Medics have found themselves fighting their own war in Battlefield 6 as desperate players take to using the repair tool to leave messages begging for revives.
EA and Battlefield Studios opened the floodgates when Battlefield 6 launched last week, October 10, for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S. As more than 740,000 players gathered to play on Steam alone, a new discussion about in-game classes has bubbled to the top with one question: are medics doing their job?
Revive in Battlefield 6 (animation)#Battlefield #Battlefield6 @NeebsOfficial pic.twitter.com/RM5RHclAfX
— SiegeTales (@SiegeTales) October 10, 2025
The Support class no doubt plays an important role in any Battlefield 6 multiplayer match. While Assault, Engineer, and Recon classes, too, bring important tools and skills to a fight, it’s only the Support class that can get downed soldiers back on their feet at lightning speed.
Squad mates of any class are free to revive each other with or without the medic tools in Support, though they are locked only to reviving players in their squad and take much longer to pick them up. Support players do not have these squad limitations and can instantly revive a soldier with things like defibrillators.
With dozens of teammates in every Battlefield 6 match, there’s always plenty of players looking to be revived, and as buildings are often crumbling down around them, the chances of being picked up aren’t always too likely. Heightening the stress on both ends are measurements for downed players showing how far away the nearest group of medics is. When JohnBattlefield2000 opts not to revive you at just five meters away, things tend to get a bit heated.
Some have already begun using the repair tool, a gadget wielded by engineers to repair vehicles (and draw on walls) in Battlefield for years, to leave messages for Support medics who neglect their fallen comrades. One popular post from Reddit user dobrewski77 contains a not-so-nice plea, asking others to “remember to revive your teammates.” It’s fair to want to get back into the fight, but those who favor Support say it’s not that easy to pull off a successful save.
“Stop hitting redeploy and you’ll be revived,” one person replied in an X/Twitter post. “I wish people would ask where is the Medic instead of insta skipping the revive,” another Reddit comment added.
Reddit user beningham94 also posted their own repair tool message during the weekend. Instead of calling out medics in the Support class, they chose to show their team a different message instead.
Battlefield 6 launched just days ago and has already spawned different talking points across the community. These include an in-game pop-up window that tells players it’s OK to uninstall the campaign, as well as a Portal mode creation that serves as a remake of Call of Duty’s Shipment map.
For more, you can check out our Battlefield 6 multiplayer review in progress as well as our 5/10 campaign review. While Support players and downed teammates argue over who should do what on the battlefield, you can see some of the memes that everyone in the middle has come to love, below.
POV: you’re trying to skip the revive on Battlefield 6 pic.twitter.com/QwBEwnY5Cf
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