Rifle Eyez

See, I'm keen to join a private hive but the only thing that is off putting is carrying gear over if I do ever hop back on public or another private hive. Also, public is nice for just meeting up with buddies or joining a new group of players - private hives you're limited to just that specific server. Also, because I'm presuming it's a tight knit on a private hive, rather than 1000's of players, I'd miss the anon-factor. if you do anything to piss of the admin or a squad your life can become very difficult. How do I go about getting on one? It's the lesser of two evils easily.

Haha, so true though. While day-z is a addictive game, with intense pvp action in between constant hacks...fuck, I spend 85% of gameplay just running. That running sound is forever embedded in my head now. Nothing better than having 2 hours to play, spawning in, running to a city, getting a bit of loot, running to stary, loot the tents. Running to the airfield...insta killed or teleported. Then back to running again.

Unfortunately gamehack 71 relates to using certain scripting tools which battleye has just clamped down on. You will be globally banned soon - there's been a huge ban wave recently and I literally had about a 35 man server lose 50% of players because of ''gamehack 71'' and 73 I believe.

If you just got banned, battleye is rolling out global bans for everyone using ''certain'' hacks. My friend whom I mentioned previously who became disillusioned with all the hacking and hacked himself has just been banned. I literally think 50% of the population has just been banned, the servers look so empty and it kept coming up ''blah blah has been global banned'', finally.

tl:dr hackers ruin the game for themselves too. novel time, but hey it's friday and i'm bored at work with a hour to kill. I can't speak from first hand experience hacking myself but a good (online) friend of mine I speak to and play with on Skype actually had enough of the hacking after spending in his word ''days and literally hours per day on end gearing up to lose it all to a 14 yr old codfag'' and started scripting himself (nothing like teleporting servers, or using it to grief however). I'm guessing this is how it's got so bad - people can't get to grips with the nature of the game (perma death) and either get angry at hackers or suck at the game and decide to hack. Either way stinks imo. Anyway, long story short he can now spawn in any vehicle, weapon and item - regardless of if they're in day-z or not, just arma. He can teleport himself, see where others are and so on. Problem is, he doesn't even WANT to play anymore. Same issue I have when using mods/using console commands on single player games. I had more fun on Skyrim on the Xbox, than I do on PC, just because mods can break the feel of the game and having the ability to spawn in anything or change anything with one button press. It just breaks the immersion of game. So not only do hackers ruin the game for everyone (and believe me, I can't play for more than 2 hours without insta-dying or my friend saying ''some dude just teleported 30m from us'' or ''all the vehicles are in one spot'' or ''theres about 15 tents full of duped items'') but it also ruins the game for themselves. Thats the sad part imo. Day-Z could be a truly epic and groundbreaking experience if played as intended (nothing gets my adrenaline rushing like it) and the hackers ruin it for themselves. The buzz you get from stalking someone who has full gear (as50, nvgs etc) while you have low tier weapons is insane. It's so satisfying getting the kill after spending 20 minutes deciding what to do and getting all that gear as a reward is awesome. It's actually a rush. But spawning in full gear with the click of a button and teleporting 20m from unsuspecting players and killing them...I can't work out how in any possible way that is satisfying or even enjoyable.

Now, I know the subject has been recycled 1000 times and every thread that mentions it is being locked (which, I agree is fair enough) but I'm curious about something. After visiting these forums myself, how do hackers, scripters, or whatever the in name is these days so openly share and discuss hacks on hugely active forums with no punishment whatsoever? Even selling obviously stolen cd-keys which is highly illegal is allowed seemingly to take place on massive forums - which can be found with a simple google search and registered on and downloaded in 2 minutes. Hell, they even detail exactly how said hacks and bypasses work - why isn't this being slammed shut at the source? These are 16 year old script kids or basement dwellers - not exactly cyber terrorists. It's like the worlds dumbest criminals but NOTHING is being done. Maybe i'm missing something but I can't work it out in my naivete. I could understand the epidemic more if it was invite only boards or personal hacks and bypasses used by a small number of people, but these boards have 100's if not 1000's of views and posts, seemingly unregulated and easily accessed. I refuse to believe there is no action that can be taken however i'm ready to be proven wrong. Thanks.

