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This hacking is getting rediculous. you can't even join a server without getting spawn hacked, having vehicles and model hacks. This game could be so epic if everyone in the world didn't want to cheat. Can we please do something about this Thanks Myox

Hello guys, I bought the game one week ago, and today I have been global banned for cheating on DayZ (I bought Arma II just for this) I remember my first two days, when I was in fear of zombies, and made my way through cities always proned and crouching/walking. Then I understood that running and losing zombies through houses was much more easy and fast, but less fun. Still, the most efficient solution to both get the loots and run away from snipers. Then I got killed by doors, bushes, falling 2 meters high, losing my backpack stuff when trying to move items, being completely glitched-stuck on invisible vehicles when disconnecting on real ones, or just losing stuff in tents or on the ground... Then I got killed by hackers and lame players just shooting players on sight, even when I said on mic that I was friendly (and really was). Then zombies started to attack me by going through walls, barricades, teleporting left and right, and so on. I also had graphical artifacts bugs which really trashed my game experience (and yes I did the no multithread config in nVidia settings). By reading the official forums here I understood that the game devs were not interacting with the community whatsoever, and found it really shameful considering some indie devs regularly post and replies on their own forums. After 4 days of DayZ, the thrilling gameplay experience I had vanished into thin air, considering the amount of issues that just break it, players behaviors included. I was bored of dying for no reason whatsoever, bored of having poor feedback about next coming patches, and regretted that the game role play experience was so poor. If only zombies were able to catch you and you needed help from another survivor (Left4Dead gameplay mechanic is really good on that topic), this would have drastically change the gameplay and players behavior. Cheating felt to me like the normal thing to get the things in balance with the alpha mod (I know it's alpha, so why would anyone care of cheats? I don't know, this is not clear... You yell "it's alpha, it's a test" and scream like babies when someone cheats to push the game to its corners) As some people stated, the game just ended in another PvP Online Shooter. End game, nothing to do. I would have taken great pleasure to repair vehicles, but I quite never found vehicles, except on some unpopulated servers, making the use of vehicles really poor (they ended hidden in woods, used as storage facilities when switching servers). This is when I started cheating. It was really fun to transform some servers into a sandbox where I could spawn choppers and whatever guns I liked. Note that I never used the scripts to kill players, thunderdome or other bullshits like this (never used godlike except once to try to save me from bleeding after an heli crash) and used unpopulated servers. Ruining others experience is not my kind. I silently geared myself up, and moved on other servers without killing anyone. I also geared all my friends and we just had fun shooting each other without looking to break the gameplay of others. After that, my goal was to try some roleplay, like taking players in hostages, but no matter what it always ended in dumb gunfights. The side channel removed made this even worst, as interactions with other players was made very poor. On my way to cheat, I made a few manipulation mistakes that probably got me banned (or I executed the wrong scripts, I don't know, but it is obviously due to records in the hive database and not on immediate software detection). The 25$ Arma II Combined OPS costed me was worth it. I had a great experience for the first three days of DayZ, and I already bought games that price that never delivered me the experience I had. Even banned, I did not see my money as wasted money. I will wait for the standalone to get out, if it's better than the doubtful-promised "The War Z" I will get it. I know what you guys will write : "bye bye, won't regret you", or "you got what you deserve punk", but I felt that sharing my cheater experience with you could be cool for people who are interested in knowing more about the "why do they do that". Still I regret nothing and will move on to other games, waiting the standalone to find you there :-)

Like I said I don't play DayZ anymore but good to know all you guys do is just sit on top of buildings and snipe thats all. Real pro, maybe you should actually go different places and fight instead of sniping like you are good. Anyone can camp and snipe, try actually doing operation of clearing each building as a team. As for hacked weapons, anyone can have one, because I found two tents on a random US server with AS50 thermals, holding a hacked weapon doesn't mean they are hacked in. I don't see Batman hacking in this video, I don't see any ZH members being kicked, I don't see any ZH members dying. I hate to break this to you, but 6-8 kicks in your video is not much, we regularly get 40 people on in a day. Also any spawned in vehicles disappear after restarts, in case you didn't know this. Also the grass/tree is not allowed, that was changed in the update to 1.7.2.5. FYI Helicopters rarely spawn on my servers. Apparently that was the very first one we actually found that is legit. Any complaints about the kicking can be put into server reporting, let Rocket deal with it, but I highly doubt they will do anything. All they are focused on is the standalone game. Even if they blacklist our server, I have two other servers, plus our very own private one.

