Hackers losing their touch?

[militantsausage 0]

After coming back to playing DayZ after a few months, I was quite surprised, now I am going to refer to these people as hackers since that is what people are used to hearing, when in fact I do live mission editing for my group often on COOP nights, essentially it involves taking advantage of arma's scripting without abusing it like lots of people in DayZ do.

After coming back I did have a few alright moments, like making a run for a double barreled shotgun inside a barn with 2 zombies chasing me, and having to outsmart zombies when I was unarmed. These incidents however were soon irrelevant, as I ran into a barn to pick up some loot, a player comes in, and points his weapon directly at me, straight away he catches two double barreled rounds to the chest and I soon hear his squeaky 12 year old voice over direct chat, saying "Oh I guess you're not friendly then". I soon hide behind a bale of hay and wait for him to approach me via the stairs, of course he does, he gets a M1911 magazine all into the chest and head before he goes below the stairs, then I hear "nice try", He comes up again, and as he reveals his head it cops a shotgun round to the face, but I take 2 makarov rounds, nothing to be worried about. for the next minute or two I use all my magazines on him as he hides below the wooden floor. As soon as I run out of ammo I decide to not waste my time with a hacker and I go to my menu, select abort and then log out, takes me 15 seconds or so, surprised he didn't come up to shoot me.

Remembering the days when hackers were usually skilled, they could create a pattern of Guided bomb explosions on the ground or something, or even just up everyone's contrast ingame to the max settings using color filter changing commands for fun. Now is it that easy for hackers that a little kid can accomplish a hack and then not know what to do with it really?

he would have just used an allowDamage false command for sure, but it surprises me that what is apparently meant to be an issue being dealt with has allowed such easy hacking.

I am positive that he was hacking, as I have been hit by shotgun and M1911 rounds in DayZ before, and they usually at least result in some form of incapacitation, while this kid was just popping straight back up every time.

[Cronic (DayZ) 35]

please dude, don't give these fools ideas.

[Digital (DayZ) 2]

create a pattern of Guided bomb explosions on the ground

^^ I'm on it.

[Never 237]

inb4 some clitface bangs on about hacker>script kiddies.

[LeYuno (DayZ) 51]

currently the game is being overrun with script kids. it forced me to start playing early in the morning rather than in the evening so I could at least enjoy the game with 10-15 players on the server and not being instakilled over and over on 50/50 servers in the evening. I can't wait for dayz standalone.