UPDATE - A Heads Up About When The Battlefield 1 Beta Ends

General news News 09/01/2016

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UPDATE: You can still kill a few enemies on the Sinai Desert map, but the end is creeping closer and closer.

DICE will shut the servers down on September 8, and then, the World War I-based Battlefield 1 goes away for a month to receive the final development phases. Before the shutdown, there will be some extreme server tests so that DICE can see how much workload they can have without issues!

Until Thursday, you should still hop on and play a few matches – on PS4, you don’t need a PlayStation Plus subscription! Don’t play a lot, though; you cannot move your beta results over to the retail game.

The war’s not over yet. The Battlefield 1 Open Beta will end on Thursday, September 8. pic.twitter.com/FkWPE9trX9

— Battlefield (@Battlefield) September 5, 2016

Starting today, we are simulating extreme launch situations to test BF1 servers. You may experience downtime throughout the stress test.

— Battlefield (@Battlefield) September 5, 2016

ORIGINAL: Due to DDoS attacks, Battlefield 1 was hardly playable. The DDoS attacks started at around 2 PM Eastern.

Electronic Arts stated that the attacks affected the servers so hard that the games, services, and even support was hit. A group already claimed responsibility for the DDoS attacks.

It’s PoodleCorp, who previously struck Battle.net, making Overwatch unplayable for a small time. Electronic Arts took about ten hours to get everything back up and running – their tweet about the subject came at 11:30 PM Eastern.

The timing was intentional: the attacks came on the first public day of the Battlefield 1 open beta, likely making some players get turned off. EA didn’t reveal the cause of this sudden outage, though.

If a company like EA suffers from this issue, shouldn’t safety become an essential thing already?

We are responsible for the downtime of @EA & @Battlefield #PoodleCorp

— PoodleCorp (@PoodleCorp) August 31, 2016

EA is currently experiencing an outage. EA games, services & support may be impacted. We’re working to resolve as fast as possible.

— EA Support (@AskEASupport) August 31, 2016

EA games & services are available. Support wait times may still be impacted. For 1×1 assistance, please contact us: https://t.co/5ruQb6pQ7D

— EA Support (@AskEASupport) September 1, 2016

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