With the recent launch of Battlefield 6‘s Season 2, producer Phil Girette and associate producer Kit Eklof have spoken about the update cycle, addressing the longer end of Season 1, and how the newest bit of content will bring back players who stopped playing. In an interview with TechRadar, Girette and Eklof spoke about how the extension of Season 1 broke the pace of content for players that were already enjoying the game. However, Season 2 needed more time for polish.
“So we launched Battlefield 6 and we were super happy to have had a smooth launch for once. And then going into season 1, I think the key thing there because, […] there were a lot of people spending a lot of time playing it, what kind of broke that pace is the extension we did of Season 1,” Girette said. “We looked at the content that we have in Season 2 and we just said, ‘it needs a little bit more time in the oven to further polish’.”
“Season 2 is definitely bigger than what we have done in Season 1. We have the maps, we think they’re going to be quite strong. We have the additional gameplay mechanics. We have popular vehicles coming back like the Little Bird. There’s a whole new addition in REDSEC itself as well.”
Eklof spoke about bringing back Battlefield fans with Season 2, noting that “there are so many things that are in the Battlefield DNA that we’re adding to Battlefield 6 here.”
Further in the interview, Girette spoke about how Season 2 of Battlefield 6 lays the foundation that future updates will build on top of. Of the two seasons released for the shooter so far, he also said that “this is going to be the strongest season” so far.
“Does the perfect Battlefield season even exist?” he said. “Everyone sat together and said, ‘This is really, really strong.’ We want to use Season 2 as kind of the foundation going forward – this is the level we need to hit. We hope that the players think the same, but I think this is going to be the strongest season [yet].”
Girette had previously spoken about the reasons behind Season 2’s delay, confirming that keeping the launch of Battlefield 6 smooth meant that future content plans needed to be pushed back in order to ensure that they would be polished.
“We came out of the launch from Battlefield 6, and we don’t have the best of track records for launches, but it went pretty smooth this time around, so we’re happy for that one,” explained Girette. “But that launch also takes a lot of work and time. We saw the content we had planned for Season 2, and we wanted just to give that a little bit more time in the oven to polish things and make sure we hit the expectations that players have.”
For future content, Girette also said that the delay of Season 2 caused the development teams under the Battlefield Studios umbrella to take steps across various divisions to ensure that new seasons come out on time.
Battlefield 6 and REDSEC are available on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. For more details about its latest seasonal update, check out our coverage.