I guess - the problem is dayz's nature of not respawning with full gear and players coming across from console to catch the hype and sucking. I guarentee a majority of the hackers couldnt accept the toughness of the game and then realized they could grief legit players easily due to the fact you dont respawn with full gear. I refuse to believe that more cannot be done with how public the hacks are, but i guess thats because i see the true potential of the game and sick of every game including a hack - be it spawned in gear, teleporting to straight nuking a server. I guess i can just pity the people who buy 5. Cd keys and brag about global bans

Haha dude im not saying that the CIA should be monitoring the situation and half the worlds law enforcement budget should be spent on arresting script kiddies. Certainly the selling of cd keys that are stolen is a criminal offense - especially when dudes openly brag about it. And on the hacking side its merely curiosity how not just in dayz but other games its out of hand but nothing can be done despite the exact methods being shared and detailed with 1000s.

I agree in principle that the internet is hard to regulate but this isnt the tor network or some other elaborate proxy chain in the deep internet - its basic forums with 1000s of members openly promoting hacking and selling cd keys I understand legally there probably isnt the resources to take action, or even the will too (theres probably loopholes) but even for anti cheat software - a knowledgeable person can pick apart a bypass which is posted as soon as its released

anyone noticed or come across the hackers teleporting directly next to or less than 30m from you? I've just seen a blatant example of it so thought i'd clog up the bandwidth of this site as that is the point after all. the occasion that just happened and made me decide to post was I was tracking a dude from cherno > stary, and was about 700m away on elevated land with my rangefinders. I literally saw a dude spawn in open fields, about 50m from a forest i'd seen a dude walk into. curious, i watched make a beeline for the wooded area the dude ran into then shots and ''blah blah was killed''. needless to say i alt f4'd instantly. i've noticed this a few times, and on another forum a dude ''counter hacked'' and said watching players and their locations was like ping pong, at least 1 or 2 people minimum per server teleporting 1000's of metres across map every 5 minutes next to or in the general area of others and running straight at them. also 90% of servers the vehicles were all spawned in one location, and at least 1 player had hacked in gear out of 40 servers, even on low pop. i know it's another qq thread, so for all the trolls and smartasses have fun telling me ''we all know its in the game, leave if you want, nobody cares, etc etc'' i feel sorry for the hackers in a strange way, how do you get any pleasure out of it? weird...also it's making me question the standalone, i appreciate we don't pay for this but i give it 2 weeks till it's overrun with hackers.

One thing - damn thats tough. Assuming that the hacking situation is dealt with (or cut down 99%), then I agree with your first post. Zombie spawning. More emphasis on the zombies - rather than the afterthought that they are. I wish you could clear areas, or find ghost towns. The spawning and zombie behavior is understandably poor, but it is a mod after all and one that wasn't originally intended to feature zombies (to my knowledge). But then I could list a ton of misc things. Like more vehicles. And more ''random'' things. Think boss type zombies, bow/arrows, horseys, random ''ufo/bigfoot'' type easter eggs like I always wish gta had. Ability to write notes, use radios, safe zones for trade, better clan features - pretty much everything i've heard war-z or the standalone having. I'll go now cuz i'm going off on a tangent xD

I remember it vividly. Was a CZ 500 from one of those long farm type buildings but not the barns with 2 staircases. I can't remember where I'd spawned, but it was near a train platform. Maybe Kormovo/Karmenka or Balota - think it was somewhere near there. Was within 10 minutes of spawning and never had a issue finding a gun since - not sure why others have so much trouble with it. I remember spotting something crawling and actually thought it was a real player and tried to make contact but it was just a crawling zombie haha.

Being realistic here the whole reason 95%+ of players gear up isn't too ''survive'', it's to go PVP other players regardless of if you admit it or not. Otherwise, why not just spend your time in serious low pop servers sitting in the middle of the woods for hours, then occasionally heading down to a supermarket/small town for some supplies. I don't mean straight deathmatching in cherno/electro however, but realistically once you've farmed loot and got fully geared, m4 cco sd, as50, ghillie, nvg's whatever what ELSE do you do then? I actually believe PvP is one of the most interesting parts of day-z, seeing as there's literally nothing else to do. Compared to straight PvP deathmatch games the manner in which you get into the engagement is the interesting part. It's not insta-spawn like cod, or you get all your gear back, and the map being as it is you can approach every situation differently. From 1000m away with a as50, ghillied up and in a forest overlooking a field or from 20m away ambushing a few dudes with a silenced m4. PvP is what makes day-z exciting imo. The potential to be ambushed or sniped on your next step is what keeps a majority of players playing imo. Otherwise you'd have no fear, no adrenaline rush, nothing. Then it's just a extremely poor sandbox mod with a bad variety of zombies and few enterable buildings. Hell, without PvP Just Cause 2 is a better game. And I don't purposely hunt ''new'' spawns on the coast, if anything i've been known to give them basic gear just to make their day haha. but you bet i'm nailing everyone else I come across. Although I will say I usually do try and team up or call friendly first, i wouldn't play with a dude for a hour then just kill him.

