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I'm not mad about it anymore. I have actually just come to accept that I'm likely to be killed by a hacker in this game. But I do have proof of the hack. We are in one of the two story red houses, a group of five guys. Door is locked, two of us are in the main entrance watching the door while the others are scoping out of the windows. All of a sudden M4 shots being fired and all of us died. It's a wall hack, then barely one hour later, same thing but in a 3 story apartment building. No windows around us, no alternate means of entry, watching the stairwell, and all four of us got killed. Four because one of our guys said screw this game after the first wall hack. Which honestly he could have gotten killed legitimately, three of them could have, but the two of us downstairs could not have been shot. It is simply not possible. I have the video of the first time, I can crop it and upload it to youtube upon request, but I'm wondering if this is already a known issue by Bohemia themselves and Battle Eye. If it is then I don't see the point of wasting my time to post the video but if a company personnel would respond asking for proof I will gladly upload it and then post it in the thread. So I hope for a response back.

lol, I love that. "completely impossible." seems like other games got it right lol, along with cloaks and jackets that go below the waist. Just about every MMO game out there along with DMC, Elder Scrolls, fallout. lol Seems like an excuse to me. and to all the people, no I will not use the search function. They can merge my content themselves or lock me from forums, I don't care either way lol.

For clothing like Rain coats, hoodies, and gorka jackets, I'd like to see the option to put up the hood. just a right click option in the inventory or something. It's a simple idea, and would be cool to see.

well see now, idk about that being a hack as much as it is just a bug on server launch, because I've had it where i'd get booted from a server and my buddies would see a message about me, I think it's just the client not responding message but I can't recall. But if it does that, then how would it be possible for someone to be using the ghost looting hack or things along those lines? I've been in servers that I would see that message displayed about someone but at some point one of us would just be losing all our gear mid run and it's not dropping on the ground either, it's just disappearing, so I assume the ghost loot hack. So there is something that they are doing differently than others that is bypassing that security. If that is the case, and if BE is doing that on start up, or on server launch, then maybe there needs to be multiple tiers of security upon the launch. Maybe on start up have a general scan, and then a more specific type of scan to bring up the server lists, and to enter a server another very very specific scan. Again, I am just talking completely out of my ass with this. I don't even know where to put in a graphics card off the top of my head let alone having even a general comprehension of what anti-cheats and the like entail. But I'd be more than happy to endure a longer waiting time launching the game and getting into a server if it meant good clean fun.

So....I take it the hacker situation hasn't improved yet? They need to do something here because I really don't want to see this game die and its getting the point that I'm starting to worry with all the insults and harassment, which I was responsible for with 1 post as well, just make BI and BE just stop making the game as a big middle finger to all of us. Go the way of that one dude, Phil Fish, or whatever his name was lol. I do have one question for the BE staff along with BI staff, is there any way that there could be some deals made where steam could scan the game files for any changes, modifications, added files, and just not allow the game to launch on start up if any of those are detected? I have no idea how hacking works or even scripting, never looked into it or even gave a crap, although googling for news about a Ban Wave did end up bringing up a listing of a hacking forum which just made me sick to my stomach with people bitching about banned keys, looked at there rules out of curiousity and saw specifically "No Trolling" and I almost punched my monitor out of anger with hypocrisy. Anyways, before I ramble more, could a deal like that be done with Valve or just with you guys?

I really hope so too man. Even with this massive population of hacks, I still absolutely love DayZ. What I really want to know though, is it so difficult to handle all these hacks because of the source code being stolen? or is that a completely irrelevant issue at this point or was it just a bs thread posted throughout the internet? I watch a lot of DayZ videos like Frankie and guys like him and he mentioned something called Breaking Point or something like that for the DayZ mod, as he explained it, it scans the computer for any modified files of the game and if there are any files that have been changed or modified it doesn't allow them to launch the game with that launcher so they are forced to play on the usual servers that don't use breaking point. Would something like that be possible to do with the launcher of the standalone? PS, if you look at threads about rumored ban waves that usually aren't found on this site, but on steam or reddit you will see the praise that I speak of. Granted you'll see a bunch of people defending the hackers "hypothetically, what if the hacker has learned their lesson" yada yada, we know they don't learn lessons, but you'll see a lot of BE praise as well.

People that excuse the hacking by saying it's an alpha game right now, just stop. The GAME is in alpha but the anti-cheating is not in alpha, it's been around and in the same spot of development that it has been for a long long time. It's not a new thing, and it's way past beta testing let alone alpha testing. Also, in an alpha game, you expect glitches, deaths for no logical reason, texture bugs, etc, but what you should not expect, especially from a game that charges you for early access is over 50% of the player base (seemingly) teleporting, using god mode, infinite ammo, ghost looting, invisibility, force animations, yada yada yada. An alpha/early access game is no excuse for an anti-cheating system that has been in use for a long time now and still has not improved in the slightest. Its a highly effective system, notice after they do a ban wave, oh how great the game becomes once more and then people praise them "oh great job BE your so on top of things!" But the reality is they are not. All they do is ban waves, they don't consistently monitor any of their supported games even though that is what they are getting paid to do. Bohemia is just as much to blame for this, because with the money that they are spending on BE, they need to be pestering and hassling them to continue doing their job. Take that as you will, maybe you will think this is only opinion, but from my point of view, this is straight up fact. It's very sad when dying from a legitimate player feels like a special treat in a game, but my last 6 deaths have been from people teleporting from in front of me to behind me, or ghost looting me, then teleporting to me and just shooting me in the face. Every 2 to 4 months is when the hacking gets way out of hand, but the first month after a ban wave, holy shit I love the game then.

