Season 1 of Battlefield 6 has finally gone live and, once you get past the usual chaos of new maps and modes, your eyes land on the fresh toys pretty fast. Between learning the angles on the new REDSEC battle royale map and figuring out who is running what in ranked, you very quickly notice the Mini Scout sniper popping up in killcams, especially in lobbies that feel almost like a Battlefield 6 Bot Lobby. It is a strange rifle on paper, running 5.56 instead of the usual heavy sniper rounds, but in practice it plays more like a hyper‑mobile marksman gun for players who like to get in people’s faces rather than sit on a rooftop all match.
How To Unlock The Mini Scout
If you want the Mini Scout, the route is simple, even if it takes a bit of time. The gun is tied to the Season 1 Battle Pass, locked behind Rank 21 on the Soldiers of Fortune track. You have to double‑check that this specific track is actually selected as your active one, because plenty of players dump a few nights of XP into the wrong track and then wonder why nothing new shows up in their armoury. Once that little detail is sorted, it is just a case of playing, watching the pass levels tick up, and claiming the rifle the moment you hit Rank 21.
Battle Pass Progress: Grind Or Pay
Now, yeah, you can throw money at tier skips if you really want the gun right now, and some people always will. But the game hands out pass points at a decent pace if you use your time properly, so paying often feels like burning cash. The big trick is not to sit in Team Deathmatch for hours just farming kills with no plan. Weekly Challenges are where the real juice is. If you have joined the season late, that can actually work in your favour, because you log in and suddenly have a big stack of unfinished weeks. Knock out a couple of broad, easy challenges at the same time and your rank flies up in chunks instead of tiny nudges.
Weekly Challenges And Smart Grinding
Look at something like week six as a good example of how strong those challenges can be. There was a bonus objective that dumped 21 pass points on you for hitting 10,000 score in any mode, which is not that hard if you play a few focused sessions. Combine that with the steady trickle of points from normal play—capping flags, reviving teammates, spotting enemies for your squad, and surviving longer than thirty seconds in REDSEC—and you start to see why people unlock Rank 21 without even touching their wallet. Play modes where you can grab objectives, stick with a squad, and avoid pointless solo pushes, and you will feel the difference in your pass bar.
How Long It Takes And Why You Should Not Wait
For most players who have work, school, or just other games on the go, playing an hour or two every other evening, you are probably looking at around a week and a half, maybe edging toward two weeks, to reach Rank 21 if you are actually doing the Weeklies. If you are the sweaty type who lives at the top of the scoreboard, pulls regular wins in REDSEC, and plans challenge progress instead of drifting from mode to mode, you can probably wrap it up in a single long weekend. The one thing you really do not want to do is ignore the pass until the final couple of days and then try to binge grind when everyone else is already running the gun. There is also a good chance that, next season, the unlock turns into one of those annoying tasks like getting a pile of awkward hip‑fire headshots, so if you like aggressive recon play, it is worth securing the Mini Scout now while the requirement is just steady Battle Pass progress in your usual matches, especially when you can warm up in a softer Bf6 bot lobby.
