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Dec 18 2023
Client version 1.63 has been released, if you are using the Wine or Linux client you will need to download the latest version manually.
Dec 01 2023
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Nov 22 2023
Client version 1.62 has been released, if you are using the Wine or Linux client you will need to download the latest version manually.
Nov 21 2023
Client version 1.61 has been released, if you are using the Wine or Linux client you will need to download the latest version manually.
Nov 14 2023
Solera is now back online!
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Nov 23 2019
Status on attacks
DDos/Hacker Attacks
We've since Nov 20 been under heavy DDos attacks on multiple levels.
But as many people believe, if you have good DDos-Protection you're protected.
This is false, RetroCores is already on the leading DDos-Protection services, but that doesn't mean that no DDos will ever affect RetroCores.
When they DDos, they send massive amount of data towards our dedicated servers, it's detected and filtered up in our anti-DDos protection, however there's been leaks.
So there's been attacks that got through to the game.
Why is that?
When they spamm data to attack RetroCores, it's not always easy to determine what's an attack, and what's not.
It's like owning a store.. how do you know which is a legit shopper, and who's a robber or shoplifter?
Well, sometimes it's obvious, but not always!
I've been working near constantly the past 3 days, to battle these attacks.
This is the prime reason why people haven't seen much of me, because I've simply been busy making sure the game stays stable and online.
Crashes
Due to the DDos attacks we were forced to add a death-prevention system to cover most of the losses players would go through in case of attacks.
Unfortunately this new system included a crash bug that crashed Antica 11 times, and Danera 3 times.
These crashes were random and uncontrolable, there was nobody that was in control of them.
The crash issue was fixed and both Antica and Danera are just as stable again as they used to be before the death-prevention system. (2 weeks, 1.8+k players, no problems)
Clones
During the crashes, there was some clone situations.
Luckily, there were only 2 actual abusers of the crashes that managed to clone items out of it, those two people are now deleted along with all items they created.
Other than those 2 abusers, there was a few others that managed to get clones but didn't exactly abuse it as crazy, there only the items were removed from them without deleting those people.
Haters/Trolls
There's been a lot of lies going around, especially with clones, lies made to scare people away.
There's been lies that people have cloned unlimited money, supplies and so on.
But that's not the case, in terms of money, RetroCores is a VERY poor game, since there's no much money going around.
They also claim that we don't have ability to find items, especially not in houses.
Well, to make an example we chose Royal Helmet,
We know that there's 19 Royal Helmets in Antica and who has them.
16 of these helmets were obtained by finishing the Hydra Task, the other 3 were looted.
(Time of check, Nov 23, 21:30 CET)
We could for fun also add that there's not a single magic plate armor in RetroCores yet! (Who will be the first?)
Anyhow, lies would be that Retro is beyond saving because "massive clones" but in fact, there were almost none.
And those who happened, is cleaned up pretty smoothly by us, as seen in the image, we have some abilities most other games don't.
Staff
Since the DDoses caused a lot of issues, naturally a lot of people seek staff and support for all kind of topics.
This has lead to the staff being bombarded with messages and topics, and an incredible amount of reports and support tickets.
This make staff very busy and it's very hard to reach the staff.
Identity of the DDoser/attacker
We have indeed confirmed the identity of the attacker with help of some skillful people,
We are weighting which action to go for, either publish him so everyone can know what kind of person he really is (reputation instant-trash) or taking legal actions for the damages he's done.
Forum
Due to the problems the DDos caused we've been forced to keep the forum closed temporarily so it doesn't get overspammed by angry/upset people.
Ontop of that we wanted to keep the "liars" at bay until we had time to make announcement, since some of them can be very convincing.
Status
Attacks may still break through the defenses, we are battling the DDos near 24/7 nowdays, but other than that the game is good and stable and good to go.
In case of attacks, you will be protected from deaths, However, since it take a few seconds for the death-prevention to kick-in, you could still lose things in case you get headshot.
