If you managed to get your hands on the Battlefield 6 Open Beta recently – which we have shared our honest thoughts on – you’ll know that it’s a pretty good looking game. Be it on console or PC, there’s a lot of action going on at any time in the game, with the shooter’s technology managing to display fast paced gunplay, wide-scale destruction and an incredible number of particles at any one time.

What was lacking however was ray-tracing features – technology which simulates how real life light moves in games, and overall making games look more realistic. Commonplace in PC gaming on higher-spec rigs, less so in the console space, a game running ray-tracing can be incredibly demanding on low/mid-tier hardware.

Now, in an interview with Comicbook, the developers have confirmed that Battlefield 6 will not launch with ray-tracing and there are no plans to bring it to the game. On PC, there will be 600+ different options, although “ray-tracing won’t be one of them and there’s no plans to bring it into the game in the near future.”

The developers are keen to focus on stability and making the general performance for all players the best it can be. Christian Buhl, Studio Technical Director at Ripple Effect went on to say “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.”

As with all online shooters, a successful launch for all players is essential to long-term success of the game. EA have said they want 10m people to play BF6, whilst that sounds almost impossible, a stable and playable game will certainly help.

Player voice is always a big part of the Battlefield community and experience. We know that the studios developing the new entry are listening to fans, thus Battlefield will be keeping the authentic MilSim aesthetic. Staying true to its predecessors and inspirations, Battlefield 3 and 4, Battlefield 6 won’t be looking to add whacky skins like its closest rival, Call of Duty.

Are you excited for Battlefield 6? Are you planning to pickup the game on October 10 2025? Let us know in the comments below and stick with GSC for more Battlefield news as we build up to one of the biggest shooters in years.