The Battlefield 6's beta has now surpassed 500K players on Steam alone, and has beaten Call of Duty's all-time high on the platform.

Some caveats on the Call of Duty comparison: Steam concurrents never show the whole picture for multiplatform games, and even on PC, CoD's numbers are complicated by Battle.net and especially Game Pass, which assuredly blunted Black Ops 6's Steam peak last year.

It’s an impressive feat that completely overshadows the last release, Battlefield 2042, which peaked at just over 100,000 concurrent players during its official launch. For those who aren’t playing the beta, many instead turned to Twitch, the streaming platform where people watch others play live.

Battlefield 6 Open Beta just broke the record for most concurrent players in a beta, according to Steam Charts.

If the thousands of people sitting in the menu of Battlefield 6 's open beta before it even became playable didn't give it away, the upcoming FPS is looking rather popular. So popular, in fact, that now that the beta's doors have finally opened, it already has the highest concurrent player peak out of any other game in the series on Steam.

Battlefield 6's open beta isn't open to all players yet, but it's already attracted hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of players.

Battlefield 6's open beta has had a huge launch, with the series' biggest ever Steam player count, absolutely smashing Battlefield 2042's numbers.