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It is not always a hacked weapon. Some private hive servers have played around with the loot for a different experience (they removed L85 thermal from their helicopter crashes before the latest DayZ patch). Just today I found an SVD (not camo) and golden AKS at a fresh helicopter crash site just after a reset. Just need to get the common ammo for it. edit: in hindsight this change to loot on a private hive is within the last few weeks, not back in August.

As far as I can tell thi is quite common at the moment. I have seen it on Lingor, Panthera and Chernarus. It doesn't single out certain people but seems to happen to most people who die, regardless as to how they have been killed. A pain for a slow loading server.

Only time I see "Player X killed by Player Y (friendly fire)" is when the victim is reloading their weapon at the time of death.

Same problem, everyone on a server was being kicked for this, even the people whose server it was. I had Failure #13, can join for a few seconds then am kicked... not sure if it's relevant but occurred after I downloaded the latest client from Batteye.

This is a really friendly server. Just waiting for the pvp to explode!

'Save Vehicle' will keep the vehicles status (e.g. damage) and gear when a server restarts. It is best not to be inside a vehicle when you log off, just incase you log back in underneath it, possibly damaging yourself or the vehicle. 'Save Vehicle' and logging off in a vehicle does not remove the vehicle from the server when you are not online, so anyone can take it/move it/steal the gear/blow it up. Only way to reduce the chances of losing a vehicle is to find a spot hidden from busy areas. Say in a dip in the terrain, surrounded by trees. Unfortunately places you might think are really good will be known by other survivors so nothing is 100% safe, just like tents. Only vehicles that are a little easier to keep out of reach are boats and helicopters. Problem being that if someone destroys them or something goes wrong with the server restart you might become stranded :P (You can pop helicopters on buildings people can't get to, but if some cruel person shoots it up while you are logged off then you get stuck on top of a very tall building ;))

Reported previously. http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/73135-jason-hacker-on-us-1855-player-name-gonzoo/page__hl__gonzoo

I'm checking gear in the back of the truck at our camp after I've found my second ever ghillie suit, right after I found my first ever suit and died at the claws of a Zed who got a lucky knock-out on me. Truck starts up. Truck moves. I shout "Stop" on TS, I have my head crushed, knocked back a fair way into a tree and bleed out as some of my team look for my body. Someone forgot to mention they were about to change the trucks position. (At least I got back everything except for my Ghillie, which after a month or so still haven't reacquired).

Name: TOG | Deranger Time 11:40 (GMT) Date: 15/07/2012 Server: US 470 Whilst playing on this server was killed by the structure I was at the bottom of overlooking Drozino, which exploded, killing my character outright. My mate who was just north of Zelenogorsk died instantly (no shots) just before I died, as did many people on the server at the same time. No idea of any culprit, too many people on server. Anyway of checking logs to see what this event was as its a bit strange so many people died at that instant?

Also appears to have killed every single Zombie on the server! Quite funny, but rather annoying :)

Check the link for Shock and you will see what can actually cause you to log in as unconscious. http://dayzwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Status_Effects Of course it might be a bug that gives you this effect even though you were not in shock when you logged off.

Cheers for the post, had been wondering what had gone wrong. After trying to get the single player game working (Arma II - DayZ stops you from using all the weapons in Armory etc.) it busted all my launch options, then once I got it all working again I found I couldn't connect to most servers with the latest Beta patch, it's been a right mare!

Server : US79 TX3 Time : 9:50am (GMT) 28/06/2012 Hack possibility: All killed within a few seconds (and I was on the other side of the map). Upon joining a new community (TOG) I logged on just before 9:50am (I had just popped out to drop off my mrs at work, logging off under a tree to the South West of Bor, away from the deer stands, at about 8:45am). We are all on voice comms together and as soon as I log on I notice that all of my colleagues are being killed. They are on the East Side of the map near Berenzino, and are quite shocked it seems to being killed (only about 4 other players on the server at this time, with 4-5 of us from =TOG=). The second I log onto the game I am killed, whilst sitting under a tree away from anywhere, a few hundred miles from them, along with other people on the server dying it seems without cause. It seems like someone was able to just put a tick next to our names to kill us. The chances of us all being mysteriously killed, and myself being on the other side of the map (and hidden), near Bor, seems a little odd. Any chance this can be looked into? Couldn't work out which user might have done this, although there were pretty much just =TOG= members on at the time plus a few others. Doesn't look like it was done to loot, just to annoy members with the TOG tag. Ah, after seeing a few of the other posts here it seems like it could be a server wipe/nuke or whatever you want to call it. Not a server crash but someone hacking to kill all on the server (oh, and my players name at the time was "TOG Deranger". Hope this helps.

