Banned a guy called Kevin from ZA5 today, as we've got clear proof of him DCing when being shot at, both in the form of video and server logs to back the video up. Always so gratifying when we can root these guys out.
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Banned a guy called Kevin from ZA5 today, as we've got clear proof of him DCing when being shot at, both in the form of video and server logs to back the video up. Always so gratifying when we can root these guys out.
I was scanning the local forums waiting for this post.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeaDm0nkeY
I will keep this civil, as we had a VERY VERY VERY good laugh. Firstly Kudo's to you for sneaking up on us. Luckily for you, you were able to do so because our rear cover player went AFK for a bit. Some more Kudo's as you actually came back to the same areas knowing that there are players.
Now let's get to this "hacking". I love how you throw that term around, yet when we first killed you off to the west of Cherno you were carrying a hacked gun. The AS50 Thermal is not a normal gun, you should know this as you have been playing this a long time, yet you were carrying this and shooting at players with this while we observed. Being the awesome players we are, we took it from your body and dropped it against the wall of the house we killed you at. We do this with most hacked in weapons that we find.
Secondly. No hacking my friend, see we play it a bit smarter. You killed me and Decimater, but you never saw or killed third, fourth or fith players who also joined us a bit later. Hence you got killed by the same weapons, because A) We all carry As50's and B) You were killed afterwards by our mates covering our bodies (so you didn't take us ALL out haha) If you indeed did kill other players in the vicinity ( we killed 3 trying to sneak up on us) then they were not in our group, as it's only me and Deci that were killed during that entire stint
Also, I love how you DC after killing Decimator from that tower in Cherno, only (we checked DayZ Commander) to join ZA4, to try and get a slip on us from the back. Luckily we picked up on this, and you were killed trying to be a retard server hopping to try and get the slip on us again. That my friend is one of the most cowardly tactics known to man.
Then again, it's there to be exploited, so use it while you can I guess.
So in Short. We are not hackers. I myself killed you once, Decimater killed you once, and you were killed by one of our cover players. Decimater and myself are both Premier league COD players, both attend Rage, play for high ranking and respected clans and play in the public eye, we detest all forms of hacking in all games. Surely I can understand your frustration, I really really can, as there are some assholes out there that hack in a game like DayZ for some retarted reasons which boggles my mind. But we do not, please tell me where we are hacking then? We only play smart.
But please explain to me, after calling us hackers, your Server hopping to gain a tactical advantage, carrying and SHOOTING with a hacked weapon?
Just a quick question (and I'm not throwing around accusations, just legitimately curious), but where did you all get the AS50s? Because I played this game for three months and I've never even had the gun drop at all. Just find it curious that currently pretty much everyone in the game is carrying the gun.
I lost my L85A2 and AS50(Now this is a funny story about how I ended up with this) in Cherno after a buddy was killed in a Restaurant after he opened fire and killed 2 others(Guille Suit and Camo guys). I logged out just outside on the west side and then logged in to go check what was going on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phatso
On the way there in one of the back streets I just got killed crossing the road(3 shots).
Friend spawned on eastern side ran in got a revolver shot a guy in a Guille suit on a ATV, was classic too see and then he got moved down by someone.
Me being filled with vengeance, I spawned in Electro and was lucky enough to pick up an AK, ran all the way back to Cherno and killed a guy close to where me and my friend died(close to ATV).
I heard shots fired and then it stopped, I ran around the wall and had my back to the corner ready for whatever might be coming... never did I think that 4-5 guys would come rushing from the south entrance(Good fun).
I emptied a clip on them before I died, don't think I killed any of them, I definitely did hit some of them, but yea didn't really stand a chance. :)
Not really sure what really went down, but it all felt a bit fishy...
Oh yea the AS50...
We were in Kamarovo one night with our newly S1203 Van(We stole I think), anyway I managed to crash the damn thing in the middle of the road and left it there till the next day.
With some hope of reviving it found out that it was completely bust. So we head west through the northern forest part of the town(3 of us) when one friends spot and hears a Truck coming.
At first I thought he was joking and then saw it coming down the road to Kamarovo, I just decided oh well might as well try and take it(Yep we hijacked it).
We felt so bad afterwards, especially the one friend who killed two of the three. anyway two guys with guilles carrying AS50's with Silenced Pistols(PDW/M9) with some other goodies on the passenger on the back who was just sitting there when we shot at him.
Jumped in the truck and drove off, after that we did loads of adventures with it and tbh I didn't even think the AS50 really spawns...
Also I don't know why, but the truck also disappeared on Saturday morning... :/ Things like this normal?
*Lol just saw Jamilla's post, on the way home now. But I'm feeling a funny story coming.
I'm guessing most of these guys loot it off other bodies, or tents and vehicles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graal
I'm not really a sniper so I usually discard AS50 and M107 rifles, I prefer the AKS Cobra or the M4 CCO SD. But between me and my usual partner we have found loads of AS50's. Hidden Vehicles and tents mostly though.
