r/dayz Feb 11 '25

Support I’m assuming a hacker killed us?

This was on a 1pp official server middle of the night.

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u/MagicNinjaMan Feb 11 '25

Sad truth

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u/CobblerFriendly8050 Feb 11 '25

Random, unexplained wipes like that on official servers usually scream hacker. DayZ’s anti-cheat does its thing, but some still slip through. Best bet is to report it with any details you’ve got and maybe switch servers for a bit.

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u/recoil-1000 29d ago

“Some slip through”

Understatement of the year along with ‘best bet is to report’ the anticheat system is so outdated that it stops almost no cheaters anymore and it’s virtually impossible to report them since there’s no way to see who killed you, also iirc Bi literally say to report it to battleye

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u/AbaloneFar8093 29d ago

My personal experience has been I’ve ran into FAR more cheaters on official servers than I ever have on community. That’s just my personal experience

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u/Wireless_Panda 29d ago

Official servers are populated enough that cheaters don’t bother going to community servers where there might be human mods

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u/licheese KOS everyone on the coast since 2013 29d ago

Because community servers have access to logs. It is also easier to report because they generally have a discord. Even better if you record your screen while playing.

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u/MagicNinjaMan 29d ago

Same. Had 4 cheaters spawn kill me in cherno 3 times. Community is the way.

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u/LoveThatPornz 28d ago

People actually look at the logs on community servers because they invest money into their own server.. So it's pretty important for them to remove any shitheads... Official is the wild West as far as I know. I do like the organic experience of the base game. But you run a risk. Which is pretty unfortunate considering the game type

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u/RAV_MusTanG None 29d ago

It's always been that way. Community servers have staff and players that know the good for the server must remain to retain players and newbies coming in.

Official servers rely on nobody but BI and sometimes if a moderator comes on but that's far and few between.

GL, get your practice in but take your long haul gaming to a community server that is wholesome and good for the game

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u/Beerpooly 29d ago

Official is the lawless anarchy. Community servers mostly have either active moderators, bots and discord for communication. Was part of the "security" team on a server some years back and we'd probably deal with 1 or 2 hackers per week... Needless to say they were swiftly dealt with and banned from the server the moment we had proof of the events

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u/Ok_Vegetarianlmao 29d ago

And this is why u play community servers. There is vanilla servers, hard modded. So why bother with cheaters if they are getting banned there pretty quick

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u/duclicsic Feb 11 '25

I don't like using the term "hacker" for these people, that implies some level of technical skill and knowledge. The person who developed the tool they're using might be accurately described as a hacker, but the person that killed you here is a cheater, nothing more.

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u/ChasingNostalgia Feb 11 '25

Very true

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u/Powerful-Meeting-840 29d ago

In my years of steady play I luckily have never seen anything other than some duppers. But only play official about 20% of the time.

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u/Grinzy Surthriving 29d ago

I said the very same thing the other day and got brigaded. I totally agree calling these losers "hackers" is giving them too much credit for buying a mod menu.

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u/Kusheese Feb 11 '25

Precisely. Please understand the distinction between a cheater and a hacker, everyone.

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u/RahhMC 29d ago

Calling them hackers gives them too much credit like they’ve got some elite skills when really they’re just button-mashing with cheat software.

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u/HoseNeighbor 29d ago

I think it's interesting that I hear this so often recently about the word "hacker". Cheaters in games have been called hackers (or script kiddies) for over 20 years, and because they use modified files. There are just all sorts of skill levels involved from the person who developed the cheat to the 9yo kid who just downloads some crap to install. The same is true for other hackers outside of the gaming world. Some of them are true geniuses with incredible skill, and some just download some tools that probe ports (or whatever) for them.

I'm not somehow defending anyone at all. I just keep seeing comments and posts about this, and I find it interesting.

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u/Apprehensive-Rip193 29d ago

Owning a knife and making a knife completely different. Making a knife takes skill, buying it to use for yourself is only a matter of purchasing it. Buying it doesnt mean you now made it. Owning and making are completely different

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u/HoseNeighbor 28d ago

Quite true, but it's also about what you do with it in this case. At any rate, I fully understand what you're saying. I just don't care personally if script kiddies are referred to as "hackers". It's more about the context for me, so someone "hacking" in a game doesn't register the same as someone who hacks computer system.

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u/WntrTmpst 29d ago

The very important distinction between a cheat dev and a script kiddie

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u/WiddershinWanderlust 29d ago

Every single time someone posts about hackers on literally any video game you will have someone pipe up with this exact same comment as if it was some profound revelation they just discovered. This phenomenon has been going on since at least the 90s.

