Battlefield V

Whatever frame rate you have, was it 120? DLSS 5 on, now it's 30 frames per second.

For those keeping track, that's a larger performance hit than the initial ray tracing benchmarks of the RTX 2000 series in Battlefield V, where it's more like a third of the performance compared to if you didn't have ray tracing on.

Furthermore, what actually makes this worse than those ray tracing benchmarks on RTX 2080 Tis back in the day, is that there's almost nothing you can trade in with the settings to boost your frame rate back up.

You see, in Battlefield V, uh, back when it was benchmarked with ray tracing on the RTX 2000 series, f- if you were hitting 45 frames per second, for example, you could maybe crank up DLSS from quality to performance mode, or turn down some settings that weren't ray tracing related, maybe some things that you don't notice, to get some more frames back, um, so that you could [laughs] experience those mirror-polished cars from the '40s-

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even with how stupid...

Not stupid.

However, like the early days of ray tracing, the realities are that the performance hit makes it it doesn't matter how good it looks in a way, the performance hit is so severe that it kind of, at least it makes me not very excited about the technology, as I sort of said, like with ray tracing.

I mean, in Battlefield V, the first ray tracing game that really came out, There were also graphical issues in that game.

So we sort of got this double whammy where the performance, it was awful.

And you could see it doing things with reflections that we hadn't seen before, right? Like it could do things that were new, but there were also a bunch of visual issues.

A, this is the first battlefield in a while that has a free-to-play skew.

So you have Red Sick and the previous battlefields like 2042, Battlefield V, Battlefield IV, Battlefield I did not have a free-to-play skew.

component in them so i think this is one of the biggest drivers here for a lot of users the second thing is what i just mentioned battlefield 6 did sell quite a bit was very well received one of the top shooters last year and if i've done battlefield so again starting from very strong base for the players in terms of number of users been acquired that also helps quite a bit And then the third thing is, I think they're, again, firing on multiple cylinders.

They're trying to do some interesting things in Red Sick.

You can slide, uh, much more than you could do in MW2.

Um, and you do have this really cool mechanic that they kind of just took straight from Battlefield V, but now if someone fires a rocket or a grenade near you and it doesn't kill you and it might just hurt you-

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Um, and I think with gaming, um, I, I'm trying to think what I can equate it to.

Um, there was so- there was, like, the, the Battlefield games, you know, first person shooters, and they tried to release one called Battlefield V a couple years ago set during World War II, but it had, uh, women fighting on the front lines with, uh, cybernetic arms and stuff.

Um, Asian men fighting in the, you know, in the European battlefield against Germans.

Um, just, you know, ridiculous.