[Battlefield] Reduce target acquisition distance and remove red dots for base level spotting

***\*\*\*\*\*EDIT 8/18/2025\*\*\*\*\**** **I have submitted this post as feedback for the BF6 beta on EA's official feedback forum for the BF6 beta. If you support this post, please show it some love there as well:** [https://forums.ea.com/discussions/battlefield-6-beta-feedback-en/bf-vet-beta-feedback-game-pacing-is-too-fast-3-easy-fixes/12478776](https://forums.ea.com/discussions/battlefield-6-beta-feedback-en/bf-vet-beta-feedback-game-pacing-is-too-fast-3-easy-fixes/12478776) BF vet here, I've been playing the BF games since BC2. After spending considerable time on the closed beta and mostly enjoying it, I want to say I am impressed with the current state of the game. It feels like a huge improvement over BF2042 and reminiscent of BF3/BF4 era. I'm hopeful that battlefield is back. That being said, it still doesn't feel like a true return to form, and this is largely due to the game's pacing. **BF6 is too fast paced to be considered on the same level as the games during the golden era of battlefield.** When I say fast paced, I do not mean movement. The player movement actually feels really true to BF3/BF4 movement; it feels grounded and realistic, and deservingly punishes those who try to slide and bunny hop their way through battles. The problem with game pacing is due to a number of other reasons, and from what I can tell, the largest offenders are (1) **the absurdly easy target acquisition due to the current spotting system**, (2) **the utterly underwhelming suppression effect**, and (3) **the insanely fast passive health recharge**. **1. Target Acquisition/Spotting System** The target acquisition system in the BF6 Beta is overly generous in revealing enemy locations. From what I can determine, it seems that, as long as an enemy is in your line of sight and within something like 10 degrees from the center of your screen and up to a whopping 35m or so away from you, the game automatically puts a large red dot above the enemy's head, giving away their position. This is before the enemy is even spotted. Oftentimes, this leads to me identifying enemies far before I even see their character model. From what I can tell, this mark is only visible to you, but it allows for easy target acquisition and a quick follow up spot, at which point they would then be marked similarly for the rest of the team. Screenshot for reference: https://preview.redd.it/fx9d9nn4jwhf1.jpg?width=3840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5886b92bc068a9651e67b3f8fb594ba0d6773f9e As you can see, there is a red dot above the head of the enemy in front of me, who is by my estimation \~35m away from me. He is not spotted, which can be verified by his lack of a presence on my minimap in the lower left hand corner. The enemy directly behind me and firing at me is painted on the minimap, but the target pictured is not. This is what I mean when I refer to BF6's target acquisition system being overly generous. The target is far enough away from me that his character model can hardly be seen, yet there is still a large red dot above his head, giving away his position to me. And he isn't even spotted yet. Previous battlefield titles had a system similar to this, where the enemy's name or a red dot would appear above their head if you were aiming close to them, but the distance that this happened at away from the player was very close ranged. I don't have the exact numbers, but from what I remember in BF3/BF4, enemy locations were not revealed this way unless they were within \~10m of you. The current \~35m that this happens at in BF6 is beyond excessive, and it allows you to easily identify enemies very far away from you, and then enables you to spot them, at which point their location will be revealed in a similar fashion to every member on your team. This of course goes both ways, which means that if you happen to be found by an enemy in this manner, it is likely that you are spotted by the entire enemy team. This leads to a far greater number of enemies being spotted in BF6 than in previous BF titles, and oftentimes it seems that every enemy on the opposing team is running around with a red dot above their head, which takes careful environmental observation out of the battlefield skill set in favor of a brainless "see red, shoot red" strategy. This also contributes to the feeling that as soon as you turn a corner or find yourself out in the open, even for a fraction of a second, the entire enemy team and their mothers are shooting at you. This is a common complaint amongst BF6 beta testers. The combination of the crazy long target acquisition distance and the strength of spotting in general in this game really speeds up the pacing of the game, and makes it play more like an arena shooter than an entry into the battlefield franchise. **Suggestion:** Reduce the target acquisition distance to 10m, and remove the red dots above enemies for base level spotting. This would make it so that, under a base level spot, an enemy's location will only be revealed on the minimap, and no red dot would appear above his head. Think BFV style. This would do wonders in slowing down the pace of the game, and give players an actual chance to reposition without immediately being gunned down by 15 enemy players. Recon class should then have an improved spot mechanic made available to them, either at as a core part of the class or as part of one of their field upgrade paths, that would allow them to spot enemies for the team with the red dots above their head in addition to the base level effect of revealing their location on minimap. This would give the Recon class much needed class identity, especially if DICE continues to keep weapon types unlocked across classes and follows through with