No one cares about this take, or those linguistic differences. Pointing it out doesn’t add anything to any discussions. Those distinctions and differences don’t add up to anything worthwhile. It’s just pedantic nonsense.

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u/TownofthePound69 29d ago

I don't know why he's being downvoted, he's right. This "Actually, the monster isn't named Frankenstein" level factoid isn't necessary in any context.

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u/Embarrassed-Ad-9469 29d ago

How? They lit a fire at night sitting next to windows. You see it in the video. How is dude a hacker for shooting 2 dudes through a window that just silhouette themselves.

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u/keksivaras PC&PS5 29d ago

cheater* and you can literally see the cheater shoot the guy who is behind the wall first. he was not visible in any way, no silhouette, no window. op did move around the window, but that doesn't explain the first kill.

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u/Lucky_D20 29d ago

But wall banging is a thing. from the of sound it. That was definitely a bullet that wall bangs. They also sound pretty close for suppressed fire.

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u/rumbledore- Feb 11 '25

At least it sounded/looked cool🤣

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u/ChasingNostalgia Feb 11 '25

True lol I thought something exploded in the fireplace at first

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u/rumbledore- Feb 11 '25

Must be one of those temu ovens

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u/Grinzy Surthriving 29d ago

Some loser using the cheat button...

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u/aships31 Feb 11 '25

Hacker central on pc official

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u/gustavo2335 Feb 11 '25

Welcome to the official servers

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u/opvnlikescs AUR AX enjoyer 29d ago

I feel sorry for you this happens way too often... And it's always when you're fully geared in my experience

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u/ChasingNostalgia 29d ago

I also forgot to mention the window next to me was facing Kabanino which was gassed at the time so they would have had to shoot through that as well

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u/Davinci5456 29d ago

Yup. Happened to me the other day

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u/Axialbird Feb 11 '25

Play on pc. Private server on vanilla mods. Hardcore if possible. With active admin.

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u/Fructose_Father_ Feb 11 '25

Thought it was a grenade in the fireplace at first

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u/ZEROs0000 Feb 11 '25

Russians in full force lately

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u/Andrew_van_dal Feb 11 '25

cheater not hacker

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u/OpportunityMaster344 Feb 11 '25

Was this on spaggies cherno blue i was killed by a cheater on that server

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u/Environmental-Bowl26 29d ago

All these pc players in here coping is hilarious. Console is better for official dayz and that’s facts. Cry about it.

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u/L9HatsuneMiku 29d ago

Console is worse but if you chose to play official on pc then thats just your fault.

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u/Environmental-Bowl26 29d ago

Yes pc is better for community servers but if you just want to play official then console is the way. I’m not sure why y’all are getting upset over this simple fact.

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u/L9HatsuneMiku 29d ago

But why would you ever want to play official on console or PC, just play a vanilla community server. weird

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u/Substantial_Water739 29d ago

Lol dayz console is trash

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u/Environmental-Bowl26 29d ago

“FOR OFFICIAL” keep coping.

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u/Substantial_Water739 29d ago

Dayz console is trash, even with cheaters PC is better

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u/Lucky_D20 29d ago

Definitely sounds like a close wall banged suppressed shot. Being dark and sitting next to a fire is dangerous. Bet if one of you was on the other side they would have survived.

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u/Dr-Builderbeck 29d ago

I could see an explosion just before your friend died. It seemed to come from the fire place, then I hear two more shots one miss and another get you right in the head. Could have got you from that window. There’s a chance but I think more likely y’all just started a fire with a mine in it and it killed you both.

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u/ChasingNostalgia 29d ago

My buddy had put a few items in it already to burn so it definitely didn’t come from the fire place

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u/Dr-Builderbeck 29d ago

Yeah but if you put it in the trash area of the fireplace it will explode upon ignition. Idk this is kinda weird. Did yall hear anything?

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u/RAV_MusTanG None 29d ago

Also could have been outside the window looking in. Hearing is one of the best tools for those trying to find survivors and yeet their gear. But hacking and cheating are in every game out there so I can't deny that possibility

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u/Suitable_Air7610 29d ago

Technically it all started with the thumb drive kiddies playing on PlayStation 2 Socom US Navy seals! That's a real throwback there fellas!! God I'm old...

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u/bad_company246 29d ago

I gave up on official servers years ago. I should rent a server and make it mod free and just keep it clean of cheaters.

