Battlefield 6 Open Beta Weekend 2 Start Time, Maps, Modes

With Battlefield 6 Open Beta Weekend 2 fast approaching, here’s a few things you ought to know. We’re getting a new map, some new modes, and most importantly, new skins.

Firstly, let’s make sure you know what day and what time you can play the second weekend of the Open Beta.

• If you didn’t make it to the first weekend, you must make sure to enable Secure Boot for the Battlefield 6 Open Beta. You cannot launch the game without doing this.

The Battlefield 6 Open Beta Weekend 2 takes place from Thursday August 14th to Monday August 18th. However, if you’re keen to maximize your play time and get all the challenges squared away, here are the actual start and end times.

For those who want to jump back in the moment it starts, where’s the exact time the servers open.

• US: August 14th 1am PT / 2am MT / 3am CT / 4am ET
• EU: August 14th 10am
• UK: August 14th 9am

And for those keen to grind right up until you get kicked from the servers, here’s when the second weekend of the beta will end.

• US: August 17th 1am PT / 2am MT / 3am CT / 4am ET
• EU: August 17th 10am
• UK: August 17th 9am

That’s a full 72 hours of potential playtime, providing you don’t have a job to go to on Friday, or any other responsibilities over the weekend. For those who have the time, here’s what you can look forward to.

If you’re among the 6 million or so who watched and rewatched the multiplayer gameplay trailer, and maybe caught that match cut they used to switch to the New York map, this is the most important part of the second weekend of the Battlefield 6 Open Beta.

The new map is called “Empire State”, and from what we can tell from the trailer, takes place on the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridge, with a partially accurate Old Fulton Street being the focal point of your destruction.

It’s worth mentioning that Empire State will be included in the second weekend in addition to the previous maps, Siege of Cairo, Liberation Peak, and Iberian Offensive that we saw and messed up during the first weekend. However, a portion of New York is not the only new thing to test out during the second weekend of the beta.

If you’ve played previous Battlefield games, then you’ll know that Rush is not technically a new game mode, but as a fan-favorite it was conspicuously absent from the first weekend.

For those who aren’t familiar, Rush is sort of like a larger-scale version of the bomb defusal mode you’re familiar with from the competitive mode of Counter Strike. The lobby is split into two teams: Attackers and Defenders. Attackers have to plant bombs and blow up objectives and once they’ve done that for the first section of the map, they must move on to the next one.

The Defenders, unsurprisingly, must stop this from happening. Luckily for them, they have unlimited lives, while the Attackers can run out. This means the game ends when the objectives are all destroyed OR the Attackers exhaust their lives.

For those who refuse to PTFO, Battlefield 6 Open Beta weekend 2 also adds Squad Deathmatch. This mode takes place in a small section of the map in question, with four teams competing against each other. There’s no objective here aside from reaching the target number of kills before the other teams. Again, these modes are in addition to the modes we saw in Weekend 1, so you can still get another go at the same stuff you enjoyed then.

With a new weekend, we also get new challenges to unlock new skins. All of which will carry over to the full game, by the way. The challenges and corresponding rewards are as follows:

• Capture 42 Flags in Conquest, Domination, or King of the Hill – War Machine Vehicle skin
• Get 200 kills or assists – Bat Company Dog Tag
• Capture 10 Sectors in Breakthrough or Rush – Dominion Weapon Package

If you were wondering, according to EA, all of the skins and aesthetic rewards you gain over the course of the Battlefield 6 Open Beta will carry over to the full game when that releases on October 10 (presuming that you’re using the same account you did for the beta.)

Want to make sure your PC can handle the full game? Check out the Battlefield 6 System Requirements and Recommended Specs to make sure you’re good to go in October. Additionally, if you want to put a number on how your PC is doing, turn on FPS in the Battlefield 6 Open Beta to see if you might need an upgrade for the full release.