In an interview with Comicbook, Christian Buhl, the Technical Director at Ripple Effect, explained why Battlefield 6 won’t have Ray Tracing. He said the team wanted to focus on making the game run smoothly, instead of adding flashy graphics features like Ray Tracing or Path Tracing.
As Buhl told Comicbook:
“No, we are not going to have ray-tracing when the game launches and we don’t have any plans in the near future for it either. That was because we wanted to focus on performance. We wanted to make sure that all of our effort was focused on making the game as [optimized] as possible for the default settings and the default users. So, we just made the decision relatively early on that we just weren’t going to do ray-tracing and again, it was mostly so that we could focus on making sure it was performance for everyone else.”
Battlefield V was one of the first games that NVIDIA used to showcase the brand-new Ray Tracing effects of the RTX-20 series GPUs in 2018. So, you’d expect the devs to go all out with BF6. For better or worse, though, Battlefield 6 will not have any Ray Tracing or Path Tracing effects.
If I had to choose between an unoptimized ray-traced game and an optimized rasterized game, I’d choose the latter. No questions asked. And, to its credit, BF6 not only looks amazing but it also runs great on PC. Yes, the game would benefit from RTGI in numerous areas. Still, this is a fast-paced multiplayer game. So, I really don’t mind the absence of Ray Tracing or Path Tracing from it.
However, BF6 will also have a single-player campaign. And that’s where I believe the devs could have used Path Tracing. This could be an “Experimental” setting for high-end PCs. Again, I understand the focus on the game’s performance. But the single-player campaign is an entirely different thing.
All in all, it’s a bit disappointing to see the new BF game not pushing the boundaries of PC graphics, especially for its single-player campaign. But hey, at least we’ll get a game that will run great.
EA will release Battlefield 6 on October 10. The game will support NVIDIA DLSS 4 with Multi-Frame Gen at launch. You can also find its final PC system requirements here.
It’s also worth noting that BF6 will require Secure Boot on PC. As such, PC gamers will have to enable it from their BIOS. Otherwise, you won’t be able to play it. To combat cheaters, BF6 will also use EA’s Javelin anti-cheat system.
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