Large fires/Nukes on servers and a Hacker (THEARCN)

[Omega (DayZ) 0]

So yesterday after the first release of the 1.5.8.2 patch, I was playing on a UK based server with about 40-50 people when people started experiencing mass amounts of FPS lag. Ignoring this, I venture into Kamenka despite adjusting my settings and encountering zero performance boost and begin shooting a proned survivor. 4 clips later he somehow stands up, turns around, salutes and then kills me. His name ended up being THEARCN and others were reporting of the same guy hacking helicopters and various weapons in order to cause chaos.

Trying to work out why the whole server was having an FPS seizure, it turns out a massive fire or nuke had been spawned (potentially by the same guy) just outside of Elektro that you could see for miles and literally covered the entire width of my 18 inch screen. On top of this, the whole of Elektro was pretty much lit up like a Christmas Tree due to the reflection of the fire. Upon closer inspection, the cause of the fire seemed to be a huge metal object in the center of it, much like a broken nuke shell which someone had clearly hacked into the game. I don't know if this is the same for others experiencing the same FPS issue, but i'd take a guess and say something similar may be occurring.

Just thought i'd aware the administrators and see if others had any other events like this to discuss or report since the latest patch/hotfix. Thanks.

[drakenof 9]

4 clips later he somehow stands up, turns around, salutes and then kills me

I must admit i laughed at the salute part.

Also the fire issue is pretty old, it's not a nuke, just a graphic curiosity. I seriously doubt it's a cheat.

[Omega (DayZ) 0]

4 clips later he somehow stands up' date=' turns around, salutes and then kills me[/quote']

I must admit i laughed at the salute part.

Also the fire issue is pretty old, it's not a nuke, just a graphic curiosity. I seriously doubt it's a cheat.

People have reported entire portions of the map suddenly dying and having a large fire in it's place, hence the nuke shell at the center of it. Yeah, he literally spent his time to turn around and slowly and gaze into my eyes while he salutes and 1 hits me with his Winchester. :(

[Danfen 0]

4 clips later he somehow stands up' date=' turns around, salutes and then kills me[/quote']

I must admit i laughed at the salute part.

Also the fire issue is pretty old, it's not a nuke, just a graphic curiosity. I seriously doubt it's a cheat.

This. The fire bug is one I remember from Arma 1 (quite a few times the Airfield would be covered in flames from an old shot down Jet :P). Afaik, it's just a graphical bug that occurs occasionally, and apart from the FPS hit shouldn't have any impact on the game (i.e. no damage/health loss).

Of course, the 'huge metal object' could have still been the cause of the original fire that resulted in the glitch, saying that though, are you sure the object wasn't something such as a destroyed helicopter? (such as one of those they hacked in )

[Omega (DayZ) 0]

Oh okay, maybe I was wrong however the metal object resembled this:

http://images.wikia.com/fallout/images/b/b2/Mini_nuke.png

Half of it was missing/cracked however and it looked rusted. Similar shape although slightly bigger than the one in the picture.