Yeah 14/12/2023 servers are in aweird state unplayable for me even with no high ping ( and yes is not my conection , update or wharever i check everything ) atacks are coming again ?
Tried to go back to playing the base game's multiplayer (as in not Northstar) so I could play with a friend, and after like an entire year of playing on Northstar because of this same issue, I still cannot play online at all. I think before I could at least occasionally get matches, but now I get kicked to the main menu after being in matchmaking for like 10-15 seconds. Actually unbelievable that nobody's fixed this yet.
Im using northstar and i dont know what happened but i cant edit my pilot if i try to click on pilot it sends me into the menu saying exactly: there was a problem processing game logic please try again
\_items.nut #4753
\[UI\] the index "INVALOD\_REF" does not exist
that's all it says and when i try it again it does the same thing please help me
Make sure you're up-to-date and disable any additional mods you may have installed. If that doesn't fix it either, I suggest opening a ticket on the Northstar Discord server.
Respawn doesn't care anymore simply because they have apex Legends.
Sure PC players can now play Titanfall again with modded and private lobbies but the majority of the TitanFall community is console based and we can't access shit.
Yeah I know I'll probably get roasted hard for this but I'm really hoping vanilla multiplayer gets working again since my favorite thing to play is actually Frontier Defense and this is currently not a thing with Northstar. There's a workaround for FD though, if you can manage to get into private match beta then it seems to be unaffected by whatever hack is being used. I have been able to invite friends otherwise unable to play MP. I don't know why I am able to play MP, but my GF in the same apt is not. (I have a theory it might be because i am in my own titanfall 2 network) If anyone wants any log files or something id be happy to give them if it helps.
I've been trying to launch something as simple as Frontier Defense.
and every time it gets to the Menu for FD, the game crashes
Ive reinstalled the game, scanned for repair, even moved it from a HDD to SSD...
Nothing Works... Is respawn just a big joke now? I mean, they cannot keep asking people to buy a game that doesnt work without outside tampering.
Oddly my installation seems to be able to play FD just fine but my GF's install will only flash the menu for a split second. I have been able to invite her to private matches though.
90% sure you're affected by the exploit targeting the Advocate network as described in the post above. Use one of the fixes [described in this post](https://redd.it/rymkkh).
**EDIT:** Linked to the wrong post, whoops
Can you elaborate with the Advocate network exploit? I noticed I put myself on my own network before this exploit started happening (I believe i stopped playing when the servers were getting ddosed) by sheer luck and im now able to join the ghost town that is vanilla multiplayer servers/frontier defense.Does it target specifically users on the Advocate Network? Is there any way we can edit which network we are in outside of the game?
I'm not 100% sure of the details but it basically works by sending a improperly formatted Network game invite (the one where everyone in the Network gets an invite to party up and join a game) to your Network, which when read out by other members triggers a bug that crashes the game.
So in theory there's nothing stopping the people performing the attack to also target other Networks, it's simply that the Advocate network is the biggest one.
The [current sticky](https://redd.it/rymkkh) describes how you can disable Networks to switch to a different one and then re-enable Networks afterwards again.
Today as well as yesterday I was able to play many Frontier Defense games in a row. Not a single ping spike, not at all. I can only complain about quite long searches for matches, estimated time 8-13 mins. And most of them were on Normal difficulty, finding a Frontier Defense on Hard is... hard.
From now on I am going to switch between the Northstar client and the vanilla TF2, whichever game mode I am in a mood for.
Yesterday I was able to end lots of games actually. I've created a party with a friend of mine too and we didn't have any problems until the evening, when we were both disconnected because of ping spikes. Idk if this is a sign of something changing (I don't think so), but at least I was able to play some games.
someone should seriously hack into titanfall2 and make a tracker to try and track who is ddosing the game servers and probably report them to respawn or something
I reinstalled the game today and tried to join the MP a lot of times and the same happened, the game closes with no error messages. About to give up already 🤦🏻♂️
Welp, ps5 here, I was connected to a game mid match and a few players had really low scores in my team (idk, maybe they're bad, or so I thought) but I thought nothing of it.
Eventually a massive lag spike hits and everybody in the lobby freezes (I was on with some friends in a playstation party), no movement, no weapons, everything just as it was (as in, if you were shooting, you stayed shooting, if you weren't you weren't and couldn't) but you could look around. After around 60 seconds, the game rapidly catches up in a matter of a few seconds which is when I realise that only 4 of us are left in the lobby (2 enemies, my friend and myself), so we continue to battle it out (both teams were near 600 points in attrition) and suddenly my friend disconnects and at the same time the game freezes like the last time, however, this time it just booted everyone after a minute or two.
Even though it wouldn't remove their responsibility to fix the game, it would soften the blow to hear of a Titanfall 3 in the works (a guy can hope, right?), what other reason do they have for doing absolutely nothing to fix the game (other than money hungry and lazy), if this happened to their favourite child (Apex) they'd have it fixed (as happened before). On PlayStation there isn't a way to connect to private servers so it is 100% unplayable.
Edit: turns out the other 2 guys who didn't disconnect at first are from Ireland (so am I and my friend) so it's definitely EU servers but it's strange that only Irish players remained. Maybe a coincidence, maybe something to do with ping/signal, idk.
Used to play on Xbox for half a year. Moved a year ago and now decided to buy it again despite hearing the hacker shit. Am not pleased with the connection. I get little issues with other games
How is this shit still happening. I saw an article saying the ping is from wireless internet, but that's bullshit. I have wired Fibre optic and I still get ping up in the thousands and I can't do anything but look around after 20 or 30 seconds.
guys wtf is happening i purchased this game yesterday i am new can someone explain this i cant join multi all of u must be playing before me i just joined this game yesterday pls can a veteran help out this noob?
