Overview
- Battlefield Studios removed Mastery XP and challenge credit from Portal sessions with bots, leaving only career XP and a 150% match-completion bonus.
- Portal servers without bots still allow full progression, while many bot-heavy XP farm listings have been stripped of most XP privileges.
- Developers are deploying backend updates to promote player-filled matches and curb exploitative setups, with a fuller explanation slated from Battlefield Comms.
- A curated-server test will re-enable personal XP on selected community servers under guardrails such as difficulty thresholds, AFK/activity sweeps, mixed-targeting checks, and XP-per-minute caps, with stat tracking frozen during the trial.
- Progression has been rebalanced with higher match and daily XP plus lower early Mastery and assignment rank gates, though challenge redesigns are still being evaluated and some legitimate custom servers report reduced progression.