A Police Car

Reproduced. Didn't want to make a new thread about this, but it's clearly an issue so thought a confirmation would be worth posting. Process: Had an AK74 Kobra equipped, full magazine. Picked up a crowbar because I'd only ever seen one once, and thought "why not?", assuming it would go into my toolbelt. Crowbar overlaid the AK74 in my main weapon slot, but did not appear in my hands. AK showed as unchanged, and I was able to aim and shoot normally with it. Dropping to crowbar caused it to disappear altogether (dropped in a drop-safe area, deer hide). Version: .2.3 SS: http://i.imgur.com/ii8mh.jpg

I'm curious about what information is visible to a server admin/hoster as I've been seeing some odd behaviour on one of my most-frequented and tested it a little to see if my theory that it was the admin doing it was right. But without knowing what information they're able to see (server logs, like character login and vehicle/tent save locations) it is just speculation. Some of the behaviour has been too strange to be coincidental, and I want to know whether it's worth me checking out (and dying) a third time to confirm my suspicions and make a report, since if it's not admins abusing information available to them it's just a straight case of script/cheat use. Or a huge, huge coincidence.

Just a heads-up for anyone that deals with this stuff: http://i.imgur.com/0Yjr4.jpg

Either that or the admins of the server are the script kiddies.

Huh. Following the strange temporary connection refusal/repeated kicks issue, the server has now been renamed. Guess that supports the "it was the admins rather than just any old script-users" idea.

I don't know if it's worth it yet, I'll type it all out if anything continues to happen to continue to make me suspicious. Well, I would, though apparently I am no longer able to connect to the server, and keep getting kicked off. Basically it involved someone finding my campsite, me moving the remains to somewhere obscure, it being found again by the same people, me finding their site and watching it from afar, someone logging in and locking onto me as soon as they appeared, me moving back there and the same sudden login and death. I was watching the playerlist leading up to it out of curiosity to see if my suspicions would be confirmed. Now I can't connect I'm guessing they've decided to move their site. It's a relatively young server and has multiple copies of top-tier items, so either they've spent all day for the server's two weeks of existence farming and constantly hopping in to guard their camp (not impossible, since it seems to be restarted multiple times a day which would make heli crash farming pretty easy) or they're using third-party software. I only make this guess because I've been shown caps of hackers' maps which show the locations of all vehicles, players and tents, which would explain my gear being found easily by the same people over and over.

Oh also, in addition to my earlier post: the Hilux I was driving I crashed a bunch of times on the way back to camp. Each crash was bad enough to give me a pain indicator and make me start to bleed. Engine, wheel and hull indicators start flashing red. Big deal? Nope, the first time it happened I got out of the car, ate some meat and when I got back in everything was at 100%. Second time I didn't even eat meat, just got out of the truck, saved it and waited 30 seconds. Got back in and it was fully repaired again.

So a bit of background leading up to the start of the video: Just joined up with a guy to run through NWA and we were moving south to north, just got to the firestation and were crawling prone across to the ATC tower before we went in the station. I was scanning around in free look, and saw a really distant character running full-speed, so I check it out thinking it's a zombie chasing someone and worth being aware of. But it's pretty clear he's making a beeline in our direction, so I fire a couple of rounds at it thinking it's some glitched infected that somehow detected us from 7-800m away, because it was flying past all the other infected that were ambling about without aggroing them. It ducks into a hangar, and I realise it's a player that's not detectable by the infected, so I tell the guy I'm with to go into the firestation instead and be ready for someone coming up on us from behind. About 10-15 seconds later the guy appears at the main doors, just not giving a fuck about the infected around him, AKM in hand. I open up on him and down him, but no murder/bandit kill appears in my debug menu (already had one from before, but it remains at one). Friend goes to loot the corpse and I join him, take a few blood bags and morphine injectors off him. I go back inside, the guy I'm with shouts out that the guy's back and running towards us, so I go prone in the rear corner and disconnect, not wanting to get offed by a hacker/griefer. Friend gets killed after aggroing some infected by running indoors, says he wounded the guy and thinks he died and is being eaten, isn't sure if it's the same person. I reconnect, see the guy run back into the firestation and to my friend's corpse at the foot of the staircase. Then the video kicks in as I remember I have something to record with. Turns out it was the same guy I killed all three times, Suggsy89, inside the space of five minutes. Each time I checked his corpse he had the same gear as the first time we downed him, but all his previous corpses remained. Add to that the not aggroing infected despite running around in front of them, instant respawning, unusual death report, no kill indicated in the debug menu and all that noise, I was a bit suspicious so wanted to check, innit. I don't know if this is a hacker, as I've been lucky enough not to come across an overt one yet, or if it's a known glitch but I'm submitting it here because searching for "killed by friendly fire" yielded a bunch of threads in the cheat reporting section. Anyway, vidjo (HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE FUCKED-UP AUDIO WARNING, waiting on YT to finish changing the audio track to something less ear-rapey): http://youtu.be/yECopkCGgnY

Well, hacking or exploiting, it's one or the other. After having no choice but to log out at NWAF yesterday after Suggsy kept running back to try to kill me, I chanced it today and came right across another guy lying on the roof of the ATC camping looters: http://i.imgur.com/B7C86.jpg http://i.imgur.com/5CNC0.jpg He was obviously aware of the fact that he couldn't be detected as he'd set up with a loud weapon, not caring about attracting infected, and after the first time I killed him he just sprinted across to the firestation (past an infected the level below me) and we wiped each other out simultaneously. Hacking or just a glitch caused by different versions, people are definitely exploiting it to their advantage with apparent impunity. If there was some kind of sign that anyone was addressing this they might be less inclined to go around doing it as much.

Maybe. We still don't know if it's someone exploiting a glitch or being a naughty cheeky hackerchap. Guess the evidence is there for the DayZ staff to mull over and make of what they will. Though to be honest if I found myself experiencing a glitch like this I would want to try and avoid making the most of it, in case I got caught up in the next ban wave incidentally. I'm still trying to figure out where he came from at 1:08: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yECopkCGgnY&feature=player_detailpage#t=68s

Seen your name on the server' date=' ahahaha good job on the video. We must have been a good 10 minutes apart, kinda glad we didn't bump into each other as it'd have not boded well for either of us. [/quote'] For me, at least. That one murder I have is in self-defence from someone camping the barracks and not responding to DC, generally try to team up with people (at my own cost, usually, was surprised the guy I teamed up with didn't kill me). But seeing a player sprinting headlong towards you without aggroing infected suspended those rules for a little while. I do change name a lot though, so if you come across someone with a retarded name in uppercase I'm probably easy game. SADFACE

Oh, you beat me to it by minutes. Had to wait for my video to upload. http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=18299 I guess corroboration's a good thing, right?

I don't know to what extent this is set by the server as I've only been able to connect to one 1.7.1 server so far. When: 17/05/2012, ~10:00am What happened: Zombie spawns around a deer hide I visited were stacking. It seems that the area was being treated as empty of zombies, so the longer I sat and watched the more infected spawned. Initially there were about six, which I killed out of curiosity, and within 30 seconds they were all replaced. As I sat in the hide I was forced to kill about eleven more just to be able to escape, with more popping into existence around me as I crouch-ran away. Location: North-west, deer hide in 0401. Version: 1.7.1 with BP 93825 Server: UK 22 Before: logged into 1.7.0 server with the 1.7.1 client-side patch. Disconnected, attempted to join several other 1.7.1 servers but stuck on "waiting for character creation". After: disconnected, closed the game.