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04-05 Falling Stars?
Author: Smul
Last updated: 4612d 7h 44m 59s ago by scratzin
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Version: 3.4
Involved families: Andok, Argonauts, Blacksea, Carneglia, Gelibolu, Goldenarmy, Ihtilal, Impero, Infragilis, Krays, Kurosawa, Loriga, Marazzino, Revelations, Salerno, Underground, Venture, Vertigo, Xzone, Yigidos, Armada, Bruinsma, Conflict, Doomed, Infezione, Liberta, Lucchese, Memento, Messina, Righelli, Samagono, Squad, Supremazia, Tremps, Vincitori
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The so called pact of 3.4 and their supporting families back then are being shot by a new massive force, after plans leaked that "the pact" was going to shoot first.

Among the first attackers where the Marazzino and Yigidos alliances, who targetted Vincitori, Conflict and the Liberta alliance.

Because of leaked plans, Vincitori, Liberta and their bloods were already on standby, resulting in a quick counter.

Because of the number of families involved and the downtime this war was utter chaos, but I'll try to make a detailed account.

Marazzino+, Yigidos+, Gelibolu+ → Vincitori, Liberta+
Revelations → Conflict

The Supremazia and Lucchese alliances countered quickly for their bloods, resulting in:
Supremazia, Messina, Lucchese/Squad → Blacksea, Yigidos

Memento and Samagono jumped in to help conflict
Memento, Samagono → Revelations

Righelli and Bruinsma helped their blood too by shooting Kurosawa. Kuro however denied shooting at Conflict.
Righelli, Bruinsma → Kurosawa

Armada chose to shoot Gelibolu+
Armada → Gelibolu, Impero

Infragilis counter-countered for their blood Kurosawa
Infragilis → Bruinsma

Within an hour tho, Underground starting shooting Lucchese/Squad, after which Lucchese focussed on Underground while Supremazia and Messina focussed on Blacksea and Yigidos
Underground -> Lucchese/Squad

After Revelations was decimated, Conflict was again under attack.
Argonauts → Conflict

Before long, Supremazia and Armada found themselves under attack too, so they dropped their targets as well and defended themselves against Vertigo, Venture and Xzone
Venture, Xzone, Vertigo → Supremazia, Messina, Armada

During this war, 2 hijacks occurred as well, both Vertigo and Goldenarmy.

After the war started the servers of omerta went down. Rumours started that the servers got down due a DDoS attack.

Bramblerose created a news post about what happend after the servers got up again.


2 days later, the shooting has stopped. With both attackers and defenders decimated, this war has no clear winner.
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News post from Barafranca

Dear all,

Some players found it necessary to ddos attack Omerta last night. You all experienced the downtime caused by this attack.

During this attack a war was going on, we know that after the downtime players find themselves dead when they tried to login again. As far as we can see all these killings took place just before and just after the downtime.

We’re still investigating the matter and will give you an update as soon as we know more ourselves.

I’m really sorry for the inconvenience this has caused.

Bramblerose
statistics
War started on: 20:25:00 04-05-2012 War ended on: 11:05:02 07-05-2012
Bullet difference: -92,579,854 War duration: 2d 14h 40m
Money difference: -$7,012,388,625 Players died: 841




