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I found this on google cache, after it had been taken down off the forum. Withholding information from the community is not the answer to any problem, so I'm re-posting this. Introduction I originally posted this topic on the NZ server forums, since NZ servers were the ones most heavily plagued by hackers. As such a lot of the estimations won't be relevant, but I imagine everybody knows that hackers are still very much present on servers in other regions. Despite how many times people lie to themselves "it's impossible to avoid hacking in online games", there is no denying that compared to any other online game such as Battlefield 3 or WoW, hacking in DayZ is disturbingly more common. By my estimation, at least a quarter of the players on NZ servers are hackers. Where did I get this estimation? I didn't simply pull it out of nowhere, or somehow deduce a figure from deaths or hacker reports. I know this to be true, because as a hacker you can spot other hackers. That was my initial purpose when I decided to purchase a script kit, to see just how bad the situation truly is. I know there are still many honest players out there, and once in awhile I get to revert some of them who were turned into dogs by other hackers. I created this thread to provide the community with an overview on hackers' behaviours, their scripts, and how you should act to avoid personal losses. I'll be skipping anything that's overly obvious such as "server getting nuked, there must be a hacker". The Hackers Make no mistake. The hackers are at the very top of the food chain, and for some reason they are A LOT more common on NZ servers than any other region. If you can live with the ping, play on an US server and you will by default save yourself a lot of grief (from hacking at least). There are two extremes of hackers. On one end is the griefer, the typical kind that nukes servers, kill people while invisible, godmode, hack guns, fly jets, etc. On the other end is the regular, a hacker who plays the game like any other regular gamer, but gives himself an advantage of some sort via hacking. From what I've seen both types are equally common on the NZ servers. If you see someone who is geared to the teeth and acting recklessly, then it's probably too good to be true. There is nothing wrong with being a bandit, that's part of DayZ, but choose your targets carefully. The Scripts Hackers have a lot of powerful scripts, some of which are even quite useful against other hackers. I myself have used Lock Man repetitively on some other hackers (which even disables their ability to bring up the hack menu) and force them to rage quit. Some hacks are very noticeable, leaves traces on servers or has very devastating effects, I'll call them high-profile. Others are a lot less detectable, and often enough when you died to a hacker you might have thought that it was simply bad luck. High Profile Spawn Weapon Crate - Some hackers are bold enough to spawn large weapon crates in the middle of towns. These weapon crates generally contain 20 of every weapon in the game (ARMA 2), some of which not obtainable by normal means in DayZ. If you see one... well, I guess it's not your fault that the temptation is too great. You won't get into any trouble if you loot from it, but feel free to avoid the crates for moral reasons. If you do choose to pick up a weapon however, make sure that it officially exists in the DayZ universe. If it's a weapon that's only available in ARMA 2 then it will disappear upon relog. Thunderdome - Thunderdome is a script that teleports all players on a server to a deathmatch arena filled with guns. The only way to get out of this dome without logging off is to survive 5 minutes, and then secure the helicopter which will spawn at the centre of the arena. Technically hackers can actually desync the players before summoning them to the arena, so that even if you die in the arena you will still retain the gear you had prior to the teleport. Sadly most people who use this script are griefers who never cared about that. Oh, "illegal copies may degrade", so your chopper will disappear upon server restart. Teleport to Hacker - A simpler script than Thunderdome, hackers can teleport an entire server's population (or a single player in particular, e.g. a non-hacking friend) to where he is. In fact, as soon as you see your scenary change suddenly, abort asap. Don't bother shouting "WTF". This is no time to socialise when the hacker probably has something nasty (i.e. satchel charge) planned for the crowd, if he opted to use teleport instead of nuke. Remember, when in doubt, log out, or at least hit "z" key. Prone won't save you from explosives, but hiding in a large pile of corpses can at least prevent you from being killed by other nervous players. Jets/Choppers/Artillery - While choppers are in game, you probably won't see any legit chopper being used to solely show off in Cherno and grief people. Again, if you start hearing too many explosions, log off straight away. Explosions are good indicators for hackers intending to grief, so even if you manage to survive some carpet bombing, there is probably a nuke coming next. PlayerMorph - Remember those stories of players being turned into dogs and cows? If it happens, log out straight away. Even if the hacker doesn't kill you immediately, if you wait around a curious player may just decide to try get some dog meat. You should return to your human form upon relog, although your gear may or may not be lost. Bodyguards - A script very rarely used by hackers. This script summons half a dozen M4-wielding NPCs who will follow the hacker. These NPCs attract zombies, and attack zombies and other