I just had a really weird situation in dayz. I was playing on on an Namalsk Vanilla server which was on "low" (players online) and was in Vorkuta. Already nearly dying on food but I had 3 food cans in my bagpack, was just searching for a place to light a fire because outside it was snow storming. Finally I find a house with an fireplace, light the fire and put my 3 food items on the ground to defreeze them and suddenly hear footsteps, so I take out my shotgun and just looked around....
But then I got kicked from the server with the kicking reason "m^p". So I tried to reconnect but then got the message that the server is not available (no connection or something). So I tried to open some websites, but only Youtube and Wikipedia was available and all the rest websites told me that I am offline and have no internet connection, although I really could open new sites on Wikipedia or watch never watched films on youtube. On my smartfone through Wifi it was exactly the same weird behaviour, so I restarted my Modem and Router. Afterwards it was still the same, so I restarted my computer and then suddenly everything was back to normal. (could be that all that restarting did nothing but it was just a matter of time of course)
I went back on the server and my food was gone, although if no one would had picked it up it should still be there. Well I was already red blinking on my health and couldnt run anymore, so I just shot at some random zombies and suddenly die, although much earlier than I thought (normally my screen should loose some color before dying on food right ?) Also it really looked like a headshot animation when I died (but without any gun sound)
TBH, the most realistic answer would be that something with my internet wasn´t working, although I never had problems with my connection, maybe every 5-6 months my provider has an outage for 30 min or so, but then my whole internet is gone and not this weird behaviour. After some research it seems that something didnt worked with the DNS server, idk if its possible to hack someone so that he just looses connection to his DNS server ? Although its hard to imagine that someones computer can be hacked though a dayz server, at least I nevery heared something like that.
Did anyone ever had something similiar ?
The server I was playing on:
Server name: DayZ Namalsk (vanilla) EU - DE 9533 - Regular (TPP)
Address: 195.82.158.67:10900
Server version: 1.12.153862
Required game version: 1.12.0
Map: Namalsk
Mission: DayZ
Players: 1/40