general

[drowsy imp]

It's either Fatalis or special arena Teo

[lean fable]

i'm gonna be mad if the monster vote ends and it's just #1 zinogre #2 stygian zinogre #3 apex zinogre or thunderlord zinogre.

[drowsy imp]

And other random stuff I glaze over

[lean fable]

#1 is 100% certainly gonna be zinogre, there's just no way it isn't

[drowsy imp]

Ooh there's a monster vote?

[lean fable]

yea, voting ended uh....some time ago

[drowsy imp]

Aw

[lean fable]

we'll get the results iirc in march

[nova ferry]

The Witcher collab makes me wish that they'll make taming monsters a thing one day

[lean fable]

unfortunately they put subspecies and variants on that vote as different monsters, so monsters with variants and subspecies are at an inherent disadvantage because f.e. 3 mizutsune fans may split their votes across mizu, violet mizu and soulseer mizu.

[nova ferry]

Or some way to ''befriend'' a monster during a hunt which makes them help you

[lean fable]

i doubt that this will harm zinogre though, too many people would marry that thing

[nova ferry]

Guildmarm wouldn't

[lean fable]

i wouldn't either, that dog can take its teleporting pawslap back to the misty peaks

[median falcon]

Well my power went out, that's annoying

[lean fable]

rise kinda lets you do that with its magical deus ex machina bug that lets you literally control a monster while riding it because "oh wouldn't that feel cool? what's that? feeling cool should come from pulling off something that takes skill? no"

[quartz depot]

Mine is is the good old explosive kangaroo brachydios followed by namielle

[drowsy imp]

I was so relieved to learn that Rise's team is the portable team and mostly separate from the 'base game' team

[lean fable]

god i hate wyvern riding, so glad they added an option to just ignore it and keep hitting.
i remember just stopping my swings and sitting there sipping tea waiting for the monster to get out of the "ride me" state

[drowsy imp]

As someone who's only played World and Rise, I'm looking forward to Wilds as a return to form

[median falcon]

Wyvern riding is cool the first 30 times but i wish i just had regular mounting in rise

[nova ferry]

I would prefer what Geralt does in the collab

[median falcon]

ive played World, Rise and a little bit of generations ultimate

[nova ferry]

Save monster, monster is happy and comes and helps you

[lean fable]

yea that's fair, though i also remember babysitting that pukei being a huge pain in the butt.
every 2 seconds you'd have to stop attacking to heal the damn cutie and fend off whatever's bullying it

like, why did you come to help me if you can't even stay alive for more than 5 seconds without my help

[nova ferry]

Oh they kinda failed in scaling the Pukei yeah. But the idea seems really fun

[median falcon]

my pukei during the collab spent most of its time shooting poison from a distance and i didnt have to heal it too much

[nova ferry]

It also adds to the monster interactions which MHW did really well

[lean fable]

i'm jealous, the 3 times i saved mine, it just got ganged up on by jagras immediately

[median falcon]

i brought flashes for the jagras to stun them for a bit

[lean fable]

for repeats i've opted to just not save the pukei, saves time

[nova ferry]

I refuse to kill any Dodogama

[lean fable]

same

[nova ferry]

So may as wel allow me to be friends with one

[lean fable]

hey. does anyone know of a solution to this problem? my friend set up a valheim server on a server he rented. i can ping the servers ip, no packages lost. i see it in valheim servers, see how many people are online (it works for all my other friends), but i click connect, it loads, but eventually says failed to connect. idk what the problem is. weve gone over my network settings, firewall etc. all seems fine. i got the latest version of valheim.
also i can connect to other random servers from community it seems. i always come to the part where you have to enter password. i never get there on my friends server tho.

[nova ferry]

They even made that a joke in a MR mission iirc

[median falcon]

I wanted to do both of the sidequests in the same run at least once so i did that first try

[lean fable]

but sometimes when you're in a group, there's nothing you can do
i've 94 dodo hunts and 83 of them are captures

[nova ferry]

Where they mention that nobody wants to hunt the dodogama because they think it's cute

[median falcon]

I opt to capture first time, and then slay every single time afterwards unless im on like the last faint or somethin

[nova ferry]

I always capture if able

[drowsy imp]

Same

Saves time if nothing else~

[median falcon]

i think its more satisfying to kill

[lean fable]

i capture when i wanna save time, when a friend is too far away to carve, when it's a multi hunt and carving while being attacked by a monster is inevitable, and when the quest calls for it

[nova ferry]

So you basically capture almost everytime too then

[lean fable]

eh not really. about 30% of the time

hmm, lower than that

[nova ferry]

Then you're not saving time smh

You probably lost hours by not capturing everything

[lean fable]

true, i am slow and overly patient

[median falcon]

why care about saving time if you dont speedrun

[lean fable]

i lost 7 hours just this week simply manually sorting my equipment box

[zealous anchor]

hello

[lean fable]

actually, probably less than 7 hours, but more than 4

[nova ferry]

OH RIGHT, Rise's storage was complete and utter garbage

[median falcon]

manually sorting equipment?

[nova ferry]

I remember the game not having different storage for monster drops and consumables

[zealous anchor]

the server itself is pretty empty now, huh

[lean fable]

When you have limited time like a family and work

[lean fable]

i don't know how the autosort sorts things, never tried it, but i already know i'm not gonna be pleased by whatever order it picks.
first few pages went to my armor pieces in order of progression, then several buffer pages, then charms, then buffer pages again, the weapons in weapon order, with each weapon type getting 1 page for crafted weapons, 1 page for safi weapons and 2 pages for kulve weapons.

[median falcon]

i feel like itd be worth at least seeing how it does before manually sorting everything

[lean fable]

yea but world was the first game to not do it like that.
as scarlet mentioned earlier, rise was handled by a different dev team and its development started before world even released, so in many cases it may seem like the "portable" series team is behind on progress.

[median falcon]

but i guess its a bit late now

[lean fable]

yepp 😅

[nova ferry]

World 100% spoiled me

[median falcon]

go back to MH1 and thatll quickly tell you how bad it couldve been

[lean fable]

i admit though, i don't mind the inventory management aspect of pre-world games too much. it added a unique flavour of immersion imo.
i get why people find it annoying though.

[nova ferry]

Not having seperate storage for monster parts and consumables is a sin

[median falcon]

i believe in MH1, you need the crafting materials on you to craft/upgrade your weapons and armor

[lean fable]

remember when the reward screen didn't put items into your item box but instead your inventory?

[nova ferry]

You wouldn't put your rations and potions with all the monster scales and guts irl either would you?

[lean fable]

nutrients

[median falcon]

after cleaning the scales, sure. the guts can be cooked and eaten

[oak pine]

how do I get the roles back?

[median falcon]

you don't

[drowsy imp]

Instructions unclear, downed some critter's bile sack instead of a mega pot

[median falcon]

the only bile I know of is Goss Harag's

it's... probably edible(?)

[lean fable]

mmmmm, deathweaver membrane, yummy

[lone spear]

most biomass is edible. some only once, though.

[median falcon]

does it have to be biomass?

[lean fable]

yea is fatalis pectus edible?

[stark tangle]

We back??

[median falcon]

im sure i could eat some random iron ore if i crush it into small enough pieces

[dapper hedge]

yes, welcome

[drowsy imp]

Anything you ate from Teostra would be heccin spicy

[lean fable]

i want to lick lunastra weapons, that is such a pretty material

[median falcon]

i think itd be more like actually burning you alive rather than spicy, or blow you up. one of the two

[nova ferry]

Eating Kulve Taroth parts would be like eating at those resaurants that serve gilded food

[drowsy imp]

I need to make a Lunastra layered set

[median falcon]

except there's more gold instead of food

[drowsy imp]

Maybe for LS for the rare occasion I play it

[stark tangle]

Why they hacked this server? I mean what's the gain?

[astral crescent]

i almost downloaded the rar from the hackers when they annouced here... but i stopped myself and asked... why do i need to download a . rar named .rar from weshare

[astral crescent]

clout and chaos

[drowsy imp]

Congrats, you're smarter than the average netizen

[nova ferry]

You can turn the scale into gold dust and sprinkle it over your food

[astral crescent]

not really... i almost downloaded before my brain decided to work

[lean fable]

relatable

[stark tangle]

I was offline

[median falcon]

sprinkle it over more gold which you eat

[granite shoal]

Same here tbh

[nova ferry]

You could tell the hackers weren't very smart because they gave the file the most shady name you can imagine

[lean fable]

though i'm too scaredy and cautious to fall for that myself, i make up for that by being stupid in every other way

[median falcon]

also why would they randomly post about "new game" like that, it was rather shady

[north shadow]

oh so it was a hack attack that downed the server? rip

[median falcon]

pretty much

[heavy storm]

😭😭😭😭

[nova ferry]

They may aswell have named the file ''BetaTest_ThisIsTotallyLegit.rar''

[north shadow]

i assumed discord was being dead again

[lean fable]

nah name it SURVEY_PROGRAM.exe :>

[median falcon]

if you were here by the time of the attack i can assure you, you wish the server was dead, the amount of pings would make anyone go deaf

[heavy storm]

Honestly yeah that would've worked, new valheim 2.0 closed beta survey version

[nova ferry]

Let's be real. If they named it ''THIS_WILL_HACK_YOU.exe'' people would still download it

[heavy storm]

100%

[north shadow]

unfortunately yea, people dont like to read

[heavy storm]

(That can't stop me because I can't read)

"This could potentially damage your device, do you still want to continue?"
Man that's a weird condition on the terms and service

[north shadow]

developers will usually upload any stuff to their own domains tho, not a random fileshare site

[mossy charm]

I've tamed like 50 1 star wolves

i wish they could help me fight the queen

[median falcon]

you can tame wolves? wow, amazing.

