DDoS attacks on PCs have caused performance to suffer, according to video game developers, although it is not the only problem.
PUBG Corporation has posted an apology message on the official website of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, its well-known battle royale video game. The study recognizes the mistakes that are happening in the PC version, but has partly blamed the cheats, while referring to the continuous hacking through DDoS attacks. "We know that in recent months we have had some recurring failures that influence the gameplay," the company said. "We are aware that the problems have been extremely frustrating and we apologize for the fact that they have persisted for so long."
The first point focuses on the cheats, which will try to eliminate soon. “Fighting cheats is one of our top priorities. We are using multiple internal teams and external resources to find a solution to this problem. ” According to the study, they will share more information about it in early March, when the roadmap for the community is published.
DDoS attacks
“Like many online games,” PUBG's servers have been subject to DDoS attacks. These practices help to congest the servers, so that many players experience connection problems, which can cause their departure from the game, the increase in ping, etc. "Unfortunately, our servers have been victims of these attacks more and more frequently," they lament. According to his words, in November the intensity increased to levels that had not been experienced before, but far from the end of the crisis, February has rebounded.
The developers explain that the team is working on solutions, which includes working with different server providers, while analyzing their effectiveness in order to protect them and offer a more stable service. "At the same time, we are working on our own defense system," specially designed for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.
However, developers admit that users have also suffered problems while searching for solutions, since experimental defense recipes have caused server errors. "We know we could have been much more open in communicating these reasons, but we didn't want to contaminate the tests and the results by letting the attackers know that we were conducting those tests."
"The good news," they continue, is that the internal solution they have put into practice has reduced DDoS attacks by approximately 85%. Nevertheless, they point out that this will continue to be a problem, but the team will continue to work on implementing new measures that help mitigate the action of hackers. "DDoS attacks are a serious crime and we have been gathering all the information we have been able to take legal action against the perpetrators."
Other performance issues
Many users have complained about performance issues, including framerate crashes, shuttering and crasheos. PUBG Corporation points to the January update as the main cause of the performance decline. Therefore, the development team has got to work to analyze and identify why it is happening. "To improve performance problem" it is necessary to "track the specific cause", so that sometimes "the specific steps that lead to the problem" should be reproduced.
PUBG went on sale as early access on PC and became a success very quickly. Later, the battle royale was marketed on other devices. It is available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, but also on mobile terminals. Not surprisingly, it is the most successful batte royale genre game on iOS and Android platforms, above Fortnite.
