The comment RedShield issued to Eurogamer in April is now being read in this context: 'I ask that Respawn solves the issue permanently by giving us access and control over the Titanfall 1 servers, with permission to moderate, to ban users, and, if I can be so bold, to even mod the game.' The hackers allegedly require access to the Titanfall source code to complete their project, and orchestrated an elaborate scheme to convince Respawn to hand it over to them in order to 'save Titanfall'. The true goal of these hackers, it is claimed, was to revive free-to-play spin-off Titanfall Online, which was developed by Nexon for the Asian market before being cancelled in 2018. One of the images shows a Discord text conversation in which RedShield talks to p0358 and a hacker with the Among Us symbol in their username (this hacker is known as 'MrSteyk') about a prior attack that targeted a Titanfall 2 streamer. RedShield, alongside Remnant Fleet administrator p0358 - who was held up as a 'saviour' after publishing a Medium article dubbed 'How to fix Titanfall' in late July - and Remnant Fleet members DogeCore and MrSteyk are namechecked as plotting to hack Respawn's shooters. The SaveTitanfall website has now published a 40-page pdf that includes hundreds of images of online messages and screenshots that paint a troubling picture of misdirection. Now, the Titanfall community is in uproar after RedShield and a handful of associates were accused of being behind the hacks in a bid to revive the cancelled Titanfall Online. (Perhaps, just one server.?) Respawn has expressed interest in the idea in the past, and of all the solutions to the exploits problem and the player-retention problems we've come up with, community-run servers is the strongest.' We have people who would, in a heartbeat, spend money - I ask that Respawn solves the issue permanently by giving us access and control over the Titanfall 1 servers, with permission to moderate, to ban users, and, if I can be so bold, to even mod the game. 'They have in-depth knowledge and experience with the Source engine and the way Titanfall's files work. 'We have many extremely passionate members in this community who are very talented programmers and coders,' RedShield told me.

RedShield called on Respawn to provide community-run servers to help get Titanfall back in business. In April, I spoke with 'RedShield', founder of the TF Remnant Fleet community - at the time one of the last and largest Titanfall 1 communities left - to find out what was going on with Titanfall.

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