SOMEONE IS CRASHING PUBLIC SERVERS

[Alias0225]

I was playing a US West Klei server just now and someone in chat said they were going to crash the server and then I got disconnected shortly after. I tried to re join the server but it said server not responding. I asked around and its suspected that an individual known as Invictus is responsible. This person owns many many dozens or more accounts and would join servers in the past just to grief them. So it only makes sense that this person is now crashing servers. 

The reason he has so many alt accounts is to remain anonymous and to also avoid being kicked. He joins a server with some alts so he can out vote the other players trying to kick him. 

All of his alternate accounts are private and level 1 so that is how you know its likely this same person. The person who crashed the server was level 1. 

So if this doesn't get addressed then Klei servers are simply unplayable while this person is active. Apparently people have tried to talk about this person in the past but nothing came of it. I hope to spread this knowledge with the Pc player base and hope the devs or Steam can do something about it. 

[Dr. Safety]

Is this still a result of that one environmental pinger mod? I remember someone kept crashing people who had that mod active. 

Do you have any client mods active?

[Alias0225]

Yes I do use that mod but why would that allow someone to crash the server? The server crashed for everyone who was on it. I could not join back the server and after about 20 minutes it seemed to have been reset to day 1. 

[Edible Coal]

22 minutes ago, Alias0225 said:

Yes I do use that mod but why would that allow someone to crash the server? The server crashed for everyone who was on it. I could not join back the server and after about 20 minutes it seemed to have been reset to day 1. 

the mod has a exploit as it cant handle invalid characters the exploiter send, and crash the client 

24 minutes ago, Alias0225 said:

Yes I do use that mod but why would that allow someone to crash the server? The server crashed for everyone who was on it. I could not join back the server and after about 20 minutes it seemed to have been reset to day 1. 

the server should be fine

[Alias0225]

The server was not fine in that moment. It showed I was still in the server but when I tried to join back it said server not responding.

When you have joined a server it will show you the character you were playing as. After 20 minutes the character icon no longer appeared meaning the server had been reset. 

Regardless this needs looking into. 

[Dr. Safety]

1 hour ago, Alias0225 said:

The server was not fine in that moment. It showed I was still in the server but when I tried to join back it said server not responding.

When you have joined a server it will show you the character you were playing as. After 20 minutes the character icon no longer appeared meaning the server had been reset. 

Regardless this needs looking into. 

I think it needs looked into by the mod developers. In the meantime, don't use that mod. If the mod is crashing your game due to invalid characters, that is not something the devs can fix

[Uedo]

People are telling you the truth @Alias0225, they're not guessing, this has been an issue for a while now.

[konijnenmoed]

This has been going on all day today, even without the mod too or with the tweaked/patch Enviromental Ping mod.

Every server gets disconnected around 4 to 6 days. Sometimes with an announcement (targeting other players, saying racist slurs, etc.) or they crash without. I joined 12 servers today that all got disconnected around that point.

[Walrusst]

If you are crashing once on the lobby and once on the title screen when you disable the mod for a full hard game crash its the environment pinger bug.
The guy who is crashing EP users just tends to destroy/reset the world shortly after crashing everyone manually while everyones restarting their game.
Likes characters like willow/woodie who have wide area attacks that can destroy a lot of landscape easily, but I've seen him use wurt/webber too.

Grab environment pinger fixed or tweak and you will be good!
(Tweak lacks silent pings but lets you color pings, fixed is the exact same thing and lets you do the silent self pings for landmarks and stuff.)

[Cheggf]

I've been suspecting that people have been crashing Klei servers. A couple of times I've seen an account which hasn't set up their profile join, then less than a minute later the server crashes. About 20 minutes later it's done crashing and back on day 1.

4 hours ago, Dr. Safety said:

Is this still a result of that one environmental pinger mod? I remember someone kept crashing people who had that mod active. 

Do you have any client mods active?

That crashes clients, not the server. It doesn't say "Server not responding" or anything. You're able to reconnect, then if they do the exploit again you'll crash again. They can keep doing it until you turn the mod off or they get kicked. 

[Alias0225]

12 minutes ago, Cheggf said:

I've been suspecting that people have been crashing Klei servers. A couple of times I've seen an account which hasn't set up their profile join, then less than a minute later the server crashes. About 20 minutes later it's done crashing and back on day 1.

That crashes clients, not the server. It doesn't say "Server not responding" or anything. You're able to reconnect, then if they do the exploit again you'll crash again. They can keep doing it until you turn the mod off or they get kicked. 

Yeah so if it was just a client crash then I would be able to rejoin but the fact I could not means it was a server crash. I may check out the other environment pinger mod though. 

[konijnenmoed]

Another crashed. Someone said they were going to "stress test" the server and hit on a deck of 100 cards. I'm not sure if this is what crashed the server, but it happened at the exact same time.

[TheDistinguishe]

me and my buddy just got crashed off of ewecus phlegm when b@d, a wormwood player hit a 100 card deck. they even said "wanna stress klei servers?" please stop making griefing so easy. i love the card idea but the functionality needs to change if theyre here to stay

[konijnenmoed]

3 minutes ago, konijnenmoed said:

Another crashed. Someone said they were going to "stress test" the server and hit on a deck of 100 cards. I'm not sure if this is what crashed the server, but it happened at the exact same time.

When trying to reconnect with the server I get this message. The same players are still visible IN game (including myself) while I'm not connected anymore.

[Cheggf]

1 hour ago, TheDistinguishe said:

me and my buddy just got crashed off of ewecus phlegm when b@d, a wormwood player hit a 100 card deck. they even said "wanna stress klei servers?" please stop making griefing so easy. i love the card idea but the functionality needs to change if theyre here to stay

Another thing this update did is make it so that the entire ceiling of the cave has "gullible" written on it.

[Mike23Ua]

I’m an Xbox Series S gamer, and I can say with absolute certainty that Jimbos Cards are indeed crashing the game.

Im not sure if it’s a specific card, or if Klei never took into account that you can take the cards from the surface shard with you down into caves and try to use them in the cave server shard,  but what I can say is that the new cards are Definitely linked to crashing the game.

And I’m not sure if it linked to “hitting” (aka shuffling) the cards, or Flipping them (face down to face up) but I do know they for sure crash the game (at least on Xbox Series S)

[the_flunky3]

1 hour ago, Cheggf said:

Another thing this update did is make it so that the entire ceiling of the cave has "gullible" written on it.

I just checked couldn't zoom out enough

[Alias0225]

Well there was an update claiming to have fixed the Jimbo card crashes. Lets see what happens