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hah really? ofc, can probably run 3-4 of them. Can probably also hit it on 10000 visibility.

Somethings to remember: - Hackers have a lot of time, and there is a lot of them working together to find exploits - Anti-Cheat is handled by Arma2 BI and BattleEye, the Mod can only do so much. - Its a Mod, its not a Game. Please try refrain from insulting the devs or saying they don't care. It isn't a movie, you cant do a back-flip and flick a switch and everything be happy ever after. Its a long and tough process!

Like stated above it is very difficulty and not the only thing on the devs plate right now, understand there are so many things going on and so much work to do that it isnt about "ignoring the problem" its about prioritizing your development. You say fix this, someone else says fix that, another guy says fix this, everyone wants something fixed or added or changed and it cant be done with the flick of a switch so things take time. Look at big games, BF3, Cod, Millions of players yet hacking still exists and its unlikely you would ever get a dev response about it other than some twitter post saying "they will be sorted". Be thankful a little here, because in the end its difficult to handle and takes time to get around. They could be fixing up exploits each arma patch, doesnt mean thats the end of hacking, they just find another way, then you patch that and they find another way, then you patch that and they find another way, then you patch that and well, you get the point. To you it seems like nothing has been done, to them, they just find ways, to the devs its a lot of work.

A lot of the team are very busy right now, so haven't been able to get statistics. Also as stated things like heatmaps are still under discussion.

Even if you kill someone and get a bandit skin, how is that going to stop you from killing more people? Once you begin killing people not much is gunna change that i think. People can hear my heartbeat vs seeing visually makes no difference imo. Then what happens when you kill in self-defence and become a bandit!

If you guys watched the Rezzed Q/A Rocket Touches on this topic. It is the first question at 9:25 While you guys would like a skin, you do get the heatbeat which is pretty much the same (i think!), he also mentions maybe having scars on the face or if you loot the body you killed, you'd have blood on your hands for x amount of time.

It will run but not decently, you will need a low visibility range and could experience lag a lot of the time.

Hey guys, Just speaking from a personal point of view as discussion is still very up in the air about this. I don't think it would be an good idea to do heat-maps based on vehicle locations or tent location, it would ruin a lot of the discovery and you would become reliant on it, like a cheat-sheet in an exam, you have a guideline of where things are, every location and you can just run to those spots hoping to find a vehicle or tent without just discovering yourself. It is something that has to be handled carefully, that's my personal view of it. As for "Deaths", on a global scale of 13-14million characters and climbing, you will see a lot of high heat around the coastline and of course Electro, Cherno, Airfields, do you really need a heatmap to show you what you already know? Plus there is so much scale in that the amount of deaths in these locations would out ratio the deaths in more "random" locations that their "blip" would be hardly noticeable or even visible. Both can be done, it is just a matter of how much needs to be shown and how to show it, plus there is higher up devs who need to decide as it can affect gameplay, so it comes down to their choice. In the web team, we would like to have "personal heat-maps" on your profiles, so you can see your own activity, privately. This would be based on where you die, but it will come with plenty more character/profile features soon.

Hey @mbainrot, Some good notes, we are quite aware of how to handle this but there is still a lot up for discussion internally about whether this will happen and what kind of support would be given for it. Right now there are bigger priorities being worked on, so I wouldnt expect to be able to hook via web platform to generate your data signatures just yet. As DayZ is constantly updating and changing rapidly in the background, it is very difficult to host an fetch API right now as it would require updating a lot of the time and we cant exactly allow people to view the database with open eyes! (personal opinion there). In my opinion, it will be heavily cached datasets, there will be no direct database access or anything that can be queried to the database. It would be an API that handles pre-cached (over periodic times) data. This means data load is not a problem as it can takes a fraction of a second to complete.

IPB Mobile is automatic (iirc), and we will get Tapatalk back in, so do not worry! Things have just been hectic, lots going on =)

Along with the above suggestions from members, this will be a feature in the new player profile designs. If you watched the Rezzed interview, Rocket shows a screenshot of the player profile design. You can watch the video here: 8:12 is the time frame of the website stuff. View the top right corner for "life expectancy" as well as a bunch of other statistics. A lot is still in development, and of course privacy will be taken into consideration.

steamapps is the game installations, where they save to is dependant on the game. Steam is nothing more than a place to buy, manage, run and use overlay, nothing much else at the end of the day. So for ArmA you'd go into my docs, for some other game you might do same or go into steamapps/game folder

There was a bug where these items were duplicated, and so some servers have them left over (i think this is the case). people will often grief and lock off sections, true its very annoying, kind of just have to switch server if 1 is being locked down.

Rule number 1 when entering Elecktro, check the hills! There is ALWAYS a sniper there, it is such a sweet spot to be in if your a sniper as zombies dont spawn so if you see them you know its related to someone else and you have a huge view range, so there is always going to be a sniper or few there, sneak up behind them and axe um! XD

Why would you cover up all that woman-ness!

Please try not attack developers, also try understand that while your think solutions are easy and that a developer should fix it, it is not as easy as clicking your fingers, patching one thing can make more issues, even then there are new exploits being found every day in different ways. You can never 100% stop it, its a battle that will continue and the developers will try their hardest but in the end its a few developers vs the entire hacking population, the masses find ways and then it takes time to fix these things. Even banning won't be a full solution if you knew someone was hacking and you had that freedom to ban, they will just buy a new cd key and continue, so lots of things have to be taken into thought.

Spawning with a gun is more risky and not very good than without, and the reason is simply by how you will act. With a gun, you feel stronger and when you see zombies you will just shoot them, all good? No, other people will likely shoot you as you could be a threat, easier for them to know where you are, and shooting increases amount of zombie aggro so you die quicker and its not good to learn this way. Without a weapon you need to think, and try, sometimes, work together. This doesn't always happens but that is the nature of the game. But as you have no weapons you are required to sneak more, be a lot more cautious and this will grow you into a better player. This is no run and gun game, it requires you to feel completely weak and vulnerable, letting you figure out how to become stronger.

If an API was to be made, it would likely be based on a cache result, thus never interacting to the database itself. I think it would also be ID restricted, the other issue you have is to protect privacy and such. (personal opinion)

It will get added, hopefully soon!

Hello, this is a feature that is a work in progress by the development team, we just got the new forum setup and done some adjustments to the live site and we will be moving onto some new and exciting features for the website but it will still take some time. =)

Good job bro, awesome patches, wonder if the duplication fix also includes trading gear to friend, aborting and re-logging to have all gear back + friend keeps his. (Mainly some specific servers though).

While I agree we should try stomp down on hackers, I dont know what you expect to happen. You cant fully stop hacking, its pretty much impossible as there is always away around it. So sadly, all the devs and others can do is Ban, but more will appear, then they get banned, and its a cycle, not much more can happen.

Same cant move at all. I have to alt f4 just to get out as even ESC doesnt work. Servers fucked.

Yah that was shit, so many people cheating, depopping zombies, and server lag would cause them to repop way back. ah well, always someone to spoil the fun.

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