Hackers? Bandits? hah! If you haven't been killed by a tree, door or supermarket counter your missing out. Vas.

I envy the people who can honestly say "I've never seen a hacker" or "I've only been hacked once" For myself and most of my guild it's a daily occurence. Some people are just lucky. Vas.

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/55030-hackers-what-you-need-to-know/ Have a read of that, explains a lot. Vas.

I envy you, I really do. Myself and clan mates have been hacked every night for the last week. I had my first taste an input hack last night. Could not do anything... move, shoot... alt+f4. By the time we knew what was happening and the vent cries to disconnect went out... too late. Godmode, thermal scoped snipers, teleports, nukes... we've had it done. Vas.

I feel your pain. Godmode AS50 Thermals and teleports seem to be the hacks of the week. Arma's mod friendly nature is it's downfall, it was never meant for a game like this, we're all hoping the standalone can solve it. Vas.

I too am losing the will to login and bother trying to find nice things when most nights end in a teleport or godmode AS50 + Thermal wielding asshole. I love this game too, I'm very tolerant of bugs and will keep coming back no matter how many trees kill me but being hacked daily is just ruining the fun in any survival efforts, it's depressing. I really hope the standalone can/will do something about this. Vas.

Q. Can the hacking porblem be solved? Can we look forward to less bombs falling from the sky and teleports in the standalone version? Vas.

It's got to a point where I don't fear Zombies or bandits, just hackers. Nothing ruins a great night more than it ending with a teleport execution, bombs falling from the sky or some invincible guy in a ghillie suit taking out your whole squad and everyone else on the server. One of my guild mates made a comment last night that was kinda depressing. After a hacking incident (that would be the above ghillie guy) someone asked where he was. He said he wasn't in game, he was too scared to login just be be hacked. I don't mind dying legit firefights, snipers or epic zombie disasters... but losing everything to a hacker makes each restart more bitter, in fact I can't remember the last time I died that wasn't suspicious. This wasn't so much of a problem for the likes of CS, BF or CoD... you change servers, respawn and lose nothing but time. In a game where death = everything gone it's a disaster. Lets hope the standalone came can do something about it Vas.

Ideally, Game purchase only. Studio/community developed not a big issue provided your calling the shots, don't let your 'Hero's Journey' turn into a 'Doodle Centipede' Current server system works fine just needs more control, forced updates etc. Vas.

Let me put it this way. Your friend is standing at 600m with an apple on his head. You zero your CZ to 600 and aim for the apple, your friend is now covered in apple but alive and well. Now, same shot, you zero your rifle to 500... your friend is now dead but you can still eat the apple. I know you already knew that but I thought it was too god an explanation to pass up. Vas.

It would appear Arma beta 95170 is not backwards compatable with any other beta version, you can only join 95170 servers. Doing otherwise results in this error. vas.

I've no problem crouch walking around zombies like I've always done, I don't find the 1.7.2 zombies anymore alert than the 1.7.1.5. Being in front of them will always cause issues... even then you can still get quite close. As long as you stay to the side and behind it's fine. Having said that, 1.7.2 introduced some superzombies and I generally find a couple in everytown. They spot you from anywhere. I've come out of buildings and seen them spaz out and run from the side of town, I've skirted towns quite some distance and suddently heard one running up behind me that has flipped out from some 200m away. I believe they are unintended and should be fixed in the next patch. If your getting around okay and but always seem to pull a random, you might just be getting unlucky with these guys, it's not your fault. You don't have to prone everywhere, that's unessesary. The 'normal' Z's seem okay to me. Vas.

I too had a interesting night. 1. After playing for a good hour and heading to meet up with some friends I logged out to change to there server and when I rejoined... saw my death message and spawned in debug, first time there, no gear and red food/water. Respawned. 2. Played for another hour or so, looged to have dinner and when I rejoined... gender selection... crap. 3. Played for another good hour and a half, logged out to join the guild majority on another server and when I re-joined I was in the previous life (no.2) in a town where I'd been some 2 hrs ago. I looted said town, headed for the nearest treeline and logged for the night rather confused. I logged in for a check before work this morning... just to see who and where I was. I was on the most recent life, no.3, prior to the no.2 rollback. So, it woudl seem that if you ever 'roll back' don't bother, log and try again later, as above, it's slow to update and evetually does catch up. Playing on a 'roll back' seems a waste fo time. That's alpha for ya, we bitch a bit, accept it and come back for more =) Vas.

A regular group to run with would be great, signed up, hopefully talk to you soon. Vas.

Have recently been experimenting with sniper rifles and working out ranges. At 31, you guys make me feel old, lol. Had some fun with mate in town and me covering with a scope, that would be a lot of fun with more people. Steam ID should be the same as the forum name. Vas.