Hosting Safety And Multiplayer Hazards

[Namık]

So i searched for information in internet about 3 days long, i couldn t find anythink helpfull, i dediced to ask here to hopefully get answer.

Is hosting game safe?/Any chanse of malware injection?

Is joining random lobby safe? (unmodded)

is joining random lobby safe? (modded)

i am not educated nor much informed about those kinds of thinks so i was very worried, a response from moderation could be extremly nice since i have ecountered multiple people also wondering same thinks. (apologies if questions sound stupid)

[Buggy Boy]

I can't speak for what LUA-based mods might get up to, but if you host with normal (non-LUA) mods or just vanilla then you should be safe. That's not to say a determined hacker won't be able to attempt a DDOS against your IP address somehow, but usually just a power cycle of your internet router should get you a fresh IP address. I haven't heard about any such attacks against an individual host.

Joining lobbies as a player should be safe, I haven't heard of anyone getting hacked through the lobby or multiplayer. Having to download a bucket load of mods can mess up your Baro installation though, or make it slower to load up as it has more to handle than vanilla even if you have the mods turned off (they will still be checked for updates, and some mods will conflict with one another, or possibly corrupt your Baro installation / save game files). I prefer not to play with mods for this reason.

Generally, any such problems are rare as far as I'm aware.

[The Flaming Pike]

Playing online is safe. The worst thing we had for Barotrauma was a DDOS type attack that made servers shut down, and that didn't last long since patches were quickly issued to correct this problem. It has been dealt with.

You didn't find anything in your search because there is nothing to find. It's a non-issue.

Plenty of games on Steam ( but also other platforms ) allow players to host their own games or join games hosted by random people on the platform(s). It is actually very common. Just to name a few, Project Zomboid, Stardew Valley and Valheim allow people to do pretty much the same thing you can do with Barotrauma.

Besides, you have an extra layer of protection with Steam authentication.

I regularly play online with complete strangers. I also seldom host games myself and let randoms join. The worst that happens to me is that they will notice I'm the moderator here and will try to kill me in the game. You, on the other hand, don't even have to worry about this. So you're fine.

[kratos]

Steam has a page over here that explains how they protect your ip address. https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/1433-AD20-F11D-B71E