Increase in Hacking?

[cheesycheesebourne 10]

Been playing for a couple months now, and am still in LOVE with this game!

I don't know if I have just been lucky, but have not had any experiences with hackers at all..... until yesterday, when I had two experiences that I can only imagine are hackers:

Hanging near my tent in the middle of nowhere, and suddenly, "You Are Dead".... messages came up showing that everyone on the server died simultaneously. FUUUUUUUCK.

After respawing and starting to get my new character kitted-up, a couple hours later I am crawling peacefully towards a town, (on a differant server than the one above), I am suddenly teleported to NW airport, with a bunch of others, and of course a big scirmish erupts. Fortunatley I was still prone so didn't catch any lead and was able to exit the server before dying.

Anyway, has there been an increase in hacking lately, or was it just coincidence that these two experiences happened the same day and I have been lucky to play for so long without anything happening?

It's not going to keep me out of the game, but if there are certain servers I can avoid to minimize hacker risk, any advice would be greatly received.

[Bulletproof Sandwich 57]

should probably stop playing on euro servers then i guess

[ProB'en 1]

I got killed by hacker about 3 times yesturday, not even sayin about random teleports to nowhere

[Professional N00b 347]

I've noticed hackers increasing in numbers dramatically lately two.

Died three times in the past two days because of them. Twice with the instant kill that affects everyone on the server and another time where me and several others (perhaps the whole server) was teleported into the air and fell to our deaths.

Now I just cross my fingers and try to avoid the super populated servers, just so I don't enounter another freaking hacker. One tip that might help though:

If you keep seeing people die, more then normal for the population of a server. Then there might be a hacker. I've seen this in every case so far, got worried about the number of deaths then two minutes later *BAM* dead.

A surefire way is if you see the same player dying over and over, usually within seconds. Since the "Respawn" button was removed, they shouldn't be able to do that unless someone is killing them as soon as they spawn/before they spawn.

If you see stuff like that, I'd recommend logging out and finding a different server for awhile.