At this stage, DayZ is not playable.

[ninami 37]

I've been playing Dayz for about a month now. There's some bugs with dropping stuff, looting, zombie aggro and a lot of other stuff. Don't get me wrong, I totally understand that it's Alpha and these buggs are not a problem for me.

BUT!

All of the sudden, cheaters increased with HUGE numbers. I mean my regular server was on fire, corpses everywhere and invisible players talking on the intercom. I changed server and took about 15 minutes before I saw 2 buildings explode and kill about 2-3 players.

I've posted 3 posts on the "Cheat reporting" section, all different servers.

What I'm trying to say is, the game is unplayable because of all the cheaters. It's not even fun anymore... I create a new character and find some nice weapons, only to die from cheaters/hackers and lose everything. Priority number one for the dev team is to get a working anti-cheat system. Because right now, cheaters own this mod...

[brachra 112]

yes, cheaters suck. (least ur not bitching about PVP).

Also you get my beans because you spelled LOSE properly. instead of "Loose"..fuckin angers me

[denkart 198]

My friends and I have been playing for about 2 months now and have never run into any cheaters. I guess we've been lucky.

[LivingError 23]

The game is becoming more popular so naturally the number of cheaters will increase. Hopefully within good time we can find more ways to efficiently report and punish malicious players.

[FrozenLiquidity 0]

Ran into the first bit of hackers tonight. Everyone on the server simultaneously had their legs broken. I guess we're lucky that we had morphine on us and that they stopped at that.

[sixbarns 217]

Heard about a massive hack attack tonight but I've never seen it.

[Vanglory 72]

I found two fully fueled helicopters at the Balota airfield.

Sadly though both had broken parts on them and I was unable to fly them. (though the guns worked fine :P)

[Ejaculacid 19]

I've been playing since the start on/off.. The only thing makes it unplayable is the lack of "endgame" so i turn to murdering noobs for entertainment.

I found two fully fueled helicopters at the Balota airfield.

Sadly though both had broken parts on them and I was unable to fly them. (though the guns worked fine :P)

Legit or hacked? ;)

Edited July 19, 2012 by Ejaculacid

[resident_leeonheart@yahoo.com 32]

The only thing makes it unplayable is the lack of "endgame" so i turn to murdering noobs for entertainment.

Noobs needed for DayZ's long term survival. Why not target vet players if you wanted some challenge? Not fun enough or not good enough? :)

Edited July 19, 2012 by leeo38

[ozwald 14]

I've never ran into a cheater while playing. I kind of wonder how many times people die legit and still think its from a hacker, everyone is so paranoid about it.

[sixbarns 217]

Noobs needed for DayZ's long term survival. Why not target vet players if you wanted some challenge? Not fun enough or not good enough? :)

There are plenty of vets in the big cities. That's where a lot of people go to do this. Unfortunately the noobs think it's a great place to get gear. When the vets die, they run back to the big cities and appear to be unequipped noobs until they get their gear back or pickup an Enfield. Pretty hard to tell the difference which is why I tell true noobs to stay away from Cherno and Elektro. Only death awaits them there.

[species5021 28]

I have yet to encounter a hacker in game, and i've been playing for a pretty long time now.

I have to say though that i do see an awfull lot of youtube videos popping up with people killing hackers and finding hacked in stuff like satchel charges. Gotta love the irony though, hackers spawn shit to make the game easier to cope with and they get shot dead by people with lee enfields in cherno or elektro LOL!

[resident_leeonheart@yahoo.com 32]

There are plenty of vets in the big cities. That's where a lot of people go to do this. Unfortunately the noobs think it's a great place to get gear. When the vets die, they run back to the big cities and appear to be unequipped noobs until they get their gear back or pickup an Enfield. Pretty hard to tell the difference which is why I tell true noobs to stay away from Cherno and Elektro. Only death awaits them there.

Probably but most vets would stay away from the cities, since they have all the gears they needed to survive up north setting tents/camps up in the hills and forest( My camp itself is pretty deep in the forest near the edges of the map) Those camp and snipe in Cherno and Elektro knows they're targeting newbies for easy kills.