deaths
Dead Families:
[Salerno] Family down on 12:04 06-05
[Doomed] Family down on 10:40 06-05
[Xzone] Family down on 08:59 06-05
[Underground] Family down on 02:53 06-05
[Infragilis] Family down on 23:25 05-05
[Venture] Family down on 21:52 05-05
[Vincitori] Family down on 18:22 05-05
[Goldenarmy] Family down on 16:02 05-05
[Tremps] Family down on 15:11 05-05
[Vertigo] Family down on 14:38 05-05
[Argonauts] Family down on 09:20 05-05
[Carneglia] Family down on 08:14 05-05
[Kurosawa] Family down on 07:16 05-05
[Revelations] Family down on 03:29 05-05
[Liberta] Family down on 20:33 04-05
Deaths per family:
Sw As LC Ch Br CD GF Points
Andok | swin: 0 | assa: 0 | lc: 0 | chief: 1 | brug: 0 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 8
Argonauts | swin: 0 | assa: 0 | lc: 0 | chief: 2 | brug: 14 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 198
Armada | swin: 2 | assa: 0 | lc: 3 | chief: 8 | brug: 25 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 408
Blacksea | swin: 1 | assa: 0 | lc: 0 | chief: 3 | brug: 10 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 156
Bruinsma | swin: 0 | assa: 6 | lc: 2 | chief: 4 | brug: 16 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 268
Carneglia | swin: 0 | assa: 0 | lc: 0 | chief: 0 | brug: 10 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 130
Conflict | swin: 3 | assa: 0 | lc: 0 | chief: 7 | brug: 34 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 506
Doomed | swin: 0 | assa: 0 | lc: 0 | chief: 1 | brug: 0 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 8
Gelibolu | swin: 0 | assa: 0 | lc: 0 | chief: 3 | brug: 9 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 141
Goldenarmy | swin: 0 | assa: 0 | lc: 0 | chief: 0 | brug: 6 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 78
Infezione | swin: 0 | assa: 1 | lc: 0 | chief: 2 | brug: 6 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 98
Infragilis | swin: 1 | assa: 0 | lc: 4 | chief: 10 | brug: 11 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 245
Krays | swin: 0 | assa: 1 | lc: 0 | chief: 0 | brug: 2 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 29
Kurosawa | swin: 2 | assa: 1 | lc: 6 | chief: 9 | brug: 26 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 447
Liberta | swin: 0 | assa: 1 | lc: 0 | chief: 2 | brug: 14 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 201
Loriga | swin: 0 | assa: 0 | lc: 1 | chief: 0 | brug: 1 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 18
Lucchese | swin: 1 | assa: 0 | lc: 1 | chief: 8 | brug: 39 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 578
Marazzino | swin: 2 | assa: 3 | lc: 4 | chief: 5 | brug: 22 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 359
Memento | swin: 0 | assa: 0 | lc: 0 | chief: 1 | brug: 1 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 21
Messina | swin: 0 | assa: 0 | lc: 1 | chief: 1 | brug: 10 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 143
Revelations | swin: 1 | assa: 0 | lc: 3 | chief: 6 | brug: 39 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 572
Righelli | swin: 0 | assa: 0 | lc: 0 | chief: 3 | brug: 6 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 103
Salerno | swin: 0 | assa: 0 | lc: 0 | chief: 0 | brug: 1 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 13
Samagono | swin: 0 | assa: 0 | lc: 0 | chief: 1 | brug: 0 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 8
Squad | swin: 0 | assa: 2 | lc: 2 | chief: 5 | brug: 11 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 199
Supremazia | swin: 1 | assa: 1 | lc: 5 | chief: 4 | brug: 24 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 375
Tremps | swin: 0 | assa: 1 | lc: 0 | chief: 4 | brug: 29 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 412
Underground | swin: 1 | assa: 1 | lc: 5 | chief: 17 | brug: 39 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 673
Venture | swin: 0 | assa: 0 | lc: 3 | chief: 5 | brug: 24 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 367
Vertigo | swin: 0 | assa: 0 | lc: 1 | chief: 4 | brug: 17 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 258
Vincitori | swin: 0 | assa: 0 | lc: 3 | chief: 7 | brug: 46 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 670
Xzone | swin: 1 | assa: 0 | lc: 1 | chief: 5 | brug: 21 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 320
Yigidos | swin: 0 | assa: 0 | lc: 3 | chief: 3 | brug: 16 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 247
Total | swin: 16 | assa: 18 | lc: 48 | chief: 131 | brug: 529 | cd: 0 | gf: 0 | points: 8,257
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Anonymous (16:31:41 - 06-05)
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Revolucion at 16:25:23 on 06/05:
I was thinking if I should tell you guys or not, but we want also more fun and a better game play so here is a tip for the attacking families:

Learn from the so called pac families, did you see them shooting down all families in once? No they carefully pick some families that they shoot down first so the other side is weak. Look for families that are connected to ''the pact'' but not so close that an overwhelming counter attack would find place. For sure there are families that can be shot down without all the pact shooting for revache.

