Although DICE’s game has piqued players’ interest, it will not carry over one element from Battlefield 4 that is considered the game’s highlight.

Even before the official unveiling of Battlefield 6, DICE and the rest of the team were enticing players with a job advertisement promising the most realistic and exciting destruction effects in the industry for the next installment of the military first-person shooter franchise. Now that most fans have tried the game during the August beta and the release date is approaching, it’s clear that, while Battlefield 6 has well-developed destruction effects, they’re not as comprehensive or detailed as in previous installments.

For example, Battlefield 4 had a “Levolution” feature that allowed players to destroy entire buildings. In an interview with EDGE magazine, Christian Grass, the managing director of Ripple Effect, said the developers decided to implement tactical destruction in Battlefield 6 because destroying everything during matches could detract from the game’s entertainment value.

“We love the spectacle of that destruction — it looks and sounds awesome. But we want it to serve a gameplay purpose. If you could destroy everything and then there’s nothing left, the game wouldn’t be fun anymore. In Bad Company 2, we asked, ‘What if you could destroy all these freestanding buildings without anything remaining?’”

“Battlefield 6 uses what we now call the apple-coring system, where we ensure that gameplay spaces always have cover and are interesting places to fight. We want people to flank by destroying things and take down buildings to eliminate enemies. We have tanks driving into buildings so that you suddenly have this threat in a place you thought was safe,” said Grass.

Nevertheless, the game offers better destruction and performance than Battlefield 2042. According to Battlefield 6‘s technical director, this is partly because developers had to optimize the game for the less powerful Xbox Series S. This optimization makes the game run better on all platforms. We have already written more about this. Console players can disable cross-play with PC players, though cross-play between consoles (e.g., between PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series users) remains available.

Battlefield 6 is set to release on October 10 for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC.

Source: WCCFTech