Respawn has gone into detail about what to expect from today's patch.

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The patch will signal the start of testing for the Private Match mode, allowing you to play with and against your friends either casually, or in tournaments. It'll support 2 to 12 players, with 1 to 6 on each team and can be started from the main screen. Any of the game's maps or modes will be available, though note you won't gain XP, progress challenges or unlock achievements in this section of the game. Your efforts also won't impact your lifetime totals. In this beta, there's no lobby leader meaning anyone can change settings, though this may be introduced in later versions along with new options like round time, score limits and more.Another change is that party members and their titans will now show up on your mini-map in green, rather than the normal blue that other friendly units use. Their names will also be this colour in the HUD to help you identify them quicker. Another change to colouring is that of your auto-titan in the obituary: where before it was blue, now it's the same gold as your own name, to help you keep tabs on how it's been doing.Along with now displaying the game version on the main menu and the default option in the menu being "Play Multiplayer", Respawn is also fixing a wall-hack exploit plaguing the PC version of the game. The Xbox One edition, meanwhile, will now have a shortcut to the party app, accessible by pressing Left Trigger.Finally, the Gooser challenge has been reduced from requiring 50 ejecting pilot kills to 5. The post explains, "We went a bit too far with this challenge, especially considering the unique conditions that have to be met just to have the opportunity to get a kill on an ejecting Pilot. We understand some players have already completed the challenge, or have already earned more than the new requirement so we will be internally noting those players so we can recognize their accomplishments in a future game update."There are more changes, including bug fixes and changes to magazine capacity for a variety of weapons. The full list of changes can be found on the Titanfall blog

Update coming later today with private matches, gooser update, etc. We'll post lots of info on it as it rolls out.



— Respawn (@Respawn) April 10, 2014

Respawn has announced Titanfall will be updated later today to add private matches to the online shooter. tweet from the developer confirms that the Gooser Challenge will also be getting tweaked, along with other as-yet unannounced additions.The lack of private matches was something we lamented in our review of the title . Respawn always intended to add them eventually, though an exact time frame wasn't pinned down.As soon as we know the full contents of the update, we'll let you know.

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