[mossy charm]

you can also have them make babies lol

[median falcon]

well i expected that since you can breed the piggies

[north shadow]

boars, wolves and lox can be tamed

[heavy storm]

Also, those big thingies, loxes I think they're called

[median falcon]

never seen a lox

[dapper hedge]

please no pictures or links atm. Thank you 🙂

[median falcon]

i havent made my way out of the black forest yet

[heavy storm]

Looks like an oversized bear

[cyan lichen]

the return

[mossy charm]

hiss

[heavy storm]

I wish I could go back to the first time I played valheim like that

Phenomenal experience

[tame plank]

Whoever hack this is a loser with zero life

[north shadow]

well i was about to make a joke about posting a link but it looks like that is being taken rather serious now

[heavy storm]

The whole server now has trust issues

[north shadow]

welcome to my world 😄

[drowsy imp]

And reasonably so~

[fresh hazel]

Lost the first 2 star wolf to fricken golem then had to wait like 40 ingame days to find another

[heavy storm]

Yeah, I wonder why people would be suspicious of links. It's not like they're going to hack you or anything? People on the internet possibly couldn't lie (/j)

[north shadow]

twitter says they got there through a dev, which is unfortunately one heck of a case of social engineering

[drowsy imp]

And it only takes a tiny slip-up and a few seconds for all hell to break loose

[heavy storm]

And the reddit thread stated that, they were talking to someone as they actively got their account taken by them

And started sending suspicious links

I'd genuinely be scared shietless if I'm looking at my own account sending random stuff

[fresh hazel]

They usually do this crap to hack people's computers and steal passwords for bank accounts and stuff

[median falcon]

quite scary stuff honestly

[fresh hazel]

Yes if u log in to bank account while the virus is active you could be in serious trouble

[heavy storm]

I learnt that the hard way actually, I used Avira antivirus, and they came with their very own "secure password manager". I never really used it much, but once some random person got access to my Instagram, he started posting crypto stuff

So much for a reputed antivirus brand, I then 2FA'd every single one of my accounts on every platform

[lone spear]

avira

hmm

[fresh hazel]

The scary thing is sometimes 2FA doesn't even work if they get token key

[heavy storm]

Atleast in my country, you can't really make transactions without an OTP, but yeah, I could see how this could put you in some real serious trouble

[graceful basin]

woah what happened

[median falcon]

hackers nuked the server, nothing major.

[heavy storm]

I was watching a video on that actually, apparently it tricks discord into believing that this device has the account logged in already

[graceful basin]

oh shittt

did everyone survive?

[north shadow]

do not use avira...bit late but still, free and secure does not go well together

[late bone]

I’ve seen this happen a LOT in recent times. The people at discord reealllly need to figure something out. Grabbing someone’s key and stealing their authenticity shouldn’t be so easy

[median falcon]

i dont think so

[lone spear]

OSS entered the chat

[north shadow]

whos oss?

[heavy storm]

Yeah, I completely agree. I only really stick by Malwarebytes these days. Even so, I never use password managers or save my passwords anywhere

[lone spear]

open source software

[north shadow]

also do we know if there was any damage besides discord?

[heavy storm]

I heard that if you're suspicious of an exe file, you can always test it out on a windows vm, on a mac

[median falcon]

afaik the valheim discord was the only affected place

[heavy storm]

Apparently, they hijacked the invite link that was on the reddit page, to redirect you to the hacker server. They fixed it by the time I checked it though

[north shadow]

alr so at least they only nuked the discord and not break the entire next patch of the game or the servers or anything

[heavy storm]

That would've been the worst case scenario

[late bone]

Nah definitely not

[north shadow]

so most likely a bored kid then

[forest nacelle]

I mean they stole the official invite url so they wouldn't need access to the subreddit to get that link to redirect to the hacker server lol

[late bone]

Those are more secure at iron gate. Discord is trivial if you can get someone to click a link

[heavy storm]

I don't think steam could be hacked like discord, with a token or something, no idea though

[graceful basin]

oh god no what a tradgedy!

[forest nacelle]

anywhere that linked to the .gg/valheim link would've redirected to the hacker server while they had control of the vanity url

[median falcon]

yeah, so anyplace that had the invite would lead you to the fake server, like the official twitter, steam page, reddit... whatever other place youd find it

[forest nacelle]

yup, no breach necessary on those other sites

[heavy storm]

If I joined valheim like 2 days ago and this happens, I don't know what I'd be thinking really

Trying to join the valheim discord and I get redirected to a scam server

[median falcon]

"did i join at a bad time...??"

[jagged phoenix]

They hacked and possibly deleted another server I belonged to

Puppy games, they made it look like valheim server

[heavy storm]

Something like that happened with me. The day I tried to use a modded client on a specific app, their servers were down. I genuinely thought I got banned and turns out, I was just fine

[heavy storm]

Oh yeah, I heard about it

They seem to be some of the first victims of this "epsilon stealer" attack

[proven axle]

wwhat would their motive even be?

[heavy storm]

Or whatever they call it

[heavy storm]

Maybe they get paid for every person you get to click on the suspicious link? No idea

Plus, they could also steal data

[median falcon]

stealing the accounts of people who were gullible enough to download and run the suspicious software, probably

[forest nacelle]

someone on the subreddit was looking into the malware they linked thru the breached dev account, so whatever malicious shit was in there was one motive, but the other motive seemed to just be to promote their own discord server and just get attention

[fresh hazel]

Its hacking bank accounts and getting easy money

[forest nacelle]

the main hacker's about me said he was 19 and had his girlfriend's @ in it lol

but who knows if that was an actual account or just another one they controlled

[heavy storm]

Heard they steal all your cookies, so whatever credit card information you have saved on your browser or discord? They have it now (if you ran the exe and restarted)

[heavy storm]

Can they go to jail for this? For all the damage they've caused?

[forest nacelle]

I mean yeah in theory but cybercrime is all but impossible to prosecute

[fresh hazel]

Very Hard to track and catch yeah

[heavy storm]

Yeah, cause you'd never really know if the "hacker account" was controlled by someone else,

[midnight sparrow]

In their telegram Channel, they states that the malware steal every credentials stored on the device (mentions of SSH Key, WinSPC Credentials, etc), they also claim that their malware is undetected by most anti-malware/ anti-virus with screenshots of virustotal

[heavy storm]

Oh yeah, and I heard it installs an OS rootkit (no idea what that is) and becomes one with windows

[fresh hazel]

Operating system rootkit basically a startup process

Starts itself automatically every time you turn machine on and runs hidden and can't be touched

[north shadow]

yes unfortunately if you do not want to be found on the internet and you know your stuff then you will not be found

[heavy storm]

Oh yeah, I saw someone mention something about that. Basically when you restart it disguises itself as a windows process? And could just go undercover through antivirus software and stuff, sounds crazy advanced

[fresh hazel]

Yes scary stuff

[heavy storm]

For something so powerful, you could simply avoid it by not clicking random links you come across

[desert nova]

Most of the time, anyway... 😅

[north shadow]

there are ways to remove that which dont include completely resetting your pc if you actually find the root cause, but depending on the smarts of the hacker that can be challenging. i had a case of that on my pc once but luckily the malware only expected an average user

[blissful fractal]

i am glad i am on linux. much less trouble with malware

[heavy storm]

Wait, so there are times when your device can still be taken control of without getting you to click stuff?

[dapper hedge]

dont ask ^^

[heavy storm]

🤌

[median falcon]

like when your little sister clicks stuff when she borrows your pc

[north shadow]

well doing it without is a LOT harder but not impossible

[hallow meadow]

if its smart it just creates copies disguised as random programs in multiple places

[heavy storm]

If I had a little sister I wouldn't let her anywhere near my pc

[desert nova]

those are usually rated higher in risk than the ones where user interactions are required, but yes, there are cases where no user interaction is required

[north shadow]

it wasnt smart. it used an automated task in the windows task feature to reinstall itself

[median falcon]

thats fair, i wouldnt either. but her pc is better than mine so id think it's the other way around

[heavy storm]

Yeah, I don't think I'd want to get into random arguments with people on discord, when there's people like that out there

[heavy storm]

😭😭😭😭😭
"Heyo sis, I think we should be getting our free PS5 today"

[hallow meadow]

yea but from what i have seen people say it only reinstalled itself in a somewhat specific place

[median falcon]

i dont even care about consoles that much lol, a pc is all i need

[wanton gorge]

There's people like that everywhere. Discord just so happens to have quite a few vulnerabilities that allow things like this to happen.

