The upcoming Titanfall 2 patch will feature loads of new content, additions, and adjustments to current game mechanics. In a recent forum post by Respawn Community Manager, Jayfresh, he gives players a look at the long list of changes being made. It specifies information regarding the new ‘Live Fire’ game mode – a pilot versus pilot elimination match with 6 players per team. There are no respawns and each match is dictated by rounds. Don’t get your hopes up too high, though! There has not been a confirmed release date for Live Fire just yet, but there will be an announcement before its commencement.

Additionally, there will be a complete makeover for multiplayer matchmaking called “Mixtape Matchmaking” which allows players to create a playlist of game modes as they wish. There will be overall game improvements including: holo pilot decoys, FOVs, titan balances, weapon balances, new maps, and bug fixes among a plethora of others. All titans are receiving some sort of adjustment, with the most significant changes going to Tone. Issues relevant to each platform are being addressed as well, with fixes to noticeable problems on PC, PS4, Ps4 Pro, and Xbox One. All in all, this update is going to be huge! Check out the details in its entirety below:

Titanfall 2 Patch Notes for Live Fire Update

New Content

• Live Fire: A new Pilot vs Pilot elimination game mode! It’s a 6v6 round-based with no respawns, you will have one minute to eliminate the opposing team in order to win the round. You can also win the round if your team is holding the neutral flag when the round timer ends. The team to win 5 rounds first wins the match.
• New Live Fire Map – Meadow, a lush location with grassy lanes and rocky outcroppings that provide site lines for long engagements and sneaky routes for flanking. Also zip lines are back!
• New Live Fire Map – Stacks, an industrial location of open areas that sandwich a dense center point framed by towering structures. The verticality encourages attacks from above and rushes from the outside lanes.
• New Faction Leader animations! Faction Leaders now play a randomly selected animation during the beginning dropship animation.
• New Audio for the DLC Commander Intros.
• Added a new execution, “Last Hit”. Deliver a flurry of Stim fueled punches that pummel your enemy to the ground

New Features

• Mixtape Matchmaking: A complete overhaul of our multiplayer matchmaking. This new feature will allow you to create your own “mixtape” of modes to your heart’s desire.
• Gamepad: Custom Button Mapping (Pilot & Titan)
• Gamepad: Crouch Button – “Hold to Crouch” Option (“Toggle” is still default)
• Gamepad: ADS Button – “Toggle” Option (“Hold to ADS” is still default)
• Controls: “Hold <use> to Rodeo” Option (“off” is still default)
• Advanced Hud: Disable Party-Member Coloring on HUD (some colorblind players may prefer this)
• Community FAQ: New section of the FAQ to highlight upcoming patches, DLC drops, trailers, and creations from the community
• New Sounds for the Stim Pilot Execution, “Late Hit”.
• Added Film Grain Slider
• New ambient environmental sound effects to bring the livefire maps to life. Meadow is a fusion of virtual reality and natural forest ambiences while Stacks is a fusion of virtual and industrial sounds

