melby 4 Posted January 7, 2013 (edited) I've come back to Dayz after a several month hiatus (one thing that drew me off was Arma 2 Acemod/Insurgency, which people who just bought this for the one mod should try sometime) and had a very interesting night. For one, I'm finding more and more that sidechat is reenabled, which I feel really does a lot to dissuade shooting on sight and encourages survival coop, making it easier to connect even across map. Now for two, I hadn't experience much in the way of hacker griefing in my previous experience. I guess I was just lucky. The server I spent the night on (a public hive) was just chock full of them. An old buddy I played with before had gotten some vehicles and some gear together, so I felt good to go.We started out with an offroad pickup, ended up wrecking it a bit (I thought I was playing GTA for a second and went straight into a telephone pole because I thought it was made of aluminum foil), but were graciously rescued by a couple of nice folks in Littlebird. I'm fairly sure one of them was hacking; however he was helping people all over the server so we played nice with them. Now hero hacker is attacked, by another hacker, who rages when hero hacker doesn't die. I believe the phrasing he used in his defense was: "You survived the hack and then you teleported!" or something to that effect. Just... really convincing while trying to plead innocence,,,,I continued on with my pal and we found a military offroad at Green Mt. although badly damaged. While I kept destroying wheels on the pickup we never did end up with enough for the military offroad. As we drove on in our arduous search, dmr shots rang out; I skipped out of the truck, and my friend drove it off out of the way, intact (mostly). As I attempted to ascertain the shooter's position, I heard a biplane approaching.. right the f**k over me. The pilot had parachuted and the plane hit the shack I was using as cover. Obviously I was dead. While I re-geared to go north to my body, my friend had acquired his own littlebird (apparently two on the server). He picked me up and took me north, somehow managing in the mere seconds after dropping me off to crash almost directly into me, and to top it off it was genuinely accidental.He felt terrible and helped me regear, a short time later giving me a car ride in the repaired pickup back north to my two corpses. He gives me some of my loot and has to log off. I continue on, stashing my truck and grabbing a little bird, and resume regearing myself. Afterwards I ended giving some folks rides, one who had managed to get lost in the western debug plains. I help the same guy out a bit later, even end up finding him a bicycle to call his own, as a bunch of new people log into the server. My last task for this bambi is to drop him at NW airfield. I begin to fly south to some nice guy who wants to give me his car. I didn't exactly want the car, as I had two vehicles already, but I want to check it out. Before I even get within 2 klicks I'm fairly sure I'm being fired on. Yep. AS50 shots. And littlebirds dont gain altitude very well. Now I'm pretty sure I've encountered hackers before, but this was just too much. I flew dead north to the edge of the map from Green Mt to the debug zone, then all the way east, averaging about 130 kph, and took fire the whole way. I think he hit me once, and my MR went red, thought I was going down, then just kept going. So he must have teleported underneath me repeatedly, right? There were three clan members, who claimed to be friendly, but I dont think they (even if they had spread out beforehand) could have pulled this thing off. No one appeared when I landed, but again, I may have been in a debug zone.So I'm not sure how I got away. Hackers are TERRIBLE shots. But it is hard to miss with a Biplane, at least, right? Edited January 7, 2013 by melby 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tracksuithitman 56 Posted January 7, 2013 some guy at Chernogorsk had a bizon SD and was shooting at me. unfortunately, he was invisible.he wasted three mags attempting to shoot me. he never shot me once. i even ran in a straight line for him. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