players on sight. Low Profile AddItems - The most common hack used by all walks of hacking life. Unless the weapon is not a legit DayZ weapon, there is virtually no way of conclusively proving that someone is adding items. If you start seeing half the people on a server wearing ghillie suit (which is the "uniform" for 90% of the hackers, like the old bandit skin), wielding AS50 and spamming satchel charges, then the picture should be obvious. Godmode - Surprisingly many hackers don't actually use this script, since it takes too much away from the game (no hunger, thirst, disease, etc.). If you ever suspect that a hacker may have godmode on, and if your weapon and position don't offer a great aim, then your best course of action is to log off. Running is useless, if a hacker truly wants you die, you will die, whether that's by teleportation and bullets, dog-transformation, broken legs or a simple kill command. Hackers with godmode on can still bleed (animation only), and they can't remove the animation without first turning off godmode and bandage. If you see some guy in ghillie suit happily bleeding without a care, then you should probably avoid him. Invisibility - This is a very popular hack. Invisibility turns the hacker's skin invisible, however the hacker makes just as much noise (from moving, coughing, etc.), and the zombies can spot/hear the hacker just as well. Invisibility turns the gun invisible, but the smoke still appears. If the hacker is bleeding, then the blood will also give him away. Don't try to hunt down an invisible hacker, since chances are godmode is also on. Log off. ESP - Yes, hackers have a working EPS which shows people's name tags around them up to 800m. Virtually all the hackers have this on, as such trying to hide from a hacker is pretty pointless. Often enough when you get ambushed despite taking every precautions, hacking may be involved. Map Markers - Currently hackers can mark players, vehicles, tents and helicopter crashes on both the map and their GPS. As such, always remember that your camp and car aren't safe. Since hackers didn't have to work hard to gather all the loot or repair a car, their actions are often destructive when they find tents and cars. Other hackers may pretend to have found the car/tents via normal means and lead their clans to them. Don't always blame server resets, sometimes it's simply hackers stealing your very well-hidden stuff. The only safe place to store any loot is on an alt character from a second copy of ARMA2. Teleport - Most people know that hackers can teleport, but people probably don't know that hackers can only teleport to the ground level. This means that if you are at the top of a building a hacker can't simply teleport right behind you. He'd have to teleport to the first floor and work his way up. Use this information how you will. If the hacker is in a vehicle, then the vehicle teleports with the hacker. Infinite Ammo - This is pretty self-explanatory. If you hear a DMR/AS50 being spammed without any interval for reload, then there is probably a hacker. The effect also covers satchel charges. Lock Man - This script locks a single player's, or the entire server's inputs. This means your camera will be frozen, and any key you press will have no effect. The effect expires upon relog, so most people may initially think that it's simply a DayZ bug. In any case it's definitely a very good idea to log out straight away. While you are trying to bash your keyboard a hacking sniper is probably zeroing his rifle on you. There are countless other scripts out there, but most of them are either too obvious or useless (e.g. parachuting cows). Remember, many of these scripts (after proper modification) can be applied to other players who aren't personally hacking (e.g. godmode and invisibility). To Kill a Hacker Generally speaking it's not plausible to try and kill a hacker, but sometimes it is not impossible. Unless you are a hacker yourself, you will be severely disadvantaged against a hacker. Contrary to popular belief, the most common godmode does not offer absolute protection. It doesn't provide "damage immunity", instead it provides the hacker heals to full blood at very quick intervals. This means that any attack which cannot instant kill is pointless, a whole clip to a hacker's chest won't even scratch them. This also means that hackers can die from a perfect headshot. It may not always work, since there may be, or may eventually be other forms of godmode. Think very very carefully about killing a hacker though. If a hacker is willing to resort to godmode, then chances are killing him would be like taking new toys from a little kid. You may very well doom your entire server to an imminent rage-nuke by pulling that trigger. Well, you can always be a bit selfish, but you don't want to be there when the kid throws a tantrum. Hackers Get Banned This is the eventual consequence of hacking. There is no exception to this, period. People may see a lot of hackers on servers and think that these hackers have never been banned. The truth is these hackers are constantly in the process of buying new copies of ARMA2 in order to continue their hacking spree. The hackers may not go away, but do you want to lose your copy? The only reason I'm using the kit myself is because I have literally nothing to lose. In a sense I have already stopped playing the game. If you are foolish enough to actually search up these hacks and use them, then you will lose your account. It may take a few days, it may take a couple weeks, but it will happen. PS: Please rely if you find this guide helpful, so that it stays on first page and gets to reach more people. Edited by Elenkel, 02 August 2012 - 05:07 AM.

