The Tragedy of Titanfall 1 & 2 

For those of you who are unaware, there is currently a client mod out for Titanfall 2 that restores the multiplayer to it's former glory. It is called the Northstar client and while I don't know much about it, it makes it to where you can continu playing Titanfall 2 even today. Check it out here: github.com/R2Northstar/Northstar/releases

Jeanue is an actual Redditor like wtf. Imagine being that pitiful a person that you would dedicate hours no years of your life to ruining a game just because you got your cheeks clapped. Dudes got no maidens

Both Titanfall games were incredible and shining beacons of consumer friendly practices and giving the fans what they want. People wanted a more in depth campaign? TF2 made one of the best FPS campaigns ever. People wanted more interesting Pilot and Titan customization? TF2 did that. Even all the main content of the game was free updates other than some cosmetic skins which even then were only about $3. AND THIS WAS AN EA GAME.

Jeanue killed 2 games only because he had skill issue... I love humanity.

Blame can be shifted towards: Respawn for letting it go on, The hacker for destroying the servers, and the community for going against each other's throats in a time where they needed to stay united and strong.

It disgusts me how respawn entertainment used Titanfall 2 as a marketing tool and saying: "Titanfall is in our DNA" to simply abandon it because apex was bringing in more money

I loved Titanfall and 2. I hate multiplayer games with a passion, because I never have time to sit-down and grind through multiplayer and it brings out a side of me I really don’t like… The multiplayer felt cinematic, the NPCs were genius because it made the game have a sense of scale.

Been playing vanilla titanfall 2 consistently for a month now, the queue times continue to get faster and faster. It is truly wonderful and I am glad the game works, I've even seen a large number of new players flood in after the sales.

There's this article about school shooters titled Don't name them, because naming them incentivizes to go out and do it again. I would say the same happens with hackers, so if we could get them in the anonymity it would be better for everyone playing any game

Some people really have nothing better to do with their time that ruin other peoples fun. There needs to be more accountability for people who do stuff like this online.

How Respawn abandoned this IP is unforgiveable. As soon as they made Apex and got a taste of that freemium money, they immediately left the game to die. They did the gaming equivalent of leaving your wife because you can't be bothered to deal with her cancer diagnoses. Absolutely disgusting. Titanfall 2 did so many things right. The community loved and praised Respawn as passionate developers who cared. And as a reward for our dedication, they spat in our face. Screw you, buy our lootboxes. How about no Respawn. You specifically advertised Titanfall 2 as being consumer friendly without lootboxes, then immediately turned around after sabotaging your own game with a terrible release window. Complete sellouts. Respawn and EA deserve each other.

Considering that selling a "faulty" product is illegal in some places, I could see why Respawn and EA took down TF1, but because this guy was causing not one, but 2 products to suffer, one unworking and the other just barely working, he can and should be sued for the determent of revenue to Respawn and EA, money talks, and that's the only language EA and Respawn seem to speak as of late.

Titanfall Fans: Have you heard the tragedy of Titanfall the great? It's not a story Respawn would tell you. It's a gaming legend, so great and so fun, it could give you hours of fun playtime a day. It had such power that it could create a true game in a time of lootboxes and pay to win. Unlike it's counterparts some would consider Titanfall to be unprofitable, it was so great that the only thing it should fear was losing it's developers, which of course it did. Unfortunately it was destroyed by hackers, its fans. Ironic it's developers could save their fans and give them hope, yet they couldn't save their own game.

Respawn: "Look at our second installment!" Players: "Wow this is really good!" Respawn: "And we made a BR better than Fortnite!" Players: "Man it even plays very similar to Titanfall!" Respawn: "Titanfall?"

interesting how 2 totally different games called tf2 have similar problems.

I cant believe that respawn cant fix a game that made them who they are.

