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Let's use this thread as a way to gather all of the information that we know about this attack and the person behind it, in an effort to help Facepunch figure it out.
No official response, at this time. What we know, thus far, is that a player named “Omega” (Ω) logged on to the North America 4 server around 2:00 PM EST and stated something to the effect that he was “God” and “demanded praise.” Omega then ran what is believed to be a script that killed every player who was logged-in to the server and which also destroyed all crates and furnaces in players’ homes, thus causing players to lose everything that was not on their bodies. Omega then moved on to the North America 1 server later in the day and proceeded to do the same. The player's Steam profile can be viewed here: http://steamcommunity.com/id/7828937402839513133/
The effect that this had on everyone who was established on the server was virtually the same: demoralizing and disheartening. Not everyone lost everything, but most people lost most of their stuff. What remains to be determined is if Omega targeted certain players. It’s clear that he went after the majority, but perhaps there’s a silent minority that he didn’t target, players who were perhaps his friends or co-conspirators. If this were the case, it could cause a huge power imbalance on the servers, as some groups would have everything and others nothing at all. This scenario needs to be considered.
What I think Facepunch needs to do is either roll back the servers prior to the attack or wipe the (official) servers entirely. There’s no way to determine if Omega was working alone or not and, therefore, may have been helping certain groups to gain an advantage on the servers.
It’s clear that the majority of players got the short-end of the stick, however.
To Facepunch: Please let us know what can be done about this matter, if anything can be done at all.
Can anyone else who experienced/was affected by these attacks add any more information that may be useful?
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He also did this on the Belgium server, killing everyone and cleaning the server of all crates and sleeping bags (but not beds).
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Thanks for the information. Any idea when this happened? Did it happen weeks ago or recently? Were those server rolled-back or reset?
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It was 2 days ago, the admin (echo) said he couldn't rollback since there weren't any backups, since he only kept weekly backups...
He said they would just wipe the server on the next official update
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Here's a thread started by someone from NA1 after he hit them (just trying to link the info together) ::
http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1364756
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Thank you. Good call.
Let's keep this thread going (and positive) with all of the information we know, to help Gary and development team figure this one out--and prevent it from happening in the future.
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This was quoted from my friend who was on the NA 4 server at the time the hack occurred:
"I was on earlier when NA 4 was hacked. They were calling the guy "Omega." His real name was a bunch of symbols that looked like upside down "V's" with an Omega sign in the middle. Like (VVVVΩVVVV) but imagine the V's upside down. He went on a long speech about "Cleansing the server and rebuilding in his name."
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He comes onto the Australian server often. His given himself the name "King" and demands a tax and if the player dosn't give him the tax he'll kill everyone it's frustrating he hasn't even been banned yet.
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ARE you serious?He started with NA servers?......
This Omega guy came in Belgium 3-4 days ago 10 PM and he destroyed every furnace/sleeping bag/shelter/storages/camp fires(except workbench) and he massacred everyone in range....Then he did it to UK 1/2/3/4 so 5 EU servers were destroyed. I don't know about Germany 1/2..
Strange thing is that in Belgium he missed small rad town and yesterday in the morning a hacker came in small rad town and every storage blew from Next valley to the tanks...I am SHOCKEDDDDDD that this guy is not banned. This hack is total destruction...and there was no rollback of course and everyone lost everything...I see he started with NA servers..lawl
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Some additional threads (again, trying to have them all linked) ::
NA4 - http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1364700
UK3 (from 2 days ago, also has posts from UK1/2 users) - http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1363916
UK4 (from 3 days ago) - http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1363479
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Apparently, the development team can't stop the guy... or they just don't care. The impact that Omega has had on the player base cannot be understated. I was playing with a core group of 8 people and they've all just about left the game, after Omega hit the NA 4 sever. Months worth of work taken away in minutes...
We were all prepared for a server wipe by the development team. We were all prepared for a raid on our base and weren't necessarily attached to our items. We weren't prepared for Omega, however, and the effect it had was demoralizing, causing everyone to stop playing the game for a while.
Why can't the server be rolled back? Even if it's from days ago, that's still better than nothing. If a roll back can't be done, then wipe everything. It seems like the vast majority of people lost it all, but there's some who claim they lost nothing. There's a possibility that Omega allowed certain people to keep their items, which would create a huge power imbalance on the server. Was he working with other groups to give them an advantage?
