microfire21

there is a hacker doing spawn kills...the kind of death where you log into the server and it says your dead standing out in the middle of nowhere and there is only one player (the hacker) just looking over their new piles of bodies just stacking up. This is now the second time this has happened to me and I am lucky by this standard. Server: US 252 Hosted by Quick-Gaming.net Time: 0830 CST What I was doing: Just logging into the server for the day great to know you can spend almost a week gearing up to be able to camp away from any cities and people to just once again log in an die at the hands of script kiddies. Security needs to be improved I have seen far more hacks than this (nukes tanks Etc.) all over many of the us servers now. it seems battle eye and game spy do not do well enough as it is....seeing how this game is run through sql databases maybe a extra script to monitor "illegal" item spawns like I have seen setup on other servers for different online game servers. That is just one thought I have among many others. Just anything to thin down the hackers would make this alpha much more enjoyable for all players.

i agree with everyone on the hacks. I have been adding what I can into my server to safeguard things but this is still not enough. file checking and script checking is a lost cause because of new hacks coming out daily and the artificial aiming...there is no way to catch it threw battle eye. I too am about to drop support for dayz and just go back to hosting normal arma 2 im sick of paying for public servers just to be shit on by hackers and not be able to do anything about it for fear of being black listed because I solved a problem of a few hackers. I could care less how many times i have to start from square one from a legit firefight, thats part of the fun in dayz. but being ported at will on the map to "fight clubs" mass spawn of whatever and then nuking the servers has gotten way out of hand. My newest dayz server I host (us 1054) is only one of 3 public server I host at over 80+ bucks a month for each and all of which have non stop hacker problems anymore. I can see the point of passwords but that would only solve issues in the short run. Rocket and crew need more security for their mod. Once this month comes to an end if nothing has been done I will shut down all my dayz servers an no longer support any more dayz projects. They the devs really need to step up their game when it comes to hacks, or turn over more power to admins or at lest come up with a set of tools to help ban script kiddies because thats all it takes to drop a server to its knees is some 12 year old who can copy past a script.

okay a nice mod I have been told about in normal arma 2 and have played with some myself. What is this lil mod you ask.....the power of radio coms...Just check the link or youtube it. this com is great works with team speak 3. http://www.armaholic...highlight=RADIO just click the link and read on. Videos- part one part twoor for short here you go..... one team speak channel filled with 100+ people = WTF!!!! this radio can split up teams on the fly in game with no screen out needed so this mod with 100+ ppl (or less) = Teams split and you can game w/o tryin to understand wtf is going on when in groups finally. just a thought seeing how dayz is growing so large and we have more ppl grouping up. Like on my server I would love to see this because we have over 20 ppl in a group at almost any given time day/night.

Even if it is something that is out of their hands it is still good policy to send out an alert e-mail saying that there is in fact an issue vs nothing at all.you have to remember not everyone is up on tech or biz for that fact so they have no clue as to what might be going on other than the product or service is not working. I myself know in great detail what it takes to run a web based company because I host a data center for remote backups for companies around KCMO. I was just simply stating that if something is not working they should at lest let the customer know there is in deed a issue and it is being fixed because people tend to get very peeved that "things are not working" and have heard nothing from the one selling the product.

my server (us 1054) has been down all night as well with status unknown as well....hopefully they will have this issue solved soon. We have a great community there and the server has been down all night submitted 2 tickets so far none answered but must be something large scale because from what i hear from the other admins of the servers through HA they have been down as well....great hosting service so far first bit of down time i have had. It would be nice on the other hand to get at lest an e-mail letting the renter side know if anything is up....i had no clue till i seen the emails on my android that there was anything wrong lol.

yes this is a heavy topic as I just started a server a few hours ago and when i look into the logs i can see ddos attacks and script kiddies but if they do a BE bypass that is where the log trail ends. I have thought about looking at more of the script end of things but its gonna take me a few days to figure out how the BE works in general and see if there are any other scripts that can be added to it to "beef" up some security....was thinking there might be a way to monitor maybe the client side upstream to the server for more traffic flow than what is normally needed. That might be one of many ways to stop brute force hacks through the client and also limit heavy script usage. anyways just my two cents. and yes it would be nice to have a tool we could have up and running for remote of the servers to help out with more than what you can do using the recon command line ingame. running dual monitors and best i can do is setup a remote terminal prompt to watch activity on the server but thats kind of useless in terms of logging proof of attacks.

Just looking to talk and have some fun rolling in our new found party bus...the 3 of us are very friendly and helpful join our teamspeak 3 server and kick back with us...... TS3 INFO: Dayz.no-ip.info

yea was a great run while we had it....bus lasted longer than we thought it would with a loaded server going through the main two cities....we will find another bus very soon and i will post again when the party bus is rockin @Dayz tours XD

Join our team speak server to party in the party bus rollin the coast XD ts info: Dayz.no-ip.info

just looking to have a good time you can ride if ya like just chat us up in ts

Well after the first time I was not lucky enough to spawn in on another server with all the stuff back it was all back to square one. and looks that way again lucky enough this round I have a grp that was nice enough to come down and resupply me to make it back out to our camp area.

