Though only around 7,000 users were strolling around the battlefield in their Titan last night, a patch issued this morning could open up the floodgates to those running on lower-specced machines who otherwise couldn't manage a stable framerate.
Not being the first game to introduce the option, Titanfall 2 will be making use of a "Adaptive resolution scaling" configuration to allow players to reduce the internal rendering resolution while keeping their screen resolution exactly the same. This means those who have grown accustomed to how their mouse reacts on a certain resolution can stay that way, while reducing the overall graphical quality to get a quick boost in frames on lower-specced GPUs.
But that's not all: far from it, in fact. The patch also ushers in a bunch of changes a bug fixes from tweaks to colorblind modes and some quick fixes for the grapple hook. The full change-log can be seen below:
- Stability and GPU performance improvements
- Titan weakspot highlighting respects colorblind settings
- Reduced stuttering and playback issues with voice chat
- Improved speed of allocating Private Match dedicated servers
- Adjusted Recommended settings for lower end GPUs
- Reduced hitching when changing between no antialiasing and TSAA
- Increased performance of streaming textures, reducing stalls and hitches
- Archer and Thunderbolt now go to Aim-Down-Sights when wallhanging (oops!)
- Better Network chatroom moderation tools
- Fixed various grapple gameplay issues
- Fixed Kraber shots going through Bubble Shield
- Fixed certain combinations of weapon mods and menu selection resulting in no weapon model showing in customization menus
- Fixed spawning halfway underground after playing third person animations in Kill Replay
- Fixed tracker lock-on HUD elements not reliably showing up during Kill Replay
- Fixed Titan executions not triggering reliably
- Fixed mantling up stairs
- Fixed incorrect aspect ratio when switching from fullscreen 1920×1080 to windowed 1600×900
- Fixed some rare hardlocks and crashes
- Fixed subtitles being stretched in 21:9 ratios
- Fixed race condition when accepting Origin game invite with application closed
- Fixed some display issues in Networks lobbies
- Fixed disappearing grapple rope with TSAA enabled
- Fixed NVIDIA Surround crash
While we have no review to speak of, users and media alike have been taking to Twitter lately to show their praise for the shooter EA may have wedged between other high-profile shooters to die in the Christmas buildup.
Whatever the reason behind the decision, sales are falling flat against proir expectations. You won't find it on Steam, however. It's Origin only for us PC users.