Plutonium

Everyone - please also update the game by running plutonium.exe (don't have WARP running if you installed it)

LOTS of changes so if it's code related (not likely tbh) this may fix it. It's definitely worth a shot as nothing to lose, please let us know

Nyneee Would you (and anybody else who has tried a VPN successfully and unsuccessfully) be able to download Cloudflare WARP and install it, run it and connect and then see if the connection is able to be made when opening BO2?

WARP is essentially a VPN through CloudFlare and hopefully whatever is stopping the connection through CloudFlare is fixed when it's going via CloudFlare.

Download Link: https://install.appcenter.ms/orgs/cloudflare/apps/1.1.1.1-windows-1/distribution_groups/release

Servers in theory shouldn't see WARP as a VPN so if this works please try playing on a server and see if you get kicked for using a VPN.

If this works, we can look to tell WARP to only route your internet traffic through WARP if it's related to Plutonium - I just haven't looked up how to do that yet. (So the privacy focussed people don't have to send all their internet traffic through CF if they don't want to)

Nyneee Thanks for the detailed breakdown. My leading guess right now is that it's related to people's Internet Service Provider. Either it's a router setting (which i hope for as then we can solve it / offer guidance) but there's a chance it's a problem between the ISP's and the Cloudflare, in which case I can try to call the ISP and log a support request but that will be it.

Seems MOST people are in Cali, with some in Australia and some in the middle east.

For people reading please answer the following if you are comfortable with it:

Your location (country / state):
Your ISP:
The model of your router: (It may be that one router model is shared among everyone's ISP).
Does using a VPN solve the issue for you?:

To the people that reached out via email - I've either added you on discord or emailed you back to explain why I couldn't add you.

Hey - can any of you with the issue please email [email protected] with your discord username? If you could include the country (or state) that you're connecting from and any other info you're already tried in the email for us to read, this will help us alot

Please only do this if you're willing to share your screen via discord and do some tests to help us troubleshoot the issue and gather more data. None of our staff are facing the issue so it's proving difficult to troubleshoot.

Thanks!

Happy belated birthday man!

Thanks for the reports - we are investigating on our side

We are not aware of any such exploit that would do that but really we need a video for you to demonstrate what is happening because explaining on it's own isn't enough for us to investigate.

It's an antispam prevention measure by the forum, it stops bots from creating hundreds of posts and threads.

I would have expected it to have not classed you as a new user by now, can you send a link to a screenshot of the exact message?

TwT Use the dog tags emblem and it will show your forum avatar when In game

Your ban will be lifted, hopefully you can tell what I am saying here... keep it to DM's

This is really cool - nice work!

GH3 was more of a joke than anything else really. So if things break, then they break.

But I will tag Eldor to see if it's a quick fix for him.

Resxt said in an option to change sections?:

As for the feature idea this could work allowing the OP to move for the first 5 mins after creating the topic for example to prevent abuse

I like that idea - once we are moved over to NodeBB v3 I might try and make a plugin to allow that to work.

Can you try using a VPN and then reopen the launcher and try to login?

I've removed the ban, please try not to get into arguments etc, the staff team are very stressed right now with Activision going on a C&D spree so help us out by not contributing to heated discussions please.

The VPN blocking is a feature inside IW4MADMIN which is a server admin tool that alot of servers use. All the feature does though is kick you if your IP is detected as a VPN. It doesn't ban as far as I am aware, so you're fine there.

Most VPN's will be detected as a VPN though.

Contact the server owner. Their discord is at the bottom of the message.

This has nothing to do with Plutonium itself, you've been banned from one server, either appeal at their Discord or find another server.

Bans have been removed, chances are you were accidentally flagged during the chaos yesterday.

Account has been unbanned.

Your account was accessed from the same IP that multiple other accounts was accessed from which were spreading malware.

I highly suggest to change your password.

BUMP.