It’s Not Just You, Battlefield 6′s Ghost Bullet Problem Was Real

Shooters rely on a pretty fundamental thing: You aim your gun at something, you shoot, virtual bullets hit a target. Unfortunately for those diving into Battlefield 6, that’s not always working out according to plan. Bullets, it would seem, are sometimes just passing through targets. A hotfix was issued to deal with the problem for now, but what was going on?

In a pair of posts to X (h/t GamesRadar), Battlefield 6’s principal game designer Florian (Drunkkz3) stated that the issue seemed to involve the target being “visibly hit (blood splatters) but no damage is confirmed in the HUD.” The Battlefield Comms X account confirmed that it wasn’t a persistent issue, and it’s not a problem across all of the guns in the game’s arsenal. Only certain combos of attachments and weapons seem to trigger it. The devs issued a hotfix to deal with it.

We're aware of reports of rare cases where bullets may not register damage correctly when hitting enemies.

Following our investigation, we found this was related to certain weapon attachment combinations. A hotfix has been deployed to address known instances.

We'll continue to…

— Battlefield Comms (@BattlefieldComm) October 15, 2025

Ghost bullets don’t have to do with bloom or network issues

It’s a hotly debated and discussed topic: How virtual guns behave, how they recoil, how bullets get distributed in a given area. The recent Battlefield ghost bullet issue has kicked up some discourse around this, but according to Florian, this present issue has nothing to do with bloom (where a recoil pattern grows in size the longer you’re shooting to simulate the struggle to keep a gun steady the longer you fire).

Furthermore, networking bugs (or just a slow internet connection) can also result in some unwanted aiming mishaps. Florian also responded to a comment wondering if the ghost bullets were the result of something as simple as someone having a crappy internet connection. “Some hit reg issues can happen as a result of bad internet or the game server performance being problematic,” he said, “but you will get performance icons at the top left when that happens.” The videos showing off the ghost bullets, notably, don’t show any such icons. So while we may not know exactly what was causing the ghost bullets, at least we know a few things that weren’t.