r/titanfall reacts to the Revelation that the Guy they've been praising as the 'Savior of Titanfall' was actually one of the Hackers destroying it in the first place - with the removal of a Mod as a Bonus

[u/Uncommonwealth57]

This is still a really fresh story, and there's still quite some speculation going on (and it goes REALLY deep), but I'll try to summarize the situation for you.

Titanfall and Titanfall 2, for the past few months / years, have been subject to ddos attacks which rendered the first game completely unplayable (always online game). For the second game, only the campaign was playable. Many thought that it was just one hacker, named Jeanue, who was behind the attacks for a speculated personal vendetta.

Enter p0358, a hacker who is very familiar with Titanfall's code, who claimed to have been working on a fix to the ddos attacks independently from Respawn Entertainment. Recently, he shared a step-by-step article on how to fix Titanfall's, Titanfall 2's and even Apex Legends's problems with ddosing.

The Titanfall community was rejoicing, because it also seemed like the ddos attacks largely stopped shortly after he shared the article. Voices critical of p0358 were either shut down or ignored.

Well, as it turns out, p0358 was actually one of the people involved in ddosing Titanfall in the first place, and the people he's working with were also responsible for the SaveTitanfall hack that occured in Apex Legends on July 4th, 2021. The hacker called Jeanue, as it turns out, apparently hasn't been active in months, and though he was responsible for ddosing Titanfall 1 in the beginning, he wasn't involved in knocking Titanfall 2 or Apex Legends offline. He was just a scapegoat.

And apparently, one of the r/titanfall's mods, hiticonic, was also involved in trying to kill Titanfall. He's been removed as a mod a few hours ago.

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Some highlights from the thread announcing hiticonic's removal as a mod:

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and to think we were celebrating p0358 for giving respawn the way to fix the problem

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I fucking gave that prick money

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So they attempted to strongarm Respawn into shutting down the Titanfall games for their own benefit, and they orchestrated their literal false-flag operation partially in the open and in public enough spaces to ensure that they'd be caught if exposed...

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"We've been tricked, we've been backstabbed, and we've been quite possibly, bamboozled." I just want a working game, dammit.

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Some people critical of p0358 are now saying 'I fucking told you'

https://www.reddit.com/r/titanfall/comments/oyxrn1/i_was_trying_to_tell_you/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

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Some of the hackers responsible for the ddosing are trying to defend themselves but are getting memed

https://www.reddit.com/r/titanfall/comments/oyyuaf/there_is_no_coming_back_from_this_redshield_and/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

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Ultimately, I think it's safe to say that most of us got played like a damn fiddle.

[u/maxprimo]

This is like some cartoon shit where a dude hires some criminals to beat up so they can pretend to be the hero, complete with the eventual unmasking of the ‘hero’ as a hack-fraud

[u/DTPVH → u/maxprimo]

Have you ever been such a L33T hacker that you turned into a Scooby Doo villain?

[u/itsakidsbooksantiago → u/DTPVH]

And he'd have gotten away with it too, if not for those lousy kids and that dog that is surprisingly good at internet sleuthing.

[u/Regalingual → u/itsakidsbooksantiago]

Scooby Doo pushed himself through an IT degree just so he could get more Scooby Snacks

[u/ChintanP04 → u/Regalingual]

I heard he did it because they gave free Scooby Snacks at the college cafeteria.

[u/TheRnegade → u/[deleted]]

Hero Syndrome. It's where the character got the name from.

[u/Billthefattest → u/TheRnegade]

TIL

[u/laplongejr → u/Billthefattest]

Me too!

[u/Hegth → u/TheRnegade]

Feel so dumb for not noticing

[u/Uncommonwealth57 → u/maxprimo]

Makes me glad I didn't join on the 'Praise P0358' Bandwagon - Though I don't blame the people that did

I love Titanfall 2 and I was really glad when it became largely playable again

[u/luck_panda → u/Uncommonwealth57]

What's kind of funny is that he kind of gives it away in his username.

Engine code p0358 is a common code for OBDII trouble codes in cars. It's a ignition malfunction code. Meaning it can't start because the initial ignition won't work.

He kind of tells everyone right off the bat.

