The recenty concluded tech test for Titanfall 2 provided some good information for the devs at Respawn. Now they are going to implent some of what they learned into the new test starting on Friday, August 26, and running through Sunday, August 28.

Lead Engineer Jon Shirling said on the official blog that the recent test was focused on two things: dedicated servers and Stryder backend servers. For the dedicated servers, "We collected useful information about how long it takes each datacenter to spin up new servers - some datacenters are faster than others, and since we are spinning up servers in advance of players needing them, speed is important." Shirling said.

As for the backend servers, "We learned that we could reliably make up to about 24,000 matches every 2 seconds, which thankfully allows us to handle player counts that no game sees," he said. "We did see some problems with matches not being full on startup, so we both improved our Join In Progress path, and we dug deeper to find the root cause of the non-full match starts."

He also said they had to fix some problems on the fly, again, not unexpected for a stress test. "We had some times where we were fixing issues with the brand new Invite Network functionality, and we could actually see the impact of those in the player counts in real-time," Shiring said. "We saw a huge amount of players who ONLY joined games using the Invite Network popup in lobbies.  With the Network Invites, Happy Hour, clan tags, and Inbox functionality, it seems like people really embraced our new Networks system."

As for this weekend's test, Shiring said the team is going to hold a special event to try to encourage as many players to get on at one time as possible. The goal is to try to simulate launch day and to make sure the servers can handle the load. He said to watch the social channels for more details on when the event would happen this weekend.

Keep in mind that the stress test is only for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One players. PC players were not included because of hardware issues and possible problems with minimum specs.

Titanfall 2's Game Director Steve Fukuda told us about what the team had learned from the original Titanfall and how different maps and a slightly slower pace have improved the TF2 multiplayer experience 

Titans will begin falling from the sky on October 28 on all three platforms.