Battlefield Redsec Season 2 Shows How Hard The Devs Are Cooking

It’s been a good while since Battlefield 6, and it’s free battle royale little brother Redsec hit our screens. Now, the incredible developers behind the best game in the series for years have revealed what its second season will look like, and they’ve been cooking hard.

Season 1 for Battlefield 6 and Redsec just didn’t click with me. I think the live events were fun and I love the cosmetics I unlocked from them, but the community has made no secret of how lacklustre the battle pass and general vibe of that first season were. I think Season 2 has already surpassed it, and I can’t wait to get into the new gameplay features.

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Redsec really had a lot to do to win me over for its second season, but the developers have gone so hard that they’ve more than pulled me in. Season 1 was the launch of Battlefield Redsec. The game’s big entrance to the world, and it felt pretty generic. Good, but generic all the same.

However, the game represents something I was desperate to see, and so incredibly thankful that it came to fruition. It’s an ongoing profile you can link between Battlefield games, and we’re already benefitting from our time in past titles. But to make good on the promise of this profile being worth your time, it needed to evolve.

That’s where Season 2 comes in. It’s a toxic rebranding of everything you thought you knew. You’ll be fighting against a powerful psychoactive drug as you blast across the new map, Contaminated, and there are a few fun new toys joining, too. Top of the list is the Little Bird, the AH-6 helicopter that’s about as close to Little Nellie from James Bond as you can get without copyright infringement.

Of course, alongside a new season comes a new Battle Pass. Again, Season 1 simply didn’t resonate with me. The skins felt generic because they stuck too close to the grounded, real-world look of current armies, which is what the developers are going for. I don’t think this look is a bad thing, but you can definitely play with it a little more than they have done so far. After all, you can’t argue it’s only world-accurate content when I have a Red Bull patch on my soldiers.

So what makes Season 2 so damn perfect? It’s dirty, gritty, as if it’s been pushed down into gravel and thrust around until it’s barely recognisable. There are gas masks, desperation, and an almost overwhelming sense of terror in the warfare, similar to what I’d expect to see in a World War 2 setting.

If this sounds as good to you as it does to me, you don’t have long to wait. Season 2 kicks off on February 17, 2026. Keep an eye on all our socials and our free Patreon membership if you want to hear my thoughts once I’ve had a chance to dive in.

Jamie Moorcroft Sharp

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Jamie adores the indie games that you don’t hear about until you’re on a video essay binge at 3AM and suddenly the sound of them changes your life. He’s played games all his life and loves looking at the intricate details that make them magical and different. If there’s a wierd list, embarrassing feature, or something else far too out there on Bonus Action, there’s a good chance he wrote it. But that’s not all! He’s also an absolute fiend who never knows when to stop when he puts on his dirty robes and takes on his D&D persona as a Mud Warlock who acts on that tiny voice in your head when it wonders what would happen if you did something really dumb right now. He’s easy to beat in a TGC, though, just keep an eye out for his crazy card combos.

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