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It has been a tough couple of years for Titanfall 2 gamers, but it surely appears like that could be about to vary. After years of minimal repairs and no new content material, the sport is lastly getting some much-needed TLC with the discharge of a brand new recreation replace. As that is first main replace the sport has acquired in fairly a very long time, observant followers are getting the distinct sense that one thing is up–especially after a Titanfall Easter egg was found in Apex Legends patch notes that have been launched earlier this week.

The replace itself consists of fixes to matchmaking an improved server stability, making Titanfall 2 playable for the primary time in years. Moreover, after eight years, Titanfall 2 non-public matches have been taken out of beta (which is not too surprising, as Apex Legends gamers gained entry to the non-public match characteristic earlier this yr). New and previous recreation modes have been added as properly, and have been rotating ever for the reason that replace went stay final week. The 1v1 Coliseum mode acquired an identical replace, with new weapons added and weapon loadouts rotating usually as soon as once more. Modifications to map geometry, fastened glitches, and remedied out-of-bounds exploits have additionally been addressed by the huge replace, however maybe probably the most attention-grabbing map characteristic is the addition of small Nessie plushies (Apex’s mascot) holding hammers, which have appeared in areas of the maps that have been not too long ago fastened. This can be a reference to Respawn’s current announcement revealing devs had banned over 2,000 cheaters from Apex Legends. With Titanfall 2’s servers lastly purposeful once more, it is attainable that some gamers additionally acquired a whack from the banhammer.

Till final week’s replace, Titanfall 2 was roughly unplayable, and has been since 2021 as a result of relentless DDOS assaults by pissed off gamers of the unique Titanfall recreation. Respawn failed to completely stabilize the sport, and lots of followers have been pissed off to study that Respawn had assigned solely “one or two” devs to supervise the sport and preserve it in a playable state, particularly for the reason that DDOS assaults on Apex Legends (which began concurrently the assaults on Titanfall 2) have been resolved in underneath 24 hours.

Respawn has additionally despatched blended messages relating to the franchise’s future, hinting at future Titanfall content material in a single breath, then claiming gamers would not be seeing Titanfall 3 anytime quickly. Then got here experiences that the studio was engaged on a single-player recreation set within the Apex Legends universe (the identical universe by which the Titanfall sequence is about). Sadly, these experiences have been then adopted by the information that the sport, code-named Titanfall Legends, had been canceled.

Gamers have been clearly disillusioned by the cancellation of Titanfall Legends, and whereas this Titanfall 2 replace actually would not verify we’ll be seeing Titanfall 3 anytime quickly, the truth that Titanfall 2 is at present out there on Steam at an enormous 90% low cost does appear to indicate that Respawn is making an attempt to drum up extra curiosity in its not too long ago resurrected mech shooter. The looks of Nessie in Titanfall 2 additionally means that Respawn is paying extra consideration to the franchise–and its connection to Apex Legends. Tucked away the very backside of Apex’s Harbinger Assortment Occasion patch notes is a curious Easter egg that makes Nessie’s sudden look in Titanfall 2 appear a bit extra important:

“Incoming Transmission…. Topic: Nessie….

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It did not take Twitter sleuths lengthy to decode the message, revealing that the trio of unusual numerical codes signify the discharge dates of Titanfall, Titanfall 2, and Apex Legends, maybe hinting that one thing new is on the horizon. However what might or not it’s? Prolific Apex Legends dataminer Kralrindo has an attention-grabbing take:

A number of months in the past, Apex’s in-game stat trackers modified. As a substitute of merely saying “Wins” or “Harm,” trackers now say “Apex Wins” and “Apex Harm.” Maybe Respawn is leaving a path of breadcrumbs for gamers to comply with that can in the end result in some type of Apex Legends/Titanfall crossover. What precisely that crossover would appear to be is anybody’s guess, however one factor is for certain: Respawn hasn’t given up on the Titanfall universe.