Respawn Entertainment lead writer Jesse Stern revealed that Titanfall 2, unlike the original, will feature a dedicated single player campaign and will "portray a world in which science meets magic, but a world which will still be grounded, dirty, human and real.”

"We are doing our best to deliver a vision of grand global colonial warfare retelling the story of the American Revolution and the American Civil War in space. We imagined the next generation of immigrants moving out to the new frontier of an inhabitable planet. Rather than taking a traditional sci-fi approach to that we wanted to look at how that would happen practically, what the ships would look like and with machines that were designed for excavation and construction , demolition and working the land, and what happens when they are turned into instruments of war."

Having produced/written several seasons of the TV hit drama NCIS, Stern also stated that he misses the daily buzz of working on episodic TV and is developing a number of projects including a series spin-off of Titanfall with Respawn in partnership with Lionsgate TV.