How to slide in Battlefield 6

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You can slide in Battlefield 6, but you might want to tweak your controls to make it easier

Battlefield 6 player sliding
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Battlefield 6 sliding can be done by double-tapping crouch, but if you want more conventional sliding controls, you'll have to tweak your settings. It's far from an essential movement technique in Battlefield 6, even penalizing your accuracy, but it's worth knowing about if you favor run-and-gun playstyles. If that sounds like you, here's everything you need to know about how sliding works in BF6.

How Battlefield 6 sliding works

By default, you can slide in Battlefield 6 by double-tapping the crouch button while sprinting. While doing so, you'll also suffer a brief but noticeable penalty to your hip-fire accuracy, so firing while sliding will be most effective when you're sliding directly at an enemy and at very short-range – take note if you're playing the mobile Battlefield 6 Assault class or are an SMG-wielding Battlefield 6 Engineer.

If you want to make sliding a bit easier and more like other first-person shooters, you can do so by opening the game's settings menu, choosing the tab that matches your input device (Controller or Mouse & Keyboard) and then opening the Infantry Control Settings menu. Under the Movement section, you'll find the following options for tweaking how sliding works:

  • Slide: Allows you to set a dedicated key or button for sliding. Good for those using a keyboard.
  • Crouch Slide (All/Toggle/Hold/Off): This setting has various options, each determining which crouch button inputs result in a slide.
  • Double Tap Crouch For Sprint Slide (ON/OFF): On means you need to double-tap the crouch button to slide, off means you only need to tap it once.

If you're using a controller, I highly recommend turning off Double Tap Crouch For Sprint Slide. This way you can press the crouch button once to slide or hold it to dive (and while you're at it, follow the best Battlefield 6 controller settings and change the Buttons setting to Alternate, which puts swaps crouch to the right stick and melee to Circle/B). Those using a mouse and keyboard can do the same or use the other two options to be more precise with sliding keybinds.

However, sliding isn't conducive to effective spotting in Battlefield 6. You might also want to understand how the Battlefield 6 Range Finder works for sniper rifle users.

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Will Sawyer
Will Sawyer
Guides Editor, GamesRadar+

Will Sawyer is a Guides Editor at GamesRadar+ with over five years of experience in writing online guides, news, and features, and has a BA (Hons) in Journalism. Starting as a freelancer, Will contributed to startmenu and Game Rant before joining the GamesRadar+ team in August 2021. Since then, he has written hundreds of guides about a huge range of games, with shooters and action games being his areas of expertise. Outside of writing about games, Will hops between multiplayer shooters with friends, such as Darktide and Helldivers 2, and delves into whatever has been on his backlog for far too long. He also tries to get through his never-ending Warhammer pile of shame of grey Tyranids, Aeldari, and Chaos Space Marines.

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