* Server this happened on. - US 610 hosted by HFBservers.com * Time that it happened including your timezone. - 6 am cst * What happened during the incident. - everyone to spawn on this server instant death looks like a hack to me watch the video I took. spawned into some empty field in BFE while he stands there just looking at the bodies drop all with no gear at time of spawn. Optional: - Video proof - youtube - Pictures - see video link above nice to see some people have no life nor are they willing to help out a alpha/beta other than hack and exploit the game in general. just a bit upset but i know well that hackers will always be part of the game but when you have spent the past 3 day's gathering items to keep from the need of going into any populated areas (nvg for night time, matches , hatchet , g17 4 clips, alice bag for storing meds and food, 2 water bottles, gps, knife for gutting food, tool box for working on things, binoculars, and a tent to store everything in) was trying to play a role of real survivor. looks like its back to loot and rush tactics once again to re gear and start looking for more bugs in the non populated sectors again..... a recovery would be nice but i know im not that lucky. great mod keep it up team btw i will fraps everything from now on with this mod to not only catch great game play but to log all hacks i see and bugs of all the areas i travel to.

Been playing for a few days now and come to like the game so me and my brother are now willing to help out other players as well. We only kill bandits and zed's so no worries to the rest of you and we are willing to help out anyone that needs help now with food water and other things as they come up. If you are playing solo and tired of being paranoid and need a good group of people to watch your back and help you out come join us and we can chill and get shit done at the same time XD in-game names: myself (micro) and my brother (cobra) - steam speak 3 info - to connect: dayz.no-ip.info

forgot to add my steam name for all of you steam players its microfire21 but anyways jumping off for now ill post when logging in again just join the ts server at that time and we can trade info then....makes it much easier for everyone that way already got a good 2 more for the group here and willing to take on more as well shoot me a pm here or leave msg on ts channel. happy hunting all

just re-logged back into us 610 to see what was going on looks like i have most of my gear back now...missing a few things but something is better than nothing.... =)

my name on dayz is micro btw see in the video it shows i was killed yet i was able to get up....and start walking around...i am running all the newest beta patches as well full 1.7.2.3 and beta 94945...might have had something to do with my being able to move after death im not sure here..... i just know the whole server died but the one standing there....

i did that was the start of login it says you have died and then i was able to move around....not sure what was going on other than spawned death

Whats up runners? names chris (micro in game) im just a retired oldish fart that is into game dev work...mostly java and c based work....anyways started playing the other day an have teamed up up cobra and we have had tons of fun running the map from one side to the other....if anyone else wants to kick in on the party we got your back on any us servers and just setup a ts3 server today so the chat is on and fun is always going on...love the mod its great for alpha stage cant wait to see it hit beta....hell an alpha mod with this many ppl rocket and team i feel your pains lol....anyways microfire21 on steam or pm me on here and we can meet up and have some fun from just a random run cross the map an camp fires to shredding zombies and bandits...take your pick an lets kick it XD so far its just an army of two but can always take on more XD

well said RayPugh how else will the Dev team know anything unless they have someone to say "hey this is not working right" when it was part of the core game that was the whole reason for the "hive" system....i could care less about the gear end im a newbie to the mod yet i already know where to go to get the goods lol. but anyways the point is the hive is to save the char through every login and logoff....if it is not doing that much then what is the use of the hive? rather it would be eaiser and less system draw to just remove the hive and everyone starts from square one rather than have a system save what they have done over the period of time they have ran around and lived through whatever be it a zombie or bandits....just saying this is my two cents but having mass threads of the same thing im sure the Dev's are all over this or pulling their hair out...i know i would feel the same way because I help dev a few private mmo games so i know the stress load but it is still good to know what is working and what is not.....

never said i was really worried about the gear but it is a bug that people are having and looks like it is being reported as such...like i said i dont mind starting fresh each round it just gets a lil down at times is all if you managed to get up enough stuff to camp it in the woods with your buddies....anyways i dont see why people get all butt hurt over a bug....yea they have done some sweet stuff with arma its the best mod i have seen by far and i have stated that i enjoyed it....

yea me and my brother both just installed the mod 2 days ago 1.7.1.5 worked like clockwork then the 1.7.2 patch hit and every time we play neither one of your players save with anything.both of us are running the steam arma co both of us have high end amd 8 core systems with 16 gig ram 6950's for video and win 7 pro x64...running latest patches the 9444 and launching from the steam lancher in arma co with the modded exe like it was said in the installer thread....idk if there is a fix for this or what....i know my friends setup saves and he is on the 1.7.2 so its just the two of us here without anything saving....the mod is awsome and we dont mind starting from square one each time so much because the game play is fun....but it would be nice to see the info saved so we dont have to play comando sneaking around zombies and bandits just to find an axe or gun lol....and at the start of any server even the same server it always ask if we want a male or female char if that helps any....have also done 3 clean installs of the full game and patch and we use the six lancher to update the dayz mod....other than that idk what else to do....