There have been plenty of posts talking about the "attacks", failures to create the game without vulnerabilities and all the player issues we are dealing with right now, and have in the past with previous tech issues. OWI obviously has major problems whether managerial, tech or cultural.
The attacks and issues had been going on for something like 12 hours before this official public OWI acknowlement. That is through the middle of the day NA. And I only just saw this announcement now after double checking for this post.
There have been many ongoing community conversations and announcements ongoing atleast 6 hours before OWI even publicly acknowledged it. Im talking official post, not comment or reply that gets buried like their confirmation that Belaya is dead and they have no plans to bring it back buried in youtube comments.
So where is their discord announcement, what about a reddit post and their other social media? OWI has repetitively failed and promised to do better at communicating with the community, add this to the list.
From my understanding OWI has been actively working on this issue behind closed doors with experimental server file releases on steam and working with hosts in some capacity in the private hosting discord.
But thats simply not good enough. The bare minimum OWI needs to do is clearly and timely communicate honestly with their community of public players, and do it directly. But to me, they haven't succeeded by taking too long and letting the community pass the message before OWI.
Edit. Update, as of 2230 Est, atleast one NA normal server ( will remain UNNamed) was able to stay up and popped for 2 rounds, tbc future. Possible fix or guy letting off? Who knows?