The Titanfall 2 beta, or tech test, is likely to begin this weekend and continue next weekend, suggests a tweet from Vince Zampella. However, he has confirmed it will only take place on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One; PC players won’t have a chance to try the multiplayer early due to technical issues and concerns over potential leaks.
The Respawn Entertainment founder tweeted earlier today players should “keep the next two weekends free”. That seems clearcut to us.
I’d say keep the next two weekends free
— Vince Zampella (@VinceZampella) August 15, 2016
Zampella also explained why Respawn is only testing its servers on consoles in a blog post.
“The main reason we are doing a MP tech test is to satisfy an engineering goal – to stress test our servers and prove that they can scale,” he wrote. “Since our server backend is per-platform, it means we only actually need a single platform to test this. More platforms can be a good sanity check, but we don’t need to test them all to make sure we are on a good path for launch.”
While testing the servers is the main goal, it also serves as a demo for players — especially those on PS4 who couldn’t play Titanfall 1 — even though publishers and developers won’t admit it.
Ultimately it’s too hard to test/demo Titanfall 2 on PC because of the complexity of hardware variety.
“We’re still making a lot of tweaks and changes to the renderer, the game, and effects so we haven’t run the game through the hardware compatibility lab yet to detect and handle a large variety of hardware – video cards, CPUs etc,” he said. “Quite frankly, we aren’t ready to deal with that yet, we are still making the game better. We also haven’t done enough work to fully support our ‘Min Spec’ on PC yet. So, currently the PC game isn’t as easy to throw out for testing as the console is, because of the additional variables and configurations that we need to support.”
He also said Respawn is worried PC players might be able to dig further into the beta than intended and spoil the single-player campaign.
“Our wonderfully curious PC players have proven in the past that they will dig out anything they can, and there’s a risk that they could spoil some of our single player,” he said.
Stay tuned for Stevivor’s full preview of Titanfall 2 multiplayer tomorrow!
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