5/26/2023 0 Comments Titanfall 2 hackedBearing a valid fear of Titanfall 2 suffering a similar fate, the future of Titanfall looked grim. Titanfall fans were keenly aware of this previous death, as well as the cancellation of Titanfall Online, Respawn’s ditched effort at a free to play title – keep this in mind for later. An apparent ray of hope appeared in April, with Respawn promising ‘help is on the way’ regarding both games, but nothing materialised. Titanfall 1’s issues had never been resolved by Respawn, seemingly leaving the game to die in an unplayable, decrepit state. The fate of Titanfall 1 had been ostensibly set in stone for a long time, as its servers had been relentlessly griefed by a small sect of hackers who made the game almost if not entirely unplayable, running scripts to kick players to the main menu. What made this issue particularly concerning was how familiar it likely sounded to fans of the original Titanfall. Worried and confused, players took to social media to share their issues, and found that other players were suffering just the same. In the spring of 2021, Distributed Denial Of Service attacks, or DDoS attacks for short, began to affect the game’s servers on all platforms, with players finding their client had randomly frozen before being suddenly disconnected and kicked back to the main menu. However, these good times could not last forever. This culminated in the fan-organised Titanfall Day on May 1 st 2021, which saw the game hit record numbers of over 50k players across all platforms. A sudden Steam release in June 2020 boosted this even further, bringing an entire storefront’s worth of players who perhaps weren’t fond of Origin. Even while Apex Legends was enjoying its meteoric, seemingly never-ending rise in popularity, Titanfall 2 remained humbly alive and well with dedicated players sticking with their favourite game, and frequent influxes of new players upon sales. This support lasted until December 2017, with the Operation Endeavour update releasing as the end of Titanfall 2’s post-launch content, presumably as Respawn moved to focus entirely on their then-upcoming smash hit, Apex Legends.ĭespite the inevitable end of developer support, Titanfall 2 continued to prove popular and remain active for the following years, with the player base dwindling slightly as players moved on to other games, but never coming close to the dreaded label of a ‘dead game’. Regardless, Respawn continued with impressive post launch support, adding new maps, weapons, factions, game modes and even a brand new Titan for free, with the only paid content being a few cosmetics. This was likely due to its release date of October 28 th, 2016, being squeezed between the two biggest FPS releases of the year, Battlefield 1 and Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare, hampering its chances of being a true blockbuster title from the start. The title released to great critical success, though commercially it did not quite reach publisher EA’s hopes. Respawn Entertainment’s careful mix of precise gunplay and high-octane movement ensured it stood out among its more grounded competition, boasting the rarely achieved combination of both a stellar campaign and electrifying multiplayer portions. Titanfall 2 is one of the most well-acclaimed FPS titles of the decade, if not of all time. But there are some games that defy this, revived by their communities and going against nature to live on, defying the inevitability of their quiet and timely death. Even those released to critical acclaim and financial success cannot ride that wave forever, and eventually their loving player bases will wither, moving on to new things in the breakneck release schedules of the modern gaming industry. Death is a natural part of a game’s life cycle.
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