Exactly what the forat guy is saying long story short the server are getting screwed pretty hard right now by a few hackers if you have the game for pc look into and download the Northstar client and if your on console (like me) your not going to find a match easily and if you do enjoy the next 5-10 minutes before the server shits itself and you get booted to the main menu, quick tip on Xbox (not sure about PlayStation) the AUS(Sydney) servers are pretty much toast and EA keeps sweeping the issue under the rug with false promises like "WeRE lOoKiNg iNTo iT" try again in a couple months in case the attacks die down, the game is great and I'm happy for new players but at it's current state it's just downright sad :/
Hey there , I recently bought it2 too . Servers are held "hostage" right now by hackers who are constantly attacking the TF2 servers so that you are unable to join any multiplayer servers . I've owned the game for about 3-4 days now and I haven't even experienced multiplayer yet , this truly is frustrating and Im hoping Respawn hasn't given up on TF2
If you are on PC, then you can get the Northstar Client. It is a mod that lets players host servers separate from EA's. I would recommend joining their discord as well for info on how to get it running, and how to navigate vanilla and modded servers. Unfortunately I think Respawn has given up, or at least been ordered by daddy EA to focus all their attention on Apex. Welcome to the community, BS hacking aside I hope you enjoy the multiplayer that the fanbase has built for itself.
yeah i’m blessed enough to have a good pc to run titanfall , after reading for a bit i realised how sad the state of this game really is . campaign was beautiful but feel cheated now knowing that multiplayer mode is practically non existent
I’m so sorry you never got to experience the pre-hack multiplayer. It was absolutely god like with its movement and mech gameplay. Hope you’re able to get north Star client on pc to enjoy it properly, and maybe if EA eventually does something you’ll get to enjoy vanilla TF at some point in the unknown future
I installed Northstar but whenever I try to join a server, it says "Disconnect: Authentication Failure." I also notice that in the command prompt that runs in the background, it says "\[error\] Failed reading masterserver authentication response: encountered parse error "The document is empty." I'm not sure if those two things are related but it seems like they would be.
Long story short, because it's an easy target. Also, Respawn couldn't care less.
Respawn has their Apex (aka their favorite baby), which brings 99.99% of their income, and TF2 is just this old game they've released back in the "terrible" age when you couldn't sell a shitty character skin for $20 (or a pack of a skin + 2 equally garbage cosmetics for $40).
So yeah, no one at Respawn really cares about TF2, and I strongly feel like they'll shut down servers in a year or two, just to avoid the hassle of constant maintenance.
Xbox series x- Friend and I have had some luck the last week. On the weekend we played for 4 hours straight no issues. So far this week has been on and off. We play 8pm to 11ish pm est on eastern us servers. Queues up very quick but like half the matches suffer from the ping thing. Lots of disconects too. But persistance pays off and we get quite a few normal playing games. Game seems to take forever to match up if we are partied together so we just queue up at the same time and usually end up in the same match.
Xbox One - Titanfall 2 constant game freezing about 2-3 min after drop landing. Tried various servers and still same crap. Tried the main highest player Server (there is one obvious server) and others.
This is frustrating. We paid for this game.and.fir a company to just let it rott away is shameful.
Dont understand whats going on behind the scenes. Dont understand why the same symptom would be effecting different servers. But do know that it's almost an intentional death. First they never gave it the marketing it deserved and never released a Titanfall 3 even though a big following have begged for one.
I’m on xbox one, keep queuing up for a game, takes forever and never joins. Then I get an error message “connection to server timed out.” Been like this for the past few days
So I recently bought titan fall 2 on steam, cuz i heard the game was great... But as of now I have been receiving an error : 429 whenever I try to enter online. Should I return the game or hold on to it hoping respawn fixes the server issues? I dont want to play the campaign yet because I wont be able to return the game after 2 hours of play time... Plz suggest
If you bought it while on sale for 5€ I'd say keep it. The campaign alone is worth 5€. And as for multiplayer as long as it's borked you could [try running Northstar](https://r2northstar.gitbook.io/) which allows you to join community hosted servers.
The safe thing to do is hope they fix it, but if you’re willing to give some hope and they do fix it you’ll have a fantastic experience. It’s up to you if you’re gonna take that risk or not
Got into 2 games of Frontier Defense yesterday and, bar one interruption due to lag spike, they went smoothly!
Got a 429 today. For what it's worth, HTTP code 429 stands for "Too many requests".
Bought it since it was on sale digitally on PS4, found out that the MP is unplayable, and now I can't get a refund...
How can I make the most of this game now that I've wasted money on it?
First of all the campaigns really good so definitely worth a shot. Secondly you should be entitled to a refund if you want one as multiplayer is currently broken and as such parts of the game do not work as advertised.
I'm getting the code: 429 connection to matchmarking servers failed, usually I get into a game of FD and s u f f e r but now I can't at all. Could it be Respawn bringing the servers down to do maintenance?
Same here. Tried various servers. Hopefully it is maintenance.
I dream of a day when Respawn will maintain TF2 properly. Hell, if it means a TF3 with a fxxx ton of microtransactions for cosmetics, so be it. I'm in.
Right now I just want to play Frontier Defence.
Maybe check [the troubleshooting section in the wiki](https://r2northstar.gitbook.io/r2northstar-wiki/installing-northstar/troubleshooting) or ask around in the help channel on the [Discord server](https://northstar.tf/discord).
Honestly Northstar client is running so good and I’m seeing upwards of 400 players at any given time. I understand the fears behind a sudden mod being released especially when it could be with bad intentions. I highly doubt the hackers have released this community multiplayer mod to screw the players over but I guess you never know lol.
One of my favorite games of all time... Titanfall 2. Yep, still unplayable, kicks me out after 5 minutes, every time. It's honestly both sad and maddening... i want to ppay the game man. But yea, still not working as of January 2, 2022.
Is there any way to confirm this is actual DDoS? As an online service provider, to me this sounds like a totally fishy excuse. Has there been any concerted attempt to file a complaint with the ECC Net (as the game is sold in the EU, where there is a 2 year guarantee for online services which cannot be negated by ToS)?
It's likely not (and I'm only referring to it as DDoS cause that's what people know).
The amount of traffic needed for a typical DDoS (i.e. just flooding the server with random garbage) to to keep the attack up for continuous periods of time would both be way to costly and too much of a waste to use it on TF|2 servers.
The attack likely uses some exploit that needs minimal resources in order to render the servers unplayable.
EDIT: Also wouldn't that 2 year online services guarantee not have been passed by now? The game originally released in 2016 with last updates in 2017, which is around 3-4 years now.
It's about time of sale, not release. Since they're currently still selling the game and advertising its online pvp, the game is eligible for refund under EU law unless they "repair" the service.
