Rewriting this whole thing cuz it got automatically taken down for mentioning the recent h-ck outside the new megathread and I didn’t think to copy it before posting ;-;
(words will be bleeped accordingly to avoid this happening again)
Ok so, a lot of us have been getting h-cked at an unprecedented scale these last couple days. Previously we had a group called “P-rasite Central,” but they weren’t even close to this level. Here I will be detailing what I did to avoid getting h-cked (spoiler, it worked).
One more thing to preface before I start, I was playing with a discord group, so we had a baseline of 7 people when we opened the lobby to the public, I can’t help you if you are starting a lobby alone and are unable to get players.
1) B-nning everyone with a generic name and no cosmetics.
This is one that I am less sure whether it actually had an effect, but it is something I did, so I thought mentioning it would be prudent. This also helps with getting rid of the many noobs now ending up in lobbies after the new upd-te.
2) Opening on an interval
What I did was open the lobby for about 20 seconds, or until someone joined, before immediately setting it to private again. After that a few more people would trickle in because the lobby appeared on their list before I set it to private. Once they joined I would wait about a minute and b-n anyone who said st-rt, was rude, etc. after that I would repeat the previous steps until we filled up the lobby.
Obviously this strategy isn’t perfect, and h-ckers may still get in, but seeing as yesterday I got
h-cked 7 times and today it didn’t happen once, despite people who joined our lobby saying they had been getting h-cked in all their previous lobbies, it seems pretty viable. It’s unfortunate that we have to do this at all, but that’s just how it is rn. Through this method my friends and I were able to have fun and enjoy the lobby without h-cker interference. Noobs were still a problem, but with a l-beral (won’t let me post with political terms in) amounts of b-nning we were able to get most of them out.
Hope this helps you have a better experience!