There's like dozens of servers named the same named and bugged numbers of persons. ? No other server online, the heck happening ?

Just someone polluting the master server with some joke. It's not a big deal.

You can sort by ping and it should clear the bad servers away until they get bored.

Another thing you can do is add one of the common words in the joke server to the banned list in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Barotrauma\Data\forbiddenwordslist.txt and filter server names. You can also remove words from the list.

Originally posted by UnluckyDuckie:

Just someone polluting the master server with some joke. It's not a big deal.

You can sort by ping and it should clear the bad servers away until they get bored.

Another thing you can do is add one of the common words in the joke server to the banned list in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Barotrauma\Data\forbiddenwordslist.txt and filter server names. You can also remove words from the list.

I'm gonna have to disagree with this not being a big deal. This is a clear situation that has escalated from being neglected.

Before these type of servers were just three at a time, and now they've flooded the roster entirely.

If nothing is actually done about it, I fear it might become something even worse like a potential data breach. Both the Devs & the community should not be ignoring this.

Originally posted by Kommandant Krabby Patty:

I'm gonna have to disagree with this not being a big deal. This is a clear situation that has escalated from being neglected.

I can see your concerns... Commandant Krabby Patty... but these aren't even servers per se but just fake postings. All a master server does is relay information, so nothing you host or play should have any bearing on some jokester putting garbage listings in there (which is actually free to do, you don't need to own the game to advertise on the master server).

Even if you join some "malicious" server that has been modded to actual hell there it shouldn't have any potential to "data breach" anything. I'd be more concerned if Barotrauma itself was free and we had the comedy that is catbots flooding actual servers.

currently in barotrauma and by the looks of this, it is actually damaging the game, destroying the multiplayer function. any average player will be confused and most likely give up playing multiplayer at this rate, without the developers taking action that can help the player with simplicity, it can go downhill pretty quickly the smarter those pesky trolls are. from my perspective of opinion, of course

Originally posted by UnluckyDuckie:

Even if you join some "malicious" server that has been modded to actual hell there it shouldn't have any potential to "data breach" anything. I'd be more concerned if Barotrauma itself was free and we had the comedy that is catbots flooding actual servers.

That's not even true. Games with weak security can leave users vulnerable to both DDOS and RCE attacks. GTA 5 is a good example of serious security threats being neglected by the devs.

Hackers could steal account information from other players, along with even threats of Random Code Executions on their PCs as well. SomeOrdinaryGamers went to detail about this issue a while back.

Of course what's happening now isn't that at all. But to act like what's happening now is incapable of evolving into something extreme like potential RCE is a naive thing to do. Never downplay a situation, no matter how simple it might seem.

Even if it's just someone spamming the master servers with a joke like you say, it still doesn't change the fact that this issue is the result of neglect from the devs. Again, I don't think this should be ignored.

I personally don't think this is a serious threat and just someone having a good laugh. However I do think the devs should do something about it as neglecting this is not a good look for them and the game.

Originally posted by Mr.Shady:

currently in barotrauma and by the looks of this, it is actually damaging the game, destroying the multiplayer function. any average player will be confused and most likely give up playing multiplayer at this rate, without the developers taking action that can help the player with simplicity, it can go downhill pretty quickly the smarter those pesky trolls are. from my perspective of opinion, of course :ccknight:

Mr. Shay is right, this could also be a PR nightmare for Undertow Games and ruin their reputation as a competent game studio.
If news coverage from YouTube channels like YongYea discuss about how weak their cybersecurity is and how they neglect issues that interrupt the user's capability to play the game. It'll resut in the loss of potential sales and people dogpiling on how bad the game is.

Originally posted by Kommandant Krabby Patty:

Originally posted by UnluckyDuckie:

Even if you join some "malicious" server that has been modded to actual hell there it shouldn't have any potential to "data breach" anything. I'd be more concerned if Barotrauma itself was free and we had the comedy that is catbots flooding actual servers.

That's not even true. Games with weak security can leave users vulnerable to both DDOS and RCE attacks. GTA 5 is a good example of serious security threats being neglected by the devs. .

Nothing about someone posting trash listings on the master server for the browser insinuates this game has a security issue. You're barking up the wrong tree with your truth detector, pal.

This is not meant to be a diss, maybe you did look into the game's code and know of a major vulnerability that allows someone from the master server to write a racial slur on the browser and consequently crash the pentagon's mainframes (in which case, why didn't you open an issue on the tracker instead of being here?). Unfortunately the only impression I'm getting is that you watched youtube videos about hackers in GTA and now there's a self-evaluated notion we are dealing with a "major situation" cause the server browser has dirt on it.

Besides, no matter what security the devs implement, you're many orders of magnitude more likely to get owned by LUA for Barotrauma updates which are a new build of the game which could contain literally anything upon running the .exe - the devs explicitly say you're on your own for downloading these off the workshop and attempting to run them.

Someone found a vulnerability and just attacked a humble game for the lol'z of it. Is not a big deal, but it certainly is damaging. Someone should do something of course, but i think this more as a "lol" than something that would permanently damage the playerbase or something.
That is of course, as long as this goes for at most a week, if this goes on for longer, we will start to have a real problem xD

Originally posted by UnluckyDuckie:

Unfortunately the only impression I'm getting is that you watched youtube videos about hackers in GTA and now there's a self-evaluated notion we are dealing with a "major situation" cause the server browser has dirt on it.

This is why I use the words "might" and "potential".

Sure you could be right that this is nothing. It still doesn't change the fact that this is escalating due to neglect, and can potentially become worse if the devs choose to continue to ignore this.

Again, to downplay situations like this, acting like they can't escalate more, and continuing to ignore them is not the right thing to do.

Originally posted by Kommandant Krabby Patty:

Originally posted by UnluckyDuckie:

Unfortunately the only impression I'm getting is that you watched youtube videos about hackers in GTA and now there's a self-evaluated notion we are dealing with a "major situation" cause the server browser has dirt on it.

This is why I use the words "might" and "potential".

Sure you could be right that this is nothing. It still doesn't change the fact that this is escalating due to neglect, and can potentially become worse if the devs choose to continue to ignore this.

Again, to downplay situations like this, acting like they can't escalate more, and continuing to ignore them is not the right thing to do.

That's the thing; there's no potential. This game's code is semi-open, you can go look at it and come back with evidence for otherwise. I'll actually kiss you if you can do this.

This has already happened on release and the worst thing that can happen is the browser fills up with junk. My first post informs how to remove the junk, which also happens to be the developer's recommendation of dealing with it. The junk can be there because hosting dedicated servers (or things that look like so) does not require cost, you can do this with SteamCMD and a few linux boxes + an anonymous login.

What has potential, as I already said, is Total Conversion mods on the workshop being Trojan. Almost the entirety of the playerbase downloads those; if one day Evil Factory decides they want to farm Honkecoin, or their Steam Account gets hacked, I'm pretty sure the entirety of Moscow will go offline and then we will have a situation.

Already happened before, last time I remember dude was doing that cringy asf slava deez nuts ♥♥♥♥, I used the thing that person with the cute avatar above did with the "forbiddenwordslist.txt" and put the word Ukraine in there and it got fixed for me...
Might as well add other ones in there to save some time like Anime, Henta and such.

Looks like about 2/3 of the list is Krap, and good luck using the filter to block the servers, each word has a random letter/number added to the end of it.

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