Well, we haven't thought about Titanfall 2 in a while. Respawn's beloved first-person shooter came to PS4 in 2016, and was met with near-unanimous praise for its brilliant campaign and entertaining multiplayer. Unfortunately it never quite caught on, and the developer moved onto Apex Legends — a free-to-play shooter, albeit set in the same universe. While Respawn has largely left Titanfall 2 behind, some recent activity around the game has caused fans to sit up and take notice.
Helpfully, a Reddit post has pulled most of the developments together. Long story short, the game was a bit of a mess for a long while, plagued with hackers and matchmaking issues. However, Titanfall 2 got its first meaningful update in years very recently, which fixed some of those matchmaking and server problems, removed out-of-bounds exploits, made slight alterations to multiplayer maps, and updating a rotating multiplayer playlist with new and returning modes. It's all positive news for hardcore fans, but strange to see it all suddenly being updated.
On top of that, some strange coded messages have appeared at the bottom of some Apex Legends patch notes, and of course, they've all been decrypted. Each of the messages refers to the release dates of Titanfall, Titanfall 2, and Apex Legends. Fans have also put together that Titanfall 2's seventh anniversary is on 26th October, while Apex's latest season ends just a few days later on the 31st.
Most recently, a new mode has appeared within the game itself, named '???', with the description "Your rockets will blot out the sun".
So, with all of this unusual activity, fans of the mech-based shooter are getting excited. What could it all mean? Dare we utter the phrase Titanfall 3? Without the very last point about the question-marked game mode, we'd be a little more trepidatious, but it does all seem to hint that something is going down.
Where do you stand on this? Is Respawn gearing up for some Titanfall related news? Are fans getting amped up for nothing? Discuss in the comments section below.
[source reddit.com, via reddit.com, resetera.com]
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I remember reading somewhere that Titanfall 3 was a no go because the team didn't feel they could meaningfully top the 2nd game, which is why they moved on of their own accord. If anything, I sense this could spell some sort of crossover anniversary material for the hardcore.
I would choose this over destiny and cod every time.
Titanfall 3 would be a day 1 buy for me. Loved 1, loved 2, not a fan of BR stuff. Besides, we need to follow more of what happened with BT!
Titanfall 3 - live service edition.
Ah hope so, what a game Titanfall 2 was/is.
Absolutely loved T2, brilliant campaign (one of the best) but I honestly couldn't get to grip with the multiplayer, admittedly I came to the game late so that doesn't help.
T2 was also the game which the platinum broke me, I just could not for the love of all things holy do that Gauntlet trophy despite hours/days/months of trying
T3 would be a day one for sure.
I finally got to play a game of TF2 yesterday and how did I miss it!
Thank you to you anonymous dev that finally fixed it.
TF2 is, to me, the one and only multiplayer FPS that I can play and enjoy. It just clicks at every level : the movement, the shooting, the gameplay mechanics, the diversity due to the Titans, etc.
As someone who never ever play multiplayer, I am the first one who is shocked at how good TF2 is. It's dirt cheap almost all the time, do yourself a service and go get it if you haven't already.
For the ones who already got it, let's meet on the battlefield again!
@sanderson72 This is exactly what it would be. I’m not even getting my hopes up.
@ErrantRob I think Titanfall 3 was in production but then Respawn pivoted to what would end up being Apex Legends.
I liked the campaign of TF2 and the multiplayer was good, but I remember it being quite a packed schedule of releases around the time, and it just got lost in the fray.
Hmm. Feel like I shouldn't get my hopes up too much with this one.
Downloading again as I never finished the campaign first time around.
I bought it and finished the campaign for the first time two weeks ago (incredible by the way), so I like to think I kickstarted all of this.
Titanfall 2 ... simply one of the best
My sincere hope is for a Titanfall 3......... which is exactly why I gather this has nothing to do with such a release, unfortunately.
Bungie went on to make an open-world RPG with Destiny. Battlefield got slammed. And a lot of people are stepping away from CoD after MW2 shoved ads and micro-transactions down people’s throats (and are releasing MW3 this year when they said that wasn’t the original plan). I also know a lot of people that are getting burnt out of Fortnite and other battle royale shooters.
All that said, I think now might be a good time to capitalize on those things and release a traditional multiplayer shooter with little-to-no ads/micro-transactions. There’s a reason why BattleBit got as popular as it did.
One of the last multiplayer games I was really into before everything went battle royal and service-mad. All I do is Splatoon now. Reminds me I have to play the T2 campaign again.
@Altaria_97 Battlebit is magic and all they did was put fun instead of business model first.
For me, best MP ever and a great SP too. Played yesterday and it was great. Part 3 please! 😊
i'd take a remastered/ps5 version, 4k 120 if possible (wishful thinking), small fee for the upgrade, new unreal 5 features...
just give me an order now button.
TItanfall 2 just worked for me. Both the single and multiplayer. Could be my favourite FPS ever even.
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