If you believe there's a chance for attack that causes laggs, you might want to avoid hunting in places there you'd die within 5 seconds if you go afk.
Sincerely,
RetroCores Staff
We've since Nov 20 been under heavy DDos attacks on multiple levels.
But as many people believe, if you have good DDos-Protection you're protected.
This is false, RetroCores is already on the leading DDos-Protection services, but that doesn't mean that no DDos will ever affect RetroCores.
When they DDos, they send massive amount of data towards our dedicated servers, it's detected and filtered up in our anti-DDos protection, however there's been leaks.
So there's been attacks that got through to the game.
Why is that?
When they spamm data to attack RetroCores, it's not always easy to determine what's an attack, and what's not.
It's like owning a store.. how do you know which is a legit shopper, and who's a robber or shoplifter?
Well, sometimes it's obvious, but not always!
I've been working near constantly the past 3 days, to battle these attacks.
This is the prime reason why people haven't seen much of me, because I've simply been busy making sure the game stays stable and online.
Crashes
Due to the DDos attacks we were forced to add a death-prevention system to cover most of the losses players would go through in case of attacks.
Unfortunately this new system included a crash bug that crashed Antica 11 times, and Danera 3 times.
These crashes were random and uncontrolable, there was nobody that was in control of them.
The crash issue was fixed and both Antica and Danera are just as stable again as they used to be before the death-prevention system. (2 weeks, 1.8+k players, no problems)
Clones
During the crashes, there was some clone situations.
Luckily, there were only 2 actual abusers of the crashes that managed to clone items out of it, those two people are now deleted along with all items they created.
Other than those 2 abusers, there was a few others that managed to get clones but didn't exactly abuse it as crazy, there only the items were removed from them without deleting those people.
Haters/Trolls
There's been a lot of lies going around, especially with clones, lies made to scare people away.
There's been lies that people have cloned unlimited money, supplies and so on.
But that's not the case, in terms of money, RetroCores is a VERY poor game, since there's no much money going around.
They also claim that we don't have ability to find items, especially not in houses.
Well, to make an example we chose Royal Helmet,
We know that there's 19 Royal Helmets in Antica and who has them.
Here you can see a little tool that display owners of the item, and showing how many items they have in inventory (EQ) or depot.
The other 4 helmets, that's not in inventory/depots are in these 4 houses.
16 of these helmets were obtained by finishing the Hydra Task, the other 3 were looted.
(Time of check, Nov 23, 21:30 CET)
We could for fun also add that there's not a single magic plate armor in RetroCores yet! (Who will be the first?)
Anyhow, lies would be that Retro is beyond saving because "massive clones" but in fact, there were almost none.
And those who happened, is cleaned up pretty smoothly by us, as seen in the image, we have some abilities most other games don't.
Staff
Since the DDoses caused a lot of issues, naturally a lot of people seek staff and support for all kind of topics.
This has lead to the staff being bombarded with messages and topics, and an incredible amount of reports and support tickets.
This make staff very busy and it's very hard to reach the staff.
Identity of the DDoser/attacker
We have indeed confirmed the identity of the attacker with help of some skillful people,
We are weighting which action to go for, either publish him so everyone can know what kind of person he really is (reputation instant-trash) or taking legal actions for the damages he's done.
Forum
Due to the problems the DDos caused we've been forced to keep the forum closed temporarily so it doesn't get overspammed by angry/upset people.
Ontop of that we wanted to keep the "liars" at bay until we had time to make announcement, since some of them can be very convincing.
Status
Attacks may still break through the defenses, we are battling the DDos near 24/7 nowdays, but other than that the game is good and stable and good to go.
In case of attacks, you will be protected from deaths, However, since it take a few seconds for the death-prevention to kick-in, you could still lose things in case you get headshot.
If you believe there's a chance for attack that causes laggs, you might want to avoid hunting in places there you'd die within 5 seconds if you go afk.
Sincerely,
RetroCores Staff