[nahaz 132]

The issue with cheating is that Arma 2 is a military sim and because of that is very trusting of clients (read: players) and this makes it easy to cheat. BattlEye isn't a very big project like PunkBuster and thus is slower to react. Both the DayZ team and server admins are working on improving cheat detection and other solutions to handle cheaters, but the problem will always be there, the question is to what extent. Right now it is extreme but it will get better.

[Azrail (DayZ) 211]

All of the sudden, cheaters increased with HUGE numbers.

i play for more then a month, and i yet have to see one hacker in dayz.

i play on popular servers, empty servers, night servers, day servers,

regular, veteran, expert, old patch servers, newest patch servers,

DE/UK/FR/LU/RU/US

i am missing out :(

Edited July 19, 2012 by Azrail

[HalloweeNGT 23]

Sadly the game is full, yesterday night one of most followeds DayZ streamers just decided to hax too and spawned some choppers,weaps,ghilies etc for him and some of his channel subscribers that were playing with him. So sad the stream had more than 1k viewers when he did this but nothing will happen.

By the way that was so obvious, he was dieing day after day by haxors that were polymorphing him into some random animals just for fun, atm dayz is not a mod to be played seriously, as I usually tip for new players, go cherno, grab a gun and have fun

Edited July 19, 2012 by HalloweeNGT

[kajonna 8]

"i play for more then a month, and i yet have to see one hacker in dayz.

i play on popular servers, empty servers, night servers, day servers,

regular, veteran, expert, old patch servers, newest patch servers,

DE/UK/FR/LU/RU/US"

same here

[random777 23]

I believe i just got killed by hacker last life. its bull, cause our squad spent the day gathering and living and supplying each other, to all of sudden be sniped in a forest at night time, after logging back in.makes no sense. not fair. but for dayz developing better anti-cheat, idk how that will work out, cause these is battle eye, which dosnt seem to do much either then kick me for ping or random things.

[TheFired3mon 33]

I've only experienced 2 hackers... One in 1.7.1.3 or something of the sort, it was the hack that kills everyone on a server. Another time, might have been an admin fucking with us, or a hacker. This one didn't do anything aggressive, he made us start dancing and waving and such, though my friend and I logged out before he decided to kill everyone.

Edited July 19, 2012 by TheFired3mon

[Macenzie 79]

Not playable you say? Good thing it's still in ALPHA TESTING

[HalloweeNGT 23]

Not playable you say? Good thing it's still in ALPHA TESTING

This mod will not release an official playable version, since it has started a race mod vs cheat that the mod cant and wont win. (Not to ment the long list of troubles Arma2 has)

I know many people that have left the mod because of hackers, now you can see streamers hacking with no fear cause anticheat systems of this game sucks so hard and devs cant do anything against it (they seem that they cant even fight disconnecters so nvm about hackers)

[Strategos (DayZ) 190]

I've encountered hackers, loggers, ghosters, loot farmers.... douches of all types. BUT the game is not unplayable.

Despite all the frustration, the glitches, the bugs and the twats I've still had some of the best gaming experiences I've had in 25 years of gaming.

[zyfer.nyholm@gmail.com 131]

yes, cheaters suck. (least ur not bitching about PVP).

Also you get my beans because you spelled LOSE properly. instead of "Loose"..fuckin angers me

loose, loose, loose, loose, loose, loose.

@OP

Game is playable, if a server fills up with cheaters then that means that the server admins does not like and appreciate the server and the people who play on it, or they try to do something but because its hard to fish out names then its inevitable, just change server, you might get lucky, i havent spotted a cheater yet. But when you get unlucky then i ofc understand your frustration, but you gotta remember, hackers didnt go so far in life, so you gotta sympathize with them, i know i do.

[Duckfucked 7]

I think alot of this is admins fucking with us, i was in a server last night and everyone got spawned into the sky and fell to there death lol i know admins can do that shit in Killingfloor and they probably can in dayz also. :D

[brachra 112]

Another thing that angers me.... People who confuse THERE with THEIR