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Cool video. and cool attack. but its kinda lame that the ghosting part is not on the video. cuz you guyz ghosted a lot on the first heli down. im just saying the video its clearly edited to make elysium look bad and you guyz look awezome. either way it was a cool ambush.. and xerpt had me fooled xD i had no idea..

ok two guys ambushed two of ours yesterday while refuleing the chopper, 1 of thiers died the other spent the next 6 hours ghosting combat d/cing and generally being a total pansy to try and get the chopper (yeah you know i mean you ya [5*] noob) we shoot the chopper down after he ghosted right next to it and jumped in (unsuprisingly alt+f4 and ran away) after 5 hours of this crap including him mostly repairing it while we were occupied else where we just went guns blazing on it, we didnt have the windshields to reapir the rediculous leack and we dam sure wasnt letting this prick get it so we hit it with 20 AS50 rounds(the actual round not the m107 mags) and multipul stanag (around 15 mags) and a satchel charge everything was smashed, main prop, engine, rear prop, instruments all with the exception of the hull main prop - you shoot the rotor arm engine - straight below that instruments - shoot the nose tail prop - shoot the tail prop hull - where the hell do you have to hit it for this? we literally raked the sides of the chopper(front to back) with fire then went at it with axes and still nothing tl;dr [5*] clan are ghosting pricks, where do ya shoot chopper to break the hull?

Costs more money to store more information. The answer to almost every question is: money. To OP: do not get caught up with names and clan tags in this game because they mean almost nothing. I can play as [GHOST]DramaticExit all day long if I want. A serious clan would never use their real names or clan tags in-game. I mean, unless they want the whole world to know that they are ghosting tools...

I personally am fine with a time on between using Alt F4 and when you disconnect from the server, but I think they should worry about more important things like the rampant hacking issues and ghosting before bothering with changes to Alt F4.

After being teleported yesterday, and witnessing it happening twice more while sitting in the lobby, getting admin access, reviewing the log files, and finally understanding how difficult it is for admins to maintain their own servers. I'm joining the suggestion crowd even though I know that this post would get more views in the general or cheat forum areas. 1. Please give admins the ability to set up "XXX was killed by XXX" messages on the servers. It would make our job a lot easier to detect cheaters and teleporters. It would make it clear to players that they are being killed by a cheater, not admin abuse. It would allow players to report cheaters, by name, to the admins If the messages were added to the logs, it would also make tracking down reported incidents easier. 2. Arma 2 is rated PEGI 16+ we can't prevent players below that age from getting the game, but server suppliers should request proof of age before renting servers to them. It won't stop admin abuse, but it would reduce it. 3. You should spawn on the coast every time you join a new server but you don't lose your gear. It would stop ghosting and server hopping for advantage. It would prevent players from preparing raids on another server and spawning directly into an enemy camp bypassing all defences. It would prevent snipers from spawning onto mountain tops and buildings to PK and then server hopping to repeat. It would encourage players to form communities and learn to play with other players who have made that server their home and it wouldn't have any effect on lone wolves either. It might affect squads that server hop together, but in reality, how hard is it for an experienced player to meet up with their buddies again? It would prevent combat logging and sitting in the lobby while a squadmate comes to heal you. It would prevent combat logging to another server to self-heal, and then logging back in to continue the fight. 4. Set up tents so that they autosave every time an item is placed/removed from them. It would reduce duping by a huge amount. When a game mechanic exists that allows players to dupe accidentally, not intentionally, there is a huge problem. It would prevent false accusations of cheating. 5. Bind one tent to one profile per server. Allow that profile to dismantle that tent and replace it, even after death. It would prevent tent cities due to duping exploits. It would promote teamwork or encourage betrayal to order to set up a camp! As is, one tent can be used to create an infinite number of tents simply by placing and replacing it. There is nothing to stop a player having one tent on multiple servers. 6. Reduce the storage capacity of tents. At the moment, a single tent is able to store 10 weapons/tools, 5 (full) backbacks, and 50 items. It doesn't leave a lot of room for sleeping. It would reduce hoarding. 7. Make tents more functional. Sitting near a tent should have the same effect as sitting by a campfire at night. (sitting in a tent is not safe if you value your bones). Logging off beside your tent when on low blood and then logging back in the next day, should have reduce/repair damage such as blood loss.

