I want to report several extremely suspicious cheating incidents on the official DayZ EU-DE 4160 server on Steam.

The first incident happened about three weeks ago.

A player was flying around the map, appeared to be invisible, and somehow remotely removed clothing and items from us without normal interaction with our characters.

At that time I checked the Steam player list for the server. Among the suspicious players, only this person was visible there.

Later I started communicating with him in the in-game chat. At one point he made a mistake and used voice chat. The same nickname that I had seen through Steam appeared in the game.

The nickname was connected to the YouTube channel naloxlalox.

I opened his channel and found content related to cheats for DayZ and Rust, including content about selling them.

About three weeks ago I reported this player to Steam and then decided to forget about the situation.

But after that, what started happening went far beyond what I can reasonably consider normal gameplay.

Around one to one and a half weeks ago, my friend and I hid two Humvees in completely different parts of the map.

The vehicles were far away from each other and hidden in forests.

The next morning we logged into the server and discovered that someone had found both vehicles.

The wheels had been removed from both Humvees.

In addition, more than 10 mines had been placed around one vehicle. The second vehicle had a similarly large number of mines around it.

To be clear, the vehicles were not parked together and this was not one base. They were hidden in different forests and in different parts of the map.

After we discovered the vehicles, another obvious cheater appeared and started remotely removing clothing and items from our characters.

I do not know whether this was the same person as in the first incident, so I am not claiming that it was.

Today, October 4, another extremely suspicious incident happened.

A player started shooting at our vehicle from a very long distance.

There were four people inside the vehicle.

We were driving at around 80 km/h or faster.

As far as we could tell, the shooter was using a bolt-action sniper rifle.

From a distance of approximately 800 meters, he was able to hit people inside a vehicle moving at high speed.

As a result, he managed to take out four people from the moving vehicle at almost extreme range.

I fully understand that DayZ is a difficult game.

I understand that players die often.

I also understand that a very skilled player can sometimes make an incredible shot.

But when situations like this keep happening on the same official server, it becomes very difficult to explain everything as coincidence.

First, a player is flying around the map, becoming invisible and remotely removing items.

Then two vehicles hidden in different forests and in different parts of the map are found almost immediately, their wheels are removed, and a huge number of mines are placed around both of them.

After that, another player appears and remotely removes items from our characters.

And now a player from around 800 meters away is hitting multiple people inside a vehicle moving at more than 80 km/h with a bolt-action rifle.

Please pay attention to the current state of official servers, especially EU-DE 4160.

DayZ is a very good game and I genuinely enjoy playing it.

But I no longer understand how players are supposed to play normally on an official server and invest dozens or hundreds of hours into their characters and bases when incidents like this happen so often.

What is especially strange is that when Livonia was a paid map, I played on it for several years and never encountered such an obvious cheater.

Maybe some cheaters were around and I simply did not notice them.

But now the amount of obviously suspicious behaviour is going beyond common sense.

Please, at least occasionally check what is happening on official servers.

I also ask you to check the server logs and player activity around the times of these incidents.

If necessary, I can provide additional information, screenshots, Steam profiles, links, approximate timestamps and anything else that may help identify the players involved.

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197991121160/

1. Launch DayZ on Steam.

2. Join the official DayZ EU-DE 4160 server.

3. Play normally on the server.

4. The reported incidents occurred during normal multiplayer gameplay on this server.

5. The incidents included players flying or becoming invisible, remote removal of clothing and items, two separately hidden Humvees being located in different remote forest areas and surrounded with mines, and extremely suspicious long-range shooting at occupants of a fast-moving vehicle.

The issue cannot be reproduced on demand because it depends on the presence of players using cheats.

Please check server logs and player activity for EU-DE 4160 around the reported incidents.