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This is the third or fourth encounter I have had with hackers in the last week. Ruining the game to be honest. On this occasion on UK 181, my friend I play with spawned near balotta. He saw two guys with a UAZ. So like a boss he waits for them to leave and runs in stealing the UAZ with no gun. He hears gun shots as he drives the vehicle off. We had more players in cherno and he went to get them and then me in electro. We basically took the UAZ to the radio tower north of Vysota. We were trying to find an injured friend who kept passing out but we couldnt. There was five of us. 3 had guns. One unarmed in the vehicle. Next thing one by one everyone dies, I did hear the shots but no one could see anyone. It didn't come up with the players dying on the server either, which was odd. I actually survived as I was half way down the hill towards cherno looking for my friend. However as soon as my friends die, I see a van and a motobike driving up the hill towards where we were parked up. I ran deciding I would try and get to the UAZ and drive off. When I got to the UAZ I kept trying to get in, but I couldn't. Was as if the UAZ had been locked, then I flew 20 meters away from the UAZ and bled out after being unconscious with broken bones. I have no recording but this happened 20 minutes ago on Server UK 181. This is making the game almost unplayable. We had a gunfight on the same server before and a guy wearing a ghillie suit jumped off a 4 story warehouse in Cherno as were pushing up the stairs, no indication of death on the server again, but somehow 5 mins later he is behind the hospital taking shots at us. Last week we encountered a player called 'The Ghost of Chernarus'. This player killed 4 of my team mates who were in Cherno apartments in literally 1 second. With no bullet sounds. He then spotted me on top of the hospital and when I got down from the ladder after he was firing me, I typed to him that he was a dirty hacker or something and next thing I immediately die again with no bullet sounds. Basically rather then concentrating on stopping players reconnecting and disconnecting, and making server hosting completely pointless, I think you guys need to sort the hacking out somehow. If people can continue to just auto kill players, lock vehicles etc. people will not play the game. We lost two players today who don't really want to play anymore because they die before they can do anything fun. The game is a great idea, but for me the hackers are making it almost unplayable. So you steal a car and it is fun for five mins before a hacker comes along invisible and then kills your whole team in one move. It is a bit ridiculous.

Just got to love those moments when you have to travel across the entire map, and you get stuck in the car. I feel like sometimes I'm in one of those Ice Cube movies. Makes it more enjoyable when you're in a group with a lot of fun people! http://youtu.be/Y80Lde4rPtw

Lucky for you! i have been searching for ages for a vehicle any will do even a push bike but NOOOOOOooooooo Nothing! Im sure someone server hops grabs all vehicles takes them to a hiden location and breaks them all so no one can have them!

And unlike vehicles.... if you leave them for too long they can wonder off....that's what makes vehicles still an incentive. Maybe 24 hrs not In use.

I don't know where your getting your information from deadcheese but I was in vent with Kien and in the server with NdranC at the time this all happened. The only time he ever posted anything in group chat was to ask why he was banned. I even tried to ask in chat why he was banned but no reply. We don't use chat for anything so show us chat logs of what he said. We aren't trying to start a fuss here, we just wanted to know why he was banned for nothing because to us it looked like he was kicked for looting that particular body since it happened less than a minute after. Yes there are plenty of other servers to play on but how can we find a home server to play on to use tents and fix vehicles when so many admins keep banning people for everything and not bothering to follow up with logs. And seeing as how I was with him and know he didn't do this it makes me think you just banned him for this reason so you meet the requirements and don't get in trouble. And that's fine I don't really feel like playing on a server where admins do this type of thing so I'll find another. Just want this out there so others can see that this happened on US 1226 in case the same thing happens to them.

My server keeps getting hack since yesterday afternoon. Yesterday they changed everyones primary weapon and today they teleported everyone to one place called battledome, then after i restarted the server everyone spwaned at the airfield with all the vehicles on the map. Is there a way to reset the vehilces without completly wiping the server?

If anything get rid of the range finder as that makes snipers OP.Its amazing how Dayz is set up to be a high end military simulation for douchebag snipers sitting high on the hills fighting against people with lower tier weapons.This is supposed to be done to instill anger and emotion but in reality it reduces game down to just being sniped IMO.For long term gameplay I think Dayz should steer away from this concept by doing what is beging suggested by many here.....take away the .50 caliber snipers(use rockets against vehicles),get rid of NVG and thermals and add some wind into the game.;)

DayZ name (your name in-game): Bane Steam name (N/A if no Steam account is available for use): floatlikemax Country: usa Timezone: eastern Age:16 How long have you played ArmA II?: n/a How long have you played the DayZ mod?: around a month Do you like obtaining things and using them (i.e. engine parts for a vehicle)? (Yes or No): Yes i am a big fan of vehicles. Experience (1 paragraph or less): Ive played for awhile now. I had a teamspeak and I recruited some guys and played with them for awhile but then i took a break and stopped playing with them. DayZ version: latest What division do you want to take part in?: Any division that needs filled but preferrably engineer squad. Notes:

Vehicles are server bound, a vehicle will always stay on that server unless someone blows it up, which will make it respawn after a certain time Sometimes the Save thing bugs out, it's still an alpha so to be expected. Generally the concensus is to not put items in freshly placed tents but save the tent and wait for the next server restart, otherwise the items sometimes just disappear mysteriously. Probably eaten by a grue if you ask me.

sometimes on server restarts the tents/ vehicles dont spawn so if that happens dont freak out no one can remove your tent so if the tent is there and vehicle is gone someone stole it

DAMN those people. I do understand where you're coming from. Give us admin an inch and some douche will take a mile. Not all admin are awful, I've personally lost all my crap on multiple occasions, including vehicles I've repaired. I've never once Alt+F4'd or aborted. I take my death, learn from my mistake and continue on. Note, I do quit and come back every time a military base appears due to that graphic issue being fixed in the next patch, god I hate that thing. But some of these players are taking advantage of the strict ban/kick system and openly exploiting the way DayZ is envisioned. I mean they're literally taking a dump on said vision, it's ridiculous how blatant some people are while cheating/exploiting.

Hey, I was quite lucky in finding a fully working bus (along with alot of other rare items) within the first hour of playing DayZ. The only problem is I don't know anything about 'Saving Vehicles' or anything! I've read that if you want a vehicle/tent to stay where it is when you logout, you need to 'Save Vehicle/Tent'. I'm assuming that the vehicle/tent stays where it is whilst you are logged out, so other players may steal it - seems fair (correct me if i'm wrong please!). The thing i'm not sure about is whether my vehicle/tent will be where i 'Saved' it on a different server. It seems like it wouldn't be there, but if that is the case, how am i meant to keep a long lasting vehicle, or have a tent which i store some extra stuff in over a long period of time, if every time i logout i lose them?! Thank you for helping! :)

Sounds like the sniper ended you and your buddies joyride. Next time try going down with the ship. Btw I have ended a vehicles life with only 5 MK48 bullets into the body, so it sounds like what happened is pretty accurate.

Below are 5 screenshots taken while on missions with WEG, and the short stories surrounding them. 1. Blowing up a camp with satchel charges. We had raided a camp the night before and woken up to find almost all the gear and vehicles had been reaquired or freshly stolen again within several hours. We found the tents an vehicles and as a parting gift to our well deserving opponents, we blew up the remains of their camp. 2. "Everyone out now!" Following an internal clan dispute over ownership of a vehicle, the driver orders everyone out of the car and unloads half a MK 48 mag in to the bonnet just outside of Vybor. In the dead of night surrounded by campers this would surely be the last beautiful site my eyes saw that day. 3. G.T.Ahh damn We pose for a pic after stealing 4 ATV's and a motorbike. We stay posed too long though and a moment after this is taken two of them have their heads blown off, 2 others make a run for it. and one remaining member takes out the rest of their crew with some of the most accurate legit shooting I've witnessed. 4. They see us t-rolling... We hit the coast and eventually the NW airfield, honking down the runway.. What can I say, it gets to that point where you feel invincible (or bored). Some how we all made it back to the camp and ate steak after this. 5. "Worst thing you've done in DayZ" The worst thing I'm known for having been a part of is kidnapping the two guys running out of the supermarket here and forcing them to to kill each other with hatchets. It had been done before and I think we did it again that night, the winner would receive an FN Fal, though when one tried to hop in our car and escape his prize, another member put a few through the engine and blew him up. There's footage on youtube. -- (bonus) I'm a survivor "Freindly brah!". Some people class us as bandits, we play a lot and murder is a way of life in Chernarus. Not all members are the same and some are more hostile than others. I've killed enough that I might like to think of myself as a career crim but this screen of me prone rolling away after a group altercation, highlighting my ratio of 111 zombie kills to only 2 murders screams survivor... If your camping Cherno we've got a companion for you. If you love shooting zombies we've got a girl with a Bizon SD that'll keep you competing for most head shots and watch your back at the same time. Wanna play with us? http://WorldsEndGaming.com

Some quick thoughts as I am short on time (but are of course related to the original post): 1. Vehicles could possibly be more common, repairable, but also have the ability to be reinforced. Maybe if you find an abandoned Vodnik-type vehicle you could add ballistic glass, a mounted overhead gun, and maybe even a better performing engine? Endless possibilities, but of course that would also bring questions of balance. I think any kind of upgrade would require a strenuous amount of effort to find all of the required materials, such as the LMG coming in parts and requiring a mounting kit for the specific vehicle (they could also have a a very rare spawn rate). You could even add more storage to it, as aforementioned hitching a trailer or placing overhead storage instead of a gun. This would allow for specializing vehicles for certain roles. We can dream right? 2. Putting all of this time into a vehicle will make it hard to part with. Since there are talks of bases, what if there were also a carport/garage type structures that could house a vehicle? This structure of course would not be easy to build, the materials also being very rare. What about adding a helipad to your roof? If a group of people mustered the effort required to have these things at their base it would simply be epic. 3. If we are building structures they should require a generator to power it. This of course means you will have to get a working generator, and there could be multiple types (varying in rarity). For example, gas powered generators could be quite common, and require the most gasoline or jerry cans, while solar powered ones require the least/ are the most efficient. These generators will never be found in one piece of course, if I didn't make that clear. 4. Having the electricity element added (#3) will require the materials needed to wire lights/possibly security cameras? Once again, we can dream. I've already asked way too much by this bullet xD 5. Base interiors should be able to be furnished with specific types of storage units/furniture, which could come with its own benefits. For example, a fridge/freezer to keep your raw meat in, an electric stove to cook it, a wardrobe to keep those spare Gillie suits we all have lying around (lawl), a bed that can be used as a spawn point for one player. It will reward players who put forth the effort to find the materials necessary to afford death a little more (though by no means will death lose its serious side, losing your gear to a bandit is still pretty shameful). All of these bullets ask a lot, are probably not possible. However they would provide further circumstances for players to work together and form communities, reward them for enduring and looting extensively, go to places all around the map. We can dream right?