I tried to start a message about Omega on the Steam forums, but it got deleted for "naming and shaming" him, as the moderator put it, when Omega was actually on the forums openly admitting to doing it, stating that a "cleanse needed to happen."
Gary, why is Omega so hard to stop? He's been hitting all of the official servers, so there must be enough data at this point to figure it out...
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The lands had to be cleansed. There was simply no other way.
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I agree with this. Also have a good group that I play with who have quit as well.
Only problem I see with this is what is the point of a server rollback if he can just do it again? Fixing the problem would be priority over rollback, I would think.
This is unfortunately true. Some buildings on the servers that were further out were left unharmed. Not to mention the fact that some sleepers were completely invisible in game (probably from the server hiccups) and came back with everything still on them.
I find it awfully suspicious as well how all traces of his posts in the Steam forums were removed. Only way you can tell it was there is that some of the following comments refer to them. A curiosity, to be sure.
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Giving hackers attention encourages them. Like the several threads here about him.
P.S. fucking stop with the new threads about this guy, you're giving him what he wants.
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The posts were deleted by a community moderator who mistakenly thought I was "trolling"...
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personally this is what you get. you either play on a official server and pay the price of the constant hackers or you play on a private server and have corrupt admins.
pick your poison people.
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Ah . I suppose that's true.
Although, leaving the community completely in the dark about it is painful too. Tough balancing act.
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That's exactly my fear of the non-official servers to be honest.
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I thought you read that Ohm!
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Not that I support this kind of behavior, but a.) the game is still what? Alpha? You have to expect to lose all your stuff fairly often. b.) It is a survival game. If someone with God-like powers shows up, you might consider building him an Idol...
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So... no option of secure and fair servers? :'(
This is getting awkward... I have this game since Feb 6th and already changed servers almost 10 times, for various reasons, including hackers, corrupt admins, too many KoS, etc.
This game needs more balancing and developers designated only to fix security bugs.
Cheatpunch bans 4000+ hackers? No problem, Most of them will buy the game again and use a different hack. :(
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Why would we build an "idol" to a hacker who destroyed all of our hard work? That's stupid. If the "God-like powers" weren't the result of hack, perhaps that would be a different story.
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Looks like I'll be sticking to DayZ when I come home...
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right now the only way to fight this hacker is to ignore him because he's doing this for fame.
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This is exactly it. After trying a few different community servers that ended in admin abuse, I started playing on the NA 4 official server. There were hackers, sure, and a lack of proper admins, but the servers seemed to be a little more stable. They reset less and I was lucky enough to find a good group of people to play with. We worked for a couple months to get to where we were, only to lose it to Omega, who apparently was able to virtually destroy all of the official servers.
At this point, just about everyone has migrated to another game. We're just burnt-out with Rust. We love the game, but don't see a point to restarting until the security holes are fixed. We were willing to deal with the aim botters, the speed hackers, and that BS, but this crap with Omega just took it to a whole different place.
I'd like to see an official response from Gary and Facepunch at some point about this. I know they might not have enough data at this point--and that's fine--but let us know what's going on when you can!
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I agree. He's definitely "getting off" on all the attention. My intention for this thread was to compile as much data as possible about what occurred, to help Facepunch figure it out. Yes, it does add to the hacker's notoriety, but all the collected information needs to be passed on to the Facepunch team.
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Look he's probably some sick kid who didn't have many friends or a great life just let him have his fun to then later be banned. VAC are probably already on it.
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i also agree that we need to give Facepunch information,so when we get all the information we can find about him we need to ignore him like he doesn't exist.
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Here's a link to a YouTube video detailing the hack on NA 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPDkZWUcAb8
This is the worst hack I have ever seen in Rust. A hacker got on the server and destroyed everyone's storage crates in the server, negating months' worth of hard work. He also deleted everyone's sleeping bags and furnaces. Help get this guy caught and get this server a rollback! Go to Facepunch forums and tell Gary what's happening in North America 4.
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He's been destroying the official servers for at least three days. VAC bans are slow to respond, to say the least.
