Day Z: Persistant world zombie survival mod - Page 288

On August 15 2012 11:35 Al Bundy wrote:
Hey guys I'm back in DayZ after about one month, and from reading the last couple of pages, it seems that the game experience is quite unstable atm, this is very unfortunate. Thanks to the mods and server admins for their work. Hopefully everything will get better This game is the definition of fun.

On August 15 2012 22:45 Zorkmid wrote:
Anti-hack app

We were playing on this server last night, and it seemed hacker-free despite being full.

On August 15 2012 04:50 Charger wrote:


Yeah it's new, it shows up at the bottom of your debug monitor. Here's some info about it. Basically there are 3 skins (aside from clothing like camo or ghillie suits) - bandits (bad), survivors (neutral), and hero (good). It's just a very small incentive to be good I guess and it helps to team up if I'm a hero and see another hero - he should theoretically be less likely to just kill me and I him.

On August 15 2012 23:45 Daumen wrote:


Can you guys post a Screenshot of a Bandit & a Hero?

On August 15 2012 22:51 TSBspartacus wrote:

Yeah I've seen this, and to be honest it looks a bit fishy (2 out of 20 false-positives), but I think with work it could be quite good.
Automated banning is bad, but automated kicking would be quite nice, I think I'll wait and see how it goes but I don't have the time to edit it myself for just kicks atm.

On August 16 2012 00:08 Charger wrote:


Came here to post this as well. I think with some closer looks at the code and probably tweaking it as needed it could be really useful. Also it was 2 possible false positives, perhaps after more investigating they turned out to be banned correctly (or maybe not). Hopefully it continues to improve and it really makes a difference.

On August 16 2012 00:29 TSBspartacus wrote:

Problem is, looking through logs of scripts is always 100% you can tell the hacker. What some hacks are doing now is making everyone run the script which makes the log files look like everyone spawned a helicopter or some bullshit, when in-fact only one spawned. However they don't really hide it that well but it means automated programs such as this could automatically ban everyone on the server. Which would suck. So I'm cautious about it until tested, perhaps we can use it in a cut down version.

On August 16 2012 00:29 TSBspartacus wrote:

Problem is, looking through logs of scripts is always 100% you can tell the hacker. What some hacks are doing now is making everyone run the script which makes the log files look like everyone spawned a helicopter or some bullshit, when in-fact only one spawned. However they don't really hide it that well but it means automated programs such as this could automatically ban everyone on the server. Which would suck. So I'm cautious about it until tested, perhaps we can use it in a cut down version.

On August 16 2012 00:08 Charger wrote:


Came here to post this as well. I think with some closer looks at the code and probably tweaking it as needed it could be really useful. Also it was 2 possible false positives, perhaps after more investigating they turned out to be banned correctly (or maybe not). Hopefully it continues to improve and it really makes a difference.

On August 16 2012 00:48 oZii wrote:


He is getting alot of up votes and positive feedback. I'm sure there is a way to contact him directly. He answers question in the reddit thread. I think I played for about 3 hours and only saw 1 suspicious thing.

To basically have a thread on reddit saying I have this in place to stop hacking is a invitation for people to try. He is also one of the listed servers. Ill play on it some more to see if anything pops up 3hrs is kind of a small sample size. It could be promising though.


At this point I just like the experience to not be interrupted. There was a alot of retarts yesterday more than I ever seen. Could have been a bad day.

Either way could be something useful to look into.

I think people just want the TL servers to be safe as possible. So I hope these suggestions don't bother. In the end it is your server to run. It just sucks seeing it go down for the rest of the night like last night.

On August 16 2012 00:34 Daumen wrote:
As soon as I enter a server, i get kicked off the server without a reason (losing connection - I see always the red text saying something like "No msg received from Server since 5/10/15/20/etc seconds" This happens like 1 minute after im running around with my char (sometimes 3 mins). My friends can just play fine on the same server. I tried switching server but i keep getting kicked. Im using the Sixlauncher so I havent patched to 1.7.2.5 yet (i think). But the version thing shouldnt be a problem since my friends also havent patched yet.

Can any1 help me?

On August 16 2012 01:23 TSBspartacus wrote:

It was a bad day, I banned 3 myself, don't know about dark.
We restart every time we see a hack, and also one of the automated ones overlapped with it anyway.
I'll work with him on the google code project, I don't have a reddit account.

[–]oZiix
I don't know exactly how all this runs but I am learning. I brought up the idea of your program to my home server admin and one of his concerns is false bans. More specifically I guess there is a way where the hackers run the script through someone else or multiple people. So it looks like 20 people tried to spawn a helicopter when only 1 person has.
Also what is the best way to get in contact with you? Here?

[–]GreyEchoUS 1534 Server Manager
It is completely understandable to be concerned about false-positives, and the specific point you brought up remains a genuine problem with my system. After consulting with some of the DayZ guys, we've concluded it would be difficult for a script kiddie to run a script on another player and have the script kiddie not be detected...but it is possible through some nefarious means. If you feel this problem outweighs the benefits of using my solution, then by all means, avoid it until it is better. :p
Yeah, here is probably the best way to contact me for now. Either that or through the project's Google Code page somehow.