NOT SO (edit) "Friendly Hacker" on US188/NY84 [MAD]

[Jenn (DayZ) 7]

My friend and I were playing today (around 3:50 - 4:00pm EST). We were in the process of moving one of our camps. We were finishing up gathering our gear and all of a sudden we hear voices on the game comm (we use external comms.) They guy says "You don't want to shoot..." My friend spots a guy in a Ghillie Suit over at the next pine. At the same time, I see a cow coming straight for me! The cow walks up and over the comm I hear "Moo."

We decided not to shoot at them, but instead booked it to the east, running backwards to see if we were being followed... We weren't and we stopped at the next ridge to scope our surroundings. All of a sudden the Ghillie suit guy is right there next to us again. We decided to log at that point. PVP is all well and good, but we don't want to get into a pissing match with a hacker.

All total it was funny, but disturbing nonetheless.....

I don't have any photo or video proof (honestly have not figured out how to do screenshots since I don't go in through steam...) I also can't tell you what name they were using because that server does not have tags. I still wanted to post, maybe in the chance that the admin of the server might come across this post, I don't know what they could do at this point, but I do have the time we were playing and I can go back and get GPS coordinates to where it happened.

Thanks for reading :D

Edited August 14, 2012 by Jenn

[andb52 12]

Thanks, Jenn. I'll look through the logs and see if I can find anything, although that is frankly unlikely. Let me know if anything else strange happens on the server!

[Jenn (DayZ) 7]

Tonight! August 13, 9:55 (ish) pm EST.

My friend (Crisco35) and I (Jenn) were in Zeleno. We just finished up in the grocery store and were on our way to the church when we both started rising up in the air and the words "what would you do if you saw me in heaven" appeared across our screens. At that point everyone in the server was drawn to one location - and of course everyone started killing each other. I just hauled ass and then logged to the lobby. My friend was not so lucky and was killed. Which sucks, we were both pretty nicely outfitted...

I don't know how to take in-game screenshots... I knew something funky was going on so grabbed my phone and snapped a few and so did he, I uploaded them to (edit) Photobucket

This is the list right after I ran and logged

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This is the list a few moments after the first list (this would be right at the time Crisco35 died.

http://i210.photobuc...398970952_n.jpg

This is a shot by Crisco, after he respawned was drawn to this location and it happened again.

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He got a player list right before he died

http://i210.photobuc...08-13220357.jpg

and the list after death (2nd death)

http://i210.photobuc...08-13220521.jpg

If you can't see them or anything let me know and I will find some other way to post them.

This time the hacker wasn't so friendly. We really enjoy your server and appreciate your running it and looking into this. It sucks that some asshat has to go and ruin other peoples fun. Pretty much blew our night, and we don't get much time to play because we wait to play together... not your fault, but sucks nonetheless.

Edited August 14, 2012 by Jenn

[Jenn (DayZ) 7]

Found another post about the exact same thing happening.... http://dayzmod.com/f...-on-the-server/

Maybe if you can find out who the admin of that server is you can compare notes, sounds like it *might* be the same person...

Edited August 14, 2012 by Jenn

[andb52 12]

Thanks Jenn :-) You seem to have horrible timing on my server haha!

[Jenn (DayZ) 7]

LOL true enough!! I have faith things will get better though. Hopefully diligent Admins like yourself will get more leeway to ban questionable players without the fear of being blacklisted... after all, you do pay to host the game.

Regardless, I enjoy playing there. I have no problem with legit pvp - I was killed legit the other day (basically because I ran and got shot in the back) and could not bitch. Seemed on the up and up to me. I should have, maybe could have... shot back, even though I was poorly equipped because of the moving camps deal... Probably a person that belonged to a camp we had raided.... But!!... found a better one totally by accident so alllll is good (bet you are wondering if it was YOURS - whoever is reading this... LOL!!!)

But hackers suck. I have no problem saying there are people out there that have better aim, better equipment, etc. Never have, and I have been playing PC FPS for a LOOOONG time (I am almost 40 now, I pretty much remember the time when there were no computers...) I really don't understand cheating to get ahead... never have never will. PVP no problem... raiding other peoples camps - we have done it and expect the same of any who find ours - all is fair in love and dayz - EXCEPT outright cheating - that just blows. The guy with the cow suit... was maybe funny tp a degree... (and probably because they weren't hostile... and we chose not to shoot at them..) but like I said earlier, it was disturbing nonetheless. It was still cheating/hacking/exploitation of the game... Crisco35 and I decided not to shoot but to run, as we knew they were hackers and if we shot at them it would just be the worse off for us. Who knows, if we had decided to shoot they may have nuked the whole server...

But then the Eric Clapton hack (and I have no idea if it was the same guys... I have seen videos of some hackers that just like to freak people out and then just leave...) seemed much more malicious... Spawning everyone to the same place knowing that most people would go hostile... I'll admit, I ran and then logged. Crisco35 was not so lucky, died, and lost all his hard earned and/or raided gear... (and with the bugs on the tents right now... *sigh*)

I do appreciate your communications, and hope at some point in the near future the admis that PAY to have their servers (such as MAD) have the ability to ban the douchebags that do things like this without fear of repercussion... you all pay to run the server, you should be able to ban on the simple fact of 'I don't like you' as far as I am concerned. I have seen the posts of a few players complaining about your server but for the time playing you have been on the up and up and we have not had any problems at all except for the past week or so - which I don't think is a fault of the MAD server at all - I have noticed the cheat complaints have almost exponentially risen for all servers since then. Although I think the MAD camp may be one of the camps we found... not to give away in game info, but I think we found one of "your" camps and never have seen the server reset as accused. (although when in-game, just pretend I never said that... LOL!). There are no tags, but one can recognize what may be a home 'clan' base vs a home 'merc' base...

DAYZ DEVS... if you are paying attention... Your server hosts, such as this (these, of the MAD clan - and please believe I am not affiliated with a clan or do I wish to be at this time... I play lone-ish wolf with my friend, trying to get a small merc group of family players going... off topic, NM...) fine gentleman here, are the persons who should have the right to ban players from the servers that THEY pay money to host. I realize this is a test phase of the game, but if you are testing without considering the amount of cheating that is being reported, then that is a skewed test to begin with. Let the admins of the servers who pay to host the testing decide if the people playing on the servers *that they pay to host...* are a worthy representation of the future clientele of gamer you wish to cater to... Those admins that abuse their power will have low populated servers.... Servers such as US188/NY84 will stand up to the test of time and be back to where they were before these hackers ran rampant - 2 weeks ago I had to wait 30 min to get on because the server was FULL. I have seen complaints against the server, and dismissed them, because in our (both Crisco35 and my) opinion this is a fair server with admin that will answer questions and are fair to players even not affiliated with their group/clan/guild (whatever... I play all genres).

Regardless, drop the topmost and lowest percentages (yes... people are stupid, for a game, go ahead, put them on the curve... (hope that didn';t make me sound like a QB...)

I am not asking anyone in the DayZ development team or BIS to fix anything... I am asking that you allow those who put up their hard-earned money to run a DayZ server to have the ability to ban those they suspect of cheating. And in the case one is banned who should not... well contact the server admins (I did it - both through the forum and externally...) That could be the kicker there.... advise server admins that they need an email to address complaints and have them submit logs... or not. Once again, they are playing the cost... so let them decide damnitt.