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Respawn continues to have DDOS issues with Apex today. Where did you hear it’s a trickle of malformed requests? I don’t understand how DDOSing is still a proble

Respawn continues to have DDOS issues with Apex today. Where did you hear it’s a trickle of malformed requests? I don’t understand how DDOSing is still a problem in this day and age… You start a game, 60 user accounts are in it. You inspect their IPs, give them a token, whatever. If they send too many requests you can drop some, and if it’s inhumanly possible given the games code, you ban them. That’s it? I could see how a public-facing website could get DDOSed but not a game where people are registered. I must be missing something. Maybe input parsing has to happen faster than IP check?

alpaca128 5y ago
It's not a standard DDOS relying on brute force. Titanfall is attacked by someone with in-depth knowledge of how the whole distributed backend is organised and they're abusing that to keep the infrastructure from working properly. In TF2 there seems to be a whole list of unofficially "banned" streamers, for example, and if one of them tries to play multiplayer some automated script will immediately disconnect all players in the match. That causes a lot of speculation, including suspicions it's run by an ex-employee who worked on those systems internally.