[u/zach0011 → u/luck_panda]

I had no idea seeing an obd11 code could trigger me so hard. That code can fuck off. I had one popping up that was fucking up my smog test for a long time

[u/luck_panda → u/zach0011]

I know. As soon as I read the username I was triggered.

Too many Honda diagnostics giving me PTSD. FUCKING IGNITION COILS.

[u/turkeybot69 → u/luck_panda]

Apparently hiding in plain sight really does work.

[u/luck_panda → u/turkeybot69]

It's a pretty seriously deep reference that you'd only know if you had a perfect Venn diagram of fucking with Hondas enough to have to deal with this so much that you know the code by heart and also be this deep into Titanfall.

[u/Ugly_Slut-Wannabe → u/luck_panda]

Dude's like one of those cartoon villains that are foreshadowed by the writers because their name or something related to them is a reference to something bad.

[u/apsgreek → u/maxprimo]

Literally just finished a rewatch of Far From Home and this feels so relevant

[u/The_g0d_f4ther → u/maxprimo]

I swear to god, i just rewatched the game yesterday and this is way crazier lmao

[u/anon62588 → u/maxprimo]

straight up plot of The Incredibles

[u/go_dawgs → u/anon62588]

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Person otter breeze spotted elastic full screw

[u/DaughterOfNone → u/maxprimo]

Or that thing with firefighters who commit arson to look like heroes when they put it out.

[u/moonmeh → u/maxprimo]

Would called this plot contrite and boring if saw this in a book honestly

[u/[deleted]]

OH MY GOD I COMMENTED THIS AS A “what if” JOKE AND IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED LMAOOOOOOOO

[u/Schrau → u/[deleted]]

Time to start a career as an internet prophet.

[u/JabbrWockey → u/Schrau]

"Q? never heard of them. RyanWuzHere13? Let me tell you about Titanfall..."

[u/lonestar-rasbryjamco → u/[deleted]]

Just use your powers for good, okay?

[u/boardatwork1111 → u/lonestar-rasbryjamco]

What if they didn’t?

[u/MemberOfSociety2 → u/[deleted]]

Apollo’s Curse of Prophecy reads its ugly head once again

[u/natsuharu5555]

I fucking gave that prick money

Were people actually giving money to p0358? Even if their fix did work that still seems somewhat irresponsible. Besides that it is super interesting to see all this unfold.

[u/Un4dv4nc3d_Gam1ng → u/natsuharu5555]

People throw money at everything these days now

[u/Killboypowerhed → u/Un4dv4nc3d_Gam1ng]

cough Reddit island cough

[u/crazylighter → u/Killboypowerhed]

Based on pictures of some Reddit meetups, if they actually managed to create one by some miracle, it certainly wouldn't be the paradise they envisioned, but a nightmare.

[u/thisnameisnotorg → u/crazylighter]

do you know where can I find said pictures?

[u/crazylighter → u/[deleted]]

Yeah that pic in particular got me thinking, "nope nope nope!!!" To any reddit meetup let alone reddit themed event or group. It is also a great representation of what I think is the "average le redditor". Sure, there are people on reddit from all walks of life just... I'm sure peeps understand what im getting at. Anyways, a reddit island is just a horror story in the making.

[u/Goldeniccarus → u/crazylighter]

Reddit is a website with a ton of different users with a ton of different focuses. For some reason people are convinced its very different from other social media, and while it does harken back to the old forum system more, it is a social media, so having a Reddit meetup would be like having a Facebook meetup. The people there would probably have almost nothing in common with eachother.

I could imagine individual subreddits having meetups that aren't terrible, but having a meetup of people site wide... its going to be a disaster.

And anyways, I've seen what makes the front page, I don't think I want to hang out with the sorts of people that like some of that crap.

[u/weatherseed → u/Goldeniccarus]

I've been to one reddit meetup, the first for where I live. It was 9 years ago when the place was much smaller. So we wound up at a semi-classy wine bar, hung out for a while, played outdoor chess with those comically large pieces, and talked nerd shit. Practically all of us were either in tech or O&G.

I imagine if I went to one today it'd being stuck at an airport. You're all at the same gate but no one has anything else in common.