Yeah, that's the thing. With how widespread the duping issue is, it makes you wonder how many of the guns are actually legit. I've heard reports of people duping on ZA5, and I'm continuously checking the logs to see if I can't figure out who it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maplassie
True, the game is very open to exploiting! Luckily the scripting / hacking seems a bit less as of late. I must admit we rarely play on the NAG server though. Good luck with your log hunting, shot for the effort!
We found 5 AS50 Rifles during camp raids far north in a matter of hours, then found 2 more in a Red UAZ just west of NW Airfield. Currently our camp always has 1 or 2 spare :D As far as I know, the AS50 only spawns on chopper crash sites, all the others we found were in vechicles, tents and other players.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graal
Ah, that makes sense then. Chopper crash sites are pretty common, and they were only fixed shortly before I stopped playing. Explains why I hadn't seen the game up until then.
Okay cool Jamilla, no hard feelings. I was just a bit frustrated. But then again what can I expect taking on a group by myself. You guys do play smart. It was great fun running low-tech to take you on... As for the hacked gun, it's not illegal to use one that you took off a body according to Rocket...
All good dude, All good :DQuote:
Originally Posted by DeaDm0nkeY
I managed to solve my problem in case anyone was wondering... The GOG.com installer seems to be incompatible with DayZ Commander and SixUpdater install methods. I had to do a manual install, and most importantly I had to change information in the target of the beta launcher shortcut that is created in the main Arma 2 directory when you install the beta patch. Here is the procedure:Quote:
Originally Posted by StaggerLee
1. Install the Dayz files into your main Arma 2 folder. There should be an @DayZ folder created by the mod installer.
2. Install the beta patch (I used 96061). This will create a shortcut to "Launch AOE beta.exe" in the main Arma 2 folder.
3. Change the parameter in the Target line of the shortcut to: "{beta directory}" [email protected] -nosplash , where {beta directory} is the directory where the beta installed normally ...\Arma 2\Expansion\beta\___.exe (I cant remember the exe name now). Now, if you launch that shortcut, it will launch DayZ. YAY!
I will update this post later when I have more time. Apologies for the crude vagueness, but I did it from memory, two days after the fact.
see also: http://www.evga.com/gaming/index.php...ker-installed/
I picked up one also last night. Was like wtf, how many of these things are there going around? Need to go pickup some ammo to test it out and then decide wtf to do with it :0Quote:
Originally Posted by DeaDm0nkeY
Played this for the first time last night, and it's pretty much the most interesting game I've played in, like, forever. There's simply nothing else like it.
*Player Tarryn is losing connection* :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Azimuth
I saw the two of you were on last night.
Once you get comfortable with the controls and how everything works it becomes a little easier as well.
Hatchet (remove from toolbelt, add to toolbelt) and also "reloading" it.
I love reloading a hatchet. Same way as I chop a makarov :p
Ah, the good old Makarov. People always told me what a crap gun it was, but no matter what, I stuck to it. It usually saved our lives when we got spotted in the middle of a town and they all had super loud side-arms.
Also, ammo was never a problem.
:PQuote:
Originally Posted by VindicatoR
For some reason the client was using my real name instead of my Steam name. I've looked up how to change it. Also sorted out why I kept losing connection (stupid firewall).
Can't wait to play this, like, all weekend.
Oh, to change your name just head to Profiles (I think) in the main menu. You can edit the profile name and your character's appearance there. The game seems to use your PC's name by default.
I'm with you on this all the way!Quote:
Originally Posted by Graal
What server mrs / ms / mevrou / mejeffrou van der Byl ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Azimuth
We'd be happy to help you out with some NVG's and a decent weapon or two if you'd be interested.
We're cool like that :D
Azimuth, are you going to do a write up on the game? It's always fun to read about a new player's first experiences with the game.
Here's a rundown of my first 5 hours of playing Dayz.
http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instanc...x/19797235.jpg
Ooooh! Not really attached to any server yet, but I've mostly played on ZA1. I'm using the nick Azimuth now, so look out for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jamilla
Probably, yeah. I think it'd make a great feature. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Graal
The DayZ team has made a forum section for private hives and this is their official stance on the matter;
So, basically they're saying they're fine with it, but won't give support to players playing on private hives.Quote:
Currently Private Hive and servers using this are not supported by the DayZ Development Team.
That is to say; DayZ developers will not deal with issues relating to the Private Hive.
