I really like the game starting off it is challenging and nerve racking, then you get an axe and things start looking up... you get geared and you meet up with your friends... you log into a server 35/40 and you are your buddy log in... Encounter 1: Spawn in a house and you hear, "Hey BodyCount, Hey Kanibal! BodyCount just go ahead and throw your M4A1 on the ground and Kanibal put your AKM on the ground and we won't grenade you..." we immediately log out no one is in the house with us.. and then boom log back in dead on another server. We spend 2 hours regearing up... (how did they know our names and locations and weapons?) Encounter 2: Log in the next day we are on top of the construction building west of Berezino for about 25 minutes...and I say, " I see one... wait WTF he is blinking 20 yards every second oh shit dude not good this isn't normal... (first time that we have visually seen a hacker) I will get the stairs man and as soon as he comes up I will shoot. Did you just move? No man I didn't... "YOU ARE DEAD" WTF MAN I AM DEAD.. Kanibal kept running in a circle and the guy shoots at him and misses he sees the light come from the barrel and sprays his 75 round drum akm and kills the guy.. so a minor success yet I am out 2 hours of my life.... Encounter 3: So I gear back up and we head back to Berezino get on a good high pop server sitting in one of those green buildings where there is only one way in and one way out... we log in and a zombie comes and we kill it so they know we are in there they tried to throw a grenade in the window and missed it... the grenade blows up outside.. we see 4 guys east of the house towards the shoreline all of a sudden I am looking at Kanibal and he is laying on the ground we hear "Thump" (The sound of an axe) he is dead now I am dancing on the stairs and firing in a circle just unloading mag after mag.. I see plaster flying all over the place he is missing me and I can't see him I am just firing at a ghost basically.. I unload 3 mags 90 rounds and hit him (I saw blood spatter out) just as I hit him I die. Encounter 4: We are by the Berezino Hospital and hear multiple guys talking in game.. I come around the side of one of the buldings and see three of them I unload 30 rounds drop 2 and die while reloading and trying to squirrel... Kanibal drops two more of them and gets shot from his right side... he runs around the corner and into one of those green 2 story buildings he has his back to a door that cannot open and checked the one room that can be occupied (no one in there so he shuts the door.) he is stairing at the front main building door and all of a sudden we hear "Thump" he just got axed and is now dead.. no one opened any doors and no one was in the house.... Encounter 5: Myself, Kanibal and Sinestral log into the middle of no-where NW of Berezino in some bushes as soon as we log in a message appears and says "The guerillas have been stuck on you or something along those lines" and "You're Dead" is on my screen.. I post these events so others can know how popular this happens it wasn't that popular 2-3 weeks ago and the game was exciting and fun, play for keeps, win all or lose all...There needs to be changes. I understand this is Alpha.. but Darkfall couldn't and still can't stop the hacking they ban several hundred accounts at a time.. but how many quit before those accounts are banned. I enjoy this game but serious changes need to be made first off this game is through steam.... Step 1: Implement something that tells you who you were killed by and when you use in game voice comms a name should appear... I have no idea who is speaking in game telling me to drop my specific weapon when I can't see them and they can apparently see me.. I just logged in 7 second ago haven't even pull my weapon out... Would be much easier to rectify the problem here if we had names you could track these players. With no names to go on or steam account information it's very hard. to fix this issue. Step 2: Partner with Steam if someone is found hacking in a game ban their steam account.. would deter individuals from cheating if they are risking several hundred dollars to cheat in one game and lose access to all other purchased games (if this isn't possible then there needs to be atleast a ban from DayZ and make them spend another $40 to get back in... thanks for the donation! Step 3: This should be done sooner than later most of the servers being 40 or less is a good size population to catch onto these hackers/scripters... most MMOs have thousands to sift through data to see and they can do it you have 40 on one server and if its reported watch the character that is in question and witness it first hand... then place the ban. Overall I love the concept and the risk vs reward in the game.. nothing like a good heart pounding action... but from my 15 years of gaming this teleporting, invis crap will be the demise if it's not addressed. like I said it's Alpha but if there is nothing that can be done tell us now so we can by-pass our time doing something else. we have already donated our $40.
