Author Topic: Possible DDOS Attempt at DeathBox's Fort Wars  (Read 2804 times)

I know little about DDOSing, and this is not much evidence to go off of (it's still happening at this moment), but this is definitely too weird to be events.

There was a healthy crowd at DeathBox's Fort Wars when all of a sudden the chat was spammed by connection notices by someone called "YOU MUST DIE". Despite the authenticity of the connection notices, "YOU MUST DIE" did not ever appear in the playerlist.





At first, we wrote it off as someone who was spamming chat through events. We moved to find the person, but after spying on everyone in the server several times, we couldn't find them.
Then, the server started lagging a lot. I cleared bots and vehicles to cut down on lag and as it turns out there were a forgetton of them.



Even though there was a lot of people there, that was way too many bots for the crowd we had, plus we had just cleared bots a minute ago. After that, people started leaving in troves, and it turns out most of us were kicked out of the server, not by DeathBox, but by something else (I don't have a picture of the dropped connection, sorry).
I rejoined and it turns out it wasn't events. It could talk and address us by name, but it still did not show up in the playerlist.






Before you go saying that this was still events, it was addressing us and answering our questions way too quickly for someone to event them in.

Does anyone have information they'd be willing to lend to determine what the forget this is? I may just be overreacting but this is somewhat creepy.

it was an event, not a real connection if it didnt show in player list



Well... damn  thats a huge plot twist.
Case... closed?

I almost posted "Probably the host using the console" but I decided not to for some reason :v

That's a terrible thing to do as a host, faking messages and then crashing the server. Someone will freak the forget out and post something like this.

Soon as it started spamming the connect message I already know it was fake and annoying.

Someone will freak the forget out and post something like this.
I used to do things similar on my own server all the time. I guess people have just gotten overly sensitive since then

I used to do things similar on my own server all the time. I guess people have just gotten overly sensitive since then
Seems so because they don't know how to check the player list lol

my question is: how the forget did he change his id


my question is: how the forget did he change his id
wait what
I just now noticed that

It's just a glitch that occasionally happens.  It's not unique to this server, and can't be intentionally caused by anyone, at least as far as I know.  The glitch causes someone's BL_ID to appear as -1, and always -1.

It's just a glitch that occasionally happens.  It's not unique to this server, and can't be intentionally caused by anyone, at least as far as I know.  The glitch causes someone's BL_ID to appear as -1, and always -1.
that should be uh.. fixed