They're not. I have a massive blue truck stashed stashed in the forest near Zub castle. I found it near the NWAF. Last week, I had a UAZ hidden in plain site parked behind a house near a small village in the east for 6 nights. It eventually got found and so will my lorry at some point. I also managed to steal a pick-up truck from outside a church while the owner was looting the village. I play on a busy server too. There's many vehicles I've yet to find but it's only a matter of time until I find the secret stashes. Day Z is a game of patience, not short thrills.

Requirements: - Know how to gear up and are already geared up - Experience of 1 month + - Have a Tent so we set our base - Have a working mic and skype - 25+ years old What I will offer you: - Experienced player with good aim (sniper mostly watching over your back) - Loot from dead people - Supplies/Weapons that we will all set up with time (right now i have a tent going since im playing solo) The reasoning/goals behind this group. We will be only 5-6 people. No need to zerg people. We will not kill unarmed noobs or fresh spawns. Mostly on the lookouts for geared people etc Why cherno/elektro you faggot? Because this game is in alpha, and I cant stand watching people gearing up with vehicles and all the weapons in the game just to lose it over a hacker or a glitch. Had enough of this already :) And elektro/cherno even if we die we will head over to our camp gear up again and have a blast fast that means adrenaline + action all the time guaranteed. If you are watching some Live Streamers out there think of it more like Lirikk's group play with a bit tactical sacriel style. but waiting on a spot for 30 minutes to be all tactical without anything happening like sacriel's gameplay is not what we are looking at here. So far so good. Anyone being interested leave a message saying a few things about yourself and what role u wanna have. Unfortunately im posting this at the wrong time since im going out on holidays till the 13th but I m hoping i will find the 3-4 people I need for this task till then. Also I wont be taking the first guy who messages me so please dont whine if I say you are not the person im looking for. You can also PM me with your skype etc. Feel free to say your opinions / bad or good. I wont mind. I just wanna kill people in this game and killing them all alone gets really boring at times. Title is a bit missleading, we can ofc pvp to other areas of the map. it will get boring probably only hanging around these 2 cities. ps: This might be the worst idea ever or it might turn into something great. Time will tell. Aside from that please keep stupid comments to yourself.

Sorry but 50+ vehicles would be ridiculous. Unless you are looking for a demolition derby simulator? Get used to walking around a very large map or find out where the groups on your server are stashing all the vehicles. Finding them is not nearly as difficult as holding on to them.

They should make vehicles very common ( Realistic ) But make fuel very rare , that would balance things out.

50 + vehicles on one server! Are you kidding me. That's at least one per person on most servers, it's not wacky races. The thing that makes them so fun at the moment is that they're rare and hard to maintain. If I could find one with minimal effort then that would remove most of the fun for me. As it is, when I find a vehicle, it's an exciting moment. Then I have to think carefully about where I'm going to keep it so that I don't lose it. I like it how it is.

Big changes in zombies behaviour. First of all, they have to stop moving like Neo! They should be as fast as player. Much more zombies (not sure if servers can take it). Zombies breaking trough door - that would be awesome, but then door should be less dangerous too player (I am actually scared more, when opening/closing doors in barracks, that fighting zombies...). If those will become true, I have no problem with normally (fast) moving zombies in houses. But right now, it is madness. Less scoped weapons! More ways of camouflaging our vehicles. Hidding a truck elswhere the borders of the map is plain madness. Possibly some kind of camuflage net you could put on the car. Slightly more vehicles, but really slightly. And faster respawn! New map! But, similiar to Chernarus. Sights should use cyrilic (or other unusual language; Greek would be awesome); it is incredibly funny listening to people on YT who cannot read it :D. It also improves the atmosphere! Bigger map! Bigger cities with more variety of buildings! More enterable buildings (I think that it was promised already)! Underground stuff (metro would be awesome, but there probably wont be that big map for some kind of metro. But underground mine would make sense and would be super awesome! Train tunnels! Arma III engine should allow underground structures. EDIT: Just idea about underground structures. Since in the apocalypse is no electric power, you have to make some. By some kind of power generator. Someone already mentioned that. But when you have underground structure, there is always dark. So, you could use your flashlight, flares and chemlights or you could repair the generator and get some fuel for it and make the lighting work for some time! Repairable train! Can you imagine how awesome would that be? Ability to move around the map in train? That would be epic! Improved heli crash sites. You could actually see heli flying and falling. Zombies wouldnt spawn around, but thay would spawn in 100m radium and they would be coming to the crash site becaus of the noise it made. Military airplanes flying rarely above you. Just for fun. I would look awesome. Possibly could become another kind of "heli crash site". What about crashed cargo airplane with repairable HUMWEE in it? P.S. Sorry for my English, it is not my native language.

