Titanfall fans are growing ever more desperate in the wake of recent in-game teasers, to the point where they're now digging through the Red Hot Chili Peppers catalog for clues about a potential third entry in the beloved FPS series.
Over the past couple of months, Titanfall 2 got a series of updates addressing long-standing server issues and old level bugs. Developer Respawn more recently developed Apex Legends, a game that's technically also set in the Titanfall universe, and recent patch notes have included Easter egg references to the release dates for the Titanfall games. While there's been no official word of any major announcements for the series coming up, these teasers have been leading fans to do a whole lot of speculation.
Judging by Reddit posts such as this one, titled "AAAAAAHAHAHA THE NEW MODE IS A REFERENCE TO THE 3RD SONG OF A RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS ALBUM I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE," that speculation is starting to get quickly out of hand.
See, among Titanfall 2's recent updates have been regular refreshes to the game's featured playlists. The latest mode to rotate in is The Otherside. As that Reddit post notes, Otherside is also the name of a Red Hot Chili Peppers song - in fact, the third song released as a single from the band's seventh studio album, Californication. Yes, "third" as in "Titanfall 3," and we're just a few weeks away from the seventh anniversary of Titanfall 2's original launch.
There are a pretty wide range of comments in that thread, but the tone of the hopefuls is best summed up by this one from Elite-Soul, who says "this is ether god-tier trolling or a confession at this point." There's also Mr_M0rte, who simply says "TITANFALL 3 IS REAL" over and over again. A lot of players have been
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