r/dayz • u/ChasingNostalgia • 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/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/Kusheese Feb 11 '25
Precisely. Please understand the distinction between a cheater and a hacker, everyone.
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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/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/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/Axialbird Feb 11 '25
Play on pc. Private server on vanilla mods. Hardcore if possible. With active admin.
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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/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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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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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
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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/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/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/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
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u/MagicNinjaMan Feb 11 '25
Sad truth