Many of you have several times reported back to me with issues regarding accessing the multiplayer server. I have always received this feedback, but every time I checked the server, all indicators were showing 'green'. No RAM issue, no CPU issue, no storage issue, no issue at all shown on the analytics. I decided to put the blame on the provider, since I could not figure out what was wrong. Then I decided to take a look at the logs, and oh boy, that was interesting. Turns out, the multiplayer server basically was getting 'attacked'. HoS was DDoSed. Some player was trying to create an account hundreds of times per second. Obviously, this should not have been possible natively, since in order to create an account you have to manually press buttons with your mouse, and have go through UI elements, etc. You cannot physically possibly send hundreds of requests for an account creation per second, and freeze the whole server for everyone by clicking buttons. So, this person definitely 'hacked' its way into the code and just decided to ruin the game for everyone. After this was discovered, I then had to start taking measures against this sort of 'attacks', this is currently being tested, but so far the server is running, so you can sign in and resume your games. Hopefully, this issue is resolved for good now. People behaving like this don't deserve access to videogames at all. They deserve to play with rocks and sticks.

CHANGED

• Multiplayer compatibility version.
• Horse-towed units now get 2 movement points as a bonus, not 3 anymore. This brings horse-towed artillery up to 3 MPs max instead of 4.

FIXED

• Multiplayer being inaccessible.