When Battlefield 6 launched earlier this month, one of the first things new players did was check out the Portal, a platform where you can create modes, maps and other quirks to your liking. Naturally, this immediately took the form of recreating some of Call of Duty's best maps, because there's nothing more beautiful than experiencing your opponent's best offerings in your own game.
However, once players started farming with nostalgia, both EA and Activision proceeded to threaten bans and IP infringement notices on such maps if players didn't modify them. Fast forward to today, and one Battlefield 6 player has documented his situation where he's still receiving IP infringement notices even after taking action on what was being violated.
What started as a new idea turned into chaos
On Reddit, user HearMeOut-13 provided a status update on his COD Zombies-inspired creation titled “Project Osiris.” The creation, which sought to emulate the popular wave-based Zombies mode, immediately went viral before drawing the ire of Activision themselves.
The first takedown, which dates back to October 23rd, resulted in the creator renaming every aspect of its mod to avoid infringing on elements like Activision's “Juggernog”.
Sounds good enough, right? Well, wrong.
On October 30th, the creator said he was hit with another IP infringement notice, this one reportedly not coming with any IP address to actually infringe on.
“Zero COD trademarks. Zero copyrighted assets. Just game mechanics,” they wrote of their rebrand. “They can no longer claim trademark infringement – there are no trademarks. They can't claim theft of property – I created everything in the portal tools.”
Currently, their creation has been disabled. Given how vague the original notices are, it's unclear at this point what is being violated. After all, wave-based mods existed long before COD and will exist long after COD, so the whole situation is quite frustrating for a community that wants to create fun with the tools in front of them.
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October 10, 2025
- ESRB
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Mature 17+ / Blood and gore, intense violence, strong language, in-app purchases, user interaction
- Developers
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Battlefield Studios
