Battlefield 6 sets out to rally flagging player numbers w...

What’s Happening

Real talk: Battlefield 6 s Season 2 thunders onto PC today, a three-month festival of Battlefoolery that begins with a new map, Contaminated, new modes for the Redsec battle royale component, a dinky yet deadly helicopter, and some new guns and gadgets.

The EA shooter s Steam playerbase has slumped following its chart-topping release last year, but don t worry, ye Battlefaithful, because Season 2 has officially recaptured my interest by filling my lungs with psychoactive vapours. In ne Home News Battlefield 6 Battlefield 6 sets out to rally flagging player numbers with a big dose of hallucinatory gas Season 2 adds new time-limited tactical bong-rip mode Image credit: EA News by Edwin Evans-Thirlwell News Editor Feb. (let that sink in)

18, 2026 Follow Battlefield 6 Battlefield 6 s Season 2 thunders onto PC today, a three-month festival of Battlefoolery that begins with a new map, Contaminated, new modes for the Redsec battle royale component, a dinky yet deadly helicopter , and some new guns and gadgets.

The Details

In new limited-time mode VL-7 Strike, available in regular multiplayer and Redsec, you must wear a gas mask and replenish its filters to avoid falling victim to clouds of funky fumes. Why would you want to avoid falling victim to clouds of funky fumes.

It s got to be more intriguing than flipping the objective yet again. Battlefield 6 Season 2 Official Gameplay Trailer Watch on YouTube From the outside, the gas clouds merely block your view.

Why This Matters

Stroll into one without a mask, and you ll experience disturbing hallucinations, or at least, hallucinations that are as disturbing as they can be without scuppering the balance of a competitive shooter. Gun barrels leave smeary vapour trails, and the billowing firmament comes alive with phantoms who might be friends or enemies or entirely illusory. It s in keeping with hallucinations I ve had in the likes of Far Cry 3 and We Happy Few, and I do think they could go further.

This is the kind of news that gets gamers talking across social media.

Key Takeaways

• Here s an impromptu list of potential happy gas varieties based on my own, not wild youth, together with a brief outline of their effects.
• VL-8 The Sly Lupin : causes a clean grey wolf to spawn who explains in a smouldering baritone that they are your spirit animal.
• The wolf follows you everywhere, never breaking eye contact.

The Bottom Line

VL-8 The Sly Lupin : causes a clean grey wolf to spawn who explains in a smouldering baritone that they are your spirit animal. The wolf follows you everywhere, never breaking eye contact.

Are you here for this or nah?