JeffCraig

This is just a quick thread for Kansas 1 & 2 server discussion and support. n0ob Servers: DayZ - US 155 Kansas 1 - TimeZone: GMT+9 - Difficulty: Regular - 3rd Persion View: On - Player Tags: On - DayZ Version: 1.7.2.4 - Beta Version: 95417 DayZ - US 156 Kansas 2 - TimeZone: GMT+9 - Difficulty: Veteran - 3rd Persion View: Off - Player Tags: Off - DayZ Version: 1.7.2.4 - Beta Version: 95417 If you have questions/comments/complaints/reports, feel free to post them here, or submit a ticket at http://www.n0ob.com .

Arma 3 is set to be released around Q4 of this year. DayZ will be moved to Arma 3, and at that point we'll have a totally new game with new anti-cheat software (hopefully) and we'll have a whole new slew of hackers abusing new security vulnerabilities. Until that time, we are here only to bug-test this game. It sucks to lose all your shit to a hacker, but your gear should not be the reason you play this game. We play it to find bugs. I host a server for two reasons: 1. My schedule makes it so the best time for me to play is at night, when all the servers are dark. I have servers to provide a place for me (and others with a similar schedule) to play in the light. 2. To assist with the DayZ build process. To provide a stable, consistent, stock vanilla DayZ server for bug checking. Hacks are a part of an alpha test. The code has vulnerabilities that Battleye tries to protect, but someone has to find those vulnerabilities before they can be fixed. And when a ton of script kiddies start using know scripts, those hacks get fixed by the Battleye guys. Unfortunately, DayZ is pretty hackable, and it's going to take a lot to fix that. Take a look at quote from a thread that was posted earlier today ( A Warning Server Admins: BattlEye v1.167 (once again) fully bypassed, scripts released to public. ) I do understand that in order to keep testers interest in the game, you have to keep it free from hacks and any bugs that make the player loose all their shit. But we're talking about undetectable hacks. I can't look in the scripts.txt file anymore to check for a hackers script injection. I have not tools that allow me to determine if someone is hacking or not. I will make the best attempt I can at banning the hackers, but as I've said before, I need good information/evidence to go by. Names, screenshots, timestamps, coordinates, specifics on their gear (I can find them by what gear they have), and in general, just better info. I get a few good reports from people, but I've never gotten one that gave me enough info or proof to really help me ban these fuckers. I will look into the cases that have been reported, and I'll start taking a 'ban first' approach. People will be able to appeal their ban here or on n0ob.com , but most hackers aren't going to bother. TL:DR ? Yes hackers suck. DayZ is really hackable and Admins don't have any tools to detect them. I'll make sure my global ban list is updated, but there isn't much I can do unless you give me good proof.

Again: thanks for all your support guys. I'm not the most active admin, but I do intend to keep these servers running through the DayZ alpha + beta stages. I'll try to keep you guys more up-to-date on when there will be server downtime. Just keep in mind that we're still in alpha; shit is going to break, hackers are gunna hack, and there's always plenty of dicks around that will try to ruin your fun. I know it sucks to get killed by a hacker, or to find all your shit/camp/vehicles missing, but that just goes with the territory in this game. The DayZ dev team is more active now with notifying server admins when there are updates, etc, so I'll try to get my server up to date asap, but sometimes I like to wait for a more stable release if one is particularly fucked.

Should be back online now. and it's three first names: JeffAllenCraig :P There are some new server side 'tweaks' with the latest beta/patch versions and I'll be tweaking things over the course of the day today.

I only update to approved beta builds. I'll check and see if 94444 has been checked over by the dev and be teams and update if they say it's ok. I'll add a feature to attach files to tickets at n0ob.com . Just put screenshots, etc in a zip and attach it to the ticket if you need to report someone.

You need to use the Launch Arma2 OA Beta Patch shortcut in your arma 2 operation arrowhead folder. You are getting the "Addon 'dayz_code' requires addon 'CABuildingParts'" error because you did not copy your Addons folder from the arma 2 to arma 2: oa directory. Follow these instructions: Copy the Addons folder from C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 and pasted it in the arma 2: oa folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead Then try launching the game from the Launch Arma2 OA Beta Patch shortcut. Once the game launches, make sure the @dayz mod is enabled, etc, and you should be able to connect to servers.

Really guy? Never used Windows Search before? Did you install via Steam? If so, your arma 2: oa folder will be located here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead

Can't play without a legit cd-key. And I'm pretty sure two accounts can't have the same key at the same time, but don't quote me on that.

1.5 gb ram? That isn't much... I'm not sure this will help, but if you purchased the game via Steam, go into your Steam Games Library, right-click on Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead, select Properties, select the Local Files tab, click Verify Integrity of Game Cache... If some of your files are corrupt, that will fix them up.

