Everything You Need to Know About Battlefield 6 Progression, Ranks and Unlocks

Table of Contents

• Onboarding Rank Unlocks
• After Rank 50
• Assignment Unlocks
• Weapon and Vehicle Progression and Mastery

Progression is the journey to Career Rank 50, to some. For others, progression is defined as unlocking every Loadout item, both for infantry and for all vehicles.

And for those who consider progression as the climb beyond proficiency, then mastery is not only about Career Ranks in the thousands, but also earning all Badges and Accolade Dog Tags.

Battlefield 6’s Multiplayer includes a robust progression system for unlocking loadout hardware and in-game bragging rights. All Multiplayer experiences, as well as Verified Community Experiences in Portal, grant full XP towards this robust progression system, with XP Boosts available throughout various challenges and other opportunities to come.

Other than being promoted, an achievement worth screaming about (to some), these are the spoils of war for gaining career ranks, completing challenges, and earning badges during the mastery journey:

The “Onboarding Ranks” - Complete Unlock List From Rank 1 Through 50

Everyone starts their Career Rank journey at Rank 1, which includes access to all four classes and a basic loadout hardware assortment, including a weapon from each Signature Weapon category. Increase your Career Rank by simply playing Multiplayer or Verified Portal Community Experiences: earning kills and assists, repairing vehicles, capturing objectives and completing matches are just some of the many ways to earn Career XP.

At every level from Rank 2 to Rank 50, you will unlock a new piece of functional hardware (or a loadout slot). Some rank thresholds also unlock a customization item for your soldier or player card  or a new set of assignments.

All functional unlockables can be found when making a loadout; hover over locked weapons to see their rank or challenge unlock requirement. With that said, you can refer to this cheat sheet for more information about the hardware and cosmetic rewards you’ll unlock while ranking up your Career Rank:

The M4A1 Carbine Rifle, a trusty Primary Weapon shown in action above, is unlocked at Rank 2.

• RANK 2 - M4A1, Weapon, Carbine Rifle
• RANK 3 - Air Defense Launcher, Gadget, Engineer
• RANK 4 - M39 EMR, Weapon, DMR
• RANK 5 - Grenade Intercept System, Gadget, Support / Playercard Background
• RANK 6 - PW5A3, Weapon, SMG
• RANK 7 - Breaching Projectile Launcher, Gear, Assault
• RANK 8 - Additional Loadout Slot, Assault
• RANK 9 - DRS-IAR, Weapon, LMGM4A1, Weapon, Carbine Rifle
• RANK 10 - Recon Drone, Gadget, Recon / Weapon Sticker

The LMR27 Designated Marksman Rifle (DMR) is unlocked at Career Rank 16

• RANK 11 - M277, Weapon, Carbine Rifle
• RANK 12 - Additional Loadout Slot, Engineer
• RANK 13 - Unguided Rocket Launcher, Gear, Engineer
• RANK 14 - B36A4, Weapon, Assault Rifle
• RANK 15 - Additional Loadout Slot, Support / Playercard Background
• RANK 16 - LMR27, Weapon, DMR
• RANK 17 - High Explosive Launcher, Gadget, Assault
• RANK 18 - Additional Loadout Slot, Recon
• RANK 19 - PW7A2, Weapon, SMG
• RANK 20 - M/60, Weapon, LMG / Playercard Title / Class Challenge Assignments

The AK-205 Carbine Rife, is unlocked at Career Rank 22

• RANK 21 - Flash Grenade, Grenade, Assault
• RANK 22 - AK-205, Weapon, Carbine Rifle
• RANK 23 - Sniper ** Decoy, Gadget, Recon / Weapon Challenge Assignments
• RANK 24 - ES 5.7, Weapon, Sidearm
• RANK 25 - SOR-556 Mk2, Weapon, Assault Rifle / Playercard Background
• RANK 26 - SV-98, Weapon, Sniper Rifle
• RANK 27 - Acoustic Sensor AV Mine, Gadget, Engineer
• RANK 28 - Incendiary Grenade, Grenade, Support
• RANK 29 - UMG-40, Weapon, SMG
• RANK 30 - RPKM, Weapon, LMG / Weapon Charm

