[Logs] "Unknown Entity"(id=Unknown)

[Weyland Yutani (DayZ) 1159]

Anybody getting these in their logs?

 

Getting a lot of these "Unknown Entity"(id=Unknown). 1st connection was tied to me catching dupers in the act. The "Unknown Entity"(id=Unknown) was the person they were killing/duping. Curious if this is related to dupers or something else?

 

I've been banning people that are killing these "Unknown Entity"(id=Unknown) players and some are flat out claiming their not cheating. I've lifted some of these bans pending further investigation and curious on how I should proceed.

[LoveAffair 329]

i seem to see it say that every once in a while if i kill someone and sometimes if i check there pulse it will say unknown entity instead of there player name. I'm not sure if it is because i wait to long to check there pulse after i kill them or loot there body then check there pulse but it only happens every once in a while. It's very annoying because i like to see the name of the person i kill. I'll keep following this post in case someone knows the reason.

[HIHBGaming 14]

 

Anybody getting these in their logs?

 

Getting a lot of these "Unknown Entity"(id=Unknown). 1st connection was tied to me catching dupers in the act. The "Unknown Entity"(id=Unknown) was the person they were killing/duping. Curious if this is related to dupers or something else?

 

I've been banning people that are killing these "Unknown Entity"(id=Unknown) players and some are flat out claiming their not cheating. I've lifted some of these bans pending further investigation and curious on how I should proceed.

 

 

Tried to PM you on the subject of "Unknown Entity" mate but it appears you cannot receive PM's. This subject is best not talked about in a public forum. ;)

 

In answer to your question... It could be something else but there are ways to detect if it is or isn't.

[Surviv0r1969 151]

see it loads i figured it was body left too long

[Weyland Yutani (DayZ) 1159]

i seem to see it say that every once in a while if i kill someone and sometimes if i check there pulse it will say unknown entity instead of there player name. I'm not sure if it is because i wait to long to check there pulse after i kill them or loot there body then check there pulse but it only happens every once in a while. It's very annoying because i like to see the name of the person i kill. I'll keep following this post in case someone knows the reason.

Thanks for the reply, but your case is related to waiting to long before checking their pulse. I'm talking about server logs. Thanks though!  :thumbsup:

[gg_wolf 56]

Your gut instinct is usually right my friend ;) what ou need to look for is the times associated and the player that disconnected within the "acceptable" timeframe, usually they'll log back in not long after. We've banned close on 200 players abusing this in the last month and I'm not talking about the odd one time but repeat offenders.

Ask yourself a simple question "in all your time of playing this game how often have you killed someone whilst they were logging out?"

Within the answer you'll see that the logs represent a different pattern ;)

Edited May 22, 2015 by PaulieZ

[Schweinsteiger 107]

It means you waited too long to loot the body. It might even have something to do with the dead player hitting the re-spawn button, then after that player spawns back in the game, his dead body will register as "unknown entity".

[UKA Harrysoon 67]

It means you waited too long to loot the body. It might even have something to do with the dead player hitting the re-spawn button, then after that player spawns back in the game, his dead body will register as "unknown entity".

 

OP isn't talking about in-game. He means in the admin logs themselves.

 

I get it a lot in mine. I see them popping up when people are up to no good with a certain duping method, but also get them if a player tries to connect too early to the server and they cancel connecting just after a server restart.

[Death By Crowbar 1213]

I support admins who crack down on this. I also support any effort to solve it completely, I think I heard whispers of that coming... Brace yourself! Anti-duping winter is coming.

[UKA Harrysoon 67]

I support admins who crack down on this. I also support any effort to solve it completely, I think I heard whispers of that coming... Brace yourself! Anti-duping winter is coming.

 

Will make mine and the other admins jobs a lot easier on our servers for sure. Lost count how many dupers we've banned off our server. 

[-luc- (DayZ) 0]

We are in the process of trying to crackdown on hacks and dupes within the server and noticing a lot of unknown entity died repeatedly over the space of 10 seconds or so within logs though no players killing unknown entities. Does anyone have any more info on this?