RIFT steps up its DDoS countermeasures

[AL:Rift]While RIFT players have been sallying forth in Starfall Prophecy to combat the forces of Ahnket, Trion Worlds has faced a much tougher fight of its own in the form of a “constant, aggressive onslaught of DDoS attacks.”

The studio posted an update on the situation to players, apologizing for the service disruption and outlining some of the measures that it has been taking to guard the game against such attacks. The good news is that this seems to be paying off.

“We’ve upgraded major components of our network infrastructure,” Trion said. “We can’t share details at depth here, but we can say that this has improved our ability to address a number of the DDoS issues. Most of you have been playing through dozens of attacks without any degradation in your play.”

Trion Worlds has been compensating RIFT players for recent server outages and instability issues.