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Battlefield 6 was a hit. Millions of folks played it, enjoyed it, and complained about its shortcomings. Six months and two unimpressive seasons later, Battlefield 6 has firmly fallen out of the limelight. DICE finally appears serious about changing that, and it's starting by tackling the single biggest complaints Battlefield 6 fans had about it at launch: maps are too small, too cramped, and lack a certain sea breeze.
In an unexpected move, DICE has shared an extended Battlefield 6 roadmap that encompasses the rest of 2026, and the headlining message is maps, maps, and more maps.
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- Railway to Golmud (map): Returning from BF4, four times larger than Mirak Valley
- Cairo Bazaar (map): Returning from BF3, limited vehicles
- Battle royale solos
- Battle royale ranked and leaderboards
- New weapons, modes
Season 4: July 2026 - "Fall"
- Tsuru Reef (map): A naval warfare map that's "even larger than Golmud," introduces boats to BF6
- Wake Island (map): An OG Battlefield 1942 map complete with aircraft carrier spawns
- Custom lobbies
- Spectator mode
- New weapons, modes
Season 5: Fall
- 3 new maps
- "More to be revealed"
The "we've heard your feedback" tour begins in May with Season 3 and the arrival of Railway to Golmud, a "reimagined" Battlefield 4 map that's four times the size of Battlefield 6's biggest launch map (Mirak Valley). It'll support all vehicle types (a tragic rarity in Battlefield 6 at the moment) and brings back the moving train that's also a capture point. Nice.
Next up is Cairo Bazaar, a remake of Grand Bazaar from Battlefield 3. Not a map I have fond memories of, and I'm not thrilled it's yet another medium-sized map with no air vehicles, but at least it isn't Operation Metro.
Season 4 is what I'm actually looking forward to: naval warfare. Boats! Islands! Wake Island! Heck yeah. First up in July is Tsuru Reef, a Battlefield 6 original that's "even larger than Golmud"—DICE is really underlining how it's not scared of big maps anymore.
Later on comes Wake Island, a classic Battlefield map dating back to 2002. Aircraft carriers with "functional flight decks" are back, which I take to mean one team will spawn on carriers and launch a beach assault on the island team, as was the case on the original Wake Island map from Battlefield 1942. It's the sort of asymmetrical map design that Battlefield (and really FPSes in general) have gotten away from.
Season 5 is shrouded in mystery. DICE says that it's planning on releasing three maps as a "holiday treat," but made it clear that won't be the norm going forward. The roadmap includes a hint at one of the maps—a puddle reflection revealing neon lights (seen below). That's not immediately ringing any bells here, but if it does for you, let me know!
Aside from these season-specific promises, the studio also laid out a list of "priority features" coming sometime in 2026:
- Leaderboards
- A server browser with "persistent servers"
- Spectator mode
- Proximity chat
- Reworks for New Sobek City and Blackwell Fields
- Platoons (Battlefield clans)
That server browser thing is especially confusing and non-specific, as Battlefield 6 already has something called a server browser, so I've broken that out into its own article here if you're interested. As for map reworks, DICE said in a press Q&A that it plans to tackle the "divisive elements" of Blackwell and Sobek City, including (but not limited to) cramped air space.
There's no hard dates on any of this stuff yet, but Season 2 countdowns in Battlefield 6 itself suggest it'll wrap up in the middle of May.
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