There won't be a PC beta for Titanfall 2

Soon Respawn Entertainment will host a multiplayer tech test, but we will go right ahead and just call it a beta. Thing is, the beta will only be available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. PC players will have to sit this one out.

"The main reason we are doing a MP tech test is to satisfy an engineering goal - to stress test our servers and prove that they can scale. Since our server backend is per-platform, it means we only actually need a single platform to test this. More platforms can be a good sanity check, but we don't need to test them all to make sure we are on a good path for launch," Respawn's Vince Zampella writes in a blog post.

So why is it that the PC wasn't included in the beta plans?

"Two big issues from a development standpoint: hardware variety & "min spec" optimization. We're still making a lot of tweaks and changes to the renderer, the game, and effects so we haven't run the game through the hardware compatibility lab yet to detect and handle a large variety of hardware - video cards, CPUs etc. Quite frankly, we aren't ready to deal with that yet, we are still making the game better. We also haven't done enough work to fully support our 'Min Spec' on PC yet. So, currently the PC game isn't as easy to throw out for testing as the console is, because of the additional variables and configurations that we need to support."

Zampella also notes that they want to make sure that nothing about the single-player campaign leaks, and that the PC community has been good at digging up such things.

"Also, because the single player story has some wonderful secrets that we really want to preserve for launch, we also have to worry about leaks. Our wonderfully curious PC players have proven in the past that they will dig out anything they can, and there's a risk that they could spoil some of our single player."

Unfortunately Zampella didn't share when we might expect the beta to go live on console, but we're sure he'll keep us updated.