As many have pointed out, there were nearly as many people sitting on the Battlefield 6 Open Beta’s menu screen as there were people actually playing the last Battlefield game, 2042, on Steam, which is quite something. (9,463 24-hour peak for the Battlefield 6 open beta versus 11,245 24-hour peak for 2042).

The Battlefield 6 hype is real, as thousands of Steam players pre-install the game and tinker with their settings ahead of the beta.