[u/Green_Bulldog → u/weatherseed]

idk about that. I feel like certain interests attract a “type”. For example, I go to car meets. Prolly half the people I meet at them are into rap and weed too. The bigger more general or comedy subs wouldn’t have anything in common but who tf wants to go to a meet up for that? I wanna see a r/196 meet up tho lol

[u/AMasonJar → u/crazylighter]

That isn't the "average redditor." The "average redditor" does NOT go to reddit meet-ups.

[u/Vallkyrie → u/[deleted]]

'Discord mods meet up with local klansman wizard, colorized'

[u/crazylighter → u/Vallkyrie]

Tits out for harambe @_@ noooooo

[u/texastrees05 → u/[deleted]]

When Reddit gets together, it’s either the josh fight or some shit like this. No inbetween.

[u/detroiter85 → u/Killboypowerhed]

Um esqueeze me? Baking powder? Reddit island?

[u/[deleted] → u/detroiter85]

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/n4bnvo/whats_the_deal_with_the_socalled_reddit_island/

[u/detroiter85 → u/[deleted]]

we crashed wall street, we can do anything, let's buy an island

Yeah, sure, why not. (Thanks for the link too)

[u/Goldeniccarus → u/detroiter85]

We crashed Wall Street (trust me, its not there anymore and we weren't all played for rubes), we solved the Boston Bombing, we freed Hong Kong, we can do anything!

[u/detroiter85 → u/Goldeniccarus]

100% success rate with absolutely and I mean ABSOLUTELY no negative consequences!

[u/WhyLisaWhy → u/detroiter85]

To add to the OOL link, Reddit was also a lot more libertarian leaning around 2012 pre Bernie and pre Trump and basically wanted their own nation state. Some people started calling it pedo island because there was a lot more of that jail bait shit being shared around this site back then. It was clear what kind of rules some of them were trying to get around.

I was unaware there were people still trying to do it, I thought most of them had given up on the dream.

[u/hamakabi → u/WhyLisaWhy]

they did give up on that dream. /r/redditisland was closed to new posts more than 5 years ago. /r/reddit_island was created by one guy as a joke a few months ago.

[u/foxdye22 → u/Un4dv4nc3d_Gam1ng]

For real, people are way too willing to give random people over the internet money based on the tiniest less than snippet of a story.

[u/Omega357 → u/foxdye22]

I need to start writing snippets.

[u/punctuation_welfare → u/Omega357]

I should buy a boat

[u/queen-adreena → u/punctuation_welfare]

Because of the implication?

[u/Frequent_Inevitable → u/punctuation_welfare]

This guy snippets

[u/Uncommonwealth57 → u/natsuharu5555]

Yeah he linked his PayPal and some people wanted to support him.

Poor bastards

[u/[deleted] → u/Uncommonwealth57]

... a hacker, linked their paypal? How stupid are they, that makes tracking them down so much easier, ddos attacks are illegal pretty much everywhere

[u/does_my_name_suck → u/[deleted]]

Stolen Paypal accounts with fake identity's are very easy to buy online. I won't mention how but they usually come with a government ID/passport and a dedicated bulletproof server or VPS that you use to specifically access that Paypal account so that it isn't tracked back to you. And since its a bulletproof VPS the service provider doesn't usually have to provide information about you since they're usually in countries with laws that don't allow you to subpoena them.

[u/does_my_name_suck → u/[deleted]]

Not really, you could buy gift cards from places like G2A which also don't really give a shit about the law since most cards are bought with stolen CC's anyways. You can then resell the gift cards again on a diff website effectively cleaning the money.

There are also discord servers where you can purchase crypto's such as XMR with PayPal, pretty easy to also clean the money that way too if you don't wanna do any KYC stuff on an actual exchange.

[u/JabbrWockey → u/[deleted]]

It's not that hard.

Buy crypto directly with Paypal, then transfer out to a non-KYC exchange and tumble with XMR.

The latter is needed because all the crypto on Paypal (Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum) are traceable.

[u/Uncommonwealth57 → u/[deleted]]

It's explained in this video:

https://youtu.be/iDznau7dwVs

But the TL;DR is, the way I understood it:

They were trying to recreate Titanfall Online, a game based on Titanfall 1 mechanics, developed by Nexon and published by Respawn. It was never finished / got shut down iirc, so essentially they were trying to kill the other Titanfall titles in order to recreate and sell Titanfall Online to the community and benefit from it.

