Tag: Attack

ArcheAge Dealing With DDOS Attacks As Servers Strain


If you’re having trouble logging into ArcheAge today, you aren’t alone. Gamigo has stated via the official ArcheAge Twitter account that servers are dealing with several distributed denial of service attacks that the company is working on mitigating.

Players may have trouble logging in during this period.

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RuneScape Temporarily Alters Death Mechanics


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If you haven’t heard, RuneScape is currently under intermittent attacks by an outside party. Given that dying in both versions will result in losing items, players are understandably demanding action by Jagex to protect players while still allowing them to play as much as possible. For the duration of these attacks, Jagex has altered their death mechanics. Gravestones in RuneScape 3 last fifteen minutes longer, allowing players time to reconnect and retrieve their items.

Old School RuneScape is also being updated with a change that still maintain’s the game’s more punishing death system:

If you are not in PvP combat when you die you will now have 30 minutes to return to your items. For the first minute of this timer your items will only be visible to you and for the remaining 29 minutes your items will be visible to everyone.

Players who lose items due to a loss of connection should contact technical support.

(Source: RuneScape)

RuneScape Hammered By Service Attacks


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Jagex has put out a warning for players to avoid high risk content as the servers for both RuneScape and Old School are currently being disrupted by an ongoing targeted attack. More news is to come and Jagex has not ruled out the possibility of a rollback.

As you may be aware, we’re currently experiencing service disruption across both game and web services, this is affecting both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape.

We are aware that RuneScape (as well as other games) are being targeted by attacks which are causing connectivity issues for our players.

We are doing everything we can to mitigate any impact on your gameplay experience – our Systems Team are currently working to improve stability across our core hosting platform to improve the situation.

Whilst this is ongoing, we would strongly suggest that you do not partake in dangerous/high-risk content such as PvP or high level PvM and as always, don’t risk anything you’re not prepared to lose.

Should you need to get in touch with Customer Support, please use the Support Centre on the RuneScape website.

Kind Regards,
The RuneScape Team

(Source: RuneScape)

Dino Storm Hit With DDoS Attacks


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Here at MMO Fallout, we have no patience for hackers or script kiddies, especially considering their motivations are more often than not for either craps and giggles or for malicious reasons (identity theft). The folks behind Dino Storm have spent the better part of the last twenty four hours fighting off a distributed denial of service attack coming from an unknown source and aimed at bringing the game servers to their knees. While the attack has been ongoing, defenses have been beefed up and players are slowly getting back into the game.

Update on the game’s status: First, thank you again for your patience. The motives for the denial-of-service attackers remain unclear, but we’ve made great progress (Yeah!) in our defense against them and the vast majority of you WILL BE ABLE TO PLAY NOW. We would like to point out again that no user data was compromised during the attacks.

We hope the best for the Dino Storm team on pushing back against these attacks.

(Source: Dino Storm Facebook)