TheMachine

I generally play on EU/UK servers. Hacking is a problem, I see the odd chopper, get teleported from time to time, invisible people etc. But that's about once every 2 days on average. However, when I join a US server I see hacking almost every time without fail. Joined one earlier and there was someone bombing cherno, last night on one they had a chopper. Yesterday there was a team with semi auto nade launchers in elektro, after I got teleported there. It's like american kids have a sense of entitlement that they deserve to have vehicles or eq that isn't in game, or they just enjoy ruining it more than people from anywhere else. I could easily get some scripting going and get whatever I want, but I don't - because it's fucking lame. What's the point even playing if you're going to hack shit?

Apparently battleye is absolutely useless, because people are going hog wild hacking right now.

There's just a high proportion of hackers on American servers, hell check out punkbuster bans and it's mainly americans. Americans love hacking.

I second this, database logging can't do anything but false positives unless you got DARPA working on your algorithms, we need a REAL ground level system to stop fuckers logging out during a fight. 30 seconds at LEAST during any situation and 5 minutes if you've been shot/shot at someone/agro'd zombies, preferably more, maybe 15 minutes after killing someone.

I think you're going about combating the alt +f4 problem in completely the wrong way. 4/5 if the servers I log into are laggy/desyncy crap, because there's no server oversight whatsoever. So I'll be blacklisted as an alt + f4 abuser. And it actually won't even stop people doing it in battle. Because lets face it, even if someone logs out EVERY SINGLE TIME they get shot at, it'll still be like once per hour, max? That looks legit to me, this is just going to fuck up other stuff. There's so much to go wrong, I can't even believe you're considering this as a logical way to fix things. Just stop people from leaving the game too quickly, problem fixed. Why make a system so needlessly complex? Especially with the dayz team being so TINY, you're woefully understaffed, and you'll fast find yourselves overloaded with 50,000 people complaining their ID has been blacklisted/listed as an exploiter? This does NOTHING to stop people logging out during fights and will only, at best server to deter people from server hoping, but not even that much, since checking loot spawns takes half an hour at least. Ridiculous.

DayZ is perfect for hackers, couldn't have made a better game for em. It's not COD where you die, it's no biggy, people invest hours into their characters and then some script kiddy nukes the whole server. Battleye is completely inept, worse than punkbuster. I reckon hacking will be what kills DayZ in the end. Hackers are always players that suck balls, so they need to hack to 'win', hence ruining it for everyone.

RIP dayz, WarZ on it's buggy as shit engine made by random company no one has ever heard of (and who don't have a website) is going to dominate it.

This guy is crying the sweetest tears, I revel in them, I drink them and bathe in them. They probably didn't have time to loot you, since they were too busy ejaculating with the immense pleasure they gained from killing you.

Why do morons keep trolling by pointing out the shortcomings of a logout timer (of which there are a few) or moaning how it'd affect people who drop connection/play with a potato computer? These dipshits are clearly alt+f4 pirates, enjoying the yolk of exploits. If you shoot a zombie you should have a 5 minute logout timer. If you kill/shoot a player it should be 10 minutes. If you just want to logout it should be a 30 second timer AT LEAST. alt+f4 should get your balls zapped with 50,000 volts.

I've run into hackers serveral times this week, once a day I've seen a hacker, sometimes twice a day. 1st one. At NWAF, I kill a wookie running outside the tower, 5 minutes later he spawns next to me invisible. This invisible avenger prompty shoots me after talking in a very high american voice. 2nd one. A fleet of helicopters in cherno, three of them just flying about. Choppers aren't even in the game just now. 3rd one. I'm teleported from cherno to the office/school building in elektro along with half of the server. I assume the hacker was going to satchell the building but I managed to log pretty fast. 4th one. teleported into the air, dead. 5th one. Log into some swedish server to hear artillery going off all over the place - I logout. 6th one. I'm dead, don't know why, rest of server is spammed with death massages, guess everyone died. 7th one. Someone with a fully automatic crossbow who's invincible shoots us all. 8th, 9th, 10th. etc We've killed AT LEAST 5 people with military spec gear, I'm talking the m240, AS50's, NVG and all the other goodies. EXCEPT, they all had the starter backpack, no food, no water, no medical supplies. Some of them were wookies too. + we've run across many area's that were just nuked with the A10, fire everywhere. I used to think the hacking thing wasn't a big deal, but when you personally have almost a dozen encounters with them in less than a week, it becomes pretty obvious the problem has reached epidemic level proportions.

