Battlefield 6 Players Are Wrecking Maps by Sledgehammering Drones: Fans Want the Hammer Banned

Battlefield 6 has been out for about a minute and we already have people flying into the sky on power tools. It started as a goofy clip. Now it is chewing up matches, especially in Breakthrough, and the community is done being amused.

What is the glitch, exactly?

It is as simple (and ridiculous) as this: spawn a drone, stand on it while it is on the ground, and smack it with the sledgehammer. The drone bounces, you go up. Keep hammering and you keep rising. Do it right and you can hover well above the map with a panoramic view and near-immunity from return fire.

Why Breakthrough is bearing the brunt

Breakthrough is the mode where one team defends and the other pushes through sectors. It lives and dies on funneling and sightlines. So when defenders can park themselves on building tops and bridge beams you are not supposed to reach, the mode falls apart. Players have been calling out specific problem maps: Manhattan Bridge, Cairo, and Sobek City are getting shredded by this.

Case in point: on October 21, 2025, YouTuber and streamer Moidawg posted a screenshot showing two full squads floating above Manhattan Bridge, raining down shots and basically deciding the round from a spot you cannot hit back from. That is the meta right now. Not great.

"People are getting to the unreachable roof areas from one side and shooting down on points with no counter. Even if [the] drone glitch gets fixed, they can still use ladders in some areas."

That is creator Stodeh, and he is not wrong. The drone is the flashy part, but some of these angles are also accessible via ladders or weird geometry, which turns this from a simple bug into a bigger map-design headache.

What players are seeing and asking for

• Where it is worst: Manhattan Bridge, Cairo, and Sobek City during Breakthrough; players say Rush has the same problem in spots.
• How squads are exploiting it: full teams going airborne with respawn beacons, Support players feeding ammo, and long-range rifles locking down capture points from rooftops and bridge spans you cannot ordinarily reach.
• Why it feels unbeatable: from those heights they are nearly unhittable, and they can control entire sectors with minimal risk.
• The tone of the community: what started as a funny glitch is now showing up in 'nearly every single match' of Breakthrough, according to multiple posts.
• Immediate fixes people want: an ASAP hotfix; temporarily disabling the sledgehammer; short suspensions for people abusing the exploit; and if necessary, disabling the drone or certain ladders on the worst maps until a patch lands.

One Redditor put it bluntly, calling it 'literally cheating' to access roofs you are not supposed to reach in modes like Rush and Breakthrough, and wondering why chat moderation is swift but this is still running wild. Another player says what everyone else is thinking: if nothing changes, this will snowball until the hammer or drone gets pulled or patched.

So what now?

EA and DICE are going to have to step in fast. Disabling the sledgehammer or the drone short-term would calm things down, and a longer-term fix needs to address those map ladders and unreachable ledges too. Because as every meme-loving player knows: the high ground wins. And right now, too many people have it for free.

Quick aside: a credits controversy

Separate from the flying hammer saga, the former Battlefield 6 campaign lead says he is disappointed he and other developers were not properly credited in the new FPS after working 'tirelessly for 1 to 2.5 years, building the foundation.' That is a rough look on top of everything else.