Re: Community Server Under Attack by DDOS from China

Players active on the server when this sudden DDOS Attack/Crash happens will typically experience that all gameplay on the screen gets into a frozen state and nothing moves.  If they go to the Options screen to check for the performance metrics, then this is what they typically see:

So the network connection is perfectly fine for them and working as supposed to locally and to their internet ISP.   But the BF4 server itself has stopped responding to any of the connected BF4 players/the connected clients.   As illustarted by the screenshot here above.    Suddenly showing a latency to the server of 50+ seconds!   And this is the case for ALL the connected players.

Typically the server then ends up fully crashing and everybody are kicked off the server and server is empty and all can join a few seconds later again.   Or near all players are dumped by the server, but maybe 4-7 players are left still on it, and they then can suddenly start moving again and all a-pear back to ‘normal’.

And this then goes fine until again next DDOS attack is being placed onto the server hosting party here for EA/DICE.

And the BF4 game servers on that IP segment is then again all coming crashing down or going into the permanent frozen state.

EA really needs to step up and do something seriously about this!

Its not something new.   And most of us renting servers have all experienced this from time to time.

But it has become more and more frequent and to the state now absolutely not acceptable anymore in any way or form.