For those who encounter hackers all the time

[mind_grenade 24]

In what way are they hacking? I've been playing nearly 80 hours and I have not as yet seen/encountered/been aggrieved by a hacker (to my knowledge). I do know a lot of people are hacking items in, but that's a script issue that just about always gives global bans within 48 hours now.

I have a feeling the hacking issue (not discounting it entirely, I know they are a problem, just as they are in all online games) may be largely exaggerated by people who are just too proud to admit they were bad enough to be killed or outsmarted. And we all know that the internet is where people exaggerate.

But yeah, just curious as to how people are actually hacking, 'cos I've hardly seen it other than once, when I got to Cherno and there were explosions everywhere, and the hospital (which I crawled 2 1/2 hours to get to, such a bad day) and apartments were leveled. But even then that may not have been a hack.

It does help the hackers in this game, however, that there is NO information regarding kills or anything. I think an *optional* killfeed (i.e player A killed player B with X weapon), even if just for admins, would help rule out the obvious item scripters. A good admin, or an effectively admin'd server is worth 100 Battleyes, Punkbusters, or ANY anti-cheat. I know people roll their eyes at killfeeds and such because their CoD/CS/BF alarm goes off, but it would be an EASY way to see who spawned an illegitimate item in.

[Electrolyte 4]

I haven't played 1.7.2 enough to speak on it specifically, but before that I would see hackers at least once a day if not 3-4 times. I know of one server where at the same time every day a heli would mow the fields between Elektro and Cherno for 20-30 minutes. I would show up just to watch.

[DeadManDan 23]

There used to be a problem with hacker vehicles like tanks jets gunships and the occasional battleship drop but I think all that was taken care of recently.

If you're really interested in what's out there I'd recommend searching for the cheat forums associated with dayz.

From what I've read on the cheating forum and seen in youtube videos theres the script nuke that demonlishes buildings but that might also be the use of rare (possibly duplicated) satchel charges, also a teleport hack that teleports everyone on the server 50 ft above a mountain or in the middle of the ocean, there's also server side scripts that can spawn items into a player's inventory (I don't know what would happen to them if they received non dayZ weapons, ie possible perma ban from BE due to server running the script on them).

Edited July 12, 2012 by DeadManDan

[Zeromentor 169]

@DeadManDan

No, the tank spawning is still around. Day before yesterday TX20 was reset like 3 times to get rid of tanks blowing up Cherno and the players within.