Hackers becoming a big issue!

[meta87 25]

With the popularity of DayZ comes a swarm of new players and seemingly a lot of hackers as well.

Being one of several leaders and Administrator of the upcoming Survival Operations community, we have a lot of people working together when we move into an area, and it seems that every time we start an OP we come into contact with individual players who attempt to engage on us. Many times (like what just happened to us 10 minutes ago) said player is a hacker.

What Just Happened?

9 of us well armed with assault rifles (AKM/M16/M4/AK 74) and various other long range weapons (DMR / CZ550). With established security and over-watch positions we were set to be pretty safe in our movement and operation.

We were engaged by one (1) single enemy player who spawned into the Air Traffic Control Tower. A friendly in the ATC unloaded a mag of AKM into the enemy player at sub 5 meters distance and the enemy player shot him once with a pistol killing him. Directly after the player began taking pot shots at others.

Another friendly spotted him and put a DMR round into his head , seemingly doing nothing.

A friendly then engaged him through the window putting several rounds on target while he was heading up the stairs. He was then 1 shot killed as the player turned and shot him.

I then maneuvered onto the ATC's Ladder access from the north and began my climb up. When I reached the top of the ATC i took cover behind a table of sorts that was up against the glass from the inside and peaked in from around it, spotting the player crouched over a friendly body. I set my AKM for 100m range and put 3 single shots into the back of said players head, he then stood up and i switched to full auto and dumped the remaining mag into his chest as he ran down the stairs.

After this I moved around to the top of the stair well from outside the top of the ATC looking down to the second level through the glass where i spotted the player crouched looking up. I put another mag into him before dropping down behind the wall for cover to reload (when i did this he returned fire with his sidearm).

After taking some return fire I moved across to enter the top level of the ATC and took a position looking down the stairs. Shortly after doing so the player rushed up the stairs at me (sub 5m) and I unloaded yet another AKM mag into his chest. Directly afterwards taking 1 shot from a sidearm and dieing. The player did not attempt a second shot (seemingly knowing his single shot would be a guaranteed kill).

After my being killed 2 additional friendly survivors assaulted him with a direct attack and full out onslaught of lead, both being killed instantly within 1 second each only taking 1 shot from a sidearm each.

At this time, the remainder of the friendly players disconnected as it was apparently that the player was hacking and was invincible.

This is only one of several times this has been seen by our group alone. Just yesterday we had a nuke dropped on our NW Airfield while we had a small team of players scouting it out.

How many others are seeing this on a daily basis, do you feel it is getting worse or is slowly settling down?

Ideas for solutions, etc?

[Kageru 18]

There's an entire forum full of cases of obvious hacking, and where you can report it if you got evidence, just below this one.

If you read it for a bit it's pretty obvious hacking is rampant and Arma-II never even tried to protect against it on the basis that both sides just wanted to simulate a fair fight. Day-Z doesn't work that way so hacks and exploits are desirable.

I'm sure they'll fix it if and when they can.

[preparationh 20]

I was killed along with meta, witnessed all 6 of us pump over 60 rounds AT LEAST into the guy, obvious hacker, my brother was the one who disconnected because by then it would've been stupid to lose his character too.

[adamater 3]

So you come across someone using god mode and all decide to suicide into him?

[aLmAnZo (DayZ) 21]

Are you guys admins of your own server?

If so, I suggest turning death messages off, so you know the nick of who killed you. Then check server log, there should be evindence there.

Hackers are the scum of the earth. I say don't ban them, make em spawn as zombies...

[redsh1rt 24]

Encountered a similar hacker in Elektro, although his intentions seemed to be friendly (he was taking out zombies I aggro'd in my pursuit of him)... but he had what seemed like a gun from a battleship on his back and my group wanted it. Long story short, he was invincible.

[Tom Cruise 1]

Sounds like you got Matrix'd

[meta87 25]

If so' date=' I suggest turning death messages off, so you know the nick of who killed you. Then check server log, there should be evindence there.

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I assume you mean turn death messages on? We currently run Death Messages OFF as well as no side/general chat. Just direct speak and expert mode.

[radius 0]

Just so everyone is aware, ArmA has always been rife with hackers and Rocket will be hard pressed to address it. This stuff is all part of the ArmA engine and will probably not go away.

All we can hope for is some kind of fix in ArmA 3 that can clamp down on this. I think ArmA 2 is pretty much a lost cause when it comes to scripting exploits.

[Surg3on 4]

Just so everyone is aware' date=' ArmA has always been rife with hackers and Rocket will be hard pressed to address it. This stuff is all part of the ArmA engine and will probably not go away.

All we can hope for is some kind of fix in ArmA 3 that can clamp down on this. I think ArmA 2 is pretty much a lost cause when it comes to scripting exploits.

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Thats a real pity. Much like the shoot on sight, the popularity of hacks will explode once the "everybody does it" mentality kicks in.

[Kageru 18]

The PvP mantra from Eve is "Exploit early, Exploit often".

[Disgraced 1123]

Wait... Blue tights, red cape, racing trains?

[Soldier of Failure 14]

To deal with hackers please call the nearest Dr.Haxx for assistance.

He will deal with any and all hax, usally with a mix of screaming and thowing PCs at said hacker.