At UTC, that group concluded that our best course of action was to go completely offline while we put in place mitigation plans. With the highest sense of precaution we took the decision to take Tranquility and associated websites back down for further investigation and an exhaustive scan of our entire infrastructure. What we can now confirm is that a person was able to utilize a vulnerability in one of the back-end services that support the operation of the Tranquility server.
This vulnerability has now been secured and thoroughly tested. The effort of returning the complex server structure of the EVE Universe and associated websites to service in a methodical and highly-scrutinized fashion began hours ago and Tranquility has now been brought online at UTC. Our teams will monitor the situation carefully in the coming hours to ensure that our services are accessible and that all customer data remains secure.
We will be looking at ways to compensate players in both EVE and DUST for the outage and expect to announce what that compensation will be very soon. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our players on EVE Online and DUST for their patience and understanding during this unexpected downtime and the investigation. We are grateful for your support, as always. With the recent attacks against gaming sites resulting in customer and billing data being lost and certificates being stolen for use in the proliferation of malware, I can only applaud CCP for their approach of shutting it all down in order to properly assess the situation.
To tip the balance of battle, Orbital Bombardments will also be enabled. These use the blueprints already available in EVE's markets, and can be used to rain down fire on the little men below. Probably while cackling. One Reddit user has already captured the Orbital Bombardments at work. Not the most exciting video, admittedly, but getting live from-the-ground updates of your artillery barrage does sound cool as hell. Dust is currently in closed beta, so don't expect a huge flood of new players.
As the game progresses towards launch, it'll be interesting to see how this plays into EVE's economic meta-game, and the audacious stories it sometimes creates. Phil has been writing for PC Gamer for nearly a decade, starting out as a freelance writer covering everything from free games to MMOs.
He eventually joined full-time as a news writer, before moving to the magazine to review immersive sims, RPGs and Hitman games. When he's not levelling up battle passes, he's checking out the latest tactics game or dipping back into Guild Wars 2.
He's largely responsible for the whole Tub Geralt thing, but still isn't sorry.
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