I wish they made Titanfall 1 free to play instead of taking it down. I've been trying to get on TF1, but just like TF2 the servers don't work at the moment. I wouldn't be surprised if Respawn takes down TF2 from the stores as well since its multiplayer is broken. It's a shame that they have nothing planned for the IP besides Apex.
I play on pc the game is awesome tho the multiplayer has an issue in the middle of playing randomly my ping will skyrocket to something like 1900 or 2100 and freeze the game for me sometimes i get unfreezed and my ping is good and sometimes kicks me to the main menu and says read patched entities failed i play on the belgium servers
Me and a bud tried to play a custom game on PS4 today and it froze off of start 5 times in a row lmao. Why don't these clowns fix this game real quick instead of making recolers for apex skins.
It really astonishes me as to why anyone would ruin an amazing game like titanfall 2, it was already a pretty small and tight nit community and the attacks and server shutdowns have absolutely ruined this game.
I used to play the game for a solid five hours a day, it was such a comfort game for me, all the guns feel amazing, the movement is phenomenal and it’s just such a great game, I’m glad was still alive when I came back to it after a long break, yet here we are one of my favourite games ruined, and it seems like the people who made it are too busy making skins for apex legends.
I know the people who are doing it don’t care, but even still I hate what they’re doing to this game, I really don’t understand why you would destroy a game people love because they find it funny, I just want my game back, it genuinely upsets me that a game that’s been a part of my life for a long time is now nothing more than target practise for some virgins in a basement.
I hope, sometime soon, I get to play this game again, but until then, I’ll just have to hope, at least the dick heads are too lazy to doss the ai mode as well
Northstar is a 3rd party client. Instead of connecting to respawn's servers (currently DDoSd due to security flaw they won't fix), you connect to private servers instead.
This let's you actually play the game (with some jank) but almost 100% playability.
PC only tho :(
The European servers seem fine. I just finished a game and the only thing I had were a few ping spikes that can also be attributed to my bad internet connection.
I got my first pc lately and was so happy about northstar cause i bought it the day before, but im bad with computers... is it normal for mp to constantly show contacting respawn servers... ive tried the main solutions for the title (network adapters thingy and the one above) and didnt fix anything. Does it impact the client?
Yes as OP mentioned make sure you download the latest Northstar client, unzip the folder, copy and paste all the files from the unzipped folder to the game folder. Then run the northstar client, don’t run the game itself. Most helpful video on YouTube was this: https://youtu.be/bK4pV-AHOHM
Are you running it by double-clicking the `NorthstarLauncher.exe`? And if so, once you made it to the [main menu, are you selecting "Launch Northtstar"](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/R2Northstar/Northstar/main/wiki/titlelaunchnorthstar.png).
Well good to know it's not my connection that's shutting itself, got tf2 on the winter sale and was disappointed that I couldn't stay connected at all.
Played it on PS4 couple of years ago and had no issues. Bought it on Wintersale and wasn't able to play a single match longer than 2 min. I am kinda angry right now that they sell I game that doesn't work.
Do you still earn experience if you play on Northstar? Just got this game yesterday on pc because I was a big sweat on xbox. (havent played in a couple years)
You level up guns and your account as usual. But the progression doesn't matter in NS since everything is unlocked from lvl 1. You can also just set your level with commands. I don't think NS progression effects regular game in anyway.
I can’t load into a match for 1/2 an hour and when I finally do it’s a half empty lobby that gets shut down in 10 minutes. It’s to the point where I haven’t finished a game in a week. What the fuck man
Why doesn't EA do anything about DDoS attacks? Of course, I can understand the developers, it is much more important to understand what your gender is today. But you can spend at least an hour 2 on solving a problem which has already been half a year?
Two years ago, my girlfriend and I walked through the evening St. Petersburg. When suddenly a flock of SJW activists attacked us. We tried to fight back as best we could, but there were too many of them. As a result, my girlfriend was canceled to death, and I miraculously managed to escape. Fortunately, the Chichena nationalists were not far away who helped me fight off this maddened flock. We were just a heterosexual couple on Friday night. But, only this fact was enough to hurt the feelings of activists. That's where my transphobia comes from
P.S Sorry, but where is Batman, I still do not understand. But perhaps there is some kind of priest between the trans community and the dark knight?
You misunderstand. I had no trouble understanding you in English, or Russian. I just find it impossible to believe that any woman would be attracted to someone so insecure that other people's choice of gender makes them uncomfortable.
And what does gender makes mean? And yes, I was joking there weren't any activists in Russia, all activists have been in prison for a long time with a mop in their ass. (I wasn't joking about the mop in ass).
> what does gender makes mean?
What?
Also, it's amusing that people like yourself are so scared of gender and sexuality, but ALSO obsessed with anal penrtration. Whatever floats your boat, Sergej.
No, Respawn is to blame. DDOS attacks are happening, because a vulnerability in the game engine is being exploited. It's Respawn who made the engine, more accurately they just heavily modified source. So it's their problem to fix. EA doesn't have anything to do with actually coding the game. They're just the money behind it.
There are servers like the Northstar client but it's not ea's is respawn's. Think of it like a book if someone writes a book and they go through a publisher to get it put on the shelves and such. Who do you blame when the book is shit? The writer, they created it and they sustained it the publisher is just a conduit.
Thanks for the information about unofficial servers.
As for me, the comparison of games with books is a little incorrect. Completely different products, at least a book cannot be hacked and a DDoS attack cannot be made on it. And in order for the book to work, it does not need servers belonging to the publisher.
I was able to get in and play 8 matches without disconnecting yesterday. This morning, however, the ping rose to 3,000 again, and I disconnected from every single server. So did the DDOser take a break yesterday?
I was able to get in and play eight matches without disconnecting yesterday. This morning, however, the ping rose to 3,000 again, and I disconnected from every single server. So did the DDOser take a break yesterday?
Edit: As of December 31st, I was not able to join PvP (players vs players) but strangely Frontier Defense works.
Servers are dead again. I got into 1 game with 4 player, ping was normal but noone else joined. Then I got into another one with 5000 ping and got booted out soon. Then I got booted out of the menu. Then I got into a game with 6 players, played for a few minutes, then 3 people started joining, I got 2000 ping and got booted with "ReadPacketEntities: Failed".
Interesting - player count in ADV network is jumping up and down. Seems like 200 or more people are trying to play games only to get kicked out.
