TheMachine

No one's 'qq-ing'.

Yes, we could play on low pop servers, but that's just like playing singleplayer vs. zombies, where's the excitement there? The point of this game is the multiplayer factor, which is ruined by hackers.

I'm entirely convinced these people that see no evil "I've not seen any hackers" are hackers trying to downplay the issue. 90% of the time now I die to hackers.

Why not post links to their channels when you post their names?

Ironically, I was only playing DayZ for 30 minutes today before this happened (didn't play last night). You see, some hacking isn't obvious, inexperienced players won't know they've died to a hacker a lot of the time. That's because the vast majority is just people spawning high spec gear and going around killing people, then if they die they're back with the same gear in 5 minutes. THAT is the kind of hacking that's most common and the most difficult to catch/notice. My video is quite a bit more obvious though

Bet this guy is a hacker.

I'm looting this gun more than anything else. It's a 3>1 AS50 to lee enfield ratio at the moment. If i hear a sniper rifle, 90% chance it's the as50. I get killed? As50. Wookie? He has an As50. Rocket should just make the as50 the new starter weapon, everyone has one anyway.

They're going to have to sort out the hacking for the standalone, or no one will bother playing it. Then the forum warriors won't be able to hide behind the banner of ALPHA! anymore. :rolleyes:

These servers should not exist, they don't fit in with the hardcore nature of DayZ at all. On recruit servers you can see zombies through walls etc, it's a built in wall hack. Regular servers have nametags, wtf? The ONLY options server owners should have are 3rd person and crosshair.

You're entirely right. However, the reason people complain is because there's zero communication whatsoever from the DayZ team or rocket about it. They don't even say it's being worked on. In fact when rockets on live stream got thunderdomed he glazed over the issue completely, didn't even say anything. Whatever else rocket adds to the mod or fixes in way of bugs is pointless until the hacking is dealt with in a timely manner. In fact, he may as well just shut down the hive until it's fixed, that's how bad it is.

Haha, hilarious. Except your weapons are obviously duped.

Yes, that's exactly what I meant, thanks for reiterating it for me so people actually got it. :) Yeah that's it, you generally have two play options for DayZ. 1. Derp around. 2. Serious mode. Every permeation of what can be done in the game fits into one of those, and at the moment neither (particularly no. 2) are possible with the sheer amount of hacking. Like you I was convinced we were just unlucky, but talking to other people, watching live streams and reading the forums I've come to the conclusion this is the norm, not the exception.

The issue is, the bandit system is broken to fuck. I've killed players that I've SEEN massacre 2 or 3 people and only got a murder. Everyone will be bandits.

I agree, perhaps an option to turn it off if it pisses you off too much perhaps? It is enjoyable reading it though.

Come on Zed, stop being ridiculous. I don't even know what you're trying to say here, yes cherno is certain death, but when it's a hacker who keeps coming back and back and back, it's just frustrating. And when the most common weapon I'm looting is an AS50, something is WRONG.

I'm convinced the smart assess denying this is a huge problem are actually hacking, then meta trolling the rest of us on the forums.

Even a simple 'derp' around cherno is becoming problematic, takes 10 minutes minimum to gear up, then it's not long before someone's shooting at you with their hacked AS50 from the grain silo. It's always so obvious too, these hackers seem to have a standard 'loadout' (coyote, as50, m4a1 silenced etc) they drop when you kill them. 5 minutes later they're back again with the same stuff and if you really anger them, it's god mode time!

Well quite frankly your only option at this stage is to move on... to not playing. I don't think I've had a death this week that isn't a result of hacking.

So much hacking on DayZ now that even when rocket's trying to do a livestream...they get thunderdromed...

Lmao, there's so much hacking on DayZ now that rockets live stream is getting thunderdomed. Hahahahaha!

Why does everyone want so much hand holding in DayZ? Wah wah, give me safe zones, wah wah, let us have agreements where we can't shoot each other, wah wah wah, the tears pour. There's no such thing as camping. There's no such thing as griefing. There's no such thing as right or wrong. There's no such thing as abuse. It's always fair if you were killed, it's your fault. You have the same chance as everyone else. People just want easy mode, they want it safe. Hell if they had their way there'd be a button that said 'PVP MODE' and they'd flick it on and off when they felt like it.

Hacking is getting so common now that I've decided I'm going to start documenting it in a thread. I'll be posting screenshots when possible and stories of my experience of hacking each day I play DayZ. Day 1: Wed 25th July I'm in Cherno on the hospital roof waiting for my friend to log in, I hear what I think is a silenced weapon shooting outside. Turns out that it's actually a guy with a fully automatic crossbow. He comes up on the roof in the 'rocket outfit' and tries to bolt me to death, assuming he's probably invincible, I logout. We change server. We're killed by invincible hackers with silenced M4A1's who we each hit multiple times with Lee enfields. We change server. Now someone teleports us to debug wasteland and turns us into goats! Some people become cows. We then become rabbits. Then we become guy in red beret, otherwise known as Rocket outfit. Everyone starts shooting each other then the hacker spawns some planes and busses and kills everyone. We change server. Guy rides up on a bike, we shoot him with a Lee enfield, he laughs on direct chat and kills us both. He's an invincible hacker. That's it for today. Tomorrow I'll no doubt bring you more stories of how our shit got ruined by hackers.

Thursday 2nd of august. 2 servers, first was free of hackers (surprisingly). Second had a team of hackers in cherno that we kept killing and they kept coming back with 50 cals all the time. They eventually got us all and we logged out, can't fight people who die with no consequence.

We shouldn't have to modify our play because of hackers. There's no fun on low pop servers anyway, no chance of being killed whatsoever, it's basically single player mode.

On average, I probably try about 2-3 servers before I find one that isn't desyncing. Then that server turns out to has horrific graphical artefacts, so it's onto server number 4. After (yet another) 5-10 minute wait just to get past the loading screen, I get in, only to find there's some crazy hacking shit going down in cherno, whole place is on fire. This is not a complaint about DayZ, so don't come with the usual 'alpha ALPHAAAAAA *FROTH FROTH* ALPHA1111!!!' BS. What needs to happen is there needs to be SOME sort of min spec for servers, to at least reduce the loading times and desycning shit. We can't test the alpha if the DayZ dev team continues to white list ANYONE to host a server. Hosting servers on home PC's or in low quality data centres shouldn't be allowed.