Battlefield 6: Map Comparison According to a Data Miner

Battlefield 6 has been available for almost a month now, and it's safe to say that the new iteration of the shooter from Electronic Arts and DICE is certainly a success, especially considering the over 7 million copies sold in just 5 days.

Nevertheless, for all this time, a controversy that began to mount during the game's Beta has not subsided: players perceive the Multiplayer mode's maps as "small," or at least smaller than the standards the series has accustomed us to.

As often happens in this case, data miners are here to tell it like it is, and the response published on Reddit by ClaratheRed is decidedly merciless: the graphical comparison between the arena layouts, in fact, places Battlefield 6 at the bottom of the ranking for those with the biggest maps.

The comparison is not exhaustive, as it does not include titles prior to the third or the fifth installment, but it does include maps from Battlefield 3, 4, BF1, Hardline, 2042 and, of course, Battlefield 6.

According to this comparison, the game's largest map, Operation Firestorm – not coincidentally a remake of a BF3 map – would not even make it into the top 30 largest maps released, while the smallest, Saint's Quarter, would be the second smallest in the ranking. The total surface area count is also unforgiving.

Obviously, the quality of a game is not measured with a ruler but is based on many other parameters, first and foremost gameplay, but if Battlefield fans, who love vast maps traversable far and wide with airplanes and tanks, complain about a certain feeling of tightness, well... they have their reasons.

Nothing that cannot be solved by releasing new maps, right?
And while we wait for them, let's go back and read our Battlefield 6 Review, available for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.