Crowfall Has Predictable Launch Day Issues, Suffers DDoS Attacks On Servers | MMORPG.com

System · July 2021

Crowfall Has Predictable Launch Day Issues, Suffers DDoS Attacks On Servers | MMORPG.com

Crowfall launched yesterday, and while the MMO seemed mostly stable early on, as the floodgates opened more and more the predictable launch day issues started to trickle in for the Kickstarted MMO. Additionally it seems that some of the issues could be related to what Crowfall's Creative Director reported as DDoS attacks hitting the servers during the day.

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Cuddleheart · July 2021

This one has been an exercise in patience. Backed this a while ago and made the mistake of not knowing the username was your display name in-game. Was told to shoot an email - years later, nothing...

I figured since things were up and running, I could maybe see about that name change again. Okay, it's a store item and of course it's the old Xbox 360 theory of in-game stores where you charge $2 for the item, but you have to buy $5 in points. Damn. I buy the points and the name change and get the purchase screen that says "First name change is free, just shoot us an email". ARRRRRRGGHHHH!!! The invoice says no points were charged and I still lost the 200 points and received nothing...

I was able to create a character and that's as far as I've managed to make it into the actual game so far as I keep getting stuck on server loading screen.

Scot · July 2021

Apart for the DDOS attacks business as usual for a newly launched MMO. I guess Caspian is getting jealous?

tgoodspe1991 · July 2021

It also suffers from being a really bad game.

HuntSPMC · July 2021

Free to play in six months or less. I'll check it out then.

Wizardry · July 2021

I was watching one of two streamers when they got the "connection lost" and DDOS has nothing to do with players already in game playing unless they are stupid enough to put login servers on the same cluster of servers that gameplay resides on.

I should also add that while watching said streamer blubberbaggins or whatever his name is i didn't see a very busy world,like no animated or scripted AI running around.Even the NPC's were just standing there like dummies with a big yellow ? over their head to give out a quest.

If I had to load the information i sometimes need to load in Atlas with tons of structures,boats,Biome information,water physics,tons of pet/tames along with tons of creature AI running all over this game wouldn't run past 3-10 frames per second.

I mean it is a team that struggled and imo too long to get a pvp game going so i wouldn't expect them to be too good at their job,much like Chris Roberts and his 300+ million dollar cash shop.

Crowd funding is just NOT producing anything good imo.

Panther2103 · July 2021

Is this the full launch of Crowfall? I had always avoided backing this as most people that played kept saying to wait until more was added and everyone was always playing on the public test server instead of the beta build. It seems odd they would go from very alpha to launch in like 6 months, but maybe I was told the wrong information.

Ungood · July 2021

Panther2103 said:

Is this the full launch of Crowfall? I had always avoided backing this as most people that played kept saying to wait until more was added and everyone was always playing on the public test server instead of the beta build. It seems odd they would go from very alpha to launch in like 6 months, but maybe I was told the wrong information.

yah it's the launch.

Come join the fun.. or don't. I mean, it might be your cup of tea, might not be.

I finally finished the 10 gig download, plan to log in and see what is going down. Plan to make a Half Giant Champion... and see how badly the "Big tough tank" builds suck in this game.

Panther2103 · July 2021

Ungood said:

Panther2103 said:

Is this the full launch of Crowfall? I had always avoided backing this as most people that played kept saying to wait until more was added and everyone was always playing on the public test server instead of the beta build. It seems odd they would go from very alpha to launch in like 6 months, but maybe I was told the wrong information.

yah it's the launch.

Come join the fun.. or don't. I mean, it might be your cup of tea, might not be.

I finally finished the 10 gig download, plan to log in and see what is going down. Plan to make a Half Giant Champion... and see how badly the "Big tough tank" builds suck in this game.

It really sounds like something I would enjoy I'll probably try it out.

Iselin · July 2021

What kind of bored no-lifer bothers to DDOS a little game like this?

Kyleran · July 2021

Iselin said:

What kind of bored no-lifer bothers to DDOS a little game like this?

Future ransomware hackers in training.

Sylvinstar · July 2021

Tried this game for free before launch. The animations (something I rarely complain about) don't do well with the movement in the game. I can't describe it. It feels stiff. The PvE leveling prior to PvP was bare bones and not exciting at all.

I've seen some early guild vs. guild action on youtube and it looks decent there..but when I actually played..it just felt really 'flat'. Guess it's one of those things; it will either catch on for you or not. For me, I played maybe an hour or two and it didn't grab me at all.

Groqstrong · July 2021

Ungood said:

Panther2103 said:

Is this the full launch of Crowfall? I had always avoided backing this as most people that played kept saying to wait until more was added and everyone was always playing on the public test server instead of the beta build. It seems odd they would go from very alpha to launch in like 6 months, but maybe I was told the wrong information.

yah it's the launch.

Come join the fun.. or don't. I mean, it might be your cup of tea, might not be.

I finally finished the 10 gig download, plan to log in and see what is going down. Plan to make a Half Giant Champion... and see how badly the "Big tough tank" builds suck in this game.

Awesome man thats what I made. I really like their racial and champions are dps beasts.

Groqstrong · July 2021

Panther2103 said:

Ungood said:

Panther2103 said:

Is this the full launch of Crowfall? I had always avoided backing this as most people that played kept saying to wait until more was added and everyone was always playing on the public test server instead of the beta build. It seems odd they would go from very alpha to launch in like 6 months, but maybe I was told the wrong information.

yah it's the launch.

