hexrain

My first and main suggestion is to be able to look and aim straight up. I noticed you can only go to like 45 degrees or maybe a bit more, but you can look straight down. that means if i am up in a tower and someone is below me, i can shoot them but they have to run a considerable distance to be able to aim up at me. My second suggestion is make an option to wrap ghillie suit parts and peices on the OUTSIDE of a backpack for camo. IRL the pieces could be easily rigged to fit over most of the medium and large packs. dont know how feasible this one is but i think it would be a nice option. My third suggestion is to make a set of animations mimicking zombie movement. like even the walk and maybe jog. then a player could as a new spawn, damage some clothing and pretend to be a zombie. all the while having a loaded derringer. suddenly the zombie you just came across pulls a weapon and, crap!!!!! thats not a zombie its a player! could be cool. maybe make it so you have to wash your face or your character gets all dirty. if you eat meat that you butchered you are covered in blood, so the wolves come... al these could be good synergistic additions.

I have the same problem... to try and narrow the cause down, does anyone else who this is happening to use the -winxp launch option? because i took that off yesterday and played with no problem for about 30 minutes. today i put -winxp back on and in 15 minutes had the freeze and fps drop again. it is really unfortunate if this is the cause because without the launch option i get 20-25 fps whereas with it i get 35-45. note that i tried changing settings while i ws getting the fps drop and lag (someone mentioned this fix) but all the possible fixes refresh the screen (which crashes the game whie using -winxp launch option) so no help there.

i mean they have been gone for weeks now on stable...

what if you (devs) did a wipe AND don't fix the heli crash for a week, so there are no m4's. then tweak the system to detect people picking up m4's for said time. i guess it might be complicated if they just spawned them in and left them on the ground for an unsuspecting person to pick up, though. does anyone know if it spawns it right on top of the person? maybe a proximity check of players when an M4 magically appears? then insta ban. It certainly might not stop all the spawning but it might start giving the hackers something to think about before doing it. maybe this could be implemented covertly with other things too... since things get broken from updates it could go under their radar... i hope i didnt just give away a strategy that has already been thought of!

I feel like im pretty forgiving of the whole alpha thing, at least up to this point. However, I have been getting like 5x the lag and dysync after the patch. I just lagged or dysynced with a zombie approaching, tried to axe it like 4 times, and i'm suddenly dead. lost my full gear. on respawn i get a fire axe. 2 more zombies around me... try to axe it. axe wont swing. tried fists and cant punch. im getting kinda frustrated. i kinda want .44 back.

i also spawned in after logging and everything in my taloon backpack disappeared. if it was an internet connection problem i would have experienced it before. i havent. just noticed these things after last patch.... i mean it happened before but it is happening to a crazy degree now... i didnt make a bug report because most of the things i see on there have been reported 10 plus times.

I think may have been on the same server with you, with the same hacker. it was last night in Berinzino i believe on Kilo server. There was a guy running around with no pants firing M4 a bunch. He was shooting my friends through the cafe walls. clipping in and out of buildings. I took a shot at him and missed. thought he didnt know where i was. then im laying there watching the town and all of a sudden my mosin gets put away and comes of my hotbar. then everything else also disappears as im tabbed to look at my stuff. no one in sight. To the devs: I understand that it is hard to rationalize fixing these things so early in the development stage, because with every new patch there is potential backdoors. however, im experiencing this more and more, and the hacks are becomming more game breaking. I urge you to please devote a team to countering this behavior. More server control would also be good for admins. Maybe a way to spectate and find these people. Im just getting really fed up that like 10% of players seem to be hacking. another 10% seem to be glitching/duping/etc. Its just ruining the skills that others have developed to play this game. Im not a coder so i wont pretend that its a simple fix that will just pop up, but its extremely frustrating that 25% of my deaths are from hackers or cheaters.

Im getting this weird graphics glitch. Anyone know how to fix it? It makes it look like a lot of movement is happening with all these textures bleeding through.

i have noticed BE is kicking way more people in game for .pbo decrepencies and file sizes... which i think is fairly new... i also noticed a couple of global ban kicks... maybe were are experiencing the next wave of bans. also the last couple of days i havent encountered hackers at all, when the previous 2 weeks i have seen like 2 a day.