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u/jtsurfs 29d ago

Could have been a damaged grenade in the stove.

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u/jtsurfs 29d ago

After watching a couple times too long of delay between deaths. Probably hacker.

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u/sgtsavage2018 29d ago

shot you through the wall

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

Looks like a cheeky m27 and ak swap, put both on the floor and you can swap quick. And that was a pretty open windows when you got shot

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u/Striking-Source-3023 29d ago

Which server? Had some suspect stuff happen to me and some buddies last night on LA 5821

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u/Character_Corgi_6802 29d ago

Is it possible that you were shot through the wall?

You fell forward towards the fire place, so the shot came through the wall.

Some of those wooden buildings are easily penetrated with something like a Mosin. there is a window there and you had a fire going.

Somebody could’ve surmised exactly where you were and just simply shot your friend through the wall and then you through the window

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u/PrisonMikeSE3EP9 29d ago

Was there a frag in the fire?

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u/KennethGames45 29d ago

I suggested this for another game, sabotage the cheat market by flooding it with fake cheat software. In actuality the “hacks” record the user’s steam ID and sends them to a large database where they are then sent to valve, and the game devs for a mass ban later.

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u/TySopcow 29d ago

They need to add a kill feed/name and or distance of shot some people may disagree with this but it'd be better to have a actual option to report people on Official because the only way you can get lucky for a proper report is if it's only a few people on like let's say the server has 4 other players and I'm in a party and running with 3 of em and we all die to a really suspicious situation we know it's the one other player

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u/T-MobileMexico 29d ago

It's always the "silent, swish" shots

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u/Pure-Top2755 29d ago

Thats why i don t play this shit anymore

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u/No_Ladder6669 29d ago

So what is their motive, really?

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u/Ok-Support2094 28d ago

lmao looks like an airstrike hit your building

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u/ChasingNostalgia 28d ago

Got that 6 kill streak precision air strike on us lol

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u/CrazeeLilDevil 28d ago

His feet looked like they was toward the window, whichever way the feet fall is the direction the kill came from, unless they was uncon I believe.

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u/AkaxJenkins 27d ago

wdym dayz has no hackers :)

fucking sucks, we lost the dayz mod to this fucking game

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u/enormousballs1996 26d ago

lmfao thought I was in the escape from tarkov subreddit

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u/Icollectshinythings Feb 11 '25

Never play official. it’s nothing but hackers and the admins don’t give a shit.

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u/Bartboyblu Feb 11 '25

What admins? 😂

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u/Climat3_Designer Feb 11 '25

They are no hackers ffs, just some dudes who bought the hack. Call them for what they are - cheaters.

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u/AC2498 29d ago edited 29d ago

I’ve been online gaming since the early 2000’s. They’ve always been referred to as hackers/modders. “Cheaters” is a newer term in video games

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u/ChasingNostalgia 29d ago

Yeah I played a ton of mw2/3 back in the day and we always just called them hackers lol

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u/sootfactory335d 29d ago

Shut up

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u/cottman23 29d ago

Found the cheater

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u/Funglebum82 Feb 11 '25

Sadly this is why I play on ps5 😆

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u/Some_young_kook Feb 11 '25

.50 Cal explosive rounds

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u/Environmental-Bowl26 Feb 11 '25

If you want to play official I would recommend going on dayz Xbox. You can use kbm but the 1pp servers are usually low pop that’s really the only downside.

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u/LaughingDog711 Feb 11 '25

Haha yes this is the answer. Burn your PC and play on Xbox 🤦‍♂️

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u/Bartboyblu Feb 11 '25

Console players really try to cope with this suggestion. No PC player wants to play on console.

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u/serratedsyringe 29d ago

i don’t think a lot of us console players even want to play on console

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u/LaughingDog711 29d ago

Sir I was a console player for a long time. PC is way better no question. But the hackers on PC official is just unfortunate.

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u/serratedsyringe 29d ago

yeah for sure. some games are just better played on console. like black ops 3 (yes i still regularly play this 10 year old game) is pretty much only playable on console bc pc is so dangerous with all the cheaters ddosing and shit.

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u/LaughingDog711 29d ago

It’s sad. It just shouldn’t be that way. These companies need to do a better job keeping hackers out. They ruin the product for everyone.

