December 2017 - last edited December 2017
We’ve got some new weapons skins you’ll be able to purchase, game updates including another nerf to Grapple [just kidding we’re bringing it back to two charges], and rad new Featured Modes we’ll will be adding to the rotation. Let’s get to it:
CONTENT
Elite Weapon Warpaints
We once again have six weapons, the Double Take, Cold War, DMR, R-201, R-97, and the G2 all getting their Elite Warpaint treatment. Like before, Pick these up as a bundle for 19.99 USD or individually for 4.99 USD.
Masterwork D-2 Double Take
Heat Sink EM-4 Cold War
Phantom Longbow-DMR
Crimson Fury R-201 Carbine
Sky R-97
Purple Fade G2A5
Holiday Banners
A normal and a Prism version of the banners have been added.
Sleigher
Before Grapple
Upcoming Featured Modes
Patch Notes
Good news everybody
Community Corner
This art by KP_N7 from our forums shows their Northstar sad but ready for what’s over the horizon.
This MRVN from TheMostSafestPublic (Deviantart) is ready to help.
NERPachino from Deviantart reminds us that sharing is caring, especially when it comes to batteries.
Moving forward we would love to hear what you think about future FNN’s. As you know we’ve got some projects in the works we aren’t going to be talking about for a while so we want to hear your ideas for other topics and content you’d like to see from us next year.
It’s hard to believe it’s the end of the year already! Shortly we will all be taking some time off to enjoy the Holiday with our families and friends and we hope you enjoy yours! It’s been an amazing year for Titanfall, Respawn, and our community and we’re thankful for all your passion and support.
We’ll see you on the 19th when Operation Endeavor goes live! Have a great week.
Source: https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/titanfall/titanfall-2/news/frontier-news-network-dec
November 2016
Adaptive resolution scaling (requires TSAA enabled) - This feature allows the game to downscale the rendered image to help maintain a consistent framerate. This will be especially helpful for our users running lower spec video cards, allowing them to maintain 60fps more often, as well as those of you running 4K monitors with more midrange GPUs. Adaptive Resolution uses TSAA's resolve step to output to screen, thus the feature is only enabled when TSAA is enabled.
Word of warning: if you run a resolution or target framerate much higher than your machine will be capable of achieving you will be hindering image quality significantly as the Adaptive Resolution feature will be constantly downscaling your output to maintain performance. All systems will be different, so you should try different settings to see what works best for you and your configuration.
Other fixes in this patch. Thanks to all that have reported bugs and helped us identify these issues!
- 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 1920x1080 to windowed 1600x900
- 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
Source: https://forums.titanfall.com/en-us/discussion/5763/pc-patch-notes-11-01-2016
November 2016 - last edited December 2016
Today's update includes a ton of new content, features, bugfixes, and more. Here's what you have to look forward to:
New Content [FREE]
New Map: We are welcoming Angel City to Titanfall 2 with a 24/7 playlist, meaning if you just want to play Angel City all day and night you can!
New Titan Kits:
RONIN: Phase Reflex
NORTHSTAR: Threat Optics
SCORCH: Scorched Earth
LEGION: Hidden Compartment
TONE: Burst Loader
ION: Refraction Lens
New Weapon "Wingman Elite" pistol
New Pilot Execution "Inner Pieces"
New Content [Things you can buy]
Scorch and Ion Prime Titans:
Titan Art Packs:
Callsign Pack:
Camo Pack:
New Features
Balance Changes
WEAPONS
Bug Fixes
February 2017 - last edited February 2017
NEW CONTENT:
NEW FEATURES:
GAME IMPROVEMENTS:
TITAN BALANCE:
Tone
Northstar
Ronin
Scorch
Ion
WEAPON BALANCE:
Devotion
Archer
MGL
MISC BUG FIXES:
PLATFORM SPECIFIC FIXES:
PS4:
PS4 Pro:
X1:
PC:
Source: https://forums.titanfall.com/en-us/discussion/1052
March 2017
NEW CONTENT [FREE]
MAP
WEAPON
EXECUTION
NEW CONTENT [PURCHASABLE]
PRIME TITANS
CAMOS
CALLSIGNS
TITAN NOSE ART
BALANCE CHANGES
PILOTSBoosts
WEAPONS
Thunderbolt Adjustments
Charge Rifle
Mastiff
TACTICALS
Holopilot
Amped Wall
TITAN CHANGES
Scorch
GAME MODES
Attrition
LTS
Live Fire
NEW FEATURES / CHANGES
Coliseum Improvements
FIXES
Gameplay Fixes
HUD/Menu Fixes
Miscellaneous
Source: https://forums.titanfall.com/en-us/discussion/11482/colony-reborn-the-patch-notes
April 2017
Hey, here are the patch notes for the update coming later today, April 25th.
NEW CONTENT
New Featured Modes [we’ll be introducing these at different times in the near future]
NEW FEATURES
MATCHMAKING AND NETWORK IMPROVEMENTS
GAME IMPROVEMENTS
TITAN BALANCE
General
Ronin
Ion
PILOT BALANCE
Arc Grenades
Holopilot
Mastiff
EVA
Devotion
Charge Rifle
Archer
Crosshairs
GAME MODE ADJUSTMENTS:
CTF
LTS
MISC BUG FIXES
PC SPECIFIC FIXES:
July 2017
NEW CONTENT [FREE]
NEW MODE: Frontier Defense!