Geared Up, Hunt, Hacker, Dead...

any devs or players care to comment on my question? wouldn't you have to have an invisible hack to melee attack like 10 times, or could you melee while stuck in a wall and seem invisible? this was in the apartments. seemed like i was getting hit through the floor because my pants were ruined. well i didnt for me... i got the 60 rounds and dropped the million stack (didnt feel good about it, possibly giving others hacked ammo) but when i looged out and into a different server my 60 mag had millions of rounds in it again.

when you relog the ammo will be infinite again... i tried ditching the hacked stack after i picked one up and this happened to me. had to run to NE to get a stanag mag or some unhacked stack. on a seperate note, i just got taken to almost 0 health by a guy in the apartments who was invisible or in the floor and walls. he was hitting me with melee but i coulnt see him. is this new? i have never experienced this one before, nor heard of anyone being able to get in the walls or be invisible in the apartments. super annoying. i keep reading sables posts saying that they are working on fixing this but it seems like more and more hackers are arriving every day. i wont say its unplayable but it is getting close.

So I read the some of the thread of the poll on spawn locations, and also the KoS thread and a thought dawned on me. Maybe it would be nice to test a server where the debug plains start 3000 or 4000 meters from the coast and/or just reduce the size of the map to 4 towns for the purposes of PvP based server. Make people spawn purposely close to the cities. That way people who just want to PvP have easy access to it, and it might reduce the number of those people on other servers where people want to survival aspect. Question to the devs... would this make 100 player servers easier to test? would this increase performance/reduce lag of servers, make respawning loot easier to test, make testing building models/clipping/ladders, etc. easier to test? Also wouldnt this be a great way to test new weapons/mechanics, given that the stress on servers would be reduced? Talk amongst yourselves...

Someone else mentioned a tutu... i would totally rock a pink tutu.

Well the BF4/COD mentality was the point of this suggestion. It would filter those people out... and I'm not suggesting making a new map. Just trimming the existing one down for this purpose. And the testing aspect seems like it could be promising. But I have no idea the ease from a developing standpoint. It just seems that no matter how many people say it is not solely a PvP game, a LOT of people treat it as such. Why not give people a server tailored to their needs. Oh and if the geared players locked down the towns, maybe an effort would be made by random people to team up more.

In my first 150 hours playing (before most recent patch) no hackers. In the 50 hours since the most recent patch I have encountered at least 4. 2 infinite ammo m4's. 1 infinite ammo mosin. 1 wall hack/infinite ammo m4. I tried talking about it on the forum and most people just trolll and cry "proof or it didnt happen!" well i cant record my gameplay as i already have to use -winxp launch option to get a decent framerate (30-40) and even if i did record there is no way to record who kills you. i have heard there is some kind of log in the server that records things. is this true? could i contact an admin (supposing i could find them) to report people? I know nothing about programing but i have a few suggestions. - messages that tell who you were killed by (possibly steam name as well) - a server side program that reports if you shoot more than 60 bullets with an m4, or 5 rounds of mosin, etc (without reloading) and kicks if it detects you. or notifies battleye or admin - a server side program that detects teleporting (havent encounter a teleporter) I know if it were probably that easy it would have already been done, but i can ask right? kind of starting to get mad that unfunctional bows are released instead of cracking down on hackers. past few days i have encountered one a day. please please please devs! our awesome game is being hijacked! Oh and if there is a way to figure all this out, maybe an IP ban for those who are caught, so they cant just buy another copy. although i guess you could mask the ip or change it. Also i got really freaked out yesterday because i battled this hacker through 5 deaths. the 5th time a ran into a building where he was amassing weapons from his kills and where he was apparently keeping extra weapons with hacked ammo. i picked up his m4 which had a hacked mag. i killed him with it right before server restart. then i spent the next few hours trying to get rid of the hacked stack of ammo. i split it and loaded the m4 with 60 ammo, then dropped the hacked stack that was left (this upset me because every time i spawned i was potentially providing someone else with infinite ammo :( finally i ran to NE and got a regular coupled mag and ditched the hacked one. i was super worried BE was going to decide to global ban at that moment. wouldnt that be my luck.... thankfully it didnt happen, and the only person i used the hacked mag on was the hacker himself (which felt pretty good!) anyways hope someone is working diligently on this. I'm hoping that its taking so long because they want to eradicate it and ban ALL these people in one fell swoop.

