This might be weird sounding, but after the fact it felt like server admin abuse?

[jayp.uncensored 10]

This happened early today, around 9:30pm EST I think, not 100% sure. It happened on server US169. I don't recall the full details of that server, but I know it was US169.

A friend and I were at NW airfield. I was up on the roof of the fire house, my friend was going down to the north barracks while I covered. I was just hanging out, looking around, when all the sudden I heard a rustle. I pop into third person, and sure enough there's a dude up there with me. I freaked and put a couple rounds in him, killing. The server's chat log scrolled, and said, " was killed by JP (friendly fire)." There was a space where the guy's name should of been, and I had never seen the friendly fire thing on any other server. Anyways, I killed that guy but heard shots else where so I started looking around, paranoid as usual, and thought I saw a guy on the roof below the tower part. Then another guy spawned into the world, right where the first guy did, up on top of the fire station. Killed him, too. That's when I thought it must of been a clan that all logged out in one place, and I happened to catch one or two of them while they were logging in.

That's when stuff got weird. Each guy I killed had the little friendly fire warning with no name on it. There were at least 2 more guys on the tower itself, one or two guys that climbed the ladder up to me, and AT LEAST one more guy with a sniper some where out on the airfield, no idea where. The random sniper was the one who killed me, from a good range.

As the whole shootout started, a third member of our little group signed into the server and saw it all happening on the chat log, while my friend in the barracks started watching while I was still alive and killed another 2 or 3 people in a row up on the fire house.

After I died, after he killed a couple more guys up there, he also got sniped "from no where." The guy missed a few times, but my friend couldn't figure out, at all, where the shots were coming from and eventually took one.

While we were respawning and debating server hopping, we talked about how weird that was. We can't help but feel it was some sort of server admin abuse, possibly some sort of weird hack. Considering we never even had a chance to actually see any of the names of the people we killed up there, we can't be sure, but it's so strange that so many people would all sign out in EXACTLY the same location, and from the incredibly brief time I had to check their bodies with such similar gear. Again, the time I had was brief to check their loot, but what I saw was all the same, I believe. But, if it was the same person, repeatedly spawning in the same place with the same gear, that's broken. Extremely broken.

I'm not gonna go into how much I lost, but there's a damn good chance I was one of the most well equipped players in the game at the time, and probably one of the longest lives, too. I wouldn't care nearly as much if it had felt like a fair fight, but it felt like I got the short end of the "Well F this kid, I'm an ADMIN" stick. That said, if these are 'known hacks" ... well, not as bad but just as bloody annoying.

[terraknight 11]

Hmm, I think they were merely hackers, and no admin abuse (unless he was a hacker himself). I THINK the "killed by friendly fire" thing is a new addition and not perfected yet (altho works fine on my server) I think you came across a teleporting hacker with item spawning, sure, I could be wrong, but the story sounds like it. But ofc, it might as well have been a larger, well organized clan.

[Reo 26]

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/22386-admin-abuse-what-you-need-to-know/

[East Clintwood 30]

http://dayzmod.com/f...u-need-to-know/

Quoting for truth, and great justice.

[jayp.uncensored 10]

Fair enough, must of been some ubar wicked sick hax then. It still felt really, really strange that he was doing it so fast. I'm pretty interested now, though, in how those hacks work. Either the backend/server side system is fairly insecure and be tricked easily with dummy information (faked packets?) or there's something way more fun going on.