![]() ![]() Techboah said that they used to play Titanfall as well, but the server issues made the game unplayable for them. "DDoS attacks have been a problem for Apex for around a year now, and no changes were made related to them so far," an Apex player who goes by Techboah on Reddit told Waypoint. Though a communications director for Respawn tweeted about the hacks over the Fourth of July weekend, Titanfall and Apex players don't feel like the level of communication or action has been sufficient. "Attacking another of Respawn's games to highlight an issue in Titanfall does, of course, not solve any problems."Īpex and Titanfall players told Waypoint that another factor in this growing tension is that Respawn has stayed relatively silent on the issue of the DDoS attacks on Titanfall's and Apex Legends's servers. ![]() "We had a lot of people from the Apex community coming into the Titanfall subreddit to express their frustration as to them it seemed someone in the Titanfall community is to blame," Gecko said. The Titanfall subreddit now has a stickied post disavowing the hack on Apex Legends. "Both communities have denied involvement with the attack on Apex so we do not know whether it was some misguided individual in one of the communities or maybe even someone trying to run a smear campaign against the site itself," Gecko said. Respawn acknowledged that attack in a thread on Twitter. The creators of Save Titanfall, a site dedicated to calling attention to the state of the game, have disavowed the hack in a message on the site. The friction does exist, though, especially after the previous weekend, where a hacker defaced the Apex Legends lobby to add a message about the DDoS attacks on Titanfall, which linked to the site Save Titanfall. The Titanfall and Apex fans that Waypoint spoke to all said that whatever friction has occurred between the two fanbases, it's a small minority. "There are games that are fine, but some games you just stop moving and you can look around but your crosshairs stay in place and all other controls are lost," SomeRegularEmulator, a Titanfall player, told Waypoint. "You can still look around but that's about it." "Basically what it's like is that as a player you stop moving and get stuck in your current position and your ping spikes to 2000ms+," Gecko, one of the mods of the Titanfall subreddit told Waypoint. Titanfall and Apex Legends players that spoke to Waypoint said that they had experienced DDoS attacks while playing the game, some of them as recently as that day. "I really just want to be able to play the only game I’ve actually gotten good at." "I think a portion of the Titanfall community can relate to feeling forgotten by Respawn, having Apex be the popular younger brother that gets attention when he trips and falls while Titanfall suffers in the shadows," Rukus_krewbrick, a Titanfall player, told Waypoint. ![]() It's less like being in a special, secret club and now more like claiming a bedroom on a dilapidated, sinking cruise ship. For months both Titanfall games have suffered DDoS attacks that make playing them online all but impossible. When that cool but not particularly popular thing is under siege by malicious DDoS attacks, the perks of being in a small fandom all but disappear. Normally being a fan of something that is cool but not popular is a badge of honor. But while Titanfall would get a slight bump in popularity due to Apex Legends's success, it never reached Apex's level. The games share a universe and some lore, as well as some players. In May, it reached an all time peak of over 300,000 concurrent players, edging the game closer to first person shooter heavyweights like Call of Duty or Counterstrike: Global Offensive. Apex Legends has only grown in popularity over time, as well. More to the point, their financial success pales in comparison to the next game from Respawn, the free-to-play battle royale game Apex Legends. In Titanfall, you play as a mech pilot, and while the second game in the series has a single player campaign, the real focus of the series was using the giant mechs in team based, first person shooter combat where players can quickly wall-run and grapple hook across the mapīoth Titanfall games did well, though not spectacularly, upon release. Titanfall 1 and 2 boast a devoted, though small fanbase that is desperate for another chance to ride the giant mechs that the series revolves around. ![]()
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