After a certain level of skill is pursued in first-person shooters, a player needs to study their gameplay and find out their weaknesses and work upon them and fix them. Because the best players are often the ones who study their own gameplay and work on it. Map awareness is one of those things that gets little to no recognition because a lot of players do not understand how important it is to know what map you are playing, its layout, chokepoints, and how to use all of that to your advantage.
Especially in a game like Battlefield 6, where the buildings and the map structure are destructible, it is all the more important to know how and when to go where and how to create opportunities for yourself. So in this, I will be featuring a Battlefield 6 maps list, its settings, layout, and tips.
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Maps, layouts, and Tips:
So there are a total of 9 maps featuring the game, and I will be listing down each of them with their layout, some tips, and strategies that could be pulled off. Some of them might overlap because the game’s mechanics are the same throughout the game. But still, after reading this blog, you’ll be well versed with the game’s maps.
- Operation Firestorm:
The first one on the list is a remake of the bf 3’s classic map.
Layout / Features
The map’s layout is a mix of mostly open ground, as well as industrial machinery cover. There is vertical coverage via compounds and building structures. The layout includes a mix of rubble and boulders, while the whole refinery provides decent vantage points for snipers.
Strategy and tips:
The strategy is to stay behind cover and use your snipers to carve or scope out the enemies because the map is too wide and too open for you to wander around and be a victim of the opponent’s sniper. A tip would be to use your vehicles for going out in the open because the map’s layout is highly suited for snipers. So use vehicles for going around in the map, and use your sniper as support for taking out or locating enemies.
Another tip would be to use the tanks to hold the open grounds, but do not stay still because tanks are still vulnerable to the rocket launchers, so just use them to get around without the risk of the snipers.
- Mirak Valley:
Mirak Valley is the biggest and largest map currently in the game at launch. The map is set in Tajikistan in between the two mountain ranges, a central river, and some open plains in which you could roam around in your vehicle.
Layout / Features
The layout of the map is that it is a wide sandbox, and its central area is open for combat for your vehicles as well as for your planes. Which means there’s enough space for everybody to play the long game.
Strategy and tips:
So my first tip would be to expect surprises and a lot of them because the map features a lot of angles, and since it is the biggest map of the game, clearing out the corners or angles is not on the table. So your strategy should be to be on the objective side and hide. Find some picks and that’s it because you’re not going to get that many chances of getting conversions, which means that if you got yourself a fight, you’d better win it. After all, taking a fight is harder than finding it in this long valley of dust.
- Siege of Cairo:
The siege of Cairo is the first close-quarter map in the list so far. The map is set in Egypt.
Layout / Features
The layout is mushed up but not that chaotic, which means you are going to get a lot of close-range fights as well as a lot of indoor fights. The map is filled with choke points, which means that if someone holds a choke point near the objective point, you could kiss that point goodbye. It also means that for the first few of your gameplay here can result in a negative KD.
Strategy and tips:
The best strategy on this map is the most obvious one, and that is to hold the choke point because, just like I said, this map is mushed up together, which means that you’re going to get a lot of close-range fights, and when you’re holding a choke point, you can win almost all of your fights. Now, if you’re on the facing side of the chokepoint and you wanna clear it out, my advice would be to use utility and try to destroy the structure of the building and get some openings. While it might not guarantee success, it will give you some leverage.
- Manhattan Bridge:
The Manhattan Bridge is set in the surroundings of the Brooklyn streets of newyork.
Layout / Features
The layout of the map puts emphasis on close-quarters fights with walls and buildings, which can be destroyed and used to create new angles for yourself. The map supports both ground vehicles as well as helicopters, which means that you could use that to your advantage and do large-scale destruction. Which makes the map a little freer-moving than before.
Strategy and tips:
- Iberian Offensive:
The next map on the list is set in Gibraltar, which is a British territory at the southern side of the Iberian Peninsula.
Layout / Features
While a lot of players are complaining that this map is cramped and has very little space to move around and the reason for that is that there are way too many choke points as well as narrow lanes, elevated positions that are easier to hold, and buildings to get into the cover of. Making the map a lot harder for fresh players.
