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Everywhere? It sounds like you stayed on the coast both times. No surprise it's all barbwired shut. Did you consider going north to any of the other major towns, farms, industrial and construction sites, or the NE and NW airfields? You went to two of the most trafficked areas and couldn't get anything so you gave up in frustration? The map is enormous, leave the coast. If that sounds like too much work then find a different server, get a toolbox, and then go back if you really want to.

I'm glad OP went straight to youtube to learn how to uber hax instead of searching the forums here. Then again, he did just hand his CDkey over to some real hacker that's probably really happy to be able to get back into the game.

I believe all this hacking nonsense is all an evil plot by none other than Sid Meier.

If a chainsaw is added I hope they give us more than just piles of wood. I want logs to tow with my atv/truck to make defenses and structures.

Locking the game to steam? Does this mean I'd have to run steam just to play? I don't really like the sounds of that even as a legit player. I hate hackers too but is that the only way to tackle this problem?

I was hoping they'd add more wildlife to the game. If so, maybe bears, wolves, and players dogs would be attracted to the cooked meat in a players pack. This would force us to choose canned goods with low hp restoration or cooked meat and a chance of getting attacked by something hungry. I actually don't see anything wrong with this idea as far as survival goes. The Cherno/Elektro pvp guys might not like it but it makes sense. Maybe by logging out near a tent, in a building, or at least under a tree would be better than just logging out anywhere with no ill effects. This would actually make camps more useful than just storing gear and could make survival players more territorial than they are now.

I'd host a private hive but only if it was whitelisted.

Once they're done removing all the high grade gear you guys will be right back here asking for nerfs for the AK's because your shotgun isn't powerful enough to take on the new 'high grade' weapons. So, no. Bad idea, terrible. Honestly, this smells more like pvp'ers whining about getting sniped. Try not to spend your entire time in Cherno or Elektro (or somewhere in between) and maybe you'll find these guns are a lot less threatening.

And I here I was thinking no one could use slimier marketing than the War Z clowns..

This depends entirely on how you choose to play DayZ.

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I've run into hackers on servers with only 3 people, including myself. The other two were hackers.

First, I'd empty any tents I had, pack them or flatten them with a car, and then relocate my camp to someplace else. I'd leave one empty vehicle with four flat tires at the old camp site and then wait for the greedy bastards to show up again.

Well, I guess the option is playing public hive servers with a bunch of drooling idiots or playing on this whitelisted private hive server with soft hackers that for some reason haven't found our cars yet, our camp, or bee lined right to us after we killed them. To our surprise, NO ONE has combat logged either and there's certainly no ghosting. So I think I'll take my whitelisted server where someone may or may not be hacking but certainly isn't teleporting me into the ocean or turning us all into goats.

My expectations were not met. Quickly, suggest animals that gut themselves!

I'm going to go ahead and avoid pointing out what has already been pointed out. These friendly servers would still have hackers and guess what the hackers would do? Wipe your inventory. There you go. Nothing solved.

Title is misleading.

Exactly. :D Honestly, this is what I get for waking up, stumbling out of bed and into my chair, and finding the forums open on my browser.

That's exactly why I play on whitelisted private hives and no longer have these problems. Deathmatching against aimbots and map hackers is just as pointless as deathmatching against god mode hackers. Server admins who take the time to setup a private hive have more power over their servers and are generally more invested in it than some guy who tosses some cash a provider and doesn't do any of the work.

Try the old move the map to pack, exit inventory, press M, esc, and then move the map back to main inventory trick.

Agree 100%. They say we'll be able to build underground bases in the standalone. I believe they said it would take quite a lot of effort to build an underground base and then expand it. Hopefully they're considering long tunnels so we can have multiple hidden entrances/exits. That's cool and all but I'd still like to see barbwire, sandbags, and tanktraps actually keep out zombies and maybe an addition of wooden fences, gates ( :) ), and other barricades. I was knocking down trees in a Ural the other day and thought it would be awesome if we could use them for roadblocks or to build a wall around a base. Maybe an option to cut down trees and then tow them with a ATV or truck. Using them to make pillboxes or other defenses would be handy as well. Which makes me think of concrete.. So many possibilities.

I play at night often. I use flares, flashlights, chem lights, fires, and headlights and when possible night vision. Do I turn up the gamma? Sometimes but most of the time it doesn't help. I think more people will play at night when duping gets fixed and NVGs become as rare as they should be.

Hey Lowbei, can you link me to where the devs say the dog is wild? Appreciate it. Thanks.

Locks can't stand up to bullets. Always liked the idea of camo netting or some type of car cover to help hide vehicles from players. I also like the idea of gathering branches to place around the vehicle to make it a little harder to spot.

I'd prefer to find dogs hiding in the dog houses spread out in the game and/or hiding near rural towns or barns. Perhaps a random event of a pack of zombies chasing a dog?