Aside from destruction, Battlefield offers another unique experience that Call of Duty doesn’t, and that’s the BF Portal. This open-creation mode allows fans to mold whatever they desire using the elements of the core game. However, it appears that if you’re a Call of Duty fan trying to replicate CoD maps in Battlefield 6 Portal, you’re out, and so is your well-designed map.
1 day after Battlefield 6‘s release, and fans had already built jet race, tank competition, and XP farm lobbies in the Portal. But, you could also search Call of Duty map names in the Portal browser and get a buzz in the head at how fast fans have created Modern Warfare‘s Shipment and Black Ops‘s Nuketown in Battlefield 6. No longer, though.
The sweet taste of two gigantic FPS franchises collide in a Call of Duty map with Battlefield‘s gameplay aged less than a month. In a direct response from EA, creating maps with names related to 3rd party games is banned from Portal. Players will receive one strike for violation, and will have their account banned permanently from EA games and services if they proceed to ignore the rule.
Designing maps from different games in free-to-create modes isn’t new. Halo and Fortnite have already seen their own versions of Nuketown. But for Battlefield, it appears that the rivalry of the two FPS giants is more than a mocking trailer. Now players might rename Shipment to Shootment, but that won’t stop EA from removing the Call of Duty-inspired maps in Battlefield 6 Portal.
“God forbid a map has shipping containers,” says one user in the comments section of the report from Charlie Intel, and I think he’s right. If there’s no copyright issue, banning players for literally creating what they want in an open game mode shouldn’t become the title of news and articles. However, EA might have its own reasons that we don’t know about, yet.
