Respawn Entertainment’s first-person shooterTitanfall 2is nearly five years old, but afree-to-play weekend on Steamat the beginning of May demonstrated that the title still has an active fan base. Over those few days, according to Steam Charts, the game reached a peak of nearly 28,000 concurrent players.
Unfortunately, not everybody wants to seeTitanfall 2or any other gamedeveloped by Respawn Entertainmentexperience success, and one presumed former player has been actively hacking Respawn’s multiplayer servers for years. BothTitanfall 1and2as well asApex Legendshave experienced DDOS attacks in the past, as recently as April, that have made it impossible for people to log in and play the games.
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Currently,Titanfall’s PC servers are down, according to publisher EA’s server status page, although the Xbox One servers are up and running. But a Twitter account that reports onApex Legendsnews, TitanfallBlog, has reported that the hacker is also targeting the servers forTitanfall 2, so far unsuccessfully. And the developer’s othermultiplayer shooterApex Legendsis rumored to be under attack, as well.
Nobody is quite sure of the name of the attacker, but most players seem to believe that it is a single person who feels wronged by Respawn for some reason. Some people have attributed the hacks to a disgruntled player called Tufi, who was caughtcheating inApex Legendsand subsequently had legal issues with EA.
Others have with some assuredness attributed at least theTitanfallattacks to a hacker called Jeanue, who has gone by multiple names on Origin, the digital storefront used to purchase and play EA-published games. For years, this attacker apparently has used two exploits to impact the games’ servers. The first causes a buffer overflow and makes users crash out of the game; the second causes the server to kick players.
Although Xbox One servers are currently up, the hacker is apparently targetingTitanfallconsole servers as well. Some players have reported getting blacklisted from the game on Xbox and being unable to log in, and a few have even claimed to have been hit by the hack on more than one platform.
Whoever the hacker is or their motivations, it’s certain that the team at Respawn have been hard at work to amend the problems as quickly as possible. They successfully circumvented theDDOS attacks in April, have found fixes for some of the exploits employed by the hacker known as Jeanue, and are aware of and working on the new wave of DDOS attacks currently affecting theTitanfallservers.
Titanfallis available on PC and Xbox One.
