Battlefield 6 Has Deliberately Avoided Adding Ray-Tracing — Here's Why

Battlefield 6 doesn't person ray-tracing, and its developer has said determination are nary plans to adhd the diagnostic down the line.

While ray-tracing has been notably missing from Battlefield 6's unfastened beta tests, it wasn't wholly wide if this was conscionable due to the fact that the crippled was successful beta oregon if it was a deliberate choice. Turns out, it's the latter.

Despite being a fashionable inclusion successful immoderate games, ray-tracing's much earthy method of simulating lighting tin besides beryllium to beryllium draining connected your PC oregon console's strategy resources — and it's for this crushed that the competitory shooter won't see it. Indeed, Christian Buhl — workplace method manager astatine Ripple Effect, 1 of the studios moving connected Battlefield 6 — has told Comicbook that portion the PC mentation of Battlefield 6 volition person implicit 600 antithetic options successful its settings menu, "ray-tracing won’t beryllium 1 of them and there’s nary plans to bring it into the crippled successful the adjacent future."

“No, we are not going to person ray-tracing erstwhile the crippled launches and we don’t person immoderate plans successful the adjacent aboriginal for it either,” Buhl said. “That was due to the fact that we wanted to absorption connected performance. We wanted to marque definite that each of our effort was focused connected making the crippled arsenic [optimized] arsenic imaginable for the default settings and the default users.

"So, we conscionable made the determination comparatively aboriginal connected that we conscionable weren’t going to bash ray-tracing and again, it was mostly truthful that we could absorption connected making definite it was show for everyone else."

While astir radical would apt sacrifice visuals to sphere show during multiplayers mode, this whitethorn beryllium disappointing quality for immoderate players who'd hoped to person ray-tracing successful Battlefield 6's upcoming single-player campaign, erstwhile the clip comes to play.

Earlier today, we highlighted a nine-minute portion of Battlefield 6's conflict royale mode that has leaked online. This peculiar video not lone gives a bully look astatine what to expect from the mode, but besides reveals a mates of gameplay mechanics we didn't antecedently cognize about, too, including swimming, 1 of the gadgets, and its "massive map."

Battlefield 6 releases connected October 7. We're having a large clip with what we've played truthful far, penning successful our Battlefield 6 review-in-progress: "Right now, adjacent successful beta form, Battlefield 6 mightiness beryllium the astir amusive shooter I’ve played this year."

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