This has nothing to do with the game being alpha whatsoever, wish people would stop trotting that 'it's an alpha' line out, it's become a new form of meta trolling.

Yeah, I'm making it up so people give me virtual hugs. Jackass.

I hope they make safe zones, so I can camp them with my M249. That's right, not even a sniper rifle, just 200 rounds of 'fuck you' to the dipshits that want easy mode. You notice it's people with gay manga shit as avatars agreeing to this sort of thing? That says something. http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/40427-safe-zone-idea/#entry385547

He doesn't post anymore and hasn't done for basically the last month. He just posts to release half assed hot 'fixes' that seem to do more to break the game than fix it. Anyone got an idea if he's going to hand the project off to someone else if he's going to bow out? I remember reading the interview where he said he's getting tired of it, it'd be a real shame if he gave up when the game still has this many players. Perhaps he's already working on a stand alone version and he's learned all he needs from the alpha testing of the mod? I really hope that's the case.

It's funny that everyone comes in saying they've never personally seen a hacker, therefor it's not a problem. There's been a definite influx of 'hacking' (people using scripts to spawn stuff, go invis etc) lately, but don't expect it to get better.

unfortunately the hacking will never end, battleye is just totally inept and the admins can't even be expected to be able to find this stuff in the logs. Why the fuck are scripts allowed to run anyway?

I'm a bandit, that's what I am. In fact, I'm a very good bandit, usually racking up 10-20 murders/bandit kills before I'm sent back to the coastal spawn point by another bandit. Our team are bandits, there's about 6 of us. We're well co-ordinated, well equipped and we know exactly what we're doing. However, the reason we kill players is usually, quite simply because we have no other option. We've tried to be better bandits, we've tried to rob people at gunpoint numerous times, we've laid traps and ambushes and asked other players to drop their weapons. Each time they alt+F4, with very few exceptions (some new players with crappy stuff will talk to us). If we could actually do proper highway robberies without people being able to just logout then that'd add so much to the game, it'd be so much more interesting than just shooting people.

The M4A3 CCO is probably the best medium range assault rifle in the game, it has zero recoil and it's pretty accurate + the holo sight makes aiming easy.

It seems like american servers are infested with hackers, god damn annoying american kids. One of the hackers that killed us was american too. What is it with american kids and their sense of entitlement?

So much stuff in DayZ isn't in keeping with the gritty, soviet era post apocalyptic theme. For example, NVG, thermal scopes, .50 cal rifles and some other stuff. I think the absolute max should be weapons with holo scopes, perhaps 1 or 2 of the crappier snipers. This would force night play to be torches and flares only, it'd be 10x more fun not having/knowing someone else had that massive advantage of NVG. And the thermal scope is just TROLLING, wtf is that even doing in there? I've had my jollies with the .50 cal, but 1 hit kill on players(without a headshot) is just too rich, and getting all this stuff is far far too easy.

I can't understand why this isn't in a 'realistic' game like arma2. When a player dies, he should quite simply void his bowels, the contents of which would seep out onto the ground. Perhaps it'll be a 50/50 chance when you die. Similarly, when you're player experiences 'shock', there should be a chance you'll void your bowels. Perhaps this would make you run slower and colour your outfit brown on the bottom. There should be a new stat added to the debug monitor - humiliation. When you've voided you're bowels enough times, you're humiliation meter reaches 100 and zombies see/smell you from further away.

Hacking cannot be stopped in DayZ or in Arma, so get used to it.

Machine will talk however Machine wants to talk.

The fuck are we getting batteries to power these things? Makes no sense them being in the game. And .50 cals should be SUPER rare, the sort of thing you happen across once a month. Our team have looted 6 in the last 2 days.

I'm not hearing very many suggestions from people who dislike PvP, it's all oohing and aahing again. Remember the 3 golden tenants. 1. You encounter another player. 2. That player kills you. 3. You don't like being killed. Forget the Shakespearian monologues of how one particular death was 'unfair' in your mind and cut to the chase. What do YOU think should be done about it?