It didn’t really hit me just how stupid Titanfall 2’s new “Bounty Hunt” game mode was until I tried to describe it on a podcast a couple weeks ago. I won’t unpack all of the mode’s failings here but it was just one of the many complaints players had after experiencing the game’s first open technical test.
These days “beta” seems to mean “demo” to most studios and I’ve just come to expect when I see one that I’m looking at a content complete title that will probably have some small balancing changes and bugs fixed. Maybe it’s because it’s coming so close off the heels of No Man’s Sky’s disastrous launch but I feel like Respawn Entertainment, has done a pretty fine job communicating with their player base, responding to criticism, making some pretty big philosophical changes to their game, and doing it all in a surprisingly timely fashion.
But even after making significant changes to Pilot movement speeds and Titan spawn rates there was still an overarching concern at the end of the second tech test that the soul of the series had changed, and a lot of that was tied to the notable absence of Titanfall 1’s most popular game mode: Attrition, a game mode that featured both players and AI in a full out battle, rather than the mob farming, bank camping nonsense that Bounty Hunt inspired. Now today Respawn has dumped a significant amount of information regarding the PC port of the game and in doing so they’ve also announced the return of the Attrition game mode.
PC Players were left in the cold when the tech tests occurred (maybe that was for the best), but Respawn is also aiming today to make penance by dumping a ton of information and PC specific footage on players. This starts with the game’s recommended system specs which I’ve outline below:
Minimum
OS – Win 7/8/8.1/10 64bit
CPU – Intel Core i3-3600t or equivalent
RAM – 8GB
HDD Free Space – 45GB
GPU – NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660 2GB, AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB
DirectX – 11
Internet Connection – 512Kbps or fasterRecommended
OS – Win 7/8/8.1/10 64bit
CPU – Intel Core i5-6600 or equivalent
RAM – 16GB
HDD Free Space – 45GB
GPU – NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1060 6GB, AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB
DirectX – 11
Internet Connection – 512Kbps or faster
That’s not all though, there’s a metric ton of information on the game’s official website, including some pretty detailed benchmarks. If you’re a PC player and you want to see what to expect you can go read up on everything here.
So now the big question, is all this enough to sway the minds of series veterans who felt burned by the way the game’s beta was handled? What do you think? Will you be picking up Titanfall 2 next month?
