deathTouch (DayZ)

Watched Deagan's stream where he was hacked 6 times on 5 different servers. Teleporting, invincibility, mass server kills, etc. Seems about par for the course. Play on a server that has more than 5 people on it and you'll start encountering them on at least an hourly basis. I've switched to playing Lingor Island and private hives. It eliminates both the ghosting and (for the most part) hacking issue at the same time.

I just drank Mountain Dew while standing on the radio antenna of Green Mountain. Deal with it.

Teleporting/invincible/soldier skin hacker on US 139. Teleported to friend, friend put an entire clip into him, did not die. When: 3:00 AM CST

Was flying in a chopper with 3 other buds when the hive went down. We have no frigging clue where the thing is now. Checked the spot where we desynced at, the spot where the pilot landed it during the desync, the path we thought we took between those points, and the last 2 locations we saved the chopper at. No dice. Think the thing despawned?

Have: M136 + rocket, NVGs, antibiotics, rangefinder Want: SVD Camo and/or M240 Let's make a deal

I beat the shit out of my computer until it goes black.

Number of hacks or scripts currently active in your server.

Buy another copy of the game. You are dead.

Endless bitching about immersion when still no one has addressed what you do when you encounter some bug that prevents or significantly impedes your character from progressing. If load is really that big of an issue: Server notes when you press the "respawn" button, prevents you from using it again until X minutes have passed. Things this requires: A flag and timestamp Things this prevents: Server load issues while maintaining players' ability to continue their game if they encounter a progress impeding bug.

Would not apply to deaths caused by anything other than pressing the respawn button.

I didn't know the objective was to reduce server load to 0. We can do that easily by just shutting the hive down. This is why people with computer science degrees exist. They figure out ways to make a program, like tracking someone's time in game, very efficient. If the hive can easily store data on the characters items, location etc., it can add a simple flag and timetamp to when they last pressed the respawn button. The amount of data required to timestamp last respawn is <<<<<<<<<<<<<< than the data required to make an entirely new character.

Wait X number of minutes before you can respawn again. Solves the problem of server load, and keeps the respawn button when you need it due to bugs. GG problem solved.

Things having a suicide button is useful for: 1) Chernarus wilderness, either unintended bug or hacker teleport script; 2) Unintended bugs where your legs break in the middle of nowhere (either due to bugs or hacks) and you do not have morphine on you; 3) Getting stuck in the map due to a bug. Guarantee the bitching starts when these people arguing for "immersion" encounter any of the above three scenarios. A suicide button is in pretty much every known game to man because it's impossible to predict when a player will need the option to reset themselves due to an unforseeable bug in the future, even in the most polished of games...let alone Dayz. If they want to limit server load for respawning, put a timer on it like 5 minutes between respawns allowed. To remove it completely is asinine, especially in an ALPHA.

Breaking everyone's legs in the server repeatedly just became the hacker's new favorite toy.

Too many people barracks-hopping in this thread to notice hackers.