Erm. How/why would it be easier to hoard vehicles exactly? Because you can't server hop between different woods to find player camps? If so, GOOD. That's just, eurgh. Horrible. And the fact that people who have more time to play find choppers more often, is already the case. I can't think of any circumstance in any game ever where playing less gets you less stuff than someone that plays more than you.

Yet another thread that blames the "nefarious admin" who is itching to scare everyone away from their server. No, it wasn't the admin. At least, not directly. Vehicles don't save in 1.7.2.5. Well, I should say sporadic behavior occurs. When a 1.7.2.5 server restarts, 1 of 3 things can happen to your vehicle. 1) It stays where it was saved (VERY rare) 2) A different vehicle of some random type appears where your vehicle had been 3) It's just gone entirely. In all cases, the gear inside is deleted and reset to whatever that vehicle spawns with (if any). In cases 1 & 2, the vehicle seems to inherit the repair state of whatever vehicle was there previously. There is no way that I can tell to influence whether 1, 2, or 3 occurs. Just that #3 is the most frequent result. Stop blaming admins anytime something odd occurs. Admins have no more power than you do to affect the in game world.

Thanks, don't really care that much. But do the vehicles switch places (so if somebody was hiding the bus, they'll return and find my truck?) I just logged back into the server and there is now no vehicle there... Meh, what can you do

All of my group's gear from pre 1.7.2.5 constantly respawns in tents, and we can't seem to get any new tents to save anything. Luckily, we had a stupid amount of gear pre-patch, but its a bummer we can't move our campsite (been raided numerous times). We've tried, but there's nothing we can do. We're not intentionally duping by any means, but the game has become too easy just knowing we can gear up after a restart if need be. Honestly, I'm for a complete hive wipe of all tents, would do the entire community some good, and get rid of the majority of duped weapons. I'm sure everyone on our server knows exactly where our campsites are at now, and everyone constantly raids them for gear. No hacked weapons, but we have NVGs/SVDs/5+ AS 50s, Ghillies, etc, all there were found legitimately off of players or crash sites. The duping is out of control, we really need a Hive wipe and force everyone to use what they got, and a fix for the tents and vehicles in general.

I'd turn up the heat up north, and perhaps nerf the southern area. This is actually amazingly accurate (in my opinion anyway) but places like Cherno and Elektro aren't as dangerous as they used to be. All the bandits have realised now that these cities are 90% filled with new people trying to get basic gear, meaning the bandits have rubbish loot, and that places up north such as Stary Sobor are much more frequented. Cherno and Elektro could almost be considered safe in servers with around 10-15 people (any more and it's probably still dangerous). But honestly, when I was in Stary Sobor some days back, and I was server hopping (sorry, I get impatient) for loot, I joined servers with only 1 or 2 people in. And, the weird thing is, in some servers with only one person in I still managed to find someone else in Stary Sobor and either shot them or was shot. Same thing at the airfield, but the airfield seems a little safer due to it's mass size. So, actually, I'd rate Stary as the most dangerous hotspot in DayZ because there are just so many people there. And it's also a good place to find a red or camo UAZ, a bus, and even a helicopter (I've actually seen a red UAZ, a camo UAZ and a bus there at once!). Also I'd add a new colour, maybe green or something? While yellow is mainly travel routes (I'd put that as true, I frequent the empty roads often and sometimes go off-road), green would be more dangerous and better looting than yellow, but then the danger and good loot are much rarer than in yellow. I'm saying that most large groups, or small groups, tend to set up their camps on the western and northern forest areas where very few landmarks exist and where very few people travel due to its lack of loot. It's also the place where hidden vehicles are likely to be found, especially if you travel at night. This means that, while finding hidden vehicles or camps would be time-consuming and quite a rarity, the actual loot yield would likely be way higher as people will be hiding their valuable military equipment and such here. So if you make an improved version of this map with an additional colour like I said and also more concentrated hotspots in the north, I think this would be pretty much spot on. Cheers! EDIT: Also, I couldn't help noticing the map seems to have an extended North barrier and that Grozovy pass's incoming road is coming from the East rather than from the South. Is this an outdated map where the world was different? I'm using this map - http://dayzdb.com/map

Yay, then people can just hoard vehicles even easier!!! And now you have to wait hours just to find a crashed helicopter because other people have more time to play than you...YAY!!!

