Round two since there were some server issues the first time around.
Really looking forward to this machine, even though I’m positive it is going to be a doozy. Good luck everyone! 
… and … Hrm, box indicated as up, but pings return destination unreachable. Before we all go crazy with blind nmap rage would this be considered part of the Insane-ity? 
Or it’s just down for us-vip-3.
eu-vip 12 also no response to ping …hm
Unless this requires a “knock” to open ports I think the VM is dead.
Interesting. Reloaded active machines status page, now saw a “play” button, clicked that and got a red “Machine not found” error message.
I’m assuming some technical issue with deploying Fatty. No worries.
From Discord #announcements:
HTB Staff are aware of the issues with the new box(fatty) please be patient.
From discord:
g0blinToday at 8:14 PM
Heads up, new box Fatty is currently not functioning across all labs. I’m travelling atm but will look in to it ASAP. The release may be delayed until tomorrow, as I don’t want to rush a fix after a day of travel.
unable to start the box on eu vip 19. Just says machine not found
Let’s wait for tomorrow
Please read the discussion description everyone!
If Patents has a difficulty rating of 7.9/10, I can’t imagine Fatty having a difficulty rating of 10/10. Must be real insane.
@limbernie said:
If Patents has a difficulty rating of 7.9/10, I can’t imagine Fatty having a difficulty rating of 10/10. Must be real insane.
I agree. I think I am going to wait until this one retires RE was hard enough!
Rereleasing at the normal time tonight, everyone ready?
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Well, if Im being able to access to the console already there should be ppl close to claim user 
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Well. 50pts for a reason.
Update: “Wonky” would describe this client pretty well, I think.
Update #2: TIL how to decompile a jar file… Is it a rabbit hole to think we need to alter this (if possible or is signing an issue?) to work around some things? Still don’t see how commands/messages are formatted/encoded/etc to or from server. Curious to see that.
So far this box seems really good. Congrats to @jkr on root!
Edit: Feels very close to user. I’m missing something…
I haven’t got user yet, but I’m enjoying this VERY MUCH so far.
Update: got user now awesome box
I am enjoying it too. I got completely sucked into it yesterday after having thought “Ugh. Java client.” No idea wtf I’m doing, but I’m having fun doing it.
I just got a shell and cannot read user.txt despite I can run other commands, what a trolling machine hehe
nvm got user.txt, on to root!
Edit: and rooted.