Oh boy...where to begin?

Listen, I don't want to come off like a d***che, so I'll just politely say that your understanding of the MS Cloud service and what it will potentially add to the Titanfall gaming experience is, um, very very optimistic but not based in any known reality.

A server (any server, regardless of it's horsepower) that is accessed by your Xbox remotely via an Internet connection (even the world's fastest multi-gigabit fiber optic connection) is going to be orders of magnitude slower in sending data back and forth than what your console is capable of doing internally between its GPU/CPU and on-board DDR3 RAM.  That's just the way it is. 

There is NO POSSIBLE WAY that the MS cloud servers are going to perform any real-time AI or graphics processing in-game for Titanfall. Graphics and AI processing requires data I/O throughput between the GPU/CPU and memory that is easily 1000x times faster than any Internet connection is capable of providing now, and for the forseeable future.

To illustrate the difference in data speeds I'm talking about here, I'll use an analogy about reading a book:

Picking up a paperback copy of The Hobbit and reading it page by page is like Titanfall running on the Xbox: your brain and eyes are the Xbox "GPU/CPU" and the text in the book is the graphics data that you "read" and process.  You can read the book quite efficiently this way because your CPU (brain/eyes) can very quickly read the data (book text) because you have the book in front of you.

Now, suppose you want to offload, say 20% of your reading "processing" to the "cloud".  In this case the cloud is your town library, located 3 miles from your house. The cloud (library) also has a copy of The Hobbit.

In this cloud-processing scenario you pick up your local paperback copy of the book in your house and start reading normally, just like the first scenario. However, since you're now offloading 20% of your reading processing to the cloud you only read up to page #8, then you put down the book, get in your car, drive to the library, find The Hobbit on the shelf, turn to page 9, and read it and page 10. Then you put the book back on the shelf, get back in your car, drive home, and pick up your copy of The Hobbit and continue reading pages 11-18. Then, get back in your car for a trip to the library to read pages 19 and 20.  Etc, etc, etc, etc.

You can see how that second scenario would take you WAAAY longer to finish Bilbo's story, right? The "latency" of driving back and forth to the library just to read 2 out of every 10 pages is just not efficient.  As silly as my analogy is, the relative speed differences between the library commute vs. reading the book at your house is about the same as the difference between cloud processing via Internet connection vs. the Xbox GPU/CPU retrieving data from its 8Gb of DDR3 RAM.

And that, gentle readers, is why real-time AI and graphics processing in the cloud just ain't a reality.

2. It is a campaign of a series of multiplayer games. That's still not really a campaign

3. They're bots. They're just gimped bots as far as I can tell

Oh boy...where to begin?

Listen, I don't want to come off like a d***che, so I'll just politely say that your understanding of the MS Cloud service and what it will potentially add to the Titanfall gaming experience is, um, very very optimistic but not based in any known reality.

A server (any server, regardless of it's horsepower) that is accessed by your Xbox remotely via an Internet connection (even the world's fastest multi-gigabit fiber optic connection) is going to be orders of magnitude slower in sending data back and forth than what your console is capable of doing internally between its GPU/CPU and on-board DDR3 RAM.  That's just the way it is. 

There is NO POSSIBLE WAY that the MS cloud servers are going to perform any real-time AI or graphics processing in-game for Titanfall. Graphics and AI processing requires data I/O throughput between the GPU/CPU and memory that is easily 1000x times faster than any Internet connection is capable of providing now, and for the forseeable future.

To illustrate the difference in data speeds I'm talking about here, I'll use an analogy about reading a book:

Picking up a paperback copy of The Hobbit and reading it page by page is like Titanfall running on the Xbox: your brain and eyes are the Xbox "GPU/CPU" and the text in the book is the graphics data that you "read" and process.  You can read the book quite efficiently this way because your CPU (brain/eyes) can very quickly read the data (book text) because you have the book in front of you.

Now, suppose you want to offload, say 20% of your reading "processing" to the "cloud".  In this case the cloud is your town library, located 3 miles from your house. The cloud (library) also has a copy of The Hobbit.

In this cloud-processing scenario you pick up your local paperback copy of the book in your house and start reading normally, just like the first scenario. However, since you're now offloading 20% of your reading processing to the cloud you only read up to page #8, then you put down the book, get in your car, drive to the library, find The Hobbit on the shelf, turn to page 9, and read it and page 10. Then you put the book back on the shelf, get back in your car, drive home, and pick up your copy of The Hobbit and continue reading pages 11-18. Then, get back in your car for a trip to the library to read pages 19 and 20.  Etc, etc, etc, etc.

You can see how that second scenario would take you WAAAY longer to finish Bilbo's story, right? The "latency" of driving back and forth to the library just to read 2 out of every 10 pages is just not efficient.  As silly as my analogy is, the relative speed differences between the library commute vs. reading the book at your house is about the same as the difference between cloud processing via Internet connection vs. the Xbox GPU/CPU retrieving data from its 8Gb of DDR3 RAM.

And that, gentle readers, is why real-time AI and graphics processing in the cloud just ain't a reality.

It would be much easier to believe you if you actually highlighted why ratchet426 is wrong rather than just climbing up on your mighty pedestal and tut-tutting his supposed inferior understanding. I'm sure many people on this forum including myself would love you to share your apparent wisdom and knowledge on this topic and save us from ignorance, so please tell us why exactly ratchet426 is wrong and provide us with the correct information, with supporting evidence if you would. 

For the last few weeks I always write a reply, then read over it before posting it. 9 times out of 10 I just delete the reply because it's not worth it. A lot more people should do the same. 

OT: whens the last time MS even said cloud? Seems to me like MS is trying to distance itself somewhat from the whole cloud means 5 billion percent extra toasting ability. To me it seems more like the fans are keeping it alive now?

If every multiplayer match on titanfall has part of this "campaign" that sounds annoying as fuck. I'm not really keeping up with the game so just going by what the OP posted. I'd rather buy the game with as little knowledge about it as possible.

All NPC's are bots so TF AI are bots.

Microsoft has invested far more into cloud technology than Sony. There is no way they are turning their back on it. Just because Sony announced something doesn't mean MS doesn't have something up their sleeve for later.

Really?

Why did you leave this out?

"The Xbox group came back to us with a way for us to run all of these Titanfall dedicated servers and that lets us push games with more server CPU and higher bandwidth, which lets us have a bigger world, more physics, lots of AI, and potentially a lot more than that!"

http://www.respawn.com/news/lets-talk-about-the-xbox-live-cloud/