Help me Analyze the Situation

[Sniper-Wolf 37]

Alright ladies and gents, I am asking for your opinions on what happened to me and my group. Note this is not a rant thread nor a complaint. It is just to help me understand what had happened and what would have been the better thing for me and my group to do at the time. Furthermore this is not about  the issues of KOS'ing, camping, sniping, etc.  

 

Situation: Myself and 3 other relatively geared players (compass, assault rifles, the whole 9 yards) decide to camp inside the northern most NWAF jail building (not the one at Bashnya) looking for an engagement. One of my friends also had lit a flare outside because we were bored at the time. Time passes and one of the guys, (who was inside the jail cell), reports being dead. No one had a heard a gunshot so we investigate his body. The initial impression was that he got DayZ'd (meaning some sort of glitch killed him because it has happened to him before) but judging by his ruined head gear, it was a shot to the head. 

 

Little bit of time goes on while we discuss what to do and trying to salvage our buddy's things, 1 member of our group thought that the guy outside said come out. We wait a little bit and then decide to rush out, all 3 of us, and bolt into the woods. As we do this, we heard a Mosin shot miss us as we ran. By this time we made it safely into the woods and made went from cover to cover, not running straight, and being erratic but running away. No one has seen our attacker at all. Nothing too out of the ordinary except for a sound glitch.

 

But here is where it gets fishy. The 3 survivors of my group, including myself, are running within eye sight of each other when, again no gun fire recorded, one of us gets hit and goes unconscious but luckily gets back up soon after and continues running. All of us at this point run in different directions and I continue to hear Mosin shots. Be advised there are trees everywhere and this is hilly terrain. It appears I got away safely but I continued to hear Mosin fire. The 2nd guy in my group all of a sudden reports being dead, while running erratically, and the other guy in my group appeared to get away as well. At this point we just combat logged because this was quite the one-sided battle. No one reported seeing the attacker. 

 

I did forget to mention one thing, when he shot at my buddies, the gun shots sounded really close to them.

 

If you are going to answer and help analyze please do so in this format: 

1. Was it one attacker or multiple? I am inclined to think it was only one person as there was only a Mosin being fired and it wasnt in rapid succession either.

 

2. Can you be this skilled or was it a hacker? I am not sure as what seemed fishy to me was the guy chased after 3 Armed guys with a Mosin and with the weapon sway and all, while I assume standing up, managed to score hits on my 2 friends ( I was unscathed somehow) darting through the trees in the span of less then 5 minutes. The other thing too was no one saw this guy. No description. 

 

3. Would you chase us like in this scenario using no cheats (assuming he was cheating)?

 

4. What would you have done in my squads position (assuming the same number of people were involved)?

 

Again this is just to help my understanding of what had happened and what to do better next time. 

Edited September 22, 2014 by Sniper-Wolf

[Judopunch 523]

Alright ladies and gents, I am asking for your opinions on what happened to me and my group. Note this is not a rant thread nor a complaint. It is just to help me understand what had happened and what would have been the better thing for me and my group to do at the time. Furthermore this is not about  the issues of KOS'ing, camping, sniping, etc.  

 

Situation: Myself and 3 other relatively geared players (compass, assault rifles, the whole 9 yards) decide to camp inside the northern most NWAF jail building (not the one at Bashnya) looking for an engagement. One of my friends also had lit a flare outside because we were bored at the time. Time passes and one of the guys, (who was inside the jail cell), reports being dead. No one had a heard a gunshot so we investigate his body. The initial impression was that he got DayZ'd (meaning some sort of glitch killed him because it has happened to him before) but judging by his ruined head gear, it was a shot to the head. 

 

Little bit of time goes on while we discuss what to do and trying to salvage our buddy's things, 1 member of our group thought that the guy outside said come out. We wait a little bit and then decide to rush out, all 3 of us, and bolt into the woods. As we do this, we heard a Mosin shot miss us as we ran. By this time we made it safely into the woods and made went from cover to cover, not running straight, and being erratic but running away. No one has seen our attacker at all. Nothing too out of the ordinary except for a sound glitch.

 

But here is where it gets fishy. The 3 survivors of my group, including myself, are running within eye sight of each other when, again no gun fire recorded, one of us gets hit and goes unconscious but luckily gets back up soon after and continues running. All of us at this point run in different directions and I continue to hear Mosin shots. Be advised there are trees everywhere and this is hilly terrain. It appears I got away safely but I continued to hear Mosin fire. The 2nd guy in my group all of a sudden reports being dead, while running erratically, and the other guy in my group appeared to get away as well. At this point we just combat logged because this was quite the one-sided battle. No one reported seeing the attacker. 

 

If you are going to answer and help analyze please do so in this format: 

1. Was it one attacker or multiple? I am inclined to think it was only one person as there was only a Mosin being fired and it wasnt in rapid succession either.

 

2. Can you be this skilled or was it a hacker? I am not sure as what seemed fishy to me was the guy chased after 3 Armed guys with a Mosin and with the weapon sway and all, while I assume standing up, managed to score hits on my 2 friends ( I was unscathed somehow) darting through the trees in the span of less then 5 minutes. The other thing too was no one saw this guy. No description. 

 

3. Would you chase us like in this scenario using no cheats (assuming he was cheating)?

 

4. What would you have done in my squads position (assuming the same number of people were involved)?

 

Again this is just to help my understanding of what had happened and what to do better next time. 

I do not post my experiences with hackers because it gives them some kind of validation. However in the last three days my group has run into hackers. In the situation you described the attacker either had an exceptional positional advantage or was cheating.

[zanbato 48]

why do people always scream hacker in situations like this. me and a friend have taken down large groups of players in similar situations before you just have to be in the right positions and the weapon sway can be countered by using a PU scope on a mosin whilst carrying two main weapons for some reason i get no sway at all even after running.

[Ramblin Hans 118]

Yea,nothing in your story made me 100% sure there was a hacker. I can guess the woods you ran through coming out of that brig, and though it is wooded it offers some surprisingly long site lines and I have killed more than a few people out there. Hitting someone running is difficult, but not impossible, and you did describe him taking many shots.

 

I'm not one for camping those brigs, but once you decided to, and especially once you announced yourselves with a flare, I'd say your biggest mistake was leaving your position without being sure of your enemies number or position. You basically just fled. In that scenario you should have at least found some cover to try and look back and spot the enemies position and number, maybe layed cover fire down. From the way you described it you left someone (or a group) firing at your backs unimpeded.

 

The first death though suspicious can happen as you said, unsure there. And gunshots don't always sound for anyone/everyone in the group, that's pretty much a known issue.

[Sniper-Wolf 37]

why do people always scream hacker in situations like this. me and a friend have taken down large groups of players in similar situations before you just have to be in the right positions and the weapon sway can be countered by using a PU scope on a mosin whilst carrying two main weapons for some reason i get no sway at all even after running.

you clearly did not read everything i wrote. I was suspecting it but I was not 100% sure which is why I asked members of the community. 

[Baker. 1484]

OP was killed etc etc

 

*Pretends to be a mod*

 

If you believe you have found evidence of an unknown hack, submit the evidence to one of the Forum Staff, it will be looked into and verified.

 

*Stops pretending*

 

They don't like these kinds of posts. They are unhelpful and just create the impression that there is more hacking going on than what there really is. 

 

Honestly it just reads like you were outclassed mate. It happens to everybody.

 

Also dafuq is this?  we just combat logged because

Edited September 23, 2014 by Bakermensch

[Inception. 9443]

Locked at OP's request.