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Respawn Needs Help Testing Titanfall 2’s New Cloud Servers
In a new video for Titanfall 2, lead designer Jon Shiring discussed how the game's server hosting will be on multiple clouds and "bare metal" servers in order to support Titanfall 2's predictably larger launch.
The original Titanfall used Microsoft's Azure cloud for 100% of its multiplayer. Its successor will use a combination of that same cloud from Microsoft, as well as Google's cloud and Amazon's cloud. On top of that ,Titanfall 2 will also be run on "bare metal boxes," which are physical servers in data centers across the world that will be rented for certain amounts of time.
Respawn has partnered with gaming service company Multiplay in order to build this brand-new server method, which will attempt to synchronize a variety of different hosting services in order to provide seamless online gameplay for the player. In a blog post about the server change, Shriing stated "...it's an entirely new system that no game has used before, and Respawn felt strongly that we should work with Multiplay to build this new service to meet our needs."
In order to test out this new service, Repawn and Multiplay are hosting a multiplayer tech test before Titanfall 2's October 28 launch. New matchmaking systems will be tested, including a feature called "networks" that will "...change the way you party up and play matches with friends" according to another blog post regarding the tech test.
Respawn is asking for as many players as they can get to playtest their multiplayer on this unique server hosting network in order to find as many bugs as possible before launch. The multiplayer tech test doesn't have a start date yet, but if you wish to test out Titanfall 2 before release then you can sign up for emails from EA here in order to get the news first and start as soon as possible.
Our Take
It's interesting to see a new approach to server networks that split up the load between both cloud and physical servers. If using Microsoft's, Google's, and Amazon's clouds simultaneously backfires in some unpredictable way, they will have the bare metal servers to keep them somewhat afloat during Titanfall 2's (presumably busy) launch.
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