Yeap 2.5 does not save what is in tents or vehicles. Contents revert back to what was there when server was upgraded from 2.4 to 2.5. Had plenty of stuff in tents. Now I just use it all on raids and guess what. When the server restarts it's all back. Nothing else to do. No need to loot or look for vehicles. Just Snipe at 1200m untill server admin who has white listed his ID in the battleye dll haxs me. LOL I deserve it. Sort of funny when haxer makes you dance and spin in circles before the kill you.

I have to agree that being an admin in this game is a horrible experience. I personally will be moving my server a private hive because the majority of the player base in this game nerd rage, when you are trying to help keep their experience pleasant. When a hacker telle's everyone on my server, or does anything rediculous, I instantly kick all players so that I can look through the logs, I have to screenshot the player screen so that I look up the guid's and look through the logs. I often restart the server to get rid of the hacked vehicles the spawn in. Why do I do this? To stop the hacker from killing you and to stop you from getting a hacked vehicle driving it into the woods and get stranded when it despawns. What do I get for trying to do this? Flamed on the message boards, my reddit and teamspeak blown up by people raging and just all out jackassery. Why would I post my teamspeak information and reddit contact information on my server MOTD if I just wanted to ruin your experience? I do that so people have a forum to talk to me and discuss things, instead they just get on swear at me or send me some awful message on reddit. it sucks, and makes the game way less fun for me. Personally when I take my server to a private hive, I know the quality players that I will be inviting. The rest of the community can kiss the service I provide goodbye. Why pay to get berated by immature people who don't understand that you are acting in their best interest? 'OMG I KILLED YOU AND YOU KICKED ME BLAH BLAH"...No you didn't kill me because I am still at my camp alive, far from any other players...but still they "Have screen shots" that they never post and they just blather on and on until you ignore them for 15 mins. Who wants that? Not me. It isn't the admins that are ruining this game, it is the players with this ridiculous sense of privilege that "they have the right" to play on your server. Where would this game be without us server admins that pay our own money to give you a service? No where, this mod would be dead as it has no private servers. I love the mod, I know it is Alpha, so I don't complain about the bugs. Rocket and his team need to realign their priorities before they chase the rest of the server owns to private hive servers or away from hosting all together. They won't be here without us... remember that.

I play on low pop servers (5 or fewer players). Since I started doing that I haven't been haxxed. The PvP there is extremely anemic though, and pretty much I only find other players at the airfields. So at this stage the mod has become pretty PvE heavy for me. I don't mind it too much considering. I'd rather do target practice on zeds than deal with the frustration hackers/alt-f4ers in PvP. The idea of building a base or repairing cars is gone- nothing saves. I do have some fun zerging into Cherno or Elektro on a fresh spawn. I agree that the alpha test is done. Seems as though over the last month known bugs have only gotten worse. If there are new bugs it's hard to isolate them from the long-standing bugs. The hax and scripts thing is just a tough cookie to chew. The recent bans/people just getting bored I think are the only thing we can really count on there. It's always going to be present in the mod, at least to some degree. The other stuff needs to be fixed last week. The graphics glitch/deletion of tents/vehicles/inventory is tedious and taxing my will to test further.

