not be a skill issue, as a bug related to bullet dispersion is causing shots to go wide.
It’s meant to work is like this. When you shoot an automatic weapon in Battlefield 6 for an extended period of time, the bullets will start to shift away from where your aiming reticle is pointed. This is due to a combination of recoil and random, intended deviations, and is there to prevent people being able to maintain near-perfect accuracy while unloading an entire magazine. It also promotes firing in bursts, which is more realistic and Battlefield-y.
The problem is, even when you do fire in bursts, stopping to allow this weapon bloom to reset, right now that doesn’t always happen. As shown in the clip below, the bullet spread you had at the end of your previous burst can remain even after you stop and start firing again, leading to greater inaccuracy. In laymen’s terms, your guns may not be as accurate as they should be during persistent firefights.
This was a problem during the Battlefield 6 beta too, and some have speculated this is the same problem from that early version of the game alive and well during Battlefield 6’s full launch. However, it turns out this problem is thanks to entirely new bugs.
Principle game designer on Battlefield 6 Florian Le Bihan stated on X: “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,” Bihan stated on X. “The team is working on this and we’re looking at general balance/tuning of dispersion too.”
Such small problems do have a wider impact on the gameplay experience, especially for more competitive players. However it’s worth noting that the Battlefield 6 team has proven especially keen to fix bugs and other issues. It was only recently they announced that Ladder Launching will soon be gone, and various movement techniques that proved unpalatable for the intended Battlefield experience were removed too.
These come as Battlefield 6 remains a powerhouse in terms of player numbers, quickly becoming one of the biggest Steam launches of all time with nearly 750,000 concurrent players on its launch day last weekend.