Demoth

What a troll post.

A fresh spawn once walked up to me while I was fully geared. I waved and he said, "You seem like a nice guy. Could you give me a gun and some ammo?" I said sure, no problem. I gave him a magnum. Then I said, "Here are the bullets" and shot him in the face. I then went on my way.

Depending on the server, hacks can get pretty blatant and crazy. I was on a server where 4 people were teleporting, and not the good ole "desync" choppiness, but actually crossing hundreds of meters in a matter of seconds, and shooting everyone on the coast. Granted, the first hacker I ran into was someone with the .PBO file hack, and then the next one I saw was like, 200 or something game hours later (I keep changing the hours if you follow my posts, I should just say "a lot time between"). But then in the last weeks I've been running into a few teleport hackers, people who are blatantly ESP'ing and snap shot headshotting everyone around them... well, the aim bot case was only one time. Still, I'm on a little break from this game because I have a lot of fun exploring and gearing up and then dying while getting into intense fights. I do NOT, however, appreciate dying to a hacker who teleports 200 meters, shoots me in the back of the head and then teleports another 300 meters to my friend and shoots him in the back of the head. That pretty much makes it feel like all your hard work scavenging was invalidated.

Errr, no? You just delayed them, possibly by 30 seconds to a minute, unless they get a better spawn and get to where they were going even faster. Myth busted!

How do you kill anyone with the shotguns????? So far, I've been hit point blank with shotguns at least 3 times in the last month. Each time I was within 2 or 3 meters and EVERYTHING I wore got damaged, but I almost lost no health, and both barrels were fired at me. I proceeded to then axe 1 of the guys as he tried to reload, and the other 2 I used my sidearm to kill them. A few days ago someone burst into a fire house trying to punch me, a bambi. I sawed off blasted him right in the chest, and he just kept coming. I had to put him down with my SKS. I hear stories of people using the shotgun to great effect, so I'm not quite sure what the deal is.

What the hell are you wearing where an M4 is taking you down in 1 hit?

Before I took my break, the only people who seemed to kill me with the M4 were people glitching through objects or people who came up behind me. I routinely murdered the hell out of M4 users with any other gun because it takes a LOT of M4 rounds to kill you, and the accuracy on that gun is ridiculous, even with MP parts. The M4 has become a LOT better, however, in close range fights if you know how to burst fire and ADS. Every gun, currently, is suffering from reduced damage due to damage dispersion because of clothing and items, meaning it can take upwards of 3 to 4 Mosin shots to render someone unconscious unless you aim for the head. If someone is spraying at you with more than a mag of M4 ammo, and you can't carefully aim your shots to put a few rounds into them, like others have said, the problems is not the M4, it's you.

Considering the SKS isn't reflecting that power if the person is wearing a shirt with a can of tuna, I don't think you'll get the stopping power you want. I understand the 7.62x39mm can over penetrate, leaving not as bad a wound as a tumbled 5.56, but they really need to work on the ballistics in this game. No one should take 5 shots to the chest with an SKS / AK rifle without Level 3 body armor on top of steel trauma plates. EDIT: If this were real life, I may take an AK platform over the stock M4 because of rugged reliability rather than accuracy. HOWEVER, some of the newer AR style rifles, like the HK 416, Barrett M468 and LWRC M6A2 all use a gas piston system, giving the great accuracy and performance and require far less maintenance.

I've reported only 1 server, and that was because I was on it, shot someone and then suddenly everyone got kicked out. Not a desync, server reset or anything, but "You have been kicked". My friends on that same server had also been kicked, because the guy was trying to get me to type to figure out my name. I said I wasn't falling for it and that's when the server suddenly went from 22/40 to 1/40. One by one we were all kicked out. The server did state "No KOS", but I hadn't gone there for the purpose of KOS'ing people, he was just fully kitted and running to my building (he didn't know I was there). Those "friendly" servers have the MOST hostile people who join, as they do nothing but attract people who want to troll the admins.

Whoever owns this server, you need to be aware that hackers are running rampant. I'm not sure what tools you have to tell what people are doing what, but my friends and I were playing there today, and we kept dying, over and over to teleport hackers, people who used ESP (at least, it was insane how they always knew exactly where we all were, all the time, no matter how spread out) and one guy phasing in and out of a mountain between Elektro and Cherno, also being able to shoot through the mountain. We stayed on the server far longer than we should have, simply because the ping was good, we never experienced desync and the fire fights we got into had been really intense when we had been on there last week. We got killed, we got taunted, but at least nothing crazy was going on. I'd say, all in all, within that 1 hour before we gave up, we ran into 2 teleport hackers, 3 people who always knew where we were, and 5 different people jumping through terrain / shooting through buildings. It was bananas.