My Server is beeing attacket too. Since about 1 Week, scripters spawn weapons, nuke players, spawn vehicles etc... Im having a hard time reading the logfile and dont understand all lines as well and i dont want to have to understand all possible commands. imho It is very frustrating to be an admin, because you can not specate (because everyone fears that admins could abuse this power), you can not record a game session and you dont have an understandable (for non-programmers) logging format for scripts.txt. Why dont disable the console on multiplayer at all? What is it needed for anway (in mp)? I think that except for rcon, the console makes no sense in mp part of a game, except if you want to cheat. You can do everything else needed with the normal game UI.

Hi, is there any list of items that can be found i game, today i shot a guy who killed my comrade, i go to him and took map and Czech backpack, then i had to turn of the game but now i am wondering, is it possible to find a map in DayZ, if there is no list of items and vehicles it should be created, because i dont want to be banned because i scavenged some thing not legit. Also i have ACR DLC, can it make me banned? And are you considering adding stuff from ACR to DayZ

Don't restarts need to be more often? Always looking for a place, though. Found some hackers on my current home and blew up their vehicles. Almost got shot and then.... Connection lost. Ahem.

I call bullshit, you know why, because I've played a quite a bit of normal arma 2 and vehicles are quite easy to immoblize with basic assault weapons, and Tatics. I say if we are gonna have 50. cal weapons give us some abandoned armor since why the hell not.

Hmm, let me consider this. You're offering me the chance to plug all my group's information into your Russian database, complete with camp locations, vehicles, and (presumably) server information? Erm, no, but thanks anyway.

WHY. WHY DOES EVERYONE SAY ARMA III IS NOT A GOOD/OPTIMIZED ENGINE. Yes arma II's engine was kind of shabby, but thats the big thing about arma III! Its engine is much smoother and much better, and now it has Physx technology for more realistic vehicles, objects etc. You can't say a engine is bad if you haven't even tried it yet. The displays BI was showing wasn't a insane rig either, so that means this is much smoother then arma II is.

It's been restarted again since this happened, before I posted this. Didn't fix anything. Vehicles and tents are still gone.

Hunting abilitys * New animals: eagle, crow, deer, Owl ( sounding in forest at night & dawn) frogs ( a change of frogs close to lakes...some eatable and some not...3 different ones...one with a little poison, other gives some small health, can b e eaten raw) frogs sounds during dawn, and rain. ( more frog spawn when raining) snake ( dont know where...but it can bit you...medical treatment allready existing should be sufficient, but vision will be blurred for a short time. * the thing to make animal noises with so I can lure deers closer to me. Camo possibility to plant bushes ( or camo bushes) so it would possible to hide tents or myself. * mobile small Gasoline kitchen (makes less smoke appear perhaps) * fishing gear: Fishnet: can be placed close to lake ( a small percentage of possibility of spawning fish, perhaps 20% chance per day) Classic fishing: 10% fishchance per 10minutes, not sure) http://perlbal.hi-pi...akom-korken.jpg Gear: * Headlamp * Hunting boots ( some bit less noiser than regular) * Rainwear jacket ( dont get cold during rain) * Sleeping bag with very few slots Vehicles (sort of ) Canoe ( possible for 2-4 people in it. should take up same amount of slots as tent or one more) Others: Flashlights will need batteries, with a sort of indicator like fuel has ( same goes for headlamps).

Shrug. I've not been hit by scripters, been lucky. I found a camp today, though, full of illegal stuff in vehicles. I took some legal stuff that I've lost to bugs, then I took some of their grenades and blew up the vehicles. Creating stuff just ruins spawn chances and makes rare gear common, but if my tent and the latest patch ate gear that I know I legitimately found, well, imma take it. Thanks, hackers.

