The producer behind Titanfall 2 has confirmed that support for PlayStation 4 Pro is included on the disc at launch.
Drew McCoy dropped the news on Twitter during a natter with fans, although considering the upcoming mech-shooter is released a few weeks before the PS4 Pro, it’s more a case of EA prepping things ahead for those who are investing in Sony’s new high-tech console from day-one.
Elsewhere, McCoy delved into some of the technical intricacies of the PS4 Pro version of Titanfall 2, revealing that the game won’t actually run at native 4K resolution. However, players can still look forward to a bevy of increased visual effects, including enhanced shadows, particles, and a more stable frame rate.
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“It’s not native 4K and I would be surprised if anyone saw native 4K with AAA level games any time soon,” McCoy told website Stevivor. “It just takes so much processing power. It’s unbelievable amounts of just GPU grunt to do that [native 4K].”
“It’s a PS4 that’s faster. We’re able to increase the resolution, we have high-res shadows, and maybe higher particle counts. The frame rate is more stable; we have dynamic resolution scaling on all consoles, but it scales down less often on PS4 Pro to maintain 60 frames-per-second.”
Titanfall 2 PS4 Pro support came late into development
McCoy went on to explain that developer Respawn Entertainment didn’t have much time to work out the kinks of PS4 Pro, as they were only made aware of the console’s existence late into the game’s production cycle.
“We did not get much of a heads up, like most people,” he explained. “So we didn’t get a tonne of time. Like no one even knew about it until….I don’t even know, but it was late. Since it’s just the PS4, but faster, it’s really not that hard to say ‘when running on PS4 do this, and when running on PS4 Pro do that.’
“Because we also made the PC version, we have some knobs we can tweak, so we just spent some time making sure it still runs well and looks good on PS4 Pro. You know, making sure it doesn’t look any worse at all. That’s the requirement: it can’t run any worse or look worse than on PS4. So it runs better, looks better and has no bugs on PS4 Pro.
“We definitely wanted it to be [on PS4 Pro]. When you’re making a AAA game, you want to be seen as a AAA game, and what kind of big budget game is not going to be seen on PS4 Pro? You really want to be up there. So when Sony did the unveiling, we just weren’t ready to have something to show yet. I was on phone calls with them, but the schedules didn’t line up.”
Titanfall 2 is scheduled for release on PS4, PC, and Xbox One on October 28, 2016.