-Morph-

Truth hurts, huh, buddy? I see a lot of butthurt fanboys like you spewing shit at the OP. What I don't see is anyone disagreeing with him or giving any indication what will be done to fix these issues. These were the issues that made Dayz boring, I don't think they learned any lessons from that, or have any real plans to address these issues. Which is why I don't play and have no intention of playing the release game currently. I don't know what is sadder, you guys jumping on him for stating the obvious or the fact your life is so devoid of enjoyment you still play the game he describes above! Given that you even concede that a "huge" amount of people share his concerns maybe they should be addressed. Or you enjoy playing a dead game? Thanks for understanding. Enjoy your walking.

hahaha!

Crying about exploiters while exploiting geometry and the inventory system in the video yourself! Nice!

OK, I won't pretend to know anbout that, and I am happy to take your word for it. Although I can say I have never experienced the same issue playing any other game in 25 years! But it doesn't change two central issues. 1) If theft is identified there should be procedures in place to reclaim your account. The criminal not the victim should be penalised. 2) Security, or lack there of, was one of the biggest problems with mod. The company responsible for security, BE, failed miserbly. They should not receive the contract again! As far as I am aware that is BE's only work to date. Not the sort of track record I would re-invest in.

Well, I can only report the facts of my experience. 1) I was banned without cheating or downlaoding any exe related to dayz, except dayz commander. 2) BE confiremed to me they had evidence of Key theft by another party. 3) The devs refused to respond or make any effort to resolve the issue. I find it very implausible that another .exe I would download for a totally unrelated reasons should be looking to steal my dayz key! The simple fact is that where the anti-cheat detector confirms account theft there needs to be procedures in place to resolve that for the customer, like in every other game I have ever played in the last two decades! And lets be honest, there needs to be much better security than the mod, where hacking went on all day erry day, in plain sight. That was not good enough, and it is amazing that the same company are given the contract again! I would say spending some of the millions of pounds of alpha sub money on a proffessional established security provider would make more sense than famring it out to some bedroom start up company on the cheap.

I never downlaoded anything related to dayz and had myu acocunt comprimised so your talking shit. simple as that! well, unless dayz commander was run by a hacker. that is the only thing I have ever dled for Dayz! But that was used by most of the community and widely advocated on the community forums. ;)

I was banned by BattleEye in the mod. When I got in touch with them they told me that there was clear evidence that pointed to another user, who had hacked my account key. Although they would not share any further information. They told me that based on this I should contact the developmnent company who should be able to resolve it. I never recieved any response or acknowledgement from the development company. It was very annoying, and I refused to re-buy the game, as the only dayZ resources I ever used which could have led to my account information being stolen were the Dayz map, dayz commander and community forum. I shuddered when I saw they are back. Their system was in my opinion total shit and I felt like I was made to pay the price for the companies failures to secure their own game and community resources. If I am incorrectly banned again because of it in the standalone I won't re-buy the game. I have played many games with hackers and hacked accounts before but none where the guy whos accoutn is hacked is the only one punished. ;) My main gripe with the mod was the rampant hacking and it was only compounded by my being punished for such activites while whover stole my key was able to freely continue cheating. My emails with battleeye also led me to question if they were a real, professional security comapny. The man I communicated with seemed to have isseus constructing even basic sentences.

I can't remember for the earlier deaths tbh, they were well over a week ago. But, yes, today I was on a low pop server too.

There were no zombies, in the entire town in fact! I was in the town north of the NE airfield, whihc apparently was saved the zombie apocolypse! ;)

OK - will do. TY for the tip.

I play the game solo, living the quiet life up north. I can go days and weeks without seeing a soul. My last three deaths have all been the same, after up to a week surviving. I just get the 'you are dead' message suddenly and inexplicably. There is no gun shot, no apparent enemy. The most recent time happened inside a room with no windows, in a building I had cleared, in a un-looted town. I am absolutley convinced now this is hackers or admins. Anyone else getting these deaths? Makes it fairly pointless to do anything but join the coastal massacre... I would like kill messages in game. Who killed me and by what means.

You also expect alpha testing to be a fee event. That is where the problems arise and why you simply cannot apply the usual conditions of an alpha test. When you charge people a premium price to test your alpha you can't really act surprised if people have expectations beyond a conventional alhpa test. I have contributed to many alpha and beta tests over two decades. I have never paid for it! I am not saying this is right or wrong but it creates many shades of grey. I haven't followed the development process with as beady an eye as others and I am not sure why they charged for alhpa. Be it nescessity or greed.

Given that a group of fishermen lost at sea for months in a dinghy ate each other to overcome starvation just a few years ago, and men have done so throughout human history, I would say a tin of beans would be more than enough incentive for a starving man to murder.

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

If realism is an issue, lets be honest! I am from the UK and the only map I have ever seen anyone use is an A-Z, which is a road map people keep in cars. they are seperated into zones and regions on each page, you use the A-Z index to find the page you need! Only hikers and geography teachers have any other maps!! And they are localised maps for useable detail. You dont go hiking in the pennines with a map of Great britain.