Disappointed new player.

[George Fatality 11]

Hi there.

First of all I want to say that my english isn't very well so I can't explain everything. Try to understand me please.

I started play DayZ 3 days ago. I couldn't wait anymore after I saw these all dayZ gameplays on youtube. I bought Arma2:OA, installed everything step by step. Went to some random server ([...]dayzmod.com hosted by[...]) and I was like "OMFG! This game is f***ing great!". I noticed this is the best game I've ever played. Really.

First day I died many times by both, zombies and other players. But thats normal, thats ok, im learning. I also got killed twice by God? Bird? Lost bullet? I just died, but thats ok...

Second day cheater killed me again. Some other players died too because I got spammed by server with list of player who just died. I lost compas, watch, map, combat knife etc. AKM with 3 mags, Alice and many cans.

I switched to next server ([...] dayzmod.com [...]) and after I collected good stuff (5 hours) and Ghillie suit ("WTF!!! ;o") I asked on global chat what will happen If I die with Ghillie, will I loss it or not. Some nice guy answered my question: "Look." and 5 seconds later I got killed by power of will again.

I switched to next server and same shit happened twice. I've tried search info about "which servers are official" and I noticed that i was playing on official servers so What the Fuck?

I got back to playing and cheaters keeps kill me. Yeah, im sure they are cheaters. I also saw few guys spawning cars and ammo boxes. They spawned some stuff for me, I said "I won't take it because it will dissapear anyways." Baaam! Power of will is amazing... broken bones + shock + my body flys 10 meters in the air like I got hitted by RPG, again.

I really don't want to quit this game but I need some info and ur help. Is this happens on every server? No? Please give me address then. I wonder how you guys can play 30 days without single respawn?

I was playing on:

DE 1220

DE 1540

DE 1228

and many more. Cheaters everywhere.

[George Fatality 11]

My avatar is for Lolz so don't call me retard :D

Edited October 11, 2012 by George Fatality

[Leadon77 94]

I have yet to get hit by a hacker but I play on US servers so probably not much help..sorry for your luck try private hive

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

You need to find a good private server. I'll recommend you a couple.

[Mudpuppy (DayZ) 16]

Hi OP.

I'm new just like you but hopfully I can help you out a little.

First off you should get DayZ Commander. That way you can filter out unoffical servers as well as a few other things. Second you should learn on low population servers, like 5 to 15 online at a time. That way you'll really get a feel of the game like in zombie control and locations within the DayZ world.

Once you get a feel of the game and some decent gear you can them move onto higher population servers and make friends, help others or be a dirty bandit.

This is the path I'm taking (minius the bandit) and so far it's the best game I've ever played.

[dragonkatol 135]

Private Hives and even the passworded ones are pretty secure from scripting/hacking. Also, if you found a decent private hive that you can call home, you can get to know people. :D

[George Fatality 11]

Can someone please tell me how can I play on private server? When I try to join it says "wrong version", even if the server and me are running latest patches/versions

[Littleassassin2 73]

Yeah, hackers are an epidemic in the mod and nothing will be done about it so you just gotta muscle through it all or turn the game into a FPS imo. Stick with it or drop it like the tens of thousands of others who have, nobody will blame you. If the standalone is going to be better, who knows, but i'd be weary of buying it before they tell us they've deffinately improved the anti cheating measures that they have.

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

Can someone please tell me how can I play on private server? When I try to join it says "wrong version", even if the server and me are running latest patches/versions

Update your beta patch and then join via the Arma multiplayer menu.

[reuben5150 83]

Private hive means nothing unless it's a dedicated server.

We have the exact same problems with hackers on the vilayer private hive as public ones, nothing shows in logs anymore.

It's different on our dedicated box, we can install what anti cheat measure we like and it has database backups, but we still have some hacking.

Begs the question, why do a huge percentage of players hack in such a destructive way, is the game too hard or because it's easy to hack, whatever the reason it's caused a lot of people to stop playing and who can blame them, nobody likes cheating.

[LastAct 8]

You can join mine, I got 2 admins atm on everybody banning hackers that come. Only bad thing is that we don't have a rollback YET. lol. But when it comes out it will be a hacker free server. it's private hive of course. If you have dayZ commander try filtering in your favs :216.245.195.26:9302. Or in-game. try server 1112 Chernarus. ^^

[colekern 1364]

You can't really help but disappointed by a mod, and not only that, but a mod in alpha. The standalone will be much better.

[MadCow234 0]

Yeah, this mod was absolutely amazing back in the summer. And back then, I would have agreed with your "best game ever" statement. I still love DayZ and I love what DayZ has done for the zombie survival genre (The War Z alpha starts Monday and The Dead Linger alpha starts on the 31st, both of those were in development before the DayZ mod came out, but DayZ has forced both of those games to take a hard look at themselves as well as push the games out as quickly as possible, not to mention with DayZ's success, games like TWZ and TDL have grown immensely in support). There are the normal problems with an alpha mod like DayZ that we experienced from day 1, such as random deaths, random broken legs (then having to crawl 2500 meters to a city and hope a friend can get in and out with morphine without dying), and the game evolving from an amazing survival game to all out PvP everywhere where people just bum rush you with axes (super realistic, lol). I am eagerly awaiting the standalone and if the price of it remains what Dean has mentioned it will be (around $30), I will be pre-ordering it immediately to support Dean and the game. That being said, I am one of the many many people who have stopped playing the mod because of too many run-ins with blatant hacking. I will take the abuse from bugs, glitches, and exploits of an alpha mod (that's a big part of the fun of being part of a game community from alpha until past release)...but, as far as I've read, the Arma 2 engine is just too easy to hack, so the mod will never really be secure. Dean has said that one of the most important parts of the standalone game is going to be combating hacking, so at least he knows it's a huge problem.

TL;DR - Yes, way too many hackers in this mod, hopefully the standalone will remedy this. Check out The War Z and The Dead Linger for a couple more zombie survival games coming out this month to tide you over until DayZ standalone is released.