Respawn rush out Apex Legends update to counter hacker\u2019s \u201cSave Titanfall\u201d DDoS attacks A serious hack was recently deployed against Apex Legends \u2013 but not to cheat or win games. Instead, the hacker created a new playlist name, sending players to a website about saving Titanfall. Within 24 hours, Respawn was able to deploy a fix and restore matchmaking. Titanfall, primarily the first game but Titanfall 2 to a lesser extent, has been plagued by DDoS attacks preventing anyone from playing the game. The problem has been ongoing for over two years. Respawn have posted messages explaining that they are working to fix the problem, but so far, no long-term solutions have been identified. As a result, a vigilante hacker took over Apex Legends on July 4, with a series of messages pointing players to a website dedicated to \u201csaving Titanfall.\u201d \u2018Save Titanfall\u2019 hack on Apex Legends Players started noticing the messages on the morning of Sunday, July 4. The name of the playlist was updated, claiming that it was a \u2018new mode available.\u2019 The playlist itself was renamed to \u2018SAVETITANFALL.COM | BRUH\u2019, and was accompanied by the message \u201cTF1 is being attacked so is Apex.\u201d As one clip shows, players were unable to queue up for other game modes at all. ApexLegends #ApexLegends \ud83d\udd17 https:\/\/t.co\/fy468gVHEZ pic.twitter.com\/NctpKCI68M \u2014 \ud83d\ude2a (@YungLucianOG) July 4, 2021 Additionally, players were also greeted by an \u2018Important Message\u2019 at the end of games, instructing them to visit and repost the website. The website in question, savetitanfall.com, stated: \u201cTitanfall is a beloved franchise by many, and hacker issues have been at rise. The Titanfall community has been begging Respawn to fix this issue for over three years, but to no avail. Today this game is still being sold, while being completely unplayable. It\u2019s time we speak up.\u201d The website also alleged that selling Titanfall in its current state \u201cwithout fixing the different issues and ignoring their customers is an act of fraud.\u201d Read More: Who is Seer in Apex Legends? – \u201cNowhere on the Origin or Steam store listings does it say that the game is unplayable, and from the reviews, you can see that many people met the same fate of buying an unplayable game.\u201d In May, Respawn said they were \u201caware\u201d of the hacking issues in Titanfall, and were investigating. Respawn\u2019s director of comms, Ryan Rigney, has said that they have spoken with some of the hackers and simply asked them to stop. However, Respawn is in a constant battle, taking \u201cweeks of work\u201d to address \u201ceach new stupid thing\u201d that the hackers do to ruin the classic FPS game. https:\/\/twitter.com\/RKRigney\/status\/1397211924186677249 Respawn responds to DDOS attack Respawn first responded to the incident hours later on Twitter. What began as a simple \u2018investigation\u2019 into the situation at hand, took more than six hours of hard work to resolve. The devs quickly worked on a fix to restore matchmaking to its original form, without the hacked playlist. After various tests, a server update began to roll out at 6PM PT on July 4. \u201cWe\u2019ve confirmed that matchmaking has been restored,\u201d confirmed Respawn an hour later, once the patch had hit servers around the world. We\u2019ve confirmed that matchmaking has been restored. We\u2019re keeping an eye on things but believe the issue to be resolved. Thanks for your patience, Legends. \u2014 Respawn (@Respawn) July 5, 2021 For now, Apex Legends should be working as intended. However, the devs are continuing to monitor the situation for any lingering effects of the hack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Respawn rush out Apex Legends update to counter hacker\u2019s \u201cSave Titanfall\u201d DDoS attacks A serious hack was recently deployed against Apex Legends \u2013 but not to cheat or win games. Instead, the hacker created a new playlist name, sending players to a website about saving Titanfall. Within 24 hours, Respawn was able to deploy a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}