EA and Battlefield Studios have officially launched the third season of Battlefield 6 with its first phase, Warlords: Supremacy, adding three new weapons, new attachments, a Ranked Battle Royale queue for Battlefield REDSEC, and most importantly, the introduction of the Railway to Golmud map. Golmud, which is now the largest map in Battlefield 6, has also helped drive the best spike in the game's concurrent player numbers on Steam in months.
Battlefield 6 has struggled in comparison to its numbers at launch. The last time it held a concurrent player count of over 100K players on Steam was in January 2026, and it hasn't gotten close to reaching that watermark again since February 2026.
While it isn't much closer to that number today, the launch of Season 3 and Railway to Golmud has brought about the best spike in the last two months with 78K+ players hopping in to check out the new map.
The challenge now, of course, becomes keeping these players around and growing over the course of Season 3. The beginning of Season 2 also had its own player spike, but one that didn't last throughout the season and concurrent player numbers soon fell to what they've been recently.
Part of the struggles Battlefield 6 has faced comes from how delayed Season 2 was compared to the first season. Thankfully, that kind of delay shouldn't happen again, according to Battlefield Studios, who called it an isolated case.
If we can indeed count on not seeing another delay like that again, then we could very well start to see Battlefield 6 really hit its stride over the course of this season and into the one that everyone is waiting for, Season 4, since that's when naval warfare joins the fray.
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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