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I honestly thought the hacking issue was temporarily fixed cause the bypass creators thread has multiple reports of the hack no longer working, so I logged in - Immediate thunderdome.. Fml.. :P

When PvP is initiated by either party players should either - fight back and die - or run away but crucially, just stay in the game whilst you do it not run 100m and pussy out behind a wall. I love how he is going on and on about how he didnt disconnect he just aborted and that that is his "playstyle" so people should STFU. Your not playing the game man your *leaving* the game at the first sign of trouble...

Korax this has been bugging me for ages - your profile pic is bloody hillarious but I want to know if in the side chat going on which is impossible to read is that survivor begging for his life or something - he looks so sad/scared and it has me chuckling every time I see it.

Hahaha I love it! you must be following a different thread to me but thats gold thanks for sharing :D

For how long is a completely different matter...

Battleye has finally pulled through and temporarily stopped the bypass hack from working! That would explain why you couldn't find any hackers today.. Not going to post the sites URL but if anyone else has been following the post just check the latest few responses from upset script kiddies and it will confirm it's no longer working! Hooray!

I wish I could give negative beans... And I'm certainly not blaming rocket and I don't think OP is either, but how the fuck is U R JUST BAD even relevant to the discussion.. Wow..

Yeah Rocket said when he took side chat out that it was because ingame radios with selectable channels were coming into the mod very soon... But yeah he has had other things to deal with I'm sure but I think it was a mistake to take it out so far before he had something ready to put in its place.

You didn't :) I just get quite touchy about this subject and was using your post for a jumping off point to have a little moan ^_^

The amount of people replying with " I have have only ran into hackers once or twice in a month " " I have never seen a hacker so your point is invalid" Makes me cringe.. Just because its not happening to you, does *not* mean its not the biggest issue dayz the alpha has at the moment.. stop being so selfish. I play on a variety of servers and I find what OP has said to be exactly the case currently and believe me there are thousands of dayz players who perhaps don't post on the forums who probably feel the same way. Over the last 5 nights I have encountered at least one script kiddie EVERY single night, sometimes more.. Sometimes they nuke the whole server, sometimes they teleport behind you and gun everyone down one by one, sometimes they thunderdome but they are pulling shit without fail every single night on a huge range of servers. I'm honestly glad some of you are able to play without running into these fools but please dont diminish the problem for us who are not so lucky. I try to play smart - loot quickly in cherno/electro and move up north and play very carefully as a loner mostly but occasionaly with a small group who may for example try to repair a vehicle. It has been impossible to make any concerted attempt to actually "survive" or accomplish more difficult tasks recently and I have began just gearing up and messing around on the coast looking for trouble and I hate playing like that.. Im sure it doesn't affect clan members with tents full of duped weapons, either as at most they have to make a short(ish) run from the coast to their camp and they are back on their feet again but for players who spend sometimes upwards of 4 hours painstakingly gearing up only to die in the most unfair possible way its a huge dampner on any motivation to even log in at the moment. I say all of this knowing it's not an issue caused by or even solvable by Rocket alone, but it's such a problem at the moment there should seriously be a disclaimer on dayzmod.com explaining the current situation to any prospective buyers - ( yes buyers, don't try to pretend people are not buying the CO arma pack for dayz, right or wrong, they definitely are, the sales figures make that fact self evident ) and a dev acknowledgement of the issue on the forum would be nice, too. Rocket used to post on here all the time..

It's really late here in the UK dude - 6am - Im going to bed but Ill download skype tomorrow and see how you got on setting it up - my advice is to google "edit dayz mission file side chat" or something like that, Im sure someone has posted how to enable it somewhere :)

I say again, people using third party voice; read: pretty much every single organised group. Don't care one bit about the authenticity of being able to speak over the entire map yet they will still come and trash on anyone who wants side chat back for the people who don't necessarily want to exchange skype details out of game to be able to meet up ingame.. Not saying your doing that but, if you press these people on that point they rationalise that their third party voip are ingame radios.. well I say that side chat is a ingame text radio if you really need a justification for it beyond it being essential to in game communication.

And when you do figure out how to turn it on, watch how quickly the rampant deathmatching calms down - I only play on servers with side chat now and the atmosphere and sense of community is immeasurably better, I have started meeting people ingame and making friends again which I thought had become a impossibility in dayz. As far as immersion breaking, you can bet all the naysayers use teamspeak to chat with their mates over the whole map and dont give two shits about how that affects their sense of immersion..

You can turn it on by editing the mission files - It's not strictly speaking allowed but a good few hive servers I play on have it enabled. Im afraid I dont know how to do it but I would think it's a couple of google searches away - and if you do manage to turn it on please pm me your server name so I can come and play on it :) The server I play with side chat is shutting down on august 22nd due to hackers, real shame :(

Just be ready to Ctrl Alt Delete and end the OA.exe process now because the new thunderdome script actually disables the game menu abort option and insta-kills your character if you use ALT + F4. Not even kidding :/