GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 online services suffer outages in apparent DDoS attack over GTA Online's new anti-cheat tech
Sep. 24, 2024GTA Online added BattlEye anti-cheat last week
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GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2’s online services have recently suffered outages due to DDoS attacks in apparent retaliation to Rockstar’s new anti-cheat efforts.
Last week,Rockstar introduced Battle-Eye anti-cheat to GTA Onlineto bolster its own fair-play tools. While many might have thought the prevalence of cheating within GTA Online meant that introduction was well overdue,the extra restrictions spelled bad news for moddersand those on older or more limited hardware. And it seems that someone decided to bite back.
As noted byCyberInsider, the attacks began over the weekend, leading to connection issues across GTA Online and Red Dead Online on all platforms. Cyber Insider reports that the group behind the attacks was protesting the introduction of BattlEye, citing a Twitter user who suggested that players could potentially “expect more DDoS attacks in the following days.” However, it looks as though those attacks haven’t materialized just yet.
GTA 6 will sell “for 10+ years,” and because “there is no competition” Rockstar is “not going to release the game until they’re 100% happy with it,” reckons former GTA dev.
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