Story time, hackers, avoiding them.

[Tobu 34]

I woke on the beach in Krutoy Cap. I decided not to use the online map this time, rather to rely on my own knowledge of Chernarus (what little I had of it) to survive. I headed inland, climbing the steep mountains until I reached a road. I followed the road for awhile, but then noticed that it was heading into a village. A zombie infested village. I had nothing to fight the zombies with, and I figured the village wouldn't be a great source of supplies either. I left the road and climbed up a hill. As I was scouting my surroundings something flashed in the corner of my eye. As I turned towards it, only to find that it was a rabbit, I saw something in the distance. A tent. Several of them, infact. I immediately felt paranoid and ran behind a tree. Everything was still, except for the rabbit, jumping around in the undergrowth. I figured that I had nothing to lose and approached the campsite. As I looted the tents I found a coyote backpack, some raw meat, a DMR with 6 mags, MP5SD, no ammo, and some AKM rounds. It was only then that I realised that whoever put this camp together was a completely legit player and losing these items would probably sadden them. Still, I needed them more. And I didn't take everything, I still left him some random ammo, 2 alice packs and some miscellaneous items. I realised that the owner of this campsite could still be around, so I left, heading north. Atleast I thought that it was north. I was then 500 meters in air and falling. I then died.

This is not going to be a rant. I just wanted to say that DayZ is an amazing mod and we must not give in to these sad, terrible people who can only have fun when other people are suffering. Keep on playing and try to avoid the hackers, play on servers that are not full, look for signs that point to the fact that there's a hacker on the server:

helicopters, large explosions, boat in a church, people starting to die in an alphabetical order, getting warnings on your screen about textures / scripts, seeing custom skinned cars etc. There are not always signs that point to a hacker but it's something, anyway. Also, if you get turned into a sheep or w/e, try closing Arma from your task manager, it may prevent it from saving your unfortunate state to the hive.

Also, fun fact, had I not taken these items from the tents the player who owned them would still have them. Now they're just gone forever

Create a new character.

Edited September 13, 2012 by Tobu

[kryvian 123]

here's an easy fix next time you are in the air:

>press escape

>alt F4

>all of this ideally before hitting the ground face first

even if you hit the ground you have like half a second before it records you actually dieing.

>then start game,

>join a 2.5/2.4/2.3/etc server,

>get stuck on loading.

>force close the game again

>get on a 2.6 server,

>spawn on beach with all your gear and stats.

>???

>profit.

[Tobu 34]

That is awesome, I had no idea that worked! Anyway, a hacker teleported everyone to the sky again and I managed to Alt F4 in time. I did as you suggested and went on a 2.3 server, waited until it reached loading and closed it from the task manager. I'm really not sure whether im safe to go on a 2.6 again however, because I'm not sure whether the loading got stuck or was it just loading. I mean its just a black screen with "loading" in the middle. I had some really good stuff on me this time and I just want a confirmation that I did it right.

Cheers!

[kryvian 123]

you can not load any other version of game. even if you could, you alt f4'd wile loading. when you're loading, your character IS spawned in the debug plains. Upon every log in on a server, if your character is outside the map it will be sent to spawn points (aka beach).

THO KEEP IN MIND, whenever I get stuck, I CANNOT alt f4 out of it. I have to bring up task manager and close it. (or wile it's minimized scroll over it and press the "x" to close the game.

if you are still in the air you should have the time to even abort, not to mention esc-altF4 again.

if you got balls you can do like this guy.

@ 2:20 he gets teleported up into the air. What he did is just as good tho a lot more risky. do you have any idea if you've been thrown in the air in the same spot you were before or if he teleported you to another location. If the worst happens I could come guard your mangled corpse.

PS: stop joining US servers. from personal experiences it's A LOT more hacked. TBH I've never been hacked on any other server other than US server.

Edited September 13, 2012 by kryvian

[Tobu 34]

Nah the hacker definitely teleported everyone into the air above the sea. I managed to do everything you told me to so i'll log on to 2.6 and see if it worked. Hope it works.

Also, I play on EU servers, since US is just too far to give decent ping.

*Edit*

Well shit. I spawned in water, no land in sight. I think this might be worse than death. I've still got all my gear but... I'm really not sure what to do now. Should I just try your method again?

Edited September 13, 2012 by Tobu

[kryvian 123]

yeah, force it to send you to beach. cheers.

[Tobu 34]

Thank you so much, I finally got it working! First I tried a 2.3 server and it actually loaded and I was able to swim around, which was odd to say the least, but then I joined a 2.4 server and forced the game to close about 20 seconds into the loading and it did the trick! I lost everything except my backpack and my M16A2 M203 but hell, atleast I can play now. Thanks again!

[kryvian 123]

Thank you so much, I finally got it working! First I tried a 2.3 server and it actually loaded and I was able to swim around, which was odd to say the least, but then I joined a 2.4 server and forced the game to close about 20 seconds into the loading and it did the trick! I lost everything except my backpack and my M16A2 M203 but hell, atleast I can play now. Thanks again!

...It loaded a 2.3? odd. and you lost everything because of that. In 2.3 when you swim you let go of most of your stuff because it's weighing you down. But since 2.5 you can choose if your server has that turned on or off. All servers have that turned off.

Odd that you got to keep your backpack tho.

[Laz. 17]

you don't even have to do all those steps.

As soon as you get ported in the air, Switch to a server that you know youll load into quick. Before you reach the ground abort and re-join. and boom you'll be safe on the ground.