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Good morning all

I just wanted to let you know what was happening when the site was offline for some time this morning.

We were subject to our first ever DDoS attack which took down the server for around an hour from 10am BST, as well as a couple of minutes at around 2am BST.

I am working on some preventative measures to stop this from happening again, which has included blocking a lot of IP addresses - if you ever find you can't access the site then please send us a direct message on our Twitter - @TrueAchievement and we'll endeavour to get you sorted as quickly as possible.

It's also useful to follow this account to be kept up to date if the site is down for any reason.

Thanks guys!

TA

As we explained here, for the entire month of May the site will be devoted to music, with hundreds of community gaming sessions in the works for you to jump in and jam. The Community Events Team will be matching up gamers into sessions to knock out some of these elusive ‘band’ achievements. If you want in on the action make sure you register here so we can start matching you up.

For those that have already registered, remember that you can manage your registration page at any time. Like Davie stated yesterday in this post please double-check that you have your timezone correct and update or change your availability as much as you need. I know I’ll be updating mine a few times a week.

If you haven’t been placed in a session yet, don’t worry, you will. With over 800 registrants, and more than 15,000 achievements requests so far, we are working to get these sessions rolling out as best we can. The sessions will be appearing on the community events calendar and you will get a PM when we’ve matched you up. If you're in the market for a session at short notice, you should fire up the session calendar, filter it on Open Sessions and feel free to jump into any event where a member or two may have dropped out.
Communication is key though! Get stuck in to the comments section on each session and talk to each other - get the instrumentation sorted before start time so you're good to go on the hour!

On which note, don't forget to the power of the Xbox LIVE Party Chat system. It's worth getting the console fired up ten minutes ahead of time, and getting a party setup so you can all communicate more easily. It's going to make those eight player band achievements so much easier.

To keep up with the newest and latest going info on the event, check out the Music Mayhem section of the site. Here are all your quick links to everything you’ll need to know, including Music Mayhem FAQ and OUR AWESOME MUSIC MAYHEM ACHIEVEMENT COUNTER. We’ve barely started and already the counter and TA score gained is rising fast - over 10,000 TA has been won in under a day!

With all the exposure for the Music genre, May will be a great time to get some of those 2 player co-op, non 'band', music achievements done. Set up a session, add games to your boost request list, and PM other gamers you’ve met in our Community Gamer sessions to get these done, and of course, have TONS of fun along the way!

Hello fellow TA'ers,

As some of you may remember, a little over a year ago TA had its first, of what was hoped to be many month-long Community Events. I am so pleased and excited to announce our newest event, Music Mayhem!

As you may have already gathered, this month-long event runs throughout May and is specifically aimed at achievements within the music genre. May is going to be the CRAZIEST MONTH OF MUSIC EVA!!!

Besides my lack of skillz, I have always found the most challenging thing about achievement hunting in music games is the online multiplayer achievements. Finding eight people to play band vs. band on the same day, at the same time, with unique instruments, and in some cases, at a high level of competency, can be more than a small challenge. With this event, we’re hoping to take some of the hardship and frustration away and just make music games FUN.

How it’s going to work: You’ll go to our fancy new registration page (Register for Music Mayhem), fill out your level of instrument competency, achievements you’re looking at gaining, check the boxes for dates and times you’re available, and hit submit. The Community and Events Teams will start the "Making of the Bands" as registrations start pouring in. Easy Peasy.

A complete list of the achievements we are including in the event can be found here: Music Mayhem Achievement List. With a few exceptions, we’ll only be matching up community members in achievements that can be done in a ‘Band’ setting (3+ people). Now this doesn’t mean you can’t go for some of the other achievements. We are hoping that by creating these "Official TA Bands", those who are also in need of the 2 player co-op & versus achievements might potentially meet gaming partners and set up their own session to knock them out.

So, dust off the ol’ plastic axe, warm up your crooner pipes, and let’s make some noise for Music Mayhem

Hi all

There is currently a very important poll taking place regarding the the way we deal with cheaters.

I am posting this news article simply to draw your attention to the poll - please read the options carefully before voting. I will now lock this news post, please debate in the poll thread.

Partial Cheater Poll

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CJ