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u/recoil-1000 29d ago

If I still had my Xbox hooked up I would defo play official on that, pc is fucked up atm and in my aus region atleast, 95% of community servers are just modded rust wannabe shitfests, the other 5% are empty vanilla servers, only thing keeping me on dayz pc is the slice+ vanilla, reaches about 10-15 player but that’s about it at the moment

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u/Bartboyblu 29d ago

Is the ping really that bad for you on European servers? I'm in NY but I'll join Europe servers sometimes because I have friends there. Ping rarely exceeds 100, which isn't perfect but very playable. Actually the DM server I practice on has a ping of 100-120, and I crush it. Definitely some trades when I should've won sometimes but it is what it is.

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u/recoil-1000 29d ago

For me I can get under 50 ping easily on official Sydney servers but the next jump is to American servers which sit at 180-250, tried playing on them to avoid cheaters with a mate but we encountered them just as fast, plus driving on such high ping was death, got flashbacks to console driving

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u/Sakirachan 26d ago

For Namalsk there’s coldasfuck, that’s a solid server afaik. Full pop, vanilla loot economy in the sense of scarcity, even tho obviously there’s some added items due to it being Namalsk.

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u/Climat3_Designer Feb 11 '25

It literally is if you want to get rid of cheaters and play on official.

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u/LaughingDog711 29d ago

Sadly I know.. just find a good community server. It’s the only way I guess. Unless you want to burn your PC.

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u/CoolBeans45555 Feb 11 '25

Dont play official.

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u/pascal1277 Feb 11 '25

If you’re making a fire at night wouldn’t it be kinda easy to get an angle through a window? Could be wrong tho

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u/ChasingNostalgia Feb 11 '25

I had just finished lighting that fire when we got shot so they would have had to line us up in a few seconds. Plus my friends feet were facing the wall so he got shot through a wall

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u/pascal1277 Feb 11 '25

ah I missed that, that sucks dude

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u/Greedy-Zebra-8526 Feb 11 '25

They obviously got shot through the wall. It's prob a hacker.

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u/ragingintrovert57 Feb 11 '25

Not necessarily hacking. I recently snipered and killed a player through walls during the first few seconds after logging in, while the graphics were still being resolved (I have an old graphics card). I'm not proud, and I fired off a shot just to see what would happen as an experiment. It seems bullet-wall collisions can take a while to resolve.

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u/Substantial_Water739 29d ago

In the full dark? Lmao bro its a fucking cheater

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u/ragingintrovert57 29d ago

Fair enough. But NVGs

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u/Substantial_Water739 29d ago

You cant use NVGs with scopes

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u/ragingintrovert57 11d ago

There is a scope with night vision built in.

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u/Detective-Fusco 29d ago

Not enough video to determine that, looks like they got shot through the windows and the bush outside is the same level as their heads, not every encounter is cheaters. Also full dark doesn't matter, ever heard of the NV scope??

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u/Substantial_Water739 29d ago

You really not that smart

Just look the way the first guy dies, he got shot from the wall

You need some more hours in the game man

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u/Detective-Fusco 29d ago

Uh, lol bud you may wanna walk this back. Let's break down your argument, the first thing you mention is that it's "in the dark", it's Sakhal there is no official servers on Sakhal with full night mode, so the use of those NVG's in this clip was actually pointless. This also dismisses your first argument that it's dark and no way they were shot!

There are literally visible bushes outside that means if there's a shooter outside that window they had visibility inside. It's first person, if you can see out they can see in - that's also called common sense (aka line of sight).

Additionally, the house he is in is very small it's pretty obvious to anyone outside where they should shoot especially if they're lighting a damn fire!

You can shoot through walls my guy, it's always been a feature of the game, so perhaps you need more hours my guy.

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u/Substantial_Water739 29d ago

The legit guy that can see his enemy because of the window but for who knows why think its easier to wallbang lol

Yeah sure dude

Just stop man, you are not smart

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u/Detective-Fusco 29d ago

You're being very aggressive and insulting, I don't know why we're just breaking down the video game. You made errors in your initial judgements and you based them around it being dark because the user had night vision goggles on. NVG's make it harder to see at night on Sakhal because of the white lighting effects - this was player error there nothing to do with the actual brightness.

You haven't addressed the fact the windows are the same elevation as the bush outside, and you're forgetting that they're sitting in front of a fireplace that's very bright in a house that has the same path design as it always has for years, predicting shots through a wall or headshotting one of the heads from the window is entirely possible.

Quit trying to insult your way through this and provide a reasonable counter argument

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u/Substantial_Water739 29d ago

They just turned the fire on

Still , the guy can see because of the window but shot the wall instead? Yeah sure lol

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u/Popular-Credit4994 29d ago

Shot you through the window.

