EA and Battlefield Studios are preparing to bring their latest modern military first-person shooter experience to PC and consoles in a few weeks. It has now come to light that the Battlefield 6 development team"s optimization efforts had struggled with a certain Xbox, but it had ended up helping the whole game better across all platforms.
Having modern games run well on the Xbox Series S alongside other consoles like the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 has sparked some controversies in the past. Battlefield 6 had struggled to get good performance on the console as well, according to the game"s technical director, Christian Buhl.
Speaking to Kotaku, Buhl says that the 10GB of memory available on the Xbox Series S had even caused major crashing issues on many of the game"s levels as recently as six months ago.
"I will say that the biggest thing we did that was a challenge for us was [dealing with the console’s limited] memory," said Buhl. "Xbox Series S does have less memory than even our mid-spec PC. And so there was a point…Oh, I want to say, like, 6 to 12 months ago where we kind of realized that a lot of our levels were crashing on Xbox Series S."
Outside of Series S benefits, the memory optimizations the developer had done on the Frostbite Engine-powered game had made the experience a better one across the board, with Buhl saying that it made the "whole game better and more stable."
"We were doing so much testing…we were collecting all this data," adds Buhl. "Once we kind of started running all our levels through it, and were able to see where the problems were, after a month or two, we had kind of resolved all of our memory issues on Series S." As was evident from the recent open beta, Battlefield 6 was able to run at 60FPS even on the Xbox Series S under intense multiplayer action.
Battlefield 6 is out on October 10 across PC (Steam, EA App, and Epic Games Store), Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5. Don"t forget that a battle royale mode will be attached to the experience too, which will have the "deadliest ring" ever.