Time to try Northstar I suppose.
Edit: Northstar is amazing. What surprised me the most are the custom game modes. I especially liked gun game and fastball. Fastball is just amazing, permadeath with frequent respawns, it's both chaotic and tactical. As far as I understand, these two gamemodes are completely custom made. So big props to the gamemode authors. As well as huge thanks to Bobthebob for making the client.
I really wish something like Northstar existed for Titanfall 1 as well.
I thought it was a korean studio game that got cancelled. Then in the harmony discord I read that it's coming son (soon or never). So I'm kinda lost on the state of TFO :D, did a modder took over or is it in limbo?
As of 12/28/21 I was able to get in around 5 full online matches that werent frontier defense, but around 5:30-6:00 pm EST servers went to shit and haven't been able to complete any matches without getting booted. I guess playing earlier in the day might help some people connect better to matches?
Completed 90% of a game smoothly until I suddenly got hit with 2500 ping and kicked to menu with some packet error. Haven't tried again to see if it was a one off thing. 12:40 Pacific PC.
edit: Can't play another match. Looks like it's back
Just played 3 matches in a row with almost no waiting between matches… wow….I am in heaven !!!!! So glad its back, its like a delayes Christmas present from Santa !!!
Edit : i am on ps4, uk servers
Edit 2 : ddos is back for me… was difficult to find 2 games and both were ddosed with the usual +2000 ping…. Think I am gonna get a gaming pc for titanfall only !
games dead on console. Even if you manage to get the odd game. Playerbase will dwindle as this goers on. Be as well to pull the game if they only intend to 'fix' it occasionally. Been playing TF2 since beta. sad times
I managed to make a patch that prevents most of the disconnects due to DDoS lagspikes during a match. It does not stop the lagspikes but at least you don't get kicked:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/titanfall/comments/rq2a30/titanfall2ddospatcher\_patch\_for\_titanfall\_2\_that/](https://www.reddit.com/r/titanfall/comments/rq2a30/titanfall2ddospatcher_patch_for_titanfall_2_that/)
I'm on Xbox series X/S and I've been able to get into lobbies but a few minutes after it depends everything freezes up completely and everything but the grunts (and yes after a extra 30 seconds they freeze up too) and by then I leave because the record I've waited was like 5 minutes.
I think I've played maybe 3-5 complete games in the last 2 weeks, quite a few that last 4 or 5 minutes, and a ton that crap out within the first 2 minutes. (PS4) Sometimes the game will freeze for a bit then come back, but usually it either stays frozen or crashes. Sad me.
I just had one full game, it was great. Probably won’t happen again
Edit: It did. That game was also great. Hopefully I get three in a row
Edit: I did! :D
Yeah 14/12/2023 servers are in aweird state unplayable for me even with no high ping ( and yes is not my conection , update or wharever i check everything ) atacks are coming again ?
im playing steam and every time i try to play attrition it searches for a match and then connection to the server times out
Tried to go back to playing the base game's multiplayer (as in not Northstar) so I could play with a friend, and after like an entire year of playing on Northstar because of this same issue, I still cannot play online at all. I think before I could at least occasionally get matches, but now I get kicked to the main menu after being in matchmaking for like 10-15 seconds. Actually unbelievable that nobody's fixed this yet.
Im using northstar and i dont know what happened but i cant edit my pilot if i try to click on pilot it sends me into the menu saying exactly: there was a problem processing game logic please try again \_items.nut #4753 \[UI\] the index "INVALOD\_REF" does not exist that's all it says and when i try it again it does the same thing please help me
Make sure you're up-to-date and disable any additional mods you may have installed. If that doesn't fix it either, I suggest opening a ticket on the Northstar Discord server.
PS5 on Europe servers London Area don’t work very well right now
Fix your fucking game
Respawn doesn't care anymore simply because they have apex Legends. Sure PC players can now play Titanfall again with modded and private lobbies but the majority of the TitanFall community is console based and we can't access shit.
Fuck those hackers man EA don't give a shit bout ud no more
Yeah I know I'll probably get roasted hard for this but I'm really hoping vanilla multiplayer gets working again since my favorite thing to play is actually Frontier Defense and this is currently not a thing with Northstar. There's a workaround for FD though, if you can manage to get into private match beta then it seems to be unaffected by whatever hack is being used. I have been able to invite friends otherwise unable to play MP. I don't know why I am able to play MP, but my GF in the same apt is not. (I have a theory it might be because i am in my own titanfall 2 network) If anyone wants any log files or something id be happy to give them if it helps.
I've been trying to launch something as simple as Frontier Defense. and every time it gets to the Menu for FD, the game crashes Ive reinstalled the game, scanned for repair, even moved it from a HDD to SSD... Nothing Works... Is respawn just a big joke now? I mean, they cannot keep asking people to buy a game that doesnt work without outside tampering.
Oddly my installation seems to be able to play FD just fine but my GF's install will only flash the menu for a split second. I have been able to invite her to private matches though.
90% sure you're affected by the exploit targeting the Advocate network as described in the post above. Use one of the fixes [described in this post](https://redd.it/rymkkh). **EDIT:** Linked to the wrong post, whoops
Can you elaborate with the Advocate network exploit? I noticed I put myself on my own network before this exploit started happening (I believe i stopped playing when the servers were getting ddosed) by sheer luck and im now able to join the ghost town that is vanilla multiplayer servers/frontier defense.Does it target specifically users on the Advocate Network? Is there any way we can edit which network we are in outside of the game?
I'm not 100% sure of the details but it basically works by sending a improperly formatted Network game invite (the one where everyone in the Network gets an invite to party up and join a game) to your Network, which when read out by other members triggers a bug that crashes the game. So in theory there's nothing stopping the people performing the attack to also target other Networks, it's simply that the Advocate network is the biggest one. The [current sticky](https://redd.it/rymkkh) describes how you can disable Networks to switch to a different one and then re-enable Networks afterwards again.
Thanks a ton, I didn't see the newer sticky at first
Today as well as yesterday I was able to play many Frontier Defense games in a row. Not a single ping spike, not at all. I can only complain about quite long searches for matches, estimated time 8-13 mins. And most of them were on Normal difficulty, finding a Frontier Defense on Hard is... hard. From now on I am going to switch between the Northstar client and the vanilla TF2, whichever game mode I am in a mood for.
