I thought you couldn't track players?

[MagneticToast 102]

My friends and I were playing last night and we all received some friend request from the same guy on steam telling us to join his clan. I thought it was weird because I thought there was no way to check players steamid from in game?

This would also explain why people say hackers followed them to a different server.

Was this guy a hacker, or has this happened to anyone else?

 

and no our in game names weren't the same as our steam names either.

Edited September 1, 2014 by MagneticToast

[Kirov (DayZ) 585]

I had exactly the same story, me and my friend got friend requests after we had a chance of asking about the steamid. I would find it hard those guys to be hackers, though. And I'd like to know how to do it, the other day a friendly guy gave me his id, but there were 8.5 thousand nicks like his...

[Elle 562]

if you open the steam overlay in the game and select "view players" it will display all the steam IDs on the server you are on.

[MagneticToast 102]

Good answer, so there is a basic way to track.

[Elle 562]

indeed there is.