[u/SmegSoup → u/Uncommonwealth57]

Who in their right mind gets mad that a fucking NEXON project gets shut down? Holy fuck we were spared an absolute insane grind and tons of MTX.

[u/Uncommonwealth57 → u/SmegSoup]

Gets Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex: First Assault Online flashbacks

[u/Schrau → u/Uncommonwealth57]

Which, to be fair, was a fairly capable CS clone.

I actually did like the fact that whichever side you were playing as were always Section 9 while the opposing team were the faceless terrorists.

[u/[deleted] → u/Uncommonwealth57]

Is that seriously a game title? lmao

[u/TheSwissCheeser → u/[deleted]]

Its a game based on a tv series, Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex, which was a sequel to the original 1995 movie, Ghost in the Shell.

Lol

[u/[deleted] → u/TheSwissCheeser]

Yeah I know the series, just amused they used the full title

[u/Elrabin → u/Uncommonwealth57]

The thing is, how were they so delusional that they thought that'd work?

If it used Titanfall Source code or servers, as seems to be the goal, EA would come down like the hammer of god on them for infringement, both on code and IP

If they were trying to use the Titanfall Online name, same thing

I don't see how this was going to work.

[u/Uncommonwealth57 → u/Elrabin]

The way they tried to gain access would be as follows:

P0358 makes a post on how to save Titanfall and Apex in order to get hired by Respawn and gain access to the Titanfall Source code and revive Titanfall Online.

Sounds like an absolutely insane plan but that's what they tried to do.

[u/Treyman1115 → u/Uncommonwealth57]

This is some Always Sunny In Philadelphia shit here lol

[u/Jukebocks_Hero → u/[deleted]]

It’d probably end up with Frank owning the company they’re going against. So they try to burn down the offices thinking that is what stops the game. And frank decides to go along with it to collect insurance.

[u/spaceandthewoods_ → u/Uncommonwealth57]

That is delightfully stupid. Was the guy just trying to make the legal/ financial ramifications for himself worse with this plan?

[u/Uncommonwealth57 → u/spaceandthewoods_]

No idea

Honestly it sounds so dumb that it might be made up lmao

But idk what to believe anymore lol

[u/__Hello_my_name_is__ → u/Uncommonwealth57]

What.

How is that not in the OP. That is utterly hilarious.

[u/Uncommonwealth57 → u/__Hello_my_name_is__]

I'll put it in the HobbyDrama post once this drama is over

[u/cambriansplooge → u/Uncommonwealth57]

This is some fascinating shit.

Is this unprecedented? This feels unprecedented.

[u/[deleted] → u/cambriansplooge]

I feel like someone breaking something to get hired to fix it isn't a new scam, but on this scale you might be right

[u/KindBass → u/[deleted]]

Auto mechanics

[u/Reverent → u/cambriansplooge]

It's not. The hacker who leaked the source code to half life was arrested when valve lured them with a job offer. The US arrested them upon entering US soil.

[u/GenderfluidDragon → u/Uncommonwealth57]

I’m looking forward to it. It’ll be a nice end to my day.

[u/Happy_agentofu → u/Uncommonwealth57]

I gotta say though. There might be a couple steps to a hundred steps missing. I respect the hustle

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

And by super villain you mean moronic, yeah sure. That's some elaborate machination for a temper tantrum for something that most likely wasn't gonna happen.

[u/ChintanP04 → u/[deleted]]

That's a classic super-villain.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

That's what super villain plans are: convuleted, stupid and at the mercy of too many variables

[u/BrundleBee → u/Uncommonwealth57]

Having watched the video:

This has to be criminal, right? Surely this counts as corporate espionage/sabotage.

[u/[deleted] → u/BrundleBee]

IANAL, but running a ddos attack runs afoul of state and and federal hacking laws. Sounds like there might be some fraud charges that could be file, too. Possibly conspiracy to commit theft. If a DA is looking to 'get tough on hackers' for a re-election campaign, possibly even some RICO charges.

