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There are so called VIP hacks that are being sold, Just found out about an .esp file reader, that makes you able to see every item in the map, every player in the map & their names. I was told it is being updated every day/week to keep it "safe" to use without getting banned... So please devs, do your best to make it so these type of readers cannot be used (or any other for that manner). I understand there is allways a way to hack anything no matter what, but it definately shouldnt be this easy, and people shouldnt get rich for spreading such a cancer to dayz standalone..

played 80 hours, came across 4-5 cheaters so far, 2 of them had speedhack, 1 had infinite ammo/mag for m4, and he most likely had somekind of wallhack, since he was able to spray people to death throught wooden buildings without reloading, he shot auto fire for atleast 3 minutes non stop. and there was 1 guy who didnt die from 12 mosin shots, each time i shot him, he fell down, was down for couple seconds and got back up, bandaged and just started walking away slowly... and one guy i shot with mosin atleast 3 times, he was down a lot longer but then got up and walked away, not sure if the last one was lag or cheat, but anyway...

Ive found 2 in 40 hours, without server hopping. Alltho i never really checked tents until now couple days ago, as i wanted to see how easy it is to get an LRS, i had to server hop 7 times to find 1, and that one was badly damaged. Personally im against server hopping but for me this test can equal to 2 things, either im unlucky, or the LRS is decently rare. When it comes to the scope itself, i love it and i hate it, makes your surviving whole lot easier, but results in paranoia :D Now im worried every time i take a step, dont want to lose it :) Offtopic question tho, do you still have to aim at the right side of the target? or was that taken away since the last update? If thats still how it goes, is this caused by the condition of the scope? So do pristine ones shoot dead on center of the crosshair?

Cool idea, but it would kind of compromise the game for players who do not cheat, by spotting players accidentally etc. I also doubt it would have an big impact on cheating overall. People who cheat, are obviously ready to get another account and another copy of the game.. If you cant make cheating hard enough for people with software, you need to keep them from repeating it once they get caught, if they ever get caught. Why couldnt steam just develop a system, where it would reckognize new accounts that have been made by people who was caught of cheating/hacking? There could be some more severe punishment going on for cheating, than just the need to make a new account and buy another copy. For example, make them unavailable to receive gifts from other accounts, make them pay certain % more of the specific game they were cheating on with their earlier account, like a cheaters fee or something, which could go straight into developing/upgrading anti-cheats more & faster :D ... or even better, make them unavailable to even buy the game again on new account, which would make new accounts pointless... Eventho the last option might mean slight decrease in income, it could save alot of money put into anti cheat softwares etc, i bet most of todays cheaters would not have the balls to take the risk of never playing the game again (that they supposedly like) because of a REAL permanent ban, and therefore there shouldnt be such a big need for these softwares, and to upgrade them all the time. if this current situation goes on, where cheaters can just pay off their "permanent" bans with small money, there will be more and more and more cheaters every f*cking year in the future. I am not good with these sort of things and i have no clue how would this even be possible to pull off, especially when steam just likes to make money 1 way or another.. But if you want something to change about todays cheating epidemic, you need to change the whole system.

DayZ needs more people like you. Eventho some might think you shouldnt react like you would in real life because its "only a game".. Isnt it supposed to be simulator? If you think of it as an simulator, i find it a little scary how sadistic most people get, when they meet another player, and realise they have the upper hand in the encounter.. Respect to everyone who doesnt abuse their power (gear in most cases) when given the chance to do so =) Alltho DayZ wouldnt be DayZ without some bandits :D

