Battlefield Hardline Launch Fraught with Issues; DDoS's

Battlefield Hardline'south launch is, as expected, not going so well. But not for the reasons yous might recollect. The overall game appears to play quite well actually with very few bugs that actually affect gameplay, be it multiplayer or singleplayer. But there is another sort of outcome that's been affecting the launch of Battlefield Hardline; that of the mighty DDoS.

Battlefield Hardline servers are existence affected by what seems to exist a large-scale DDoS attempt. Players are not able to connect or are disconnected immediately.

EA has noted that the reported server problems are likely related to an effort to DDoS a big number of servers of the game. It may not necessarily be anything that EA did directly to cause these issues. They've announced the issue via the official Battlefield Twitter account.

We've identified the connectivity issues on Xbox One are due to DDoS attack and working to resolve. Apologies for the inconvenience.

This issue afflicted all platforms and is currently being resolved. Final night I was able to play with very few problems, with but i server seemed to have connectivity issues. The unfortunate thing about DDoSing is that it'due south difficult to defend confronting a full-bodied attack. If someone wants to throw 100's of Gbps of information at a server from a large botnet to knock it offline, so all the load balancing and other tricks in the earth won't completely protect it. It'll still exist slowed down if not completely unreachable. Simple and constructive, unfortunately.

No modern Battlefield game can seem to get off the hook on launch day. Start we have Battlefield four that was horrendous when it launched and took many months to fix and brand playable. And now we have Battlefield Hardline which can exist said to be far more complete this fourth dimension around, though some people seem to desire to ruin the fun for others. If there are few complaints, I guess whoever is responsible for these DDoS attacks want to make those complaints.

Thankfully this type of activity is relatively rare. And this is an exception to the norm. Information technology is, though, rather concerning to come across this happen to a game, whatsoever game, on it's launch day. Then far no-one has spoken upwardly and taken responsibility for the mess, so even if it's a bid for attending, it's non actually working. If a grouping reveals itself, I won't update this to name them either, they don't deserve the attending. So allow'south but ignore them and get on with the day.

It'due south people similar that that prevent us from having nice things.

Battlefield Hardline should exist back in working order, but if information technology'due south not, then let us know what you're experiencing in the comments. Does anyone relish the game? Having fun with the multiplayer or fifty-fifty the singleplayer?