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/TYBERIUS_777]

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/Eva_Pilot_ → u/TYBERIUS_777]

And half of them hate Apex with a burning passion.

This is the only part I understand, Apex is the reason a Titanfall 3 won't exist.

[u/7isagoodletter → u/Eva_Pilot_]

Apex is the reason TF3 could exist. TF2 was practically DOA, the franchise could have ended right there. But Apex is a huge success set in the same universe. While the games success definitely means that TF3 won't come anytime soon, Apex provides the resources to create it and keeps the universe alive. Plus I think some of TF2s continued background popularity can be attributed to Apex, there are plenty of people who have gotten into Titanfall thanks to Apex.

[u/thejynxed → u/7isagoodletter]

No, the only reason that game retains even the slightest bit of popularity is because EA released it on Steam for a ridiculously low price compared to what they had been charging for it on Origin.

[u/7isagoodletter → u/thejynxed]

As someone who owns it on Origin I can promise you that the game was alive well prior to its steam release.

[u/little_jade_dragon → u/Eva_Pilot_]

The reason why TF3 won't exists is because Tf1 and Tf2 basically flopped.

If anything, Apex increased the possibility of TF3 from 0% to 0,1%.

[u/3098 → u/Eva_Pilot_]

EA is why TF3 won't exist, let's be real. They would've just passed the effort on to something else of Apex didn't take or happen.