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Battlefield 6 Will Launch Without Ray Tracing, With No Near-Term Plans to Add It

Ripple Effect says the choice channels engineering toward optimization for stable framerates on common hardware.

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Overview

  • Studio technical director Christian Buhl confirmed ray tracing will be absent at launch and said the team has no plans to add it in the near future.
  • Buhl said the decision was made early in development to focus engineering resources on optimization and stable performance for default settings.
  • Beta builds offered no ray-tracing options, and developers reported a meaningful share of participants were on minimum or below-minimum PC hardware.
  • Battlefield 6 supports NVIDIA DLSS, AMD FSR 3, and Intel XeSS, including frame-generation features, to improve performance.
  • The game is scheduled to release on October 10, 2025 on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S.