Titan fall 2 was my first first person shooter that I actually took the time to get good at. I loved that game so much but after while it took to long to find a game sadly

Titanfall 2 on PC is far from dead. The playercount is surging and even if attacks resume, people can circumvent them by using the new Northstar mod client. Instead of being all doom and gloom, how about you add on the Happy Ending at the end for Titanfall 2. I play the game daily and I can tell you there’s even a ton of new players flowing in, and a lot of old players coming back. There isn’t just hope for the game, Titanfall 2 is being actively not just maintained, but updated with new content by a community developer. New Gamemodes are even being added.

Imagine scaring the shit out of Activision to the point they make advanced movement shooters to counter you, only to get hacked on.

We need another titanfall game Both 1 and 2 were equally masterpieces

This is one of your best videos yet. Well done.

Thanks for including my video and bringing attention to this issue. It sucks that we’ve still been dealing with it and had to have community members make their own servers just for this game to survive.

Gen 10 Pilot here. Love the video. For me, Titanfall 2 lost it by removing the Titan’s regenerating shield in multiplayer. That first game…, still lost for words for how revolutionary and brilliant it was. Nothing like winning a game, then taking down the escape ship too! Or, losing and getting away! Or killing an ejecting pilot. Or needing to get somewhere, and a team mate Titan crouching so you can jump onboard. So many great moments.

First match of Titanfall I went 36 - 2 I'll never forget how much fun I had on the first game.

I still remember getting the original for my PC back in 2014, and I suuuuuuuucked at it. I'd constantly die, and I didn't particularly like the parkour mechanics, HOWEVER, in time I learned the ins and outs of how to play and eventually it got to a point where I was at the top of my team's leaderboards pretty consistently. It's the game that convinced me shooters could be so much more than just generic army stuff. Sadly, I never picked up its sequel, and knowing how bad the online has gotten, I don't really feel compelled to. It's shame the Titanfall franchise died out. I love mechs and I learned to love the combat, but I guess not all things can last. I've heard Apex Legends is good, but with all the microtransactions in place, I'm not too sure.

Titanfall 2’s campaign was truly incredible. The bond that formed over the Pilot and the BT titan was so cool to see develop. It’s sad that we may never get a follow up to that.

Titanfall IS, to me one of the best FPS multiplayers ever made. Don't care what anybody says :D Beautiful game, beautiful soundtrack. Beautiful spirit, explosive action.

Wow, I haven't seen a RoboKast video since you're Unturned videos. Seriously impressed with the quality of your videos now. Been apart of the Titanfall community for a while, glad to finally hear all the pieces come together in a way that makes sense.

The downfall of the franchise was EA releasing Titanfall 2 in between Call of Duty and Battlefield 1 it was never going to succeed in that release window even though it definitely was the best shooting game that year

this thing feels like a plot from the Death note anime. A detective who fights injustice, in fact was a puppet master some kind. A true tragedy

I love Titanfall its what inspired me to get back into the sport of airsoft after many years away from it and thanks to the snow ball effect it gave me the motivation to start my own channel in a round about way I have Titanfall to thank for helping me find the joy in content creation ever since I found your channel I was hoping you'd cover TF and I'm glad to see it finally happened you did a fantastic job good sir keep up the great work ❤️

Titanfall 2 is and always will be one of my favorite games of all time. And with Northstar, it makes me so happy that I’m able to continue to be able to play the multiplayer!

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Titanfall? I thought not. It’s not a story the Apex players would tell you. It’s a Pilot legend. Titanfall was a great game of Respawn, so good and so fast it could use it's potential to influence the devs to create other movement shooters. It had such a knowledge of movements that it could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The movement in a game is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. It became so powerful, the only thing he was afraid of was losing it's player base, which eventually, of course, happened. Unfortunately, it taught Apex Legends everything he knew, then the DDOSer killed it in it's sleep. Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself...

It is 100% respawns fault because they crumbled under pressure against stuff that can be easily removed with some type of anticheat put into their game and they just decided to crumble the future of titanfall which is one of the greatest games ive ever played

this might be one of the best videos from Robokast so far on par with the unturned video. love this investigative work.