Game Improvements

• Holo pilot decoy can now deploy on ziplines.
• Holo pilot decoy is more resilient when stepping over things and colliding with walls at certain angles.
• Holo pilot decoy is now visible in the threat scope and sonar grenade pings.
• Holo pilot decoy no longer runs on top of dome shields.
• Holo pilot decoy no longer crashes into the ceiling and dies when running through doorways.
• Holo pilot decoy should be more resilient when started during wallruns.
• Kraber can no longer be shot as a semi-automatic if the player presses the reload button at the same time as the fire button.
• Titans that are invulnerable while performing executions will have their lifebars colored gold and flashing to communicate their invulnerability in the Titanfall 2 patch
• Added some out of bounds triggers and props to block off areas for Crashsite and Complex.
• FOV is now saved per-user.
• When switching weapons while editing a loadout, the game will now preserve your mod choices if possible.
• Ronin now shows his sword in the loadout menus.
• Credit purchasable items now show a credit symbol instead of a lock symbol.
• Friends’ names will now show up green in chatroom and in-game.
• Prime Titans can now use Nose Arts.
• Network Admins can send messages to the network in-game, rather than only through titanfall.com
• Added extra text to make clear that Warpaints are not supported on Prime Titans.
• Capped max range of Reapers’ weapons in Attrition.
• Toned down the excessively loud dropship sounds in Attrition.
• Adjusted Volume Falloff of Cluster Rocket Explosions so you don’t hear them from across the map anymore.
• Added some lobby text notifications to inform players that they are waiting on the party leader before restarting matchmaking.
• Nuclear Eject damage no longer fills your Titan Meter.
• Reduced the area affected by the Nuclear Eject screen shake.
• Increasing crit damage Pilots deal to Reapers in Multiplayer in the Titanfall 2 patch

Titan Balances

• Tone
  • Reduced Salvo Core’s damage.
  • Removed the damage falloff from Salvo Core rockets.
  • Increased the cooldown of Sonar Pulse.
  • Reduced the projectile size of the 40mm.
  • Tone Burst Loader Improvements:
  • Slight presentation tweaks.
  • Updated audio cues.
  • Leaving ADS now clears the charges

• Northstar
  • Removed the damage falloff from Flight Core rockets. This should make her more consistent in dealing high damage.
  • Increased dash regen rate.

• Ronin
  • Increased dash regen rate.

• Scorch
  • ADS’ing with his primary weapon will display the projectile’s path.

• Ion
  • Fixed a bug with Vortex Shield where reflected bullets would deal a high amount of splash damage

Weapon Balances

• Devotion
  • Added very far damage settings, reducing its damage at distance.
  • Added more kick to the first shot to make using single shots more difficult.
  • Increased view kick during sustained fire to create a slightly larger spread.

• Archer
  • Fixed the homing speed so it will once again track targets as expected.

• MGL
  • Reduced the projectile speed.
  • Increased the fuse time.

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes

• Fixed being able to be shot by snipers behind the cover of the amped wall if the shooter is really close.
• Fixed sentries so they now properly track targets through the amped wall.
• Fixed tracers not showing up when shooting through friendlies with bullet weapons.
• Fixed the MP R201 not dismembering stalkers and ultimately being less effective as other similar weapons against stalkers in the Titanfall 2 patch
• Fixed bug with using A-Wall/Hard Cover while phase shifted.
• Fixed some cases where players could plant turrets in mid-air.
• Fixed HUD display incorrectly showing number of Electric Smoke charges.
• Fixed case of scoreboard counting a Titan termination on a piloted Titan counting as 2 pilot kills.
• Fixed MOTD not displaying over a certain character limit.
• Fixed Charge Rifle with Quick Charge mod skipping cooldown after firing and switching weapons.
• An elusive Nessie has still not been found…last seen in the mission Blood and Rust…
• Fixed bug with getting doomed with Stealth Auto Eject while in the midst of melee. Also fixed rare case of being stuck permanently in a “Ejecting Titan” cockpit animation.
• Fixed some cases of being stuck inside of level geometry with Rodeo.
• Fixed Grenade indicators not showing up sometimes.
• Fixed incorrect bullet hit detection immediately after being damaged.
• Fixed some cases of being stuck inside of level geometry with Phase Rewind.
• Fix asian languages not always word wrapping correctly.
• Fix input duplication between chat messages and the game.
• Fix pick up ammo sound incorrectly playing in MP.
• Fixed issue with browse not highlighting a network when clicked from lobby.
• Fixed hover FX not playing in NPC kill replay.
• Fixed Ion’s Laser Core FX appearing offset from crosshair.
• Fixed showing the turret placement hint when player spawns, but doesn’t have a turret, due to watching a kill replay with the turret placement hints in the Titanfall 2 patch
• Fix camera becoming disoriented when navigating the store in the Titanfall 2 patch
• Fix formatting issues in stats page.
• UI bugfixes when browsing networks and in the chatroom.
• Fixed a bug with the nose art menu that left the player on a blank page sometimes.
• Fixed a bug with SP achievements not correctly counting all Pilot Helmets collected. (Will trigger when opening main menu)
• Fixed some stats related issues with player melee.