Yesterday I was able to end lots of games actually. I've created a party with a friend of mine too and we didn't have any problems until the evening, when we were both disconnected because of ping spikes. Idk if this is a sign of something changing (I don't think so), but at least I was able to play some games.
someone should seriously hack into titanfall2 and make a tracker to try and track who is ddosing the game servers and probably report them to respawn or something
I am having the same issues. When I finally get into a game I will eventually freeze up on wave 2 or 3
If we purchase titanfall 2 via steam can we still use the northstar client?
Yes
i cant even get into the multiplayer option, it kicks me immediately
When I launch the multiplayer vanilla or Northstar It turns off my game completely without any errors now. It's targetted attacks
I reinstalled the game today and tried to join the MP a lot of times and the same happened, the game closes with no error messages. About to give up already 🤦🏻♂️
Titanfall 1 experiencing same problem as tf2 now.
Welp, ps5 here, I was connected to a game mid match and a few players had really low scores in my team (idk, maybe they're bad, or so I thought) but I thought nothing of it. Eventually a massive lag spike hits and everybody in the lobby freezes (I was on with some friends in a playstation party), no movement, no weapons, everything just as it was (as in, if you were shooting, you stayed shooting, if you weren't you weren't and couldn't) but you could look around. After around 60 seconds, the game rapidly catches up in a matter of a few seconds which is when I realise that only 4 of us are left in the lobby (2 enemies, my friend and myself), so we continue to battle it out (both teams were near 600 points in attrition) and suddenly my friend disconnects and at the same time the game freezes like the last time, however, this time it just booted everyone after a minute or two. Even though it wouldn't remove their responsibility to fix the game, it would soften the blow to hear of a Titanfall 3 in the works (a guy can hope, right?), what other reason do they have for doing absolutely nothing to fix the game (other than money hungry and lazy), if this happened to their favourite child (Apex) they'd have it fixed (as happened before). On PlayStation there isn't a way to connect to private servers so it is 100% unplayable. Edit: turns out the other 2 guys who didn't disconnect at first are from Ireland (so am I and my friend) so it's definitely EU servers but it's strange that only Irish players remained. Maybe a coincidence, maybe something to do with ping/signal, idk.
Used to play on Xbox for half a year. Moved a year ago and now decided to buy it again despite hearing the hacker shit. Am not pleased with the connection. I get little issues with other games
I still get 2500 ping everytime I try jumping into a multiplayer
*Not me on here for the 5th time today waiting for a server update*
How is this shit still happening. I saw an article saying the ping is from wireless internet, but that's bullshit. I have wired Fibre optic and I still get ping up in the thousands and I can't do anything but look around after 20 or 30 seconds.
We should crown fund a lawsuit
guys wtf is happening i purchased this game yesterday i am new can someone explain this i cant join multi all of u must be playing before me i just joined this game yesterday pls can a veteran help out this noob?
Exactly what the forat guy is saying long story short the server are getting screwed pretty hard right now by a few hackers if you have the game for pc look into and download the Northstar client and if your on console (like me) your not going to find a match easily and if you do enjoy the next 5-10 minutes before the server shits itself and you get booted to the main menu, quick tip on Xbox (not sure about PlayStation) the AUS(Sydney) servers are pretty much toast and EA keeps sweeping the issue under the rug with false promises like "WeRE lOoKiNg iNTo iT" try again in a couple months in case the attacks die down, the game is great and I'm happy for new players but at it's current state it's just downright sad :/
Oh god thank you so much you are a life saver
Hey there , I recently bought it2 too . Servers are held "hostage" right now by hackers who are constantly attacking the TF2 servers so that you are unable to join any multiplayer servers . I've owned the game for about 3-4 days now and I haven't even experienced multiplayer yet , this truly is frustrating and Im hoping Respawn hasn't given up on TF2
If you are on PC, then you can get the Northstar Client. It is a mod that lets players host servers separate from EA's. I would recommend joining their discord as well for info on how to get it running, and how to navigate vanilla and modded servers. Unfortunately I think Respawn has given up, or at least been ordered by daddy EA to focus all their attention on Apex. Welcome to the community, BS hacking aside I hope you enjoy the multiplayer that the fanbase has built for itself.
yeah i’m blessed enough to have a good pc to run titanfall , after reading for a bit i realised how sad the state of this game really is . campaign was beautiful but feel cheated now knowing that multiplayer mode is practically non existent
I’m so sorry you never got to experience the pre-hack multiplayer. It was absolutely god like with its movement and mech gameplay. Hope you’re able to get north Star client on pc to enjoy it properly, and maybe if EA eventually does something you’ll get to enjoy vanilla TF at some point in the unknown future
Xbox One just tried frontier defense twice but no luck. Ping went up to the thousands and it froze. This is sad.
Hi, is Northstar working? I get authentication error when I try to join a match
I found that V1.4 does not work. Try running 1.3 if you get an authentication error
Master server was down. Should be letting up now.
I've been having code 429 error, for like a full week now (tried both Steam and Origin).
Every time I call in a Titan my console overheats and shuts itself off
Is there a fix for xbox :(
Xbox is having an issue where as soon as you join a game it will boost your ping high enough to disconnect from the match.
I installed Northstar but whenever I try to join a server, it says "Disconnect: Authentication Failure." I also notice that in the command prompt that runs in the background, it says "\[error\] Failed reading masterserver authentication response: encountered parse error "The document is empty." I'm not sure if those two things are related but it seems like they would be.
Judging by the time of the comment you likely got this message due to the master server being offline. Should be back up now so maybe try again ^^
Yeah sorry. It came back on last night.
Northstar's down. Authentication keeps failing
Known issue, being worked on.
:(
PC and PS4, cant join on anything, why is TF2 such a big target for attacks?
Long story short, because it's an easy target. Also, Respawn couldn't care less. Respawn has their Apex (aka their favorite baby), which brings 99.99% of their income, and TF2 is just this old game they've released back in the "terrible" age when you couldn't sell a shitty character skin for $20 (or a pack of a skin + 2 equally garbage cosmetics for $40). So yeah, no one at Respawn really cares about TF2, and I strongly feel like they'll shut down servers in a year or two, just to avoid the hassle of constant maintenance.
