Battlefield 6 will not have ray tracing, because the workforce as a substitute is specializing in efficiency and optimization, in response to the sport’s technical director.
In an interview with (*6*), Ripple Impact (one of many studios that contains Battlefield Studios) technical director Christian Buhl mentioned it does not have plans for ray tracing at launch or within the close to future.
“That was as a result of we wished to deal with efficiency,” Buhl mentioned. “We wished to ensure that all of our effort was centered on making the sport as [optimized] as attainable for the default settings and default customers.”
The choice to not embrace ray tracing was made “early on” Buhl mentioned. In a separate interview, Buhl could have revealed why ray tracing wasn’t a precedence for the workforce, stating {that a} “significant share” of gamers throughout the Battlefield 6 beta have been utilizing minimal advisable specs or beneath.
“Min spec is definitely considered one of our most necessary specs,” Bruhl mentioned. “It is tremendous necessary from each a industrial and enterprise perspective–we need as many individuals as attainable enjoying the sport.”
An emphasis on ray-tracing would positively go towards that philosophy of trying to make sure the sport performs effectively on as broad a variety of PCs as attainable. In one more interview, Bruhl lamented the necessity for Battlefield 6’s Safe Boot requirement on PC, one thing that brought on complications for some gamers and left them unable to take part within the beta. He said he wished “everybody may play” however that Safe Boot is required to stop cheaters and make it simpler for EA to detect them.
EA not too long ago revealed Battlefield 6’s PC specs for launch, whilst current leaks from its Battlefield Labs playtests have revealed extra about Battlefield 6’s bigger maps and its battle royale mode.
These excited for Battlefield 6 will not have to attend lengthy, as the sport launches on PC, Xbox Sequence X|S, and PlayStation 5 on October 10. In the meantime, gamers can play Battlefield 2042 to unlock free Battlefield 6 cosmetics as a part of the sport’s “Street To Battlefield 6” occasion.
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