A hacker story.

[Patrick-Bobbeh 1]

Running through the forest between polana and novy, in an empty server at night on my way to the factory south of polana for repair parts, i open my map to reset a way point to a near deer stand i figured id check. i had clicked p before opening my map to decide whether or not to prone it showed 1 player (myself), as i finish setting the way point and exit map i check players again and there are 6 plus myself in the server now. At first i think that is quite a spike but i shrug it off, i start running towards the way point. Having multiple monitors i consult the out of game map for a second or two about other deer stands on the way (alt tabbed). come back into game and im completely surrounded by the other players in the server in the middle of the forest.... now this could be a very rare coincidence of two parties meeting in the night.. but i doubt it. they shoot out both my legs and i fall unconscious they then bandage me and blood pack me, start laughing on direct voice chat asking what im doing out here all by myself, this continues for a few minutes with them shooting me bandaging me. finally i am not unconscious and not bleeding but i still have broken legs and one of them is walking towards me scoped and i notice the in combat icon stop blinking red and i quickly leave the server.

Now im not a fan of combat logging in general, but it was all too weird to me. While i was laying there i watched as one guy pushed another guy around using an ATV but the guy didnt die. The entire group had l85's, night vision fal's and the like.

I asked the admin later that day when i came back if there is anything that can be done about that, he said unless i had pictures of all their names and a time log and he could get multiplay to release the logs, there was absolutely nothing that could be done.

That shocked and concerned me as these guys could literally jump into any server teleport to any character torture and kill them then leave.

But hey its not over...

Being the lucky survivor i am i also have an l85, cco sd and all the equipment, after wandering for a bit i found an old bike, and decided to head up to the NWAF for some loots and fun i get there and put my g-suit on and start approaching the barracks when i hear the huey coming in. ofcourse i hit the dirt and find a tree to get comfy in. i watch three people get out of the chopper and they are in range of me so i decide why not lets have some fun, i pull out the range finder and then the l85 to get a proper zero, i kill one rather quickly as she proned in the open when i opened fire. the other two hide in the traffic control tower. i wait for a little bit and noone moves then one comes strolling out and running right towards me being zero'd already i open up on him with no effect. unknown to me the admin is watching from the other side of the airfield as he was following the chopper. The server goes down as the guy starts firing on me, unsure if i am alive or dead i go grab some refreshments and wait for it to come back up thinking it crashed or something. When i log back in im bleeding and unconcious but the admin is standing above me bandaging me and giving me an epi. in direct chat he tells me to follow him to the chopper and its completely busted not flyable in the slightest, but full of gear.

We surmised that they hack repaired the chopper and flew it up here to loot the airfield and that i killed one who forgot to turn on god mode but that the other two did when they were in the control tower..

some people would say the admin abused his power but i think he did what was necessary.

Thats my story.. please post thoughts.

[UmBe 125]

I think he did the right thing

[TangyGraffiti 7]

The admin did what he should have. I've only had one incident of a hacker on the server i help admin since we got it up and running about 3 weeks back. My buddy got on while everyone else was not on yet. He was at our camp and he finished loading in to find someone looting the camp and opened fire, taking the guy down. He then noticed there was an mi-17 at camp which none of us had brought there and that a pbx was in the middle of our land locked camp. He kicked the guy and told the admin who deals with the script log to check it out before the guy logged back in. We immediately took down the server and checked logs and sure enough he was a hacker who we promptly banned. We then brought the server back up an the guy tried to login the next day quite a few times but was obviously unable.

Granted, had we found no evidence he would have been free to rejoin the server.

As an admin you have to follow your gut in that kind of situation but in a case like yours, it would be pretty obvious and I would have done the same in his position.

[Patrick-Bobbeh 1]

is there any way to ban with proof if your running a multiplay server?

[TangyGraffiti 7]

I'm not sure, we run via gameservers an have access to the logs so if someone brings something to our attention with a time we can check it out. A name helps as well since it narrows the search down. As for multiplay they could have a different setup. Seems odd not to give access to the script logs to the owner/admin of a server.