[desert nova]

Well, you know, it's not magic. The perpetrators still need a vulnerability (i.e.: an attack vector) to cause those issues... check the reports on https://www.cve.org/ if you want to be more informed (or scared, lol, I sppose? 😄 so many buffer issues.... 🤣 ).

[heavy storm]

Yeah I admit, no mods, and very limited options means I'd pass on it too

[wanton gorge]

For example... GIFs that have imbedded code can tell your discord app what to do.

[heavy storm]

I'd rather be informed and scared than be reckless and get my ass handed to me 😭 thanks for this, I'll make sure to check this out

[jagged phoenix]

Why does a hacker do anything? For fun? To make people made

[wanton gorge]

both

[jagged phoenix]

Negative attention is attention

[hallow meadow]

they want a reaction because they are attention starved

[heavy storm]

Yeah, scary stuff man, I used to join a lot of servers off of disboard back then. Not anymore, never again

[jagged phoenix]

So I typically ignore those people

[desert nova]

Well, for all of us average folks, we're not exactly the target of these things 😄 Just not worth the trouble.

[wanton gorge]

There's lots of reasons behind hackers. One of the bigger ones are hacktivism or state actors. You might find a bunch of trolls here on discord/reddit though XD

[heavy storm]

Out of all the other massive communities they could go for, they had to stumble upon valheim 😔

[wanton gorge]

@heavy storm check out cube OS if you get paranoid.

[heavy storm]

But it's genuinely impressive how the whole server was brought back on its feet this fast

[hallow meadow]

the majority of the people that are part of those groups are still just looking for some kind of attention, its rare to find a hacker thats actually doing it for a specific cause

[heavy storm]

Cube OS? Is it something like iOS?

[hallow meadow]

they def went for more than just valheim, its just that valheim was the one where they caught a small slip up or weakness in a system

[wanton gorge]

It's hard to set up but think virtualization/sand boxing

[unborn sphinx]

has anyone has an issue in the current version where brenna doesn't spawn in the smoldering tomb?

[heavy storm]

Yeah, that was quite unfortunate

[heavy storm]

Oh yeah, I heard that as long as you run a virus on windows vm on a mac, the possibility of you getting in trouble would be near zero, given that you have your internet off (I think cryptoNWO is one of those content creators that always does stuff like this, testing out dangerous viruses and ransomware) very intriguing, and scary really

[neon rapids]

Why did hackers target the Valheim Discord of all places? Seems so random

[wanton gorge]

They couldn't beat the deer boss

[neon rapids]

Lol

[low python]

Most likely they were looking for social media account information and ended up finding someone with permissions to be able to @ everyone and delete everything.

[median falcon]

they couldn't beat a regular deer

[forest nacelle]

it seems like someone with staff perms on the Discord fell for a phishing scam. I don't THINK it was targeted.

[low python]

It was most likely not even valheim related but then ended up saying fuck it, and went for it

[low python]

This

[peak snow]

this sucks, probably kids thinking they're hot shit for hacking a discord

[neon rapids]

Damn, just unlucky

[wanton gorge]

By the way, yall. If any of you use Facebook... there's a similar issue going on right now with request forgeries. Threat Actors are going around scraping information and compromising accounts and attempting tod o the same thing with the email addresses associated with them and so forth.

[neon rapids]

I never click anonymous links, not even from close friends

[viscid canyon]

👀 I survived the fallout. Did you?

[wanton gorge]

The ash falling reminds of winter

[sleek needle]

hello how is everyone today

[sleek needle]

sus

[wanton gorge]

sus

[viscid canyon]

Very sus

[wanton gorge]

XD

[median falcon]

very slowly dying of old age

[wanton gorge]

Looking at the at the #rules-and-info page... I find HTTP links very sus. (even though i'm pretty sure they're legit)

[low python]

If it ain't https don't click it

[idle sun]

yeah they seem to have done some (of the same website) with https and some without the s

[wanton gorge]

Imagine having a web server that allows an HTTP connection. Plaintext everywhere XD

[sleek needle]

why are you talking to yourself lmao

[potent pecan]

server looks fine now😀

[wide flower]

Icon is a little lacking

but ur right it's doing better now

[wanton gorge]

We should have one of the Valheim axes as the icon.

Since it got hacked

[north shadow]

sheesh no chill xD

[wanton gorge]

Sorry. I love you guys!

[azure hemlock]

why do even people get from deleting channels and stuff?

[icy charm]

All we need now is the voice channels

[icy charm]

The ones who deleted all are sh!t heads that didnt learn how to have respect

Life kinda sad w them doing that for laughs

[wanton gorge]

https://tenor.com/view/kensei-gif-21125136

Embed fail for gif... oof.

[icy charm]

Embed failure

[wanton gorge]

XD I can't english this morning.

Coffee hasn't hit my blood stream haha.

[north shadow]

yea links and pictures are currently a bit off limits

[wanton gorge]

No no... I definitely get it. I wasn't thinking about it lol

[north shadow]

imagine getting hacked by a tenor link

[wanton gorge]

Basically it was the fat guy from south park eating chips. That's how I look at the guys who got the server.

[north shadow]

lmao

[worn bloom]

Servers back I see
Nice

[wanton gorge]

XD description for broken image link. Important for websites.

[north shadow]

well actually its not even all that far fetched tho, cause some letters in different alphabets can look like letters of the english alphabet and can replace them in links so you dont see it at first and when you click it...boom, nuked

[wanton gorge]

Nuked indeed.

Apparently google chrome was advertising a year ago that Request Forgeries is no longer a thing with their browser.

[versed island]

What happened to the logo?

[north shadow]

got nuked

[versed island]

Can't they put it back?

[median falcon]

it got removed when the server got nuked by hackers, idk why they havent put it back

[north shadow]

they are currently working to restore the server

[zenith token]

itll take time to fix everything, people are busy

[wanton gorge]

I imagine getting the server back up 100% is probably on the top of the list right now.

[north shadow]

id imagine the logo is the last of anyones worries after a complete fallout

[clever shard]

Hi ! I've sent a feedback / suggestion on the support web page of Valheim. Their response was to come on the Discord channel to make suggestions. I don't see any "Suggestion" channel. Anyone knows where I can write this suggestion for the DEVS to see ?

[wanton gorge]

Surprise incident response creation.

[north shadow]

most channels (including suggestions) are currently unavailable due to a hacker attack, it will be restored when theyre done

[median falcon]

probably, but id imagine itd be one of the easier things to restore

[clever shard]

ok. thanks. will come back later on this week.

[wanton gorge]

That's exactly why it's last on the list lol.

[median falcon]

it takes like 30 seconds at most, still lol

[north shadow]

ye, the image might be important but restoring lost stuff is like proper grammar: importanter

[rotund pewter]

The Valheim Logo is back!!!! 🤩🤩🤩

[median falcon]

it's not super important though

[north shadow]

well there you go i guess xD

[wanton gorge]

XD they have heard your prayers

[median falcon]

well there we go, 30 seconds lol

[rotund pewter]

Love it!!! 🥳🥰🥳

[wanton gorge]

XD

[fiery meadow]

haha

[north shadow]

ask and ye shall recieve

[wanton gorge]

Well I want a max level character

[merry plover]

https://tenor.com/view/hyperventilate-cant-breathe-hyperventilation-sheldon-cooper-gif-3510677630357883825

[median falcon]

it doesnt work when you do it, sorry i dont make the rules

[north shadow]

wait you char has levels?

[wanton gorge]

embed fail

[wanton gorge]

My life story right there

[upper depot]

Love to see the server restoring and running again!

[scenic wing]

Oh my goodness is that an Arc the Lad enjoyer??

[median falcon]

idk

[north shadow]

it was quite a....misfortune

[gaunt fable]

Is this the real server or what

[north shadow]

where?

[median falcon]

this is the real server yeah

[shadow ravine]

Did they fix it

[fiery meadow]

yes

[shadow ravine]

Is there a VC ?

No VC yet ?

[wanton gorge]

Not yet.

[median falcon]

if the current condition of the server is considered fixed, then yes.

[wanton gorge]

Maybe if Carp asks lol

[north shadow]

omg i am so stupid i swear to dog

[shadow ravine]

How do we get a VC channel just wait ?

[upper depot]

I guess :c

[fiery meadow]

They are still restoring channels, but getting back the server link was the big thing.

[median falcon]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[gaunt fable]

How do we know not everything is contaminated and we are now inside the matrix

[north shadow]

yes that is an average arc the lad enjoyer

[upper depot]

Ye thats important, I whonder how they (the hackers) got the link tho

[shadow ravine]

Yeah I mean I’m sure discord devs helped with that

[fiery meadow]

deleted it here and applied it to another boosted server

[scenic wing]

Underrated gem of a game for sure

[shadow ravine]

How did they move all of the members tho ?

