Battleye bypassed. Rocket burned out. The end of DayZ?

[jafit 0]

Haven't seen a thread about this yet. Please move or merge as/if appropriate.

"Bad news ahead.. As of last night Battle Eye has been completely bypassed (again). All servers are unsafe' date=' duping is the least of your issues. Arma is one hell of a configurable engine; once bypassed you can write plugins in the actual engine to do /anything/. The flexibility of the engine comes at a immense cost, poor security.

Tactical nukes being deployed via the map, war games style. Teleporting; god mode. A hackers imagination is the only limit to what is possible.

Also to make matters worse, bans are done in the DayZ master DB via playerid - not cdkey. playerId is not server validated and thus can be spoofed to bypass bans or allow someone to hijack (play as) your character or modifiy the contents of your back pack/inventory/playerstats. This is not an issue which will be easy to fix; very poor design decision.

This game is dead, as in modern warfare 2 dead, the built in mechanics of perma death create an incentive to kill lord British for fun. Rocket has limited resources (time/energy) and I highly doubt he has the resolve or aptitude to resolve this/keep ahead of the cat and mouse game. Also he his emotionally drained... :10bux: he gives up and punches out."

"Oh I almost forgot, interaction between the gameservers and the masterdb occurs SQL level - there is no api. Thus every server has a file (hiveExt.dll) which acts as a client to update the master database. Thus every server out there is an attack vector which could be used to wipe/destroy/cause havok in the master mysql database.

Doom around the corner, all its going to take is one pissed off server admin to fuck this game up royally. Who needs to hack the ARMA2 game client when you can just do the main database?" [/quote']

So basically say goodbye to cross-server item and location preservation, and potentially say goodbye to DayZ...

On the plus side at least there'll be less of the meta-gaming that you're all whining about.

[CrossShade 4]

Not sure what to say to this, as many people are, thread should be on page 5 by now...

[aphex187 52]

No ones interested that's why...

[Womb Raider 92]

Yep, several hundred thousand players regularly playing a mod on a game such as Arma 2, very 'dead'.

[Sixteen18 15]

And the world is ending tomorrow. The game is in alpha and ARMA never had a great anti-hacker system in place because it wasn't a problem before DayZ, whoever wrote that needs to calm down and get back on medication. Unless rocket makes an announcement that he is rage quitting this is meaningless speculation.

[daze23 549]

what forum was that screenshot from?

[CrossShade 4]

what forum was that screenshot from?

Seems to be from a hacking/script website, look at his forum title.

To everyone else, it seems you read the original quote without the img.

Needs verification on legitimacy.

A few hundred thousand players makes a mod thriving, a mod-developer who stops adding/changing things makes a mod dead.

[Kageru 18]

Something Awful.

I hope Rocket recovers, though he has to be under immense pressure, expectations and people wanting him to constantly pull development miracles out of the hat in a couple of days / hours.

[jafit 0]

what forum was that screenshot from?

[Webb (DayZ) 0]

what forum was that screenshot from?

A fairly well known hacking/cheating forum - Rocket posted verification of that in one of the announcement post. This is quite old though.

As for the quote, it is from a member of the goon forums, aka Something Awful

[Fonziе 159]

How does this not have more posts?

[heathy87 1]

whatever, there will always be ppl that hack so, best you can do is either rent your own server and police it yourself or, join servers with admin presence that way if someone does hack, there's a large chance they will be banned before the weeks end.

Its not like this is the only game to ever get hacks, i joined 3 random BF 3 servers a couple of weeks ago, joined one, hack with aim bot killing ppl in jets with a sub machine gun, next server, another guy with aim bot and god mode, last server was ok, but 2 in a row, in a triple A game, yeah it happens. best thing to do is to not rage, because hacking is trolling and tears are fuel.

[mansen 1]

"Does a chargeback because they have been banned from an internet based service with an EULA in a mod that does not have anything to do with the product purchased or the product itself"

Yeah enjoy being buttraped by your bank - Chargebacks don't work that way. :dodgy:

[dut 21]

The way I see it this will speed up the implementation of making local server hives. Eliminating server hopping and putting bans and data backup responsibilities in the hands of server admins.

Or make DayZ a closed alpha. Rocket has stress tested the server enough there isn't a need to have so many players anymore.

But that's just like, my opinion... man.

[Lukio (DayZ) 24]

Watch the PCGamer Interview session, at 46 minutes Rocket admits that they currently in this early alpha stage don't have much of a grip on the hacks going on / are caught with their pants down, but explicitly states that updates on security are never mentioned in patch notes.

So seeing that 1.7.2 is all focused on stability and security, I'd think several loopholes may be fixed, if not I am pretty sure they are working on it. Going against hackers is always a cat and mouse game.

Also PC Gaming is dead.

[boneboys 7988]

The person who posted originally has been banned from BIS and has zero posts here !

Do not post this kind of thing on these forums.