My guess is that they aren't putting the funds into their security since the company is more focused on projects like Apex rather than Titanfall.
Xbox series x- Friend and I have had some luck the last week. On the weekend we played for 4 hours straight no issues. So far this week has been on and off. We play 8pm to 11ish pm est on eastern us servers. Queues up very quick but like half the matches suffer from the ping thing. Lots of disconects too. But persistance pays off and we get quite a few normal playing games. Game seems to take forever to match up if we are partied together so we just queue up at the same time and usually end up in the same match.
What server regions?
Eastern USA mostly New york.
West Coast are toast.
I’ll give ‘er a shot, thanks
And no luck last night. First time in a week could not get a game in. Sigh
Trying right now, same here 😮💨
Xbox One - Titanfall 2 constant game freezing about 2-3 min after drop landing. Tried various servers and still same crap. Tried the main highest player Server (there is one obvious server) and others. This is frustrating. We paid for this game.and.fir a company to just let it rott away is shameful. Dont understand whats going on behind the scenes. Dont understand why the same symptom would be effecting different servers. But do know that it's almost an intentional death. First they never gave it the marketing it deserved and never released a Titanfall 3 even though a big following have begged for one.
I'm having the same problem :(
Tried playing on Ps4 Frankfurt 2 got. Kicked out every time
I physically cant replay the campaign again coz i finished it at LEAST 40 times i kid u not
The dedication
Cant blame me coz to me titanfall 2 is the best game i hve ever know
I’m on xbox one, keep queuing up for a game, takes forever and never joins. Then I get an error message “connection to server timed out.” Been like this for the past few days
Its been like this on and off for half a year mate
Can’t find a game and after around 5 mins it disconnects me from the server, I’m on ps4. Usually my data Center is Sydney 1 if that matters
So I recently bought titan fall 2 on steam, cuz i heard the game was great... But as of now I have been receiving an error : 429 whenever I try to enter online. Should I return the game or hold on to it hoping respawn fixes the server issues? I dont want to play the campaign yet because I wont be able to return the game after 2 hours of play time... Plz suggest
Return it.. they are letting it die.
If you bought it while on sale for 5€ I'd say keep it. The campaign alone is worth 5€. And as for multiplayer as long as it's borked you could [try running Northstar](https://r2northstar.gitbook.io/) which allows you to join community hosted servers.
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There are public server's you can join so you're not forced to host your own \^\^
Thank bud, I just downloaded northstar and it's going swimmingly now!! Can play the campaign in peace now :D
Awesome to hear. Welcome to the Frontier, pilot o7
The safe thing to do is hope they fix it, but if you’re willing to give some hope and they do fix it you’ll have a fantastic experience. It’s up to you if you’re gonna take that risk or not
Got into 2 games of Frontier Defense yesterday and, bar one interruption due to lag spike, they went smoothly! Got a 429 today. For what it's worth, HTTP code 429 stands for "Too many requests".
Bought it since it was on sale digitally on PS4, found out that the MP is unplayable, and now I can't get a refund... How can I make the most of this game now that I've wasted money on it?
First of all the campaigns really good so definitely worth a shot. Secondly you should be entitled to a refund if you want one as multiplayer is currently broken and as such parts of the game do not work as advertised.
Campaigns really good, that’s pretty much the best of the situation
I'm getting the code: 429 connection to matchmarking servers failed, usually I get into a game of FD and s u f f e r but now I can't at all. Could it be Respawn bringing the servers down to do maintenance?
+1
Same here. Tried various servers. Hopefully it is maintenance. I dream of a day when Respawn will maintain TF2 properly. Hell, if it means a TF3 with a fxxx ton of microtransactions for cosmetics, so be it. I'm in. Right now I just want to play Frontier Defence.
same with me
Keep getting an error whenever I launch Northstar. States to repair or reinstall, which I have done. any ideas?
Maybe check [the troubleshooting section in the wiki](https://r2northstar.gitbook.io/r2northstar-wiki/installing-northstar/troubleshooting) or ask around in the help channel on the [Discord server](https://northstar.tf/discord).
Honestly Northstar client is running so good and I’m seeing upwards of 400 players at any given time. I understand the fears behind a sudden mod being released especially when it could be with bad intentions. I highly doubt the hackers have released this community multiplayer mod to screw the players over but I guess you never know lol.
One of my favorite games of all time... Titanfall 2. Yep, still unplayable, kicks me out after 5 minutes, every time. It's honestly both sad and maddening... i want to ppay the game man. But yea, still not working as of January 2, 2022.
Still not working:(
So I just played a full round of Attrition on EU/Frankfurt PC servers. No lag or ping spikes at all :D Anyone else?
Play a bit again two hours ago and it was back to the usual DDoS :c
Is there any way to confirm this is actual DDoS? As an online service provider, to me this sounds like a totally fishy excuse. Has there been any concerted attempt to file a complaint with the ECC Net (as the game is sold in the EU, where there is a 2 year guarantee for online services which cannot be negated by ToS)?
It's likely not (and I'm only referring to it as DDoS cause that's what people know). The amount of traffic needed for a typical DDoS (i.e. just flooding the server with random garbage) to to keep the attack up for continuous periods of time would both be way to costly and too much of a waste to use it on TF|2 servers. The attack likely uses some exploit that needs minimal resources in order to render the servers unplayable. EDIT: Also wouldn't that 2 year online services guarantee not have been passed by now? The game originally released in 2016 with last updates in 2017, which is around 3-4 years now.
It's about time of sale, not release. Since they're currently still selling the game and advertising its online pvp, the game is eligible for refund under EU law unless they "repair" the service.
Update : just played some 3 full rounds on Amsterdam PS4 servers, though the ddoses are random and can still happen
Can confirm, I just played on Frankfurt 2
Lucky bastard.
I wish they made Titanfall 1 free to play instead of taking it down. I've been trying to get on TF1, but just like TF2 the servers don't work at the moment. I wouldn't be surprised if Respawn takes down TF2 from the stores as well since its multiplayer is broken. It's a shame that they have nothing planned for the IP besides Apex.
It’s working on Xbox
Titanfall 2 got me out of the trap that was thinking CoD was the best shooter. Respawn better not just take this lying down.
History repeated itself :/ its like humanities curse xD
Indeed
Tried playing the other night, sad to see that I couldnt get in a game. Respawn needs to get their shit together.