[upper depot]

Its so 'easy'?

[fiery meadow]

if you have admin of a discord, yes

[gaunt fable]

Is your name from league

[upper depot]

Tbh, I was so dump and clicked on the new invite link-

[north shadow]

absolutely 110%

[rancid sapphire]

This is the same discord instance, they just regained control of it.

[upper depot]

No, my Username is kinda random haha :)

[median falcon]

ah yes, good idea. click on an invite link being spammed 50+ times as the server gets nuked by hackers

[rancid sapphire]

The other was just made-up to look like this one to fool people.

[gaunt fable]

Dude that server (the hackers one) was literally the first Google result when you search "valheim discord "

[stone harness]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[upper depot]

Ye idk, I was just kinda dump atm-

[gaunt fable]

I joined it too

[upper depot]

Ye and i left and used the Discord Valheim link, and it send me to the Server from the hackerssss

[shadow ravine]

Idk why people would wanna hack a valheim server it’s literally the chillest community

[gaunt fable]

Legit

[fiery meadow]

yeah, them getting that link back is why I say discord is "fixed", the rest is just channels and roles to re-add

[median falcon]

thats because they stole the invite link to the official valheim discord, so anyplace that had that would lead you to the fake server

[rancid sapphire]

You can pay for advertising to get to the top of google results, until you're found out to be abusing it, and they take you down. happens a lot.

[gaunt fable]

Hack league of legends discord it's cancer anyway, why hack valheim

[plush dome]

Aye y'all. Glad to be back in chat

[gaunt fable]

That's crazy

[shadow ravine]

Really wish we had a VC it would be poppin rn

[plush dome]

I was here at tht time when it was getting hacked sucked. I had to change everything on my end just in case

[upper depot]

Valheim Community is so chill, it (the community) didn't do anything :,)

[median falcon]

it would certainly be cool to have VC, but frankly i dont care much about speaking

[languid trench]

hooray we're back

[wide flower]

I hope they make this server even better than ever before

[gaunt fable]

Same, watched everything live xD

[wide flower]

This is a good opportunity to organise the server in the best way possible

[north shadow]

love how you always specify in parentheses

[plush dome]

Same.

[shadow ravine]

I didn’t change anything on my end my password I use is 500 characters long I also have 2fa on

[upper depot]

I just wanna make sure that everyone knows what I'm talking about haha

[gaunt fable]

I have 2fa too and everything

[shadow ravine]

Also makes you wonder if the server devs had 2FA enabled

[median falcon]

i watched most of it live

[glacial musk]

only so many times you can watch a #zizi being made before it becomes very dull 😛

[median falcon]

The hackers bypassed it by taking their token or whatever, i heard. idk im not smarts in that regard

[upper depot]

what did ZiZi mean anyways?

[gaunt fable]

It's funny cause when I'm at work I almost never use discord, one of the few times that I did hell went loose

[rancid sapphire]

My guess is no, Or maybe one of their discord sessions got hijacked. However they got in, the bad guys took over the server, and i presume Discord helped the actual admins regain control.

[shadow ravine]

I use discord toooo often lmao

[gaunt fable]

No idea, they had 30 channels with that

[languid trench]

i was in class and it was the one time i was like "oh a ping in Valheim i guess i'll check it out"

[wide flower]

tokens don't care about 2FA

[rancid sapphire]

So its your fault then?

[shadow ravine]

Isn’t it illegal to raid a server ?

[upper depot]

Probably the token is a way to log into an account easiely!!! So If someone is asking to go into the Discord website and to stream it or something like that NEVER DO THAT!!

[plush dome]

Ok. Well I'ma a bit confused now haha...huh?lol

[gaunt fable]

I guess 😭

[rancid sapphire]

"illegal" is a funny term when you're online.

[glacial musk]

they kept making channels called zizi

[shadow ravine]

Well I ask because I heard it was because the server is personal property

[upper depot]

Always generating new ones (channels) :c

[shadow ravine]

Therefore raiding it would be destruction of said property

[glacial musk]

google pasta zizi, I dunno if that's what it was about but that's where I know it from, there is a zizi cafe near where I live too

[languid trench]

going after a smaller dev team too, what was even the point

[rancid sapphire]

Illegal implies there are laws, and those laws apply to the people who broke in. Or that you can even identify those people. If they came from outside of the US, US law doesnt apply to them, for instnance.

[median falcon]

youd be less confused if you saw how many #zizi were made when THE INCIDENT happened

[upper depot]

Ehm I think I found out what Zizi means-

[fervent comet]

[upper depot]

Zizi is a inappropriate word, just in another language (I think so)

Zizi is french

[shadow ravine]

Should I ask a dev for a VC?

[fiery meadow]

nah just give them time

[upper depot]

Let the devs do what they have to do- :)

[shadow ravine]

Any way anybody wanna play ?

[glacial musk]

already logging in to a modded server 😛

[shadow ravine]

I’ve been playing valheim and pal world a lot lately

[rancid sapphire]

Off to work for me. Glad to see this place is back in order. 😄 Have a great one Vikings.

[median falcon]

yeah i slapped it in translate and it means "the fold" in swahili, or something different in french, which i checked because i heard the hackers were french early on

[shadow ravine]

Usually it’s just valheim

[median falcon]

ive been playing mhw a lot lately

[upper depot]

Whats mhw?

[median falcon]

monster hunter world

[upper depot]

oh ok :)

[tropic grail]

A good game

[median falcon]

one of my favourite games, id say. playing it cause they announced the next title in the series

[upper depot]

Just started a new Cities Skylines world today, I'm thinking about buying the second game-

[north shadow]

im shooting the zombs in 7 days while i wait for ashlands

[wanton gorge]

I've been stuck on Call to Arms lately lol.

[tropic grail]

City skylines was pretty fun. Idk if I'd buy the second game but I heard there has been some good improvements like the traffic being better

[wanton gorge]

Traffic should be bad... it is in real life.

[tropic grail]

What I mean is the traffic is less brain dead. The first game the traffic loved only using one lane in a 6 lane freeway

[upper depot]

In Cities Skylines 1 the traffic is so bad haha

[crisp iron]

using one lane on a six lane highway is an accurate description of my optimal brain function

[tropic grail]

Lol

[north shadow]

so hyperrealistic then xD

[mellow lagoon]

The link went to wetransfere which is a legit file sending service. Simply visiting was safe I believe. Now if one ran the downloaded exe file they are probably screwed

[north shadow]

yeah wetransfer alone wont hurt you

altho our company blocked the entire site because free file transfers? no thank you

[rich gorge]

probably because of employees downloading extra ram lol

[north shadow]

dont say stuff like that, people are gonna believe thats a thing

[wanton gorge]

XD

[tropic grail]

Yeah you know fair enough. I've seen it happen irl where everyone used only one lane for no reason other then everyone else is using that one lane

[limpid ledge]

Glad to see that we're back. Was really bummed out cause I had just got back into playing Valheim again

[pallid siren]

it's the childish way in french to say the p-word

[mellow lagoon]

My workplace banned usb and cd drives. Like none of our PCs or laptops had working USB ports even. What a pain. It would randomly drop USB drives at various work sites as a test. So many people picked them up and plugged them into the computer

[north shadow]

lmao

[pliant cape]

looks like they are cleaning this place up

[north shadow]

you wouldnt believe how easy it is to trick people into clicking links if theres "free food" involved

[keen zealot]

Valheim back in business 💪

[lean fable]

i’ll click any link regarding free beef jerky

me want vc access too 🙂

me want to play valheim with other valheim enjoyers too

[mellow lagoon]

If I needed say the manual for equipment I had to take home the USB and email it to myself at work. This was a major oil company and these were so called educated people

[north shadow]

give them time, theyre restoring the server to its former glory

[lean fable]

k me wait then

[pliant cape]

episode of mr robot shows how people do this really well. posed as a musician outside an office and handed out his "new music" on usb drives

[median falcon]

we got the server icon back only like 30 minutes ago so it's not a quick restoration

[wanton gorge]

That was a CD

[lean fable]

me happy valheim discord is actively being restored live right now too

[pliant cape]

cd? might be right, yeah a cd

[wanton gorge]

XD I love Mr. Robot.

[gray mica]

Is this the actual server?

[bitter vale]

https://tenor.com/view/goma-cat-nod-gif-10363630855706579942

[pliant cape]

yeah, good to see slater on working again

[dapper hedge]

Yes, welcome home 🙂

[dapper hedge]

he is alive dance

Welcome Home Master S.

[gray mica]

Is there risk of the hackers coming back?

[hearty bronze]

i dont understand why somebody would hack the server dude

[pliant cape]

there is always a risk

script kiddies, to see if they can

[dapper hedge]

Please dont post any links or pictures atm. Thank you for your understanding.