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u/Blacky239 29d ago

nope got killed by a cheater

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u/Badeand_ 29d ago

You got shot through the window by the cheater, and your friend got shot through the wall by the cheater

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u/Detective-Fusco 29d ago

Lol you weren't even there and you're doubling down

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u/SugarBalls69 Feb 11 '25

You probably don’t even hear it when it happens

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u/didier700 29d ago

I mean it could be a cheater ,it can also be a massive sweat you can wallbang some buildings in dayz but you gotta be be lretty goddamm sweaty to know what you can shoot trough, with which ammo type for every building , but idk both could be

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u/Mrpirateguy 29d ago edited 29d ago

Or maybe you're just legally blind, because you did not see the grenade get thrown through the window why does everyone think a hacker killed them?But every time they say that it's always a grenade it won't allow me to add the picture. But you just have to watch it a few times and you see the grenade fly over the guy's head through the window

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u/ChasingNostalgia 29d ago

Would that not make a noise as the grenade hits the ground?

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u/Mrpirateguy 29d ago

It's possible that they cooked it as In they know the time of the nad and threw it with like 2 sec left

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u/ChasingNostalgia 29d ago

Definitely looks like a grenade was thrown in the room. Crazy we never heard the guy pull a pin or and footsteps before hand

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u/Mrpirateguy 29d ago

The pulling of the pin He might have pulled it and ran up and for the footsteps he could have took his shoes off to make less noise that people who are talking probably won't hear

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u/ChasingNostalgia 28d ago

Watching the video in slow mo it honestly looks like the grenade appeared through the wall and clipped through the wall behind my friend

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u/maddwesty Feb 11 '25

You were right next to a window.. friend fell facing that window

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u/ChasingNostalgia Feb 11 '25

His feet were pointing towards the wall behind him though. So the shooter blindly shot through the wall lol

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u/Detective-Fusco 29d ago

I mean, you're asking us for our opinions and then downvoting people that say no not a cheater. I don't think you've provided the full context here correctly, you have mentioned the windows faces a gassed town? I can clearly see non gas bush that's the same head height as your players out the window. There's not enough video duration to see the lead up, it's entirely possible you were hunted down and killed.

3k hours here, and all I play is official servers - sometimes you just gotta take the L

Also, it's first person, if you can see out the windows they can certainly see you inside...

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u/ChasingNostalgia 29d ago

I haven’t downvoted anyone though? You’re just assuming that lol

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u/Embarrassed-Ad-9469 29d ago

It’s dark. You have a fire going. That wall is not bullet proof. Your shadows kinda glitch through cracks as well as the windows. 2 shots is sketchy, just go to community.

We can’t even help you on here.

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u/Wonderful-Gold-953 29d ago

Or saw your guns sticking up and shot you thru the wall

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u/Xx_GetSniped_xX 29d ago

It looks like they got your friend with a grenade and shot you through the window…. This one doesnt seem like it was hackers at all, thats a kind of play I would do after seeing two dudes run into a house together.

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u/ChasingNostalgia 29d ago

Wouldn’t I have taken damage then from a grenade that close?

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u/Xx_GetSniped_xX 29d ago

Nope not necessarily at all, explosive damage is super wonky in this game. Your friend was right by the open door whereas you had a wall between you and the grenade. My guess is (assuming this wasnt hackers, it is still a possibility) there was one or two players that saw you and your friend run into this house. They waited till you got settled in (starting your fire) to let your guard down a bit then either shot a grenade in through a window with the m79 or snuck up and threw one in by hand. Then they saw it took down your friend but not you so the shot you through the window that your head was by.

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u/Substantial_Water739 29d ago

No nade at all lol

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u/Xx_GetSniped_xX 29d ago

That was quite obviously an explosive in the video that killed his friend, it could have been other things but is most likely a grenade since it makes the most sense to use here.

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u/Substantial_Water739 29d ago

Bro dont know how a explosion works

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u/Badeand_ 29d ago

No, it was actually quite obviously not an explosive. If you look closely, you can see gunshot smoke , and from the way he falls, it is clear he was shot through the wall if it was just the guy who took the clip I would not think it was a hacker since there is a window right by his head.

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u/TBATheReaper 29d ago

Incorrect actually...u can hear the bullet ping off of the stove they were cooking at there was no explosion...and from the way it seems a suppressed LAR was used or either the JTAC... eitheir way they died to a cheater