There are few videogame pastimes as treasured as trying to stand on a flying object. Sadly, while it’s possible to land on an enemy player’s flying fighter jet—you should see that clip if you haven’t already—Battlefield 6 won’t let you take to the skies on a teammate’s recon drone.
Unless you hit it with a sledgehammer.
The wildest glitch in Battlefield 6. Lmao. pic.twitter.com/A0k1I32mRdOctober 15, 2025
In the last 24 hours, clips have started circulating of players able to gain unparalleled verticality with a kind of bug that makes you wonder, “What was the person who discovered this even doing?” Typically, standing on a drone in BF6 doesn’t achieve much: As soon as its controller moves it, you’ll slide off.
The drone will start drifting downwards after ascending, but in a delightful rejection of our earthly physics, the bug’s repeatable while airborne: Continuing to bludgeon the drone will provide additional height. Unsurprisingly, this can offer a pretty substantial advantage to snipers with a cooperative recon assistant, providing a shooting platform wherever they’d like that lets them snipe from dozens—if not hundreds—of meters in the air. It can also serve as a quick elevator to the top of BF6’s taller buildings.
The BF6 drone glitch is absolutely generational pic.twitter.com/WJls3MyxfaOctober 15, 2025
Of course, crouching on a recon drone doesn’t provide much protective cover, so you probably won’t last very long once you’re up there. And let’s be real: You’ll deserve whatever scorn you get in the process.
While I’m sure it’ll be exploited to nefarious ends before the end of its likely brief lifespan, it’s a delightful bug while it lasts. I can only hope I’ll be blessed with my own sighting of synchronized sledgehammer aerialists—assuming they don’t start taking potshots at me while they’re hovering up to heaven.
