Battlefield 6 Season 5, “Siege of Vegas,” was released earlier this week, and the reaction so far has been mixed. Among the highlights is Area 51, a new map that fans have generally been praising as one of the game’s best. Among the low points is another set of season pass cosmetics that have players’ genAI alarm bells ringing.
Those cosmetics include a guy with a bunch of extra magazines buckled to his vest, one with five pistols holstered, and someone with a security patch on their arm that reads “Secuty.” “Why tf does this dude have FIVE pistols on him?” one fan wrote on the Battlefield 6 subreddit earlier this week. “This new Season 5 battle pass skin has five identical pistols on his kit. The cringe mask is one thing but who at BF Studios approves these dumb af character designs?”
Another wrote, “Magazine design on the second guy makes absolutely zero sense lol looks like AI-generated…then there’s the guy with the five pistols, the most egregious one is the fucking misspelled security patch lol.”
I actually understand why people use Ai to make things. I’m not dense. I understand the motivations.
What I don’t understand is – what type of person is willing to pay money for something created with Ai? Are you stupid? https://t.co/v56c8Dswqx
— Del (@TheCartelDel) October 14, 2026
Multiple posts on the subject have blown up with thousands of upvotes and comments since season 5 went live. Adding insult to injury is that the chaotic designs were being sold as part of the season pass. “Charging players $$$ for AI generated content is peak disrespect,” read another thread in the subreddit.
While there’s no confirmation that the designs were the result of genAI, this wouldn’t be the first time Battlefield 6 was caught getting sloppy. EA’s hit shooter shipped seemingly AI-generated cosmetics just months after the game launched and didn’t end up patching them out until months after that. It probably hasn’t helped that some Battlefield developers were laid off earlier this year, even as EA’s executives have banked millions amid a highly leveraged sale to Saudi Arabia.
And even if the developers ultimately decide to leave designs like five-guns-guy intact, things like the misspelled arm patch aren’t easily fixed, either. After all, it doesn’t just misspell “security,” it has the word “secuty” plastered right above the words “security operator.” I don’t think any human artist would have shipped that by accident. At least not one that wasn’t being overworked with a dwindling headcount and an unrealistic content roadmap.
