Also, no long nights studying the battlelore required
Right, if your hearing’s recovered enough from the sheer blaring blastiness of yesterday’s Battlefield 6 multiplayer reveal, I’m here to tell you a couple of things you’ll probably be happy about. Well, unless you’re planning on buying it from the Epic Games store.
You see, amid last night’s info drop, EA have revealed at least an estimate of the specs your hardware’ll need to have to run it, as well as the very important detail of whether you’ll need to fire it up via (whispers) the EA launcher.
While EA haven’t included any PC specs in their lengthy Q&A post about the game, declaring that they’ll provide more info further down the line, the game’s Steam page has had minimum and recomended setups added to it. Battle in fields 6’s minimum reqs comprise the following: an Intel Core i5-7600K or AMD Ryzen 3 1200 processor, 16GB of RAM, 55GB of storage space on a hard drive or SSD running at least Windows 10, and your choice of an Nvidia RTX 2060 or an AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 6GB.
Judging by those, provided your rig’s not beyond half a decade old, there’s a chance you’ll not need to look into upgrading to pass the low threshold required to at least get BF6 running, though EA don’t specify the kind of quality and FPS count bang you can expect for that buck.
Meanwhile, the recomended specs as as follows: Intel Core i7-10700, AMD Ryzen 7 3700X processors, 16GB of RAM, 80GB of drive space, Windows 11, and either an Nvidia RTX 3060Ti or an AMD Radeon RX 6700-XT. Again, no indication as to what that’ll get you, aside from suggesting it should be decent. That said, buggy Battlefield launches have been a thing in the past. Our James only ran into one while diving into the multiplayer at a recent Battlevent, though.
If you’ve been more worried about having to summon EA’s app every time you want to play it, then the good news is that if you’re on Steam that won’t be necessary.. Though you will still need an EA account, because as French philosopher Denis Diderot apparently once said, man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. Those who buy it via the Epic Store’ll need both EA app and EA account, because as French philosopher Denis Diderot definitely didn’t say, sorry Fortnite platform peeps.
Oh, and before I go, EA also make clear that “you do not need to have played any other Battlefield game to understand or enjoy Battlefield 6”. It’s unclear whether an understanding of the concept of a battlefield, or the individual concepts of battles or fields will be required. I’m going out on a slightly exploded limb to say probably not.