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The next Battlefield game doesn’t even have an official name yet, but fans are already hands-on with an early build thanks to the new Battlefield Labs playtest program. That program has proved a headache for devs, with participants leaking footage in spite of NDAs, and starting rumors about the use of skill-based matchmaking (SBMM).
A rumor that Battlefield 6 would use SBMM, which likely originated from the playtest, has spread through the Battlefield community, with fans up in arms about its potential inclusion. Battlefield’s lead producer David Sirland attempted to clarify the use of SBMM with playtesters, in a post that was later shared to Reddit.
“Just for clarity–saying SBMM is bad is not really useful. What you really want to say is ‘Heavy SBMM where skill separation is a priority is bad,'” Sirland said in the post. “But that doesn’t make skill as a factor in matchmaking bad wholesale, on the contrary we need a skill value to make balanced teams–no matter the ranges of skills total on a server. It wouldn’t be fun if all high skill players ended up on the same team, would it?”