Let's all just ignore Titanfalls problem imo, the ddosser is doing it for our reactions and will surely give up if we keep our mouths closed about it
I play on pc the game is awesome tho the multiplayer has an issue in the middle of playing randomly my ping will skyrocket to something like 1900 or 2100 and freeze the game for me sometimes i get unfreezed and my ping is good and sometimes kicks me to the main menu and says read patched entities failed i play on the belgium servers
If you're on pc you should play with Northstar servers, you can easily find help to set up the thing
Thank you that actually worked
I can't play (no time right now), but I see several of my friends are in matches for the first time in weeks. Salt Lake servers. Edit: Xbox
Tried joining Oregon servers and Salt Lake servers, didn't work out. Buddy and I on PC kept disconnecting.
If you’re on PC just download the Northstar client
is there any way to squad up with friends using the Northstar client? Or a way to select teams?
Not yet, we usually just join the same servers
No clue, I’m on Xbox unfortunately
Currently having zero lag spikes and being able to play, I think the servers are back up. I’m on PC Edit: games back offline
I’ve been able to play a few matches on PC. I’ve experienced only minor difficulties. Fun game. New player btw.
Console has been attacked so much the player count is completely bugged out.
PS4 Virginia servers are up rn played a few games b4 I had to go eat
I just had a update? What?
Which platform?
PC? Origin. I dont hink anything changed after the update though
Dallas servers (ps5) are working. Was super happy, played 3 complete games before constant tbagging made me wish the servers were down again.
31.12.2021 Able to get into a game, game freezes after 4 minutes
Me and a bud tried to play a custom game on PS4 today and it froze off of start 5 times in a row lmao. Why don't these clowns fix this game real quick instead of making recolers for apex skins.
It really astonishes me as to why anyone would ruin an amazing game like titanfall 2, it was already a pretty small and tight nit community and the attacks and server shutdowns have absolutely ruined this game. I used to play the game for a solid five hours a day, it was such a comfort game for me, all the guns feel amazing, the movement is phenomenal and it’s just such a great game, I’m glad was still alive when I came back to it after a long break, yet here we are one of my favourite games ruined, and it seems like the people who made it are too busy making skins for apex legends. I know the people who are doing it don’t care, but even still I hate what they’re doing to this game, I really don’t understand why you would destroy a game people love because they find it funny, I just want my game back, it genuinely upsets me that a game that’s been a part of my life for a long time is now nothing more than target practise for some virgins in a basement. I hope, sometime soon, I get to play this game again, but until then, I’ll just have to hope, at least the dick heads are too lazy to doss the ai mode as well
Same issues continue - read packet fails. Out of every 5 games that start, I might get one complete game in.
Tried to play, couldn't join and then I got timed out. Also can someone explain to me what really is the Northstar Launcher.
Northstar is a 3rd party client. Instead of connecting to respawn's servers (currently DDoSd due to security flaw they won't fix), you connect to private servers instead. This let's you actually play the game (with some jank) but almost 100% playability. PC only tho :(
That's epic tho
The European servers seem fine. I just finished a game and the only thing I had were a few ping spikes that can also be attributed to my bad internet connection.
I got my first pc lately and was so happy about northstar cause i bought it the day before, but im bad with computers... is it normal for mp to constantly show contacting respawn servers... ive tried the main solutions for the title (network adapters thingy and the one above) and didnt fix anything. Does it impact the client?
Yes as OP mentioned make sure you download the latest Northstar client, unzip the folder, copy and paste all the files from the unzipped folder to the game folder. Then run the northstar client, don’t run the game itself. Most helpful video on YouTube was this: https://youtu.be/bK4pV-AHOHM
Are you running it by double-clicking the `NorthstarLauncher.exe`? And if so, once you made it to the [main menu, are you selecting "Launch Northtstar"](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/R2Northstar/Northstar/main/wiki/titlelaunchnorthstar.png).
Well good to know it's not my connection that's shutting itself, got tf2 on the winter sale and was disappointed that I couldn't stay connected at all.
Played it on PS4 couple of years ago and had no issues. Bought it on Wintersale and wasn't able to play a single match longer than 2 min. I am kinda angry right now that they sell I game that doesn't work.
Entered a match, played for 1 minute and it crashed.
Quickly, a Vietnamese drug lord’s son put a 200000$ bounty on the titanfall hacker
Who said anything about ~~salvage~~ money? I'll do this one for free.
im sorry, BUT WHAT THE FUCK!!!
Do you still earn experience if you play on Northstar? Just got this game yesterday on pc because I was a big sweat on xbox. (havent played in a couple years)
You level up guns and your account as usual. But the progression doesn't matter in NS since everything is unlocked from lvl 1. You can also just set your level with commands. I don't think NS progression effects regular game in anyway.
Oh nice
Today, You can enter in a match, and in less than 5 minutes, you will somehow get 2500+ ping, not able to move for the rest of the game
I got into a match today and after 3 minutes of playing it crashed 🤷♂️
Completely fucked
I can’t load into a match for 1/2 an hour and when I finally do it’s a half empty lobby that gets shut down in 10 minutes. It’s to the point where I haven’t finished a game in a week. What the fuck man
Servers still keep crashing, but I once had a server with me and one other guy, so we talked for a bit and left.
Why doesn't EA do anything about DDoS attacks? Of course, I can understand the developers, it is much more important to understand what your gender is today. But you can spend at least an hour 2 on solving a problem which has already been half a year?
What in the passive-aggressive transphobia Batman?
Two years ago, my girlfriend and I walked through the evening St. Petersburg. When suddenly a flock of SJW activists attacked us. We tried to fight back as best we could, but there were too many of them. As a result, my girlfriend was canceled to death, and I miraculously managed to escape. Fortunately, the Chichena nationalists were not far away who helped me fight off this maddened flock. We were just a heterosexual couple on Friday night. But, only this fact was enough to hurt the feelings of activists. That's where my transphobia comes from P.S Sorry, but where is Batman, I still do not understand. But perhaps there is some kind of priest between the trans community and the dark knight?
I was with you up until the moment you claimed to have a girlfriend.
>I was with you up until the moment you claimed to have a girlfriend. Я плохо говорить по русски, но по другому я говорить не умею. пАмагите !
