Couple of things to point out:
1. It is possible to DDoS people. SC2 is no exception. This is especially easy when there are less players (in the session, not players who died)
2. It doesn't require THAT much knowledge (there's no skill involved, just knowledge of networking and programming) to DDoS someone, but it does require enough to where some idiot or average person couldn't just google search "How do I DDoS people who offend me" and start dropping players the next day. You don't need to worry about trolls "finding" them. DDoSing is usually done by ACTUAL hackers (or just generally intelligent people) with control over a botnet -- I don't mean people with a bunch of SC2 accounts -- or as you call: "Smurfs"
It's possible that you were DDoS'd, but I think it's unlikely especially given how many players easily call each other a "hacker" when
A: they're just script kiddies that download a program off the internet, or
B: the accuser is stupid and either doesn't understand how hacking works to begin with, or how the game itself works.
If you want to confirm if it was a DDoS, I'd monitor external network traffic at the very moment this incident occurs (if it ever does) again. The last time I was DDoSd, my router was being flooded via network packets by several computers and was unable to function properly.
Couple of things to point out:
1. It is possible to DDoS people. SC2 is no exception. This is especially easy when there are less players (in the session, not players who died)
2. It doesn't require THAT much knowledge (there's no skill involved, just knowledge of networking and programming) to DDoS someone, but it does require enough to where some idiot or average person couldn't just google search "How do I DDoS people who offend me" and start dropping players the next day. You don't need to worry about trolls "finding" them. DDoSing is usually done by ACTUAL hackers (or just generally intelligent people) with control over a botnet -- I don't mean people with a bunch of SC2 accounts -- or as you call: "Smurfs"
It's possible that you were DDoS'd, but I think it's unlikely especially given how many players easily call each other a "hacker" when
A: they're just script kiddies that download a program off the internet, or
B: the accuser is stupid and either doesn't understand how hacking works to begin with, or how the game itself works.
If you want to confirm if it was a DDoS, I'd monitor external network traffic at the very moment this incident occurs (if it ever does) again. The last time I was DDoSd, my router was being flooded via network packets by several computers and was unable to function properly.
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