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Two days ago, Respawn furnished Titanfall with its fifth title update, addressing a whole bunch of issues but most tantalising of all, promising significant performance improvements. The developer says that the patch includes "lots of yummy bandwidth optimisations as well as various delicious frame-rate optimisations... lovingly hand-crafted and squeezed into the game".It's music to our ears. Titanfall remains one of the most intensely satisfying multiplayer shooters on the market regardless of the platform it's running on, even handing in an excellent experience on Xbox 360. But it's safe to say that from a technical standpoint there are obvious issues to address and Xbox One performance stands first and foremost amongst them.
The timing of the new update is also fortuitous in that it comes weeks after Microsoft released its June XDK - a milestone in development as it allows developers to 'turn off' the Kinect reservation on the GPU, and dedicate those resources to gaming. While the timing of the update is right, there's no indication from Respawn as to whether or not the new XDK is utilised. In a previous Digital Foundry tech interview, lead engineer Richard Baker discussed the issue with us:
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