Or dementia...which honestly would also be an awesome addition to this game, mental health.

you know, I actually thought of that too earlier today, if they don't want to add a new map, make a map editor available. I always loved doing that kind of stuff in games like Farcry. Hell I spent more time on farcry in the map editor than the actual game, both single and multi player

I don't see how it doesn't fit honestly, have you noticed the apartment buildings in novo and cherno and all those places already have a seemingly heavily influenced mesh of what one typically thinks when they think of Chernobyl. At least that's the kind of look I think of anyways, All I really want to see though pretty much an exact virtual replica of the entire area, Nuclear plant included. Radiation suits, Geiger counters, purifiers, radiation poisoning, all would be excellent installments to DayZ but needs to be placed within a reasonable location, which where better than a nuclear plant where a reactor has already gone nuclear. Plus I've been getting the itch to play Stalker, but don't want to leave DayZ, and I love the environment of Prypiat. And the northern subtown of Cherno really does not help that itch, because the look is there. Honestly though, scratch the whole map pack, more intricate buildings, like realistic Gulags, or power plants or prisons and all that, the map is huge, with tons of nothing in it, space that I'm sure will be filled out with more towns or cities, but old Gulags/prison camps, airports, maximum security prisons, and realistic power plants, sewer systems, metro tunnels, all that kind of stuff would honestly suffice perfectly for me. I love exploring in games like this, and I just can't help but feel the lack of need to explore, granted it is in alpha, but based on what I've seen on the mod, there isn't much in terms of exploration that will be getting added. I love the game, and would love it even more if they took that kind of consideration in their buildings. PS. These buildings; Gulags, max security prisons, massive power plants, sewer systems, shouldn't be repeated over and over again, One Gulag, One massive prison, one big nuclear power plant, only one of those buildings should be in the map, make it a fight for the gear that gets spawned there. A guarantee that interactions, or fire fights will happen there frequently. and the sewer system or metro system, all one big maze throughout the entirety of the map. A game called Nether did the metro thing right, however given their piss poor decision making with the "new cutting edge" mechanics of the game that took away so much from the eerie, survival aspect of it, I cannot personally stand that game anymore. So much from games like Metro and Stalker and Fallout makes me say "I really hope they add something like this to DayZ."

he's not talking about a 24hr reset, he's talking about the server going through the morning, noon, dawn, night cycle before it resets.

I'm just going to say this because I'm not going to get sucked in to the grammar trolling, but lack of spelling correctly isn't ignorance, as much as it is laziness. As you know, we mericans are notoriously lazy because, well, we can afford to be and I've embraced the sedentary lifestyle. To me, ignorance is lack of understanding, which understanding comes from learning of a culture and traditions and lifestyles, which leads to misjudging somebody over the color of their skin, or the way they talk, or their spelling errors...I hope you can see where I'm going with this because I'm laying on the sarcasm rather heavily. Murica!

This is something waaaay down the road, after the game is completed and additional content maybe starts getting considered, I would love to see a map of Prypiat. Do like a Stalker with DayZ survival, having to take radiation levels into account in the environment, on the food, etc. Like I said, not even worth considering as of yet, would just really love to see it.

How about a ban wave? The hacking is getting really bad again where I'm getting teleported to. Not sure about the infinite M4 mags but I'm seeing it again, not sure if that's a hack as much as it is a glitch, but ya. It's becoming very prevalent again. Honestly, I feel that BattleEye is really slacking with the anti cheats. I don't want to offend here, but it feels like they initiate a ban wave, then leave it alone until the game becomes completely unplayable again then they do another ban wave. BE is getting paid by Bohemia to protect their games from said hackers, and they should be doing just that every single day, not in waves, but a constant stream of bans, like APB is doing now. I've never played it, but my buddies love the game and their newly implemented anti cheating is a constant thing, always there, and always banning hackers. Don't get me wrong, I love when they do a ban wave, because for at least a month afterwards I can actually play the game and not encounter a single hacker. So the anti cheat is very effective, it's just not efficient. Please, BE, do something about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-3qzZrtJaQ&feature=youtu.be This is the reason why anti hacking really needs to be implemented. And if it is implemented, then it needs to be worked on extensively. I just happened to be recording at this time, but just 1 night before this me and my buddy encountered a teleporter and he knew exactly where we were the second we logged in. Yes i get that it's in alpha, but if that kind of stuff does not get addressed, it will kill the game for a lot of people. Including me. I was having a blast but after two nights in a row of some hacker just screwing me or my buddies over, I'm done for awhile. I won't be coming back to DayZ until I see some patches integrated to fix this kind of crap. I love the game, it is my favorite game that I have, but damn.