Well... it seems like a lot more hacks are popping up. Yesterday I had a guy shooting at me with a mosin. He missed 4 times and I thought GREAT! I will catch him in the reload! After 8 consecutive shots i still hadnt found him and started getting a little suspicious. kept doing a dance to avoid bullets. he shot probably 20 shots in a row without reloading. finally as i spotted him (hugging a wall about 20 meters away) he finally head shotted me. I was pissed he was hacking, but it felt quite nice that even with hacks he missed so many shots. I know everytime this game gets patched hackers can find workarounds, but i would really like to see this be a priority in the near future... hope one of those global bans happens soon. PS- my clan has been encountering an infinite ammo m4 clip like once a day now. We just bury the bodies before anyone can grab up the hacked stuff. before this new patch i hadnt really confirmed any hackers. They seem like a dime a dozen now though.

ok ...i feel like the trolls telling me to stop whining are missing the poiint. i didnt post this to rage. i posted this to move foward and narrow down what the problem is. one person who was critical of my post did however make a good point. i never thought of the fact that the mosin has no clip. so its important for the devs to figure out how someone might do this without a mag or how the ammo stack might get bugged. notice that another poster confirmed that they found a mosin on someone that the bullets loaded in it didnt deplete. you can call me a noob all you want... but i know that i get about 3 kills (bandits) for every death i have... i would say i moved a little past noob stage. I have been killed like 40 times in this game and i didnt whine about hacks. beacuse the other times were not suspicious.

The evidence is that all the shots were fired close to my proximity and all hit at the same angle on the adjacent wall. The sound of the shot was all from the same direction. There was a bambi on the next level of the roof on the factory running decoy and the other guy was hardly geared. Its not hard evidence but it is evidence. also the shots were in succession. If there were 4 shooters why would they wait to each fire one shot right after the other person in the exact time it takes to cycle a round. I dont want to argue about it. I just want people to be aware that it is out there. And whether it is a bug or a hack, more people are exploiting it. While a lot of the "hacker" posts ARE questionable because someone isn't aware of the intricacies of open world and tactics, I am very aware. The evidence stacks up for me that it is at least a bug that is being taken advantage of. I posted it here instead of another thread because i had never heard of infinite mosin ammo until i was killed by it. I feel like the more people wave these things away, the less likely the devs are going to do something about it, or the priority will be lower.

Ok so i have heard this could also be a glitch from a few people in my clan. point taken. to answer one of the posters, there was absolutely no time for reload. He fired at me for like a full 30 seconds. i was listening to the shots and it was one after the other no pause except the time it takes to cycle the rounds. to the other person who suggested multiple shooters... every shot was loud (the shooter was 20 meters away behind a wall) and I could see bullets hitting on the wall next to me on the factory wall in such a manner that they all suggested a common point of origin. also... when i did finally spot him right before he got the headshot, he was not really geared. yellow raincoat, and no melee that i could see. looked pretty fresh. I know a lot of people call "HACKS" because someone bested them but i dont think that is what happened. no i have no proof. But hacks or bug exploit doesnt matter to me. i just want people to be aware, and i hope this is being looked into.

AWWW man!!! Why did you have to tell them that! It was my special spot... I even found mosin's there in high pop in the middle of a firefight!

So just a pointer to the clan we just wiped out on a low pop server. You know who you are. (RBGS) or something like that. You all have names of STD's as your character names. 1) Just because it's low pop doesn't mean someone isn't watching your every move. 2) That being said, maybe you shouldn't stand, lay down, or line up next to each other in the middle of the road. 3) Most of your crew wearing clown masks is just asking for people to shoot you. 4) Your names are pretty offensive and combined with #2 I just decided you needed to be taught a lesson. 5) Next time instead of running around like chickens with your heads cut off, you should maybe run away. By the way. Did you ever figure out where I was? Note: I took out 3 of you with no help, but then I did call in my crew of 8 to come help. So, don't feel too bad that you got wiped out. I would choose new names. To people with STD's you are especially asking for trouble.

i really just wanted to see if the clan frequents the board enough to read this. i dont care if anyone believes me... though admittedly i was doing it slightly to brag. mostly just to let them know they should maybe think about several aspects of their play before it happens again. oh and i am a noob and readily admit it. i would have probably gotten owned if my clan hadn't shown up.

Sorry no video... but they know it happened.

No not herpes. Rather not talk about it. LOL. These guys were just pretty oblivious is the main reason. I think I killed 2 people with one mosin shot. So it confirmed to me that you can shoot through people. Makes me want to roll up on a bandit clan taking a screenshot... I wonder exactly how many people a mosin shot will go through at 100 meters... anyone know? and no i Don't want a cookie. I want to know if they knew where I was, and like the post said... give them some tips to improve their gaming experience...