LOOT! LOOT! LOOT! Friendly people The title. Sorry, I should have been more specific.

Elektro PvP infuriates me because I can never tell how I get killed. I'll be in a spot where there is only a VERY small line of sight to my position, and so the only way to kill me will be to shoot me from directly in front of me, and I'll be sitting there, looking... looking.... screen goes black "You Are Dead". No gunshot, no nothing. I was in on apartment building in Cherno. My friend was in the hall to make sure no one came up the stairs behind me. I'm looking through the window and can see every angle that I can be shot from.... died. I was a good three meters away from the window, and the gunshot sound sounded REALLY closed. There was no way they shot me from the ground floor because you can't see that far into the room from the streets, and I was overlooking the rest of the valley ahead. Then my friend also hears the *BLAM* and dies. He had retreated into a bathroom with only one way in and it looked down the hall. So either that was .PBO hacking, insane desync, or the player was invisible, which some are saying is a glitch / bug.

I usually don't feel bad. I just feel weird saying hello to someone, them waving, and then popping them in the face, even if I did mistakenly think they were using a cheat / exploit. My night ended well, however, because my one friend took my loot and another took that guys loot. I proceeded to just run up and down the airstrip naked until a group of three chased me down. They handcuffed me and one walked up to force feed me something, and suddenly his dome got popped by my friends hiding in the jail. I was gunned down but my friends took out the other two.

Last night I shot a guy in the legs twice with a Mosin at fairly close range and he just sprinted away. This game confuses me.

I made a post stating this, and my thread was immediately bombarded with threads saying I was a scrub, I have a small penis, I prefer male company in my bed, and that I'll die without ever touching the naked body of a woman. So yeah, be careful what you criticize, even if it's technically correct.

Not gloating, apologizing because I spazzed out. And as for the break thing, I was just trying to meet someone in back of Balota to give them my gear. Whether you believe me or not, that's okay. I just thought I'd post something weird that happened and was unexpected for my last day for a little bit.

No, he was outright dead. As soon as he started to phase through the wall I opened up on his head. He was dead.

Haha. It's not that. He just waved to me and I was talking to him and he didn't talk back. My experience is that when people don't talk or type as you communicate, they're eventually going to shoot you in the back (he was fully geared too). But still.... the fact he didn't seem to make any aggressive motions always causes me to have a twinge of actual true-to-god guilt for plugging them in the face, even if deep in my bones I know they probably would have shot me in the back. Gotta toughen up.

Another hacker thread. It's a rant too, because I want to vent to the community. I know these threads are popping up like wild fire, but it's just getting way too obnoxious. It's Alpha, the code isn't stable, yadda yadda, I'm not blasting Rocket or Dean.... I'm just upset. I've explored everything, everywhere, and pretty much the only thing left to do is have interactions, whether it be guiding people, protecting people, shooting people and trying to take prisoners. I made a post a few days ago about dying to a hacker, and how I was annoyed but it had been a good 200 or 300 hours between the first hacker I ran into (well, a .PBO cheater) and some dude I ran into with clear ESP magical powers (He kept snapping from me to a friend, only getting headshots on running targets with an unscoped Mosin and you COULD NOT HIDE. So after that post, I'd say I've experience 3 teleport hackers, and at least 4 people who were using magical powers to find lots of people hidden all throughout a map. He b-lined it for everyone no matter where they were hidden and always prefired before turning corners. Again, I understand that this is to be expected, but I can't really mess with testing this Alpha right now when pretty much anything I try to do gets drop kicked out the window by some stupid asshole who decided to run scripts. In short, post pictures of babies crying, little girls with skinned knees, and whatnot. If you hate this thread and want more of them to stop, just don't reply and let it sink to the bottom. I just needed to right after watching someone teleport a good 800 meters, just now, across the map and then snap 90 degrees to their left to insta-headshot kill me from an insane distance.

Look, just go to YouTube and watch some videos of people cheating. I'm almost finished with playing this (for a while, not forever) because I've been over the entire map. Every inch. Now my days are spent trying to interact with people or shoot at armed people. And getting legitimately geared up is becoming an incredible time sink that any hacker can negate by using their magic shit. I just got killed on the giant rocky mountain between Cherno and Elektro. A lot of people like to ambush fresh spawns so we thought perhaps we'd pick some of them off. Lo and behold, on the top, my friend just instantly dies to the sound of what seems like a point blank Mosin shot. I immediately run for cover and jump into a spot where there is unclimbable bolder behind me, and it's a little V alcove that I can see someone coming from the only side that leads there. I'm prone, waiting.... *BOOM*, I'm dead. I go into 3rd person perspective, gamma and brightness to full blast and look around. I then see someone phase out of the side of the mountain. He loots me, loots my buddy and then phases back into the cliff face. I spawn on the coast, running now to Berenzino. I get to the construction site, pick up an axe and get a magnum... sweet. I then get on top, and what do I see? A guy teleporting from the coast all the way to t the construction site in about 5 seconds. He runs up, I try to hide... no nice. He teleports, I'm punched out, revolver taken, then punched to death. I get it's an Alpha. I get this happens, but it's becoming way too frustrating when you literally have hours of accomplished scavenging stolen because someone decides they want to cheat.

