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If thats true, then why would the creators of these methods not use them for bank or credit cards? So is there a password stealing software or something? Thats crazy to me someone would write the code for that but not use it for stealing money.

Yeah same here. Its mostly my fault because I make my point while being a asshole. I need to change that. But my above post is much better and to the point. Much like when Im in the dayz game, i let my emotions control me.

Agreed. If dayz alpha was free, there would have been more incentive to improve the game in order to sell an improved product. Now we all agreed to buy the alpha and I have enjoyed getting to play it. I mostly agreed only because it was such a pain in the ass to play the mod due to weekly complicated manual updating of files.I also believed there would be less cheating of teleporters that really ruined the mod in the alpha stand alone. So here we are and there are still teleporters and the core problems have not changed. The navmesh is a step in the right direction, but hardly puts a dent in zed problems. So back to the OP.... This character wipe has nothing to do with fixing core problems. Until I stop seeing teleporters on half of the full servers I play on..... This character wipe does not impress me as a way to address cheating. Essentially, the devs are going to hit the "delete button" instead of writing some new code and putting 100% into preventing the rampant cheating in the first place. And 98% of everyone here is just accepting it as some amazing answer to everything.

How exactly can accounts be stolen? It would take a a thousand hours of randomly guessing passwords to steal a game account, right? Most bans are for cheating by the original account owners.

That's a good point you make that they are trying to fix the PC game. But what I'm saying is strange is that since their first product has not shown any major improvements, why would you start selling the idea of a second product? I would put 100% effort into fixing the first product. The PC game, while still Alpha, still has almost all the same core problems that it did 9 months ago. So yes, that is strange to me that they would not flat out say something like.... "while it is possible we may agree to a future console port, we are at this time only dedicated to completing the PC standalone". What I got was that they are selling the idea of console port, without convincing anyone that they are 100% using all resources to the PC version first. In other words, the mere fact that they now show an interest in a console port, isn't that going to impact how they program the stand alone? I'm afraid they will make the stand alone PC game in a way that makes it easier to port the game to console which means we will not get a superior product.

Dude, the game is about survival. If people that are paying for teleporting hacks which is a pure cheat, not an exploit that everyone can do, and your only chance is to spray bullets in a 360 motion and make them either go to another victim or they actually get hit and die..... then I played DayZ to the fullest potential... I survived. I didn't ruin any one's day with extra bullets. You never need a lot of rounds to have normal, legitimate encounters sith players. And by the way, I'm only talking about duping extra ammo..... Not a hacked infinite magazine. Infinite magazines is cheating. I'm tell you that myself and my friends have survived a few teleporters because we sprayed bullets knowing we had just a few more extra magazines thanks to dupe or two. I never duped to prey on anyone. There is no need for extra bullets but to spray at teleporters. I didn't see the harm in duping for experimentation and testing. I avoid encounters with people, and I don't dupe anymore because I think the Devs don't want it in the game anymore. Whereas 6 months ago it seemed they didn't care. Plus, duping doesn't work anymore. The last time I saw anyone try, all the boxes and clothing are empty. So duping is not an issue not anyways.Does anyone have a better defense against teleporters?

OK, so my original concern is confirmed.... while it is a nice jesture to delete hacked magazines... I don't feel any better playing DayZ if people can still teleport which I see almost 5 out of 12 times I play on full servers. Wiping is a good idea, but not if they could better spend their time finding a way to make teleporting harder. Am I the only one who is many times angrier when a teleporter can defy physics and kill you like a God.... then someone who just happens to have more ammo? The guy with more ammo still has to use the same physics and aiming abilities that you and I use.

OK. Sorry. I didn't know what it's really called.

Come on guys. Admit it. Wiping everyone's character is a cheap and easy way to try and address script kiddies who will still be able to teleport to us which is 1000 times more of an advantage than duping. If anything, this is rewarding teleporting scripts. Yes we are deleting hacked mags, but anyone who has current or future access to the paid scripts to teleport will have a larger advantage on us. I use to play on a lot of full servers with my brother and friends, we often had teleporters appear all around us and our only chance was spraying crap loads of bullets. So I'm justing pointing out the irony that without duping ammo that we mostly used just to spray at the damn teleporters, we will be sitting ducks. Can't you understand this frustration? I guess most people here not understanding this don't play on full servers where you are more likely to run into teleporters.