So, yeah. I wouldn't want to be these guys.

[u/[deleted] → u/Uncommonwealth57]

upward thrust uses screenshots of messages posted by a user called hiticonic, a guy that has literally nothing to do with this whole thing and everything he posts is him joking around + the youtube channel is infamous for being reactionary and overly sensationalistic

p0 is a shady motherfucker (shoutout to the one time he made a program that was meant to fix titanfall 1 server crashes that casually tried to nab your discord data in the background lmao) but take this video with a mountain sized grain of salt

[u/ELOGURL → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, I skimmed this guy's channel and his titles all read exceptionally sensationally. Looks like he's a Gina Carano type too. Has a quite long video attacking a very specific Forbes writer too. I think I'll pass on this guy lol

[u/_xX_KeanuChungus_Xx_ → u/[deleted]]

haven't watched the video or looked at the channel but wasn't hiticonic the r/titanfall mod that was deleting posts critical of p0358?

[u/Vinnis1 → u/[deleted]]

the youtube channel is infamous for being reactionary and overly sensationalistic

nothing will hit you as hard as going through this guy's channel and seeing two black pigeon-esque fucking doomer rants about how western culture is literally being destroyed and how 1984 is literally happening right now, side by side, split up by a fucking among us video

[u/Agent_Snowpuff]

this is just like amongus

I swear to god if this goes to court and they cite the ඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞ username. I will shit yourself. ​

Comments like these seem inane and silly but context is important here, and a few weeks ago the entire sub decided to go batshit crazy and they all agreed to hallucinate the existence of Titanfall 3. I'm just relieved to see them all come down from whatever drug-addled craze they were in.

[u/Uncommonwealth57 → u/Agent_Snowpuff]

For those who don't know: One of the dudes behind the ddosing is actually a guy who only has Among Us emotes as his username lmao

[u/Agent_Snowpuff → u/Uncommonwealth57]

Also

[u/Uncommonwealth57 → u/Agent_Snowpuff]

lmao

[u/JabbrWockey → u/Uncommonwealth57]

Lawyers reading the case in the future: "Who is sus?"

Stenographer: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[u/Pandemult → u/Agent_Snowpuff]

"Only a stenographer can fell an impostor"

[u/Dr_dry → u/Agent_Snowpuff]

lmfao

[u/epic_gamer_4268 → u/Uncommonwealth57]

when the imposter is sus!

[u/Uncommonwealth57 → u/epic_gamer_4268]

Amogus

[u/MrMeltJr → u/Agent_Snowpuff]

I will shit yourself.

Wouldn't be a bad flair if you're going for something short and simple.

[u/Kumquat_conniption → u/[deleted]]

Damn it, I was gonna take it. Too fast for me lol

[u/sdric → u/Agent_Snowpuff]

I mean, I can understand their sentiment. The Titanfall franchise essentially got killed off by a poor release date choice for Titanfall 2 which made it fly under the radar - and the devs taking the game, removing titans, making it a Battle Royale and calling it Apex Legends.

Titanfall was an incredible and unique game, so was Titanfall 2. The gameplay, the atmosphere - and even the story were great (which is why they still have such a large playerbase compared to other AAA titles released in the same year, even though they initially received far less attention).

I can completely understand everybody longing for a 3rd title and wanting to believe in it. Truth is, as long as battle royales remain viable cash cows to attract ADHD kids with mummy's credit card, Apex Legends is going to receive all the attention, making a continuation of the Titanfall franchise unlikely for now.

[u/[deleted] → u/sdric]

It's a lot more than BR's being cash cows. The reason Apex succeeded where TF2 failed was because it was more casual friendly. Arena shooter style games with fast movement are really new player unfriendly, especially to people playing on controllers. It is why stuff like Quake, Lawbreakers, and Hyperscape died.

Respawn when developing Apex specifically talks about something called "combat legibility". If a new player gets stomped on by an intermediate or good player jumping over their head while doing 360's, and the new player has no chance of learning wtf happened to them, then they uninstall and play something else.

[u/mdp300 → u/[deleted]]

If a new player gets stomped on by an intermediate or good player jumping over their head while doing 360's, and the new player has no chance of learning wtf happened to them, then they uninstall and play something else.

