[Aggiorna]Unable to log in! “Battle Strike 2” Suffered Massive DDoS On Day 1 Of Free, Blizzard Apologized And Responded Urgently | 4Gamers

“Overwatch 2”, which operates for free, was officially launched at 5:00 in Taiwan, but unlike the warm farewell atmosphere of the first generation of “Overwatch” in the Internet community the day before, gamers around the world are not been unable to access. Game server problems and embarrassing apologies from Blizzard Entertainment.

This morning, all the SNS communities including Facebook, Twitter or Discord discussed the problem of being unable to access the “Battle Strike 2” server and Blizzard President Mike Ybarra also confirmed for the first time on his personal Twitter that the game servers are currently under massive DDoS attack.

Unfortunately we are experiencing a mass DDoS attack on our servers. Teams are working hard to mitigate / manage. This is causing a lot of drop / connect issues. https://t.co/4GwrfHEiBE

– Mike Ybarra (@Qwik) October 4, 2022

Of course, this isn’t the first time Blizzard has encountered this problem in 2019World of Warcraft: Classic EditionIt happened once, and it also happened once in 2020 which prevented games like “Battle Strike” from accessing.

According to past experience, such attacks take hours to mitigate and many players have complained that they are still in queue and there are also reports of more than tens of thousands of players waiting. players can only wait patiently.

#Surveillance 2 Server Error Status Summary for All Platforms✒

DDoS …

📷: u / deltaphoenix08# overwatch2 # OW2 pic.twitter.com/AnuVfNM8Zp

– Overwatch2 News @ Aubanyu (@ Overwatch2_NEWS) October 5, 2022

Report update (5/10/2022 14:45): According to Aaron Keller, the current game director of “Battle Array”, the Blizzard team is currently gradually stabilizing the state of the server as it faces the second wave of DDoS attacks.

According to community observations, many connection conditions have gradually returned to normal – if players still can’t connect to the server, they may have to wait a little longer.

We are constantly making progress on server issues and stability, as well as working on a second DDoS attack. We are all on deck and will continue to work through the night. Thanks for your patience – we will share more information as it becomes available.

– Aaron Keller (@aaronkellerOW) October 5, 2022