Community Server Under Attack by DDOS from China

I've also been experiencing the same problem for MONTHS! but lately it's been really getting out of hand!

Crashes as many as 5, 6 a day!

I been renting BF4 servers for close to 9 years but Hardcore Nation Metro will be our sixth year anniversary on the 9th of March!

Sad to have such a tragic end to a wonderful game ever created by EA!

Server: Hardcore Nation Metro

Console: PS4

Game: BF4

I have been following your post daily CyberDyme and I’m absolutely beyond the point of being disappointed with Ea Sports and the rumors I hear on a daily that they’re deliberately causing these issues we face everyday as players and server owners. My online gaming history is much different then most as I just started playing online 8 months ago. Single player is all I ever played and I tried BF4 online and ever since bf4 is all I play. Most people have their friends they visit on a daily and talk to and I have my fellow comrades. Metro Hardcore is why I fell in love with this game and it will always be my “first love”. I’ve owned my server for roughly 6 months and I help run Hardcore Variations. Over the last month I non stop lose connection to the server, multiple times per day and it’s getting to the point I can’t even finish a game. I hear it’s because of world events that are taking place and they’re professional hackers. I also hear it’s other gamers we play with that crash these servers but the most disturbing rumor that keeps circling community is that we may be continue to be targeted by our own creator, that being EA Sports. They do have motive for one because of the flop release of 2042 and lack of interest I would imagine that drove down financials and caused a lot of issues, and probably due to shareholders demand to fix this flop. I wouldn’t put it past any big corporation to use its power to manipulate its customers to get what it needs and wants and that being all of us to move to 2042. I’ve emailed and tried to call and chat with  numerous people that are associated with EA sport to try to express the concerns and issues we’re having and it’s impossible to get a response from anybody addressing the issues that we post here, twitter etc. They have even hijacked the opening credits of battlefield four by making you look at the advertisement for the new season of 2042 they continuously just keep trying to force it upon us. If EA sports isn’t behind us, then they need to start dialogue with us, server owners and players, and explain what they are going to do to fix this and combat these attacks. The lack of acknowledgment to these posts here and everywhere else makes them look guilty. EA sports and the little guy that reads this on the other side. You have a duty to represent your customers because without us you are nothing. I’m asking from man to man or man to woman whoever may be reading this to do the right thing and get these concerns in front of somebody who will least acknowledge them, so we know that we’re at least being heard. Every day I lose hope and respect for EA sports that I’ve always had since being a kid. You have a commitment to us and I respectively ask you to acknowledge our issues with the servers crashing and either put a team together to fix it, or admit that you were doing it and just shut them down for good

Up!

EA wants us to buy BF2042,

Servers crashing every 30 mins. The game is unplayable on PS4.

Got 4 crashes on 3 different servers in only 30 mins

EA has to fix this problem asap.

When I'm done with BF4, I'll be done with EA all together, I've been buying EA games for 20 years, and if this is their way they're treating their costumers, I'm done.

Not our fault if they chose to go woke on 2042, glad they were so interested in pleasing the 0.01% in our game community and chase away the rest, not our fault.

If I wanted to play COD I would of bought it years ago, They must not stand watching a 10 yrs old game doing better then their newest game, lol

very sad ending to such a wonderful creation. I'd hate to believe EA is the cause of the crashing, but if it is, then there goes their excuse that they don't support servers anymore and don't have access to them.

There's hardly any more Hardcore Servers left, they're achieving their goal, I'll probably be next, gone forever.

EA!!!! what are you doing?? the entire month of february all servers have stopped and crashed 24/7. these are not what I pay to rent a server for. I hope you fix this as soon as possible, this applies to Operation Metro VIP. we are a group trying to revive metro because there are no other servers on playstation to play on. we wish Ea fixes this and it affects all players and bf4 users will be less and less if it is still crashing. Then players leave and go to bf42.

The game needs to be upgraded….. ddos ​​attacks will continue for a long time if EA does not address this and fix the problem

We  have the same issue and started a petition here: https://petition.tne.ovh/ 

DICE has acknowledge the problem and forwarded it internally, let's hope they decide to address it.

Same problem with our servers.

We started a petition here: https://petition.tne.ovh/ 

DICE has acknowledged the problem and forwarded it internally, let's hope they decide to address it.

@GODSGRAV3 @CyberDyme @DavlosREE  

Good morning Gents, 

I am experiencing the same issue except I am able to maintain 42/64 with (4) in the queue. However, I noticed that my primary server screen is stuck which concludes the durango-Monkey.Sparta

The server is not either aware or does not care about the underlying issue. My second server is fine with no problems to be owd if you ask me. I have tried everything I could think of including speaking to EA on the chat but nothing on their part is being done.  I have attached some pictures for you to see. I have had this server for almost 2 years going strong and never had this issue in the past.  My buddies in Germany and Brazil have a high latency that goes beyond triple digits at times. 

Thank you for sharing @D4rkAur0ra,

And especially big thank you to "The Next Era" for starting up this petition in full open transparent fashion!

Your whole story and experiences you have been going through are exactly the same as I have/am!!!

Except that your server is Shanghai 24/7 while mine is Metro 24/7.

And your platform is PC while mine is PlayStation.

(think we are both in Europe, so our servers are in the same data center as far as I know) 

Your summary of 'the 3 typical server crash scenarios' are familiar, though I can solidly confirm that type1 is not possible on the PlayStation platform.  And the DDOS in its traditional form would, as you write, typically be able to be handled swiftly by the server-hosting-partner that you contract with for PC and that EA contract with for aka me on the PlayStation platform.  I have conducted a substantial and detailed tech monitoring collaboration together with the BF4-server-hosting partner in Europe (they even shared some of their tech tools w me) and we could both agreed to our shared findings that there was absolutely nothing wrong with the lines between the server and the connected BF4 players.  But the problem was happening in EA's connected backend, referred to as BLAZE.  And these were the concluded outcomes from a methodologic and technical detailed analysis and monitoring over a 7days 24/24h period.  So despite a perfect running server and a perfect connected player client, with zero internet line drops and zero package loss over a 7 days period 24/24h between the two of them, then the EA BLAZE backend kept dropping the players off the game server again and again.

And I am, as you are, troubled/harassed by the third type of hacking problems (The "Blaze Disconnect") and having exact same experiences also as you describe so well in your history so far with your very popular BF4 server:

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We are "The Next Era", a well-established community centered around our 24/7 Siege of Shanghai BF4 Server.  Ever since we founded the community in 2018, we have been attacked from many different people, usually because they did not agree with our rules, wanted to force players to join alternative servers.  We even got offers to pay ransom money to not be attacked. Since a week, our server is again under attack, being crashed up to four times - per hour. This will lead to the slow death of our community, and one of the last Shanghai servers with proper moderation. 

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First I was threatened that my BF4 server would be crashed/attacked if I did not unban certain named players.

Then I was offered cash to sell my BF4 server (by these same individuals).

Then I started receiving direct threats about my server being brought down.

Then specific warnings ahead of time and later with specific time points when to expect the server crashes.  And then the server started crashing at these specific time points. And since then, its just crash after crash after crash after crash....

Multiple tickets raised with EA/DICE. 

3+ weeks in and still no resolution.