It's fairly easy to makeup baseless accusations, I could just as easily say that CSA are cheaters and scriptkiddies and it hold as much merit as your claims. I guarantee you if you could give some proof it'd be handled appropriately. Every time I've been on we've busted ass to repair vehicles and setup camps with legitimate goodies we've scavenged, no spawned vehicles or weapons. If individuals are doing so I'm sure it's on their own accord, as it sure as hell isn't promoted by the higher ups or encouraged. There's over 100 people in ZH, so there's bound to be a few bad apples (although they don't stick around long if they are). With that said, and speaking solely for myself, I play to have fun and do just that. If I needed an ego boost I'd go drag some people around in basketball or paintball or something that actually requires physical talent. Clicking a mouse and maneuvering pixels "better" than another group/person doesn't really make me feel all special. But if that's your gig, and you feel better about yourself by thinking you "sweeped" some other people (which in your video none of them were even ZH) then have at it. I don't really have anything else to say on the matter, so whatever floats your boat have at it, just stop trying to trash ZH as it's making you all look bad.

Hello, I dont think theres any vehicles spawning or respawning on fr191 :/

Does anyone know the current status of this server? I mean, are there any vehicles or are they all destroyed/hidden? Do all of the vets carry L85s? Additionally, what about hackers on FR191? I saw another post regarding hackers on FR191, however it may be old. Cheers / A new player trying to find a nice server :)

AS50 and M107 are redundant, period, end of story. IMHO they should both be removed. OP or not, I feel that anti-material weapons do not have any merit in a post-apoc survival game. In reality I wouldn't want to lug around these weapon systems or their ammo on foot. Vehicles can still be disabled with smaller caliber rifles but it all boils down to shot placement. Same can be said for machine guns. Lighter and tighter, more maneuverability and less things to draw negative attention to yourself. Since the game takes place in some fictional satellite ComBlock country I'd like to see more Eastern Euro weaponry.

Yeah just give up on vehicles for now. Hopefully 1.7.3 will be outs soon

Hmm i would say for the vehicles respawning every few days that it should be maybe a bit longer than 3-5 days.. but it should also depend on the vehicle (the rarer vechicles should having a longer respawn time because they are harder to get), i also think that the respawn time after a car is left/broken etc should be brought down a fair bit. As for the cars being more unreliable i like that idea ^_^ Having to maintain your car with spare parts would be pretty awesome :3 Yeah i would prefer if all the cars got reset in 1.7.3 but i just put a few other ideas out there :)

That sucks, but there are countless other threads that attest to this bug working. The gear will only save once, but it will come back with every server restart. Vehicles will most likely disappear.

vehicles hoarded at camps rarely used as transport. their main purpose in this case is mobile storage. even if they degrade while just standing(it takes shitloads of time IRL) it wont be an issue, reducing vehicle storage capability(i know i not so realistic) might force people actually to use them as a transport, instead of just storage.

It's a trait of the current 1.7.2.5 so I would either get used to the concept of having to rebuild the vehicle each time the server restarts or just give up on vehicles completely until 1.7.3 is released, because there is no way you are going to find a server that "never restarts".

Couldn't agree more. Admins can ruin the game only by locking, restarting when it's convenient... and that's all. You may lose a vehicle that you have stolen from them or they do that to avoid getting killed, but they can do nothing more. Compared to that, there are players who cheat, kill all the players on a server, teleport them in a thunderdrome, spawns vehicles or weapons crates. And then there are all the exploiters, picking up weapons from all these crates, duplicating weapons and other unfair exploits. I really think they don't care about hacking until the game is gonna be a stand alone. Problem is, all this hacking is ruining the reputation of the mod, and each server admin who try to make their server hackers free gets a shitstorm by all the script kiddies or the exploiters who want to play comfy with their AS50 TWS acquired from a weapons crate.

i'd suggest even more - reset vehicles every 3-5** days (on server owners discretion with a tag in serverbrowser) i found some cars and bikes so far, also some hidden in the forest or far at the side of the map, but searching the borders isn't fun. you just run, chances are pretty low that someone sees you in the middle of nowhere it would be more challenging if you had to search for them every couple of days - also players who search for a new server don't have to find hidden bases all over the map or you could make them more unreliable, being damaged over time, needing repairs every two days and when destroyed the respawn somewhere

No it's not battlefield but it is however a military simulation game no matter what you say. The same roles still apply as you need people to repair and take out vehicles, medics etc

... This ^^ Open up Arma OA, play on Armex. It's basically a free roam with a bunch of vehicles you can mess around with. With friends as well if you wish.