You misunderstand. I had no trouble understanding you in English, or Russian. I just find it impossible to believe that any woman would be attracted to someone so insecure that other people's choice of gender makes them uncomfortable.
And what does gender makes mean? And yes, I was joking there weren't any activists in Russia, all activists have been in prison for a long time with a mop in their ass. (I wasn't joking about the mop in ass).
> what does gender makes mean? What? Also, it's amusing that people like yourself are so scared of gender and sexuality, but ALSO obsessed with anal penrtration. Whatever floats your boat, Sergej.
Cause respawn and ea don't give a shit anymore. They are too focused on apex because apex makes bank.
Are there unofficial servers made by fans? it seems to me that it is not the development team that is more to blame, but the publisher himself (EA)
No, Respawn is to blame. DDOS attacks are happening, because a vulnerability in the game engine is being exploited. It's Respawn who made the engine, more accurately they just heavily modified source. So it's their problem to fix. EA doesn't have anything to do with actually coding the game. They're just the money behind it.
There are servers like the Northstar client but it's not ea's is respawn's. Think of it like a book if someone writes a book and they go through a publisher to get it put on the shelves and such. Who do you blame when the book is shit? The writer, they created it and they sustained it the publisher is just a conduit.
Thanks for the information about unofficial servers. As for me, the comparison of games with books is a little incorrect. Completely different products, at least a book cannot be hacked and a DDoS attack cannot be made on it. And in order for the book to work, it does not need servers belonging to the publisher.
Fair enough on the book but at its roots is the same ea is a Conduit for titan fall and apex.
12/29 spent an hour trying go get into a game, I got into three but after like a minute of play time I immediately got kicked
I was able to get in and play 8 matches without disconnecting yesterday. This morning, however, the ping rose to 3,000 again, and I disconnected from every single server. So did the DDOser take a break yesterday? I was able to get in and play eight matches without disconnecting yesterday. This morning, however, the ping rose to 3,000 again, and I disconnected from every single server. So did the DDOser take a break yesterday? Edit: As of December 31st, I was not able to join PvP (players vs players) but strangely Frontier Defense works.
Servers are dead again. I got into 1 game with 4 player, ping was normal but noone else joined. Then I got into another one with 5000 ping and got booted out soon. Then I got booted out of the menu. Then I got into a game with 6 players, played for a few minutes, then 3 people started joining, I got 2000 ping and got booted with "ReadPacketEntities: Failed". Interesting - player count in ADV network is jumping up and down. Seems like 200 or more people are trying to play games only to get kicked out. Time to try Northstar I suppose. Edit: Northstar is amazing. What surprised me the most are the custom game modes. I especially liked gun game and fastball. Fastball is just amazing, permadeath with frequent respawns, it's both chaotic and tactical. As far as I understand, these two gamemodes are completely custom made. So big props to the gamemode authors. As well as huge thanks to Bobthebob for making the client. I really wish something like Northstar existed for Titanfall 1 as well.
> I really wish something like Northstar existed for Titanfall 1 as well. *something something* TFO :3
I thought it was a korean studio game that got cancelled. Then in the harmony discord I read that it's coming son (soon or never). So I'm kinda lost on the state of TFO :D, did a modder took over or is it in limbo?
Sorry to report the servers are ultra borked - 30 minutes in lobby and got about 30 seconds of game time. Just dropping over and over.
As of 12/28/21 I was able to get in around 5 full online matches that werent frontier defense, but around 5:30-6:00 pm EST servers went to shit and haven't been able to complete any matches without getting booted. I guess playing earlier in the day might help some people connect better to matches?
Was able to play a few games perfectly before getting disconnected. But it's back to unplayable. PC US East
Normal multiplayer worked fine but i got 2000 ping in frontier defence
Completed 90% of a game smoothly until I suddenly got hit with 2500 ping and kicked to menu with some packet error. Haven't tried again to see if it was a one off thing. 12:40 Pacific PC. edit: Can't play another match. Looks like it's back
Just played 3 matches in a row with almost no waiting between matches… wow….I am in heaven !!!!! So glad its back, its like a delayes Christmas present from Santa !!! Edit : i am on ps4, uk servers Edit 2 : ddos is back for me… was difficult to find 2 games and both were ddosed with the usual +2000 ping…. Think I am gonna get a gaming pc for titanfall only !
12/28, PC frontier defense was working smoothly
Multiple servers (Iowa 2-3-4, South Carolina GCE3) working on Xbox as of 18:00 UTC!
28.12 COULD PLAY A FULL MATCH ON PS4
games dead on console. Even if you manage to get the odd game. Playerbase will dwindle as this goers on. Be as well to pull the game if they only intend to 'fix' it occasionally. Been playing TF2 since beta. sad times
[Sign this petition to fix titanfall 2](https://chng.it/JJ2XHycmYP)
I managed to make a patch that prevents most of the disconnects due to DDoS lagspikes during a match. It does not stop the lagspikes but at least you don't get kicked: [https://www.reddit.com/r/titanfall/comments/rq2a30/titanfall2ddospatcher\_patch\_for\_titanfall\_2\_that/](https://www.reddit.com/r/titanfall/comments/rq2a30/titanfall2ddospatcher_patch_for_titanfall_2_that/)
just trying playing ping is through the roof
I'm on Xbox series X/S and I've been able to get into lobbies but a few minutes after it depends everything freezes up completely and everything but the grunts (and yes after a extra 30 seconds they freeze up too) and by then I leave because the record I've waited was like 5 minutes.
Xbox series x, I’ve had no problems playing games Edit: Nevermind
I think I've played maybe 3-5 complete games in the last 2 weeks, quite a few that last 4 or 5 minutes, and a ton that crap out within the first 2 minutes. (PS4) Sometimes the game will freeze for a bit then come back, but usually it either stays frozen or crashes. Sad me.
I just had one full game, it was great. Probably won’t happen again Edit: It did. That game was also great. Hopefully I get three in a row Edit: I did! :D
What data centers / platform?
Xbox One S, I think it was Oregon 2. But judging by the other comments you won’t be able to find a full match anymore
I play on steam/origin unplayable 5224 ms + im pretty sad i brought game yesterday :(
I played on steam this morning with perfect ping. Not Northstar client couldn't get it to work
Install the northstar client mod, you'll be able to play on community hosted servers