Today I played on a non hive server and had more fun than I've had in a while since I first started playing DayZ. The game was being played the way it should be. Sure some guys would altF4 but there was no ghosting and it was actually a challenge. Tents were working as well. My entire team was having a blast. I felt that adrenaline rush that I had been missing from this game for a while. Then the hackers came in. Started ruining our fun. We were collecting parts for vehicles and killing people trying to take it and we were teleported and thunderdomed. I believe servers should be passworded and non-hived until there can be some sort of way to prevent altF4, ghosting, and hacking. There has to be a process to white list your IP outside of game. Please bring back the game I love so much.

My teammates and I (we're not exactly a clan) had a little 2v2v2v2 throwdown in the Elektro industrial area last night. Had a slow start because some derphard with a Lee Enfield ambushed us (fair play to him) and then tried ghosting us (not so cool). Once we got going it was a blast, mostly because we had an odd assortment of weapons; an AKM, FN FAL, various M4 variants, and my monster of a Mk48.

So today me and 3 of my friends were running down black mountain when all of us suddenly had the shock symbol. As we were running we would stop and hear foot steps (hacker ghosting). So I act like nothing is wrong and we continue on. As we enter these woods I hear huge explosions so all of drop to the ground and it almost sounded like a dam bomb run from a jet. Scared the piss out of me and then all of the sudden over the game chat I hear "Hey can I join you guys?" so I answer where are you and look around. All of us are in a circle pointed outwards and he appears in the center of us!! I was terrified of him so he asked the same question. So I answered yes if you don't kill us (we were planning on DCing right there.) So to distract him I asked him what else he could do and he said he can spawn weapons. So I ask him to spawn me a G36 SD and while he is doing it I told everyone to log out via skype. Probably one of the most scariest moments I have ever had and this life I am on now has been 3-4 days of living so I have some pretty good stuff. Hackers are starting to become more often and it makes me scared to play on random servers, guess I'll stick to main servers I usually get on.

Thanks for all the post guys and gals. I am going to give these private server a chance now. So many problems exists with the main hive that seem beyond Rocket or the dayz's current ability to solve. This sounds like a good temp solution until the stand alone comes out. Here is my summary of why private servers are a good alternative: 1. Server admin actually can do something about hackers. On the normal dayz server, they can do nothing and it seems that Rocket is also powerless to do anything. With greater admin control, easier to identify and ban hackers. If there is admin abuse, just pick another private server. 2. No server hopping. The solutions that rocket has talked about seem pathetic (monitor, warn and ban) will not solve anything. 3. No ghosting. Tactical play and teamwork will actually pay off now. You don't have guys magically appearing 100 meters behind you. Then the true fun of dayz will come back. 4. The dayz hive, because of the crazy popularity of dayz, is a quivering mess. Duping, desync, lag, alot of these issues are related to a main hive that is overwhelmed. In fact, Rocket needs to at least consider creating regional main hives, such as 1 for North America, 1 for Europe, etc. Currently its a mess. 5. Reduce metagaming, such as hoarding all cars. People can work together to get at the hoarders and have fun experiencing all facets of the game. 6. Private servers allows for variance to local settings, so you can pick and use servers that have options you like, such as side chat, alt-f4 banning.

To clarify for the ubernoobs, ghosting is when you have someone, usually a dead player in spectator mode, telling you the location of enemies or looking around corners for you. Not DayZ's particular, specific problem of people being able to move positions by server hopping. Thank you.

It's called ghosting and it's a well known problem. But yeah it sucks.

If you haven't run into the issue of ghosting and hopping yet, you will eventually find it can be completely game-breaking. You say to let him work on "actual problems" yet in my opinion, server hopping and ghosting is one of the largest problems the game currently faces (duping and hacks aside). " AMEN!!!!!

I've actually had the same happen with an admin i forgot the server though. we crashed our chopper and the server reset right when we got to it. When it came back up my buddy killed someone that was near it (it was actually stil there. Only time out of 7 choppers it stayed.) So then we all 3 start getting kicked for "ghosting". I dont' have my copy running in steam so sadly I can't take screens. Practically every server I've set as a home server has currupt as admins but they do it in ways that would be hard to prove like just randomly reseting and things of that nature. I used to play in 1438 which had hardcore rules and we got a chopper and found the admins clans camp and stole everything so after that they turned on the radar were you could see vehicles nearby and your location for like 2 days. They got all their stuff and reverted it back to hardcore rules.