So our group ran into a hacker last night on ZA1 :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exwB6HGGQq4
Reported it on the WAGE forums http://forums.webafrica.co.za/showth...ll=1#post71322
Ok this is strange, we thought it was a bug, but my group experienced the exact same thing on ZA4 (no name tags server) :(
We really thought it was a bug or some other odd occurrence, but 1 guy killed 3 of us between the woods of Cherno and Electro above Prigdorky. This guy came Jogging past, we spotted him early and started opening fire. 2 of us were carrying AK's, one was carrying a M4 CCO, and this guy was no more than 50 meters from us. We pumped him full of rounds, each emptying a clip without a single hit or pain sound. He then swiftly killed all 3 of us :(
So many AS50 TWS rifles found this weekend. We were constantly getting shot at elektro from the hills at night time, we lost so many characters and we just could not figure out how these guys could be so accurate with AS50's at night. We knew it was AS50's because of the sound as it's the primary weapon our group uses, so we kept on going back and dying as we were trying to see what the hell is actually happening. We were getting killed from all directions, we approached from every possbile angle, and for hour upon hour we just kept on dying.
With some cunning tactics and some diversionary play we managed to find and kill one of the players. He had an AS50 TWS. Before we could finish looting his body, all 3 of us were killed, all 3 were one shot kills. So for the umpteenth time we made our way back there, we spread out a bit more and played it very very slow, armed with only the most basic of weapons we could find on our way there (Enfield, Double barrel shotgun etc) we managed to kill 2 of the Snipers. A couple of minutes later we saw what was going on. This was a group of 4-5 Snipers, spread out in the hills above electro all using AS50 TWS rifles. We managed to kill 2 of them, and loot the TWS rifles off the bodies.
As per discussion with Deadmonkey the other day, usually when we find hacked in weapons, we take them off the bodies and throw them away in the bushes or something so when the server restarts, the weapons dissapear. But we decided we want in on the action to see what all the fuss is about, so we kept the 2 AS50 TWS rifles on us. We found one of the players this time camping it out around Cherno with the same weapon loadout he was killed with in Elektro not too long thereafter, which means they are definitely duping them in the tents. Unfortunately, we were all killed as we were not careful enough, but then again how could you be if the AWS can spot anything moving for miles.
Played on a different server afterwards, and found yet ANOTHER player with almost exactly the same loadout, GS36 Silenced and AS50 TWS.
Now after an entire weekend of dying at the hands of hacked weapons, here is the Dilemma one faces.
A) Keep the hacked weapons you find on other players to stand a fighting chance. Cause NOTHING comes close to the AS50 AWS, the sheer range at which you can spot players with it, even in bushes and treelines is absurd. But by doing that become part of the problem yourself, because if you get killed and your body get's looted you give random players access to these hacked weapons, which they can then dupe as well.
B) Do what we used to do, take the hacked weapons and dump them so they dissapear on server reboots, but it's futile as these items are getting duped across servers and tents so there is an endless supply of them, so what's the use?
Other than this had some really fun times. We shot down a chopper with Normal AS50 Rifles above Elektro, thereby turning it into a deathzone, that was brilliant fun!
I'm sitting with the same in my mind as Jamila posted above and I quote from another forum where I posted this:
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A week ago I found an AS50 TWS in a tent. Tested it out then dropped it in a Zombie and did a Hide Body. Also found a M4 Holo SD & a G36 SD in tents.
Saturday I killed a hacker with an AS50 TWS and also did a Hide Body on him, but 3 mins later there was a fully kitty guy with AS50 TWS again out in the open killing 4 of us.
Also scoped some ppl running around with it.
So I'm sitting here wondering if the next one I find I should actually use instead of doing Hide Body every time.
Will the mod work with ARMA 2 Free? I got it from a friend and wonder if this mod will be compatible with it, or else what all will I need to play this game? My brother who is in Australia says it is incredibly fun.
*ding ding ding ding*
Your attention, please. We are now running a Lingor Island server alongside ZA5. :D
ip: 41.86.108.56
port: 2302
Excellent news!! Tried Lingor last night on an international server. Lots of fun and a great change of pace from Chernarus.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graal
Only issue is that I can't find ZA5 (never could) or that Lingor server in DayZCommander.
Phatty! DayZ must have from you! in T - 30 days boet!
Thank You!Quote:
Originally Posted by Graal
Hmm, seems a few people are seeing it in the various browsers and a few aren't. Have you tried Directly Connecting to it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Phatso
What server is this on?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jamilla
It does work with the Free edition yes :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Rizlla
Cherno Police reporting in :P
http://www.imagehost.co.za/image-A071_50467B07.jpg
I hope that means you taking care of bandits, cause there are always a bunch of bandits (probly 5+) around sniper hill killing anything that moves. I know cause I've killed some of them before and got bandit kills.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jamilla
Issue with this pic is you standing on sniper hill and the one dude is a bandit :)
I think the banditry system is still heavily bugged
I killed 2 Towelhead bandits the other day (also got 2 bandit kills and no murders), and since then I got the bandit skin on every respawn :S
I mainly play ZA4 so Jamilla please send your Cherno Police that way so they can snipe the three bastards in the woods taking out anyone and everyone who ventures near the damn hospital. I suck at scouting/sniping/living as I figured out last night. Ill try again tonight because "I'm Batman!"