moving the deploy beacon to the Assault class's toolkit. **2. Weak Suppression Effect** As it currently stands, the suppression effect is so weak in this game that oftentimes I don't even realize when I'm being suppressed. There is almost no noticeable increase to gun recoil, aim down sight sway, or even an observable visual cue. If I'm shooting at an enemy, and another enemy tries to "suppress" me by shooting at me, 99% of the time I am able to secure the original kill I was going after and then take cover like nothing even happened. To the best of my knowledge, the ONLY effect suppression has in this game is preventing passive healing from occurring. This weak suppression effect is another huge contributor to the extremely fast pacing of the BF6 beta. In previous Battlefield titles, the suppression mechanic would make it considerably harder to take out enemy players if you were receiving fire from another enemy. Your recoil and sway would increase drastically, oftentimes causing you to lose the ability to secure the kill. It also rewards teamwork, as a player could oftentimes protect their allies from harm by being aware and returning fire on an attacking enemy, even if they themselves are unable to secure the kill. In my opinion, it is no coincidence that the Battlefield games often referred to as the best entries in the franchise also had a heavy suppression effect. It worked wonders for controlling the pacing of the game by prolonging engagements with the enemy. **Suggestion:** Drastically increase the effects of the suppression mechanic, or implement new effects if they are not present at all. I honestly can't tell if the suppression system even affects recoil or gun sway in BF6, that is how pathetically weak it is. A good, heavy suppression effect should do the following things: 1. Drastically increase aim down sight sway, even by a factor of 2x or 3x. This will make sniping more difficult while suppressed, solving the current sniper issue. 2. Drastically increase gun recoil, even by a factor of 2x or 3x. This will make returning fire with an automatic more difficult while suppressed, giving the edge to non-suppressed player 3. Involve a heavy but not impeding visual effect on the suppressed player. 4. Prevent passive health regeneration (this one is already in the BF6 beta). 5. SUPPRESSION SHOULD NOT AFFECT BULLET SPREAD. Learn from the mistakes made in suppression adjustment during BF3 and BF4. Suppression maximizing the spread of the gun left too much up to pure luck or chance. A suppressed player should be able to win engagements, if the skill gap between engaged parties is large enough. Suppression affecting bullet spread is too suffocating. And before I get bombarded with "you shouldn't be rewarded for missing shots" or "this is an unfair mechanic because it further solidifies whoever shoots first wins", this is not the case. How suppression worked in previous battlefield titles, it took 20+ shots from an AR/Carbine/SMG in order to suppress someone. LMGs had an advantage in suppressing enemies, but they still took \~10 shots to suppress someone. Suppression isn't an accidental missed few shots, it is a deliberate and intentional expenditure of resources that inhibits an enemy combatant's ability to secure kills on your teammates. **3. Passive Healing Speed** Passive health regeneration is crazy fast in this game. Health begins regenerating after a 5 second delay, and then it beings to heal probably something around 20 health per second. This yields around an \~10 second window after taking damage before you are at full health again. That means that a medic has \~10 seconds to give you medical support for it to actually be effective. This is Call of Duty levels of health regeneration. It works in CoD because CoD is a fast paced arena shooter, and there is no class that is dedicated to offering medical support. In Battlefield, however, health regeneration this fast takes away from the medic class, and helps to establish a pacing that is far too fast for the Battlefield feel. If soldiers are getting back into the fight faster, it speeds up battle engagements and ticket draw. **Suggestion:** Return passive health regeneration to the levels found in BF3/BF4. This would help slow down the pacing of the game and return much needed importance to team play, especially in the case of the Medic class. I would suggest keeping the health regeneration delay at 5 seconds, but then slowing down health regeneration so that it takes 15 seconds to heal back up to full health. In totality, this will require 20 seconds for a player to heal back up to full health, if they were missing the entirety of their health bar. It's also important to note that if this change were implemented, the Assault class would still heal to full health in just 10 seconds because of their passive improvement to health regeneration that is already in the BF6 beta which cuts both the healing delay and also the time required to heal to full health after health regeneration has started in half. This keeps the Assault class on this fast paced health regeneration, giving them a legitimate opportunity to shine as the true run and gun class. Despite this wall of text of grievances and suggestions, I am finding myself enjoying the BF6 beta. I'm not posting this as a BF6 doomer, or someone trying to bury the game. I am invested in the success of this game, and have been waiting for years for another enjoyable, modern-time Battlefield title to come out. Anything I've brought attention to in this post is simply my experience of the beta so far, and the suggestions I make depict my opinion of what would make this game live up to its highest potential. I am interested in knowing what other people think about the beta so far, so please let me know in the comments. Thanks for reading!