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xfunax
New Scout
8 days ago

Reason for SID notation

Why is there information that is completely irrelevant to playing Apex displayed on the screen? For example, SID after matching, or a string of English and numbers when the performance display is tur...
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XHelperZ
Hero+
8 days ago

From what I understand, this information is displayed for pin-pointing where certain issues originate from.

For example, the Subreddit or these Forums might get a lot of reports about long matchmaking times, or laggy servers.
If they provide video's of the laggy servers, then they know the issue is happening, but if the SID (Server ID) is displayed, then they can internally look up the logs and see what might have potentially caused the issue. (Thus making it easier to resolve these issues)

The longer String of characters and numbers in the performance display is the SID, and so is the one in the Lobby. (Though the one in the lobby is a bit longer, I personally assume that this is likely a personal player identifier, though that's just conjecture)

In that case, it could be quite critical for them to resolve issues, as it could take longer without that.

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xfunax
New Scout
8 days ago

Thank you for the information.

This is just my uninformed opinion, but if the above information can be used for DDOS, it will be possible for the abuser to disrupt Apex even if they are not playing the game(I don't know how DDOS works). Only a small number of people are filming while playing Apex, so if there's a possibility of it being abused, it should be hidden. If the developer wants to obtain server information, they should devise a way to automatically send it when reporting.

I'm just stating my amateur thoughts, so don't worry about it.

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    XHelperZ
    Hero+
    2 days ago

    Heya, sorry for the late response.

    I've talked to someone on the Security team a while back, and they confirmed that the SID is obfuscated to prevent any issues related to it. This is why it's also shown regardless of streamer mode / privacy settings.

    So the SID cannot be used to see what specific server they're connected to, nor derive what region someone is playing in. (For example to prevent streamsniping, etc). Respawn likely has their own tools to resolve the SID to useful information, which outsiders wouldn't have access to.

    So I wouldn't worry too much about it being used for DDOS'ing certain players, as it shouldn't indicate what server someone is playing on.

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