After many wild rumours about the release of Battlefield 2042, a new report confirms that Battlefield 2042 is only going to support ray-tracing on PC, and even then, gamers are required to own a hefty rig to achieve this realistic look for the anticipated game. After a series of beta sessions in October, the developers behind […]
After many wild rumours about the release of Battlefield 2042, a new report confirms that Battlefield 2042 is only going to support ray-tracing on PC, and even then, gamers are required to own a hefty rig to achieve this realistic look for the anticipated game. After a series of beta sessions in October, the developers behind Battlefield 2042, DICE, had a bit of a bumpy ride from then to now. Issues such as matchmaking problems, fatiguing lag and a whole bunch of other visual and gameplay glitches were experienced by players.The team explained that what the players experienced was from an older vertical slice of the game.
DICE did work onthe gaming community’s comments and criticismsabout communication, loadouts and more and altered the game accordingly. Producer Ben Walke has also stepped in saying- “Have you ever asked yourself why you don’t have more devs interacting with players across the industry? There’s a valid way to give feedback, I don’t think anyone on the team is against receiving it when it’s done in a constructive way.” It is safe to say that there’s likely to be another whole lot of annoyed console players that are missing out on ray-tracing in Battlefield 2042. There is a reason for this, though. Those 128 player matches actually place a significant strain on the CPUs of the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X, so there isn’t the allowance to add ray-tracing or another visual tweak into the mix.
Of course, ray-traced ambient occlusion works perfectly on any other Microsoft DirectX ray tracing capable graphics card or laptop GPU or Nvidia’s GeForce RTX GPU. Battlefield 2042is coming to PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One on November 19th.