Oh, then I apologize if they noted that teleporting, (the single worst hacking script in the game) is now impossible. I hope that is true. But if it is, why is no one celebrating that teleporting is supposed to be now impossible? That's is 1000 times more of an advantage than duping.

Guess you never heard of League of Legends. I have read several sources that say it has zero hacking in it, and yet is played by probably 1 to 3 million people.

Guess you didn't read my above post. Now the hackers running live scripts will be even more god like because people who just dupe to have enough ammo to combat live script teleporters, etc.... will be handicapped. Yes it's good to get rid of a lot of the infinite ammo mags, I agree. But unless they actually fix how easy it is to run live scripts..... all legitimate players are just getting more screwed.

Great, so where duping could at least give people enough ammo to combat the hackers, now only hackers who are running live scripts will have a huge advantage. While it is good to delete many of the unlimited ammo clips, don't you guys think it's ironic that the legitimate players who picked them up after killing the original hackers with it.... will not be able to defend themselves from hackers who will be running live scripts..... This is not fixing hacking at all guys.

So what year will we be in Beta? Saying that the reason no core has been fixed for over 9 months now, (longer if you count the time between the mod and startup of the Stand Alone when the team was just climbing mountains and going to every game conference around the world possible)..... because it's standard to add more things before fixing the core...... this is not adding any confidence that the core is getting fixed. This is not a typical game. My opinion is that this game has more severe core problems than a typical alpha. So while it may be normal to start throwing resources into content only at first......... it may serve this game better to start throwing resources into the core first. We understand artwork and content is a different set of talent. I get all that. But it's a little strange that before any of the PC core of standalone has been improved or optimized they are now talking about the PS4 port? That's a lack of professionalism in my opinion. If they were serious about fixing the PC game they would not even respond to questions about PS4. It's not any one single thing that worries me about this game.... it's the whole picture when you look at all the events and timing of everything.

Saying things like this makes a lot of people turn against you and call you dumb. Just a friendly warning. They will claim that it's normal for the game to get worse because it's alpha. Which I totally don't understand.

To add I also had not seen one morphine in over 10 hours of playing last patch. Has anyone found morphine anywhere?

If there is any question that Alberta is a French part of Canada just check the above post and see how friendly it is.

What the hell again. If you are saying that the developers can not find clever ways to remove ambient sounds such as altering the ways, number, or proximity that zeds are aggro'd..... Then you are more dumb than me for being so closed minded. The point is, there are many things they can remove because they are broken so it is an interesting point that they waisted time only removing silencers when ambient sounds have a far greater negative impact on game play for example. If game design is simply " fix the easy stuff first at all costs" then I would see your point to which I would be wrong.

Its just a video game, all topics are pretty much pointless. My OP was to help warn people to not die by drinking near a ledge and save a few characters. Why do we have to be so defensive or offensive on this forum?

Ok thanks. If zombie hoards get larger in game it might be a fun challenge to try a version of game alone sometimes and still play with friends with a different character. So I was wondering if a legally password protected shard might be the only way.

Will this be the only potential way to play the game as a single player? Or will there be an additional single player game added to the final release menu?

I could see why one would think its a joke because after drinking you fall down drunk. However, I would personally not release it on purpose even in aplha because I would worry about being judged on the quality of my programming. So I think it was just a mistake.

What the fuck? I didnt say that silencers ever worked. I was saying why only remove silencers for being broken when a lot of stuff is broken? In other words, what made them chose silencers to remove over more serious broken things like ambient sounds.

Interesting they removed silencers until they are fixed. Why not remove ambient sounds until those are fixed as well?

There, there. Do not question how dayz game is coded. Thats a crazy ass rabbit hole you will never return from.