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It wasn't as bad as it could have been. To be honest, if it weren't for all of this crap happening before, and up until the last match, we would have been a lot more frustrated and pissed off. We were basically worn down past our last nerve at this point though. But my team never once got angry with me about my connection. We all stayed calm and just pressed on as best we could. Shoutout to my teammates for being awesome and understanding. love you guys.

My ping was spiking to 800 and beyond on badlands. I made sure that no one in my house was using the Internet, but it was still spiking. We were about to get a ringer but then I had the idea of plugging straight into my modem. I did that, rejoined and it was fine for most of the duration of badlands.

On gravelpit, I started getting the auto disconnect in 20 seconds warning, and my choke would explode on my net graph. For the first round this was happening every 30-45 seconds. During the second and third round it started happening every 10-15 seconds. It just got worse and worse near the end. Every time it happened, I would also temporarily disconnect from Mumble. Many times when it would cease I would be in respawn.

We didn't pause because this is the second night in a row where we've had to deal with this shit. It was obvious it wasn't going to stop. We simply just wanted it all to be over with. We didn't want to lose, but we knew there wasn't much we could do. We're all happy that we can now take a breather and say gg, good season.

If anyone knows any possible way to get records from my isp, or my own computer, or verify that it was indeed a ddos, I'd be interested in finding that out. I personally think I was being attacked because this has never happened in any match, ever. Quite a pill to swallow to say it was just coincidence.

Yeah I was totally throwing. Definitely wasn't getting ddso'd. It was all me.

Surfing is helpful because it helps you condition your muscle memory. Air strafing, depth perception, and absolutely perfect and precise mouse movement are requirements for proficient surfing.

In gaining the ability to surf well, you will inherit great control of your player model, and test the limits of your mouse sensitivity and available space on the surface your mouse is on.

I think surfing is great. It takes time, practice, and patience though, and unfortunately surfing does not appeal to everyone. But if you do choose to surf and stick to it, you won't regret it.

More like a few simple things that would have had no impact whatsoever on the outcome of this match.

This particular attack was just the esea server itself. The players as individuals were not being ddos'd, rather the server we were playing on was.

If it was Bape, you could ban him from every server, site, irc, etc you could think of, but as long as he has an internet connection, he, like anyone else, could gather the resources to do this shit.

Also you can log into irc with +x mode, but that only prevents your ip from being shown when you join. It's extremely easy to get someones IP just for using irc in general, wether you autoconnect or not.

Basically, to sum this up, there's nothing simple about any of this. I think this could have been easier to deal with, but I think that only be taking preventative measures would that be true.

The fact is, this has happened in the past for open finals. As players who watch this game and should remember that, perhaps we are at fault for not speaking up and doing something about it.

As an organization/company who has fallen victim to this before, are they even more at fault for not being responsible and learning from the past? Honestly at this point I don't really care. Me and my team really want a break, we want to win our measly sum of prize money, go enjoy whatever left we have after paying our fees, and then go take some time off to relax. I just want ESEA to fucking fix this shit so that can happen.

It wasn't the players.

If someone wants to actually ddos they're going to do it. Having the capability to prevent such an attack is what will prevent it from happening, and thus prevent "potential" ddos'ers from gaining interest.

We have two people on our team who just moved into college this week and barely have their belongings set up, this is the only day that we could make this happen. And the worst part, is that they're trying to make us reschedule this.

This is extremely inconvenient and frustrating for us, because we absolutely have little to no other time in the next several days that we can play this match again.

So, let's say we somehow manage to find a day in a reasonable timeframe to play again; what's stopping this from happening tomorrow? Or the next day? Or the day after that?

Who knows how long this could keep going. Bottom line is ESEA needs to figure out a way to prevent this from happening, or it will just keep happening.

I was pug scrimming with tictac the other day and he said he was playing in invite s15 - I believe he said with solace?

I'm just relaying to you guys what I heard straight from the dude.

I'm actually not the biggest fan of swiftkey mmyself. I really like perfect keyboard pro but Google keyboard is indeed pretty good. I just wish perfect keyboard had swipe input.

Great write up.

+1

forgot that one.

Some of the app suggestions here make me cringe.

Here are the apps that I can't live without.

Some of them are preferences that different people may or may not like, but most of these are honestly and objectively the best apps on the market for their purpose. Believe me, I've tried them all. Or don't take my word for it and try them out yourself. Either way, I dare you to show me a better app of its kind.

Solid Explorer Absolutely the best file manager out there. Hands down.

Nova Launcher My absolute favorite launcher. It's incredible.

Helium sync and backup The best app backup and restore tool, for simply backing up and restoring apps.

Droidedit This is pretty much notepad++ for android

Android IRC My favorite IRC client for Android.

Auto sms Great tool that lets you schedule sms messages

Greenify helps battery life by hibernating apps.

Mx Player The best video player for Android.

Pocket Formerly "read it later"

Maxthon Browser Browsers are very much a preference thing, but I think Maxthon is the best out there.

Perfect keyboard

Swiftkey Keyboard

Quickpic The best media browser ever.
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Sideloaded/non play store apps

https://f-droid.org/ = a database of free android software and apps. A wonderful thing to have. This is where you download adaway from.

Black Market This is how you get any paid app you want, for FREE. [I mostly use this to test out paid apps that I want. If I actually find the paid app version useful, I almost always purchase it in the play store, to support the dev.}

Damn wish I would have found that.

Several HUD dev's have already fixed theirs, but broeselhud has yet to be updated, and with broesel last being online 46 days ago...

I'm sorry if this thread seems pointless, but I was unaware of a fix for this until now and I wanted to share.

All I did to figure out the fix, was go check out the commit page for the recent Rayshud update. After looking there, it was easy.

The fix is simple, you only have to change one word in a file.

This fix will work for any hud, not just broesel.

Go to broeselhud/resource/ui/HudPlayerClass.res

Note the bold text:

Change what's in bold above to:

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Optional

If, after completing the above, you see a constant blue background behind the disguise image, complete the following:

In the same file as above, locate:

"PlayerStatusClassImageBG"

Change both xpos and ypos values to "9999"

Done.