Battlefield 6 Challenge Forces Players to Grief Teammates
A new challenge in Battlefield 6 is drawing criticism for encouraging players to actively sabotage their own team’s efforts. The controversial objective, part of the Support class progression, is frustrating the community by rewarding behavior that hinders teammates rather than promoting teamwork.
The issue centers on a specific Support challenge that requires players to earn “smoke assists.” To earn these assists, a teammate must secure a kill while physically standing inside the smoke cloud deployed by the Support player. While this can happen naturally during gameplay, the challenge’s design actively incentivizes players to spam smoke grenades directly on top of friendly positions.
This creates a significant problem: to complete their personal challenge, players are deliberately impairing their teammates’ vision, often at critical moments during a firefight. As one frustrated player noted on Reddit, “I have to literally grief my team… probably preventing them from getting the kill in the first place.”
The fact that I have to literally grief my team to complete this challenge shows how clueless DICE is
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Other players have pointed out that the challenge’s mechanics are the core issue. A more logical design would reward players for providing distant smoke cover that allows allies to advance or flank safely. Instead, the current requirement encourages a counter-intuitive and disruptive playstyle that can ruin the experience for others in the match.
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This feedback comes despite Battlefield 6‘s successful return to form for the franchise. The game has seen strong sales and player engagement, making quality-of-life issues like this all the more noticeable. The developer, Battlefield Studios, has already shown a willingness to adjust challenges based on community feedback, giving players hope that this particular objective will be reworked in a future update to better align with the team-based spirit of the game.