Server: Seattle 127 Time: 10:40-45 (GMT) (then logged out) Date: 06/7/2012 (UK format) Hacker attack. All users on server being pulled to a single location for a 1-2 second period, then returning to their previous location. Attempt to drop people from a location to kill them from height (Which seems to have succeeded as a dead member of our team saw a long stream of player deaths on the third attempt to move people to a location (first inside a small building, then outside near a petrol station - all our team logged after this apart from the one who was at the 'dead screen'). No idea on the user. Our users are with TOG | or =TOG= prefixes - myself as TOG | Deranger

Thankyou rhinoCRUNCH for looking into this and temporarily removing one of the stains in the community.

Happened again at 14:51 (GMT) on same day as above Killed all Toggers on server (19) 1 player in lobby at time of hack and for 30 minutes+ prior to hack (name Coolboynaked) When entering lobby after death Coolboynaked says he saw it happen (taken to North West airfield and dropped from height) even though we noted he had been in lobby constantly prior to hack. After most players leave Coolboynaked then enters game properly (presume to loot members).

All lies...... I am competent but one of my team forgot to look in the rear-view mirror and ran over my head... (Okay, maybe it was my fault, I was wearing a Ghillie :P)

1. That's almost like two questions ;) Barns are a good place to start for your first hatchet, and if you are lucky a wincester or lee enfield rifle. Locate a deer stand and you can then sometimes come across an automatic rifle (As a big hint, there are groups of deer stands on the west side of the map north of Kamenka or south of Bor... loot them of ALL items (and abandon them away from the loot pile to allow for new spawns of loot when you next come near) and go between them until you find a AK or similar). As to the other part of your question, there will always be Zeds near and around the loot spawns (in theory, though bugs, other players nearby (already killed them) etc can mean you might find no Zeds near a location). It's a matter of sneaking in unnoticed (much easier in rural area than towns due to number of spawns, which is why i mention deer stands which spawn only 3 Zeds that I can avoid 90% of the time). 2. You can't unless they are near the spawn points. When you first log into the game world it will give you a location in the bottom right of the screen (a town name or specific area like the Quarry, Factory, Airfield.. all which are situated on the coast, up from Kamenka in the west to Solnichniy), so then you can work from a map from there (To clarify, do you mean friendly players who are willing to help or actual friends already playing?). 3. Keep running up a hill so it forces them to walk and you can get far enough away from them sometimes for them to stop and give up.... it's the nature of this Alpha mod to be a bit buggy in it's effects whereby sometimes it takes a LONG time to get rid of that last Zed. Also by running into a building with two exits, like a long barn or warehouse, allows you to slow them down as you leg it out of the other exit, giving you more of a chance of losing them due to distance. - So yeah, you can lose them. 4. Ask the developers. Every idea has negatives and positives. I was lucky enough to start when you had a pistol, so I do feel I had a little bit more of a chance at the start, although I died more back then than I do now with no weapon. Ok, it gives you a small chance of fighting back against nasty bandits but as some find, having a pistol means you will use it and probably attract too many Zeds than you can handle (say in one of the towns or villages). Melee weapons are very new. If you follow my theories of point 1. then actually finding your first hatchet in a barn is not so bad (once you have a hatchet you can sneak into more risky areas (super markets, apartment blocks and churches in towns.. if gits haven't barbed the entrances up on the server you are on.. if so then move to another server). Just remember it is an Alpha and you are relatively new to this particular game world, so between bugs and getting a feel for the way this mod works you will die alot. This hard start makes progress in surviving day to day feel alot more rewarding. When you are geared up you will then feel so much more paranoid about dying and losing you loot, adding to suspense. Then when you respawn all peed off that you ran into an unfriendly, fell off a roof/rock or got slapped by a bug/hacker you will have a better chance of knowing how best to start off again, and since you have nothing to lose you can run about like a crazy with no fear. (sorry if this is convoluted, I do go on alot :P these are my feelings regarding hints you could use, everyone is different - hope it answered your questions to some extent). p.s. I knew I should have saved this and posted it only after I checked if other people had replied. Otherwise I wouldn't have bothered, but hey, there's my response :)

Yep, that ^^ (I should have just learnt how to shorten my text :)). Maybe they killed us from the debug moon too.. I don't really care, just thought someone would like to know someone was hacking on that server.

Check Youtube for the DayZ crossbow. I found one recommending setting up a crosshairs by drawing on your screen with a Dry Marker (non-perm). Works for me, even at the more extreme ranges of the weapon. Only problem I find is that so far Zeds mainly fall on the bolt so I can't retrieve (In theory you only need a few bolts if you are careful and collect all your bolts). I suppose in real life your bolts might become damaged in use so makes sense not all are returned.

Just joined the group. Looking for safety in numbers :) Generally on up to about 4/5pm during the week days (I am a postman so get on between 12pm-2pm (GMT)) if I fancy playing. Probably a good time as travelling in the twilight hours isn't quite so much joy. Any particular servers you stick to or random hops? (In game my name is =TOG= Deranger if you happen to see it)