[bitter vale]

always a risk. so don't trust even us developers if we do something "out of character"

[pliant cape]

copy

[north shadow]

so....smiffe in timeout?

[lunar musk]

back

[pliant cape]

that was me, posting gif, forgetting dudes took this place down with links lol

[dapper hedge]

hihihi, nice try 😄

[gray mica]

Fellow SW fan

[median falcon]

equal treatment!1!!1!

[wanton gorge]

Literally me 30 minutes ago lol

[pliant cape]

yeah bad idea on my part

[fiery meadow]

lol that is like blaming the person who got shot for being in the path of the bullet.

[keen olive]

Got it. Do you like to code in Java? 🙃

[faint basin]

Hello ! Good to see things back up and running

[lunar musk]

well i got my wish that suggestions gets closed down

[austere hemlock]

Glad to see things are better!
I hope the devs/mods have an easier time in the near future!

[misty crow]

At least everyone learned a valuable lesson

[median falcon]

hopefully

[wanton gorge]

Nah... I still love clicking on completely random links.

[median falcon]

I only click on suspicious links

[dapper hedge]

afterwards you always know more, as much as I would be against it

[lunar musk]

exactly, nub should have dodged, skill issue

[grave matrix]

Hi everyone! Can someone know how to play in crossplay betwen a pc steam and xbox series x?

[wanton gorge]

Git Gud @lunar musk

[crisp musk]

FINALLY! Had to remove an old phone number to authenticate

[wanton gorge]

NOT YOU NOT YOU. I PROMISE!

[forest nacelle]

half the posts on the subreddit during the incident were "where can I post suggestions now" 💀

[tough aspen]

mean! where else do we get to downvote

[median falcon]

even if 95% of suggestions are dogwater, there's some rare decent ones in there...

[tough aspen]

Still my favorite was " 💡 Animals should be able to cross through a portal and the mats explode on the other side"

[forest nacelle]

we need the channel just to contain the dogwater so I don't have to see it elsewhere

[wanton gorge]

The term Dog Water has taken a new meaning for me since I got a great dane.

It's no longer contained in the bowl... it's on the couch, your lap, anywhere he sticks his head after he's done drinking.

[grave matrix]

Nobody know how?

[median falcon]

that's how it goes when you have pets

i have cats, theyll spill water and food out of the bowls as well

not as often with the water sure but it happens sometimes

[wanton gorge]

My cat likes to smack food out of her food dish into her water bowl and then complain about it.

[median falcon]

same here

one of mine will take the food out of the bowl before eating it

[tough aspen]

Sorry dunno, I'm not sure xbox and PC is possible? I only play PC D: if someone can help out

[light rose]

i have a question, what pc specs do i need to run a valheim dedicated server without lags

[median falcon]

quick google search says valheim crossplay is possible. i just dont know how

[grave matrix]

I see everywhere on the web that i can play in crossplay but no more information

[wooden zenith]

yoooo whats up

[upper depot]

Lemme look if I find something

[bitter vale]

I don''t code.
But I prefear #C or Qbasic 😄

[lunar musk]

ok that's for sure the real Smiffe

[bitter vale]

https://tenor.com/view/workaholics-blake-anderson-blake-henderson-fur-sure-for-sure-gif-4276923

[final path]

Very happy to see this server coming back online..script kiddies are the worst.

[upper depot]

I found out how! (ill dm u, nvm u don't have dms acitvated haha)

[tough aspen]

the ONLY time i ever see that gif, ever, is when Smiffe posts it

[bitter vale]

the AI bots analysed all things I wrote

[upper depot]

So you start a world and press on crossplatform

[median falcon]

this just makes me wish i could wear trophies on my head as vanity, honestly

[upper depot]

than the other one is gonna go onto 'Join game' and on 'Add server' and then U have to but the Invite code in there

I think thats it :o

[lunar musk]

they both need matching versions as well iirc, but that should do it

[bitter vale]

fur-suit wanted? 😄

https://tenor.com/view/mario-super-gif-27552051

[tough aspen]

i mean yall did the cloak

just make it a hat and we gucci

[median falcon]

if the fur suit is made of an animal i murked with my own bear hands, sure

[lunar musk]

purrfect

[scenic wing]

If we get fur suits, I want a chicken trophy 🤌

[crisp musk]

QBasic? Didn't that die in the 1900s?

[bitter vale]

https://tenor.com/view/shrug-gif-25269231

[crisp canopy]

is there anyone who can help how can i reset ores/terrain modifications on my map?

[forest nacelle]

I use a mod to reset the terrain. I don't know of one that respawns ores/harvestables once destroyed

I use adenthorns reset terrain mod

[lunar musk]

starting the same map over would achieve the desired result, probably not the solution wanted tho

[crisp canopy]

obviously not

[stoic prism]

guys when do you think the next content drop will be?

[keen olive]

I only ever used Qbasic to play the monkey banana throwing game.

[scenic wing]

Sometime in the first half of this year for sure

[upper depot]

Question : I'm trying to help someone to play Crossplatform, The problem is that the one playing on the xbox is on version (ending) .39 and the one on pc is on version .38?

[lunar musk]

...

[pseudo sapphire]

well server is back up. thats good news.

[bitter vale]

it's fine 🙂

look at the N-<number>

[upper depot]

Ok one sec.

[bitter vale]

it stands for "Network" number

so .39 on PC is compatible with .38 xbox

[mighty wind]

Join code? That’s how I play with my buddy in n pc. I’m on Xbox.

[upper depot]

both have n-20

[bitter vale]

indeed. so compatible 🙂

[lunar musk]

someone mentioned the C++ redis from microsoft

for pc users getting error msgs when attempting xplay

[upper depot]

But the one on the xbox isn't able to join on the world from the pc guy. (I'm not that well known with the crossplatform thing btw.)

[lunar musk]

not something i'm overly familiar on either

[bitter vale]

PC guy needs to use Crossplay

and disable any VPN

[upper depot]

So he has to join the xbox guy?

he enabled crossplatform while launching the world-

[mighty wind]

My buddy joins me with a join code. I’m on Xbox and when I hit the start button a code pops up.

[wanton gorge]

yeah VPN is a big no no

At least when it comes to playing online XD

[rough gazelle]

Glad you all got the server back!

I've seen channels lose their server and never get it back. Discord is useless when it comes to stuff like this 💜

[upper depot]

Magikarp haha

[rough gazelle]

no no

Classy Magikarp ✨

[wanton gorge]

Definitely "Classy Magikarp"

Magikarp go brrr

[median falcon]

magikarp... delicious

[wanton gorge]

It's like when someone asked reddit if it was possible if someone could eat the mime dude

[north shadow]

i wonder if magikarp sashimi is any good

[upper depot]

So apparently the guy on the XBOX deinstalled the game and reinstalled it and that fixed it

[wanton gorge]

"Did he turn it off and back on again" at its finest

[median falcon]

Mr. Mime is definetively edible

[bitter vale]

that can happen sometimes because he also updates some cache things on his Xbox

[median falcon]

is it morally right? who knows

[bitter vale]

or it just needed time to update

[upper depot]

ok!

But now they can play and thats perfect

[zealous anchor]

yo smiffe
can you change my nickname to
Sir_Tea_Biscuit
please?

[keen holly]

much love to valheim mods/devs during this painful discord episode 🙏🫡

[lunar musk]

all's well that ends well

[median falcon]

at least we made it through THE INCIDENT and survived

[lean fable]

[zealous anchor]

oh the helpers can also do that, wellp
thanks 😄

[wanton gorge]

"that helps"

[scenic wing]

How’s your toe?

[lunar musk]

magic gif

[lean fable]

https://tenor.com/view/wizard-magic-cat-spell-gif-5452899

[zealous anchor]

mostly fine, apart from the the corner of the nail still hurting, and the toe knuckle hurting

[scenic wing]

That’s mostly good then, hopefully that pain goes away soon

[wanton gorge]

A "T'knuckle" if you will

[upper depot]

Small question : Why ain't I able to use emojis from other discord servers 🥲

[scenic wing]

Captain T’Knuckle

[zealous anchor]

dont you need premium for that? but it could also be disabled here still

[drowsy imp]

Disabled for everyone except server staff

[lunar musk]

external emojis are disabled here ^

[wanton gorge]

Welp... that being said @scenic wing....

[dapper hedge]

atm, we block everything and remove that step by step.

[snow forge]

Disabled to avoid random idiots using nswf or other bad emojis.

[upper depot]

Ok!

[wanton gorge]

May I have my server nickname updated to "Captain T'Knuckle"?

[drowsy imp]

Used to be allowed for server boosters but that's changed a long time ago

[upper depot]

ok :)

[wanton gorge]

I would love you long time

[upper depot]

Just boosted the server, and wasn't really active before, so didn't knew that

[normal kiln]

I caught the whole hack on video in real time! I'd be happy to give the raw videos of the entire event to the devs if it helps them with the recovery efforts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2BQ0MzmIXI

[covert cove]

Oh is the discord fixed now?

