After weeks of frustration, the Battlefield 6 rooftop drone exploit that has driven players up the wall (and literally onto rooftops) is almost at its end. Lead producer David Sirland confirmed during a recent Q&A that the bug has been fixed and will be addressed in the game’s next update. There’s no release date yet, but for most of us on the ground, that’s already welcome news.
If you have somehow avoided this glitch until now, here’s how it works: players have a teammate deploy a recon drone, stand on it, then hit it with a sledgehammer, which results in a DIY elevator straight to the sky. From there, players could perch on rooftops, bridges, or high ledges that weren’t technically out-of-bounds and get clear sightlines to farm easy kills. It wasn’t impossible to counter, but nearly impossible to enjoy playing against.
This exploit has been plaguing matches since BF6’s launch, especially on maps like Iberian Offensive, where multiple squads could abuse the bug simultaneously. Complete rounds would turn into ghost towns on the ground while half the lobby camped in the clouds, which turns what’s supposed to be Battlefield’s chaotic, combined-arms combat into an annoying game of rooftop hide-and-seek.
We are, this is in the next patch, to be announced when (the rooftops, using the drone)
— David Sirland (@tiggr_) November 5, 2025
EA and DICE deserve credit; they have been quick to patch Battlefield 6 issues and bugs since release, but this particular glitch overstayed its welcome. Some players even use it defensively to hunt down other offenders with the same exploit. It was funny the first time. Not so much by week four.
Sirland didn’t specify how the fix works if the drone’s logic has been adjusted or if certain rooftops are now marked off-limits, but either way, the reign of the flying ambushers comes to an end.
This follows many other recent fixes following the removal of the bugged IFV Lock-Guided Missile, which was found obliterating targets no matter how you counter it. Such minor but steady quality-of-life updates are slowly leading Battlefield 6 back on the right track that players expected out of the box. Now, for rooftop campers, your high ground days are numbered. The rest of us can finally go back to worrying about the tanks and snipers we can see.
