Re: Community Server Under Attack by DDOS from China
@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!
