Titanfall 2

Titanfall 2

Developer(s)

Respawn Entertainment

Publisher(s)

Electronic Arts

Series

Titanfall series

Release date(s)

October 28, 2016

Genre(s)

First-person shooter

Mode(s)

Single-player, Multiplayer

Platform(s)

Windows
Xbox One
PlayStation 4

Engine

Source (Titanfall branch)

Steam AppID

1237970

Written in

C++

Mod support

No (officially)
Northstar (unofficial)

System requirements

• OS: Win 7 SP1 64-bit
• CPU: Intel Core i3-6300T or equivalent (4 or more threads)
• RAM: 8 GB
• GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 660/AMD Radeon HD 7850 with 2GB RAM (Direct3D 11 capable)
• Network: Internet connection required
• Storage: 75 GB available space

Steam Deck compatbility

Playable

Distribution

Steam, EA App (formerly Origin), Microsoft Store (Xbox, PC), PlayStation Store

Official website

Official Website

Links

Steam Store page
EA App
Xbox + PC Game Pass
PlayStation

Previous game

Titanfall

Next game

Apex Legends (spin-off)

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Titanfall 2 is a sequel of Titanfall. Like it's predecessor, it runs on the heavily modified version of the Source engine ( Titanfall branch) based off Portal 2 engine branch. Unlike it's predecessor, this game has a single player campaign mode. The game also features new multiplayer maps, Titans, Pilot abilities and much more.

Titanfall 2 also features improvements to the heavily modified Source engine. The game is also ported to PlayStation 4 for the first time, since the previous game was exclusive to PC and Xbox.

Features

Renderer

TSAA anti-aliasing

TAA (aswell as TXAA, TSSAA or TSAA and other variant of TAA) is a new method of anti-aliasing which was common in later games since 2010s, as most games are transitioning from forward rendering to deferred rendering which allows many lights to be rendered with little performance impact. TAA is a anti-aliasing technique that works by combines information from past frames and the current frame (while simultaneously jittering between both frames) to smooth the current frame, this results in SSAA-like quality with significantly cheap performance impact comparing to other methods like MSAA, and works better with deferred rendering. Through it's main drawbacks is that it can cause ghosting and blurriness (basically creating motion blur with ghosting trails) to the image, especially on lower framerate or if it's poorly implemented (Example).

Titanfall 2 implementation replaces older TAA implementation (called TXAA), which requires MSAA and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600 series card (or later) to function. This TAA implementation allows all NVIDIA and AMD graphics card able to use it.

Improved Physically Based Rendering, HDR rendering, and Depth of field

Audio

Miles Sound System middleware

Titanfall 2 switched from Wwise back to Miles, however the Miles Sound System version used in this game (10.0.10) are more up-to-date than previous versions of Miles (3.x to 9.x) used in other Source games, allowing proper 7.1 surround sound support on modern operating systems.

Audio improvements

Sound occlusion and reverberation added.

Other

Improved AI

PlayStation 4 support

Titanfall 2 adds support for PlayStation 4 game console.

External links

• Northstar (GitHub) - Modding framework client that allows users to host their own Titanfall 2 servers using custom scripts and assets.
  • MRVN-Radiant - Map editor for Titanfall branch-based games, based on NetRadiant-Custom. Currently incomplete but usable.
• Titanfall Icepick Allows users to play with mods in the singleplayer of Titanfall 2.
• Titanfall 2 Modding Guide
• Titanfall 2 on Wikipedia