Comment by mrguyorama

It's also bullshit. Half Life 2 didn't need uncompressed audio. MP3 decompression is damn near free.

Half life also did it with half the required minimum cores, and 1 ghz less clock speed on that CPU. It released a decade before Titanfall 1. Sure sure, it's got so much more going on, but uh, that much?

For a reference of how trivial it is for CPUs to decode MP3 files, software decoders take tens of MIPS. Remember that unit? Less than a percent of one of those minimum spec CPUs required.

You know what's funny? The source engine only supports MP3 compressed audio. Do you know what titanfall 1 downloads and decompresses to to create 30gb of audio data? Lossy compressed, 160kb/s OGG format audio.