Update (Mon 12th Jul, 2021 13:46 BST): It seems the servers are working again on Xbox for now.
Hopefully it'll stay that way!
Original story: It's been a horrible week for Respawn Entertainment in general, with Apex Legends hackers initially "ruining a holiday" for the developer, and now the servers for Titanfall 2 appear to have been hacked across all platforms.
The issue seems to have been caused by a series of DDoS attacks on the servers which are causing absurdly high ping levels. This is the same issue that has been plaguing the PC version of Titanfall for a very long time now, which Respawn has yet to have been able to fix, causing some fans to believe this really could be "the end for Titanfall."
Respawn has previously acknowledged that the team is working behind the scenes to fix issues with the PC version of Titanfall, although it looks like they've got a much bigger problem on their hands now. The vast majority of them are now working on Apex Legends, with supposedly just a handful of people left on the Titanfall series.
It remains to be seen whether Respawn will be able to get the situation under control later today, but it's certainly been a rough weekend for fans of the series regardless. Let's hope it's a false alarm and this isn't "the end for Titanfall".
Did you run into issues with Titanfall over the weekend? Let us know in the comments below.
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So can we say that the hackers played themselves here? Just ending the game altogether?
I don't see how they could end the game this way just from a PR standpoint. The game is still being sold and they just pull it because they got hacked....lose all credibility that way. They will have to fix it and after that we will see what they do but a Titanfall 3 would be fantastic.
I think it may be intermittent attacks, had this issue last week (don't remember exactly when) but just tried a game now...showing me a 12ms ping on the London data centre and took <30 seconds to load me into a game of attrition
@Krzzystuff At the end of the day if no funds are allocated to fix, the only option is to pull sales. Better legally than selling a faulty product.
I hope Respawn is also working with law enforcement to try to find this hacker and arrest him/her.
I don't even play the game; but I hate this kind of stuff. This is not the attention the game needs from the developer. The original Titanfall is probably not generating much money anymore and if the cost to fix it and maintain servers is more than the product pulls in, Respawn could simply the game down all together - love it or hate it, businesses exist to generate money.
It's pretty scary that a single person throwing a tantrum about a video game has the power to completely ruin things for others.
Not surprised. I know some people in tech with some serious psychological issues, a mean streak, and lots of money. With how easy it is to hack IoT devices, you could make a botnet in your spare time or pay someone to use theirs. As long as companies that make easy to hack IoT devices are not fined, they will continue to sell people smart crap that enables these DDoS botnets.
Anywhere to read the story behind this? How long as this been going on, and why is this hacker trying to take down Titanfall?
@Spiders I'm not intimately familiar with the situation as it's been focused on the PC version of the original Titanfall (until now), but it's been going on for years.
Honestly EA should just shutdown the servers. That will teach these crybabies.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could return to the old days of dedicated servers. You could either host your own or go to a Wireplay, Jolt, Barrysworld server instead.
Absolutely gutted. Titanfall 2 is still my go to game. After I finish new releases, assassins creed or cyberpunk I ALWAYS go back to titanfall. Never gets old. Still as good as the first day I played it. High ping now makes the seldom times I get into a game unplayable. Only affects titanfall, no issue with other games. Please fix.
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