In line with EA, the Battlefield 6 play take a look at is the greatest beta in Battlefield’s historical past when it comes to gamers. Analysis agency Oppenheimer estimated that the beta reached greater than 20 million folks. Nonetheless, a “substantial quantity” of these followers might have been enjoying Battlefield 6 with the minimal really useful specs.
Battlefield 6 technical director Christian Buhl made that assertion throughout an interview with Eurogamer. Buhl additionally famous that EA and DICE deliberate from the start to make sure that gamers utilizing lower-end {hardware} would nonetheless obtain a comparable expertise to these on high-end machines.
“Min spec is definitely considered one of our most necessary specs … it is tremendous necessary from each a business and enterprise perspective,” stated Buhl. “We would like as many individuals as potential enjoying the sport … We did loads of evaluation, we did assessments on the sport on a variety of {hardware} above and under our minimal and really useful specs. We discovered what we will hit, what we have to hit from a enterprise perspective, and that was to seize a large viewers on PC. It has been tremendous important.”
In the identical interview, Buhl addressed the sport’s unpopular safe boot requirement, which he says is important to preventing cheaters.
“The very fact is I want we did not should do issues like Safe Boot,” stated Buhl. “It does forestall some gamers from enjoying the sport. Some folks’s PCs cannot deal with it they usually cannot play: that actually sucks. I want everybody may play the sport with low friction and never should do these types of issues … Sadly these are a few of the strongest instruments in our toolbox to cease dishonest.”
EA has shared the PC specs for Battlefield 6, in addition to some upcoming modifications to primarily based on participant suggestions from the beta. Battlefield 6 launches on October 10 for Xbox Collection X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC.
