We're adding several new Effects to Portal, including visual and audio effects pulled directly from the Halloween Dead Space experience.

NecromorphEffects allow you to transform soldiers into Necromorphs. Unlike their original appearance, you're not limited to Bots or a specific team in Portal; you decide who gets transformed. ShadowSilhouette turns a soldier completely black and can be combined with the Necromorph effect or used independently.

We're also opening up several of the audio effects used to create hallucinations and atmosphere. Builders can make individual players hear whispers, monster noises, a surreal ambient drone, or even fake footsteps and gunfire. These sounds are only heard by the affected player, opening up new possibilities for player-specific warnings, hallucinations, misdirection, or whatever else you can come up with. How will you choose to terrify your lobby?

Coming to Portal November 10th! @role-name

When attempting to publish a Verified Portal Experience, you may receive an error not allowing you to publish your experience.

The team is aware of this and is working on a fix. We appreciate your patience and understanding.

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Something dead has awakened in Area 51. Check out the event trailer and then head over to our event guide on the official Battlefield website: https://www.ea.com/games/battlefield/battlefield-6/news/battlefield-dead-space-event-guide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HORryqtXEJ8&rco=1

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The #channel is now open to ask your questions! Our dev team will be answering your questions live in #channel , so make sure you click on the channel to follow along! Slowmode is enabled in #channel, so please take a moment to make your question clear and concise before posting.

Discuss the Q&A with other players in #channel

Disclaimer: We’ll answer as many questions as we can during the Q&A, but may not be able to cover every post live. After the event, we’ll share a recap and look for opportunities to address additional questions in future Community Updates.

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Hello there, @role-name!

It's the start of a brand-new season, with Season 5 we're heading to Las Vegas. We'd like to hear how your experience has been with Battlefield 6 as part of this, as such our regular Community Survey is now live.

These surveys help us understand the overall experience of playing Battlefield and being part of the community. Your responses help us identify trends, dig deeper into specific topics, and prioritise areas where we can improve.

Responses are available on a first come, first served basis, so if you'd like to share your experience, be sure to fill it out as soon as you can.

As always, this is just one of the ways we gather feedback. There are plenty of other routes, where we take in more of your comments directly rather than specific questions. We're also reading your comments and reports across social media, Discord, Battlefield Labs discussions, and more. Wherever you choose to share your thoughts, we'll be there listening and working to ensure the team hears your experiences.

Thank you for taking a few moments to tell us about your Battlefield experience.

👉 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NY7XVXV

Don’t forget to join us for our Battlefield Discord Live Q&A tomorrow, Tuesday, October 20, 2026 at 4:00 PM (timestamp in your local time zone). Our development team will be answering your questions live on Discord about Siege of Vegas and the rest of Season 5.

We’ll be opening the channel to ask questions about 30 minutes before the Q&A begins, so make sure you’re there early to get your question in.

#channel will be in slowmode to allow as many players as possible to ask their questions. This also means you should make sure to choose one clear question focused on Season 5. Before asking your question, also make sure you check out the server #channel before posting.

This time, we're also adding a discussion channel for you to chat with the community about the event while it's happening. #channel is already open for chatting!

Click on the event to get a reminder: https://discord.com/events/140933721929940992/1560671189297270784

Disclaimer: We’ll answer as many questions as we can during the Q&A, but may not be able to cover every post live. After the event, we’ll share a recap and look for opportunities to address additional questions in future Community Updates.

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Today, we wanted to follow up on our recent update before we kick off the weekend. Here's what we're currently investigating and tracking across the most recent update.

• Progression and XP Earn Rates: Following the launch of Season 5, an unintended backend configuration issue throttled earn rates across core modes and weapon mastery progression. We have since reverted these settings on October 15, and have confirmed that earn rates have returned to normal.
• White Screen in Campaign: We have deployed a fix resolving an issue that prevented PlayStation 5 Pro players from progressing beyond the opening cutscene in the Battlefield 6 Campaign. You can now jump into the mission as intended.
• Drag and Revive: We are seeing reports where the revive prompt fails to appear or activate over downed squadmates in Battle Royale modes. Our team is actively investigating the root cause of this issue.
• Vehicle Health Regeneration: We are looking into reports that passive vehicle health regeneration is taking longer than the intended amount after disengaging from combat. Our team is reviewing this issue.
• Phantom Edition GOTY Skin: Players who own the Phantom Edition were intended to receive the new Legendary soldier skin from the Game of the Year (GOTY) Edition without purchasing an upgrade. We have rolled out an in-game inbox message that will automatically grant this skin directly to qualifying accounts.

The team is actively pushing forward on these fixes as well as the updates we mentioned earlier this week. This list is not comprehensive, so please continue to report bugs on the EA forums and share your feedback across our social channels. Have a great weekend and thank you for your patience.

//The Battlefield Team

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Over the past week, we’ve seen conversation, memes, and candid feedback around a few of our latest skins and cosmetic items—specifically the standard issue McNeil skin with “SECUTY” typo.

You called it out clearly, and we hear your concerns.

First, let's dive into the "Secuty" typo patches on the McNeil character. A correction update has already been planned for the Season 5 Phase 2 release. However, we recognize that letting a known visual error go live without quick acknowledgement creates confusion and erodes trust. We are reviewing how we communicate known visual bugs so you aren’t left wondering whether something was intentional or overlooked.

To be completely frank: Items that miss the mark like this do not reflect the quality standards you expect from us, or that we set for ourselves. We take pride in the craft of our world and our gear, and seeing visual oddities slip through is frustrating for everyone. We are currently examining our internal processes and workflows to pinpoint how these issues occurred and to see how we can tighten our quality control process going forward. Thank you for holding us to high standards.

We also want to acknowledge the conversation around the Midnight Mirage skin design with 5-Pistols. This is an intentional creative concept—a nod to over-the-top action movie tropes where an operative inexplicably has another backup weapon strapped to every spare inch of gear. That said, we understand how this could look unintentional when released alongside other cosmetic anomalies.

As we continue to try out new ideas to see what interests the community, you help us continue to evolve our cosmetics in Battlefield. Thank you for your continued feedback and support.

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Due to an issue with the first M-COM on Vegas Strip Rush, we have temporarily removed the map from the mode until we can resolve the underlying issue.

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