Yes! Another titanfall video talking about how under rated the games are to make me cry again even though Ive seen like 50 of them and know what will probably be said but still support the person making the video because we need more titanfall awareness!

I still play Titanfall 2 campaign. And I absolutely loved the multiplayer. It was the only game that made me want to be competitive and get better.

I didn’t mind Titanfall 1 I loved that they combined the story and multiplayer together.

Bro, very good investigation! Good video

Very good job summing all this up. Congratulations.

Had so much playing both. They should remaster.

Jeanue's "the blacklist" for titanfall2 has ruined my time on it, I can only play the campaign. Otherwise Jeanue can go to hell

Great vid man , thanks for all the infos .

Fantastic video man!

Thank you very much for highlighting the original Titanfall in all of this, no one ever talked about it. It's personally my favorite FPS ever made and I now have to play it on my Xbox 360 to even play the game anymore. I do definitely think that it's Respawns fault as in the beginning of the TF1 issues P0 highlighted like 20 easy fixes they could do in the Remnant Fleet discord. I'm finally glad the entire war is over with all the drama and such, but I wish TF1 could've survived through it. All I can wait for is the Titanfall Online project to hopefully revive the small playerbase it had and bring more people in as it should be free from what I remember.

I love these games, and I play Titanfall 2 almost every day despite the reduced game base. It's beyond it's time and there's no game so far better than TF 2. It's such a shame a masterpiece game like this has been targeted so bad, and been abandoned by their creators. I'm so glad it's currently working. Nice vídeo!. Peace!

Just got to say this channel pumps out some of the best content on RU-vid

Jeanue could have very well been sued by content creators and the company that made both games, as what he did is harassement, violation of property and with how far as he did, he could face prison for hacking the game and banning accounts, making Respawn lose players and probably even share holders, even if we don't know who he is, by opening a case and causing an investigation to play out, we could have found who he was and he would have been arrested for at least a maximum of 5 years i think.

also i saw a few claims that the OG devs of (i think) both games left the company. it also can be asumed that not only doesnt EA care, Respawn also isnt the same Respawn back when they made TF1&2

If Respawn was serious about fixing the game, that would never happen

Just played titanfall a few hours ago I still think the game is one of the best games I have ever played and I will forever love titanfall

I vividly remember being kicked myself for weeks on end off TF2, and then I was there for the apex hack and was already in the remnant fleet discord. I remember talking to PO before man. Glad I got a recap video of the stuff I missed. I left before the red tape situation because TF2 was just unplayable at that point and my life got busy. Thank you for making this video.

Have you considered documenting what has happened with Team Fortress 2 and its issue with bots and hackers?

One thing i dont understand , no one couldve tracked down this jeanue guy and just legit beat him up?

The most frustrating thing to come out of this was Respawn taking the Xbox One and Xbox 360 versions of Titanfall 1 off digital sale despite the fact they remain the only thing that was never attacked by hackers

I am a proud fan of the "Titanfall" franchise. In fact, I'm kind of addicted to it. I played it for 12 hours straight yesterday and didn't get bored. Yes, the servers are back up and there's an online player count in the "Find Game" interface. Yesterday, I saw that there was about 2,000 - 2,500 people online. There used to be close to 7,500 - 10,000 on a weekday. Those numbers would basically double on weekends. However, the hacks that happened made the player count go so far down, that for a while, the player count was so low it only showed "..." This most likely meant that the was only about 500 people at max online. Titanfall 2 is making a slow recovery and I hope we get to go back to normal eventually.

Literally respawn could’ve just fixed both issues and moved on they wouldn’t have lost too much.

A tragedy? A tragedy i really like to play to this day!

Thank you very much! What a good video ! Keep up creating contents please :) Really good content for real

This video is amazing, this is like somewhat big budget film story telling, or like some sort of gaming anime with this kind of plot.

imagine being so bad that you literally kill a franchise

As someone who genuinely liked titanfall finding out that the game and its sequel was ruined for everyone myself included because of this hack was awful seriously if you’re really so low that you’ll resort to destroying an entire franchise of games for whatever excuse of a reason you can come up with you should seriously reconsider your life choices.

