Possible hack/bug? Anyone experienced this?

[blank85 21]

About 3-4 days ago we spotted a guy on a construction site roof and went over to chat to him. When 3 of the 6 of us approached him all 3 of our games crashed. I logged back in and tried to approach, game crashes again. Then someone kills him and we approach the body and 4 of us crash. When we are within a certain perimeter of the character the game crashes all clients within said perimeter.

 

So I thought this was possibly a hack as my game has never crashed and it repeatedly crashed everytime I approached the character.

 

 

Now 10 minutes ago 6 of us are approaching solnichny on the hunt because a 7th player spotted 3 guys on top a building shooting new spawns. So we get to Sol and the guys are crossing the bridge running down the road and it turns out there are 5 of them. The mother of all firefights commences with 2 of us going unconscious and regaining consciousness and 4 of the 5 targets confirmed dead. The 5th somehow melded into our group and combat logged with 3 people within 2m of him LOL. 

As im about to start checking the bodies my game crashes and when i log back in im the ocean. About 20m from the shore where my game crashed. I swim back to shore.

 

So we start looting the bodies and we take fire from a completely new spawn with nothing but a magnum. During the shooting on the vicinity chat appears "CHEATING FUCKS". Counting the shots fired he must have had 30 -40 rounds on him. We chase him under the bridge and bam my game crashes. I log back in and run away from the bridge, 2 of my team approach the bridge and their clients crash so the rest of us back off and one of the guys that crashed logs back in and crashes again when approaching the bridge. Third player crashes straight after logging in.Then our sniper takes the bridge troll out from a distance. We didnt try approach the trolls body after that.

 

Is this a bug? A hack? I searched and didnt find any threads relating to this.

 

Thanks

 

 

TLDR

 

Game crashing multiple clients when approaching certain players perimeter, say 10-20m.

Edited February 13, 2014 by blank85

[doctorbadsign 645]

I experienced something partially similar. 

 

After a server restart, I came back to the game to find my character in the sea, starving and bleeding. No idea what happened, but I'm guessing it was a bug.

[Geckofrog7 1168]

It has something to do with pre-patch equipment, if I remember correctly.

[blank85 21]

Both times this happened the players causing the crashing were new spawns with little to no equipment. The players whos clients were crashing all, i believe, had equipment from previous patches, i certainly did. Ive had my SKS, helmet, camos etc for almost 2 weeks.

 

Its an instant lockup, alt tabbing reveals "Dayz has stopped working" error message.

Edited February 13, 2014 by blank85

[neouser99 0]

Idk if what happened to my buddy and I last night was the same or not...

 

We were in berezino, we had a squad of 3 baddies sandwiched between us at the market. My buddy was in an Apt. across the street, I was in trees behind. He started shooting so I could move up to the wall behind them. When I got to the wall, I saw 3 backs, and just started unloading my m4. Right at the moment I saw hits on one of them, it got weird. The other two baddies didn't move at all, the one I hit ran through the market wall like he was desyncing. I could still move, no desync marker. Tried to shoot the two that weren't moving in the backs. Ran out of bullets. Couldn't reload, couldn't pull out pistol. Could still move around, got in front of one of the baddies. My buddy who was on teamspeak could keep moving, not reload, and could see me, see me moving, but the baddies were just frozen. Then after about 45-60secs of WTFs, it tells me I'm dead.. back to the coast.

 

It was the weirdest situation... and really frustrating. I don't mind people getting the drop on me, but this situation made no sense.