Fraps is a very popular video capturing software. It's been around forever and is pretty lightweight. You can choose the quality you record with, but it works fine for me at full quality, just takes up lots of GBs. You can fill up a terabyte pretty quick. You can also use TwitchTV, which is a live streaming service, but it saves your videos in your profile on the website. That's basically a two-fer-one, because you don't have to worry about converting and uploading the vids to youtube, or whatever. I think it has a subscription fee... after a trial period, but I'm not sure.

Separate will work fine. I've done it both ways with Steam. Arma 2: OA is required. Some people have been using the free version of Arma 2 with a legit copy of Arma 2: OA, but I'm not sure how long that will work.

You both are playing on the same computer? Just logging into a different steam account on the same computer will not change the DayZ profile that computer uses. You'll have to log into the steam account, and then re-install BattlEye (open your Steam Games Library, right-click on Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead and select Re-Install BattlEye Anti-Cheat). You have to re-install BattlEye each time you want to switch profiles. As far as the Direct3D error... google search is your friend. Here's a few links that can be found just searching "error creating direct3d 9 graphical engine": Bug #27868 - Error creating Direct3D 9 Graphical engine "Error Creating Direct3D 9 Graphical Engine" Error The solution on those threads is to make sure the launch options are correct. Are you using the shortcut in your arma 2 operation arrowhead directory that says Launch Arma2 OA Beta Patch? And that the Target field in that shortcut is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\Expansion\beta\arma2oa.exe" -beta=Expansion\beta;Expansion\beta\Expansion -nosplash? If that doesnt work, keep searching the googles.

That's a terrible game idea...

1) Are BTR-90s in the game or was that hacked in? Hacks 2) Are C-130J crashes a legitimate event or was that also hacked in? Hacks 3) Would the invincibility of that person be hacks, a glitch or terrible lag? (the server had been a bit laggy previously) Hacks And he probably used a teleport hack to spawn next to you. 4) Is there an AA-12? If not, could that gun have been something else or was it hacked in? Hacks (I'm not 100% sure on this one, but i dont think the aa12 is a legit dayz shotgun) 5) Why couldn't I loot my dead body? DayZ is buggy as shit. Maybe it was the hacks, maybe not. A BattlEye bypass hack was just released, so there is a giant influx of hackers right now. I'm not sure they'll ever be able to stop hackers in Arma 2... not sure BattlEye is a pro enough company. Hopefully they made some changes to the multiplayer structure of Arma 3, because right now it just blindly trusts anything a client passes to it...

Use the search plz. google is also your friend. RCon: http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?95454-RCon-server-administration-coming-to-ArmA-2! Max Ping: set in BEServer.cfg file. Auto-restart: http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=24329

Some of us use FireDaemon to do server restarts. It has a 30 day free trial and then it costs $40 or something. Dizzymagoo made a script to do restarts, but I've never used it. Here is a link to his thread: http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2922 I think you can just use normal windows task scheduling to run it as a normal service, but I have not tried that either. I like FireDaemon because it's easy to add Sykotix server utilities (for automated log rotating and ban script updating). You can find his scripts here: http://dayz.sykotix.com/dayz-server-utilities/

Servers set to Veteran should not have nametags. I think that is hard-coded into the Veteran difficulty profile. Can anyone confirm/deny that?

Check the logs... In your arma2oaserver.RPT file, look for entries like: 10:39:57 "WRITE: ['PASS']" 10:39:59 "DISCONNECT START: JeffCraig ("25280774") Object: B 1-1-H:1 (JeffCraig) REMOTE" 10:39:59 "HIVE: WRITE: or are you talking about making it display a message in game when someone DCs? That should be a setting in your cfgdayz.Arma2OAProfile config file. deathMessages = 1; //Displays "XXX was killed by YYY" messages in multiplayer See: http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/server.armaprofile for more info. It's possible that the DayZ devs have disabled it in the mission file though...

I assumed that this setting would be changed in the 'user configuration' file. See the BI wiki for more info: http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/server.armaprofile But after looking through that file, I dont see where that setting would be changed. It must just be a default setting for veteran that cannot be changed...

Five people reporting it warrants attention from the devs, which you guys have been given, but you need evidence before any punishment is given out. There's plenty of people accusing other people of all sorts of things on the forums. Hard evidence is the only way to make sure the right people get banned.

It is not guaranteed. It may break in the future. It may not.

Screenshots? Vids?

This is what I see in the logs, looking for George Smith: Someone else posted about this 'George Smith' thing: http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=8129&pid=216657#pid216657 I'm thinking the server just names you George Smith if there are problems connecting your user ID with the Hive. So, I'm not really sure whats going on. I'll talk to some devs and maybe have someone look into those logs.

I'm not sure what the George Smith thing is, but I see stuff in my server logs that I'm sure are related: I know other people have seen this same thing (see http://pastebin.com/aw5WMZkT), but I haven't found any answers yet. I'll ask in the admin irc tonight.