The EOD BOT, an Engineer Gadget, is unlocked at Career Rank 40

• RANK 31 - Missile Intercept System, Gadget, Support
• RANK 32 - M417 A2, Weapon, Carbine Rifle
• RANK 33 - SVK-8.6, Weapon, DMR
• RANK 34 - Mini Frag Grenade, Grenade, Engineer
• RANK 35 - AK4D, Weapon, Assault Rifle / Playercard Background
• RANK 36 - USG-90, Weapon, SMG
• RANK 37 - Tripwire Sensor AV Mine, Gadget, Recon
• RANK 38 - M123K, Weapon, LMG
• RANK 39 - M45A1, Weapon, Sidearm
• RANK 40 - EOD Bot, Gadget, Engineer / Vehicle Decal

The KV-9 SMG, is unlocked at Career Rank 45

• RANK 41 - GRT-BC, Weapon, Carbine Rifle
• RANK 42 - M1014, Weapon, Shotgun
• RANK 43 - Throwing Knife, “Grenade”, Recon
• RANK 44 - Thermobaric Grenade Launcher, Gadget, Assault
• RANK 45 - KV9, Weapon, SMG / PlayercardBackground
• RANK 46 - M250, Weapon, LMG
• RANK 47 - Long-Range Launcher, Gadget, Engineer
• RANK 48 - M44, Weapon, Sidearm
• RANK 49 - Portable Mortar, Gadget, Support
• RANK 50 - TR-7, Weapon, Assault Rifle / Combat Knife Skin

Beyond Career Rank 50

Functional unlocks end at Career Rank 50 - beyond that are the first steps into Battlefield 6 mastery.

First are what we call the advanced ranks: every two levels from Rank 52 to Rank 100, you will unlock a new cosmetic item. These include weapon charms and stickers, vehicle decals, playercard titles, backgrounds and icons, and even a few melee weapon skins to flaunt.

Rank 100 is only the beginning: you will continue to increase your Career Ranks into the thousands.

However, Career Rank is only one of three mastery branches:

Unlockable Hardware Through Assignments

The Deploy Beacon, an unlockable Assault Class Gadget through its dedicated Class Assignment.

At Career Ranks 20 and 23, the Class and Weapon Assignments become available to complete. The following is a list of all hardware unlockables found within these two assignments, with exact challenge information for each assignment, as well as details on additional unlockables, available in game:

Class Assignments

ASSAULT - Deploy Beacon and Incendiary Round Shotgun Gadgets, Flanker Training, Grenadier Training Path and Loadout Slot

ENGINEER - Vehicle Supply Crate and Aim Guided Launcher Gadgets, Combat Engineer Training, Combat EngineerTraining Path and Loadout Slot

SUPPORT - Smoke Grenade Launcher, Incendiary Airburst Launcher and Supply Pouch Gadgets, Fire Support Training, Fire Support Training Path andLoadout Slot

RECON - Demolition Charge and Tracer Dart Gadgets, Spec Ops Training, Pathfinder Training Path and Loadout Slot

Weapon Assignments

The SWC-10, one of the dozen weapons available at launch that is unlockable through a Challenge.

ASSAULT RIFLE - KORD 6P67, NVO-228E, L85AE

CARBINE RIFLE - QBZ-192, SG 553R

SMG - SWC-10, SL9

LMG - KTS100 MK8, M240L

SHOTGUN - 18.5KS-K

DMR - SVDM

SNIPER RIFLE - MRAD

Weapon and Vehicle Progression

In addition to Career Rank XP, there is also Hardware Mastery XP, a progression system specifically for the weapons and vehicles of Battlefield 6. Like Career XP, performing in-game actions, such as kills, rewards Hardware XP for the specific weapon or vehicle you are using, as each weapon and vehicle has their own Hardware XP path with its own functional and cosmetic unlocks.

For example, earning a kill with a M4A1 Carbine grants both Career Rank XP AND Hardware XP specifically for the M4A1. Earning a kill with a Main Battle Tank, meanwhile, grants both Career Rank XP AND Hardware XP specifically for the Main Battle Tank.