Strategy and tips:
The best strategy in this map would be to get the best close-range loadout picked while also trying to learn the map’s ins and outs, because let’s be honest, you’re not going to get 50 kills in this map without ever learning about it. So play the map a few times, study it, and then try to be aggressive on it.
- Liberation Peak:
Liberation Peak is also another map that is placed in the mountains of Tajikistan.
- Layout / Features
The map is a lot different than Mirak Valley, firstly because Mirak Valley is the biggest map in the game, secondly, Mirak Valley is mostly an open field, but Liberation Peak, on the other hand, is a little narrower. It has choke points, as well as narrow alleyways, and it also holds some caves and underground tunnels, which makes it a lot more difficult to navigate.
- Strategy and tips:
So your strategy should revolve around controlling the high ground of the map since the map has a lot of elevated angles which you could make use of, pre-aim or pre-destroy the caves and choke points, because some of them will definitely be filled up with the enemies. A tip would be to use your sniper for cover by putting them on elevated angles, while your assault and engineers should steer into caves and clear them out.
- Empire State
The second map of the game is set in the Brooklyn streets.
Layout / Features
The layout of the map, as well as the things that make this map different from the Manhattan Bridge, is that in Empire State, there are no vehicles, and you’re on your own without any ground or aerial support. The map holds a very strong verticality, which means that there’s plenty of room for your snipers. It is also a little more congested than the Manhattan Bridge map.
Strategy and tips:
Your strategy should be to either be a sniper and take elevated angles and kill or locate as many enemies as you can, or you could also pick up the best close-range loadout you have available and let yourself free-fall on the enemies. My advice would be to use more utility to clear out close quarters because there are a lot of them, as well as keep in mind that, since the map has a lot of verticality, players can also come and shoot from above.
- New Sobek City:
New Sobek City is also set in the capital of Egypt, and it is the second map of the game to do so.
Layout / Features
The first thing that sets the two maps apart, which are on the same settings, is the theme because one is from deep and historic Cairo city centre, while the new Sobek city is a modern desert-edge city. New Sobek City is also bigger than the Siege of Cairo and offers a mixed combat style. It also offers a way of superior verticality, and there are dynamic events, which means that the structure of the map will be affected by the weather.
Strategy and tips:
Use the verticality of the map to your advantage, control the rooftops, towers, because they will help you in spotting and killing the enemies. Using tanks is also a great option because there are tons of construction site zones, and since the weather is dynamic, you wouldn’t wanna get crushed by them because of it.
- SAINTS QUARTER
The last map on the list is set in Gibraltar’s Old Town.
Layout:
The second map on the list, which is an infantry-only only one which means that you do not have any vehicle support whatsoever. The map is built up on small, narrow, winding streets, and there are tons of different destructible. The map’s layout is fixed to maximise the close combat fights.
Strategy and tips:
Your strategy would revolve around two things: you could either be a super aggressive and to-the-face kind of player, in which I suggest you get the best close-range loadout and get into every fight you could, or you could be cautious and tactical about it, since there’s no vehicle support, taking every fight could backfire immensely. So either avoid going into alleys without cover or be super aggressive.
Conclusion:
The game is still in a beta situation, which means that these maps can be changed, or how they behave could change, before the release of the game. However, I have included Battlefield 6’s best map strategies in this blog, and they would be more than enough for you to go into the game and get some matches on your belt on every map of the game.
FAQ’s
How many maps are in Battlefield 6?
There total of 9 maps in Battlefield 6 .
What is the largest map in Battlefield 6?
Mirak Valley is the largest map so far in Battlefield 6.
What is the smallest map in Battlefield 6
The Empire State map is the smallest one in the game.
Will Battlefield 6 have Firestorm?
Yes, Battlefield 6 will have a new map called Operation Firestorm.
Where are the BF6 maps located?
New York, Egypt, the Iberian Peninsula, and a few other locations.