The developer of Battlefield 6 explains why ray-tracing won't be available anytime soon.

Although Battlefield 6's open beta tests have noticeably lacked ray-tracing, it wasn't quite obvious whether this was intentional or simply a result of the game being in beta. As it happens, the latter is the case.The competitive shooter won't use ray-tracing since, although it's a common feature in certain games, the more realistic way it simulates lighting may also be taxing on your PC or console's system resources. While the PC version of Battlefield 6 will have over 600 options in its settings menu, Christian Buhl, studio technical director at Ripple Effect, one of the studios working on the game, told Comicbook that "ray-tracing won’t be one of them and there’s no plans to bring it into the game in the near future.""No, we don't have any plans for ray-tracing anytime soon, and we won't have it when the game launches," Buhl stated. That was due to our desire to concentrate on performance. Our goal was to ensure that every effort was directed toward making the game as [optimized] as feasible for the default users and settings.

Although most players will probably forego graphics in order to maintain performance in multiplayer mode, some gamers may be disappointed by this as they had hoped that Battlefield 6's future single-player campaign would feature ray-tracing.We revealed a nine-minute internet leak of Battlefield 6's battle royale mode earlier today. In addition to providing a thorough preview of the mode, this video also discloses a few gameplay features we were unaware of before, such as swimming, one of the devices, and its "massive map."