At that time, I didn't pay attention to server names. The history function was also not working for me. So no, I didn't get to report them. :(

EDIT: Made a report ticket here. Please upvote it if you agree. http://feedback.dayzgame.com/view.php?id=8924 I made a topic about this before, and certain people were taking this the wrong way as me blasting Rocket about it. That's not the case, but I definitely think that despite the current weapon being a placeholder, they need to understand that this is not the right direction, at all. My friend and I were in the North West airfield when suddenly he got shot in the face. He realized it was a headshot because now his pristine cowboy had and glasses were badly damaged. I had overwatch on him as I was a good 600 meters away with my LRS Mosin. I then watch as my friend (being silly and looking in the wrong direction I was warning him the guy was coming), the dude manages to get behind him and fires his SKS one more time into the back of my friend's head. My friend goes down, and I snipe the dude.... but it took 3 hits to finally down him. So I come running back to my friend, I epi-pen him and bandage him and he gets up. Now his hat is ruined and his glasses are ruined, so we are assuming this means he was shot 2 times in the head and survived. So yeah, please Rocket, don't let this damage value stay in place because it's turning most close quarters fights into spray and pray affairs

Sorry to bump my own thread, but I'm going to do it once more in the hopes people who agree thar bullets and their damage mitigation by items and clothes gets addressed sooner than later (and remember to vote in the bug tracker!) More tails from tonight; a guy was shooting at me frok sniper hill with a Mosin. I pull out my Mosin and plug him in the knee. He starts bleeding but runs away because who gives a SHIT about a 7.62 round to the leg? Not Iron Kneecap McGee! Then my friend gets ambushed by two SKS assholes who want to kill a bambi. He gets hit 3 timed but manages to sprint away. In order to kill them I had to bury 2 Mosin shots into one guys knees to break his legs and then 2 more to tje head to knock him out (stupid ballistic helmet) His buddy takes off like the dickens and so my friend comes back and has to shoot another time into the guys head to kill him. C'mon dev team...

If you're always in high population servers with constant restarts, you may.... MAY not have the same experience. We all have different experiences, so even though I'm implying you play on low pop servers with lots of restarts, I may very well be wrong. I play on high pop servers because they're more tense. And I generally stray from the coasts to go to the more remote inland villages, and I'm constantly bumping into groups of people. Not one or two here and there, but like, everywhere. I guess the trend is a LOT of people are getting tired of starving to death trying to run the coast, so more people have taken the "Go inland!" advice because I think this week alone, I've had a giant shootout no matter how far from the coast I go. I even got sniped near the edge of the very top center of the map, close to the edge of nothingness. I agree, scavenging shouldn't result in you having more food than you know what to do with, because that's what keeps players moving. The reason, now, I'm able to sometimes hide out in one of the military bases and shoot anyone trying to loot them is because I have so much food it would probably take 300 hours of ingame time for my character to run out and die (Not moving much and whatnot). But the game needs a balance. There should never be an instance where, by chance, no food spawns anywhere near you before you can make it somewhere and die. I realize some of you would find that the bees knees because that may happen in an end of the world scenario, but when it's all said and done, this is a computer game. It needs to strike some sort of balance between skill, tenacity, cunning and survival know-how. With them adding in hunting, food growing in nature and harvesting and whatnot, then you can go and make cans of beans and tuna rare indeed, so long as it doesn't mean I'm just going to randomly starve to death one day without ever having an option to mitigate it.

Some guys were in Elektro on the little tower roof of the hospital, shooting anyone who tried to go to the firehouses or the school. I was waaaaay over in a mountain, a good 785 meters away with my Mosin and an LRS. I popped one guy and he dropped. His friend then tried to find me but couldn't without exposing himself too much. I kept juuuuuuust missing him as my shots were pulling slightly to the left and up. I guess he got really scared and decided to try and log behind the little radiator units. I saw the tip top of his hat as he sat down, and on my 3rd shot, I scored a headshot knocking him down. So he lost his character. F that guy, and all combat loggers.