Homestead
Forwardbase Kodai
War Games
Rise
Blackwater Canal
NEW MAP: Rise
Long sight lines and tight quarters dictate the battle in this abandoned desert reservoir. The towering, sheer walls and a system of convenient zip lines provide Pilots with means to get around quickly while Titans do battle in the long corridors below. Pilots can also set up ambushes in the guts of this complex pipeworks, while titans can lock down large sections of the battlefield at critical junctures. Tread carefully.
NEW LIVE FIRE MAP: Township
A new modular construction of a residential firefight. Cover is sparse for Pilots bold enough to leave the safety of a few houses. Windows and rooftops decide who controls the map, but dense interiors can always hold surprises.
NEW CONTENT [PURCHASABLE]
ELITE WEAPON WARPAINTS: Exclusive to Pilot weapons, these Warpaints grant the Squad Leader bonus: If you or any other player own one of these Warpaints, everyone on your team will be granted bonus XP. The effect doesn't stack, and you don't need to have the warpaint equipped to receive the bonus. Additionally, owners of the Warpaints will have a 10% chance of receiving a double XP token per owned weapon [up to 30%] at the end of every match.
PRICE: $4.99 each // $24.99 bundle for all [bundle only available until 8.28.2017]
TITAN WARPAINTS [LIMITED EDITION - CAN ONLY BUY UNTIL 8.28.2017]: Grants bonus Aegis XP to you and your teammates at the completion of a Frontier Defense match when this skin is equipped. This boost will be increased with each team member that also has the warpaint meaning you can earn up to 4x Aegis XP bonus. Warpaint also includes an additional shoulder arm plate with scaling iconography based on hardest Frontier Defense difficulty completed with that titan. The Warpaint also grants a special call sign with scaling iconography based on the hardest Frontier Defense difficulty completed with that titan.
PRICE: $4.99 each // $24.99 bundle for all
GAME IMPROVEMENTS
TITAN BALANCE
General
Ronin
Scorch
Legion
Monarch
PILOT BALANCE
General
Phase Shift
SMG’s
G2
DMR
Flatline
Archer
Smart Pistol
Sidearms
Melee
GAME MODE ADJUSTMENTS:
MISC BUG FIXES
August 2017
December 2017 - last edited December 2017
The Harvest Time patch dropped on November28th, check the details below.
Elite Weapon Warpaints
The weapons that are getting the warpaint treatment this month are the Flatline, Volt, EPGesus, Alternator, Softball, & the R-101. You may buy these individually at $4.99 USD or as a bundle at $19.99 USD but like always, the bundle will not last forever and will disappear 12/19.
Badlands Flatline
Heat Sink Volt
MRVN EPG-1
Headhunter Alternator
Masterwork R-6P Softball
Blue Fade R-101 Carbine
Jump Starter Pack
This content was originally meant for those who bought the Ultimate Edition of Titanfall 2. Since then, we heard lots of feedback that the Jump Starter Pack has been helpful for lots of players so we’ve decided to make it available to everyone to purchase if they want. You’ll be able to access it from the in game store for $6.99 USD and it includes:
Patch Notes
This month patch notes is small, very small. But, it’s a few things that you guys asked for and we agreed with. This month’s patch notes are as follows.
What about some of the changes from the previous patch? What was/is the mindset behind them?
In the last patch, we had a multitude of changes from Arc Grenades, RSPN 101/201 Weapons, pilot abilities and more. The idea behind these changes was to keep the game fresh by shaking up the meta.
The most notable change was to Grapple. This has been the most used tactical ability to the point that we felt it was causing players to not give the other tacticals much of a chance. With that, we decided to remove a charge on the grapple to bring it more inline with the other tacticals. We knew this change would be risky, but we wanted to evaluate if the impact of this change could encourage a more diverse meta versus playing it safe. We are continuing to monitor this change and will provide an update on it next month.
Now onto the change for the Mozambique and Wingman Elite pistols from secondaries to primaries. We saw a decent pool of players who enjoyed using these as primary weapons and hardly touched the actual primaries. Thus why these specific weapons were chosen. But because they would become primary, they would be under powered compared to the rest, thus why the buff them and to legitimize the users who do enjoy this style of play.
We’ll be continuing to watch player data and feedback so let us know what you think.
New Community Banners!
If you’ve been following past FNN’s or our social channels you should know that we have some incredible artists in our community. Last month, our subreddit hosted a fan-art contest asking community to create callsign banners and the Top 8 chosen by Respawn would be put into Titanfall 2. The results were outstanding. We hard a hard time choosing and decided to add two extra to the bunch. Below are the 10 winning pieces that will be available as banners in the Harvest Time patch. Thank you to all that participated!
Kindagoodpainter - Laser Core Online
Kindagoodpainter - Big Papa
Tinman888 - To The Sky
MrHCow - Spicy Boy
Skinninator - All to Ashes
Bman4750 - MRVN Emotes
Xbox_JRG1980 - Trust Me
Bckscr - 8-bit
Scruffy-Stevie - Beyond the Light
Cosmik_owl - V
Community Corner
Every month, we showcase tons of fanart. But this time around we are celebrating the fans who create in other ways to celebrate Titanfall
Take this Northstar Action Figure by FallenCan via Reddit for example. It looks like it’s ready to fly.
This lovable Scorch created by jillianjiggs92 via reddit is your BT-B (Bed Time Buddy).
And then Kyle Spittle has seen some battles with their IMC pilot helmet.
And then they don’t make titans like they use to.