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{{Infobox game
|title = Titanfall
|image = Software Cover - Titanfall.jpg
|developer = [[WP:Respawn Entertainment|Respawn Entertainment]]</br>[[WP:Bluepoint Games|Bluepoint Games]] <small>({{360|name}} version)</small>
|publisher = [[WP:Electronic Arts|Electronic Arts]]
|series = Titanfall series
|releasedates = {{ExpandBox|noborder=1|title=March 11, 2014|'''Windows, Xbox One:'''<br>March 11, 2014<br>'''Xbox 360:'''<br>April 8, 2014}}
|genre = [[WP:First-person shooter|First-person shooter]]
|mode = [[WP:Multiplayer video game|Multiplayer]]
|platform = {{Win|1}}</br>{{XboxOne|1}}</br>{{x360|1}}
|engine = {{src|4}} ({{tfbranch|1}})
|appid = 1454890
|codelang = [[WP:C++|C++]]
|modsupport = No (officially)</br>Black Market Edition (unofficial)
|sdk = 
|sysreq = <span></span>
*OS: Win Vista SP2/7 SP1 64-bit
*CPU: AMD Athlon X2 2.8GHz
*RAM: 4 GB
*GPU: Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT/AMD Radeon HD 4770 with 512MB RAM or better (Direct3D 11, FL 10.0 capable)
*Network: Internet connection required
*Storage: 50 GB available space
|steamdeck = {{deck playable|4}}
|distribution = Steam, EA App (formerly Origin)
|website = [https://www.ea.com/games/titanfall/titanfall Official Website]
|links = {{Steam store|app/1454890}} (delisted)</br>[https://www.ea.com/games/titanfall/titanfall EA App]
|previousgame = 
|nextgame = {{titanfall2|1}}
}}
	 
{{Titanfall|4}} is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game, developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts. On PC, the game was originally released on Origin (now EA App), but later released on {{steamicon|1}}.

Titanfall runs on a heavily modified version of the {{src|4|nt=1}} ({{tfbranch|2|nt=2}}), based off {{portal2branch|2}}{{ref|1}}, with modifications such as heavily modified [[BSP]] format, [[VPK (file format)|VPK]] package format, and an improved rendering engine. The sequels and spinoffs, {{titanfall2|3.1}} and {{apex|3.1}}, both use this same engine, but more heavily modified and with various other improvements. The {{360|1}} version of Titanfall has additional changes and released later, after the Windows and Xbox One versions, due to hardware limitations.

Respawn chose to use the {{src|name}} engine for Titanfall and subsequent games as the co-founders and former Infinity Ward staff (who joined Respawn) are previously familiar with the heavily modified {{Idtech3|1|nt=0}} (also known as {{Idtech3|1}}) used in the [[WP:Call of Duty|Call of Duty series]] (called [[WP:IW_(game_engine)|IW engine]]). Both IW engine and Source have code dating back to Quake (and have similar console commands). Respawn also chose Source because {{portal2|1}} performs well on {{ps3|1}}.

Later, a free to play version of Titanfall called {{wiki|Titanfall Online}}, developed by Nexon for the Asian market, was launched in 2016 as an Open Beta, and later cancelled in 2018.

Titanfall (and all games on Titanfall branch) restricts typical Source engine features such as the developer console and server browser, but these can be re-enabled with offline mods.

As of 2021, Titanfall is no longer available and has been delisted from Steam as the game servers has suffered from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack DDoS attacks] and the game was left unpatched with many known security vulnerabilities. The game received review bombing on Steam shortly before and after it got delisted. As of 2025, the game is no longer suffering from DDoS attacks.

== Features ==
{{For|more features, which are only available on Titanfall sequel and Apex Legends|[[Titanfall engine branch]]}}
=== Renderer ===
; [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct3D#Direct3D_11 Direct3D 11] renderer
: First Source engine game to render on Direct3D 11.
; [https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/dxtecharts/cascaded-shadow-maps Cascaded Shadow Maps]
: Titanfall uses CSM, which cast very detailed shadows from the skybox.
; [[Anti-aliasing#TAA|TXAA anti-aliasing]]
: '''TAA''' (aswell as TXAA, TSSAA or TSAA and other variant of TAA) is a new method of anti-aliasing which was common in later games since 2010s, as most games are transitioning from forward rendering to deferred rendering which allows many lights to be rendered with little performance impact. TAA is a spatial anti-aliasing technique that works by combines information from past frames and the current frame (while simultaneously jittering between both frames) to smooth the current frame, this results in significantly [[cheap]] performance impact comparing to other methods like MSAA, and works better with deferred rendering. Through it's main drawbacks is that it can cause ghosting and blurriness (basically creating motion blur with ghosting trails) to the image, especially on lower framerate ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ0eFYJYkkw Example]).
: TXAA requires MSAA to function, unlike newer implementation of TAA in later Titanfall games.
; 64-bit support
: First Source game to run on 64-bit natively, which improves performance and allows the engine to access more than 4GB of RAM. 32-bit are not supported.
; [[Deferred lighting|Deferred shading]]
: Allow many lights to be rendered on scene with little performance impact.
=== Network ===
; New netcode
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; Audio system improvements
: Speex audio codec
: Titanfall uses Wwise sound system.
; Texture streaming
: Reduce system RAM and graphics card VRAM by streaming textures.
; Better [[HDR|HDR Rendering]]
: Improves the HDR (bloom) lighting.{{clarify}}
; Customized version of [[BSP]] and [[VPK]]
: Titanfall uses BSP version 29, with the BSP headers using {{code|rBSP}} (Respawn BSP) instead of {{code|VBSP}} as identifier. Titanfall also uses a custom version of VPK file format.
; Next gen console support ({{Xboxone|2}})
: Titanfall runs on 8th gen console, Xbox One, at 60FPS. Not useful to modders however.

== Limitations ==
{{ModernImportant|Servers are down or frequently DDoSed since 2021 according to several reviews on Steam. As of 2025, the game is no longer suffering from DDoS attacks.}}
{{warning|The mouse sensitivity for this game is tied to the framerate.}}

== Gallery ==
<gallery mode=nolines widths=320px heights=240px>
Titanfall - Screenshot 1.jpg
Titanfall - Screenshot 2.jpg
Titanfall - Screenshot 3.jpg
Titanfall - Screenshot 4.jpg
Titanfall - Screenshot 5.jpg
</gallery>

== See also ==
*{{Tfbranch|1}}

{{References|
{{Ref2|cite id=1|According to <code>steam.inf</code> and <code>gameinfo.txt</code>, the game contains a leftover SteamAppID (620) for {{portal2|4}} as of March 2025 (both Titanfall 1 and 2). The AppID was likely left unchanged as both Titanfall and Titanfall 2 were originally released on Origin (now EA App), making "SteamAppID" unused. Also, most of the {{code|.vtf}} files inside the game's {{code|.vpk}} files are version 7.5, which were introduced in {{asbranch|1}}.}}
}}

== External links ==
* {{wiki|Titanfall (video game)}} on Wikipedia
* [https://github.com/p0358/black_market_edition Black Market Edition] Fan-made and open source modification for the game, that allows for basic mod-loading, as well as various security and quality of life fixes and improvements.
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