Battlefield 6 has been out on PC and consoles for three days at the time of this writing, and already, players are getting frustrated with the XP grind to unlock new weapons and attachments. So, players have turned to an old workaround for Battlefield games: create a custom server in Portal, and farm XP in bot matches. EA, for its part, is trying to stop players from boosting by shutting down the more popular farms, but players can always make new ones.
Spotted by VG247, a select few Portal servers were popularized when YouTubers and content creators began making videos with titles like "How to Unlock Weapons, Attachments, Gadgets, and Soldiers Faster in Battlefield 6." Players on Reddit were also sharing codes to let other players find their XP-farming servers, as the community has seemingly rallied around the feeling that earning XP for weapons, attachments, gadgets, and soldiers is "ridiculously slow."
In response to players using Portal for XP farming, EA seems to be shutting down the more popular servers, and players are now running into error messages telling them that EA's servers "are at max capacity," stopping players from creating new servers.
Of course, this won't last forever, and EA can't exactly play an endless game of whack-a-mole with Portal servers to try and stop everyone from doing any amount of XP farming. It's also not like Battlefield 6 is the first Battlefield game where players have turned to Portal for this exact reason.
Even in our review of Battlefield 6, we noted that the grind for weapons and attachments, specifically those that can only be unlocked through certain situational challenges, wasn't something we particularly liked, even if it can be seen as a way of changing up the tried-and-true method of just levelling up your character and weapon to unlock everything.
Since theoretically, you could jump into matches and focus on only completing those challenges where possible. But that's not exactly the way to play if you're just trying to have a good time in Battlefield 6, or any multiplayer game, for that matter.
Hopefully, we'll see EA stop its whack-a-mole game and adjust some of the situational challenges and XP requirements so that players can unlock what they want, without too much hassle, and the game can find its meta more naturally. Rather than it becoming a case of 'players who farmed XP in Portal vs. players who didn't,' and since only one of those sides is going to have better and more weapons, attachments, and gadgets available to them, it's pretty clear which side is coming out on top.
For more help on the battlefield that doesn't require you jumping into Portal, you can check out our benchmarking and graphics card guides for Battlefield 6 on PC. You can also check out our tips guide for how to get in the right mindset for Battlefield 6, as well as the best early game loadouts and weapons guide for your early hours. Lastly, check out our troubleshooting guide if you've been running into any of the launch bugs and errors on PC that have plagued the game's first few days. For everything else, you can check out all our Battlefield 6 coverage here.
About the author: David has been writing about videogames, technology, and culture since 2020, with a focus on reporting daily news across multiple publications, including GameDaily.Biz, GameSkinny, and PlayStation Universe before joining Wccftech in 2025. David started contributing as Canada/US reporter for Wccftech's gaming section in 2025. Besides being up-to-date on the industry's movements, he loves interviewing developers, reviewing games, and writing intricate essays about the symbolism and layered meanings to be found in rich narratives as he's done for publications like GamesIndustry.Biz, LostInCult, and others. Outside of games he loves movies, music, theatre, his hometown, and his family, though not necessarily in that order.
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