Longtime Battlefield player - 2,500+ hours between BF3 & BF4
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BF6 is very good mechanically:
- Guns feel snappy & the recent recoil patch brought them to a similar feel such as BF3/4.

- Squad cohesion has improved with the new Squad Drag & Revive mechanic regardless of class; it makes switching to engineer to deal with vehicles less of a compromise. Love it.

- The recent updates with water maps (Tsuru Reef & Wake Island) have made this game actually feel like a battlefield game.
We finally have a good variety of maps where both infantry and vehicles can coexist.

- Destruction is decent. I would put it above BF4, but not as good as BF3 or BC2.

- Ability to self-host 1 BF6 server for free and use someone else's experience code to copy their configuration is brilliant and generally works well.
It's honestly such a shame they don't prominately feature the portal server browser because it's pretty good 👍
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Here is where the game has mostly fumbled with:
- Incredibly poor map selection upon launch. (Only several good maps and got repetitive quickly)

- Terrible Menu UI / Purposely hiding the portal server browser out of sight

- Matchmaking - Unable to play with more than 4 friends consistently, servers re-instance everyone after the conclusion of each match. This kills the community building aspect of battlefield and also stifles groups of friends, larger than the 4-man squad, from being able to play together.

- Removal of classic game modes (Rush, Squad Deathmatch & more):
Alongside the terrible UI, EA has started to completely remove game modes from being able to be queued. Forcing someone to host and populate a server on the portal server browser (which they purposely hide).
As of this writing (8/20/26) There are ZERO populated servers for either Rush or Squad Deathmatch.
This is with 50,000-150,000 players on at any given moment less than 1 year after the game launched.

- Kill trading & dying behind cover:
As EA is attempting to draw in the COD crowd, they are unabashedly using very loose network lag compensation to ensure that Console<->PC cross play is as "even" as possible. If two people are shooting at each other both with relatively low ping (<35ms) there is still a high likelihood that you will either kill trade or die after you take cover behind a wall.
To be honest, if they offered a "LAN / low latency" option, BF6 might be peak BF for infantry combat.
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I am giving it a thumbs up because the game, mechanically, is very sound.

However, I fear EA will continue to take 1 step forward only to take 2 steps backward at any given moment.