Platform Specific Fixes

• PS4:
  • Accepting a game invite while the game is not running will now properly connect you to the invited lobby.
  • General stability improvements.

• PS4 Pro:
  • Increased sun shadow resolution.

• X1:
  • Stability improvements when browsing the store.
  • Fix not being allowed to start multiplayer after resuming the game from suspend when the player’s profile is not linked to an Origin account.
  • Fixed being able to accept invites to a game that the player is already participating in.
  • General stability improvements.
  • Correctly grab the system voice permissions from Xbox and honor it in game.

• PC:
  • Added Adaptive Supersampling. When enabled and running faster than the FPS target, the game will dynamically increase rendering resolution up to 2x the target resolution to improve AA quality. If the maximum supersampled resolution exceeds 16K in either dimension (e.g. when running at Eyefinity/Surround resolutions), this option will be unavailable.
  • Added Very High to the Model Quality tiers.
  • General stability improvements.
  • Added Model Draw Distance to allow pushing draw distances further out.
  • Added description for Triple Buffered in the VSync description text.
  • In an effort to reduce hitches from texture streaming, the “Texture Quality” setting has been renamed to “Texture Streaming Budget” to more accurately reflect the setting’s function, and the tiers have been renamed to indicate the VRAM amount needed. A warning has also been added when the game detects that the chosen tier uses more memory than currently detected. The goal is to only use about ~75-80% of the VRAM when the game is running to avoid GPU memory management hitches in the Titanfall 2 patch
  • Spun D3D texture creates off onto a dedicated thread to avoid driver stalls and added throttling to the number of textures that are made live by the streaming system every frame. The throttling mechanism is simplistic and can be improved, but we want to get this out earlier to see if we’re on the right track in reducing texture streaming stutter before investing more engineering effort. If you were previously experiencing stutter, please provide feedback on whether stuttering has noticeably improved after this patch in the Titanfall 2 patch
  • Adaptive Resolution FPS Target is no longer capped by max monitor refresh rate and instead caps to maximum supported FPS (144).
  • Improve VRAM detection accuracy.
  • Improved SLI/Crossfire compatibility. Players are recommended to not use TSAA when running in multi-GPU mode because TSAA can negatively affect performance scaling.
  • Improved frame rate stutter detection tools.
  • Enabling adaptive resolution while VSync is set to Double Buffered should now reliably force VSync to Triple Buffered.
  • The game now prevents the screensaver/lock screen from coming up due to idling while the game is running.
  • Added additional info to rare startup error “Failed to CreateGameWindow. Resolution Unsupported?” and a speculative fix for it.
  • Fixed adaptive res FPS target incorrectly resetting to 60.
  • Fixed texture streaming being disabled on GPUs with < 2GB of detected VRAM.
  • Fixed the game crashing on startup if a user has AMD GPU drivers installed, but is no longer using an AMD GPU as the primary adapter.
  • Fixed memory leak experienced on Crossfire setups.
  • Fixed various UI scaling issues when running in Eyefinity/Surround ultrawide resolution.
  • Added text clarifying “Invite friends” functionality doesn’t work while the Origin overlay is disabled.

Yeah, so about the novel length Titanfall 2 patch notes up there…did you see anything that caught your eye? Are you look forward to the debut of the Live Fire game mode? Feel free to leave a comment in the section below, or start your own conversation on Don’t Feed the Gamers Disqus channel! Follow us on Facebook and Twitter to make sure you’re up to date on the latest gaming news 24/7!