Hello, I have tried playing ranked a couple games to have a feel for it. On the night of July 24, the two only games I played in ranked in a row were fantastic until roughly 5 to 10 minutes into them (I legit can't keep track of time). At which point, the symptoms of a Ddos attack started occuring, with my internet eventually shutting down for about 5 minutes (that one I counted time).
First time it happened, on my first ranked game of the night, I blamed it on my internet connection, which is usually incredibly stable, especially on a wired connection such as I am running, making it highly improbable, but not impossible.
Nevertheless, I tolerated the abandonment penalty and jumped into a second game. However, the exact same thing happened: about 5 to 10 minutes into the game, symptoms of Ddos (everything stopped moving for a while and could not interact with anything), then lost internet connection for about 5 minutes again. Now, if it's my internet connection, a second game in a row in ranked mode at roughly the same interval, with internet shutting down for the same amount of time, that's a hot coincidence. I tried other game modes after that to make sure, and nothing happened then. I am going to try again tomorrow and update.
What I wish to ask is for two things: for one, how bad are Ddos attacks in Apex legends even after measures seem to have been taken to reduce them? I am Bronze IV, so how widespread is it really? Secondly, I wish to ask EA, if I was indeed victim of Ddos attack, why did I still have abandonment penalties? I thought I read that the game could now detect if it was a Ddos and that a loss forgiveness was granted instead.
Will record tomorrow to see if it happens again, since I did not think of recording now to save proof and I am far from being in the mood to retry right now.
Thank you and have a nice day!