Come join the fun.. or don't. I mean, it might be your cup of tea, might not be.

I finally finished the 10 gig download, plan to log in and see what is going down. Plan to make a Half Giant Champion... and see how badly the "Big tough tank" builds suck in this game.

It really sounds like something I would enjoy I'll probably try it out.

I think you would enjoy it. It has a decent crafting system and a deep character building system. PvE is meh but really its only there for you to get max lvl so you can get to the real part of the game, pvp. Basic weapons are easy to craft, and equipped items dont drop only inventory, unless you trek into the most dangerous zones which is not open yet. Also your characters can move freely between servers no need to pay transfer fees. Alt leveling is the easiest Ive ever seen in a game.

There are some issues with what others have said such as movement and animations not feeling impactful but its not game breaking.

theGnade · July 2021

To me it feels so dead that is seems more realistic that they ddos-ed their own game to make it more relevant. I mean it sits relatively low on Twitch. Has it even reached among top 10? Don't think it has. No gaming magazine are even interested covering it.

Groqstrong · July 2021

theGnade said:

To me it feels so dead that is seems more realistic that they ddos-ed their own game to make it more relevant. I mean it sits relatively low on Twitch. Has it even reached among top 10? Don't think it has. No gaming magazine are even interested covering it.

Ya that is awkward there is not alot of coverage. Someone said yesterday they had like 10K viewers on twitch. I dont think this game was ever going to be a WoW, FFXIV, ESO. This is more like Albion.

Kyleran · July 2021

Groqstrong said:

theGnade said:

To me it feels so dead that is seems more realistic that they ddos-ed their own game to make it more relevant. I mean it sits relatively low on Twitch. Has it even reached among top 10? Don't think it has. No gaming magazine are even interested covering it.

This is more like Albion.

You say this like it's a bad thing. Weird.

People watching other people play games are doing it all wrong.

Asm0deus · July 2021

Kyleran said:

Groqstrong said:

theGnade said:

To me it feels so dead that is seems more realistic that they ddos-ed their own game to make it more relevant. I mean it sits relatively low on Twitch. Has it even reached among top 10? Don't think it has. No gaming magazine are even interested covering it.

This is more like Albion.

You say this like it's a bad thing. Weird.

People watching other people play games are doing it all wrong.

In the same vein you could say people posting in game forums like mmorpg here are doing it all wrong too!

Doing it all wrong indeed!

I mean wtf are they not playing instead of wasting their time posting about games and others that play or watch games!

That said I think this game has a relatively low player base so I dunno but maybe it was to be expected they would crap the bed on launch day?

DEXA88 · July 2021

Game died before it even launched. Nobody wanted to play the beta don't know why they kept pushing !

Ungood · July 2021

Well.. I failed to be able to get into the game 3 times so far.. gonna go play DDO.

Scorchien · July 2021

I recommend that people just wait the 11-13 months then the game will be F2P ..

Tiller · July 2021

I tried it, didn't really jive with me. tbh it's just Albion Online in non-isometric view.

cyrician · July 2021

There was a clear lack of communication for 5 hours and just before we got this message.

LIVE is going to remain maintenance until Wednesday AM CDT. Please play on the TEST server until then and sorry for the inconvenience!

You can get the Crowfall TEST installation at the Play Now button at Crowfall.com

This isn't a big game its small with a player base no more then 3000.

But the crafting and back end mechanics are really well done.

I backed in 2015 but I'd warn people that unless some miracle happends I think this will go the way of Magic legends.

I hope I am wrong.

achesoma · July 2021

cyrician said:

There was a clear lack of communication for 5 hours and just before we got this message.

LIVE is going to remain maintenance until Wednesday AM CDT. Please play on the TEST server until then and sorry for the inconvenience!

You can get the Crowfall TEST installation at the Play Now button at Crowfall.com

This isn't a big game its small with a player base no more then 3000.

But the crafting and back end mechanics are really well done.

I backed in 2015 but I'd warn people that unless some miracle happends I think this will go the way of Magic legends.

I hope I am wrong.

Ok, I'll bite. Where did you come up with the 3000 number?

xeron · July 2021

Original Kickstarter backer here. Played each new beta patch when I could, and although it got a lot better the last few months before launch, it is still a very, very clunky unpolished mess. I run a 5900x with a 3090 and 64gb of ram. I game at 3440x1440. Although not terrible, for how it looks this game's performance is pretty bad. I get good FPS but FFS of course I do with my computer. The dips and stuttering are still there though. Feels like it's still in beta.

I was brought on originally for the promise of a shadowbane spiritual successor; that dark full-pvp mmo with siege warfare. We got a clunky-beta Disney version (the character models and art style are horrendous) that was e-sporting it up before release with battle royale modes. Absolutely ridiculous.

Cymdai · July 2021

I feel like this was the world's most predictable "Dead on Arrival" call ever.

There's literally been no hype for this game. Pick any medium or forum you want; reddit, here, their main forums, etc. Literally no one was talking about this game, and nobody cared.

I even said as much during the mmorpg.com official take on the game. It's just brutal when you see something this dead squirming its way to a "release", only to have crash-on-launch level bugs and server problems, despite being ultra-low pop. Screams "mismanagement"

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