Battlefield 6 is giving Portal a proper trigger tool in the April 14 Hunter/Prey update
The new Portal Gadget arrives with Season 2's final act and is meant to replace the awkward workarounds creators have used to fire custom logic.
Battlefield 6 is about to give Portal creators a lot more control. When the Hunter/Prey update arrives on Tuesday, April 14, the game will add the Portal Gadget, a new tool built to trigger custom interactions with far more precision than Battlefield Studios has allowed until now.
The update is the third and final phase of Battlefield 6 Season 2, and the studio says the new gadget should remove a lot of the clumsy setup creators have had to rely on. In Battlefield Portal, players have already been able to build everything from small rule tweaks to full-blown custom modes, including community projects such as BattleGolf, but custom logic has still been limited by the lack of a clean input trigger.
Battlefield Studios says the problem has been simple enough, as there has not been an intuitive way to fire custom logic on demand, and most available inputs have already been tied to normal gameplay or specific contexts. That has pushed creators toward fixed interaction points, forced positioning, and workarounds like crouching to confirm actions. The new gadget is meant to change that by acting like any other item in a player’s inventory while functioning as a direct trigger for Portal scripting.
In the studio’s words, the update means “no more workarounds” and “no more compromises.” The gadget will also come with a readme file and SDK examples, which should help creators get moving once the update lands.
The Hunter/Prey update is not only about Portal, either. Battlefield Studios is also adjusting progression so Mastery XP will come from using weapons and vehicles, not only from earning kills. The studio is also changing experience rates across different playlists so progression feels more even from mode to mode.
Alongside that, Battlefield Studios is working on spotting and ping reliability across battle royale and multiplayer. The aim is to make long-range spotting of vehicles and drones clearer and give enemy soldiers higher priority than nearby interactive objects, with the team watching how those changes affect squad communication.
There is also fresh movement on battle royale solos testing. Battlefield Studios said it will review the issues raised during that test, make changes where needed, and use the results to decide when solos return.
Battlefield 6’s Portal is about to get a cleaner, more direct way to build custom experiences, and that could open the door to some wild creations when the update goes live on April 14. Share your thoughts in the comments, and follow us on X, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram.
