You already know your recreation is highly-anticipated when folks rush to obtain it as quickly because it turns into obtainable, but additionally after they’re completely satisfied to launch it effectively earlier than servers are even reside. That’s clearly true within the case of the Battlefield 6 beta.

The Battlefield 6 beta doesn’t go reside till Thursday, and even then, you want a code to play that early portion. That hasn’t stopped gamers from downloading it, solely to idle within the recreation’s menus.

The Battlefield 6 beta pre-load went reside yesterday throughout all platforms. That features Steam, the place you can’t solely seize the beta information in preparation for the 2 beta weekends, you too can launch the sport.

Sadly, there’s no method to “play” it proper now, however you can entry all the recreation’s menus. This contains visuals, audio, graphics, controls, keybinds, HUD customisation, accessibility and just about the whole suite of choices you’ll discover when the beta goes reside.

That’s what hundreds of gamers have been doing because the pre-load turned obtainable. Over on Steam, the Battlefield 6 open beta achieved a concurrent participant rely of 9,463 (through SteamDB), over half of whom are at the moment “in-game” as of this writing.

Battlefield 6’s listing of tweakable choices is very large, and a few sub-sections provide the form of granular management that requires a bit of labor to dial in, so you may see why savvy gamers launched it instantly after ending the obtain. Now, whereas nearly all of choices gained’t require you to be in a recreation to check out, many nonetheless do.

That mentioned, it’s extremely useful to get entry to such a large listing forward of time, even if you happen to’re solely excited about exploring the obtainable choices. One other main cause you’d wish to launch the beta earlier than servers go reside is that it’s additionally going to reveal issues you could possibly deal with forward of the beginning of the beta.

As an illustration, the BF6 beta requires Safe Boot to be enabled in Home windows (and your BIOS). In truth, the beta won’t begin with out it. It additionally won’t launch for gamers utilizing something however the latest GPU drivers. Think about having to fiddle with that as your pals are ready for you on Discord the day the beta goes reside.

The BF6 beta’s Early Entry portion begins this Thursday, earlier than it opens as much as everybody on Saturday. You possibly can pre-load it now and be a part of the hundreds of gamers who’ve been idling in its menus.