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already checked vacbanned.com he has not been caught by vac. :(
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Yup. He's openly bragging about it on the Steam forums and also in the game chat. At this point, it's safe to say he's won. He destroyed everything and remains unchecked.
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For the purposes of consolidating all information and accounts of the hack in one thread, here's a link to the Rust Reddit page regarding the Omega Hack:
http://www.reddit.com/r/playrust/com...naces_deleted/
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Don't know about you, but cheating in a game to harass and destroy other people enjoyment should be considered a crime. Not only VAC banned, but these morons should be fined, backtracked and all their information should be available to the public.
This is the same as going to a concert and turning off all the audio system by cutting the wires. Will this person only be banned from future concerts? No, this person will face federal law.
Just my opinion.
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I agree. It's a very serious offense, because a hack of this nature literally turns people off to the game completely. A percentage of players might not even log back in, after losing months' worth of hard work. We get that it's alpha and we expect game-breaking bugs, but the hacks are a different beast.
At this point, the game is unplayable. We were willing to put up with the more minor hacks, but this "God mode" crap, whereby a player can wipe an entire server at their whim is just a game-breaking exploit. What's the point of even rebuilding after this? Until it's absolutely fixed, there's just no point.
Here's to hoping that Facepunch can figure it out and prevent it from happening again. From all accounts, Omega has been running wild for at least 3-4 days without being able to be stopped.
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If threads are not made then servers wont be rolled back or wiped. Not like they would be anyway. Dev team doesn't really care about them atm.
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It doesn't look good, at this point. I guess it happened on the European servers a few days ago, so the devs are aware of the issue, and the servers were not rolled back. I'm guessing that they'll just do a complete wipe with the next patch.
The question, at this point, is whether or not to migrate to community servers and just forget about the official ones. At least there, we can have an admin.
I think this thread is necessary to compile information for Gary and Facepunch. Yes, it does give credit to the hacker, but we can't act like nothing happened when we've all lost months' worth of hard work. It's very frustrating--and I think that the development team needs to hear that. A lot of people on NA 4, unfortunately, just stopped playing entirely. What's left are those who are trying to pick up the scraps and, of course, the hackers.
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I could understand a rollback being called for if this was a subscription based MMORPG and this happened. As I've said numerous times: they said to be prepared to start over frequently. Having everything wrecked by a hacker would fall into something you'd have to start over from seeing as some sort on concrete protection is a while off. If a rollback happens, then good for you and good day. Otherwise it would be better to just start rebuilding and re accumulating stuff. Disagree, flame and claim that I'm somehow in cahoots with the hacker/benefit from this somehow/etc all you want. I'm just trying to call it how I see it and you should move on.
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No, I get what you're saying--and it's valid. The group that I played with was definitely prepared to lose it all at any moment to a legit server wipe and/or a well-orchestrated raid on our compound, but not like this. That's why, if at all possible, I think the majority of players on the affected servers are calling for a rollback. If it can't be done, that's fine, but then Facepunch should wipe the servers entirely, so that everyone starts fresh. Unfortunately, the hack that occurred didn't destroy everyone, just most of the people, so there's a definite power imbalance on the official servers at this point.
Everyone gets that it's alpha and we expect a fair deal of game-breaking exploits, but the hacking that's occurring in Rust is probably the worst that I've experienced in any game to date. It's turning people off rather quickly and the fact that it's in alpha doesn't make it any less frustrating.
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If threads are not made then servers wont be rolled back or wiped. Not like they would be anyway. Dev team doesn't really care about them atm. Although they could be waiting for update next week. Although I am willing to bet money it wont be wiped next week.
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i know people are prepared to lose there stuff to whipe or raiders ofcourse but people want to build up also but if there are hackers that can come every week and just log in use there hack what so ever and destroy everything u made every week people will just stop playing the game and this game wil not be completed
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This is exactly it. Well said.
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i thank you for reading i'm also a player from na4 i had 3 a 12 story metal house and a 5 story metal barn next to it and just losing 2 months or node harvesting and all our c4 and weapons and recourses this is just a blow out and i hope that the server gets wiped only when this hack is under controle cause the game will not be played by much more players if this hack continues to spread over all the servers
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Happened to US Central 1 too.
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That's right. Most of us won't be playing until the developers can communicate to us that they have it under control. There's really no point to sinking more time into the game, at this point in time.
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