[lunar musk]

partially

[zealous anchor]

not fixed 100% its like running on back up power

[lunar musk]

good enough for now

[north shadow]

a link! witch! burn her!

[covert cove]

Aye thought that

[wanton gorge]

I was about to say lol

[normal kiln]

lol

[lunar musk]

click it and download all the sus files it offers you

[wanton gorge]

I'm serious about that server name change though. May I be added as "Captain T'Knuckle"?

[drowsy imp]

Can't see why not~

[wanton gorge]

WOOO!!!

[wanton gorge]

You'll be offered a link to download a management profile to your device... just click install and trust. XD

[wanton gorge]

Thank you 🙂

[lunar musk]

we jest but anyone caught out has had a tough go with this one

unusually hard to get rid of cleanly

[wanton gorge]

100%. I understand the severity of cyber attacks in their fullest.

I am very glad that everything is getting to the point of being resolved. Could have been a lot worse.

[scenic wing]

Also, all this hacking stuff went down just a short time after I dropped the most hated suggestion ever, so I’lll take a small victory for that lol

[slender bough]

this gave me joy

[upper depot]

Just found out about the super reaction feature hahah

[wanton gorge]

lol I was tempted to buy the Nitro sub just for that.

[upper depot]

haha

I bought it for the Profilepicture and banner

to use gifs as profile pic is very important 🤓

[wanton gorge]

XD

[unique berry]

WE ARE BACK!
ALMOST!

[wanton gorge]

Hooyah... easy day.

[tough aspen]

I just want a place for screenshots to feel complete

[upper depot]

I want the Media chats back 😭

[unique berry]

idr who did the suggesiton bingo but this would be the perfect instance for that!

[wanton gorge]

My last SS of the game was a year ago and it was my buddy and I on a long boat getting absolutely smacked by a serpant.

[rough bramble]

😭😭😭😭😭😭

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

dont cry
Nothing will be fixed by crying

[median falcon]

and i want to eat fifty million crayfish but you cant always get what you want

[tulip stream]

did an admin click a no no link?

[upper depot]

I ain't pushing the devs to do something, I just said that I would like them back

[median falcon]

I am pushing, im pushing for a large quantity of crayfish to be shipped to my doorstep

[wanton gorge]

I'll second this.

[median falcon]

my cravings for crayfish have gone unsatisfied ever since i missed out on a crayfish party due to a fever

[upper depot]

ok lol

[vagrant cipher]

It’s not as simple as clicking a link

[median falcon]

what is life without wolfing down an unhealthy amount of crayfish once a year

[umbral fog]

normal...

[median falcon]

blasphemy

[woeful ferry]

hola everyone

[tulip stream]

i know, there are other ways, i had a few friends had there accounts stolen

[forest nacelle]

only acc I've ever had hacked was my snap in 2016, after that I enabled 2FA everywhere it was available and changed all my passwords, haven't had an issue since

2FA may be annoying but it's wildly effective

[lunar musk]

absolutely, i'm guessing fast action by some saved the situation being much more dire

[fiery meadow]

I mean, the company I work for had their whole database encrypted because someone forgot to disable bluetooth on their cell phone. Where there is a will there is a way, it's more about backing up what is important in case something happens.

[drowsy imp]

unfortunately there are still attacks that bypass 2FA, which seems to have been the case this time

[vagrant cipher]

Yea I’ve seen nukes before and this was on the tamer side

[forest nacelle]

damn, that's brutal

another reason to hate Bluetooth 😂

wired peripherals gang

[fiery meadow]

they run backups twice a day so we were good, but really you have to prepare for the worst if you have important data

[wanton gorge]

I've seen it happen to hospitals.... which arguably work under stricter security conditions than most companies. I'm just glad it turned out the way it has and not escalated.

[forest nacelle]

I turn Bluetooth on once a day for 5min to sync fitness data from my smart watch and that's IT

[tulip stream]

just never have bluetooth on or don't have it detectable

[wanton gorge]

I refuse to buy a smart watch because it's just another GPS device.

[woeful ferry]

woah should I turn it off

[wanton gorge]

I would advise for everyone to turn off BT and NFC when not in use on their devices.

[upper depot]

I have bluetooth on, almost permanently :o

[woeful ferry]

I have it on 24/7 i didnt know if thats a bad thing

[lunar musk]

it's like saying "i'm wide open, hack me"

[wanton gorge]

Blue snarfing is a fun term haha.

[tulip stream]

i never will buy a smart watch becouse most of the time people will have there phone and a smart watch and one is way better than the other, just pull out your phone, lol

no need to pay over 300 to be lazy

[umbral fog]

i also have it on all the time so i can just whip out headphones/earbuds and they will connect on their own

[upper depot]

I use bluetooth for my headphones, car and etc.

[wanton gorge]

Absolutely. If it's actively being used, by all means. Just be sure to turn it off when not in use.

That's all.

[upper depot]

turned it off now haha

[woeful ferry]

me too

[wanton gorge]

🙂 we have possibly saved 2 souls today, ladies and gents.

[fiery meadow]

knowing is half the battle

[woeful ferry]

thank you sir

[fallow solstice]

i only wear headphones cant wear that smaller ear bud stuff. those are just silly

[drowsy imp]

y'all made me check and I also turned off my bt just now

[wanton gorge]

3 souls and counting lol

[fallow solstice]

my bluetooth is always on due to my smart watch actively using it

[minor barn]

hi guys

[tulip stream]

yeah, just turn it off whenever you leave the house, lol wifi too

[upper depot]

i'd never use public wifi (scared haha)

[tulip stream]

evil stuff

[vagrant cipher]

VPN up

[wanton gorge]

That's what VPNs are for

[woeful ferry]

I guess I only really use bluetooth for car music just bc im just too lazy to plug it in

[tulip stream]

me who has unlimited data
amateur

[wanton gorge]

It's not as scary as you think but I believe that someone has to be within 100 feet of you. Generally speaking... if you're in public, it's probably best to keep it off if not being used.

[fiery meadow]

I dont know the extent of bt hacking, but I think the attacker needs to be in range of the device, it's really just something to be aware of.

[wanton gorge]

XD my comment should answer that.

[upper depot]

I have no Idea to set up vpn on my phone lol, and I just use mobile internet (forgot the word if there even is one)

[woeful ferry]

man people are creeps

[fiery meadow]

haha yeah you were a bit faster than me 😄

[wanton gorge]

This is officially the Valheim CS awareness day lol

[tulip stream]

i think having NFC on is also a problem yeah?

[wanton gorge]

Absolutely. I always advised turning off BT and NFC when not in use.

[vagrant cipher]

Just download windscribe

[woeful ferry]

??? that sounds like a sports network

[wanton gorge]

Granted NFC requires that they have a device within 3 centimeters of your device. however if you're waiting in line at a store or someone bumps into you... that's enough.

[wanton gorge]

Near Field Communication... it's used for credit card machines mostly.

[umbral fog]

NFC chip allows you to pay with your phone like you would with a card

[lunar musk]

this is low level stuff, governments can spy and listen in on yr phones and you would never know they were there unless you were actively looking for it

[woeful ferry]

ohhh that thing ok gotcha

[wanton gorge]

The NSA has a backdoor access to every single device connected to the internet within US borders.

[tropic zodiac]

I feel like I missed something

[upper depot]

I live in Europe so- idk about the government here haha

[tulip stream]

i already assume Dr Google already got everything they want on me, lol

[lunar musk]

heh

[tropic zodiac]

They have access to devices in most allied nations too

[wanton gorge]

Dr Google said I have cancer

[wanton gorge]

It wouldn't surprise me.

[sharp lark]

Server got hacked?

[tulip stream]

lol

[umbral fog]

yep

[tropic zodiac]

That’s why our boy had to hide in china or wherever

[wanton gorge]

Russia

[fiery meadow]

sorry, clicked a link for russian brides but it wasnt real..

[sharp lark]

did everyone in it get hacked or just the server?

[woeful ferry]

server was nuked but it has been reborn like a beautiful butterfly

[drowsy imp]

Read the pins on this channel for info

[wanton gorge]

No extradition laws XD

[sharp lark]

lmao

[upper depot]

Just ther server haha, it wouldn't be possible to hack everyone (atleast i think that)

[wanton gorge]

If there is data storing username/passwords and connection info... possibly.

[woeful ferry]

i think like 80k accounts got booted tho

[tropic zodiac]

No point in hacking everyone seems like it was prolly a troll or smth like that

[wanton gorge]

Very likely a troll.

[drowsy imp]

They did try, tbf

[lunar musk]

seems like a group of french kids showing off

[woeful ferry]

bad attention is still attention yk

[wanton gorge]

Time to break out the baguette launcher

[drowsy imp]

let's not go there

[tropic zodiac]

Forgot this was a public server sorry

[wanton gorge]

Ah yes... insulting entire nations XD.