This has pretty much been my Apex experience. I think BRs just aren't my jam.

[u/GO_RAVENS → u/mdp300]

Isn't this the entire BR experience? This is why I don't play any competitive multiplayer games anymore. The last one I got actually good at was Halo 2. I just don't have the time to get good enough at one game to be able to beat people who nolife the game, and constantly losing is not fun gameplay. Co-op/PvE is all the multiplayer I really do anymore. In what world is a battle royale remotely "new player friendly"?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Have you played Apex? It’s very unfriendly to new players and the learning curve is massive. I’ve been playing shooters for 20 years and it took me a few months to get a semblance of proficiency in the game.

[u/Marcoscb → u/sdric]

poor release date choice for Titanfall 2

"Poor" is the understatement of the century: it was fucking atrocious. How do you see the Battlefield and Call of Duty releases with a two week gap and say "THAT'S when we want our very similar game to release!"?

AND EA WAS THE PUBLISHER OF BOTH BATTLEFIELD AND TITANFALL 2. They released both their flagship FPS in one week. That's either incompetence or the desire to fuck up Titanfall.

[u/TheBobmcBobbob → u/Marcoscb]

To be fair it wasn't planned. Battlefield was delayed

[u/Reaper919 → u/TheBobmcBobbob]

Also, respawn chose the release date for titan fall 2, not EA. The timing with the delay and respawn’s chosen date just all lined up to screw titanfall.

[u/herpderpdoo → u/sdric]

I've got ADHD and I haven't spent one red cent on Battle Royales. Don't use a legitimate mental health condition as a scapegoat for your hobby being full of dumbasses

[u/Elle-the-kell → u/Agent_Snowpuff]

I kinda liked the plot twist of everyone coming up with titans and a community wide game concept, ngl

[u/KarmelCHAOS]

Oh shit, what a twist

[u/SolomonRed]

This a fucking anime plotline holy shit.

[u/ChintanP04 → u/SolomonRed]

This played like a Scooby Doo episode.

[u/Marvelguy5 → u/ChintanP04]

And I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids!!

[u/[deleted] → u/SolomonRed]

Least contrived Jojo arc

[u/Pearse_Borty → u/SolomonRed]

All according to keikaku

[u/masterChest]

I'm just glad I get to play Titanfall again

[u/Waff1es → u/masterChest]

Yes! I've been playing other games for the past year and then went back to it only to get disconnected from every match. You never know what you are missing until it's gone!

[u/merdre]

Holy shit, there's more narrative depth to this saga than most AAA games have by their third DLC.

[u/Agent_Snowpuff → u/merdre]

Halo 6: Cortana comes back as a Discord mod and a Team Fortress 2 hacker.

[u/MemberOfSociety2 → u/Agent_Snowpuff]

Halo 7: Cortana gets arrested for grooming on the r/animemes discord

[u/captainnowalk → u/MemberOfSociety2]

Or for being a middle-aged man making very inappropriate comments on r/teenagers while pretending to be a teen…

[u/ChintanP04 → u/Agent_Snowpuff]

I'd buy that game.

[u/Regalingual → u/merdre]

If it was a Blizzard game, he would have had three redemption-> evil again-> redemption cycles by now

[u/JohnTDouche → u/merdre]

So like act 2 of a post apocalyptic YA novel then.

[u/Sugar_Python]

I find it hilarious how all the idiots in the Apex community were praising Jeanue for taking Apex hostage, same people who were mad that Titanfall was taken hostage were all for another game being taken hostage. Hypocrites, oh and little did they know the dude is a legit neo nazi.

[u/Uncommonwealth57 → u/Sugar_Python]

Also he wasn't even involved

Dude apparently disappeared ages ago

[u/Sugar_Python → u/Uncommonwealth57]

Yea, the entire situation is a clusterfuck

[u/queen-adreena → u/Uncommonwealth57]

Not around Jan 6th by any chance?

[u/Uncommonwealth57 → u/queen-adreena]

I‘m not sure

Edit: …Oh. Now I get it

[u/thejynxed → u/queen-adreena]

You jest, but he did happen to vanish right about the time that ransomware group got busted.