Server Name: US198 (Your) Timezone: GMT Date/Time: 30/7/2012 10:41am Server Administrator('s): not sure, there was an admin present but didnt note his name down. What happened: about 2 days ago we started playing on us198, myself and some mates. After wandering around in the wilderness for an hour or 2 we came across a large camp with multiple vehicles and many tents. When we found the camp the server went down. At first we assumed it was a crash but now whenever we connect they immedeatly shut down the server. We reconnected today upon seeing the server was live again thought we could finally go raid the camp we found. About 5 seconds into the game we were kicked and the server shut down. It came back a minute later but when we tried to connect we recieved an error messge saying we have been battle eye banned for ghosting. One of my friends hasnt even seen the camp and wasn't there when we found it the first time around and he has also recieved a ban just for connecting. Evidence/Proof: Everytime we connect the server shuts down. The same people appear to be present in the server and we have been banned for no good reason. We figure they are only using the server as a camp server for themselves to rearm and collect vehicles and good weapons in peace. As a side note were ot bothered about getting in and the camp anymore just thought it was very unsporting and maybe something would be done about it. Thanks in advance, Calaghan

I'm one of the server admins on US 1023 - just to let you know those "rules" are not followed. We do not kick/ban users for ghosting lightly (even though it's considered an exploit by rocket) - however, if there are enough complaints about this regarding a specific user who is abusing this then they will be banned from the server. It only seems fair to other players on the server. On the servers I have played on most admins do shut down the server after a hacker presence is known. Be it teleporting, mass killing, spawning or other abusive actions. It seems as though DayZ in the last few weeks has become infested with hackers and it's becoming harder to differentiate between them and legitimate users. It's much easier to temporarily remove a user from the server and fully examine the logs than it is to not do anything and have "hackers" running through the server time after time. Another heads up, the US 1023 ban list is the default ban list. There are not other bans. The 3 temp bans put in place have been removed in under 30 minutes. There's nothing wrong with an active admin team on ANY DayZ server. This is usually the case, an incident happened a week ago where a hacker was reported but no admin was around and within a few minutes the entire server was killed. It could have been prevented by a simple restart and temp ban on that user.

As I said I wasn't there. I saw the forum thread, hopped on TS asked what happened. The Admin who was there wasn't online so I couldn't talk to him. So what "evidence" he has on the person that was banned, I do not know. He did post in this thread though about the situation and stated that the logs showed something and that they would be available for review by the DayZ staff. Concerning "OMG it must be a hacker cause....." I would venture to say that with the current state/amount of "hacking" in this game, if something looks fishy or something out of the ordinary happens, a majority of SA's will believe they are being hacked first, sad state of the game, but true. There is another thread in here about someone who was banned for either "combat logging" or "ghosting". They came here, told their story, the SA looked into it and his ban was removed. The process might not be perfect, but it worked, and in this case, if it turns out that a mistake was made, the ban will be reversed. As far as being blacklisted, if it happens, it happens, no fucks will be given, by me at least.

One word: Ghosting.

but i dont wanna do math :( to the OP: if its so glitchy and hackers dont get banned while legit players get banned, let me guess: you got banned but i bet you werent playing legit, instead i take another guess here and say you got banned for ghosting/server hopping or a hack you found in the internet you thought would be okay to do if not, you're just making assumptions and are a fool, i never heard of people getting banned while playing legit

Firstly this is not a QQ thread if people want to hack a game in Alpha I couldn't care less thats the point in Alpha. One of the main reasons why I would never hack this game (and I could if i desired) is because it's a personal experience game, it creates stories and the best stories are the raw, real stories the ones were you was close to death not a situation were there was no danger because that is not a real story or experience. With hacking the stories are not found they are generated and this to me is boring. Secondly I don't kill players, so that means I have no reason to get all these guns and wepons and making myself invisable why would I. Yes there are bandits and also hackers and I am likely being hunter by several people at once and having powerfull wepons to defend myself would be useful. Having said that if I am hacking and I am hunter by a hacker it is a stalemate no one will win, if I am a hacker and I am hunter by Bandits yeah I will likely win, but I could also win if I manually got wepons for myself, and also i get more self worth that I did defend myself. I wouldn't hack because it disrespects the game and the developers, they have put so much time and effort into creating this game for me, and all that hackers do are drive away the community to other games of a similar stature (The War Z) and I would not want to do this. So yeah thats why I dont hack, I understand that hackers have several reasons themselves why they feel they need to, but the only real reason is because the can't play the game and they feel they need to cheat to get ahead. IMO Ghosting is worse than hacking.

If you read the thread in its entirety you shall see that according to your members I personally was Disconnecting to avoid death, ghosting, combat logging, apparently over TS some of you guys were talking to others about how i was an obvious hacker etc. It's just ghey tbh. You can say shit about us but here is a point you cannot dispute. A numerically inferior force attacked some of your clan who had a chopper ( with big ass guns on it ) and later on more of your members were killed *without ever receiving fire themselves* 2 of us wiped 6 of you without you even shooting back. If I was in a clan who that happened to, I'd think twice about being there. Helpful tip maybe spend time when you're bored training for scenarios instead of sitting outside Cherno with As50's.