Titanfall 1 and 2 are absolute masterpieces in each's own right. They are beautiful games with indepth and complex movement that are extremely addicting to learn. Its the only fps campaign that has had a lasting effect on me and ive replayed multiple times. The multiplayer (although unbalanced a bit) is still super fun and theres player made mods such as Northstar for pc which make the game playable indefinitely for the core community. This group of people are so inspiring that we have rallied together over a game we love and it has united us to be stronger than we could ever be alone

Thank you for saying that titanfall 2 was still playable. It’s a game I’ve only played limitedly but fell in love with and now that I have my own PC I can but I didn’t know if it was worth it due to the hacks. And that’s for showing the other server I can play on to get the a good proper experience. Definitely earned my subscribe.

I loved playing titanfall 2 even thought I jumped on the train quite late in late 2020 it was a masterpiece and by far the best game I had ever played, last thing I did was have a sad party with my friends in our last playable game of titanfall

TF1 brings nostalgic tears to my eyes to see it dead I’ve been trying to play tf1 for a while it was so fun but I can’t anymore

I started playing Titanfall 2 on 2019, and I love this game the movement everything is good, feel so sad to know that the game was unplayable for a big period of time since I stopped playing a bit ago

What a good tutorial thanks!!

Still play titanfall 2 even what happend to the servers on console. It’s an awesome game which I loved. Sad people like these ruin the fun.

Thankfully the part about the TF2 player count being low is wrong, it is still hanging between 5000-10000 on an average day, and while matches take a while to load due to server problems, the game is still entirely playable if you are patient. There is also Northstar too if those problems are too inconvenient to deal with. Nonetheless this video was great Robo! Thank you for compiling the history of these controversies into an easily digestible video!

Used to play a lot of Frontier Defense on Titanfall 2. Decided for some reason to get back into it recently and found out this has happened. Even though the hacks supposedly stopped, I still can't seem to find a server in the US that isn't laggy. Tried Northstar but there isn't Frontier Defense on there. Sad

its quite intriguing that games that start with TF and 2 both has hackers and bot issues and that both have dedicated fans even long after

It's not the best known game ever, but you should look into the fall of Mordhau. It is a community killed by the developers and the elites of the game.

Titanfall 2 on console at least is rough. There was a server side change and now there's a weird lag to everything, like your a frame or two behind and it throws everything off

Thanks for bringing attention to this :)

Both of the Titanfall games were the only shooters that I actually really enjoyed And it’s just so upsetting what happened to the games Respawn should’ve done so much more for this awesome game

The solution at this point is just to make a Titan Fall 3 and merge the two games

As long as I remember, there are 3 types of hacking and I'm not talking white, black and grey, No ! The 3 types are Destructive ( destroying/harming the software or change its properties/proposes ), Performance ( where the hacker gains extra performance from the victim's hardware ) and Tracking ( where the victim is followed and no longer has a privacy ) Can't we hack him down ? Tracking hacks are the best for this, Account highjacking is a well-known method, but instead of selling the account you can see his personal information and a location will be critical. He is illegally hacking a game, he got no back up when you send pictures of where he lives, what he do and who are his beloved people. Now... Find someone who can scare the sh*t outta him !

Wow this brings back memories. I remember this happening real time

To be honest, I miss titan fall and I am devasted this happened. Good memories on the Campaign.

I can understand the why most popular franchises are so loved, even ones that I personally don't enjoy. Titanfall... Is not one of those franchises. 🙁

Someone will always try to hack and exploit a multiplayer. So if the owners do not patch the game accordingly, then their fault if hacks damages the experience for the users. Don't think it requires much work to make the main fixes.