I bought standalone 3 days ago, at first i was as confused as i could be.. After getting my settings and bindings right, i was arrested, forcefeed with rotten fruits and disinfectant and whatnot, tortured, abused, executed, looted. But after learning the basics at the first day, i was heading for some gear the second day, now i managed to get some good loot from an "empty" server, there was 4 players including me. I had wondered throughout many military bases and airstrip, into the biggest airfield far in the inland, i had hit a gold vein, the barracks had all i needed. I had full gear, mosin with pristine long range scope, all the ammo in the world as well as food and tactical/armor camo clothing, all cherries on the pie. After checking the last barrack, i was heading for the police station. I found even more ammo, and decided i would check the upstairs before logging and changing into an actual full server to test my new mosin sniper... I was half way up the staircase. I had checked the platform behind me and all of the downstair areas, no other players there, and i didnt expect there to be as there was only 3 players besides me in the server, BUT somehow, at the middle of the staircase i get headshotted by a mosin from long range, through the window that is facing the staircase, black screen, im dead. many hours of running and looting, for nothing.. Im assuming the guy either was looking at that particular window from far away, for a looong time, or hacks, since the shot was near impossible. However, i decided to have another go in gearing up the next day, me and my new buddy that i randomly became friends with, by actually trusting him not to shoot me in the back, had looted pretty much all military bases from an empty server, now we were again, full gear. Just from the new military base, we arrived in the same airfield, the big one. I was standing still for maybe 3-5 seconds at the edge of the runway, when i heard my buddy warn me about a zombie behind me. It had been a weird day, non-stop rain, and rediculous amount of zombies everywhere, with rediculously large aggro range, well, i notice the zombie hitting me from behind, and i killed it with my M4, i started bleeding, so ofcourse im immediately bandaging myself, while im bandaging the same zombie that just hit me, respawned right next to me, hits me 1 more time and... BLACK SCREEN: YOURE DEAD. So i was killed by a zombie, that hit me 2 times! (should be impossible) I was not ready to lose all my wasted time running from base to base to find all that gear, so i decided to respawn and run back to loot my body, i had the worst possible spawn location for that run, and it took me quite a while to get to the airfield, finally i had made it, i was only about 20 meters away from the place i died at, surprice, SERVER MOTHERF**ING RESTART! I was crying and laughing simultaneously, blaming rocket for making me a bad human being, i was turning into a monster, now i only wanted to pass the butthurt on to other players by being a psycopath killer bandit. :D So, from 3 days experience, id say this game is _extremely_ frustrating as it is, the level of butthurt was over 9000, but ill keep trying in hopes of bug fixes, new content and such. Im sure this is all just my ordinary bad luck, but my friend keeps saying its only normal for DayZ, so he told me to tell my story here, which i did, just to see if sh*t like this really is daily basis for everyone in DayZ, or was i just ingredibly unlucky? :D

Yea, once that happens, im still on the coast without gear on every other server too.

I agree, killing on sight IS boring. But sometimes necessary if youre not ready to take the risk of getting fkd. There could be some more people with some less bloodlust, greed and bad sense of humour, but there isnt, so i guess the only thing to do is to adapt. To be water. " Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” -Bruce Lee You could also try putting these bloodthirsty bandits into a teapot, and expect them to become a teapot :D Risk your life often and try to reason with them, touch of humour can help you live couple seconds longer, but that couple seconds could be just enough for you, to turn a bandit into a hero :)

Getting stuck between 2 rocks, at the (whatever its generally called) rocky hill near the railroad at coast, between cherno and elektro.. I tought it would be a nice place to overwatch my surroundings for a while before moving on to city, but i heard several sks shots very near my position, and might of paniced a little as i heard 1 bullet hit the rocks right beside me, i started sliding down a little, and ended up between 2 really small rocks. I tried everything, jumping like crazy, but when i gave up and decided to yell on my mic for the sks guy to come put me out of my misery, my character was launched off from the rocks like an missile into the sky, like all those jumps i tried to make, had stacked and happened at the exact same time with a delay, my character landed on the other side of the railroad, and i was dead :) One of the biggest WTF moments ive had in DayZ. Fortunately i got spawned in elektro and was able to loot my body quick, everything exept my mosin and can opener, was ruined, but hey thats all you need for survival isnt it? :D

Well, youve got a point :D However in real life, you wouldnt get your gear disappear like *poof* in the air, and teleport back to coast. Just happened to me 8th time, eventho its a big part of the fun to re-gear yourself, its just not that fun when it happens at the wrong time. I would be completely okay losing my gear for a zombie horde or another player, but to never have the chance to even use your gear that youve put hours to gather on, just lame if you ask me. I hope they fix that problem very very soon. Oh and just for the record, you wont get your gear back by any means once you randomly spawn to coast without your gear, ppl said it helps to log on to the last server where you still had your gear, immidiately after you notice youre back on the coast, without moving your mouse or pressing any buttons. I'll just call that BS since it never worked for me.

Never, theres allways a chance your gear gets resetted for joining another server (happened to me 7 times) OR just getting unluckily killed when logging back. I guess the safest places however are sheds, forests, bushes.

