Battlefield 6 Bug Kills Players For Jumping: Dev Says Knee-Breaking Isn’t Intentional
In Battlefield 6, the deadliest foe isn’t the enemy team—it’s a baked-in flaw players can’t out-skill.
Battlefield is supposed to be chaotic, not cursed. Yet some players have been dropping dead after a harmless little hop like they offended gravity. The good news: the devs figured out why it happens and a fix is on the way.
The weird jump-then-die bug, explained
Clips have been floating around of Battlefield 6 characters vaulting or making a tiny jump, taking a few steps, and then face-planting in a totally empty hallway. No bullets, no explosions, just a delayed funeral. YouTuber Dynamic posted one of the cleaner examples on November 2, 2025, cracking that DICE and EA must hate movement so much they literally kill you for jumping.
DICE the only dev's in history to hate movement so much that you now die from jumping. this game is shambles.
That joke plays off a long-running debate about how fast and mobile Battlefield should be, but this one is not a secret nerf. Florian Le Bihan, a principal game designer on Battlefield, jumped onto X/Twitter to confirm what is actually going on:
Seems to happen if you're initially killed while falling from a great height, then revived and jump again afterwards. We've found the issue, fixing.
In other words: if you died from a big fall, got revived, and then hopped soon after, the game sometimes remembered the fall and cashed out your health a few seconds late. Some replies claimed they'd seen it around 10 times. Dynamic said it was their first run-in, but given the dev response, it's clearly frequent enough to be on DICE's radar. And no, this isn't some harsh new stamina system:
Nah we don't break knees on purpose.
What to do until the fix lands
- If you died from a long fall and get revived, maybe take it easy on the hops for a bit. The phantom fall damage seems to trigger when you jump after the revive.
- A hotfix is incoming according to Le Bihan. No timing was shared, but the team has identified the cause.
- If you're getting mulched in general, there's a new casual mode aimed at helping players get comfortable. Use it to shake the rust off while we wait for the patch.
Side note while we're here: one determined Battlefield 6 player spent an entire weekend measuring pixels to meters to argue the new maps are smaller than in past games. Their words: "I've done nothing but work on this the entire weekend." Passion never sleeps.