It's an ongoing battle... there's no magic solution to this and a way to fix this over night. You fix the one exploit, hackers will find 3 new ones to get around it. And It's not just DayZ. Pick any multiplayer game nowadays and you'll be shocked by the amount of hackers. It's insane. They are rampant recently. At least they need to pay to play the game, just imagine how much worse it is in F2P games... Since BattlEye, which most of games use, obviously isn't an obstacle for hackers anymore, the two other options are : either a super invasive anticheat programs like Valorant has, and which most of people don't want on their PC because of the "privacy" intrusion issues, or wait for the AI anticheat which is still in development ( but has the most potential ).

1. Deathcam is a terrible, terrible idea for a game like this. And should never be a part of it because of how easy is to exploit it if you're playing in a team. just, no.

2. Even though it sounds like a good start, I don't know how much "report a player" will help. Because in most of the cases people call out players for hacking when they are just bad at the game. I've seen it too many times. Especially in DayZ because of the nature of how the game works and the ways you can get killed, the element of luck, and all that stuff... you'll get a flood of reports on normal players and actual hackers will fall through the cracks somehow... For me personally...In 6 years I've been playing actively, I've been killed like 4 times by a hacker ( 3 stable , 1 experimental ) , and I usually play on Official PC servers. ( but I also never build bases so maybe I'm not the preferred target)

Btw. I'm not talking about you or questioning your knowledge on the game, because In your video, you've been obviously killed by a hacker.. I'm talking about a massive number of newer players and even the seasoned players, the teammates I've had which called out almost every player a "hacker" that they've been shot by. Which makes it seem like there are hackers left and right on official servers, and in my experience, that just isn't the case.

When you report a server you've played on, and the time of death + location, they can check it out with battleye and admin tools and find it in the log and ban the turd. That's at least something.. because this (justified) rant doesn't do anything unfortunately.

Death cam is no, but a report button with maybe some small video (few seconds video, or just minimal required stats to determine was it a cheater or not) visible only for the person that will be solving that case - strong yes. You don't even to have tweak batteye (bottlleye, blindeye, noeye), just add report button and think it through how to cut off main vawe of "it was definitely a cheater, but after checking turned out it's not", and you're good to go. Like maybe for a false report you can't youse the button next "xx" hours or something like that. The guy is right, Dayz keep pushing players peak on and on, and is the one of main (and most profitable) titles of BI, and you're jsut close your eyes on that, if to tell it the simliest way "cheaters are in every game, go cry to buttLeEye". Dayz is amazing game, but the patience (nerves) are not limitless, and honestly, last few years you guys are running on fumes that left of all that nerves. You still have time till the end of the year, so maybe postpone NWA rebuild and start doing something with the main problem of the game atm. (Because somebody wrote "there can be 3 squads at the same time and not even meet", so what? Let there be even 10 or 20 squads, who cares? At the same time NEA is completely NAKED, you should rate the game 18+, 'cause if kids wanna see some nude pics I send all them to NEA.)

@WeirdXone Nice one man, according to you averything is not that bad, and maybe let's just sit and wait on that magical AI anticheat. Yes, you are right that most of the ppl will report only because they're bad at gunfights, but it doesn't mean you should just forget about other half. And would you be so kind to share your official servers list, 'cause man, if that's true about 4 times, I envy you so much. I've been killed 4 times only for last 1,5 months, on the same server, which is not hipop, not even midpop. Anyway, mu point is if you play dayz for 6 years your shurely know that cheater is one of the core problems of the game, and by writing such defensive comment you're not helping at all. OFC we all can go play private servers with active admins that haven't have such huge cheaters problem since.... but still somebody likes to run official. And yes, I never build bases too, 'cause base = insta raid, and if there's a cheater on the serve - not even a chance. But yea, that is your opinion, I have mine, in the end most likely there will be no reaction from the devs anyway.

Yep, and I was stalked by a cheater for weeks who was from china and he would follow me through official servers and find me to just kill me. There needs to be a report option in-game, and maybe cheaters wouldn't be so god damn prevalent. Need to take action on preventing cheaters before all your new players end up leaving because of them