UK121 - UK 911 spawns loot and clear inventory

[rayf 1]

Just played on UK121 with my friends, ingame names: Jacob, Mikkel, Andy - we just enter the game and the server was completely dark, no worries we checked our tents and managed our loot. Suddenly Mikkel spots a person in a ghilie suit with a crossbow, oh well we wasted him quickly and started looting. His name was Gooser. (including the dot)

This happend approx 16:50 UTC +1, 22-07-2012

Now 2 minutes later I was looking at my inventory everything disappeared suddenly, while mikkel was shocked by the insane number of bear traps in the area, it was atleast 50+ .. 1 minute after all my inventory was gone I was killed instantly while masked under some trees, my friends lost their loot too and aborted quick, on the new server their legs was broken, both of them. NONE of us hear any shots at all !

Hopefully this issue is addressed quickly!

I have to restrain myself to not rage insanely over this, normally I do not mind getting killed after hours and hours of play, but this way is not okay!

Edited July 22, 2012 by rayf

[LulzGamez 17]

I'm pretty sure that was a hacker. As far as I know, server admins can't spawn items in or do any of the things you just accused them of.

[rayf 1]

LulzGamez is unforgiving when making a post, wrongfully accusing when mad. If he is admin or not doesnt matter, it should be fixed!

Lulzgamez find something better to do then correcting ppl !

Edited July 22, 2012 by rayf

[LulzGamez 17]

Explain how a hacker can clear my inventory ? It has to be someone with priviliges to access databases in some way. How can a hacker with no access to databases spawn items ?

Otherwise this game is the worst coded in history.

My grounds of these assumptions is my studies in computer science.

Exploits, injected code, hell I don't know how they do it I just know that they can. Ask the devs.

Studying computer science is all well and lovely, but it hasn't stopped you coming on a forum and accusing admins of abuse and of using powers THAT THEY DO NOT HAVE.

Take an hour out of your "computer science" studies and read the FAQs at least before spouting your rubbish.

[chipdemon@yahoo.com 57]

Otherwise this game is the worst coded in history.

Im afraid u hit the nail on the head here, although the game creators are still rolling out patches to help fix as much as they can. Let's be honest here, the game itself wouldnt have sold as many copies as it has without the advent of DayZ

[Scrumilation 16]

Explain how a hacker can clear my inventory ? It has to be someone with priviliges to access databases in some way. How can a hacker with no access to databases spawn items ?

Otherwise this game is the worst coded in history.

My grounds of these assumptions is my studies in computer science.

Hackers can clean inventory, it happened to me 2 days ago, i also turned into a goat and got teleported than killed.

Im afraid u hit the nail on the head here, although the game creators are still rolling out patches to help fix as much as they can. Let's be honest here, the game itself wouldnt have sold as many copies as it has without the advent of DayZ

What i hope is that after some time DayZ turns into a gamemode on the game and they completely REMOVE client-sided scripts, i took a read about it and you can even run scripts on other people (And maybe get them banned for it?), even with anti-cheat and all the security, hackers will always be there but if client-sided scripts get removed they will be able to do "only" what they do on other games, and don't explode everything or make people fly away and turn them into animals...

And about the topic, admins can't do this kind of thing, the only thing they can do that normal players can't is kicking people. I'm sure this was a hacker attack. (I saw a topic here saying that admins can't do this things)

Edited July 22, 2012 by Scrumilation

[LulzGamez 17]

Im afraid u hit the nail on the head here, although the game creators are still rolling out patches to help fix as much as they can. Let's be honest here, the game itself wouldnt have sold as many copies as it has without the advent of DayZ

The game sold well enough because it's a solid milsim. The problem that DayZ has brought with it is that now people are buying ArmA:OA just to play DayZ, and they get pissed when it's so buggy/unforgiving.

Some people really would be better off playing L4D2 or Dead Island :S

[SupaFly1983 52]

Explain how a hacker can clear my inventory ? It has to be someone with priviliges to access databases in some way. How can a hacker with no access to databases spawn items ?

Otherwise this game is the worst coded in history.

My grounds of these assumptions is my studies in computer science.

1) admins have no power same as other players with the ability to kick. Read rocket's posts (and other dayz team members) for mor info

2) All a hacker needs to do is bypass battleye and inject a sqf script. Hell, how do you think all these players end up with an AS50 with 10 mags, guillie suit, nv goggles, range finders and every tool. It isn't magic.

3) arma 2 is coded deliberately to allow for scripts. Without this dayz would not exist. Unfortunately the tools that allow dayz to exist, are also its achilles heel.

There is plenty of info on how BE and arma scripts work on the net. I suggest researching that before blaming admins.

[rayf 1]

Im afraid u hit the nail on the head here, although the game creators are still rolling out patches to help fix as much as they can. Let's be honest here, the game itself wouldnt have sold as many copies as it has without the advent of DayZ

Mod, game, whatever u get the point.

[chipdemon@yahoo.com 57]

The game sold well enough because it's a solid milsim. The problem that DayZ has brought with it is that now people are buying ArmA:OA just to play DayZ, and they get pissed when it's so buggy/unforgiving.

Some people really would be better off playing L4D2 or Dead Island :S

I was going to buy it shortly after it was released, but was put off by the torrent of complaints about the games abundant bugs, glitchy AI and other such annoyances. As it was it could have been a huge hit if it hadnt launched with that amount of problems.

Aside from that I can easily forgive DayZ of its bugs as its in alpha and is free, not to mention i dont find that the bugs still present detract from the pleasure i get from playing something as unique as it is.

In DayZ death comes for us all, sometimes the reaper is clad in the cloak of a ghillie suit, other times it swings the scythe of flawed code: either way I know that i am going to lose my stuff sooner or later, so I try not to lament it too much ~all part of the game.