Shoot some of the smaller families down with good organisation, then later on if you do shoot one of the main families you don't have the problem that all pacts fams and ''pac lover families'' jump all on you. Still would be a hard war, but for sure your chances are better.

I think you need to make more tactical moves and that's why the ''pact'' families have a big advantage ingame now, they careful think and plan there moves that will benefit the most and gives the best opportunists in the future


yes that works.. they gonna shoot the smaller fams and so get out more weakend... easy target for the bigger "pact" fams ...
Think twice before u place such a post imo.
Revolucion Italy (16:25:23 - 06-05)
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I was thinking if I should tell you guys or not, but we want also more fun and a better game play so here is a tip for the attacking families:

Learn from the so called pac families, did you see them shooting down all families in once? No they carefully pick some families that they shoot down first so the other side is weak. Look for families that are connected to ''the pact'' but not so close that an overwhelming counter attack would find place. For sure there are families that can be shot down without all the pact shooting for revache.

Shoot some of the smaller families down with good organisation, then later on if you do shoot one of the main families you don't have the problem that all pacts fams and ''pac lover families'' jump all on you. Still would be a hard war, but for sure your chances are better.

I think you need to make more tactical moves and that's why the ''pact'' families have a big advantage ingame now, they careful think and plan there moves that will benefit the most and gives the best opportunists in the future
Anonymous (16:01:26 - 06-05)
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Conflict got shot by revelations right away mr Smul.
Smul Netherlands (15:50:38 - 06-05)
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Redspeert at 15:26:50 on 06/05:
Anonymous at 14:37:59 on 06/05:
Any Top from the so called "Pact" please show us a way to shoot one of you without the whole rest getting involved.

Your tops did a pretty noobish mistake. Instead of targeting 1 or 2 fams you started shooting alot of fams. Ofc you get countered then :') ( or you may be stupid and think not ofc, up to you ). Lets say you start shooting 5/6 diffrent fams. Each of those fams got 1/2 bloods that ain't beeing shot/aint on ur side. Don't you think they should honour their blood and shoot for them?

You know, its allowed to use that round thing with hair on the top of it, its usualy located right above the neck.

Redspeert, the start was vs Vinci and Liberta, maybe read the newspost? ;)

After that it were merely counter on counters. :)
Redspeert Syrian Arab Republic (15:26:50 - 06-05)
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Anonymous at 14:37:59 on 06/05:
Any Top from the so called "Pact" please show us a way to shoot one of you without the whole rest getting involved.

Your tops did a pretty noobish mistake. Instead of targeting 1 or 2 fams you started shooting alot of fams. Ofc you get countered then :') ( or you may be stupid and think not ofc, up to you ). Lets say you start shooting 5/6 diffrent fams. Each of those fams got 1/2 bloods that ain't beeing shot/aint on ur side. Don't you think they should honour their blood and shoot for them?

You know, its allowed to use that round thing with hair on the top of it, its usualy located right above the neck.
Anonymous (14:37:59 - 06-05)
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Any Top from the so called "Pact" please show us a way to shoot one of you without the whole rest getting involved.
Gufi Norway (13:47:12 - 06-05)
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Redspeert at 13:04:50 on 06/05:
Anonymous at 08:30:59 on 06/05:
Anonymous at 07:51:18 on 06/05:
Impact you guys created the pact again this version by attacking with 20 families


if they attacked with less they would be countered with the same families again.

So...did they have any choice?
If they didn't pull this attack they would got shot down one by one by same 14 families again, so I would say that they didn't have any choice. And for ppl talking that there's no "pact"...it's enough to check last version and see that all these fams (liberta, conflict, vinci...etc) were attacking together, and defending together. You can say that you fought with your bloods, but none of you shot any non blooded fam from these "pact" fams. So I would say...yes, you made a pact and don't know why do you try to deny that


And the reason for the pact to be created, was the families who pacted up to kill them the version before ( 3.2 ). I can mention 14 fams vs 1 fam (conflict). But I guess its ok when the other side pact? The only thing thats worse than hypocrites, is retarded hypocrites.

Exactly, well put!
Spy Netherlands (13:46:42 - 06-05)
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Well, first of all: Nice war, this must have been one of the biggest (and messiest ?) wars of all time. I saw so many deaths and so many (weird?) kills and I was only logged in for a little while.