No, 6 tents. All the FAL's were in Alice Packs I legit spent hours running/driving back and forwards when a supermarket spawned like 8 in as they do. I had them in a ATV. Dead excited too as I play 95% solo and also share bits and pieces when people need it. Helping people with meds too. Actually gave new, fresh players to the game basic kit and would often meet players spawned on the coast to give out old AKM's, AK'S, maps and such I couldn't fit in the tent. I don't dupe. I never said I ever did so quote where I said I had in my original post? however I did say now I'm all for it. If I get gunned down - fine. If my tents get robbed...fine. If I die or lose gear in such a way that is a legit gameplay mechanic, fine. No problems. But when it comes to wasting my time running back + forwards, shuffling gear around for days on end, walking miles up north to find helis to lose it all or getting insta-killed before I had a camp - no. Just no. That gear IS mine. If I dupe 5 FN FALS I'd have a clear conscience. I earnt them despite the fact I have to resort to bitch moves to get them back. Kinda shows peoples integrity that you're prepared to waste your life and lose stuff via hacking and just shrug about it then condemn anyone who's driven to abusing a mechanic. I'm not hacking. If I kill you with a FAL I had to dupe when I lost my own is it wrong? If a dude spent days on a camp, lost his shit, and duped it back and killed me it's not like he didn't earn it. If hacking/glitches didn't exist in game he'd have had the weapon anyway. Can't think of a analogy. Also I should have elaborated. I had 6 tents spread over 2000m. All lasted 3 weeks - server was low/med pop and they were hidden really well. Which again was hours spent running uphill, thought forests, back and forwards arranging everything. Hence my anger. And sure - I can get a PK and gear up but without a camp to fall back on I'm screwed. And I thought people exaggerated the hacking since I stuck to low pop servers at first. Soon as I hit 20 > servers I got hacked once a hour hence why I relied on my camp. After I lost my camps I PK'd a ghillie and got nearly everything - within the hour a 40 man server got insta killed one by one. Thank you for your valuable contribution, I look forward to more insight from you in the future. And a general note - the excess of ghillies came from 2 nights raiding the west side of the map. Hell I found 6 ghillies in one tent. So don't accuse me of duping.

I LOVED dayz when finding a basic m4 or winchester was awesome. honestly. i'm a loot addict so i wish nvgs were as rare as the 0.whatever % spawn chance. but every other dude is fully kitted illegitimately, ignoring the fact you lose everything nearly everyday anyway if you join a high pop server so why not? can't wait for the standalone. can you really justify spending hours on foot hitting the NWAF, Stary, Balota and looking for heli crashes to lose it all in a second some basement dweller or 16 yr old script kid decides to insta kill the whole server? contrary to popular belief we do all have lives and i dont enjoy wasting it dying in the middle of nowhere to a hack..

lol, why is it people LOVE to act all superior online like - ''oh noes you said you won't play so bye bye hope the door hitz u on teh way out''. imagine if you lived your REAL lives like this - crazy..

How have I duped? I got the gear totally legit from raiding other people and pvp. Hell, I walked onto a 30/40 server fresh spawn and found 2 dead guys with full kits in 10 minutes. But, seeing as the mod is dead, standalone is out soon and i get hacked within 20 minutes of joining a server over 20 people i'm all for duping.

Ah well, least scripting ammo boxes in looks easy enough. I'm done with legit gathering gear to lose it to bugs and hackers. And yeah, they'd been there 3 weeks as well.

exactly what the title says - what do you want for a m4 cco sd? be reasonable.

haha - well i do have 35 ghillies, 10 rangefinders, 3 m107s and 7 nvgs...but no :P

exactly what the title says - what do you want for a m4 cco sd? be reasonable.

