How to deal with hackers now combat logging has been introduced?

[mssing 34]

People really fail to understand what modding and hacking are.

 

I attribute this to the influx of casual console players.

 

Hacking = using exploits and third party software to give yourself an ingame benefit and thus ruin the fun of others.

 

Mods = Adding wonderful community made content into the game unleashing new possibilities in gameplay, and often times fixing the mistakes done by the developers.

actually ..hacking is something very different to that... hacking is for instance knowing the difference between internal and external. hacking is to know how to extract memory signatures. i think you perhaps might be referring to the huge load of kids infesting dayz alpha with there use of cheats (the end result of hacking) and altered gamefiles!

Edited February 25, 2014 by mssing

[King_Soggy 5]

wall hack is back in use again, encountered it last night, not cool... think someone has a wall hack? stay away from any walls, only way to counter it.

[YenkFrancois 3]

Unfortunately we are seeing an outbreak of hackers entering our server (BFN High loot server, currently ranked #17 on gametracker)

over the last few days. Just now we had a guy in elektro who was floating through walls playing exorcist music and killing everybody in his way. We managed to kick him since we could identify him by muting. Unfortunately the entire of elektro was killed in a matter of seconds a few minutes later by what appeared to be an invisible guy teleporting all over the place. 

 

My fear is that this is going to spread like it did in the mod, which became unplayable at a certain point due to the high amount of hackers. This really is an increasing problem and deserves high priority in my opinion. One thing that should at least be done is give server owners more power (the power the ban, enter server logs to see what players are doing, etc.). At this point all we can do is take the server down whenever we get hacked. Even if we get the names and manage to kick them, they just come back under different names so it's pretty much impossible for server owners to identify them. This game is well on its way to being ruined like the mod was. Unless the devs start working on this we will all start dying from hackers on a daily basis within a matter of weeks.