Manito 1 Posted August 9, 2012 Happened tonight on Seattle ONE ZERO FOUR (spelled out as such), at approximately 11 PM PST. We were in the middle of a firefight involving 3 different groups around Elektro. I had flanked two snipers on the tallest hill north east of Electro, and was nearing their position. As I neared their position, the server suddenly put every player to the interim screen between in-game and the lobby (the screen right after aborting, where it says debriefing and shows scoreboard), with a timer saying "Timeout: 15" in red on top of the scoreboard. I was in Mumble with two other teammates at the same time, we all got this message at the same time. The server proceeded to go through what appeared to be a hard restart - but it popped up with the option to pick the game mode type. Since none of us were familiar with it, most of us hit continue, which apparently defaulted to 01: Deathmatch, with only 8 player slots. After a short period of time, it reverted back to the mode selection screen, where we now saw two different "DayZ" modes listed. We selected the first one, and the server appeared to restart properly.Shortly after the server started correctly, the player "DeadlySerious", who was part of the group with "Relick", "Steve", and "Zach", proceeded to vote DeadlySerious to become admin. Shortly after, we were all kicked from the server, and kicked on any subsequent rejoin. This kind of abuse is absurd, and the voting needs to be disabled globally, as I watched it happen most of the day today.Captured an image, showing "DeadlySerious" as admin, as well as his cohorts, and the kick message.http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/3203/arma2oa2012080823423254.jpg Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
R3znatrth0mps0n 0 Posted August 9, 2012 sadly i litterally just had an admin abuse his power or some guy hacking not sure which one it was, he teleported everyone in the server to one point outside of one spawn on a server of 50+ people having them all plumet to there deaths from dropping us all from the sky. i was able to log with a broken leg and and massive pain and bleeding but i do not understand what kind of thrill people get out of hacking or admin abuse... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tsandrey 379 Posted August 9, 2012 It could just be a hacking admin Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
R3znatrth0mps0n 0 Posted August 9, 2012 yeah it well could be, whatever it was its very annoying because my guy was geared to the teeth and to lose him like that... it takes away from the game. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Disgraced 1123 Posted August 9, 2012 (edited) It could also be a server that's improperly set up and started wrong on the "hard reset" you mentioned. After that, some guys took advantage of the default Arma behavior. I'm wondering, based on the naming convention you mentioned, if this is a hive connected server? Edited August 9, 2012 by Disgraced Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Manito 1 Posted August 9, 2012 It is a hive connected server, and the server is set up properly from what I know, I play on it regularly and it always has restarted normally. I have never seen it restart the way it did tonight, which makes me think it was abnormal due to an outside influence. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Manito 1 Posted August 9, 2012 Also, I know that it was not "just a hacking admin" - Freeside servers are well known, and they have a public Teamspeak, which I was in as soon as the server starting having issues. I was in direct contact with one of their staff members, who has assured me that they will be posting some sort of logs on this matter at some point on this thread. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
