I’ve been a Breakthrough main forever, but the bad teamplay and constant steamrolling (plus the black screen bug if you back out after getting steamrolled three times) have made me want to give Conquest a try. The thing is, I don’t really get what people like about it. Can someone please explain why it’s still one of the core Battlefield modes with such a huge playerbase?

Here’s what I do like about it: depending on the map, you get the full vehicle roster, the freedom to choose your area to fight in,sandbox gameplay and matches that are actually playable until the end. If you get stuck on the first sector in Breakthrough, it just turns into a miserable spawncamping sniper circus that takes forever to finish because everyone is hiding.

However, the few times I’ve played Conquest in BF6, my experience was basically this:

* Little Birds or Attack Helicopters farming the Sever with Level 30000 pilots.
* Every hill and rooftop packed with snipers (not Recons... just snipers).
* Fights around objectives being sub 5vs5, which doesn't feel like "All-Out Warfare"more like a minor property dispute.
* Players spread so thin across the map that support gadgets are basically self-use only.
* Zero infantry support when driving a vehicle; if you don't tryhard, you get blown up instantly.
* No actual frontlines or large-scale battles.
* Even less reviving than in Breakthrough.
* It's extremely hard to read where the team actually needs help. It feels like randomly wandering the map and capping a point only because you stumbled across it (I know map knowledge plays a role, but that doesn't help when everyone else moves like in a robot lawnmower patern).

I’d love to hear why or how you guys play Conquest.

People keep telling me to just play Escalation, but I don't really get that mode even less. You start with only light vehicles, and by the time the heavy ones unlock, the match is almost over/ending with literally every single soul either in a vehicle or playing Engineer.

Me personally I play tribrid, on one hand I'm infantry running down and playing objectives and offing people at or otw to the objectives, second I can play recon sniper getting people up top (sobek city) and blowing tanks with C4 or I run pure AA taking down anything in the air

Play assault, drop becon behind enemy

I play mix of both. Breakthrough is infinitely better because vehicle mains don’t ruin the game in half of the games

Conquest is so unfocused I absolutely agree.

I prefer Escalation to Conquest, it starts off more open, a lot of opportunity for flanking, but becomes more concentrated as the match goes on.

I loved breakthrough on past games but not a fan this year, Rush has been a blast for me(no pun intended)

I am a conquest main. I think the freedom to do whatever you want is the main appeal. In breaktrough, you HAVE TO focus on this one area to capture/defend it and nothing else. In co quest, you have a lot of flags you can capture or defened. And sou can go aggresive to main choke flags and experience brutal chaos (like F on Tsuru Reef) on play some music in the bacground and snipe from a distance. Bad spot? Nevermind, you can reloce to any other part of the map. Or you feel like vehicles are the best thing to use? Sure, you can!

And no matter if your team win or lost, you finished the round doing something you actually enjoy on the parts of the map that suits your playstyle the most. I love it.

It is!

Breakthrough is a sniping simulator and conquest is a random number generator

I only play conquest. If you’re telling me I no longer have to worry about the listed things in breakthrough I’m switching modes. Conquest is blow out matches predominantly determined by what neck beard heli pilot is on

If you've been complaining about bad teams in breakthrough you'll hate conquest even more to be honest.

As a solo player, conquest is the worst mode - close to BR.

I only play BT, I don't like running around for 10 minutes to end up being one frame killed by a camper under a truck.

Both suck compared to Gauntlet