Battlefield 6
Ranked 10 of 78 video games by recommenders
Recommended for being well optimized, fun to play with friends, and the best franchise entry in years; the most common caveat is kernel-level anti-cheat that blocks Linux.
Recommended for being well optimized, fun to play with friends, and the best franchise entry in years; the most common caveat is kernel-level anti-cheat that blocks Linux.
51 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 21
- criticize it
- 30
- approval share
- 41%
Recommended in 8 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 21 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 0.7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 8 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Well optimized for its graphics
“praised for being surprisingly well optimized for the graphics they offer”
Comment from 23 Dec 2025 in “The post-GeForce era: What if Nvidia abandons PC gaming?” “It's extremely optimized. I get 60-100 FPS on a 3060.”
Comment from 13 Nov 2025 in “Steam Machine” “It's extremely optimized.”
Comment from 13 Nov 2025 in “Steam Machine” Fun to play with friends
“i recently bought battlefield 6 and that has been fun”
Comment from 25 Jun 2026 in “GTA 6 Physical Copies Won't Include a Disc, Will Just Be a Code in a Box” “all your friends are raging about how much fun it is”
Comment from 13 Nov 2025 in “Valve is about to win the console generation” Good for learning team tactics
“They would learn more tactics much faster by just playing bf6 as a team and going through the tutorials.”
Comment from 10 Jul 2026 in “How the Terrorist Group Boko Haram Uses Frontier AI” “They would learn more tactics much faster by just playing bf6 as a team”
Comment from 11 Jul 2026 in “How the Terrorist Group Boko Haram Uses Frontier AI” Reason to keep Windows installed
“Battlefield is the only reason why I have a windows 11 partition on my PC.”
Comment from 28 Nov 2025 in “Battlefield 6 – Anticheat Update – Season 1” “I keep a Windows drive just for Battlefield 6”
Comment from 8 Dec 2025 in “Wayland Nvidia”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Kernel anti-cheat blocks Linux
“I can only hope this is true if it kills off the main reason titles don't work on Linux as a side effect.”
Comment from 13 Nov 2025 in “Steam Machine” “both block Linux players from online play thanks to their shitty kernel rootkits not supporting Linux”
Comment from 8 Jan 2026 in “Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files” “If a game has an aggressive anticheat, like Battlefield 6 or Valorant, it will not work”
Comment from 10 Apr 2026 in “France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins” - Comment from 10 Jul 2026 in “Train SIM Created by Just One Person Is Being Called the Best Ever Made”
- Comment from 29 Jan 2026 in “GeForce Now Brings GeForce RTX Gaming to Linux PCs”
- Comment from 28 Jan 2026 in “Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux”
- Comment from 2 Jan 2026 in “Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC, put Linux on it”
Requires Secure Boot
“BF6's anticheat is kernel level and requires the Windows-only version secure boot to be enabled”
Comment from 12 Nov 2025 in “Steam Machine” “I got a refund for battlefield 6 after finding out it requires secure boot”
Comment from 12 Feb 2026 in “Deobfuscation and Analysis of Ring-1.io” Cheating and wallhacks persist
“Afaik there have been wallhacks and aimbots since the open beta.”
Comment from 3 Dec 2025 in “Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm” “It's looking more and more like an excuse in order to give the appearance of combating cheating.”
Comment from 14 May 2026 in “Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features”
Other video games people recommend
The four most recommended other video games, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Helldivers 2 | 50 | 34 | 60% | 10 | 1.9 yrs3 owners | — |
| GPU building game | 49 | 16 | 75% | 2 | — | — |
| Triple-A Minesweeper | 40 | 25 | 62% | 1 | — | — |
| Quake II | 33 | 8 | 80% | 10 | — | Approved |
| Battlefield 6This page | 21 | 30 | 41% | 8 | — | — |
What people said
40 of the 59 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Same is true for Battlefield 6 - impossible to play”
“Launch Battlefield 6, hard freeze.”
“They would learn more tactics much faster by just playing bf6 as a team”
“They would learn more tactics much faster by just playing bf6 as a team and going through the tutorials.”
“games that use kernel-level anticheat that won't work, including newer BF6 and COD”
“i recently bought battlefield 6 and that has been fun”
“It's looking more and more like an excuse in order to give the appearance of combating cheating.”
“a slow, buggy, crashy, half-finished mess that barely works”
“I do think the control scheme is too constraining for Xbox and PlayStation users.”
“If a game has an aggressive anticheat, like Battlefield 6 or Valorant, it will not work”
“I run Battlefield 6 at 75% render scale with everything set to low.”
“I got a refund for battlefield 6 after finding out it requires secure boot”
“that game uses Kernel level anti cheat that prevents you from playing on Linux”
“Battlefield 6 is the same slop as 2042 with a fanservice texture pack on top”
“the exception is battlefield 6, because the anticheat blocks Linux”
“The only game I regularly play that doesn't work is Battlefield 6”
“both block Linux players from online play thanks to their shitty kernel rootkits not supporting Linux”
“Battlefield 6 has got a far better user experience on Linux than Windows and I would recommend it to anyone.”
“Battlefield 6 for example does not work at all in Proton.”
“things like BF6 that require kernel level anti cheat”
“praised for being surprisingly well optimized for the graphics they offer”
“He recently produced Battlefield 6 which was also released to acclaim”
“BF6 is easily the best entry in the franchise in the past decade+”
“Its quite cool how the game devs have made a lot of tooling to use”
“I keep a Windows drive just for Battlefield 6”
“Afaik there have been wallhacks and aimbots since the open beta.”
“I don't hate the lack of cheating compared to older Battlefield games if I am going to be honest.”
“That makes it unplayable for i.e. Battlefield 6 (I tried, believe me)”
“even the online "competitive" FPS games like BF6”
“Battlefield is the only reason why I have a windows 11 partition on my PC.”
“It's extremely optimized. I get 60-100 FPS on a 3060.”
“I can only hope this is true if it kills off the main reason titles don't work on Linux as a side effect.”
“all your friends are raging about how much fun it is”
“since when Fortnite and BF6 became gaming benchmark nowadays?”
“It's extremely optimized.”
“Runs pretty poorly on a RTX 4080 with 5800X3D @ 1440p.”
“send game studios a signal that we won't tolerate rootkits and/or closed platforms”
“BF6's anticheat is kernel level and requires the Windows-only version secure boot to be enabled”
“pay $20/quarter for access, on top of $70 base game”
“BF6 which wont work on linux cause of its anticheat”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.