Titanfall’s Capture the Flag playlist is coming back to the PC version of the game. It was removed because not enough players were playing the game, leaving those who did stuck in endless matchmaking loops.
According to an official blog post, developer Respawn Entertainment said that less than 1% of the player base was even trying to play CTF. Regardless, the studio plans to reenable the mode with tweaks to its matchmaking criteria, which will feature a widened regional search.
"[W]e're introducing a test of even wider region searches. If you're searching for 5 minutes without starting a game, [the matchmaker] will eventually widen your search to include neighboring continents. This means you might end up in a game with a much higher ping than you're used to, but as players pointed out; playing is preferred to not playing at all!"
Titanfall’s developers state that it will be monitoring the new CTF mode arrangement closely, and also noted that empty player slots on servers will indicate if players are connecting, thereby discouraging existing players from leaving the game early.
