Hacker encounter w/ video - Got killed a few times... and then...

[n'Zapador 20]

Not long ago my friend and I encountered this hacker and I caught some stuff on video. I've edited it together so it isn't just a lot of running around Chernarus which I'm sure you all enjoy as often as I do.

Story:

Me and my mate, Chira, were travelling along when my mate is suddenly taking fire. I quickly seek cover and look around.

About a hundred meters away in the treeline I spot a dude in ghillie, and a second later he starts shooting at me. Being exhausted from running I have little chance of succesfully hitting anything with my AS50 - I try to escape but with no luck. At this point I am not sure exactly what weapon was being used, other than it being a silenced weapon.

A minute or two later my mate is killed.

We were immediately suspicios and felt quite sure that something wasn't right - he likely teleported between the point where I died and where my mate died, cause we were quite confused with his location.

After I've died and respawned, I begin to record... but after several minutes of nothing happening I discard the theory of a hacker and accept that I just failed.

But shortly after I hear the sound of a silenced gun being fired, very likely the same as before, and I take a few hits. I run to the opposite side of a building to seek cover, then turn around to look behind me in case someone would come around the corner. I start to bandage myself but a few seconds later this dude spawns right in front of me and I end up dead pretty quickly.

I didn't record the above since I didn't have FRAPS running at that point due to a restart, but I got pretty much all of the rest on tape.

The total timeframe from the first encounter till the point where the video ends is about 1 hour 20 minutes, I've cut that down to 7 minutes 21 seconds.

Video:

Music is "Animus Vox" by "The Glitch Mob"

Edited September 19, 2012 by n'Zapador

[Bludy 324]

fuck the gear, i think you shouldn't have given him so much fun, they must remain alone in the server they go every time and every time, throwing away their money and without a single satifaction.

[taco241 393]

Same thing happened to me 2 days ago. Wish I had fraps.

Elektro. Killed 2 guys who attacked me and buddy inside chruch (one Alt+F4'd). Took their car. Picked up a third guy (no idea who he was but he was begging for a ride). As we're driving, a scripter ports to us and can't hit car with M4A1...keeps porting in front of us but can't hit us a single time. Even rries rocket launcher. We eventually make it into Cherno and take the road north near the factories. He ports to us again and with a bigger gun disables car. We run, hide and log (normal log with esc.). It was the best round of DayZ I've played until the scripter showed up. Are all these guys the worst shots or what?

Great video btw. You frustrated the shit out of some guy who tried to throw pretty much everything at you. Even with scripts his kill was denied.

Fuck you scripter. Turn off the hacks and work on some skills.

[Anarchyihdi 151]

I know this video was meant to show case the hacker and such, but i really enjoyed it.. you dodging these explosions, being thrown everywhere because of them and such, i liked it :P was like a movie, but i know.. hacking is wrong, obviously ;).

Good to see you got your stuff back, i didn't have this luck when i was killed by a hacker, he deleted my body and my camp/cars with it :(.

[Wabid Wabit 34]

Sorry you were Hacked Killed - But the video would make a great commercial for when the Game goes Live and for Sale :)

[n'Zapador 20]

Glad you guys like the video :D

I did my best to tell a little story in a short time, so it wouldn't just be boring 45 minutes as the original recordings are.

It was quite funny with all the satchels. After having finished the video I've realized that he tries to hit me with another satchel - the sound is just so hard to notice so I just noticed that now.

I don't get why nothing seems to be done to prevent hackers. From my knowledge about how technology works it should be very simple to add some functionality that checks different things and ban people who do stuff they're not supposed to do.

Examples...

• Check location XY of player every some seconds, if difference between XY1 and XY2 is larger than Z meters, then the person is automatically banned.
  
• Twenty vehicles don't just spawn in the middle of nowhere, so another function could check for location of vehicles, the time at which they spawned etc., and thus remove those that aren't legit.
  
• Check for weapon and item IDs. Any occurance of non-legit IDs in a players inventory should simply cause the weapon/item to be deleted.
  

HOW HARD CAN IT BE?

Definitely not that hard as all of the above suggestions can be done purely server-side and doesn't involve any check for software on client machine, such as aimbot or whatever there might exists.

I still wonder why this dude could do all this stuff while on a BattleEye enabled server... BE not working at all, thats for sure.

Edited September 19, 2012 by n'Zapador

[Stafoo 61]

Name of the song playing?

[n'Zapador 20]

Name of the song playing?

The Glitch Mob - Animus Vox

Its from the album Drink The Sea, go check it out. Its awesome!

Edited September 19, 2012 by n'Zapador

[Kar98 27]

I think what makes thish video so much better than nearly every other Dayz video is you cut out all the shit and skipped to where stuff actually happens. So many guys who make Dayz videos have like 10mins of crap just to show some bullets going past them

"I don't get why nothing seems to be done to prevent hackers. From my knowledge about how technology works it should be very simple to add some functionality that checks different things and ban people who do stuff they're not supposed to do."

You may know how 'technology' works but do you know how the internal code works ;)

Edited September 19, 2012 by Kar98

[ryahn 112]

Since I have been making my own script that I use on private hives to check for everything that hackers try to do. There are very few vehicle spawn scripts that dont log when used but a majority of them do show up in some fashion. Now because of the new log files for BE, spawning certain weapons and other items. It is now easily logged and can tell that its a hacker. I have seen a few bypassers for BE but most dont work with custom scripts or scripts written by default for that bypasser or "loader". I know that a majority of you are just players, but if your a server admin. Let me know what a hacker did in a PM and I may request the logs to see if I can see what they did. Also for if you put 2 "" into the top of your remoteexec.txt, createvhicle.txt and publicvarible.txt, it will log everything into the server_cosole.log and may be easier to see what that said person did.

[n'Zapador 20]

"I don't get why nothing seems to be done to prevent hackers. From my knowledge about how technology works it should be very simple to add some functionality that checks different things and ban people who do stuff they're not supposed to do."

You may know how 'technology' works but do you know how the internal code works ;)

Glad you like it. Cutting it took some time but yeah, exactly the reason why - its boring to watch 10 minutes of nothing happening, Hollywood movie wouldn't sell if they had that long periods of nothing :D

My knowledge of however this game works is limited, sure, and I am not a software engineer. However I know that on private hives admins can see who has what items and thereby ban people for having items they're not supposed to have etc.

Also it should be relatively easy for Bohemia to add a few lines of code to ARMA so that everything that needs to be logged is actually logged. By having a log of everything that happens, like a player teleporting, spawning items etc., it is relatively easy to make a script that scans this log and takes action whenever needed.

It wouldn't be rocket science for those guys to figure out a quick solution to this huge problem - in case they're incapeable, I bet someone out there is capeable of this job and they should hire him :thumbsup:

Edited September 19, 2012 by n'Zapador

[ryahn 112]

What is that music btw?

[n'Zapador 20]

What is that music btw?

Look further up the page :P

Its Animus Vox by The Glitch Mob...

Here's another one by The Glitch Mob, it's epic:

[ryahn 112]

Thank you, love you no homo