Doro

Blizzard uses Warden, which is similar to BattleEye in a sense...detects unauthorized code, etc. The main thing is that everything is processed server-side. All the loot is generated server-side in D3. Client-side has very little going on. The downside of this is your gameplay quality is limited to the server's power. D3 was a huge nightmare for a while due to servers being overloaded. Letting the client handle more processes will alleviate server-strain, but you lose "security". Blizzard's infrastructure for coping with the heavy server loads = $$$...BI is unfortunately nowhere near that scale, or so I would surmise.

From what I've gleaned over the past few weeks, the hackers have an overlay on their map that shows the location of every player/vehicle and allows them to teleport at will. I've run into a few teleporting-superman types that will appear right next to you and eat bullets like the terminator. The other breed seems to be the subtle-hacker (could just be a duper) that spawns ghillie + full gear (+ vehicles) but still plays within the general "rules" of the game (to an extent). This method of death was a first for me though, it's the first hack I've encountered where the guy didn't actually attack me but used some weird zombie script or something. And just to clarify, it wasn't like being sniped by a 1000m+ AS50 where you die to a silent bullet. More a-kin to being glitched/stuck, losing control of your character, then keeling over dead after a brief period.

Sad to know, I assumed that the hacker would have hid my body just to be a troll. I might have stayed up the extra 30min or so to get my items back had I known for sure my corpse would be waiting for me >_< At the least, I am comforted by the knowledge that my gear has been passed on to a legit player and not completely gone to waste!

What time were you on? I'd imagine that an admin can probably look at the logs and see the massacre / death-count. I was on 838LA, I believe the hacker killed me around 2AM-2:30 PST. Memory a bit fuzzy since it was late at night. Pretty sure the CCO/M9SD corpse you found was mine. I had just found the CCO-SD not 10 minutes prior to dying (replacing my M16-ACOG). I had the M9SD, coyote and all my other junk from killing a bandit the previous night. Anyhow... There were well over 20 players on at the time...I saw the death count start racking up despite the server being relatively quiet for half an hour, and knew it was a hacker (probably 8 deaths within a 30sec span). Been victim of it too many times...always seems to happen late at night. I went to disconnect as soon as I saw the deaths racking up and knew they were "unnatural"; all the sudden I went unconscious and died (from 10k+ HP). I had zero zombie agro and had been hiding in the barracks for maybe 1 minute. The weird part was I saw two zombie arms in an attack-motion as I died. Just the arms, no zombie. I checked the playerlist and it was dwindling really fast, over half the server logged off after getting killed. I couldn't bother running to my corpse since it was so late at night. When I signed off there were maybe 8 people on and the headcount was still dropping. I'm actually surprised the hacker stuck around and kept griefing on a low-pop server. Lots of heads were yelling about it over voice-chat while respawning. More than half my deaths have been to hackers lately, and it's starting to get frustrating after spending hours acquiring gear just to die instantly without an adrenaline-fueled legit gunfight :(