EA confirms free-to-play Battlefield 6 battle royale is coming out tomorrow

It’s no secret that Battlefield 6 will be getting a battle royale mode: Of course it will, obviously, but also EA has already explicitly said it will. What it hasn’t said is when that mode will go live, but now it has–and it’s coming tomorrow, October 28, the same day as the launch of Battlefield 6 season 1.

Specifically, according to today’s surprise post on X, Redsec will arrive at 8 am PT/11 am ET/4 pm UK.

The announcement follows numerous leaks of the battle royale mode’s rollout date, as well as its title, Battlefield: Redsec. Notable as well is that the battle royale mode, like it’s Call of Duty counterpart Warzone, is free to play.

No further details, like how the free-to-play battle royale mode will intersect with the definitely not-free-to-play Battlefield 6, have been revealed at this point, and the teaser on X—four soldiers, seemingly of different classes, walking away from a downed airliner in a burning residential neighborhood, doesn’t tell us much either.

That suggests to me that this is EA scrambling in a rapid reaction to the leaks, but it doesn’t really matter because there won’t be much of a wait—all will be revealed tomorrow.