Many of our BF4 servers are right now under a DDOS attack!
Result is that servers are either fully crashing, stuck like in a frozen state or instantly just dumping a large segment of all players active on the server, so going instant from like a full 64 player game and then bang, only 5-8 players remain in the active game round.
And in worst case, the server just remains in a chronic frozen state and then no longer reachable, neither by owner/admins or players.
We absolutely need EA/DICE professionals to look into getting this stopped ASAP!
The online EA Support group are not competent to handle our tickets that we raise regarding this, as the root cause is not getting fixed and that support staff do not have the technical insights required or the access to get to the server end of things fixed for us here.
Relevant EA folks can contact me for my own server name/details (or look it up in your own internal registry for CyberDyme rented BF servers on the PlayStation platform), but here is a list just of the most recent BF4 Server Crash events on one of our servers:
Server Crashes on Friday 10 February 2023:
Crash 20:28 CET
Crash 20:50 CET
Crash 21:10 CET
Crash 21:33 CET
Crash 21:57 CET
Crash 22:32 CET
I trust you understand that this is not an acceptable state or customer experience.
@YUMSKIS_27 wrote:
@CyberDymethis thing just happen to me on a infantry server. Everyone on the server left, almost nobody was spawning. Then suddenly my own internet went down. Had to even reset my router. When i checked, the server was empty. I dont even care to play anymore if my whole internet crashes from this bs.
Indeed @YUMSKIS_27 ,
It is very disturbing and very frequent for the time being!
Though I can tell you that it does not take down your own local internet. It doesnt.
Though the message that we get from the EA game itself appear to maybe hint at that, it is matter of fact not correct!
It is all happening on the EA BF game server itself. (confirmed by EA's partner in Europe, who hosts their BF4 servers). It is getting overwhelmed by the DDOS attack load and then at a certain point breaks down in the sense it suddenly starts to drop the connection to all connected players, as it cannot keep up with maintaining the synch required within given time limits on the network.
Unfortunately the now old BF4 client application does not know well how to handle that error situation, so typically it will also leave your own client software in an error state, for which there is no 'run time error handling exit controls'.
So while you may actually get back to the main menu in the game application, if you ask it to join the server again, then it will simply state "Joining server...". But it will matter of fact never do so, as its still stuck in your old error state in your network to the server end.
Only way out of that for all the affected players is for them all to close down the app and restart the BF4 app again.
The real root cause and where this has to be fixed is of course on EA's side!
And then work together with their BF4 server hosting partners.
EA should get serious about chasing down these DDOS attackers and then also perma-ban the EA player accounts associated with that activity!
@CyberDymeThese are people who have been identified as racial haters of the Chinese Communist Party, But the problem is they haven't received any punishment from EA until today.
On the contrary, I have been bullied by these people, and the Facebook life circle that harassed me intensively was also intimidated.
My PayPal account that receives server donations also received a malicious donation of $0.1 from these people because he wanted to report me as a fraudster and tried to block my bank account.
Just because I don't accept the political ideas these people are forcing on me, I lost my job and my normal life because of this, just to satisfy these racial haters and get happiness.
You can see the news that China is harassing Japan's phone calls and life threats, This is the way many Chinese people think, No one can change this.
In the past few days, China DDoS attacks servers in North America and Europe again.
If you are unwilling to punish any Chinese criminal, Please end Battlefield 4 global multiplayer immediately.
This way we can request a refund of server funds, Because we are on a 30-day lease per month, we cannot play the game normally, which is unfair to us.
