DIRECTIONLESSFURY

I did a report I explained what happened and gave a link to the video to Steam Report Violation. However I have done this before for another person with 2 VAC BANS, I checked his profile (2 weeks later tonight) and 3rd VAC BAN is not present on the profile.

My question overall here will be "Am I wasting my time to report hackers even if I provide evidence of them?" I have around 500 hours of Dayz, and although I don't get hack killed that often it has steadily been increasing in the past month. I record my game play for almost every game I play because its nice to go back and review things, and catch funny moments etc. Also catching Hackers is 100% thing for me as I am always recording. I am curious if my efforts to upload any information about the encounter will go to waste. My procedure priority's when I know someone is cheating are as follows. 1 ) I record the incident, as I am always recording. 2 )The moment I know someone is hacking I take a SS of all player names in game at that moment with (P). 3 ) I go to my steam menu, click VIEW PLAYERS>CURRENT GAME and I SS all the players in the CURRENT game. 4 ) I record all of their steam ID's and I look for the person with a prior VAC BAN offense. (There is ALWAYS ONE and never has been more then one at a time, Coincidence?) 5 ) I get the server name and IP 6 ) I record the time as accurately as possible. 7 ) I upload video. 8 ) I hope I have not wasted my personal time. Here is an example of a video. I have info just like this on about 5 other players but I have not uploaded a video yet. I am sure there is some discrete policy that protect these people and I am probably breaking some rules or something. I will know if my post gets deleted, in which case I will just have to take it else where. I cannot guarantee anyone specifically is the hacker, but every time this happens theres always a single VAC BAN on the server, so next time you get hacked open your in game steam menu, click CURRENT PLAYERS and find the VAC BAN. for me its 100% success rate 6 times rolling. So in closing, does this information help anyone here at DAYZ catch these people? I also like I mentioned have a full list of Steam ID's that were in the game the moment I encountered the hacker, and a SS of in game names. If I will be wasting my personal time, this will not be looked into for various reason I am fine with not taking down the info and spending 45mins to edit a video upload it and track and post this info, if any of this info breaks forums policy I will be happy to post els where.

In this clip watch me attempt to use a shotgun with buckshot at close range and fail! LEL XD I MISSED! http://www.twitch.tv/directionlessfury/c/4296016 In this second episode I pump a completely oblivious person full of lead with 12 rounds watching the animation penetrate his body cavity he turns around and shows me whos boss LOL OOPS! SILLY ME! http://www.twitch.tv/directionlessfury/c/4308212 if anyone els wants to share their fun times with me go ahead, I openly support this game, but the shenanigans are to much lels some times LOL *tips fedora*

Episode 1; hanging out after dark http://www.twitch.tv/directionlessfury/c/4296016

I am certain other people have experienced this before, and I have witnessed it once on someones stream of DayZ SA, however after playing for months now I have not had that many problems that I don't expect, this is not another one of the crying kiddies post about how hackers ruin the game and its so broken they refuse to play and demand the devs "DO SOMETHING NOW!". I am fully aware the game is in alpha, and there is bugs and problems consistently being addressed, I have lost characters randomly, died randomly (not sniped) from things I assume are invisible zombies and or my character actually being stuck outside a building when I see him inside, however personally the game is very playable if you accept its in development. Just like the disclaimer says http://imgur.com/TY22KFi and the disclaimer I click "I understand" everytime I play. As I mentioned I have witnessed this happen to someone els on a stream once, and at first I thought it might be hacking, then I considered it might be lag but overall I am uncertain even in my personal experience. I do have the server it happened on and screenshots of all the players names in game highlighted to see if there are any dysync or ping issues, and from what I could see nothing really stands out besides one ping around 260, if it is relevant to someone who knows what they are talking about I will upload the screenshots. My in game name was Methylamfetamin and during the encounter I had no dysync and my ping was a steady 107, not ideal but I had no issues on that server with the previous 2 people I encountered. If this has been addressed before and an explanation offered, a link would be great thanks.

Been there done that.

You say the hack abuses the desync issues already in the game and mimics them in ways because it is partially desync, so being rude to people who may not be as knowledgeable in that area doesnt really strengthen your argument or point of view in anyway. After all they can only be half wrong from your perspective. Informative opinion none the less, suspiciously informative.... Overall I concur with you.

I was in your boots until the other day, this happened on Wednesday, Video of what I assume is the same hack in the thread. http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/180042-lag-or-hack/

Yea its a bit intense, and consistent to be considered actual lag, thats how I feel anyway so your input does support what I considered odd about the encounter.

You have given up on the game until they fix this shit? Did you read any of my post? or the link of the steam disclaimer i posted? http://imgur.com/TY22KFi I feel you have not, and also did not read the disclaimer.

Well I have read only basic patch notes so I can't say for certain, but I can assure you thats a possibility, as optimization of frame rates and smoothness of gameplay are all in the direction of development. I think alot of people assume the experimental is unstable and broken more then the Alpha, and although that may be true in some circumstances, the most up to date fixes for all issues including what you speak of will be pushed to experimental first.