On Oct 13 DICE dropped Battlefield 6 Season 5’s update and with it, a hidden puzzle in the Area 51 map that will reward you with an exclusive weapon charm. This Easter egg uses Las Vegas’ setting as a means to offer an unforgettable secondary mission that gets you to explore beyond the normal combat goals. By solving the sequence of the puzzle you will be rewarded with this cosmetic that acts as a reward for your work to decipher all secrets around the map. To top things off, this update also brought in a spotlight on some Season 5 cosmetics which are said to have been made through artificial intelligence. This adds some commentary on the nature of the content.
Season 5 update adds hidden puzzle and AI cosmetics
This Easter egg revolves around a UFO secret in the tunnels around Objective F from the Area 51 map. In order to complete it, you need to move around in the area to get to certain buttons behind boxes and near towers. Each of these buttons is numbered. In order to solve this puzzle, you need to interact with a radio in a control room nearby to get the screens up. These will show you a sequence of symbols that you need to decipher. These symbols represent a certain sequence of pressing the buttons 8 times. You need to press circles, triangles, squares, and diamonds in a certain order, which includes filled and non-filled variations. At the end of this sequence, all tower lights will be green. Then, a door will open up which reveals the reward.
In this Easter egg, the main challenge is finding out the right sequence for those buttons. The clues about the sequence can only be seen in the symbols on the screens. You will need to decipher them to know which 8 button presses you need to complete. This is the main problem to solve. You’ll have to pay attention to the symbols on the screens and see which ones match the numbered buttons that you can find around the map. The way this puzzle works fits nicely into the way the map is built. This means that you’ll have to move around between the tunnels and the control room to get all the information. This sort of interactive content is nice to have in this update for Season 5. It gives you something to do beyond combat. It’s also something that makes you use your powers of observation and memory. And at the end of it, you will be rewarded with a weapon charm inside the game which will act as a visual representation of your completion of this very challenging riddle.
In our coverage of the last update for Battlefield 6, we saw some similar themes revolving around balancing and stability. With this new content, the game continues to increase the interactive nature of the game. This UFO Easter egg is a great addition which makes Season 5 different from other seasons in the game. It’s a unique feature because it focuses on environment storytelling and how the player can discover things. On top of that, the inclusion of AI generated cosmetics for the season is also an interesting discussion point about the future of content creation in a live-service game. For players who want to complete all the secrets inside Battlefield 6, this is something that they will probably want to find and get. It’s going to be on the top of their list of things to get done as part of their interaction with the map. It’s a great update that shows how DICE keeps the game fresh by including new challenges and hidden things for the community to find.
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