[woeful ferry]

right infront of a moderator 💀

[lean fable]

What the heck happened

[unique berry]

[forest nacelle]

right in front of my onion cloudberry jotun puff salad

[unique berry]

what happened to the server, basically

[lilac eagle]

oh cool they kinda restored the server (partially)

[woeful ferry]

server got destroyed its being rebuilt

[crimson inlet]

Ah the logo is back

[lilac eagle]

can I get a role "overtake survivor"?

[wanton gorge]

Not destroyed... crippled maybe but not destroyed.

[unique berry]

actually thats a good idea

[lilac eagle]

:-D

[tulip stream]

the forest was moving

[crimson inlet]

This is all a conspiracy so you guys can momentarily forget about Ashlands and then blam out of nowhere

[wanton gorge]

XD

[forest nacelle]

every non staff who still has roles is an overtake survivor lol

[wanton gorge]

to be fair... I've never had a role here.

[upper depot]

I left the sever because I didn't knew what was happening-

[woeful ferry]

I have no roles boo womp

[median falcon]

ah yes, nuke the entire server and get your developers hacked just to take people's minds off of ashlands

[stiff quail]

I just muted it and waited it out

[wanton gorge]

it was a Red V Blue scenario and the Red team won.

[lunar musk]

classic IG

[woeful ferry]

I mean it worked

[forest nacelle]

yup, mute server, turn off DMs from server members, enjoy the show

[fiery meadow]

lol yeah, I left during and came back after, I wasnt about to let them ban me or anything

[median falcon]

only for like a week until the damage repairs from THE INCIDENT has finished

[drowsy imp]

Honestly this is just always good practice when joining servers that are as big as this one

[heavy junco]

Same

[forest nacelle]

😎 👉 👉

[wanton gorge]

Always running obfuscated VPNs and setting up MFA.

[sleek needle]

btw i'm ok everyone thank goodness

[fiery meadow]

Awesome, we can all relax now, Falk is ok.

[drowsy imp]

mother-flippin' authentication

[woeful ferry]

we’re so back

[clear shell]

server back i see

[storm geyser]

The hack must have been such a pain to deal with, props to all the devs and the community team for managing it

[clear shell]

U sure? Didn't they just delete channels?

[woeful ferry]

I enjoy how much this community has come together in the past little bit its fun talking to everyone

[clear shell]

I don't know fully what happend. I am just asking.

[wanton gorge]

APTs are a real thing @clear shell

[storm geyser]

Well as a person who manages a discord with about 8 years of history having channels like that deleted would be a devastating loss, regardless of what else happened

[stiff quail]

Discord's 2FA is made useless by the token system as I understand it. An attacker only needs to get acess to a valid session token once and they can change the password and 2FA.

Really discord should make you re-enter your credentials for major operations like deleting a channel

[clear shell]

?

[forest nacelle]

they did a lot. They spammed malware links, created a shitton of new spam channels, changed the server name and logos, attempted to kick a bunch of users, stole the vanity url to redirect kicked users who tried to rejoin to their own server, and so on and so forth

[woeful ferry]

server was hacked and lots of things were deleted but it is being sorted out quickly

[wanton gorge]

Advanced Persistent Threats

[forest nacelle]

it wasn't just deleted channels

[lunar musk]

they also banned a bunch, and uploaded a fake virus that's extremely difficult to remove once it's downloaded and installed

[drowsy imp]

not just attempted, they succesfully pruned several thousand members and banned several thousand more

it was a mess

[wanton gorge]

Glad they didn't get to the J's XD

[median falcon]

if the virus is "fake", is it still a virus?

[stiff quail]

whew, glad I missed the psycho banhammer

[wanton gorge]

It's known as a "hoax" then.

[forest nacelle]

damn that fckin sucks. I didn't know if they actually succeeded so I didn't wanna make assumptions

[clear shell]

Yea ofc it's a loss. Just saying the "such a pain to deal with" didn't fit that well if they fixed deleted channels. Since you can create channel in a second.

[wanton gorge]

Which can still be a problem.

[upbeat path]

A virus inside of a virus

[clear shell]

Ah alr. I didn't see anyone get banned.

Thought they only spammed channels and deleted the previous ones

[lunar musk]

yeh they stopped a lot from even being able to leave as well

[wanton gorge]

Think about a time when you accidentally visited the incorrect web page for something you were looking up and you get a pop up on your browser saying you have been infected with a virus. That would be an example of a hoax.

[forest nacelle]

I assumed that was just due to the insane spam rate causing errors/lag

[wanton gorge]

Aaaaand there's this. ^

[stiff quail]

"57 viruses found, click here to clean" clean button installs an actual trojan horse

[frail lotus]

glad to see they got it back

[lunar musk]

i'm assuming the damage was limited by the staff, thankfully

[wanton gorge]

"Call this number to speak to a Microsoft technician"

[upbeat path]

At least the discord is still functional in terms of presence, things could've gotten a lot worse if nothing was done quickly

[lilac eagle]

hacked 127.0.0.1 👳🏽

[stiff quail]

It seemed like control was regained after only a few minutes, or else the attack stopped after a few minutes

[woeful ferry]

I think it happened on one of the mods’ first days lol

[fiery meadow]

I hope they are held accountable, I mean, that is how most kids learn not to mess around. Any of us could do it but we dont because it's not worth jail or fines.

[lilac eagle]

[forest nacelle]

it was about 10min real time as i recall

[wanton gorge]

Attempt failed.... Loopback address declined

[stiff quail]

sounds about right

[molten kayak]

I hope they are held accountable but how would they even go after these guys?

[upbeat path]

Kids will be childish in their own way, it's hard to make kids accountable on the Internet if their parents won't do the same.

[lilac eagle]

😿

[wanton gorge]

XD

[unique berry]

its hard to make people accountable on the internet

[lunar musk]

i'm sure the feeling of the heat of folk's anger at the incident is being felt somewhere

[upbeat path]

That is true, with report systems lacking mostly and all.

[forest nacelle]

closer to 15 according to screenshots. Smiffe acc posted the fake game link at 12:56pm my time, I have SS of the hacked server from 1:06pm my time and then another from 1:09

so I have screenshots spanning 13min

[faint cosmos]

If they'd regained control in 10 minutes the compromised discord link wouldn't be plastered all over the only readable channel for many hours afterwards

[upbeat path]

Sometimes innocent people on the Internet can pretty much be banned for anything and everything, while sometimes people who end up doing something vile get a slap on the wrist.

[stark comet]

Hello, what happend after the hacking?

Is all recovered?

[drowsy imp]

read the pins for info

[lunar musk]

not all

[faint cosmos]

No

[forest nacelle]

the subreddit went private about 2pm my time, approximately an hour after the hack

[lunar musk]

we're treading water for now

[upbeat path]

I'm sure everything will get better in due time.

[woeful ferry]

tbh when I first saw the server completely wiped I thought the game was cancelled lol

[scenic wing]

Just paddling along haha

[upbeat path]

This incident won't prevent people from enjoying the game we love either

[wanton gorge]

Imagine... a highly successful game being cancelled XD

[fiery meadow]

Getting their server link back is the big win, mostly cause everything is linked to it, from there adding channels and roles isnt hard.

[forest nacelle]

the spam was stopped and bad actors removed in about 15min, but all of the remnants weren't cleaned up for over an hour

[lunar musk]

demoted to raft travel only xD

[woeful ferry]

most high effort scam in videogames

[faint cosmos]

I wouldn't clasify leaving dangerous discord links under control tbh

[forest nacelle]

part of it is that a lot of staff are not in timezones where they'd be active during the time the hack took place unfortunately

[wanton gorge]

That's what CIRT teams are for.

[forest nacelle]

man you just love your acronyms don't you

[wanton gorge]

I can't help it... I'm still in study mode haha.

[scenic wing]

My favorite acronym- BLT

[wanton gorge]

100%

[crystal marlin]

I doubt you can cancel a game fully anymore.
But I have seen mods get canceled over drama.

I would have been impressed and deeply saddened if it actually ever happened to a game I liked thou.

[forest nacelle]

probably took a hot minute to rally the troops

[wanton gorge]

With 10 minutes... I would argue that it indeed was a hot minute.

[faint cosmos]

Look at any live service game whenever servers get shut down

[wanton gorge]

2 of those minutes were likely people turning on their computers.

[stiff quail]

yeah by "control" I mean identifying the compromised accounts and banning them or revoking their credentials. all the rest is clean up

[forest nacelle]

I think the bot(s) they'd been using for moderation were also affected. So if you're used to relying on those and then get thrown back on discord mod tools you have to adjust to that as well

since discord built in moderation tools are still pretty ass ngl

[crystal marlin]

I was thinking about live service games the second after I posted that. I knew someone was gonna correct me.

[forest nacelle]

even after all the community server tools they added bots are usually bettwr

[faint cosmos]

Long ass cleanup, would have taken minutes to clear that last compromised channel

Wonder how many clicked through not knowing

[wanton gorge]

Imagine accidentally clicking said link while trying to delete it.

