Battlefield 6 is one of the few AAAs games of 2025 to drop rate tracing and path tracing across all its game modes, including the campaign and multiplayer. Considering that Battlefield 5 was the first PC game to feature ray-tracing almost 7 years ago, this certainly comes as a surprise.
The Battlefield 6 roadmap for 2026 has been revealed, and it confirms a server browser is on the way alongside naval warfare and more.
Until they add bigger maps to modes other that their garbage br, im not reinstalling that, they just blatantly misled a lot of people leading up to release. And still refuse just add bigger maps which people have asked for since the beta fk EA!
Why would you assume that? Nowhere in there does it mention bigger maps, it mentions reimagined old maps, says nothing about their size
TBF - the developer does say that next month they are releasing the largest map they have released in a Battlefield yet in Golmud. (4x the size of Mirak Valley)
And then in July comes Tsuru Reef (even larger) which I actually think looks really sick
I couldn't agree less with you actually.
EA hav3 listened to the people before releasing this B6 game.
It plays much better and more battlefield like than the past 3 installments.
Personally, it's not bigger maps this game needs. They've dropped the player count which is a great compromise imo.
Bigger maps with only 32 v 32 means more running around doing nothing.
Keep the new maps coming & aiming for old style battlefield games and it's a win win for me.
Server browser should've been in there at launch, when will devs learn this? It's a feature seemingly always neglected but then added in a future update...
I remember in BF Hardline the server browser didn’t have any dedicated DLC maps, and the entire player base fell off accordingly. When people pay good money for DLC maps, they want to be able to actually play them, and that means dedicated DLC ONLY servers must be programmed into the server browser by the devs.
EA should do what Bungie did for Halo 2 in 2005. When Bungie basically invented DLC maps for online matchmaking they were smart enough to realize it could split the community. DLC maps had DEDICATED PLAYLISTS so players who spent good money on the DLC could hop right into matches. Later, the DLC maps became free and also became a MANDATORY DOWNLOAD for everyone so that the DLC maps could be integrated into all standard playlists. This prevented the game from dying and the community from being fractured.
"Battlefield 6 Dev Director Anna Norrevik has been announced as a headline speaker at Europe’s premier B2B games conference, Nordic Game Spring 2026 (NG26), which returns on 26–29 May to Malmö’s iconic Slagthuset venue." - Nordic Game.
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No it doesn’t. Not having RT is the reason game looks great and has very solid performance. I’d rather wait for next gen for RT in games.
Games always look better with ray tracing.
Yet another writer who is too stupid to know what proof means
How do you get a job doing this with such a terrible understanding of basic words?
I kinda wanna agree, coz BF:V was one of the showcases of RTX at the time ... and IMHO is still prettiest in terms of technicality (BF:1 in terms of atmosphere) + BF:V became very optimized.
But on the other hand, BF:6 is already pretty optimized. Beta ran on boiled potatoes. So dont know.
Maybe a Year 2 Major graphics update patch, like what Id gave to Doom Eternal? (Next-gen only CoD from IW will release next year. So it'll need the buff to stay competitive)
Hell no. Ray tracing is the most unnecessary graphical fidelity setting if you're losing so much performance out of it. You get so little by sacrificing too much. Bf6 launched very well optimized because of it as well.
Ray tracing is only good in old and small games, modern AAA games? Nah, I'll take buttery smooth gameplay over that. Bf6 still looks amazing anyways.
Devs need to prioritize performance on budget hardware imo. Screw all the broken and stutter mess of a games that come out nowadays.