Im quite new to the game, i bought standalone couple days ago and i never played the mod, but these couple days teach you alot. Basicly if i play alone, i just want to meet as many people as possible, when im not geared up, often you run into sadistic sociopaths who forcefeed you the worst things on earth, but theres a good chance to find some friendly players too, new spawns and heros, who either stick with you or help/protect you while in hotspots, and the cool thing about that is you get geared up easily, after looting a bandit, that those heros helping you, shot down :) If im fully geared and alone or with friend, i play quite alot more carefully, since many heros seem to think that any and all full gear people are hostile bandits... Its very hard to interact with them as friendly. So in entering a city, i find it rediculous to scout the city for an hour and then go in slowly, thats boring and in many cases you wouldnt even gain any advantage of doing that. Just check your surroundings, run in, and expect that someone saw you running, while IN the city, you can usually outmanouver most people as long as you look around and know roughly where people are, flank and escape or go behind them and try to take them out. Also because many people suffer from bad FPS in towns, they wont usually be able to gun you down when running, if someone tries to, a little side to side menouver will only waste his bullets. NO RISK - NO FUN. Alltho there is a slight difference in taking a risk, and being stupid. Dont take unnecessarily stupid risks and youll be fine :)

Consider yourself extremely lucky then, 13-15 hits from a zombie and you dont die?? I died from 2, and usually when zombie hit me even 1 time, most of my gear if not all, is ruined. Today i was feeling a bit more social and had a go in full server, found handcuffs, hammer and helmet from elektro fire station, i had heard mosin shots before that from the hill facing railroad, but he didnt hit me, so i tought hes not a good shot, i felt quite confident to face him with hammer if i had to, and i didnt feel like running 2 hours for gear, so i tried to sneak behind the hill. For hes unfortune he took alot of shots to new-spawns running towards elektro, so i was able to find him pretty easily :) I rolled right behind him, ninja handcuffed him and took his camo mosin and hunter backpack filled with bunch of food and couple bullets, the handcuffs were pristine so i just left the guy there struggling :D I suppose hes got to struggle a long time to get out of those. Maybe i saved a life of couple new-spawns xD Even if i didnt, it was fun as hell. I gave him my hammer tho, just to make him feel not so bad about that beautiful camouflaged mosin :)

Haha soo true! I took your advice and was expecting to see someone at the airfield now. Eventho the server had 3 players, i managed to find m4 + 30 round clip + ACOG and some camo clothes at military base, headed for the same airfield again, and as im running halfway trough the runway, i spot a guy run into tech building.. I proned and zeroed my acog, waited a few mins and soon he was on the tower, he was looking around from the tower for quite a while with his m4 out, so i doubt he was not going to be friendly for me if i revealed myself :D I managed to pull of couple of luckshots after a while of watching him and boom, he had the best of the best gear, hundreds of bullets, alot of mags.. Alltho i feel a bit horrible now as the guy must of wasted ALOT of time to get all of that, and he never knew where he got shot from.. But i just had to taste the life of a bandit for once. Whoever i killed, im sorry, i feel your pain :rolleyes:

I know that, but if you read carefully enough, you will notice that i was not talking about a fire station, im talking about a building with a jail downstairs, and bedroom upstairs, and a small window facing the upstairs staircase. I might be new but im not a retard :D Thanks for trying tough. Also about the zombies, i was kneeling too when i got hit the second time by the same zombie, as i bandaged, i kneeled and the zombie ran right at me, recently i heard about bugs in dayz MOD of arma 2, where you can get killed if you are kneeling and someone runs towards you.. This zombie was running right at me, and what you said sounds similar, so im actually suspecting this BUG made it from arma 2 mod, to the actual standalone version..

Ive been hit by a zombie trough the ceiling in police stations, while looting the bedroom upstairs.. Zombies seem to be ghosts, they can freely move through any physical matter they want, be it fence or wall or whatever. Another thing that really bugs me about zombies is their speed in uphill. When running far inland, you come across few hills, and if theres a zombie after you, and youre un-armed, youre screwd, because you will be walking slowly up the hill, and zombie will be able to run like hell. Life is unfair but i dont think it should be that unfair. <_<

For me, gearing up means a long loot run, since i find it pointless to grab a can opener + backpack and go running around full server :D theres just too many bandits shooting you on sight. and SGT. Kalme, this isnt really about bitching, i know its an alfa, but i was just wondering if thats the daily routine for everyone else too, to die to bugs or whatever..