Battlefield 6 Season 1: Release Date, New Maps, and Everything You Need to Know
Battlefield isn’t standing down — the franchise has more in its sights.
Battlefield 6 is finally out, and if your weekend looked anything like mine, you spent a lot of time face-down on the ground pinging for medics who were juuuust a bit too far away. Good news: the post-launch plan is already locked in, and it is a lot. EA is going with a free, seasonal drip of maps, modes, and gear, which means no paywalled map packs and no splitting the player base. Thank you.
Season 1 starts soon, then keeps rolling
Season 1 kicks off Tuesday, October 28, and it is not just a single patch. It is split into three drops that land fast after launch: Rogue Ops (Oct 28), California Resistance (Nov 18), and Winter Offensive (Dec 9).
- Rogue Ops — Tuesday, October 28: The first wave brings new toys and a new way to fight. Weapons include the SOR-300SC Carbine, the GGH-22 sidearm, and a Mini Scout sniper rifle. There is also a rail cover and an LPVO (Low Power Variable Optic) attachment, which is exactly what you want on rifles and LMGs if you like flexibility at mid-range. Vehicles get a bump with the Traverser Mark 2, an armored personnel carrier sporting a top-mounted gun. A new mode, Strikepoint, dials things into squad-based, single-life rounds built around capturing an objective. The headline map is Blackwell Fields, set across the California badlands, and it supports every scale of combat with both ground and air in play.
- California Resistance — Monday, November 18: Drop two keeps the cadence going with a new map, Eastwood, which takes the fight to an upscale suburb and its golf course. The mode this time is Sabotage: teams alternate between attacking and defending, and whoever racks up more destroyed targets wins. Weapons-wise, you are getting the DB-12 shotgun, the M327 Trait sidearm, and the Slim Handstop attachment. Also back from earlier entries are Battle Pickups — powerful, limited-use weapons you find on the map that can flip a fight if you get to them first.
- Winter Offensive — Monday, December 9: The final Season 1 drop ices things over with a winter variant of the Empire State map. There is an Ice Lock gameplay modifier to match the conditions, and a new melee option in the Ice Climbing Axe for when you want to settle things up close.
What to expect between drops
The first update sets the template: a mix of maps, modes, and specific gear picks, plus one or two nerdy tweaks (LPVO enjoyers, your time is now). California Resistance and Winter Offensive follow that lead, each with a fresh battleground and a mode that changes how you approach objectives and lives.
We will get more specifics as we get closer to each date, but this is the spine of Season 1. Based on the pace, Season 2 is presumably queued up for early 2026. I will keep you posted as EA locks in the details.