The DayZ Hacker Problem (You will not like this)??

[BeauJayce 0]

So first off I try to stay quiet on these forums. I don't chime in unless I have something to say and even then I normally don't post it because most people just don't want to hear it. You want a perfect game and you want it right now and the bottom line is you are an entitled to more from this game because you paid for it.

So let me tell you the facts. First, Bohemia cares, or at least someone there does, but the company as a whole is so understaffed that they can't push a fix out for the hackers. My data comes from reading their most recent report in which they said they're only going to push out 4 updates a year or something like that. If you played in the mod, like a couple of us did, then you know hackers are nothing new to the game and in fact were a major problem back then as well.

You know what most of us did to fix the hacking problem back then?
We went to private servers.

You know why we went to private servers? Well, for one, mods that were really good and added to the game. Second, the fact that private server owners were fighting for communities and thus were johnie on the spot for taking care of hacking issues, or exploiters. Private server owners WANT you to play on their server, and with that said are ACTIVELY trying to fix problems such as people duping, speed hacking, glitching, and all that. The public servers right now, and actually always have been, like taking public transportation. Yes, you will get where you want to go, but you're probably going to have to deal with some nonsense along the way. People telling you : 'Go to private servers' are in fact not copping out. We have dealt with this before and we know private servers are probably going to be the fix you want instead of just slamming your head against the wall with public servers. At this point, you know the hacking is bad on the servers and yet you continue to play there. You scream at Bohemia for a fix when let's be fair here, it took them about a year to fix you not running down stairs fast and killing yourself.

TLDR; If you want to stay on the public hives and try to play against the players who are hacking, then yes go right ahead. You are hurting yourself and nobody else at this point when the easy fix is to take your entire crew to a private server, start fresh, and be a part of a community.

[Parazight 1599]

1 hour ago, BeauJayce said:

The public servers right now, and actually always have been, like taking public transportation.   Yes, you will get where you want to go, but you're probably going to have to deal with some nonsense along the way.

Private servers are like having to buy a foreign car and then build your own roads. 

Your whole post makes a ton of really bad assumptions.  No, I don't scream at Bohemia.  No, I don't slam my head against the wall.   Public transportation isn't that terrible.  No, I don't want a perfect game RIGHT NOW.  Yes, I DO want to hear it.

There's nothing wrong with holding a company accountable.  This is how business works.  It's not the consumers' fault if a company makes bad decisions.  Having to rely on an unnecessary third party in order to have a working product is gross and unprofessional.  This goes beyond the well established gaming industry.  And this is a billion dollar industry.  Sure, we can't blame the developers for terrible management decisions.  They don't control the money flow.  That doesn't mean the paying public should roll over and accept that we pay for garbage.

When I paid for DayZ, I was told that there'd be mother-server technology, sanity checks, and a functioning hive system.  Should I just accept something lesser because some corporate moron decided to change their mind well into the project?  NO.  Deliver what you sold.  Private servers are a real option, but public servers need to work properly.

 

 

[Monosof 15]

Hackers are prevalent in every game and especially the ones that are popular or active, there is no way around that. It is not Bohemia's fault that is just the nature of playing on a PC and you are going to encounter someone cheating and ruining your day. If you want zero issues with cheaters play on Xbox.

[andTRIAGE 0]

Are you serious? Xbox has a huge problem with dupers. It's so widespread that many servers have had their spawns completely destroyed: dupers hoard all the guns and everyone else is lucky to find a freaking SKS...it can do the job and is a good gun, but the dupers are stacking all the high end gear so that only they have it.

There might not be speedhacks and aimbots everywhere but cheating is a huge issue on console servers.

[rackinglad27 138]

4 minutes ago, andTRIAGE said:

Are you serious? Xbox has a huge problem with dupers. It's so widespread that many servers have had their spawns completely destroyed: dupers hoard all the guns and everyone else is lucky to find a freaking SKS...it can do the job and is a good gun, but the dupers are stacking all the high end gear so that only they have it.

There might not be speedhacks and aimbots everywhere but cheating is a huge issue on console servers.

correct you are, I was in a random party chat last week with some americans and they confessed to have hoarded over 20 aks of various calibre, 9 vsds and 12 lars. I called them out and said no way that they had that kind of firepower and i shit you not they were telling the truth, they went pvping and obviously died a few times but each time they would just server hop and gear back up in 5 minutes flat and then off to pvp again as if it didn't bother them.

[Monosof 15]

2 hours ago, andTRIAGE said:

Are you serious? Xbox has a huge problem with dupers. It's so widespread that many servers have had their spawns completely destroyed: dupers hoard all the guns and everyone else is lucky to find a freaking SKS...it can do the job and is a good gun, but the dupers are stacking all the high end gear so that only they have it.

There might not be speedhacks and aimbots everywhere but cheating is a huge issue on console servers.

Xbox has a ton servers to mitigate the problem of acquiring weapons far more than PC, especially when the LAR, VSD and VSS do not count in hoarder you just need to look more. 

The problem with consoles is using Alts, attack a walled up building and you have a guy spawning in 6 or 10 times. The focus should be stopping people from using more than one character with secondary accounts on a single console.