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Varminal
3 years ago

UPDATE

Hello everyone! We're very sorry for the lack of updates again, but it has been due to an attack by a malicious hacker. (continued below)


Fortunately, no important assets for the game have been lost or compromised, but it resulted in me being set back quite a bit, as I was forced to do a factory reset of my laptop and then spend a few days recovering and reinstalling everything.

It was quite a frustrating week. In short, the hacker gained access to my discord and social media, and proceeded to use that as a way to extort money from me. When he realized he isn't going to get what he wants, he deleted all of the servers I have owned, on top of making me leave all the other servers I was in and unadding all my friends. Thankfully, I have dealt with everything I could and at this point I've recovered anything lost, other than my old account - not like there was anything left to salvage on it anyway though.

The good news is, while I was dealing with this, no one else on the team has been compromised thankfully - meaning they were still able to make progress on their end, and currently, I'm back to making it as well. We should return to more regularly posted updates soon!

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