EA and Battlefield Studios have confirmed plans to rework two of Battlefield 6's most criticized maps, Blackwell Fields and New Sobek City, later this year. The announcement came during a preview event earlier this week showcasing 2026 updates. Developers cited player feedback and internal data as the driving factors.
At a preview event attended by outlets including Kotaku, EA revealed that Blackwell Fields, added in season one, and New Sobek City, a launch map, will undergo significant changes. Roman Campos-Oriola, senior creative director at Motive on Battlefield 6, explained the decision stems from limitations in live adjustments. “We have a lot of tools to make adjustments and balancing [changes] while the map is live,” Campos-Oriola said. “But sometimes—and that’s the case for Blackwell Fields, that’s the case for Sobek City—there’s [only] so much we can do [when a map] is live. And there are some modifications that actually require level design, level art. Like, deeper modifications [to] the map to be able to achieve what the target is for those maps. That’s what we are doing to Sobek and to Blackwell.”