Electronic Arts is hoping that after the Need For Speed: Payback debacle, they can make us forget the bad taste in our mouths with the next game in the series, Heat.

First, let’s take a look at the system requirements that we took from Electronic Arts‘ website:

Minimum system requirements:

• Operating system: Windows 10
• Processor (AMD): FX-6350 or equivalent
• Processor (Intel): Core i5-3570 or equivalent
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Graphics Card (AMD): Radeon 7970, Radeon R9 280x or equivalent
• Graphics Card (Nvidia): GeForce GTX 760 or equivalent
• DirectX: DX11
• Online Connection Requirements: 320 kilobits/s
• Hard Drive Space: 50 GB

Recommended system requirements (for 1080p, 60 frames per second):

• Operating system: Windows 10
• Processor (AMD): Ryzen 3 1300X or equivalent
• Processor (Intel): Core i7-4790 or equivalent
• Memory: 16 GB RAM
• Graphics Card (AMD): Radeon RX 480 or equivalent
• Graphics Card (Nvidia): GeForce GTX 1060 or equivalent
• DirectX: DX11
• Online Connection Requirements: 512 kilobits/s
• Hard Drive Space: 50 GB

We have to point out the online connection requirement – it seems Need For Speed: Heat will also have a stronger version of Denuvo, which was used by all Electronic Arts-published titles in the past years. Let’s hope that it will not be as with 2015’s Need For Speed reboot, as that is still an online-only game. If your Internet decided to cr_p the bed, it’d kicked you back to the title screen.

Multiple 4K videos have surfaced as well, and playing the game on that resolution will need a beefier computer. (Let’s hope the higher resolution won’t need a higher online connection requirement – what is that difference between the minimum and recommended specs?) Also, it’s a question of time before Electronic Arts puts microtransactions into the game, just as Activision Blizzard does with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare that starts clean, then gets stuffed with them. (After the reviews are out. Yeah, how quaint.)

Need For Speed: Heat is out on November 8 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and on Origin on PC.

Source: WCCFTech

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