Hackers. I can deal with the bugs, I can deal with 4 man teams sniping noobs spawning on the coast. I can deal with graphical glitches completely obscuring my field of view. I can deal with crazy, jerky zombies. I can deal with being hit by a zombie from 6ft away, breaking my legs and crawling to a hospital. I can deal with randomly losing gear..but...hacking....gamebreaker. Literally the incentive to play is getting smaller and smaller, despite the fact day-z would probably be my favourite game minus the hackers and a few tweaks. There's no point in running around gearing up - which was half the fun - when you're either gonna be hacked and die instantly, everyone else is fully geared with scripted weapons within 2 minutes of spawning or you can find dead players on the coast who have full gear. Hell, I haven't been further north than Stary in 2 weeks. Then, even if you have survived long enough to get fully geared, you have to battle the subtle god mode hacks and ESP hacks. So essentially the point of playing the game seriously is gone. Now I have more fun driving a bus through Electro spamming the horn seeing if I can run anyone down haha. Or seeing if I can hatchet anyone straight off spawn. Also, while the game is a sandbox and half the ''missions'' and ''objectives'' come naturally (e.g, spending a hour repairing a vehicle or raiding the airfield), I would like more of a objective and a few tweaks in the standalone. Not ''storyline'' like, or ''console'' like, but maybe more to do. Friendly only towns/trade points, building legit bases/camps as ''safezones'', more vehicles, ''boss'' type zombies - crawlers and normal zombies with like 5 skins isn't cutting it (yes, it's a alpha mod, I know lol) perhaps maps/radios that give coordinates of rare loot spawns like the deerstands. Just more subtle content that doesn't take away from the sandbox nature of the game.

I just have to echo everyone else. Fixing duping is great, but hacking is what needs to be addressed first. If hacking continues to exist as rampantly as it does now - I'm all for duping. I'd rather have neither in the game and military gear actually being rare but that's impossible in the current state of the game. At least with duping it gives players a option who don't want to hack to semi enjoy the game. As a example - i'd legitimately fully geared myself through airfield raids and looting dead players. I had every tool, including the famed ''radio'', nvgs, rangefinders, as50, m4 cco sd w/5 magazines and a coyote backpack i'd just picked up then I just dropped dead. Then one by one the server dropped dead. Now if my friend hadn't found a hacked in ammo box with every tool and gun in the game a hour previous and duped the shit out of it and made a camp on another server I probably would have lost all interest in playing tbh.

Only downside is is that I don't have a mic atm. I'm purchasing one soon but it'll be around the end of the month as I can't justify spending money out of my savings just for one! I'm 23, been playing a couple weeks now but picked it up pretty quickly and would say I'm a decent player. Only been PC gaming for a couple months - everybody I know is on xbox! Last character I had was 6 days alive and just now killed myself by checking out that huge tower near the fire station on the outskirts of electro and going prone at the top and glitching out - falling to my death =( Looking for a decent squad to run with as a majority of my deaths come from the fact i'm solo and I can never find animals when I have matches/hatchet and wood so blood is a issue. Add me through steam ''xstarblazer'' or private message me and i'll get skype set up.

So - I get Tyson punched in Stary by a zombie I unloaded 4 remington shots on from point blank and get a insta-broken leg, great - on day 5 too so wanted to live. Either lag spike or the fact the mod is alpha but I even had time to reload and the zombie just hung there. Anyway I made a plea on here for some help - logged off. Heard back from dude and logged in for morphine....I spawn at Cap Golova. Not Stary. Thanks patch. So I crawl, yes crawl, to Cherno. Along the way I aggro'd zombies who happened to walk into me just in the town before Cherno and had to roll around picking them off then find a animal to kill for cooked meat. With full blood I push on with the aid of sticking a coin in my keyboard and finally reach the city. Somehow aggro another zombie and have to crawl around while being hit and luckily crawl into a house, bandage, and eat the rest of the cooked meat. Reach the hospital finally. Spam shots into the window - doesn't smash. Fucking awesome. Cue 10 zombies running at me. I crawl to the ladder to escape, glitch because someones put a fucking tent at the bottom. Log off. Log on and try the window again - no luck. Back to the ladder - get up to the roof and ''Arma 2 has stopped responding'', fuuuuuuuu. Restart. Spawn at Krutoy Cap. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU. Seriously - any help? I'll be on tomorrow, about 11am GMT.