@EA_Atic
Thanks for the comeback and the suggestions, but this is not a problem on my end. By now it is apparent that many people are suffering from these DDOS attacks and have made it to an evident blacklist for TF2. Last week (July 7-9) I was able to play both Titanfall games freely, without any of the difficulties in this thread or the "no servers found" errors that have rendered TF1 unplayable for months. I'd made no changes to my system but suddenly both games worked as they were supposed to. Then, suddenly on 7/10/2021, the "ping soar/ freeze/ crash with ReadPacketEntities:failed" error was back - TF2 was useless and TF1 had returned to its "no servers found" normal status of unplayable.
It was as if whoever is behind these attacks had shut them down for a few days then started up again, just to show us (and EA/Respawn) that he/she could allow or kill the games at a whim. I know, from the twitter feeds, that the game companies are aware of what is going on and working towards a solution. Also realize that it probably a "whack a mole" type situation and this hacker is playing cat-and-mouse with the companies.
While I appreciate the efforts to thwart this person, it isn't much comfort to those of us who've paid for the games, enjoyed them a lot and now are unable to access them. Definitely is discouraging me from any further EA/Respawn product purchases until a solution is found.
Thanks for your time.