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A fraction of the most popular PC games over the past year use hardware-level ray tracing, which is far fewer than I'd predict just 24 months ago

That's five of the 21 most popular games.

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Xbox Series S earns big praise — Battlefield 6 runs shockingly well on the tiny console

Digital Foundry’s latest breakdown highlights how Battlefield 6 delivers strong performance across all platforms, with the Xbox Series S standing out for its smooth 60fps gameplay despite visual cutbacks.

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Renegade graphics warlock makes Half-Life look like Half-Life 2, then runs it on an ancient laptop, raising a middle finger to poorly optimised PC games

Phong Song.

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Battlefield 6 devs say the plan was to launch with bigger maps "all along," and that the beta's notoriously smaller maps "were intentionally smaller than the ones we know are coming" in the full FPS

Smaller maps were apparently easier to test out

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Battlefield 6 ditching ray tracing seems to have paid off because the latest system requirements say 4K at 240 Hz is possible

You'll need a beefy rig, but that it's possible at all is fantastic.

PC Gamer

Dropping PS4 and Xbox One was a "magic trick" for Battlefield 6 and its improved destruction, technical director says: "We've kind of raised the floor of what we have"

Battlefield 6 still took "a lot of work" to get right

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Battlefield 6 dev says its destruction tech is so delicious for one simple reason: 'The only magic trick is that we're not on the PS4 or Xbox One any more'

Also hit the button marked 'say it's like Battlefield 3 and 4' once more with feeling.

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The most anticipated FPS of the year is scoring points by recognizing a simple truth: people want performance more than ray tracing

PC gamers are celebrating games that actually run, and it's the FPS leading by example.

PC Gamer

Xbox has a problematic "lack of memory," but Final Fantasy 7 Remake director says Square Enix's "multiplatform approach" doesn't hurt Part 3 development "whatsoever"

Xbox catching strays right after taking a bazooka blast to the chest

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is 'building toward the most advanced and robust anti-cheat', requiring players to enable Secure Boot for the beta

This is the new reality.

PC Gamer

Steam now lets you check if you have Secure Boot enabled: the security feature we're all going to have to get to grips with for Battlefield, Call of Duty and more

Here's how to do it.

PC Gamer

Battlefield 6 will let console players avoid PC crossplay to prevent cheaters ruining everyone's good time

Battlefield 6 has revamped aim assist on console and the option to avoid crossplay with PC players.

TechRadar

Battlefield 6 sniper glints won't be so blinding come the shooter's release, as devs have "stepped it back" after fans' "humorous" feedback: "I saw those memes with the hillside just full of these giant glares"

They knew "we need to change the glints"

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Battlefield 6 nearly broke the Xbox Series S, which devs say had "less memory than even our mid-spec PC": "A lot of our levels were crashing on Xbox Series S"

It's fine now, really

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Battlefield 6 will be better for everyone thanks to the Xbox Series S

Battlefield 6 was optimized for the limited resources of the Xbox Series S, and that should make the experience better for everyone.

Windows Central

Battlefield 6 development on Xbox Series S made the "whole game better and more stable" — DICE focuses on optimization

With a smaller memory pool, Xbox Series S development was a little tricky. However, the process improved the game across all platforms as a result.

GamesRadar

Battlefield 6 goes back to 64 players per match because 2042's 128-person matches "just didn't catch on," design director admits: "Look, we try stuff. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't"

"We do what the players want"

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Members of Battlefield 6 team admit how ‘challenging’ it was to get the game to run well, especially on one console

More optimization is the one thing AAA lacks, and EA knows that.

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'Players ended up just shooting Doritos': Battlefield 6 is toning down its aggressive ping ability after open beta feedback

Battlefield 6's ping was a bit too effective in the beta, says devs.

PC Gamer

Battlefield 6 is 'secretly console first,' says half-joking dev who has bravely risked resurrecting 2000s-era console vs PC bitterness

"We don't want to, obviously, tear down or destroy any of the legacy that Battlefield has, which is, first, a PC game," they added.

PC Gamer

Battlefield 6 devs knew 'everything' would leak from playtests but said the risk was worth it to get feedback from players: 'That had to come at any cost'

Ripple Effect was determined to collect all the player data it could, even though it meant accepting that leaks would happen.

PC Gamer

As Call of Duty flips a U-turn on goofy skins, Battlefield 6 devs are making their stance clear from the start: 'We're not chasing trends. We're not chasing other products'

"We want to be a gritty, realistic shooter. Other games can and should be whatever they want to be, right?"

GamesRadar

Battlefield 6 is set to be extra grisly compared to most of the previous entries in EA's FPS series, as it's only the third to mention "gore" in its ESRB rating

We can also expect "intense violence"

TechRadar

Battlefield 6 might actually run properly as director reveals that it doesn't have any ray-tracing – 'there’s no plans to bring it into the game'

We now know that Battlefield 6 will not feature ray-tracing.

GamesRadar

Battlefield 6 won't have ray tracing at launch and devs "don't have any plans in the near future for it either" because "our effort was focused on making the game as [optimized] as possible"

Raymond Tracing was deemed not fit to serve

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