How To Suppress Enemies With An LMG In Battlefield 6

Battlefield 6 offers dozens of weapons and class items that you can unlock by completing various challenges in the “Assignment” tab of the main menu. While some of these challenges are fairly simple and just require you to get kills or score with what may be the best weapons in BF6 anyway, other challenges are incredibly difficult and confusing. One challenge that falls into the latter category is under the “Bullet Storm” section of the Weapon tab, and this requires you to “suppress enemies with LMGs” in Battlefield 6.

This challenge provides little explanation, which can leave you confused about how to complete it. Fortunately, our guide below has you covered.

What is suppression in Battlefield 6?

First off, the term “suppress” might throw you off when trying to complete this challenge. It’s a term that isn’t explained anywhere in Battlefield 6, and only franchise veterans will likely know what it means.

If you’ve never heard of “suppression” before, it’s a term that refers to bullets being fired right near you. When this happens, you won’t take any damage, but being suppressed completely stops your health regeneration in Battlefield 6. You won’t continue to regen HP until you’ve stopped being suppressed.

You’ll know that you’re currently being suppressed if you look just to the left of the center of your screen and see little “woosh” icons appearing. This indicates that an enemy is firing bullets close enough to you for you to be suppressed. Alternatively, you’ll know when you’re suppressing an enemy when you see the term “Enemy Suppression” appear on your screen after firing bullets.

Suppression is a fantastic tool in Battlefield 6 that can be utilized to great advantage if used correctly. However, trying to complete a challenge solely based on suppressing enemies is another story.

How to suppress enemies in Battlefield 6

Now we arrive at the difficult part of suppression, which is trying to do it 300 times with an LMG, as per the challenge in the screenshot above. To suppress an enemy 300 times with LMGs, you have to use any light machine gun in Battlefield 6 and try to miss enemies while you’re shooting at them.

It sounds counterintuitive, but missing shots is the only way you’re going to finish this challenge. The most important part about suppression is that an enemy is considered suppressed if you shoot at them within five meters in any direction.

Naturally, if you hit an enemy with a bullet, that won’t count as a suppressed shot, as you need to miss them for it to count. But any shot within five meters to the left, right, or above an enemy will count as suppressing them. You don’t even need to have eyes on the enemies you’re shooting at; even shooting at cover near enemies will count as a suppression shot as long as the bullet goes past them within five meters.

The best way to complete the “Bullet Storm” challenge in Battlefield 6 is to hop into the Breakthrough mode. Ideally, you want to be on the defensive side, as this ensures you won’t have to move too much.

Once you’re set up on defense in Breakthrough, pick a spot where you can see plenty of enemy foot traffic. It’s also a good idea to equip a large magazine on your preferred LMG, a decently-zoomed scope, and perhaps the FMJ ammunition so you can shoot through any surfaces enemies are behind. From here, just fire around any enemies you see, doing your best not to hit them. You could also explore some of the best BF6 Portal codes for game modes that make suppressing enemies easier.

With enough time and effort, you should slowly start to see your challenge progress from zero to 300 suppressed shots. Completing this challenge, along with dealing hip-fire damage to enemies with LMGs, will net you the KTS100 MK8 LMG, a solid option in Battlefield 6. However, it doesn’t beat one other LMG, which we consider to be among the best weapons in BF6.