# Tom Cruise’s price tag too high? Battlefield 6 Top Gun collab somehow doesn’t include Maverick

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/tom-cruises-price-tag-too-high-battlefield-6-top-gun-collab-somehow-doesnt-include-maverick/
- Published: 2026-07-17T15:53:18+00:00
- Updated: 2026-07-22T07:12:52+00:00
- Original publisher: Destructoid
- Original article: https://www.destructoid.com/tom-cruises-price-tag-battlefield-6-top-gun-collab-maverick/
- Topics: Gaming

## Key points

- Battlefield 6's Top Gun collab omits Tom Cruise's Maverick character
- Rooster, Bob and Warlock join instead, with new skins and jets
- Update lands 18th August; season four begins 21st July

## Summary

Battlefield 6 is set to receive a Top Gun crossover as part of a collaboration between EA and Paramount Pictures, but notably excludes Tom Cruise's iconic Maverick character. Instead, the update will feature supporting characters from Top Gun: Maverick, continuing the franchise's presence in gaming without its most recognisable star, whose likeness rights are presumed to have been too costly to secure.

The collaboration, arriving with Battlefield 6's season four update, will add Lt. Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw (Miles Teller), Lt. Robert "Bob" Floyd (Lewis Pullman) and Adm. Solomon "Warlock" Bates (Charles Parnell), alongside Top Gun-themed skins and cosmetics. The wider update, launching on 18th August following season four's start on 21st July, introduces the F-18 Super Hornet and F-14 Tomcat aircraft, a reimagined Wake Island map, and two new modes — Carrier Strike and a Gauntlet mission in REDSEC — with season four focused on naval warfare.

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