Battlefield 6 Season 3's next update brings a contracts mechanic straight out of Call of Duty: Ghosts

Battlefield 6 Season 3's third and final phase, High-Value Target, drops on June 30th alongside a substantial patch. The headline addition is the Wet Work event, which introduces a contracts system playable in both standard multiplayer and the free-to-play Redsec battle royale mode.

Contracts work like this: eliminated players drop a contract that anyone can pick up. Grabbing one triggers a mid-match objective — kill enemies, loot chests in Redsec BR, capture objectives, or survive for a set amount of time. What rewards you get for completing a contract hasn't been revealed yet, with more details promised closer to launch. If the mechanic sounds familiar, it should — it's essentially the Field Orders system from Call of Duty: Ghosts, where briefcase pickups from dead players triggered short challenges and rewarded you with a Care Package containing a random Killstreak. Same idea, different branding.

The same update introduces a new event menu that consolidates event challenges, rewards, and exclusive modes into one screen, which should make tracking them far less annoying. On the gunplay side, Battlefield Studios is tweaking recoil, weapon handling, bullet dispersion, and limb damage modifiers, with bullet velocity and drag also under review. Vehicles get another balance pass too: Thermal Smoke will no longer counter C4, RPG damage against tanks and helicopters is being buffed, and the automated AA at team spawn will stop protecting land vehicles — it'll also go on a 20-second cooldown after each retaliation rather than locking on indefinitely. There's also a new Mark All Seen button to clear those persistent orange New markers across Loadouts, Battle Pass, Store, Profile, Challenges, and the main Play tab in one go.

Season 3's second phase launched last week but shipped with a notable number of bugs. The June 30th update will close out the season — assuming it lands cleaner than its predecessor, players will finally get a proper run at the contracts system.