I think it is worth mentioning that titanfall 2 is still highly playable and has a pretty decent playercount right now thanks to the Northstar client that introduces the ability to host your own servers and adding a serverbrowser and etc. modding capabilities to the game. With being community made, it recieves full time support and is genuinely more fun and engaging than the base game ever was.

Titanfall is one of my absolute favorite game franchise and its an amazing concept. It hurts me to see what has happened.

Bro I re-downloaded Titanfall 2 a couple months ago in order to play some Frontier defense because it's been years since I played Titanfall 2 and I missed it! When I got on and tried to play a match I would get locked into place then booted from the match. I contacted EA and respond and told them everything and nothing they said would fix it! I can't even play some damn wave-based game play against AI..... Titanfall 2 needs to be fixed that was one of my most favorite games I've ever played and after I took a long break and came back the game was completely broken because some Vigilantes took things TO DAM FAR! I'm so happy I found this video and figured out what the hell is actually going on. Appreciate it I cannot wait to share this video my friends. And I think I'm going to send a copy of the link to this video to respawn entertainment and EA through support... absolutely heartbroken💔

Titanfall 1 was the first online multiplayer game I ever played, I grew up on it on my Xbox 360 it has a special place in my heart, but this just means it hurts so much more

A lot evidence and people pointed that Jeanue was someone within respawn. The blacklist they developed for Titanfall 2 would have only been possible if you had access to respawns side of the servers. That's why the Northstar client works. Because Jeanue doesn't have access to that server. It's also how he was able to ban streamers no matter their IP, name, or anything else they could do to disguise themselves. And a lot of people speculate that respawn was trying to kill Titanfall so that it'd be one less thing to worry about, and so that they could truly dokey focus on the cash cow that is Apex. It's unfortunate, that Respawn was so passionate about Titanfall, and then they just pissed it all away...

In my opinion, if Respawn is given the green light to develop TitanFall 3. They would actually uproot the FPS genre. I wanna see Jack Cooper again.

It's so sad the games were left to rot essentially, if Respawn had done a basic job, we'd still be playing like normal.

jeanue was in fact doxxed but it was not realesed bc of fear for getting the wrong person from what i heard. you completly missed the northstar client that gives a whole new world of possibilities for titanfall 2

It’s sad that someone’s life is so depressing that the only from of happiness they can get is ruining other people’s experience in a game for the soul reason that they’re just bad at the game, it even more sad when you realize he has a real skill that he could be putting to use in cyber security

A tragedy even sadder then the Tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise

Thx 4 the feat

Titanfall 2’s campaign was just spectacular. Played through it for the first time in 2020, got the platinum trophy. Lost my PS account and went and platted it once again. I’d do it over in a heartbeat. Just a breathtaking experience. Up there with Elden Ring, Halo Reach, The Last of Us and God of War.

Wish I knew this when I played titanfall, Because everytime I logged into a server my game would crash on a highend, So I thought it was a problem on the game and I never could've played it, Makes sense after all these years

Regardless of everything, I just think that big robot going boom boom and small fast robot going nyoom is all that we need.

What happened to titanfall hits me especially hard considering the sentimental value that titanfall 2 holds for me. Not only is it one of my favorite games of all time, but when i first got my ps4, it was the first game i ever inserted into and played, and continued to play till its downfall. Me and my best friends bonded over the game. (i 1v2d them with only a kraber doing only trickshots and still won, i was a sweaty kraber main.) I now play pc and northstar client doesn’t work for me anymore. I tried reinstalling it but it just stopped working sadly.

One correction, about when the Respawn "help ASAP" tweet and till the removing of Titanfall 1, the game was mostly playable. Don't remember if it was cause Jeanue was laying low after all the exposure or if Respawn actually changed something server side, but you could get in games and play them no problem about 9/10 times. So, when Respawn decided to remove the game from store, the community was quite confused since the game was working almost perfectly. Tl;Dr: Respawn "fixed" Titanfall, to then remove it from the store

Amazing video! What’s the name of the outro song?

Its so odd to remember how the original titanfall was constantly critised for being bland, boring and generic