WTF? Zombie's and survivors with halo's?

[Creambomb 49]

So I was just sniping outside Elektro. I shot a guy after I found he had a tent and he was running back and forth to it.

The wierd thing is, I saw this survivor standing still some distance away next to another tent. I shot him, with an AS50, and nothing happened. I shot him again, nothing happened. Then my killer shows up and shoots me, albeit badly before he manages to hit me in the face.

I died when I tried to approach my kill, fair game, someone else was either laying almost at my spot or just came there after hearing shots being fired.

What was that survivor I shot twice with an AS50? A bugged corpse? A hacker dummy?

So I respawn and I manage to get the respawn spot very close to where I died. I had respawned with a new skin, I noticed, since I had a hood/scarf around my face, but after a few minutes of running there was a Battleye error, the game glitched and all of a sudden I was in normal (black) survivor outfit. All of a sudden, I could see nametags as well, as I spotted someone in the distance. Those were NOT on just 10 minutes earlier.

I find an enfield and I take it upon me to find my killer and get some revenge. That, and get all my gear back. I'm almost there and BAM he shots me at close range from behind me as I approach from far behind of where I knew he was. As I had approach it, I had seen in the distance, that he killed someone else, I also heard the shot, the shot of an AS50 (that he probably looted off of me). And it was NOT an AS50 that shot me the second time.

Then the server crashes, I lose connection and the MS of the server goes to 10k and most of the players disconnect. Now, from 26, there's only 11 people on it and the ms is down to normal.

There was also something else that I found very strange, zombies and players had this little halo around their heads. I could see these halo's through terrain and buildings.

Was it a hacker that killed me the second time? What do you reckon happened? Why did I see halo's on everyone?

All this transpired on the server DE 995.

Edited August 12, 2012 by Creambomb

[roflmao.haskins@yahoo.com 17]

I see the halo's too. I find them extremely useful for finding the exact placement of deer stands, as the halos can be seen through hills and trees and help me to find out where those deer stands are hiding.

[adam.j.howson@gmail.com 0]

I noticed this recently too.....

I was running through a field at night (no night vision) and this little ball of light, like a willo the wisp goes bouncing past me.......

I run after it and after a 100m or so i catch up to it when it stops and stands still.......

I look closer on the ground and it's a rabbit with a halo!

Of course this must be a holy rabbit (insert Monty Python joke here), so I let it go on it's way.....

[Creambomb 49]

I see the halo's too. I find them extremely useful for finding the exact placement of deer stands, as the halos can be seen through hills and trees and help me to find out where those deer stands are hiding.

I found them really annoying myself. And extremely gamebreaking. I can literally see people through hills. Is this an intended change or just a bug? It's completley impossible for anyone to hide from it unless they're 500+ meters away.

[roflmao.haskins@yahoo.com 17]

I found them really annoying myself. And extremely gamebreaking. I can literally see people through hills. Is this an intended change or just a bug? It's completley impossible for anyone to hide from it unless they're 500+ meters away.

For me it's only zombies and animals that have halos, and only during daytime. Not too gamebreaking because zombies are easy to avoid anyways, but it can lead to some scares when I see a halo, hide, and it turns out to be a pig. :P

[Creambomb 49]

For me it's only zombies and animals that have halos, and only during daytime. Not too gamebreaking because zombies are easy to avoid anyways, but it can lead to some scares when I see a halo, hide, and it turns out to be a pig. :P

I find them very distracting, they clutter up my vision.

[Angel Knight 427]

The server admin changed the difficulty to recruit, or at least that's what it sounds like.

On recruit servers there is a white circle (your halo, I'm guessing) that indicates the position of nearby lifeforms, and furthermore, nametags are usually enabled on recruit servers.

[Wirblewind 4]

Yeah its a training server the halos are indicators.

Most servers have them on npcs but some have them on other players as well.

[Creambomb 49]

The server admin changed the difficulty to recruit, or at least that's what it sounds like.

On recruit servers there is a white circle (your halo, I'm guessing) that indicates the position of nearby lifeforms, and furthermore, nametags are usually enabled on recruit servers.

So the server admin changed it during play? Wow, what a dick move. He's most likely the reason I got killed then.

[Tigger (DayZ) 24]

The halos are stupid. I see them on veteran servers too. Sometimes zombies/animals are white, players are green and vehicles are red. WHY do we even have the option?! Horribly immersion-breaking.