Hunt: Showdown is regarded in these components as probably the greatest, most suspenseful on-line shooters round. Morgan fell in love with it last year, whereas I have been bigging up its lesser-known Quickplay mode as a great battle royale alternative. However amidst the cracking shootouts and dashes for extraction, the sport has stubbed its toe right here and there, including a series of server issues and disconnects through the Traitor’s Moon occasion final month.
Now, Crytek has released a YouTube video addressing the issues, and what it is doing to resolve them. It seems that, alongside ISP points and backend faults at Crytek’s finish, the sport was additionally focused by malicious attackers through the occasion.
Hunt US group supervisor Arian Moshrefi went into extra element on the problems. “We have recognized a couple of totally different instances which have brought on server drops. These instances have included ISP issues—compatibility with them and Hunt haven’t been nice however we’re wanting into that,” he mentioned. “We additionally had some malicious assaults that occurred through the occasion. We’re wanting into that and need to be extra protecting towards them sooner or later.”
The sport’s social media supervisor Bence Hamos has assured gamers that higher protections at the moment are in place to stop comparable assaults occurring once more, and to make Hunt play nicer with ISPs the studio is taking a look at “different approaches to make sure that our packets are routed via quicker networks in these instances the place it is wanted.”
These assaults on Crytek’s servers simply seem to be a monumental waste of time for everybody. Certainly hackers may put their time and abilities in the direction of higher causes like disrupting nuclear packages or hijacking Amazon’s homepage to troll Jeff Bezos… or one thing? What assertion are you making by hacking a sport apart from “I’m a monumental dickhead?”
As for the shortcomings on Crytek’s backend, the corporate mentioned it’s actively tackling them, and anticipate to repair “a giant portion of the remaining points” in an upcoming replace. Whether or not that will probably be a part of the imminent 1.8.1 update (which options pistol-wielding zombies, amongst different issues), we’ll have to attend and see.
