It appears Battlefield 6 has received a stealthy backend update that tweaks the way your player stats are tracked. Now, EA's military shooter will seemingly no longer count the bots you kill in a match, but if you get blasted by a bot, that death will still show up in your stats sheet for now.
According to a November 18 X post by the community news source Battlefield Bulletin, the update was deployed to make the game's stats accurate and fair. If you visit your profile page now, you may see a significant drop in your kill-death ratio, possibly suggesting that many of the kills in that stat were merely on bots.
Retired competitive pro player Otto "ottr" Boström highlighted this change on his X account, posting a side-by-side comparison of what appears to be his Battlefield 6 profile page on November 18. In one image, he had 88,838 kills, with a 92.950 average K/D. In the subsequent image, his kills dropped to 24,227, with his K/D falling to 3.814. Boström believes this will "expose a lot of players out there."
While bot kills seem to mean nothing to your overall kills now, Battlefield YouTuber DannyonPC mentioned in Battlefield Bulletin's replies that bot deaths--that is, you getting murked by a bot--still count toward your overall deaths. Battlefield Bulletin noted this, saying that it should be addressed "eventually" as well.
Battlefield Studios hasn't commented on the change yet, but its communications department did take to X on November 19 to post about other adjustments it recently made to the game. This includes increasing the effective hitboxes of defibrillators, bumping the AFK kick timer in Sabotage from 60 seconds to 180 seconds, temporarily disabling bot backfilling in Sabotage, and clarifying Assignment and Challenge descriptions and criteria to make them easier to achieve and obtain.
All of these fixes appear to be Battlefield Studios' attempts at curbing bot farming. Since its October 10 launch on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S, the game has seen rampant use of bots as XP cattle. An October 21 update dropped a grenade on these farms, with a hotfix the following day reducing bots from filling matches. Despite the gates limiting them, lead producer David Sirland explained on November 5 that bots play a crucial role: They help get games going. And with a new Casual Breakthrough mode that introduces a more relaxed way to play Battlefield 6, it's safe to assume they aren't going anywhere. They're just becoming a bit redundant.
Outside of this hush-hush change, Battlefield Studios did release a new patch for the game across consoles and PC on November 18. Dubbed Update 1.1.2.0, the patch substantially alters aim-assist, making it "feel smoother and more predictable."
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According to a November 18 X post by the community news source Battlefield Bulletin, the update was deployed to make the game's stats accurate and fair. If you visit your profile page now, you may see a significant drop in your kill-death ratio, possibly suggesting that many of the kills in that stat were merely on bots.
#Battlefield6 Backend Update: In order to make the stats accurate and fair, Battlefield Studios has removed bot kills from your K/D ratio via profile page. pic.twitter.com/k2DNa7c1xq
— Battlefield Bulletin (@BFBulletin) November 18, 2025
Retired competitive pro player Otto "ottr" Boström highlighted this change on his X account, posting a side-by-side comparison of what appears to be his Battlefield 6 profile page on November 18. In one image, he had 88,838 kills, with a 92.950 average K/D. In the subsequent image, his kills dropped to 24,227, with his K/D falling to 3.814. Boström believes this will "expose a lot of players out there."
While bot kills seem to mean nothing to your overall kills now, Battlefield YouTuber DannyonPC mentioned in Battlefield Bulletin's replies that bot deaths--that is, you getting murked by a bot--still count toward your overall deaths. Battlefield Bulletin noted this, saying that it should be addressed "eventually" as well.
Battlefield Studios hasn't commented on the change yet, but its communications department did take to X on November 19 to post about other adjustments it recently made to the game. This includes increasing the effective hitboxes of defibrillators, bumping the AFK kick timer in Sabotage from 60 seconds to 180 seconds, temporarily disabling bot backfilling in Sabotage, and clarifying Assignment and Challenge descriptions and criteria to make them easier to achieve and obtain.
All of these fixes appear to be Battlefield Studios' attempts at curbing bot farming. Since its October 10 launch on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S, the game has seen rampant use of bots as XP cattle. An October 21 update dropped a grenade on these farms, with a hotfix the following day reducing bots from filling matches. Despite the gates limiting them, lead producer David Sirland explained on November 5 that bots play a crucial role: They help get games going. And with a new Casual Breakthrough mode that introduces a more relaxed way to play Battlefield 6, it's safe to assume they aren't going anywhere. They're just becoming a bit redundant.
Outside of this hush-hush change, Battlefield Studios did release a new patch for the game across consoles and PC on November 18. Dubbed Update 1.1.2.0, the patch substantially alters aim-assist, making it "feel smoother and more predictable."
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