Weapon Progression Unlocks

Ranking up a weapon unlocks additional attachments for that weapon. Outside of melee tools (sorry, no bipods on knives… yet), each weapon has its own list of attachment unlocks, which are shown when customizing that weapon using attachment points.

During each weapon’s progression journey, you will also unlock Weapon Packages, a pre-built weapon configuration with a unique design and a prearranged attachment set-up, as well as camouflages, cosmetic weapon skins that can be applied to any Primary or Secondary Weapon.

Vehicle Progression Unlocks and Mastery

Ranking up a vehicle unlocks additional equipment for that vehicle, such as on-vehicle weapons and gadgets. Similar to an infantry loadout, every vehicle with customizable equipment can be edited in the loadout menu (before selecting a Multiplayer experience and finding a match).

During each vehicle’s progression journey, you will also unlock Skins (unique to each vehicle type) and Camouflages (which can be applied to all customizable vehicles).

Completing the Mastery Journey - Badges and Accolade Dog Tags

Again, Career Rank is just one level of Battlefield 6 mastery: on your player profile, there is a section for the number of Badges earned, or Total Badge Rating, as well as the number of Dog Tags earned.

Total Badge Rating - The Ultimate Bragging Right

Collect multiple badges across Weapon, Vehicle and Class Mastery journeys to increase your Total Badge Rating. 

All Hardware is associated with the following “metal” tiers of Badges:

• HARDWARE RANK 10 - Bronze
• HARDWARE RANK 20 - Silver
• HARDWARE RANK 30 - Gold
• HARDWARE RANK 40 - Platinum
• HARDWARE RANK 50 - Elite (Red and Black)

At the start of Battlefield 6, there are 212 total Weapon and Vehicle Badges. There is also one additional set of Badges for each Class, unlocked through their two Class Assignments.

Mastery of Total Badge Rating requires all 228 badges, but more will come with each Season…

Accolade Dog Tags

Dog Tags are both an accessory and a point of pride in two parts: temporary, when it is lost during combat due a takedown, and permanently, as an achievement of your Accolades.

Accolade Dog Tags are earned by completing in-game Accolades; these are similar to Badges in previous Battlefield games and reward Career Rank XP when earned. Each Dog Tag may require accomplishing an Accolade more than once.

Accolade Dog Tags are either Metal, Bronze or Gold depending on both the difficulty of the Accolade as well as the number of times it must be done. Here are three examples of each Accolade Dog Tag tier or, in the case of the Gold tier, all three of its Accolade Dog Tags:

METAL:

Spearhead - Earn 3 Spearhead Accolades. (Be the first in your squad to kill an enemy in any mode.)

Gunslinger - Earn 8 Gunslinger Accolades. (Kill two enemies within four seconds using different weapons.)

Corpsman - Earn 8 Corpsman Accolades. (Revive 15 teammates in a match using the Defibrillator as Support.)

BRONZE:

Recon Expert - Earn 30 Recon Expert Accolades. (Earn 3000 Score in a life as Recon.)

Crusher  - Earn 20 Crusher Accolades. (Kill an enemy with falling debris from destruction you caused.)

Smokescreen - Earn 5 Smokescreen Accolades. (Revive five teammates in a life while concealed in smoke as Support.)

GOLD:

Marauder - Earn 150 Marauder Accolades. (Kill an enemy within eight seconds of killing a fourth. Earn repeatedly with additional kills.)

Flight Dispatcher - Earn 25 Flight Dispatcher Accolades. (Kill an enemy pilot without destroying their aircraft.)

And one last one that is best left to those who know their Battlefield community history.

There are also several “Other” Dog Tags; these also count towards your profile Dog Tag number. This is where you will find the Phantom Edition Dog Tag “Operative,” as well as what you earned by participating in our Open Beta or joining us in the Road to Battlefield 6. However, there are two additional Dog Tags that can be earned:

Dead Center - Pick up all Collectibles in Always Faithful (Campaign Mission, 3 Total)

Winner Take All - Pick up all Collectibles in all Missions (30 Total)

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