A couple of questions concerning hackers

[ElwinSP 3]

Hi everyone. Thanks in advance for your attention. I have been playing Day Z for a couple of weeks now and there is a couple of things that I dont quite understand.

1. First of all is that many times if I walk into a supermarket or other building I find nothing but a bunch of empty backpacks. This has become very common to the point even the supermarket of a distant place such as Zelenogorsk is empty. Do people take advantage of backpack bugs to make the items dissapear? If so, it must be a hard work just to deprive some newbies of some canned food. I mean I could understand they did it with weapons so that it wouldnt be turned on them but come on, the most dangerous thing you can find in a supermarket is a makarov. Besides, where do they get so many backpacks?

2. After leaving the supermarket in Zelenogorsk I was scouting the town making sure no one was around when all of a sudden PAM, i appeared in the middle of an empty field. I think I was not far away from the town. As I was looking around trying to figure where i was .. PAM. A guy appeared out of nowhere in front of me and as I was expecting he shot me. That was hacking right? Why would anyone bother to hack a noob with a hatchet? Beats me.

3. In my next life I was following again the policy of visiting only small faraway towns with only low level residential loot in them as to avoid people that could hunt me. I was inside this small log building when .... PAM the whole building blew up leaving only ashes, debris and my dead corpse. Did someone bother putting a satchel there or was I hacked again?

4. At first when I heard people were hacking I figured they were just giving themselves big guns and what not and I thought I could live with it and just try to hide from thos people giving the game yet another edge. But .... this leaves me puzzled. Is what happened to me hacking? And, if so, how can one avoid it? I was in a realtively big (30 players) server because I thought maybe there people were less likely to hack. Am i sutck with just waiting for DayZ standalone to go out?

Thanks for your help

[beastoverlord 574]

Don't play on private servers if you don't want hackers. Find yourself a nice private server and you will never find any hackers. In my last 2 months on a private hive we have never had a single hacker.

[Sula 1205]

The empty backpacks are not the supermarket's contents and haven't been dropped by players, usually. If you arrive, especially on an empty server, or a recently restarted one, there will be one of a lot of things in many spawn points until players enter the buildings. Such as tents or tin cans or backpacks. There is also a delay where you have to go a certain distance from the loot spots and then return a few minutes later to get the loot. Of course, other times you will never find a backpack no matter where you look.

Frankly, if you find alice packs grab one and never let it go. :thumbsup:

Also, I think Beastlyoverlord meant the opposite of what he wrote. Play on private servers if you want to avoid hackers. Look in the Private Hive Discussion forum for lists of all the private servers.