A Mortal Kombat 11 player has attacked their opponents with DDOS attacks in order to achieve the top rank in the game.
Over the last 30 days, PlayStation 4 players have reported running up against a player who uses a DDOS attack to force their opponent to disconnect from a ranked match in Mortal Kombat 11. From the game’s perspective, the attacker gains the ranking points because their opponent quit the match. Victims have complained these DDOS attacks knocked out their internet, preventing them from playing.
The attacker, who has played under multiple usernames including pa3com, pa4com and Son-Goku-DZ, has been called out on a variety of platforms by an increasingly disgruntled PS4 community.
I just got DDOSED by this piece of dog shit named pa3com in kombat league… now I can’t even get on and play. Def going to report this I like it when people play with my internet.
— . (@Emperor_Tiza) August 2, 2019
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Hey @NetherRealm @noobde, I quit out of my match with the user known as PA3com in under ten seconds upon seeing his name. Now ten minutes later the internet in my house is still out. Just wanted to let you know he’s working fast and viciously.
— Ludi (@LudiFGC) August 2, 2019
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A DDOS attack, or a distributed denial-of-service attack, involves flooding the victim with incoming traffic from many different sources, effectively knocking out internet access.
While the person behind the pa3com PS4 account has only recently come under fire from the Mortal Kombat community, Mortal Kombat 11 players have suffered worrying attacks since the game launched earlier this year.
The video, below, shows a Mortal Kombat 11 streamer called BelowZer0 suffer a DDOS attack from a user called GoddessOfBl00d23 after defeating them in an online match back in July. GoddessOfBl00d23 sends a number of threatening messages via PSN before sending a link to BelowZer0’s home address. Visibly shaken, BelowZer0 appeals to their chat for advice on how to report GoddessOfBl00d23.
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Now, developer NetherRealm has said it’ll try and do something about Mortal Kombat 11’s latest DDOS attacker. In a tweet the studio said it was aware of the issue, adding: “We intend to make use of all options available to us to address this situation.”