Complaint 👎🤡

The biggest issue is that BF6 gameplay often looks almost indistinguishable from BF4, or even BF3 at times. When the community asked for a game “in the spirit of BF3 and BF4,” we weren’t asking for outdated visuals or strange filters that make everything look artificial.

Not only that it isn't the biggest issue, but the biggest plus, in my book. I am not sure what exactly the community asked, but BF6 is "in the spirit of BF3 and BF4" in my opinion. The visuals are alright and I certainly wouldn't say outdated, after playing the beta.

I get that a lot of players are just happy to have a “classic Battlefield” again, but I was expecting a real evolution in both gameplay and visuals. It feels like the dev team still struggles to understand what the community actually wants.

Yes, I am happy to have the classic Battlefield back again and that's exactly what I actually wanted, as a part of the community. ;)

Hear! Hear!

Battlefield 3 and 4 are exactly the return to "classic Battlefield" that hardcore Battlefield aficionados want!

I played Battlefield 5 a lot, but even I know that it's time to put WW2 on the back-burner and return to a form of modern warfare that's relevant to today (but not like BF 2042).

As far as last-generation graphics, I believe that the current graphics are excellent and will allow smoother rendering of video (and audio) in the environment of utter chaos in multi-person online warfare.  It's got to play smoothly!

I appreciate that you've been "watching the latest Battlefield 6 gameplay videos" (and so have I), but thousands and thousands of fans played the two open beta weekends and I don't hear a lot of complaining about graphics!  Mostly what I hear is that people are asking for buffs or nerfs or tweaks one way or the other, but that is totally legit and it shows they are invested in how the game plays, and that's a good thing.

I, for one, feel that this Dev Team doesn't struggle to understand what we want -- they actually know what the Battlefield community wants, and based on my open Beta experience I believe they're going to deliver!

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You guys are so desperate for anything that even remotely resembles BF3 or BF4 that you’ll praise whatever comes along. Ask anyone who actually works in game development and they’ll tell you straight up: BF6’s graphics are a downgrade compared to Battlefield 1 and Battlefield 5.

The game doesn’t feel next-gen at all — the visuals look way too similar to older titles.

But of course, for those who’ve been craving something that reminds them of BF3 and BF4, anything can feel like a masterpiece, right? Haha

Battlefield 6 is deliberately not pushing for cutting-edge graphics options like path tracing, because graphics aren't as important as being able to run the game well. The game also seems to scale pretty well on a wide variety of hardware, with people reporting that they can run it on PCs that are well below the minimum specifications.

That's not to say the current graphics are bad in any way though. From both a graphical perspective as well as the aesthetics, it still looks quite modern.

The biggest issue is that BF6 gameplay often looks almost indistinguishable from BF4, or even BF3 at times.

This is completely nonsense. If you put them side to side, there are pretty big differences in both the visual quality as well as the overall map design. Battlefield 6's maps are by far denser in terms of the amount of cover and overall details. Obviously a 1080p YouTube video with a ton of compression isn't going to show you the same amount of clarity as playing the game using a 4K monitor.

Washed-out colors, odd textures… overall it just gives the impression of an old game. 

In certain scenarios, like when you're inside a building and looking outside, the lighting can be quite harsh and washed out. That isn't really a graphical issue. The artists responsible for the lighting just went a little overboard.

In BF6 I’m seeing the opposite problem: small maps with all the action crammed into a single central point, when they could be larger and denser, especially considering this game is only coming to next-gen consoles and PC.

Just curious, but which current-gen multiplayer game offers maps that are both larger and denser than the ones we find in Battlefield?

The real-time attachment swap system (Plus System), which was fantastic.

In terms of gameplay balance, the plus system covered up some of the flaws of 2042's map design. In terms of overall weapon balance it was pretty horrible as it removed the necessity to choose a loadout. You could just configure a single loadout that contained every possible combination that you could possibly need.

128-player mode, which works great when maps are well designed.

We didn't have a single map in Battlefield 2042 where 128 players worked well. It was inferior to the 64 player experience in pretty much every possible way. That's not just my opinion, but it was an opinion that was so widely shared that DICE chose to redesign significant portions of 2042 to support 64 players instead. In addition to that a Battlefield Studios developer admitted that they went for 64 players in Battlefield 6, because that's what the community wanted. 

What platform / setup did you play on? I’m just curious, because on my pc on ultra settings it was dope as hell.

PC ultra rtx 5080

When I say the graphics look outdated, it’s because when you watch a short gameplay clip of BF4, you often end up confusing it with BF6 — a game from 2013.

I played the beta and thought it would improve. I even played on ultra settings with an RTX 5080.

Time passed, and the game still looks exactly like the beta graphically. Since it’s about to be released, these graphics are going to stay the way they are.

I remember back in the days of BF3 and BF4, people complained about the filters. Today, they’re so desperate for a game close to BF3 and BF4 that they haven’t complained about the terrible filters present in BF6.

I really hope it’s FUN, because to me it looks like I’ll be playing a 2013 game.

Oh, and if you think I’m wrong, try this test with someone WHO DOESN’T PLAY AT ALL: show them a gameplay video of BF3 or BF4 and then one of BF6, and ask if they see a difference. They’ll probably say it looks like the same game. At least my mom and my sister, who don’t play, said it looked the same.

When I showed them BF5 and BF1, they said it was different — that it looked better.

But it doesn’t matter what I say. The desperation for something new makes people blind and unable to admit that, graphically, the game looks terrible.

I said "the visuals are alright", by what I meant that it possibly isn't a huge leap forward, but certainly also not a step backwards and most importantly - it runs very well in all conditions. A claim that BF6 looks the same as BF3 or BF4 as you mentioned in another reply is simply a nonsense - maybe non-gamers don't see any difference, but to gamers the differences are very obvious. I would agree that on some maps the color-grading should be toned down a little bit, though.

But to use your tone, then of course, for those who have been craving to criticize something, anything can feel like a garbage, right? ;)

In any case, as I said before - I am satisfied with the direction BF6 has, how it looks, how it sounds and most importantly, how it plays and I will certainly have fun after the game's release.

I don't know anyone in game development - do you? Who?

Joca-Ramiro​   You are beginning to sound like a troll with comments such as "You guys are so desperate for anything that even remotely resembles BF3 or BF4 that you’ll praise whatever comes along."

This begs the question of Why are you even in here.

So I take it we can assume that you won't be buying the game because it looks so terrible according to you, which again raises the point why are you even in here wailing about it.

And regarding Graphics. Remember not everyone can afford to build a new PC each time a new game comes out with super dooper graphic powers.  Console players will get an even more cut down version graphic wise.

PS5 - Not Super PC with Super Ultra RTX 5080 thingy