Am I just lucky?

[Yawdarious 30]

I have nearly 300 hours logged and have never seen killed or witnessed a scripter/hacker. Yet it seems like the forum makes them out to be everywhere all the time and game ruining.... Am I just really lucky? I'm not bagging on people saying that they ruin the game, I'm just saying they may not be as invasive as people claim. Is this true? Have I just been fortunate?

[flygamer1 176]

Same here 350+ hours and haven't seen a hacker only dupers. I am always on 35+ servers.

[StayAlive (DayZ) 169]

I have nearly 300 hours logged and have never seen killed or witnessed a scripter/hacker. Yet it seems like the forum makes them out to be everywhere all the time and game ruining.... Am I just really lucky? I'm not bagging on people saying that they ruin the game, I'm just saying they may not be as invasive as people claim. Is this true? Have I just been fortunate?

 

I, like you have played for over 300+ hours, and i can't say i have met to many of them. Actually, maybe just a

handful. Recently though, i have seen an increased activity, being killed by hackers on different occasions

for the past two days. Might just have been a tad unlucky there, or perhaps Elektro is a good breeding ground

for them;)

Edited November 25, 2014 by StayAlive

[Kirby12352 67]

I've seen a couple hackers, but only in Elektro. I don't think hackers are as much of a problem as people are saying they are.

[pizuicas 82]

I have nearly 300 hours logged and have never seen killed or witnessed a scripter/hacker. Yet it seems like the forum makes them out to be everywhere all the time and game ruining.... Am I just really lucky? I'm not bagging on people saying that they ruin the game, I'm just saying they may not be as invasive as people claim. Is this true? Have I just been fortunate?

Yes, you are very lucky.  I have played 1.000 hrs+ in DayZ and I may have 4 confirmed encounters with hackers.  Another 10 or 15 encounters I may have doubts and will be more related to desync/internet issues.

 

Any how, my point is that there are not as many as we tend to cry and sometimes is just glitches or bugs.  The game is not 100% hacker free but also is not infested with them.  Also bear in mind that developers are focusing on security, which will prevent this even more.

 

Cheers and enjoy the game!

[ValentinBk (DayZ) 60]

I have nearly 300 hours logged and have never seen killed or witnessed a scripter/hacker. Yet it seems like the forum makes them out to be everywhere all the time and game ruining.... Am I just really lucky? I'm not bagging on people saying that they ruin the game, I'm just saying they may not be as invasive as people claim. Is this true? Have I just been fortunate?

I actually started capturing videos for a hackers compilation, started just 2 days ago and I already have 2 videos. In one of them the hacker tells me to drop my gun (an M4 I took off someone I killed)

[goofert 11]

i´ve seen one, he shot me down through a thick wall, my buddy have seen him shooting. But else than that, i´ve not experienced a single one, i have the feeling, that german servers are not really affected by this problem.

[gibonez 3633]

Same here.

Hackers are way down from the mod.

[harteman 155]

I have seen dozens.  Not just seen them, I have been in combat and killed by DOZENS of hackers.  Guys who lay prone and shoot about the map.  Guys taking items out of my inventory.

 

Two hackers ago guy took my magazines for my M4 and my MP5K out of my inventory.

 

Hackers are drawn to players who are fully geared.  They seem to like hunting down groups of us.  They also mostly really suck at aiming.  

 

My last encounter with a hacker was in a server, [m4] clan, with myself and 4 clan guys, and two others.  The clan guys were duping, judging by how they were resetting the server, and how certain guys would leave right before it happened, then when it came back up, all 4 would be back in again after 3 minutes or so.  Anyway, I stuck around, hoping to find their spot and kill them all.  I was as fully geared as I could possibly be, I had no interest in their loot, just in killing them for their glitching ways.

 

Along my way I got thirsty.  I stopped, cracked open a can, in the middle of a field, and BAM!  Here comes a hacker, punching me in the head from nowhere.  He landed one shot, and I knew what it was immediately.  I canceled my drink, started running, and ran all the way to the bridge east of cherno, crouched down and crawled under it, so the hacker couldn't punch me as I logged.

 

So while you guys may not run into them, I run into them almost every time my group plays.  When we play together, we play in the most popular servers.  We stick mostly to the coast.  That is where you'll find them.  You will know they are hacking when you see them moving faster than otherwise possible.  They have invisible weapons, often times looking like fresh spawns, then gunning down groups of people.  Sometimes they are friendly, and try to talk to us, to help us.  We always tell them to fuck off.

 

But flip side to this, is when I am playing by myself, and go inland, or am in a server that is not full, hackers are rare as fuck.  I DON'T SEE THEM.  However, see above.  They exist.

 

Now, you can continue believing they are really rare, or don't exist.  But here I am telling you they do, and it is a problem.  Choose to believe me or not, but I have NO REASON to lie to you about this.  So while you have your experience telling you one thing, here you have me telling you another.  Believe what you will, but the problem will not go away simply because you ignore it.  Your games may not suffer from hacking, but my friends and I, our games do, and they do QUITE OFTEN.  

 

I hope this helps to clear things up.  Either way, here is my testament to hacking in DayZ.  It exists, and it is bad.  

[harteman 155]

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Top post sums it up, and there is a video link in there as well of a hacker getting what he deserves.

[boneboys 7988]

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