[forest nacelle]

I mean the message being spammed was an @ everyone "lul you've been hacked" message it would take a real fucking moron to click on any links in that message

[scenic wing]

Honestly I had a fear of that lol especially since I’m not great with tech stuff generally speaking.

[lunar musk]

the link might have well said "MALWARE HERE CLICK ME" as whatever it did

[wanton gorge]

Okay i'm done for now. It was a great pleasure talking to all of you!

If anyone wants to play Valheim some time, feel free to @ me.

[woeful ferry]

goodbye elmo

[wanton gorge]

"Hellmo" @woeful ferry

[faint cosmos]

Sadly you don't just have to protect the smart ones when you're in control of such a large discord

[scenic wing]

If I would’ve clicked that link, those bastards probably would’ve taken my name and bank account. Probably my kidney and apartment too lol. I wouldn’t know the first step to do after downloading malware or whatever it was.

Would’ve had to change my name and get a haircut

[olive stag]

Maybe add a note to specify game updates / beta's are only published via steam

[limpid slate]

that's was after they were already exposed, the first link was just a linking claiming to be a new game

[wanton gorge]

Alright... this is my last comment. But the first step would be to immediately disconnect the infected machine from the network it's on.

[stiff quail]

This is why bottles of bleach tell you not to drink them...

[limpid slate]

at that point they weren't expecting anyone to click, unless they're slow in the head

[forest nacelle]

in a discord server with tens if not hundreds of thousands of members, many will be slow in the head

[cedar pulsar]

In first place with the spamming of the "new game" that should be a indicative that the discord got hacked...any "normal" person would see that...

[unique berry]

slow in the head gang, but not slow enough to click that link!

[vagrant cipher]

“New game by valheim”

[proven dagger]

Define normal.

[dry widget]

Ay boys we back

[lunar musk]

sus 101

[nimble quail]

if you arent an idiot

[median falcon]

sounds legit to me, im downloading that virus!1!!1!1!

[limpid slate]

that was the dead giveaway to me
"they didn't even finish this one and they're announcing a new game? seems legit" lmao

[scenic wing]

Now hold on, we have seen many developers release new games/DLC well before finishing their first game 😅

[tough aspen]

Yes yes you're all superior and would never ever click shady shit 😛

[charred heath]

what haooend to the server it got hacked

[cedar pulsar]

Normal meaning having enough rationality to understand a literal spam of a text claiming to be a new game is NOT a new game.

[limpid slate]

not with a small team

[lone spear]

thats not really an argument, Palworld was released while two of the other three games from its devs are also still in EA - and look at the success! 😄

[umbral fog]

check pinned messages

[proven dagger]

My sister certainly isn't an idiot, had always better marks in school than me, she would have clicked the link, I wouldn't have.

[woeful ferry]

man what even is palworld how is it so popular already

[scenic wing]

Right, didn’t Pal team also make Craftopia? It’s unfinished, right?

[charred heath]

thakns

[lean fable]

My memes! Where are my memes!?

[proven dagger]

Now that I can get behind.

[forest nacelle]

early access as a term has lost all meaning. in spite of everything Steam has done to try and corral the issue early access now just means permanently unfinished lol

[median falcon]

though why would they advertise it as "by valheim" and not by Iron Gate, and why would they just post a download for it and not like a steam page or somethin

[scenic wing]

Ah, hi @lean fable !

[lunar musk]

wears teflon coat

[stiff quail]

The only time I got fooled by a phishing attack was when it coincidentally matched up with an email I was expecting. Thankfully I realized and changed my password.

A more sophisticated attack would have tapped into people's expectations like "new Ashlands trailer, click here RAM.zip"

[limpid slate]

yea, that one is another can of worms if you were actually part of any of their other game Early Access...

[celest smelt]

it filled a survival role a lot of ark players were probably looking for

[umbral fog]

gone in the shadowrealm 😄

[scenic wing]

Haha that’s very true, “new game by Minecraft!”

[vestal moss]

The dead game Minecraft legends

[proven dagger]

Now a chainmail and a tarp to complete the protection.

[nimble quail]

if you play games and are in enough discord servers i feel like it would be almost self explanatory that the devs of the game wouldnt spam the release of their new game in a discord....

[vestal moss]

Beuuh

[lean fable]

Im sure HA had already buried them

[forest nacelle]

it also plays off pokemon nostalgia. as someone who never played pokemon or interacted with the franchise in any way, I could literally not care less abt palworld, but for everyone else it's like zomg EDGY pokemon game!!!1!1

[median falcon]

"from the developers of Valheim, we present to you: Valheim 2" would also just be better for advertising a new game

[simple field]

why does the valheim discord have ops 😭 🙏

[zealous anchor]

its pokemon with no attempt at hiding animal cruelty

[celest smelt]

its basically ark with pokemon instead of dinos, but abusing fake dinos is ok?

[limpid slate]

they basically took ARK, then put pokemons on it, a little bit of Rimworld warcrimes and allowed it to use guns because according to the devs themselves, "Americans talks about guns a lot and like shooting things, so we added guns"

[woeful ferry]

does that mean pokemon would be better with animal cruelty

[cedar pulsar]

Its pokemon with no bs from Nintendo and Graphics

[nimble quail]

Itd be cool if i could throw my pokemon out to run with me at least

[proven dagger]

To most it would but you have smart people with no ounce of logic and dumb people with tons of logic.

High int, low wis: Putting tomatoes in a fruit salad since tomato is a fruit.

[umbral fog]

ark/genshin/pokemon mix

[woeful ferry]

man I just looked at some screenshots how badly does nintendo wanna sue palworld lmao

[limpid slate]

the novelty of "pokemons with guns" helped it a lot too

[lone spear]

that is a cynical stereotype. early access has - contrary to "beta" quite a universally understood meaning of a in-development ergo unfinished product giving access to its unfinished state for the purpose of marketing/feedback/funding. and many many games succesfully utilize it. EA often produces better products imho than the team sitting five years in an echo chamber and then hoping that their vision and implementation still holds value after the initial market analysis. Baldurs Gate 3 is, i think, the best recent example of early access done right

[zealous anchor]

better with animal cruelty? well in palworld they atleast get to spend time doing stuff they like, in pokemon they are forced to fight and never given release

[forest nacelle]

BG3 is the exception, not the rule. The rule is Star Citizen lol

[hushed dove]

Soooo is this server legit now?

[forest nacelle]

look, early access can be done right, and im hoping THIS game is gonna be one of the ones that does...but 95% of the time.it is abused

[nimble quail]

Id more more Tarkov lol

[limpid slate]

the rule is the multitude of abandoned early access lmao

[lone spear]

palworld has been public for two or three years, and Nintendo legal usually needs only a few hours to issue a response to infringing content

[forest nacelle]

7dtd 🤣

[cedar pulsar]

in theory yes

[zealous anchor]

badlurs gate eing over 100 gigs.... yea no chance in hell ill ever get it

[nimble quail]

You should wonderful game

[median falcon]

isnt making the animals you beat the hell out of and captured in a small ball, fight with one another to the death with fire and lightning already animal cruelty?

[hushed dove]

It's worth it tho 😉

[hushed dove]

Lool xD yeah it was a shitshow loool

[forest nacelle]

yeah I'm really tired of the "zomg copyright infringement!!" people, like...Nintendo does not own the concept of imaginary animals in a cartoon style lol

[zealous anchor]

worth 100 gigs of laziness and forced waste of space? nope

[stiff quail]

nono, they don't "die" they "faint" lol

[median falcon]

ah yes my bad, they beat one another to near death only to be healed just to do the same thing again

[cedar pulsar]

i had over 300 pings and went NOPE, instant leave at that point. At least i didn't clicked any link.

[nimble quail]

Laziness in what way? That game requires a good amount of critical thinking and problem solving

[median falcon]

thats much more humane

[stiff quail]

which is arguably more cruel than fighting them once to the death

[limpid slate]

they just don't have dogfights in pokemon, they have dogfights betting money

[umbral fog]

yep, check pinned messages 😄

[woeful ferry]

isnt there slavery in palworld

[lunar musk]

the nurse lady has a massive needle that she uses to revive them

[zealous anchor]

im talking about the actuall files of the game, not the gameplay

[median falcon]

yeah you can capture humans

[hushed dove]

You mean BG3 is made lazily? Have you even played it? It is not laziness whatsoever.

[cedar pulsar]

more like "forced work"? yeah, slavery

[hushed dove]

Ahhh you're a Spiderman fan? It would explain the salt 😉

[median falcon]

and you can also butcher the humans you captured

[nimble quail]

I feel like youd have to play to understand the size of the files the game is massive and it would take well over 100 hours and a few play throughs to do everything

[zealous anchor]

ive enver played spiderman and only watched, i wouldnt even say im a movie fan

[cedar pulsar]

i didn't even know you could butcher humans too lmao

[woeful ferry]

only a little less humane than pokemon

[stiff quail]

Games over 100GB are a little sus, that's just too much

[nimble quail]

that used to be the norm

[limpid slate]

welcome to 4k resolution world