How Did They Know My Player Name?

[Nastradamus87 8]

I had a strange experience yesterday in an experimental server. I was hiding in the top floor of an appartment building about to log out when I took a bullet that ruined most of my gear but did no health damage. With only an axe and two rounds for the Blaze double rifle, I waited for the shooter to come looking for my body.

 

Eventually he did just that, and turning his back to me at the top of the stairs was bad luck for him. My Blaze shots broke his legs. Then I hacked him to death while he fired wildly at me from the ground, but he manged to hit me at least once. All my bandages were ruined so I ran to the adjacent office building to find some. I ran into a random survivor who didn't shoot me and was nice enough to share a rag.

 

My screen was completely greyscale from bloodloss. The two of us went back to loot the bandits body since he was fully geared. When were were checking his stuff someone from outside the building started calling my player name, "Mr Friendly." Then they let the bullets fly so they clearly weren't friendly. One of these new bandits eventually came up the stairs and almost got his head blown off by my new mosin. He was adressing me by my player name over chat. In the end, one of his buddies from outside the building filled me full of holes.

 

How did they know my name? This was my first time on experiement, so is there a difference between these and the stable branch that lets you know other players' names?

 

 

[cav_guy 62]

Did the first guy who shot you check your pulse before he turned his back on you?  I've seen player names when I've done that on experimental.

[Disgraced 1123]

Examine body?

[NagsterTheGangster 388]

Did the first guy who shot you check your pulse before he turned his back on you?  I've seen player names when I've done that on experimental.

Sounds like this was it. But from the sounds of it you just smoked his ass right when he came up the stairs no?

[Nastradamus87 8]

At the top of the stairs is kind of like a tee intersection; there is a hallway going left and right. He turned right which showed his back to me, but if he had turned left he would have been looking right at me. I shot him from a good distance but had to move up to finish him off with my axe.

 

The first guy could not ahve read my pulse before I shot him, but could he have when I was axing him? Or could the random guy who gave me a bandage read my pulse from behind me what I wasn't paying attention to him?

Edited March 9, 2014 by Nastradamus87

[ninjaontour 123]

You may just have that kind of name. I'd call someone "Mr. Friendly" if I intended to light him up lol.

[Nastradamus87 8]

You may just have that kind of name. I'd call someone "Mr. Friendly" if I intended to light him up lol.

 

At first I didn't realize he was saying my name. I actually had forgot what it was. When he was saying Mr Friendly, I thought he was identifying himself as friendly, but since he was wearing a mask and shooting at me I said to him over chat that he doesn't look friendly. That's when he said, "no, I'm saying your name, Mr Friendly."

 

Very strange.

[ninjaontour 123]

I know that some hacks for the mod gave the user this ability, as in the name would be hovering above you. Possible cheaters?

[woots 82]

If you force feed something to someone it tells you that "You fed (persons name) an apple)

 

Or if you bandage someone when unconscious the it says "you successfully bandaged (persons name)"

 

I do this all the time. I see someone running away and I shoot their legs. I bandage them up. Handcuff them. Feed them an assortment  of random things. Rotton fruit, disinfectant. Stuff like that. Give them morphine and unhandcuff them. Let them go.

 

This is my catch and release program

[savini 587]

Also, if you're typing in direct chat then your name will precede the text.

Edited March 9, 2014 by Rhodes

[finnpalm 312]

I've heard that there is a hack that shows a box around a character and their player name above it, that apparently have been seen in the standalone.

 

If that is true it can be that he was a hacker maybe?

 

EDIT2: Sorry, orlok. Didn't know it was locked.

Edited March 9, 2014 by Strawman
Please dont link to locked threads.

[SumTingWong 7]

Yells "Mr Friendly come out, Mr friendly! where are you Mr friendly" "Ah stuff it let me load my rifle" 

 

"Well goodbye Mr Friendly *Lets bullets fly* How you like me now Mr Friendly?"

[Karakoz 141]

Unless you used text chat there is no way he could have learned your name without cheating.

[TracksuitHitman (DayZ) 9]

Hackers definitely exist already in DayZ SA. Just yesterday some guy kept teleporting behind me while I was running down the coast.

I am going to say it was a hacker, to be honest.

[BelMarduk 169]

how many people were on the server? if it was low pop, you might have been the only one *not* in his 'group'... hitting 'p' will bring up the player list, and well if the list is short, then its simple deduction...

[ruStanSc 9]

Hackers definitely exist already in DayZ SA. Just yesterday some guy kept teleporting behind me while I was running down the coast.

I am going to say it was a hacker, to be honest.

Along the rails on the way to Elektro at night?

Edited March 10, 2014 by ruStanSc

[mssing 34]

simply google "dayz sa hack". anyone thinking anything else is a very ..very, naive person or perhaps simply stupid, but that line seems to be very thin ^^

[Nastradamus87 8]

Thanks for the replies. No one bandaged me or force fed me and I didn't type in chat. Also, it was a full 50 person server. I suspected hacking. Seems that it probably was.