DICE has 'heard the message very clear' and is now prioritizing larger maps for Battlefield 6, but 'it takes a really long time'

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Folks want more maps in Battlefield 6, but not just any will do—they want large ones with open space, lots of capture points, and support for air vehicles.Too few of BF6’s launch maps checked those boxes, and after months of vaguely saying it’s listening to that feedback, DICE is finally saying it will also act on that feedback.”We don’t want to spoil too much yet, but we’ve heard the message very clear,” DICE seasons producer Philipp Girette told PC Gamer on the subject of map feedback. “You’ve seen recently in Battlefield Labs that we started testing Golmud Railway, one of the older Battlefield maps. That is one of the responses [to that feedback] that we can give there, and the rest is for the future.” Related articles EA delays Battlefield 6’s next season a month to ‘further polish and refine Season 2,’ and the only words I want to hear next are ‘bigger maps’ ‘We’re not doing a good enough job [with Portal] right now’: Battlefield 6 dev says players are making ‘fantastic’ creations that nobody is seeing because of a ‘technical issue’ Despite Battlefield 6’s server browser utterly failing at its one job, good things are happening in Portal DICE has indicated that the Golmud Railway remake has been prioritized specifically to address map size in Battlefield 6—the map won’t make the cut for Season 2, but its numerous test periods suggest the team wants it out as soon as possible.Both Season 2 maps, Contaminated and Hagental Base, were already planned before launch, but DICE producer Kit Eklöf says one actionable change made before Contaminated’s