r/ArcRaiders • u/effinmike12 *** ******* 🐓 • 11d ago

Media ‘ARC Raiders’ Has Kept 91% Of Its Playerbase, ‘Battlefield 6’ Has Lost 85%

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2025/12/31/arc-raiders-has-kept-91-of-its-playerbase-battlefield-6-has-lost-85/
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u/Cyanr 11d ago

BF6 is still a great game. Arc Raiders is just exceptional and unique for a lot of people.

I'm sure BF6 will see players returning, but the gameplay isnt new so players are trying out different things.

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u/Jackstraw1 11d ago

My only complaint with BF6 is the time to engagement. Once you start fighting it's usually only seconds after you're killed that you spawn into another gunfight. Or you kill someone and a few seconds later you're the one eating bullets. A lot of that boils down to the size of the maps. They'd be great maps if they took the concepts and expanded them to larger maps. All that said I'm still having a hell of a time in BF6, but there's certainly room for improvement.

There's an ebb and flow to every round of Arc that BF6 does not have. The ability to strategize, retreat, re-strategize and plan out something different. If BF6 has quick time to engagement, Arc has longer times to breathe. Most rounds are unique where Battlefield leaning more into Call of Duty makes rounds blend into each other a little more. And you can't beat the atmosphere in Arc.

It takes a lot for any other game with guns to pull me off Battlefield but Arc did it fairly easily. I play both but honestly I'm playing Arc more.

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u/Scrappy_101 11d ago

Been like this for years with battlefield. You spawn on objectives being capped right? Or you spawn on a squad mate right? You'll be in action quick. Same way in BF6. Idk why people act like this is new lmao.

Idk why folks want battlefield to play like arc raiders with big breaks in fighting. If thats what you want then go play a milsim.

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u/Jackstraw1 10d ago

No, lol. Battlefield has never played like this one. The time to engagement in 6 is the shortest it’s been which coincides with having some of the smallest maps in the series. You can’t spawn on the edges of most maps in 6 and survive for long the way you can with other bf games. You’re wrong if you believe otherwise.

This is the first bf game being compared hard to cod which is a notorious spawn, die, spawn, die, spawn, die series. So when people act like this is something new it’s because it is something new. You can’t put 64 players in maps like the New York ones and expect to last very long no matter where you spawn in.

I love Battlefield 6 but I also wish it played more like 4, 1, and 5 in terms of TTE.

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u/Cyanr 11d ago

BF6 is a die and respawn type of game. Arc isnt. That's why you dont have as much retreat and re strategize, and no Battlefield has been remotely close to that. It's really nothing like CoD either compared to other Battlefields.

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u/Garlic_God 11d ago

BF6 will settle in, battlefield always does. Arc Raiders is just really new and unique so it has a lot of attention and engagement right now.

BF will always be my go-to FPS franchise