A hacker has gained sad notoriety in Titanfall. He prevents players from finishing their matches. Players are wondering: What is going on in this guy’s head?
This is the situation with “Titanfall”: Currently, the “Titanfall” brand is back in the spotlight. Thanks to the incredible success of Apex Legends, the franchise has resurfaced in the players’ consciousness.
The success of the F2P shooter has even led to a small renaissance of Titanfall 2 (2016). In Apex Legends, there aren’t even the huge mechs that Titanfall was known for.
Who still plays Titanfall?
But hardly anyone plays the original Titanfall from 2014 anymore:
- Currently, there are 18 players online in Titanfall
- In Titanfall 2, there are still 8607
When Titanfall 2 was released, most Titanfall players moved to the acclaimed successor.
This is what the hacker does: As the site PCGamesN points out, a single hacker is causing trouble for the players of Titanfall 1. The case is being discussed on forums like ResetEra or in EA’s forum.
A player explains: It is impossible to finish a match in Titanfall. There is a guy out there who uses a script that sends players back to the desktop.
The hacker uses a name made up of two words and barcode to make it apparently harder to identify him.
Incident Moves the Gaming Community
The amazing thing about this case is: The interesting thing right now is how much attention the incident is getting. On reddit/games, the single hacker ruining the fun for Titanfall players was at one point the biggest topic. The article about him has collected 7600 upvotes and over 700 comments.
People are discussing what must be going through his mind that he wants to ruin the fun for such a small population of players.
It is hard to explain what the motivation behind it is.
People are also discussing that companies like EA cannot maintain support for older online titles indefinitely.
The Titanfall player who brought the case to light seems resigned: “I know it’s stupid of me and everyone tells me I should just play Titanfall 2.” But he always wanted to try Titanfall.
And it seems somehow crazy that a single guy can make a game unplayable that was released by one of the largest publishers ever.