I just want to 'clarify' this whole 'pact' business; There has been no pact, I've said it before and I will say it again, there has been no pact.. There's 'just' bloods shooting for each other. Now, at the beginning of this version, there was a rumour with quite some evidence to back it up that a lot of families had united themselves in what was called a 'counter-pact' and they were targeting all fams that had previously been (falsely) labeled as 'the pact' (There's no such thing).

From the families that others often call 'the pact', there was no plan of being a 'pact' or anything of the sorts (there has never been such a plan), the families that others call 'the pact' were each going their own way. But because of this so called 'counter-pact' there was really little to no option to do so. So when all these families were targeted by this 'counter-pact' yes, they all shot back and got their bloods involved. Every family/person in their right mind would do the same if they were individually targeted.

About this DDOS attack, I highly doubt it was an actual DDOS attack, if it was the systems would have been down quite a lot longer, as Omerta.LTD has neither the intelligence nor the manpower to tackle such an attack quickly. I think it had more to do with the sheer magnitude of the war and maybe of the other war I have been hearing/reading about.

Well, enough of that, I'm out.
Have a good one ^^
-Spy
Anonymous (13:44:23 - 06-05)
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If someone is retarded here it's you Redspeert...grow up you little prick.
Where did you see hypocricy you little retard? Read my comment again and find where did I say anything against pact. I just stated the fact that they have pact. Nothing else...I don't even play this version, didn't play last one nor I intend to play next one.
I'll stop even reading this stupid site with idiots in crew like you...

Redspeert Syrian Arab Republic (13:04:50 - 06-05)
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Anonymous at 08:30:59 on 06/05:
Anonymous at 07:51:18 on 06/05:
Impact you guys created the pact again this version by attacking with 20 families


if they attacked with less they would be countered with the same families again.

So...did they have any choice?
If they didn't pull this attack they would got shot down one by one by same 14 families again, so I would say that they didn't have any choice. And for ppl talking that there's no "pact"...it's enough to check last version and see that all these fams (liberta, conflict, vinci...etc) were attacking together, and defending together. You can say that you fought with your bloods, but none of you shot any non blooded fam from these "pact" fams. So I would say...yes, you made a pact and don't know why do you try to deny that


And the reason for the pact to be created, was the families who pacted up to kill them the version before ( 3.2 ). I can mention 14 fams vs 1 fam (conflict). But I guess its ok when the other side pact? The only thing thats worse than hypocrites, is retarded hypocrites.
Anonymous (10:08:19 - 06-05)
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why stop blaming it on the servers, timelord?? i dont believe the admins on just their word, could aswell be their servers.
I for a fact was at the defenders also, everyone hated the server being down because we were shooting already and had our detectives running also. Some of my own detectives had expired and some of our guys logged in dead. It's a cheap to use the downtime as an excuse since we were already in our warchannels with detectives on you guys. detectives that also expired on our side. i even have logs of defenders complainimg their detectives are going yo expire.
Timelord (10:00:57 - 06-05)
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ElMariachi at 22:09:32 on 05/05:
Timelord just keep on believing this war wasn't leaked by any of the 20 fams participating on attacking side way before it started and it only took defending side 1.5 hrs on a friday night to get most of their members online ... rly?

I did not say it was not leaked. Would you please stop putting stuff into my posts I did not say and keep your bullshit to yourself, thank you in advance.
THe DDos made a difference, and it did not favour the attackers, who were not able to deliver all their shots, due to timed out dets. Again, I hope the DDos guy can wank-off over the new star on a fampage... Personally I would find it nice, if the pact fams which are still up, would gun down that respective family instead of winning a version this way.

The fact, that somebody takes this text based nerd mafia game serious enough to launch a ddos attack on the server itself is kinda sad enough, already. Though the odds greatly favour him to get away with it safely, it would still be hillarious if the police shows up on his doorstep.

And stop blaming it on the servers.
Anonymous (09:35:25 - 06-05)
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Anonymous at 09:03:20 on 06/05:
Some of you guys are hilarious.

This DDoS or whatever that was, damaged the defending side far more than the attacking side. Attackers chose the time and could've caused some serious damage, if managed properly.

