Charlotte (DayZ)

lol. Sure, there's a lot of hacking threads, but it's not like THIS thread is the first one saying "stop posting about hackers" either. And just like "no one is forcing them to play the mod," no one is forcing you to go to the forums or read all those "hacker omg" threads. :P Forums are always full of stupid crap like the threads you're complaining about, your thread and this post. Get over it. ps. There will still be hackers in 2013.

May as well. The people that want to respawn just die to zombies anyways, and it doesn't take that long to do it.

Starting with the most recent... Thunderdome (with abort disabled, alt f4 die anyway) Guy in hacked heli shot me (there were 6 helis that I saw in cherno). Zombies to respawn Sniper (I was stupid) Teleport + Hatchet to the face Teleport + gun Teleport + gun Teleport + gun Sniper (this one was actually an amazing shot) Kill command Don't remember

Depends on how populated the server is, but Elektro and Stary seem to have action too. My favorites are Stary and NWA though... had some great firefights there.

I bought the game only to play Dayz. I have 0 interest in playing any military sim; it could be great, but it's just not my thing. However, when I purchased Arma2, I knew I was buying a game that I'd never play just to be able to play a free mod that uses the 'original' game's engine. And I'm not surprised at all that they're going to sell a standalone Dayz game... it's $$, you know. It's not that difficult to understand how you could feel like it's paying for the same game twice (even though it's technically not), but look at it like this... the "second time" you "buy Dayz," you're paying for it to come without the rampant hacking (or with more content or whatever it is you expect the standalone to offer that the mod does not). And if the standalone doesn't have whatever that is, then just don't buy it. This. 1000x this ^. Yes, every game has hackers/exploiters, but this time around, I'll ask my friends how bad the hacking is before I purchase the standalone Dayz. If I had realized hacking was going to be as bad as it currently is, I wouldn't have paid a penny for the game.

I've already seen a few posts from admins saying they're shutting down their servers due to the rampant hacking, and I know our server is headed in that direction. I've given up hoping that they'll ban the hackers more aggressively. They have the standalone version inc, so I doubt they'll devote a lot more time/effort to this free version. Plus I bet some ppl buy the standalone version hoping that there will be less hacking in it.

Can't say I blame ya. We're probably doing the same thing. We plan to set a note for players to see that the server will only be up a little while longer (so they can move camp to another server) and then bring it down. Sucks to lose vehicles and have to relocate gear, but yea.

If they got more aggressive about banning hackers, I'd pay triple. I'm definately not buying 2 copies right away (1 for me, 1 for husband on different computers) until I see how rampant the hacking is.

To the admins that take down servers when hackers are obviously there... thank you. The way I see it is that you saved me a bunch of time and rare gear cause sooner or later the hacker will get bored with his helis and decide to go insta-kill everyone.

Crawl around back. There should be a box of med supplies at the back. There are also medical tents that you can use/supply from in Cherno. edit: and if it's a bug I've never seen it /shrug.

If you could open his inventory, he was dead. If you could only open the backpack, he was probably just afk. Sometimes corpses appear to be stuck in "live" positions, and sometimes they glitch stand up then back down really fast. Players wearing ghillie suits are called "sniper." Losing items is a known bug; lots of ways stuff disappears.

If I see a streamer hacking or getting items from a hacker, I don't watch him/her anymore. There's plenty of other streamers out there. Besides not liking hackers, knowing they can just spawn their gear right back makes watching boring for me.

Well, that didn't take long... since yesterday... Found crates with guns inside them at Elektro. (Pretty sure guns don't spawn like that in Dayz. Crate said it was something "medium" when moused over; I don't remember the exact name just that "medium" was part of it.) Two ghillie suited players stood in the open and fired right at eachother, and neither died. (Maybe they're terrible shots tho.) It was pitch black, and I was running to camp. There were 5 people on the server; 2 of which were in the lobby and one was my friend on TS (so only 1 player I didn't know in game)... In the middle of no where forest, a guy appeared behind me and started shooting at me & missing. I ran around a bit and warned my friend that I supected the guy was a hacker (cause what are the odds that the only other guy on the server would happen to load in right where I was in the middle of no where). Then the same guy appeared at my friend a few seconds later (and literally thousands of meters away) and shot him. I have no idea if it's the same hacks that got banned & they just bought new accounts or if it's an entirely different type of hack that does the same sorts of things.

