Can I play DayZ without a hacker watching me?

[Marago 0]

So the passed two days I have been figuring out that I am being watched whenever I get on the game. First of, yesterday, I met a new group of people called Scythia and so I decided to go meet up with them and play as a team. Now we were picked up in Berezino where 2 or 3 of us got in the cargo van and headed south. We picked up two more before heading inland. Once we got into a barren place we hopped out of the cargo van, geared up a little, and split up into Alpha and Bravo squad. With the intent to move out we prepared ourselves to survive, we begin to see bunnies. As time goes on more and more bunnies show up, we hear the "Mercy" song from Kanye West start to play. When we figure out that it is none of us we quickly hop back in the truck and head north west (roughly).

We stop in the next town seeing as there is a grocery store and we want to fill the cargo truck a little bit more. As we scavange through the grocery store we all pack up back into the truck, but one guy is left in the store saying, "hey guys! There are a lot more camping tents in here. I need help to pick them all up. As each of us gets out I see that they are spawning right in front of our faces. There are about 6 camping tents and I scream out, "The hackers are playing with us! Lets go!". We jump back into the vehicle and start our way north, I believe. We hit Palano and our truck burst into flames. As some of us die, not me luckily, we jump out of the truck quickly and start looking around. I heard one gunshot and immediately log out knowing its the hackers. As one of group members finds where they are shooting from, he tells us that they're bunnies above us with LMG's.

So I log on later, onto a different server, and meet back up with my friend at the factory, due east? Before I even get to the top floor both of us are headshotted and killed. This could have been an occurrence of a skilled squad that had seen us and taken us out, but I can not tell now a days.

Now I just logged onto a server US 4445 and I was creeping in the woods north of Cherno and was aiming at a town. When I was laying down holding ALT to look around me a little bit, my guy gets up, puts his gun away, my food/thirst/blood icons disappear and my guy literally starts to dance and my character model was stretched out. I immediately logged. Now first off, I have no idea which button could do that, and second I was only holding ALT. Now if there is something I dont know about that I may have pushed, I believe this was a hacker as well.

Is there anything to be done of this? Or are they going to be able to roam free and waste everyone's time with the game?

Edited August 6, 2012 by Marago

[Despedia 4]

You've double-posted.

This thread was made already.

[LawsOfFire 21]

i guess you are just unlucky.

but chose servers wisely. i only play on low-pop servers. with guys that are fun to chat with and not that many hackers/exploiters

[puppetworx 474]

First of all: creepy.

Second of all, you cannot prevent this.

Third of all if not dying is what you care about then as soon as you see the signs of a hacker leave the server immediately. Hackers will ultimately kill you, toying with you is just the foreplay.

[Marago 0]

First of all: creepy.

Second of all, you cannot prevent this.

Third of all if not dying is what you care about then as soon as you see the signs of a hacker leave the server immediately. Hackers will ultimately kill you, toying with you is just the foreplay.

I was afraid of this, but I heard a new hack was created? Now I am seeing more hackers then ever before. It seems like everyone's anger towards the game is finally being avenged by killing random survivors?

[ZomboWTF 527]

bunnies with LMGs? we are all f*cked

[semipr0 402]

In a quick answer to the thread title;

Survey says?......No.

[SadPanda (DayZ) 181]

I can, so why not?

EDIT: Seems like most ''hackers'' appear in US servers.

Edited August 6, 2012 by SadPanda

[ZekkCC (DayZ) 51]

troll?

[CreatureJoe 14]

If I even suspect hackers on the server I'm playing on I leave right away. Thats the best way to not get yourself killed by hackers :)

[MuchHigher 65]

If I even suspect hackers on the server I'm playing on I leave right away. Thats the best way to not get yourself killed by hackers :)

What he said. I have mostly been playing on lower populated german servers to avoid running into hackers. I've only came across hackers once, which we shot out of the helicopter then my friend noticed they had NVGs rangefinders, AS50 TWS and other items. I immedately told him their hackers and we should get out of there. Next thing we know all 3 of us are killed and then spawn killed a few times until they left.

[LawsOfFire 21]

I can, so why not?

EDIT: Seems like most ''hackers'' appear in US servers.

yeah your right (beans for us in Europe). i don't know if i am right but there seem to be few hackers on Scandinavian servers