As an insider from the defending side, we've had alot of shooters online waiting, who couldnt return fire due to this crash.

Kudos to the attackers for the initiative, but if you cant execute and win with 1:1 ratio and this ridiculous KA.. you dont get to complain. Liberta/Vinci/Conflict were targeted hard as usual, and took the most damage, and you dont see any of them crying about it.

As said here earlier, the attacking side's decision to split the server into two groups, those with them, and those that are not(automatically referred to as 'The Pact') is what caused this massive counter attack, by families which are not even blooded.

RIP everybody, better luck next version.

I'd say lucchese got targetted hard, if not worst, made me think of the toughness just like 2.1 lucchese vs fatoslocos
lucca Serbia (09:22:08 - 06-05)
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Andok, Blacksea, Gelibolu, Goldenarmy, Ihtilal, Impero, Krays, Loriga, Marazzino,Yigidos,Yalta
Shame on you You will be only one suit in which the Packt to put his star,your betrayal is amazing.
as it is in the midst of our attacks Neptune entered into a third house and fell barafranca server: D
well packt+idiot+admins ~ GAME OVER
Anonymous (09:03:20 - 06-05)
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Some of you guys are hilarious.

This DDoS or whatever that was, damaged the defending side far more than the attacking side. Attackers chose the time and could've caused some serious damage, if managed properly.

As an insider from the defending side, we've had alot of shooters online waiting, who couldnt return fire due to this crash.

Kudos to the attackers for the initiative, but if you cant execute and win with 1:1 ratio and this ridiculous KA.. you dont get to complain. Liberta/Vinci/Conflict were targeted hard as usual, and took the most damage, and you dont see any of them crying about it.

As said here earlier, the attacking side's decision to split the server into two groups, those with them, and those that are not(automatically referred to as 'The Pact') is what caused this massive counter attack, by families which are not even blooded.

RIP everybody, better luck next version.
Anonymous (08:30:59 - 06-05)
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Anonymous at 07:51:18 on 06/05:
Impact you guys created the pact again this version by attacking with 20 families


if they attacked with less they would be countered with the same families again.

So...did they have any choice?
If they didn't pull this attack they would got shot down one by one by same 14 families again, so I would say that they didn't have any choice. And for ppl talking that there's no "pact"...it's enough to check last version and see that all these fams (liberta, conflict, vinci...etc) were attacking together, and defending together. You can say that you fought with your bloods, but none of you shot any non blooded fam from these "pact" fams. So I would say...yes, you made a pact and don't know why do you try to deny that
Anonymous (07:51:18 - 06-05)
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Impact you guys created the pact again this version by attacking with 20 families
Impact United States (06:34:02 - 06-05)
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Wanted to thank everyone who tried to help in destroying the pact, to those who didn't I hope you enjoy the next few months with nothing to do here.
ReBorN United States (06:31:57 - 06-05)
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Bramblerose at 17:50:26 on 05/05:We're still investigating the matter and will give you an update as soon as we know more ourselves.

If I had a dollar for everytime I heard that statement from the admins. If there is actually an "update" I'll give $100 omertà dollars to the first person that posts if they do "update"!! Of course, since I said that, there probably will be an update now. :p

But seriously, more times then I can remember, the admins have said "we will look into it and let you know" only to not have them respond ... At all ... Ever.

I would really love to know the real reason behind the crash, whether it be a ddos attack or otherwise. The people who pay good money to play this game deserve to know why their game was interrupted and fucked up!

ReBorN|DrinKinG
Anonymous (05:42:50 - 06-05)
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You do realize there were wars on two major servers right?

Any oldschool player remembers how in every big war Omerta used to go down in the old days. In every big war, we used get blank pages, and slowmerta. So it would make sense to me. I mean just look at the amount of dead people on .com alone, 792 players died, whereas on dm 150 players died. And war leaked on both versions, so almost all fams on .com and dm had dets hired. So that's more than enough to bring the server down. Just look back and try to remember the white pages we used to get before, just because of a war, and the when you would not get your kill message etc...

It's easy to turn everything into a conspiracy. But having played Omerta since 2.1, I think I've seen about everything. And I think that this is another server failure.

That's just my opinion.