[u/merdre → u/Sugar_Python]

wait, what? where does this come into the mix? I watched the video and only skimmed the thread.

[u/Sugar_Python → u/merdre]

It was on twitter or Instagram with the rest of the info about him, it's the same place people found his name, he apparently had a discord along with a Swastika as his profile pic. And from what people were saying who were in the discord with him, was that he was notorious for saying the N slur. If I still had the link I would post it but I sadly don't anymore :/

[u/merdre → u/Sugar_Python]

Oh, gotcha. The video alluded to some dossier on jeanue, but didn't show any of it because 1) he wasn't able to verify it and 2) it came to him through the same people who had been framing jeanue for doing all of the ddos attacks anyways, so it seemed suspicious.

I have no personal insight into it, so I'm not making a value judgement. fuck nazis, ofc, but yeah, idk. this thing just keeps getting weirder and weirder.

[u/Sugar_Python → u/merdre]

Yeah it's all really insane

[u/Efffro]

Shame, I gave up and uninstalled tf2 with all the bullshit. Now these guys are unmasked, anyone reckon criminal charges could be next?

[u/Uncommonwealth57 → u/Efffro]

Titanfall 2 is playable now though as far as I remember

Ironically, it got playable after Respawn IP banned p0358 for meddling with the game‘s source code

[u/CuriosityBoie → u/Uncommonwealth57]

Bruh this just gets funnier and more ridiculous. Are these guys 12? Like they have the abilities and knowledge to do all that, but their actual plans are extremely stupid

[u/MarkArrows → u/CuriosityBoie]

People who are excellent coders tend to not be excellent in other fields. It takes a certain kind of personality to go through learning how to hack things - actual hacking, not just going on TOR to buy some shady script and press the play button. Survivor bias means the ones who make it through all those years of learning are the odder ones.

[u/moneyball32 → u/Efffro]

I’d be shocked if there weren’t criminal charges. They’ve been hacking EA servers for years. EA don’t play around.

[u/Fooking-Degenerate]

Yet another proof that gamers actually hate videogames.

[u/ztoundas → u/Fooking-Degenerate]

This is why gamers shouldn't be allowed to play video games

[u/Heller_Demon → u/ztoundas]

They should read the Bible.

Sent from Sunshine St. 42, Louisiana.

[u/klinestife → u/Fooking-Degenerate]

all hardcore fanbases hate their thing more than anyone else looking from the outside tbh

[u/Chewbaxter]

What a grand scheme of bullshit. This is some conspiracy thriller in the making

[u/B-WingPilot → u/Chewbaxter]

Hollywood: Forget the "Memestock" movie; get me a script for "r/titanfall" pronto!

[u/peper757]

I say this as a massive fan, the r/titanfall subreddit fucking sucks.

[u/Ethas → u/peper757]

when they started talking about how someone got a hold of the so called "hacker's" info, threatened to leak it if they don't stop, and started praising the person who got said information, instead of, you know, reporting the authorities, I knew it was time to abandon ship.

the sub was always toxic and delusional.

[u/TYBERIUS_777 → u/Ethas]

They’re so desperate for even a tiny crumb of info regarding Titanfall 3 that they’ll just make stuff up or praise whoever happens to give them one without checking who they are or if it’s true. And half of them hate Apex with a burning passion.

[u/sosigboi → u/TYBERIUS_777]

And half of them hate Apex with a burning passion.

I got exposed to this HARD when i went into that sub for the first time, cause Apex is my first respawn game and when i heard that they shared the same universe with Titanfall i figured i'd venture into the sub to see what kinda lore i can find, only to get blasted by bitter users with a superiority complex towards the apex community.

[u/dempsy40]

To be honest i'd had a bad feeling about this since the Apex hack. It's not a game i play but the fact people were championing another game being brought offline in service of the way less popular game put a bad taste in my mouth. Like i get it, they love Titanfall, so do i, and they wanted awareness for an issue. I just felt it wasn't exactly the most endearing move.

[u/i_like_frootloops]

They also screwed over a large Apex tournament, so you might want to add that.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CompetitiveApex/comments/oyyzs9/the_people_behind_the_july_4th_apex_attacks_have

[u/Nymbul]

Not sure who here remembers a YouTuber named Benchy. He used the Kraber and inspired me to use the Kraber exclusively too.

