In accordance with EA, the Battlefield 6 play take a look at is the biggest beta in Battlefield’s history in terms of players. Analysis agency Oppenheimer estimated that the beta reached more than 20 million people. Nonetheless, a “substantial quantity” of these followers could have been taking part in Battlefield 6 with the minimal advisable 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 actually certainly one of our most vital specs … it is tremendous vital from each a business and enterprise perspective,” mentioned Buhl. “We wish as many individuals as attainable taking part in the sport … We did a variety of evaluation, we did exams on the sport on a variety of {hardware} above and beneath our minimal and advisable 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 crucial.”
In the identical interview, Buhl addressed the sport’s unpopular safe boot requirement, which he says is crucial to combating cheaters.
“The very fact is I want we did not need to do issues like Safe Boot,” mentioned Buhl. “It does forestall some gamers from taking part in the sport. Some individuals’s PCs cannot deal with it they usually cannot play: that basically sucks. I want everybody may play the sport with low friction and never need to do these types of issues … Sadly these are a number of the strongest instruments in our toolbox to cease dishonest.”
EA has shared the PC specs for Battlefield 6, in addition to some upcoming adjustments to based mostly on participant suggestions from the beta. Battlefield 6 launches on October 10 for Xbox Collection X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC.
