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Is there a way for testers to help devs combat DDoS attacks?

MybroViajeroMybroViajero Member, Alpha Two
edited November 2024 in General Discussion
An out-of-the-box idea?
I mean even something minimal? Something that can give minimal support but still help?

If the attacks are many also the testers are so many suddenly there will be many to even support.

A content to fight against DDoS attacks that will help the devs.

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Comments

  • XEROXERO Member, Alpha Two
    Us as user are really unable to do anything. To ELI5 this I will use the water jug analogy “There is a jug(server) were we(users) are droplets of water falling in to the jug, everything is groovy, but then someone(DDoS Bots) opened a fire hydrant to fill(fake users) that jug and the server is doing its best to alleviate”

    Now there is solutions to mitigate, there are already many services that do exactly that, some are very costly and some are not. I won’t speak from the network side of things because I can’t see what is actually happening,, but trust me when I say they are doing their best!
  • AndiAndi Member, Alpha Two
    If we knew whose bots did the DDOSing, we could retaliate in kind.
  • Arya_YesheArya_Yeshe Member
    edited November 2024
    there's probably people trying to extort many devs from many companies by using the DDoS attacks and asking ramsom. I've seen even a small company with 4 employees only having this problem, for sure the big debs are going through the same since they have more money
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  • unknownsystemerrorunknownsystemerror Member, Phoenix Initiative, Royalty, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Yes, there is. You can continue to test. All data is good data for Intrepid. If you continue to fight the queue, and give real attempts by user accounts to get in, it helps them sort through the valid vs invalid server message attempts. This was always going to happen and has happened before to them. They were DDOS'ed in A1 and APOC (less impact due to Steam having their own defenses to rely upon) and getting their defenses sorted now, and as strong as possible during these testing phases, will only help them later in the lifetime of the company to resist bad actors, identify bot and evading ban accounts, and other data they will need to keep their game running.
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