14 DAY TRIAL // Even though Battlefield 4 has lots of issues since its launch, it looks like the folks at DICE have just gotten another problem on their heads.
According to a DICE official, the company's servers are under DDOS attack for around 48 hours. The information has been confirmed on the game's official blog:
“We are currently experiencing attacks on our infrastructure that is impacting online gameplay on BF4 PC. We are working on mitigating actions.”
Although the message has been replaced with another pertaining the addition of another server for PS4 version of the game which hopefully will address some instability issues, the problem with BF4 on PC has been reiterated by another DICE official on the game's forums:
“We are being targeted by a DDOS, but working on fixing it asap. I'm sorry somebody is ruining your and my day. Rest assured we are doing our best to mitigate the situation though.”
Unfortunately, lots of players will not even notice it due to the fact the game has lots of connection problems which were not fixed even after the last 1GB patch delivered last week.
As mentioned earlier, most Battlefield 4 players will not even notice the difference due to the game's instability on PC.
Some of the most common issues with Battlefield 4 multiplayer are dropping connections and server crashes, which were quite frequent even before this DDOS attack.
It's also quite a coincidence that whoever is behind this DDOS attack chose to take action immediately after EA switched to a master server.
Unfortunately, the latter did not go too well, as players have been hit with weird messages during the transition (“routing problem occurred while switching to new master server, we are working on a fix”).
No additional details have been offered by DICE since the posting of the first messages, so there's no telling if they managed to contain these DDOS attacks or they are still struggling. Stay tuned for more on this.