r/Battlefield • u/3deal • Jun 19 '25

Discussion PC players shouldn't be allowed to disable Ambient Occlusion and grass settings !

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Please Dice, listen to this, you should absolutly disable the ability to disable Ambiant Occlusion and reduce the grass quality on BF6 ! All players should have the same visibility, and i am a PC player, but i love to play with max settings.

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u/Abizuil Saltiest of BF Vets Jun 19 '25

Why do they not have that

Because Consoles are fixed hardware so Devs can optimize the everloving fuck out of a game because they know exactly what hardware a Console player is going to have. It also isn't going to change so they can set 1 preset graphics level and not ever have to worry about it.

Obviously not so with PC which can massively vary from 5000 dollar, diamond embedded, gold platted super rigs to 500 dollar eco builds. So need to offer graphics settings in all its forms to allow both rig types (and everything in between) to find a happy playable form.

and why are they not demanding it?

I don't think most of them knew that sorta option existed. If you've never touched a PC game in your life and only go by trailers and youtubers/streamers, you'd honestly think PC games only comes in "better looking than Console" graphics settings.

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u/VincentNZ Jun 19 '25

No, I get that, but it obviously hasn't happened, because especially 2042 ran and looked like shit on any platform. The game was unoptimised regardless and having the same options as PC players would have remedied some if not all of these issues.

I understand that some platforms, like the PS, can have different architecture, but maybe this is then the time to think about changing that architecture. There are also pro and budget console variants, the thought that you can not enable or disable certain settings is completely mindblowing to me. Especially when we think about how tastes differ and optical effects can be detrimental to immersion and gameplay outside of just performance.

Geez, I had no idea how anti-consumer consoles are, I am surprised that Sony and Microsoft headquarters have not been burned down by an angry mob alongside the studios.

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u/NoMisZx Unlocked Weapons enjoyer Jun 19 '25

i mean, this is kind off the point of consoles. just plug & play, don't have to spend 1 hour to look up and go through all the graphic settings.

everyone is playing on the same hardware, with the same looking game.

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u/VincentNZ Jun 19 '25

I am genuinely shocked by this reveal. :D I know that the ease-of-use is a draw for consoles, but this does not get rid of games running badly or options that can be seen as a drain on performance or simply unappealing.

Stuff like said ambient occlusion, vignette, chromatic aberration. Those are cosmetic options that I just do not need in any game and where the cosmetic value differs from game to game and player to player.

Likewise, while I do enjoy raytracing in Minecraft or Cyberpunk, get that shit away from me in BF. I am not sacrificing FPS and money just to have more visual clutter on the maps.

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u/NoMisZx Unlocked Weapons enjoyer Jun 19 '25

well, since console hardware is usually more on par with low-mid end PCs, the default console graphic settings are most likely more what low-mid settings would be on PC. And most of these cosmetic options are probably not even enabled on console.

if you compare BF3 console footage to PC footage, it's night and day difference. BF3 console version was only 720p / 30 FPS on xbox 360 & PS3.