I don't think it's that simple. In the 2ish days that I had the L85, I was played the game... using only that gun for that wep slot & logging out with it on. So it wasn't deleting it every time I logged out with it on, and it wasn't the "log out 10 sec after getting it then no longer have it" thing. edit: guess I shoulda said that to start with ^. I think I was on the same version/patch as the server. Idk. Will find another eventually.

The most recent player I didn't shoot was a guy in the supermarket. We were both armed, and he had already looted the market. He saw me before I saw him, and he asked "friendly?" I figured he was actually friendly since he could have shot already. Some of my group was almost to the market too, and I told them on TS there was a friendly guy in the market so that they wouldn't shoot him... and our guy that always shoots on sight replies, "there is no such thing as friendly in Cherno." I knew if the two crossed paths someone would die. So I told the friendly guy what was up, and he asked which direction to go to avoid them and left. A few seconds later, my group arrives. I didn't see the friendly guy (or any of us) die all night, so it worked out! Normally though, if* I don't feel like dying, I shoot. Edit cause I forgot "if" ^.

You can turn down head bob in the settings.

I would guess there's been no official response because they don't want to come out and say something like "We can't fix it. BIS won't fix it. Wait for the next engine." for fear of losing players or indirectly encouraging hacking. If there were anything positive to say like "we're/they're working on it," I think they would have said it already. I hope I'm wrong though. Well said, huthatis... and somehow I don't see Rocket saying "Sorry guys, I missed a release date because I had to read the Dayz forums." If that even begins to become an issue, they should hire him some help. Pretty sure Dayz has made enough money (indirectly, yes) to pay for it.

Strelok! I ran into someone with that name at the Stary military tents when there weren't many people on the server. I fired first... but you won :) (if it was you that is)

Morphine is the only cure. It's found in hospitals (major cities only), med tents, etc. I've never seen the above happen.

It can. Husband and I logged in (each on our own computer/copy/character). We got teleported to debug plains. I had all my stuff; he had nothing. The dead bodies are probably from other players that decided to respawn instead of running out of debug plains. (Though there could be killing going on there, but I'd guess respawn... who wants to run with no gear vs just start over near a town.)

Only if I'm going to stay in the general area or if there's a decent gun on the body that I don't have room to pick up.

When you're approaching a town, keep a look out for zombies. You don't spawn them until you get somewhat close. If you see zombies from far away, you know that another player is there or was very recently there. And always assume they are not friendly. Look for snipers- if there are no zombies, you probably don't have to worry about the big, red building (Stary). Check the hills (zoom in or run around them carefully). Pay close attention to dead animals, rocks, bushes, trees, etc. Eventually, you'll actually learn the popular sniping spots. If you find a sniper in the hills, it's pretty easy to come up behind him. If you choose to go into town anyway, turn your music down and turn effects up, then listen for gunfire. You'll have a pretty good idea of where the other player is once you get to know the town and hear his gunfire. Then you know... avoid the player or hunt him down or whatever. Move quickly, stay in cover, etc etc.

5+ team camping stary military tents vs 3 of us... Their sniper kills our best sniper, so we know their sniper is in the big, red building. Lots of short range chasing into the hills, killing and running back follows. (I don't die yet, but I have no good gear.) I run around and around the red building - trying to get their sniper to stand up and shoot at me so that our sniper can shoot him. The guy keeps taking shots at me and missing, but our sniper can't get the shot. We're getting bored and I have nothing to lose, so I rush the building. I was hoping to make it inside so I could kill the guy. I was almost up on the building when their sniper hits me with the as50... but then like a genius, he walks out of the building and into the open to loot my corpse...

Server: US194 Time: Approximately 9:30pm EST. (give or take 12? minutes) What happened: Short version: Admin teleported everyone onto the server to kill them- I'd guess for gear. Long version: Every player on US194 was teleported into a barricaded warehouse near Balota (the industrial type building with blue doors). All the doors were closed and multiple barricades were up at every exit so that you could not escape before they killed you. The admin and I'm assuming his buddies were at the end of the building firing into the group of people that just got teleported. I saw a guy with an AS50, ghillie suit go down. I'm sure lots of others lost stuff too (myself included). Almost everyone on the server died. It was maybe 20? players.

I like the idea, but people that happen across your car in the woods would probably just destory it (to force it to respawn) if they couldn't steal it. People already like to blow up cars, lol. When we were repairing a vehicle (stary car), I stayed to watch the car while my friends gathered parts, and I ended up having to kill 3 players that took shots at the car... ppl just randomly trying to blow it up.