Battlefield 6 Tank Skins Might Get You Killed — Players Call It a Fair Trade
Battlefield 6’s vehicle skins are backfiring, stirring player backlash and fresh balance concerns as cosmetic flair collides with competitive play. What should have been style points is now a flashpoint.
Well, this is awkward. Battlefield 6 players spent money to make their tanks look fancy, and now those gold paint jobs seem to double as a bullseye. If you have the Gold Standard vehicle skin equipped, you might be taking way more damage from the front than you should. Not a vibe.
What players are seeing
Multiple reports say the Gold Standard skin is creating a giant weak point across the entire front of certain vehicles. A community PSA flagged it with screenshots and testing: tanks with that skin are eating an absurd chunk of damage from a single RPG. We’re talking roughly 70% of your health gone without the Armor Upgrade, and still about 64% even with the Armor Upgrade equipped. That shouldn’t happen with a cosmetic-only item. At all.
Which vehicles and skins are involved
The warning specifically calls out the main battle tanks Leo A4 and M1A2, and players say the problem extends to IFVs as well. On top of that, the Chimera tank skin appears to cause similar front-armor issues. So it’s not just one paint job acting up.
- The issue: A front-facing weak spot triggered by certain skins, causing around 70% damage from a single RPG without Armor Upgrade, ~64% with it.
- Impacted cosmetics: Gold Standard (confirmed), Chimera (suspected similar behavior).
- Affected vehicles: Reported on main battle tanks Leo A4 and M1A2; players also mention IFVs.
- Timeline: One player says they noticed it two weeks ago and posted on the official forums with testing comparing skinned vs. unskinned vehicles; it didn’t get traction until a broader PSA went out on November 10, 2025.
- Status: No official response from the devs yet. Players are asking EA to fix it ASAP. The short-term advice is simple: do not equip Gold Standard if you care about survival.
Players are not amused
Because skins are supposed to be purely cosmetic, the community is understandably irritated. Some replies are basically asking why cosmetic items can alter survivability in the first place, suggesting it feels like selling armor layouts disguised as skins. Others say this is just one more example of vehicles getting left behind since launch, pointing to MBTs and IFVs being too easy to delete with RPGs even before this bug.
"They look cool. I’d rather die."
That pretty much sums up the mood right now: fashion vs. function, and function is losing.
What to do right now
If you’re running tanks or IFVs, take off Gold Standard. Maybe skip Chimera until this is sorted, too. No word yet from the Battlefield team, but the data players posted lines up: the damage spike is real, and it’s nasty.
Meanwhile, on the map front...
Separate from the skin mess, the Battlefield 6 lead recently said the game does need more of those big, classic sandbox maps, while also defending the smaller ones as part of the series’ mix. So yes, they hear the calls for larger-scale chaos — but they’re not ditching tight maps either.