I've also had this issue, but it mostly happens when using vehicles. Propably happens as a reaction to player's speed. You approach building too fast -> it cant spawn the zombies and loot inside.

I don't think they do. We lost some vehicles to them, but we had this one UAZ for multiple days so I kinda doubt it. But you never know.

Great job... I'd like to politely a about what's happening with off map tents/vehicles? Does the new DayZ code precent savig outside that area and resets or what? I've asked a couple of times but never got a response. With choppers back in the game (oh yeah!!!) I'm worried that they'll all be camped way off the map. (unless you consider off-map as on-map and that changes things)

I was personally thinking that a sort of leveling system might be nice. Think Skyrim versus previous Elder Scrolls games. Days survived or zombies killed or murders generate a point later on in the game. Giving the player the option to then chose basic perks, for my squad and I the RP is broken when we can all hunt, gut, cook, repair vehicles and administer medical aid. So maybe give some perks to these fields based on simply doing more of them. This way everyone is still pleased with being able to do ALL THE THINGS and can even level up in whatever field they want but designated member squads get to have designated personnel who get a few extra perks. I think a skill tree setup has more potential to get what you desire in place without possible balance issues and forcing possible players to take on roles. (Actual feedback, helpful not just going -scoff- NO)

US 239 was locked for a period of about 4 hours last night. We have been having some major hacking attacks and it's impossible to find out who is doing it. We believe it's the same person (it could even be you, since it's odd you have such a fixation with our server) because it's always the same M.O.; the server gets a sizable population, and in a few minutes wham, every single person on the server is teleported and killed instantly. In interim, we were attempting to find a script that will detect who is doing it. There's no point in us locking the server for loot, all of us have died several times over, we don't even use vehicles any more because they are unpredictable. If this is still a problem in the future we'll have to take the server down. In all honesty, it probably didn't matter that we locked the server, population topped at around 10 because the hacker continuously cleans us out. We were also trying to find a way to get rid of the 15+ duped tents we found with dozens and dozens of NVGs and rangefinders. Spent about 2 hours blowing them up, running them over, deleting shit, nothing worked.

I would like to know something. Today I had my second real undeniable hacker encounter. First there were two helicopter crashes next to each other (maybe 50m apart). And there was a lonely heli. When I try to go to the heli, my bones break and I die. What the hell was that? I couldn't hear anything. Does that happen if someone shoots at you from 1000m away with a .50 cal? What made me wonder about this is, that me and my friend were at the area the whole last hour and after we scouted the nearest area, we didn't care about safety and were out in the open. All the time we were some pretty nice targets, but nothing happened. Why was there no bullet sound at all??? Was that a legit kill or a hack? I really don't know! Well anyway. I respawn and after 10 or 5 minutes we all get teleported next to Ballota. Even the vehicles. Someone starts shooting and the slaughter began. Thankfully my friend was able to log out fast enough. I had nothing to loose and tried to figure out more. Of course someone shot me.

Date,Time: 21:00-21:30 30th July Server LU252 Hacker: Sketty Incident: Spawned vehicles, teleported to vehicles and players, killed players Evidence,,,, I found the evidence in the web console was 110% sure it was him,,, he was banned and someone verified that the hacker had left. Once I go through logs I will Post anymore evidence I find Simply Google "Sketty DayZ" also and you will find other posts about him I have banned him,,, more evidence to come

Would be nice to throw some camo over your vehicles.

I would like to see shopping carts introduced in dayz, Unlike vehicles, shopping carts have to be pushed or you can get inside one and have a friend push you around. Super fun and super useful. No gas required, allows for extra storage and can be used down hills..... weeeeeeee +1 shopping carts if you like this idea.

I just ban any hackers that are blatantly doing so (spawning items/vehicles right in front of me) from my server *shrug* if they have the balls to come back to these forums and complain then so be it. I could just start a website that allows members to submit proof + guid/name/ip and start a database of all the known hackers out there and have all the server owners ban them manually via their bans.txt in dayzcfg. Sure we would lose our gear multiple times in this process, but eventually all their credentials will be had and banned. If the devs of this mod have an issue with that? Then obviously this isn't a game worth putting much time/money into.