Server was full, great game, had to drop to fill my bourbon.  Come back, can't connect.  Ran this:
connect 162.248.94.208:27015

I'm the only person on the server.  I was only gone like 3 minutes.    wtf

Ataris when I saw you, I had flashbacks to dying 8 times in a row from sniper headshots.  I'm not very good at this game.  But it's lots of fun.

Is the server still under attack?  I login some times, when I'd expect to find it full, and instead it's empty. 

I just started playing TF2 again after a 10 year'ish break.  Where does everybody go when they don't play here?  It's been fun to see familiar names here. 

TF2 News "this year, we're planning on shipping a full-on update-sized update"

Unfortunately, community servers are usually excluded from the cool rewards. But maybe the workshop content will be fun. We'll see.

there's always the possibility the attacker is 1 of the 600 dominations on my iron bomber and if it is then i would like to apologize to the community. there's also the possibility it is one of the dominations on my backburner and if it is then i would like to apologize to the community.

TF2 News "this year, we're planning on shipping a full-on update-sized update"

I've been notified by your community that I'm "under investigation" for hacking your server.  You guys are silly.  You should just leave me alone.  I left when I was told I should play somewhere else because I criticized Wolfpup and apparently generally complained too much.  I don't want to play where I'm not welcome.  You guys should take the win and be happy I'm gone rather than bug me about some shit I'm not involved in.  I removed most of you from my friends list and I guess that wasn't enough.  It's been fun but please just leave me alone.  I'm not a hacker and even if I was, I think there are far too few populated community servers with custom maps and old school players.  I wouldn't waste my time tearing that down.  I would just leave and maybe pop in now and then occasionally to see old friends.

To answer some your questions:
- Yes, the server is definitely the target of these attacks. The attacks start when the server is full, and the goal is to overwhelm the server. They happen daily for the past two weeks.

- If you would like more details, please PM me directly from your forum account here.

- We are mitigating the attacks, it's obviously not enough.
When the server is overwhelmed, most players are disconnected. The server also disappears from the browser/favorites list. When that happens, you can manually reconnect by using the console in-game:
connect 162.248.94.208:27015

- I understand if you decide to move on to another community. Thank you for your support for all these years

- I will be crediting 15 days to all current donators. You will not receive a confirmation PM about this since this is not an automated process. If you would like to know your new membership expiration date, you can PM me.

- Finally, I'm expecting the attacks to keep going.

If you have more questions, feel free to PM me here on the forums.

Plasma,
Is Hyperion itself the target, or is it the result of collateral damage from someone targeting a higher level entity?

Roughly 2 weeks have passed since the attacks started, which should be enough time to draw some conclusions. 

Perhaps it's time to release more details on what is known at this point.

In any case, thank you for trying to mitigate.