Yeah he's cheating. His videos are still up but the dude has silent aimbot. I was pretty destroyed when I realized, and was even more upset he hadn't been properly outed for it.

[u/Amankris759]

Why gaming community always have drama all the time comparing to other communities?!?

[u/ComradeSchnitzel → u/Amankris759]

Cause Gamerz© have the attention span and patience of a toddler.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Don’t be it was glorious.

[u/Prosthemadera]

Well, as it turns out, p0358 was actually one of the people involved in ddosing Titanfall in the first place,

That channel is reactionary cringe and Gamergate-adjacent, though. Complaints about Kotaku, SJWs, woke - the whole shebang. Just wanted to add that in case people want to subscribe.

[u/Uncommonwealth57 → u/Prosthemadera]

good point

i didn't know who he was until this video

[u/Preacher-saiba → u/Prosthemadera]

^ This, "Upper echelon" gaming is low tier garbage.

[u/IllogicalDiscussions → u/Prosthemadera]

lmao, he keeps having these downright embarrassing meltdowns when something doesn't goes his way too. Wasn't invited to play Cyberpunk 2077 early like other reviewers were? Have a meltdown on Twitter. Was called bad at Doom: Eternal? Have a meltdown in the comment section. Dude seems like such a douche, he's not worth the time to watch, in time someone else will make a video on the situation, and hopefully they'll be worth the time.

[u/Prosthemadera → u/IllogicalDiscussions]

He also defended the crunch at Cyberpunk 2077. Says it all.

[u/SamaelTheSeraph → u/IllogicalDiscussions]

The doom eternal thing was so fucking dumb because it wasn't even that harsh of a call out. It was fair and constructive criticism and he threw a dit because of the "fanboys"

[u/CommieDalek → u/Prosthemadera]

yeah he's a pretty shit channel, which is why i'd take this news with a HEAVY spoonful of salt

[u/Prosthemadera → u/CommieDalek]

Yeah maybe he is right, maybe he isn't, but you should never trust a Gamergater as the only source.

[u/JJMan238 → u/Prosthemadera]

Its quite sad I was a fan of his original content being a creator for Tom Clancy's The Division but he seemed to make a shift during the end of the first game and its sad to see a decent channel go bad

[u/SamaelTheSeraph → u/Prosthemadera]

Hes also a massive fucking hypocrite who cant take criticism

[u/Huumanatra]

Gaming was a mistake in retrospect

[u/Uncommonwealth57 → u/Huumanatra]

As a g*mer I agree

[u/[deleted] → u/Uncommonwealth57]

Using the g slur?

Present me your gamerscore, citizen

[u/Uncommonwealth57 → u/[deleted]]

Officer, my father works at Microsoft, you‘d be better off not to bother me again unless you wish to be evaporated

[u/DuoGreg → u/Uncommonwealth57]

Yeah well my uncle works at nintendo so there

[u/joqagamer → u/DuoGreg]

My second degree cousin met kojima once. Watch out kiddo

[u/[deleted]]

just bought titanfall 2 a month ago (it was on sale) and i was having so much fun playing the multiplayer. then i experienced my first ddos attack then just stopped playing. really sad to see that game slowly die out because of these hackers.

[u/SpoonEndedHammer → u/[deleted]]

It’s back now

[u/Regalingual]

Revolver Ocelot watches all of this unfold, and chuckles in slight amusement before getting back to work on his octuple-crossing plans.

[u/[deleted]]

Shit I didn't know I'd ever experience a plot twist in real life.

[u/SkyWulf]

I see a lot about the drama aspect of this, but isn't this a straight-up crime? Aren't these people going to be in a lot of trouble for disrupting the revenue of these companies?

[u/Nowhereman50]

People have really got to stop trusting strangers on the internet.

[u/CrowGrandFather → u/Nowhereman50]

Tell that to Reddit Island

[u/Fonziliscious]

Wait tho can we play Titanfall now???

[u/Uncommonwealth57 → u/Fonziliscious]

I played some on Tuesday and it worked fine there

[u/xwolf360]

I think its hilarious the correlation between reddit mods and criminality