This whole discussion about the CQF... You know, I was part of the CQF and now I am no more, but only because I lack the time to be productive for the group. So I was on another server yesterday, doing a trade and that server got hacked. I knew who it was because I saw him (unfortunately my fraps did not work at all...), but lets not get offtopic. Right after the hacker did his thing and killed me and a buddy, people started stating it was "the bad {cdf}" (our tag today) and that we are claiming fals by naming the hacker directly in side chat. My point: Whoever whines about the CQF might be a bit right, the group itself is tight and does NOT disconnect or grief, there might be a few members beeing dumbfucks, but not the whole group. YOU are just stating it's CQF in general because you only see the tag and HATE that there are people gaming together while you are all alone, only griefing and ghosting. YOU know how griefing and ghosting looks like, because you do it yourself. YOU state things you can't prove, but because it happened on a CQF server it automatically must have been the CQF and all other survivors are friendlies but not the CQF? Wtf is wrong with your brain? Second thing: Disconnecting might be bad, I don't do it myself because I rage upon those who do it, but there is absolutely no point in giving the whole group the shitz only because there are some pricks using this exploit. Duping? Heck, even if did, wtf does it concern you? If there is duping you could (and probably would if you had a tent or vehicle) do the same thing, so give us all some rest and stop complaining. It's not right but it can be done, e-basta, I say: EVERYONE once used it, so don't judge others if you did the same eventually. Scripting: NOBODY at CQF scripts stuff, never ever, thats why the CQF admins keep Battle-Eye updated and SEARCH for players hacking extensively, so quit that point immidiately, really. Another Alt+f4 concerning point: Learn to aim and kill fast, that's all I can say to that, spraying your gun at someone is as bad as disconnecting, really, if you "bandit" can't kill during the first three shots you are not even worth a makarov mag ;) Thats all peeps, hate me, hate me naow, for I just told you the things you did not even want to hear, rage upon me, quote me, call me dumb or faggot, because my box of fu**s to give is empty and you wont even receive the slightest "give a f***nes" from me anyways, whiners.

This is interesting, because I never say we're an elite unit anywhere. Actually I do say were a "third rate group of Spetsnaz that are probably shitfaced more often than not". I figured you'd like my little server admin announcement to welcome the man that put a price on my peoples heads. -Ghosting, my guys don't do that. They fucking hate it more than hacking -Alt-F4ing, yes they might, but we are cracking down on that -Script Spawn Vehicles, really? Thats a first, seriously, don't accuse unless you got it right since thats considered of the worst offense here -Dupe, same thing with Alt-F4 -Camp elecktro? We're mostly up north so I'd doubt it -Revert the server, we can't do this as its not possible in any way for an admin to do But we must do something right because you want to mingle with us so often. I hope you have a lovely day and I hope that when you see issues that you have stated you can report them with proof and I can handle them. Until that point in time, continue with your punkass banditry and such. Best Regards Johnny

Must not? Why? Do you even play this game? Have you not seen the cheat reporting forum here? It's ridiculous how many threads there are there. Our own server has hackers on it multiple times a day, often employing hacks that kill everyone and ruin the game for everyone. There's also something I don't understand, too. You keep saying that we need proof to submit to the devs for their consideration. Ok. What proof? How can I find that proof? It's not in the logs (any hacker worth his salt uses a BattleEye bypass), and it's not anywhere else. I'm not going to keep Fraps running the entire time I play, since that wouldn't really capture anything other than my magically being teleported into the air and dying. What, exactly, am I supposed to get? Can't that be done now? Ghosting is always a problem, as is duping. In any case, for some reason, there seems to be a fundamental lack of trust of server admins at work here. I'm not sure why, since that's never been a problem with any other game that I've been involved with. No other game developer has told me who I can and can't kick/ban. I'd honestly like to know why the devs don't trust us to police our own territory. I realize that there are some petulant folks out there who will kick/ban for any perceived slight, but frankly, I'd rather risk that than allow the game to be completely overrun by hackers as it is now. Why do you think this?

What was odd is that the same GUID's were jumping around ghosting as found in the logs.

According to this guys post, I should be unbanned in Seattle 36 for ghosting and DC kill dodging. If the only reasons to ban listed are racism or malicious talk as I am very polite in server.