Hunting abilitys * New animals: eagle, crow, deer, Owl ( sounding in forest at night & dawn) Sure frogs ( a change of frogs close to lakes...some eatable and some not...3 different ones...one with a little poison, other gives some small health, can b e eaten raw) frogs sounds during dawn, and rain. ( more frog spawn when raining) Kinda pointless and dumb snake ( dont know where...but it can bit you...medical treatment allready existing should be sufficient, but vision will be blurred for a short time. No. I'll pass on a snake spawning up and fucking up my vision for no reason. * the thing to make animal noises with so I can lure deers closer to me. No? Camo possibility to plant bushes ( or camo bushes) so it would possible to hide tents or myself. No * mobile small Gasoline kitchen (makes less smoke appear perhaps) Really no * fishing gear: Fishnet: can be placed close to lake ( a small percentage of possibility of spawning fish, perhaps 20% chance per day) This is fine, good idea Classic fishing: 10% fishchance per 10minutes, not sure) This isn't. http://perlbal.hi-pi...akom-korken.jpg Gear: * Headlamp Good idea * Hunting boots ( some bit less noiser than regular) ...Why? * Rainwear jacket ( dont get cold during rain) Good * Sleeping bag with very few slots No Vehicles (sort of ) Canoe ( possible for 2-4 people in it. should take up same amount of slots as tent or one more) No, the biggest lakes are like 40 meters wide and theres no rivers Others: Flashlights will need batteries, with a sort of indicator like fuel has ( same goes for headlamps). Not even related. My own suggestion, I would like to see zombies aggro onto animals, if I'm being chased and run past a cow they should forget about me and go eat the slow dumb animal that can't escape

I hope this is in the final product. I have being able to use melee weapons in the OP but I'll edit it to be more clear, add weapon switching, and add the bit about the flashlight. I'll change the related bit in the OP to reflect this. I, however, don't think that repairable vehicles should be more common, at their current rate they are coveted. However, you are the second person to say that. If I get more upvotes for it I will add it. Already in the OP Updating OP I remember reading that rag doll physics would be something Rocket would want to see in a stand alone game already. updating OP, great suggestion

The bag/gear system is atrocious. But if you keep with the videos/wikis and practice it a few times (along with tents, vehicles, etc) it will start to click.

increase the number of vehicles and make (most) not required to be (fully) repaired. why on earth are all vehicles damaged, empty and without wheels...?! I would also consider cars leave tracks offroad, but I think it's too much for a mod.

We CAN'T rollback our servers to get vehicles back. How many times must we say this?

When you die, you die... get over it and start again... but yeah when you have high tier weapons, a few vehicles then there really aint much else to do apart from hunt and set ambushes.. keeps things exciting and no 2 firefights are ever the same :)

The server code is over 1000 i think, then will vehicles not spwan.

You know if I was hacked once or maybe twice in this game, I wouldn't be writing a post on my concerns over hacking, but after going to about 15 different servers in one day and dealing with hackers on easily 8+ of them, I must say hacking has hit an all time high. Games like Counter-Strike where you die from hackers, isn't so bad, because you can easily target who it is, kick them and you don't lose anything special. In DayZ when you get hacked, you lose everything and I mean absolutely everything. It's demoralizing, it's not immersive and it's definately not fun. I play this game because of the combat, I love the pvp and I love how engaging it becomes, especially when you take out 3 or 4 guys. I consider myself a top tier bandit(pvp player) and yes not many of you will like that, but that's just the way the cookie crumbles. I'd say out of 20 of my deaths, 15 of them were done by hackers nuking, spawning on me or auto-aiming/wall hacking. I know Rocket you said you can't do much about hacking until you can lock up the files, but honestly how can we fully test an alpha version of the game, when were getting hacked 90% of the time? My friends and I will hoard vehicles and hackers spawn us, blow everything up and we lose it all.... Your game has hit over 1 million copies, I am sure Bohemia has plenty of money to spend now on a small team to start an anti-hack program that is extremely effective, rater than this battleye crap were using now. Like I said, I am sure many of you out there have experienced what I have experienced in the last week and you probably want to download hacks yourself to protect yourself and retaliate against the cock smokers that use them against your everyday legit players. Something must be done....

Repairable vehicles should be more common, however parts should have to be cross-salvaged, and fuel should be much more rare.