After years of leaks and rumors and months of subtle-but-not-specific confirmations, Battlefield 6‘s free-to-play battle royale mode is lastly out. Launching alongside Battlefield 6 Season 1, Battlefield: RedSec drops the participant into Fort Lyndon, a huge map crammed with distinct POIs, participating missions, and 99 different gamers all seeking to take one another down.
However as long-time Battlefield followers will bear in mind all too nicely, Battlefield 6: RedSec is not the primary battle royale mode within the franchise. Again in March 2019, Battlefield V added a battle royale mode known as ‘Firestorm.’ Whereas the mode itself is remembered fondly, EA’s dealing with of its post-launch help is not. Wanting again six years later, it is fascinating to see simply how nicely Firestorm has aged, and the way Battlefield 6: RedSec builds on its foundations.
Evaluating Battlefield 6: RedSec to Battlefield V: Firestorm
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Options in Battlefield V: Firestorm |
Options in Battlefield 6: RedSec |
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64-player lobbies |
100-player lobbies |
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Class selection solely impacts cosmetics |
Every class has distinctive perks and talents |
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World Battle 2 setting |
Modern-day setting |
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Capturing factors rewards provide drops |
Finishing missions rewards provide drops |
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Land automobiles are dotted across the map and a tank might be claimed by opening a bunker |
Land automobiles and boats are dotted across the map and a tank might be claimed by finishing missions that award automobile keycards |
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Might be performed in Solos, Duos, or Squads |
Battle Royale might be performed in Duos and Quads. It additionally has Initiation Battle Royale mode and Gauntlet mode |
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Squad mates might be revived with a flare gun |
Squad mates might be revived by visiting a Redeploy Tower |
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Makes use of Battlefield V motion and capturing mechanics |
Makes use of Battlefield 6 motion and capturing mechanics, together with new options like drag and revive |
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Needed to pay for Battlefield V to entry it |
Free to play for anybody on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Collection X/S |
How Battlefield 6: RedSec’s Fort Lyndon Compares to Firestorm’s Halvoy
Probably the most apparent differences between Battlefield 6: RedSec and Battlefield V: Firestorm is every sport’s setting. Very like its marketing campaign and multiplayer part, Battlefield V‘s Firestorm mode was set throughout the peak of World Battle 2. Naturally, this meant that Firestorm’s weapons, automobiles, character skins, and stage structure have been all impressed by that period. Battlefield 6: RedSec, however, includes a current day setting (2027-2028), so all of its weapons, automobiles, skins, and stage structure are impressed by trendy designs.
By way of the maps themselves, Firestorm’s Halvoy and RedSec’s Fort Lyndon differ fairly a bit. Whereas Firestorm’s map was as soon as the biggest map in Battlefield history, RedSec’s appears to trump it, at the very least if the variety of POIs is something to go by. Whereas Halvoy had a powerful 15 POIs dotted round its mountainous map, Fort Lyndon has a staggering 21, encompassing a fair wider number of places like golf programs, chemical crops, buying districts, and marinas.
The always-approaching ‘Storm’ is introduced barely in a different way in Firestorm and RedSec. In Firestorm, it is a literal ring of fireplace that destroys buildings, burns the participant, and obscures their imaginative and prescient. In RedSec, it is an enclosing ring of endless explosions.
Battlefield 6: RedSec Options Unique Gameplay Mechanics
One other main distinction between Battlefield‘s Firestorm mode and Battlefield 6: RedSec is how each battle royales really play. Regardless of releasing again in 2019, Firestorm’s Battlefield V mechanics maintain up very nicely right this moment, however in fact, they don’t seem to be fairly as easy as these present in RedSec.
Battlefield 6‘s RedSec mode additionally advantages from a wealth of mechanics not seen in prior Battlefield entries, reminiscent of the flexibility to pull squad mates once they’ve been knocked susceptible and revive them behind cowl. Courses additionally play a job in RedSec’s moment-to-moment gameplay. Whereas they have been merely cosmetics in Firestorm, RedSec’s Courses present gamers with distinctive perks and talents, reminiscent of Assault’s grenade launcher and their potential to put ladders.
Battlefield 6: RedSec can be house to some battle royale-specific mechanics that Firestorm did not have, reminiscent of customized weapon drops, Redeploy Towers, and quite a lot of missions that reward squads with uncommon loot. Because of games like Apex Legends, Call of Duty: Warzone, and Fortnite, these mechanics have turn into staples of the battle royale style over the previous few years, however they weren’t fairly the norm again when Firestorm launched in 2019.
Battlefield 6: RedSec Options New Battle Royale Modes
The place Battlefield V”s Firestorm mode provided Solo, Duo, and Squad variations of its battle royale mode, Battlefield 6: RedSec has a couple of extra and tweaked modes:
- Battle Royale – Solely Duos and Quads at launch, no Solos or Trios
- Initiation Battle Royale – A tutorial mode with bots that includes a 48-player most
- Gauntlet – Eight squads full 4 units of missions. The 2 squads with the bottom factors after every mission are eradicated
Battlefield 6: RedSec Is Free-To-Play
However most likely a very powerful distinction between Battlefield V: Firestorm and Battlefield 6: RedSec within the grand scheme of issues is that the latter is totally free to play. Whereas Firestorm obtained reward upon its March 2019 launch, it was locked behind a purchase of Battlefield V.
Although Call of Duty: Black Ops 4‘s Blackout mode, which launched a couple of months prior, was additionally held behind a paywall, its base sport wasn’t met with as a lot of a combined reception. Fortnite had additionally set a brand new precedent for free-to-play video games nearly two years earlier than Firestorm’s launch. It additionally did not assist that EA launched Apex Legends only a month after Firestorm, delivering a equally ‘mature’ battle royale expertise however for no value.
Given the present local weather of the gaming trade, Battlefield 6: RedSec going free-to-play is totally the precise transfer. And with it dropping two weeks after Battlefield 6, it is managing to capitalize on the goodwill surrounding the bottom sport and strike whereas the iron is sizzling, whereas additionally not capturing itself within the foot by providing a free different instantly that makes use of most of the identical mechanics.
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October 10, 2025
- ESRB
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Mature 17+ / Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Sturdy Language, In-App Purchases, Customers Work together
- Developer(s)
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Battlefield Studios
