denial of service attacks or bad isp?

Svekt wrote: ↑

Mon 13 May 2019 6:46 PM

Durandal wrote: ↑

Mon 13 May 2019 6:18 PM

Sepplord wrote: ↑

Mon 13 May 2019 7:23 AM

could also just be someone butthurt by a change he/she doesn't like...

Broadsword being behind it seem a bit ridiculous as a theory

Not really. They could just be doing a different method and that it is happening at the same time as a ddos from a banned player, it is a convenient diversion. BS pushed a client update out recently, if you look at https://www.darkageofcamelot.com/ you can see that the major patch was on Apr. 22nd, during that day there were multiple emergency maintances to fix crashing issues. Apr 29th and May 1st, there were more emergency downtimes on live, to fix crashing issues, some of these required extended downtimes for more then several hours. DAoC having CTD issues after patches is highly unusual, as patches do present common problems over the years , this particular one has not really occurred much in the entire history of the game (severed client connections to a server that doesn't crash).


I got a theory, and I might be wrong here. It is a known fact that live took a big hit, to the point where some nights you could do a /who NF (which tells you how many non /anon players are in the frontier), and that it would be less then 10 players! A huge hit! Broadsword refuses to address the community about Phoenix. But you know who they had to address? The publisher! I would be willing to wager that they had a big conference call, and they had to answer for the change in income. A massive change in income. I'm talking along the lines of going from aprox $250,000 to $25,000. So what happens next? This publishing company is very rich, there are a lot of resources at their disposal. They fly someone in!!! Someone who knows how to write code, and gets paid a lot for being a specialist, someone who can sit in the chair for 20 mins and cook something up real good. They put some code into the new client, a client that every phoenix player must download from the live website in order to play. It is a simple anti-piracy code, but well hidden within millions of lines of code. A trigger that would sever whatever connection that the client has to whatever server it is connected to, even the live server (which they had to emergency fix a few things due to false positives in the battlegrounds and housing zones on live....)

You notice that the border keeps are all borked now? You are playing on the most recent live build pushed a couple weeks ago.

Many of us, myself included, have older versions. My laptop actually has the last working build on it, from mid-march. Just need a good filehosting service...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z98U1nMFrJQ