Battlefield 6: XP farming guide

Levelling up in a new game enough to unlock all weapons, gadgets, and attachments is quite a slog. Luckily, it didn’t take long for players to figure out the fastest Battlefield 6 XP farming methods to climb the ranks quickly.

Even though you’ll be able to unlock the best weapons in Battlefield 6 relatively early on, our XP farming guide will put weapons like the M44, TR7 and KV9 in your hands without spending hours in full-blown gameplay.

BF6 XP farming allows players to level up in non-competitive environments, leaving players to earn XP points without investing as much time and concentration into the gameplay. This mostly happens against bots, so players can ensure they take all the kills for themselves.

XP farming is a prevalent concept far beyond Battlefield 6. It’s a common practice in nearly all games with roleplaying or progression aspects, including Call of Duty, Pokémon, and Elden Ring.

In fact, so many people are currently using this method of XP farming that there are limited slots and availability on EA’s servers. We’ll get to that a bit later.

One of the drawbacks to XP farming is that it takes away many of the enjoyable experiences of playing progression-based shooters, as you don’t have much connection to the weapons and gear you’ve earned. One of my core gaming memories (from the Battlefield franchise, no less) involved unlocking the G53 carbine rifle in Battlefield 3. To do this, you had to kill at least one enemy using the Repair Tool, ordinarily used to fix tanks. This took, as you would imagine, a very long time, and finally unlocking that weapon felt enduringly rewarding.

But that was back when I was 11 years old, and I no longer have enough time on my hands to spend hours on trivial challenges anymore. So what if Battlefield 6 XP farming takes away from some of the enduring challenges of grinding if, at the end of the day, it lets you have more fun? 

Even though we’re going to show you how to XP farm in Battlefield 6, we should warn you that it’s not particularly fun. You will spend all of your time shooting incompetent bots, completing non-competitive games, and a whole lot of time on your own. Even if it’s the fastest way to level up, I wouldn’t say it’s the most rewarding.

You will first need to head to the server browser and locate the “Experiences” sub-section. Once you’re here, you’ll be able to search in the toolbar for “XP farms”, which are different community-built portals designed specifically for XP farming.

You’ll want to choose a game mode that is fast to progress and provides a strong chunk of XP upon completion. For me, this is Rush, but Team Deathmatch is also a great shout.

You also get more XP for completing games in Hardcore mode, which can make it slightly harder at times, but you are playing against bots, so there shouldn’t be too many issues here.

After you’ve found the ideal experience, you’ll have to host the game yourself. This means you won’t have other players joining you, and you can ensure you’re playing against bots the entire time.

As mentioned before, this is a really popular method for XP farming, meaning that many of the available Portals are already in use. You should keep trying, though, because as soon as another player closes their Portal, you can begin yours.

Due to the sheer volume of XP farming servers taking up space on the Portal system, players hoping to actually play in small groups with their friends have been unable to do so. EA is now “developing adjustments” that will mitigate the effects of this.

“With so many servers focused on farming XP rather than active play, it’s become noticeably harder for players to create and find experiences to play with other people,” EA said in a community post.

“Implementing this will require some maintenance on the backend,” suggesting that EA won’t outright ban XP farming, but instead open up more server space to facilitate farming and genuine online play. These updates will go live “over the next week”, although there isn’t a specified date just yet.

Despite some of the difficulties of finding a usable server to stock up on BF6 XP, it’s a worthwhile shortcut to getting some of the most valuable weapons in the game. Though you will be eliminating some of the more intimate experiences of the game, it’s definitely the fastest way to become overpowered.

It’s not quite clear if EA is will look to ban XP farming, or if it’s planning to facilitate an equal way for players to both farm and play without the expense of the other. Ultimately, if this method is removed from the game, there will be plenty of other ways to stack up on Battlefield 6.