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I just had the weirdest experience. I was running along the treeline trying to get out of Cherno towards Elektro. I would run for a bit keeping the coast on my right shoulder, pass the place with the bodies half buried in the ground with all the flies buzzing, come across a few buildings and then see Cherno in the distance. I kept going, passed Cherno again, again passed the pitt of bodies and after 4-5 minutes of running in a straight line along the coast - there was Cherno in the distance. There was no break in the scenery or anything so as far as I can tell I hadn't been teleported - If I had then it wasn't noticeable. So bizarre. Any idea what could have happened there?

Had my first experience with a hacker today, playing in CA 21. Me and my friends were talking on vent, one had stolen a van from a group of snipers but my friend had taken a lot of hits. He was constantly passing out and trying to get it somewhere out of the way where I or our companion could go and get it. Eventually he managed to get it into the wilderness, unseen, where my other friend met him. Despite this, some guy who wasn't listed on the players list calling himself Rocket (there was one player with a blank name) managed to find him, said "you stole this from my friends, now you must die" (I know, melodrama), shot one of them and then blew up the van. I realise it's possible that he could have tracked my friend or just stumbled across it, but there's more. At this point I'm still a good 20 minute run away from them, when some guy steps out from the trees and mugs me. He's wearing a red beret and has what looks like a zombie skin face. I know that my friend has been killed and having quite recently spawned I just be a bit cocky with him. Weirdly, rather than shooting me his character kept hitting me with the butt of his rifle, something I don't think is possible in the game. My final remaining friend at this point tries to disconnect because we figure we're dealing with a hacker: the guy in front of me vanishes, appears to my friend, kills him, and then returns boasting about how my friend wasn't fast enough to disconnect. I mock him until bleeding out. Seems to me it was a definite hacker: found my friends in the middle of nowhere, found me even more in the middle of nowhere, didn't appear on the player list, had unobtainable skin, did some weird rifle melee, teleported at will. Didn't really bother me, I didn't have much to lose and honestly found it funny how it was like a 13-year-old American kid who got a little tetchy when I was less intimidated and more amused.