Despite Battlefield 6's Server Browser Utterly Failing At Its One...

People are making fun games, and folks are playing them.

When Battlefield 6 launched a month and a half ago, one of its most anticipated features basically didn't work. The Portal server browser was a dumpster fire at first, hosting dozens upon dozens of lazy XP farms that clogged up EA's servers so bad you couldn't even start your own friend lobby.

Then, DICE nerfed XP farms into the ground. Folks complained, some who apparently only bought BF6 to shoot at bots demanded refunds, and many XP farming servers were taken offline.

Now weeks later, I decided to check in on the BF6's Portal tab, hoping to find folks using Portal the way I hoped they would from the start: creating neat custom games and hosting specialized servers. I'm pleased to report both are happening, but not in huge amounts.

First, the good news: Legitimately fun custom games are starting to pop up, several of which resemble the sort of goofy stuff you'd find perusing the custom lobbies of Halo or Garry's Mod. The most popular one of the moment is Chaos Climb by Forstorare (Portal code: zx45f).

Instead of describing it, I'd rather show you what it's all about:

To me, this is videogames. What I dig about Chaos Climb is how it flexes the one big thing that Portal has that comparable level editors don't: scale. There are a crapload of vehicles raining down from the sky, some gliding gently down the 45-degree freeway as normal Earth physics dictate, while less fortunate tanks and jeeps contort and tumble through the play space at mach speed as if a black hole burst from their center. The variety of hazards is why I keep climbing up after getting knocked down, and why I've yet to reach the peak despite a full hour of attempts.

Two days in a row I've found a few dozen people playing Chaos Climb across several servers, which is pretty good for the middle of the day in North America (hardly peak active hours).

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The other two custom games worth highlighting at the moment are Snipers VS Runners Duck Hunt (Portal code: yt6xx) and RPGs VS Golf Carts (Portal code: z85x9), both made by YouTuber Choanie. Both were released very recently, but Duck Hunt is the more popular mode for now.

Source: PC Gamer