Battlefield V delivers the series' finest single-player campaign yet, painting the horror of war from rarely seen perspectives. That tension carries through to the multiplayer, which has been tuned to hammer home your vulnerability in a firefight.
The map roster is a poor selection of mostly unremarkable duds
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DLSS Tested: Unfortunately, DLSS was a feature that people were thinking would be the best of the RTX features, judging by the way Nvidia was selling it. The claims amounted to a free performance uplift thanks to the power of AI. But the reality is so far from this, it’s laughable.
Ray Tracing Performance: We genuinely hope Nvidia can continue to work on and optimize ray tracing to get more performance at no cost to visuals, because at the moment the technology still isn’t ready, not for gaming. We salute their efforts and we understand this is a first generation GPU to integrate such a complex rendering technique. But in terms of what you're going to buy tomorrow, ray tracing cannot be a key selling point for Nvidia’s RTX cards, a luxury bonus sure, but not something you should base a purchasing decision on.
DXR / RTX Performance: Everything we’ve seen from DXR demos suggest we’re facing a similar performance penalty to Battlefield V, for a similar small increase in quality. We’ll test those games with ray tracing as soon as we can, but we wouldn’t be holding out for anything better in future titles.
PC Graphics Performance: As before, those wanting to play Battlefield V at 1080p/60 fps in all of its glory you need nothing more than a GTX 970/1060, R9 390 or 570. Then at 1440p the Radeon Fury, Fury X, RX 580, GTX 980 Ti or GTX 1060 6GB will be required. Honestly, given how great the game looks that’s not a tall order. On that note, despite the still buggy DX12 implementation the game plays extremely well when using DirectX 11.
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