Titanfall 2: How To Set Up The Northstar Client

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Apex Legends is one of the biggest shooters out right now, with millions of concurrent players continually coming back to the game, despite its flaws. One of the battle royale's most oft-praised features is its movement system - traversing the world feels smooth and fluid on a level few other games can reach.

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What far less realise, or at least remember, is that Apex's fantastic movement system finds its roots in the Titanfall series - remarkable shooters that actually have even more movement potential than Apex. Sadly, 2016's Titanfall 2 fell by the wayside as Respawn Entertainment moved onto Apex, and to make things worse, the game then fell victim to constant DDOS-ing, which turned into an entire saga that involved Apex being hacked too.

All of this made the game pretty much unplayable, much to the dismay of Titanfall's small, but passionate, community. Despite being widely regarded as one of the greatest shooters of all time, the game was considered pretty much dead by everyone save for a handful of die-hard fans. In December 2021, however, that same community saved the game entirely, developing a custom client that not only allowed for private, DDOS-proof servers but gave players a far greater level of control over the game's settings, making custom game modes a possibility for the first time. Now that you're up to speed on Titanfall's history, if you're a returning player or looking to get into it for the first time, here's how to install and set up the Northstar client.

Named after the in-game class of Titan, the Northstar client is a community-developed client for Titanfall 2 and is primarily the hard work of BobtheBob. It offers