Titanfall 2 has quietly gotten a patch to handle the sport’s long-standing server points, and some different teasers from developer Respawn have followers hopeful that one thing greater for among the finest FPS video games ever made is on the best way.
Servers for Titanfall 2 had been in varied states of disrepair over the previous a number of years, affected by hackers and far broader disconnect points. Issues had gotten rather more steady up to now 12 months, however the recreation’s PC servers nonetheless had a selected subject the place you would be pressured to disconnect from matchmaking when you had been unable to seek out an lively server inside a few minutes. That is clearly a giant subject for an getting old recreation with out a sturdy participant depend.
However inside the previous few days, gamers have realized that the PC server bug has abruptly, quietly been fastened. On high of that, the sport has additionally been getting its first common playlist updates in ages. And, over the previous month, gamers have been discovering that map areas that beforehand hosted issues like out-of-bound exploits have been fastened, every marked by a tiny plush of the Nessie mascot from Respawn’s large present recreation, Apex Legends.
Loyal Titanfall 2 followers have lengthy joked that there is a lone “janitor” at Respawn who’s quietly watching over them, and it is beginning to look like this janitor has managed to get some correct work completed on the sport. All this could be trigger for celebration, however there’s yet another element to the story that is obtained followers very excited.
The present Apex Legends season launched one month in the past, proper across the identical time these little Nessies and their map fixes began showing in Titanfall 2. The title of the brand new season? Resurrection. And in the latest Resurrection patch notes, Respawn ended with this teaser: “Incoming Transmission… Topic: Nessie… 1394521200, 1477638000, 1549267200.”
These three numbers are the Unix timestamps representing the respective launch dates for Titanfall, Titanfall 2, and Apex Legends. Few followers are prepared to utter the phrases “Titanfall 3” out loud, however all these updates and teasers have them determined to study what Respawn is engaged on subsequent. This is hoping they don’t seem to be setting themselves up for disappointment.
Respawn continues to repeatedly word that Titanfall is a “beloved franchise” on the studio.