Battlefield 6 Addresses Its Broken Season 5 Cosmetics, But Still Won’t Say If AI Was Involved

Battlefield 6’s Season 5 update, “Siege of Vegas,” landed with a new Area 51 map that players have generally praised, but it also reignited one of the game’s oldest controversies. Fans quickly flagged a handful of oddly designed cosmetics in the new season pass, including an operator wearing a security patch misspelled as “Secuty” and another armed with five identical holstered pistols, leading many to ask once again whether generative AI had a hand in the artwork. Battlefield Studios has now broken its silence with an official statement, though it stops short of actually confirming or denying AI use.

What Battlefield Studios Owned Up To

In its statement, Battlefield Studios directly acknowledged the “Secuty” typo on the McNeil operator’s arm patch and confirmed a fix is already planned for the Season 5, Phase 2 update arriving in November. The developer admitted that letting a known visual error go live without quicker acknowledgement only created confusion and eroded trust, and said it takes pride in the craft of its gear and world, adding that this item simply missed the mark. The studio also said it is reviewing its internal workflows to pinpoint how the issue slipped through and to tighten quality control going forward.

Battlefield 6, official Steam screenshot.

The Five Pistols Were (Apparently) Intentional

The five-pistol operator design, which Battlefield Studios calls the Midnight Mirage skin, got a different explanation. The studio said the look was meant as an intentional creative nod to over-the-top action movie tropes, where soldiers always seem to have one more weapon strapped to their gear, rather than a mistake.

“We understand how this could look unintentional when released alongside other cosmetic anomalies.”

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Old Suspicions Resurface

This isn’t the first time Battlefield 6 has faced AI accusations. When the game launched in 2025, players spotted similarly odd cosmetic assets they suspected were AI-generated, and Battlefield Studios never denied it at the time either. The timing is also a little awkward for Xbox, since a Microsoft business strategy manager named Brandon Stirrup argued around the same time that AI use in game development is already standard practice across the industry and that gaming is simply slower to admit it, only to delete his X account entirely less than a day later. Battlefield 6 has otherwise had a strong October, having recently joined Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass, with the Season 5, Phase 2 patch now set to also fix the typo that started this latest round of backlash.

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