Possible Exploit - No Zombies

[kwhy (DayZ) 6]

see original post here...

http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=14100

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basically I was able to log into a full working server and walk around and interact with the world, but the catch was that there were no zombies.

The above server was 49-50 full each time I took pics and running for well over 4 hours since the 1.7.1.1 update.

I was able to pick up items which were saved on my account as well as see animals. I don't know if players were visible, but I shot the cow pictured below and logged out and logged back in an hour later to see that cow was still dead.

I also went back to areas some items were gone (crossbows and shotguns). Sort of like an alternative carebear universe.

(this was all happening in major city area downtown)

I might have finally able to resolve this I think which might have been an issue with Arma 2 not loading Combined Ops or parts of Arma 2 when running.

heres a pic of same server finally working for me. I tried this on 3 different random servers and the same thing happened.

moo cow dead.

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zombies back..

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pretty serious exploit if a player can move around a server like this with absolutely no interaction with zombies and still pick up any type of loot.

Reinstalled Dayz 1.7.1.1 into @DayZ folder and moved the beta executable for Combined OPs and replaced it with the original executable (even though I wasn't runing that from steam). So my guess something was't changing to the right directory and probably loading up some files correctly.