Dear Battlefield 6 Players, Please Use the Medics

Every class in Battlefield 6 serves a very specific role, but the most clear and important one is the Support class. As the name implies, Support helps the team in many different ways. They can lay down suppressive fire and keep enemies pinned, give their teammates ammo, and revive players quickly. While any class can revive fellow squad members, the Support class can pick up anyone almost immediately using defibrillators and their drag and revive time is also significantly faster. They keep everyone in the action, and without them, this would be a completely different game. However, they are not being used as efficiently as possible.

This post isn’t necessarily about the medics themselves (we’ll get back to that), it’s about the people who are being knocked down. Yes, you, lying there on the ground spamming the button to respawn after being blown up by a tank shell. During my time as Support, I noticed a very disturbing trend. Someone would go down and they wouldn’t wait more than a second or two to be revived. Of course, sometimes you just want to change your class, you want to spawn somewhere that needs more help, etc. There are reasons not to wait, but this issue was incredibly frequent.

I’d see someone go down and rush into the line of fire to pick them up, only for them to give up as soon as I reached them. Not only is this infuriating for those who risk their lives to save another’s, but it is also extremely detrimental to the team. If you are new to Battlefield, deaths have a big impact on the scoring in the franchise’s signature mode, Conquest. The “score” is referred to as “tickets”, and each team starts with 1,000 tickets and tries to run the enemy down to zero. While capturing and holding flags is a big part of winning, you also bleed tickets by dying. The kicker is that you don’t lose tickets if you don’t go to the respawn screen. If you get revived, it doesn’t count as a death.

All of this is to say that if you rush to respawn instead of giving your medics the opportunity to revive you, you will contribute to losing the game instead of winning. Have some patience and use your downtime to spot enemies; there is an advantage to being in a war zone and not being a target. There are some modes where this doesn’t matter as much, such as Breakthrough when you’re a defender. Offense is the only team with limited lives in that mode, but those lives are even more precious than Conquest, so it’s imperative that you don’t rush to respawn.