walkerbait421

US 755 will be shut down on 8/31/12. We were going to shut down earlier but extended it one more month in hopes things would get better. Unfortunately things are far worse. Hacking is completely out of control and admins are powerless. Good luck to all those who continue....

I shot at one and hit it at least 5 times in the engine and tail rotor area, it didn't go down (AS50 with M107 ammo). I would have hit it more but it was shooting at me and had to evade ;) They didn't stay long though so I think I damaged them pretty good. Anyways I think they should stay. Nice side-content/goal but doesn't really change anything IMO.

Do you have any guns/ammo? Try shooting, the zeds should come and warp through to make quick work of you. Or try going prone inside that wall, it may break your bones and give you a cut. Other than that, try vaulting (V key) around and see if you can work your way out.

In before the "I've never seen a hacker, I don't know what you are talking about".

I hear you... Sad thing is that the dev has given absolutely nothing to us in terms of feeling our pain or acknowledging the issue. Only placing blame on Arma2 engine and "there is nothing we can do". Which is BS. There is plenty they can do, starting with maybe a post here to acknowledge our concerns and give us some plans on what that are trying. Then perhaps ID the problems and ban the perps from the hive? It's almost as if the devs want the hacking. I've seen nothing that would indicate otherwise.

Pretty sure this is normal use of the crossbow. I have it all the time on my server as well.

1 - Log detections to "scripts.log" 2 - Log detections to server console 4 - Kick for detections ("Script Restriction #X") You can combine types by adding. I.e. 1+2 = 3 = Log to file and console. 1+4 = 5 = Log to file + kick.

If you haven't witnessed a hacker, please don't assume that there are none or that there isn't a problem. Before I rented a server I didn't think there was a problem either (I only was victim of hacking a couple of times). Now, though, I have reports of hacking about average of 4-5 per day on our server alone. Video proof? There is tons of it out there. Do a youtube search! I'd be interested in what kind of servers those without hacking experience are on... Low population? Avoiding players/PVP?

How to deal with it? Shut down the server immediately (quick 1 minute warning if possible, or no warning if everyone is dying) Make sure you are in contact with a few who are on the server often so you can get the reports in timely. Try to check the logs for anything obvious (but usually is not). But a server shut-down temporarily usually clears things up, as they move on to another server. So basically there is no way to prevent hacking, but you can minimize it and prevent it from continuing for any length of time. Takes a decent investment of time. I contemplate giving up on this crap daily.

This increased artifacting from 1.7.2.4 has been reported to be fixed by many users by "simply doing this" but the fact is there are different fixes for different users, and for some none of the "fixes" work. This includes: - Flush command - Changing video memory away and back to default - Turning on anti-aliasing - Turning HDR to low - Disabling VSync - Installing latest Arma2 Patch - Running Arma2 stand-alone (without OA) then running OA again For me and about 1/2 the group I play with, none of these fixes are working. Some changes make things worse. Some seem to help a little temporarily. The artifacting for me is based on certain military prop items including fences, dead bodies, items in the hangars, mesh in tents, etc. Balota, Stary, Berezino, NWAF are hotspots for this.

If you are anywhere near military tents/hangars there is massive graphic artifacting going on for many users with 1.7.2.4. It pretty much blacks the entire screen. You have to leave the field of view of such areas before you can see.

There should be a disableVoN flag in the server.cfg file that needs to be set to 0. Also, when my server was new, direct comms didn't work reliably. It took about 3-4 days IIRC. Before then, sometimes it worked, sometimes not (voice or text).

I disagree with the last part, Arma2 has lots of hacking issues without DayZ mod.

This is an Arma2 issue. The time lags behind significantly after a while.

As many will tell you here, they have never ever seen a hacker, so they must not exist or must not be a problem! Really, welcome to the club. We have a 3 week old server that has witnessed at least a few hacks every day, getting much worse the past week. Nothing you can do it about it really to ban these people (not shown in logs) but if you enable crosshairs/nametags you can ID those in hacked helis and if you shut down the server for a few minutes they (hackers) will usually just go away (to another server).