BF4 server connection problem
At this moment I haven’t been able to play BF4 online for the last 3 days as I keep getting error 1000 the error is server maintenance but does it go on for 3 days straight? As of now I am curious wh...
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This is also happening on other platforms such as pc etc. I am on play station 4
Certainly the PlayStation network of BF4 servers in Europe have been under heavy DDOS attacks these past 2 weeks. This last week has been horrendious and its terrible that tech folks at EA are not stepping up to get the job done to block these culprits from attacking the BF4 server parks!
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BF4 servers currently under DDOS attack! Crashing/freezing/dumping players! - Answer HQ (ea.com)
When the server has first entered into the frozen state, then all subsequent players that tries to join it just ends up with a local hung BF4 application. Joining any other server aka in a different region will not work right away. Its required to stop the BF4 application from running and then restart it again. First then will you be able successfully to join another running server.
These last 5 days are so, the servers have in periods been crashing every 20 minutes or so, making any meaningful EA BF4 gaming literally impossible.
Still waiting for EA to do anything to solve this severe problem, as its all on EA's server side and not due to anything on the customers/gamers side!
We are also experiencing the same kind of issue at the moment. Although we are not being DDOS'd at the moment. We are experiencing that the backend of Battlefield (Blaze) is disconnecting people every xx:18 xx:20 xx:48 and xx:50. It looks like someone is sending spoofed messages to the back-end of Battlefield via a script.
@GODSGRAV3 wrote:We are also experiencing the same kind of issue at the moment. Although we are not being DDOS'd at the moment. We are experiencing that the backend of Battlefield (Blaze) is disconnecting people every xx:18 xx:20 xx:48 and xx:50. It looks like someone is sending spoofed messages to the back-end of Battlefield via a script.
Very interesting @GODSGRAV3 ,
It might then actually be the same thing?
We are on the PlayStation network, and from the symptoms we observe it appears as if the server park is being DDOS attacked, in very similar time intervals also as you mention there. The servers hosted at the same location are definitely both for the BF4 on PC and also for the Playstation platform. And we see that other servers than our own are also crashing down pretty much at the same time all together.
In the BF4 game we can see suddenly the red server performance tacos popping up, on the screen top right. And this is despite there may only be a handful of players on the game server itself. And then within 1-3 minutes, the server stalls and then all freezes in the gameplay and then 20-50 seconds later it crashes/drops all connected players off in one go. Often the server is then remaining in a frozen state and nobody can join it anymore for many minutes thereafter. Sometimes this then is though for a much longer period of time.
So not getting the service from EA that we pay for, to rent the servers from them!
(mind you, on PlayStation, all user support including server support has to be delivered by EA themselves. I know that PC server renters can and should go straight to the server hosting partner, who they also pay for this. Not so for Sony PlayStation environment. So still waiting to see any action from EA's side to get this fixed...)
Very interesting @GODSGRAV3 ,It might then actually be the same thing?
We are om the PlayStation network, and from the symptoms we observe it appears as if the server park is being DDOS attacked, in very similar time intervals also as you mention there. The servers hosted at the same location are definitely both for the BF4 on PC and also for the Playstation platform. And we see that other servers than our own are also crashing down pretty much at the same time all together.
In the BF4 game we can see suddenly the red server performance tacos popping up, on the screen top right. And this is despite there may only be a handful of players on the game server itself. And then within 1-3 minutes, the server stalls and then all freezes in the gameplay and then 20-50 seconds later it crashes/drops all connected players off in one go. Often the server is then remaining in a frozen state and nobody can join it anymore for many minutes thereafter. Sometimes this then is though for a much longer period of time.
Well, the behaviour is different from what we are experiencing. We have confirmation from our server provider (g-portal) that there is no DDOS. And they are pointing the finger to EA. Maybe it is the same bad actor but a different method?
We do not see the "red server performance tacos". The game disconnects us from the server, even tho the server it self is still up and running (talking about the actual server not battlefield software). We can still reach the server via procon and there is no disconnect from it when we are disconnected from the game. We are also no experiencing the issue that people are in a state of people not joining. Sometimes it does happen that people are in the queue, but thats something from the back-end again..
So not getting the service from EA that we pay for, to rent the servers from them!
(mind you, on PlayStation, all user support including server support has to be delivered by EA themselves. I know that PC server renters can and should go straight to the server hosting partner, who they also pay for this. Not so for Sony PlayStation environment. So still waiting to see any action from EA's side to get this fixed...)
You got this partly right. On PC we indeed host the server from a provider so we need to contact them. But it still uses the back-end of EA. This is called Blaze, as far as I know, this is what is being targeted we believe. So eventhough we need to go to our provider, they cant do anything as its the back-end of EA, not g-portal.
