Titanfall 2 Hack Isn’t As Bad As You Think, Says Respawn

Fall of the Titans 2 hasn’t really had a hot girls summer. Since May, hackers regularly hit Respawn Entertainment’s First-person shooter with direct denial of service (DDOS) attacks, making the game virtually unplayable. The situation came to a head yesterday, when viral social media posts suggested that hackers could indeed take control of gamers’ computers. But Respawn, who recognized security issues, noted the problem was exaggerated.

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This hype happened the way these things always do: through an unwieldy phone game. One post in particular, posted by Twitter user @WorkAsIntended, citing a Discord post from user DirecXeon, who quoted Fall of the Titans 2 Blueghost content creator — exposed the crux of the matter:

Basically someone discovered the temp file which Fall of the Titans/ Origin uses for invitations to the game has a size cap. If the username of the person who invited you is larger than this maximum size, they will start overwriting other files to save the name. Once it exits that specific temporary file, your computer starts treating it as executable code instead of a username. And because it’s directly on your computer, it can edit the other files on your computer.

DirecXeon too Noted that security concerns apparently affected all platforms. (Fall of the Titans 2 is available on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and is part of the Xbox Game Pass library.)

This unleashed a flurry of social media posts of players urge others to uninstall Fall of the Titans 2 in all haste. But after investigating the issue, Respawn said that such a move is unnecessary and the feat only does Fall of the Titans 2 crash. In following a Tweet deleted since, popular Fall of the Titans Titanfall4Ever fan account Recount players, they don’t need to uninstall the game.

Fall of the Titans 2 isn’t the only Respawn game to come under hacking attacks. Earlier this summer, Apex Legends has been hacked by Fall of the Titans Fans who thought Respawn wasn’t doing enough to support Fall of the Titans 2. These hacks prevented players from participating in matches, forced them to participate in a “SaveTitanfall” playlist, and directed them to a dedicated awareness website. Fall of the Titans 2is sorry state. These hackers have conspicuously achieved one thing: make developers work on a public holiday. The community later found out that this was all in reality a false flag operation designed to secure Fall of the Titansthe source code of in efforts to obtain Fall of the Titans Online, a canceled free game, online. It was a mess.

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Kotaku contacted EA, Fall of the Titans 2editor, for a comment on this week’s hacks, but did not get an immediate response.