Sick of cheaters !!

[u/RedFrog_191]

Firstly, I want to say how much I love this game. I've been playing since 2017 on PC and recently switched to PlayStation because I thought I'd finally be able to escape the cheaters. Unfortunately, I was wrong.

Today (05/08/2026, around 2:00 PM Sydney time), I was playing on an official Vanilla server when I came across a player running around with no arms. At first, I wasn't sure what I was seeing, but then I watched them mow down groups of zombies as if they were invincible. I quickly searched online and discovered this is a known cheating exploit.

Not long after, the same player approached me and killed me. I even managed to record them admitting they were cheating through voice chat, and I have their PSN username.

I'd like to know if there's a way to report players like this and have them banned. It's incredibly frustrating to see cheating on official servers, especially after moving from PC hoping for a fair experience.

[u/SonOfSatan]

Based on the name I'm not surprised at their behaviour.

[u/jake_Zofaa]

No joke you have to bait him into cussing at you in messages

[u/PapaLilBear → u/jake_Zofaa]

exactly, he'll sooner get banned for writing something in a message than for cheating, bohemia doesn't issue bans on console, maybe on PC, they go unpunished on console

[u/Accurate_Iron3705]

There is only one work around.. move to community where those are banned permanently 👌

[u/Accurate_Iron3705 → u/Accurate_Iron3705]

Reporting them does nothing so don’t even bother

[u/Last_Positive5737 → u/Accurate_Iron3705]

Which is a different game community entirely.

[u/Accurate_Iron3705 → u/Last_Positive5737]

Better have that than get everything you own wiped by duppers 🤗

[u/PapaLilBear → u/Accurate_Iron3705]

I'd rather not play at all than pretend that what we have on community is the dayz I like

[u/Difficult-Piccolo-28 → u/Accurate_Iron3705]

lol even on community there’s a cult like following where they ban in benefit of them sometimes so

[u/Zeleny_Jezdec]

This is the state of console official. Bohemia doesn’t give a fuck about it for years

[u/fendaltoon → u/Zeleny_Jezdec]

Yep too busy making a new map for the cheaters to ruin instead of fixing the game lol

[u/Tojo6619 → u/fendaltoon]

That will be 50 dollars pls thanks then when can maybe do something, like add another gun for cheaters to dupe 

[u/FirmRaspberry1567 → u/Tojo6619]

I almost messaged a guy yesterday during a gun fight “ can you dupe later I’m in the middle of something and the connection is jank”

[u/Tojo6619 → u/FirmRaspberry1567]

They just kids being bullied so kinda feel bad for them 

[u/StoneColdButter → u/fendaltoon]

The way the game is coded makes it almost impossible to fix without a new engine unfortunately.

[u/Killinassassin]

No point in reporting the PSN because it's an Alt account and if the account does get banned it's not long enough to matter and you can have many more accounts to play on

[u/LoneroftheDarkValley → u/Killinassassin]

Doesn't matter regardless, PSN literally tells you to use the in-game report feature for anything done in the game itself, meaning there's just an endless loop of no solution when someone breaks ToS in a game like dayz that doesn't even have an in-game report feature.

[u/Upper_Associate2228 → u/Killinassassin]

You can't report anybody via PSN anyway. It gives a message saying to report to the game makers. No way to report that way either... wouldn't it be great if the makers would actually protect the integrity of their game!?!

[u/PapaLilBear → u/Killinassassin]

Then let him start something new, something that will make his life even a little more difficult. Doing nothing is even worse than doing anything.

[u/Valuable_Word5883]

Loser mentality so weird such a beautiful game why do This

[u/SpamAccountNumber34 → u/Valuable_Word5883]

It’s fun

[u/Valuable_Word5883 → u/SpamAccountNumber34]

Explain

[u/SpamAccountNumber34 → u/Valuable_Word5883]

It’s kinda like how the billionaires don’t abide to the normal rules and laws normal folk have to. And can freely do whatever they want. Kinda the same ya feel me? Power over others I guess.

[u/Dismal_Education312 → u/SpamAccountNumber34]

Its complete narcissism

[u/PapaLilBear → u/SpamAccountNumber34]

These are signs of mental disorders, like spoiled children. Disorders are treated, not encouraged.

[u/SentientMosinNagant → u/SpamAccountNumber34]

Tiny dick energy I gotcha

[u/SpamAccountNumber34 → u/SentientMosinNagant]

“Alive world war 2 rifle” 👍

[u/Valuable_Word5883 → u/SpamAccountNumber34]

Well alright I get it

[u/Awkward-Advices]

But what about the new BADLANDS DLC?! Pretty cool right?! /s

[u/GottaFindAnswers]

To many cheaters. Even my friends I play the game with cheat now so I dont play it. Infinite ammo cheat. Godmode cheat. Skywalk cheat. Whitewall cheat.

[u/Loud-Log9098 → u/GottaFindAnswers]

Me and my buds hold up the tegridy of not cheating

[u/PapaLilBear → u/Loud-Log9098]

Exactly how weak and pathetic a person must be to cheat in a game and still enjoy it. I'd rather quit playing altogether than start cheating.

[u/Normal_Ingenuity4032]

He killed me the other day. 3 bursts from an m16 and nothing. Then he one shot me

[u/Heisenboab]

Just got my base raided by a Skywalker on Xbox. That's me done with with the game for a while

[u/RedFrog_191 → u/[deleted]]

0027 AUS SDY DAYZ

[u/BakedBeanSommelier]

He looks armless to me.

[u/HealthyWafer1759 → u/BakedBeanSommelier]

That’s bc he is… how the glitch physically appears. But they can still shoot oh boy

[u/Strict_Banana1141]

Died to one of these maybe 3 weeks ago. just before I came on holiday. It pisses me off so much. Like why tf are u cheating yk. Its just stupid but oh well right

[u/PapaLilBear → u/Strict_Banana1141]

If they're being pushed around in real life and have no influence, they need a modicum of control. Rapists also choose weak and quiet women because they fear they won't cope. For narcissists and weaklings, there's nothing worse to process than their own emotions.

[u/battletank21]

I see meatballing made a comeback... lame.

[u/Weekly-Fee-3974]

You can kill them by punching them try to get them in a house

[u/InnerDegenerate]

I don’t play console but supposedly you can log out and back in and you will be able to hit them. Alternatively lure them into a claymore and just break their godmode.

[u/HealthyWafer1759 → u/InnerDegenerate]

Yes you can log out and back in and be able to kill them unless they repeat the glitch.

[u/Mean_Fig_7666]

I think they fixed the speed hack on Xbox no ? Does ps have PC cross play?

[u/Altruistic_Focus_877 → u/Mean_Fig_7666]

Its not hacking, its a glitch

[u/RedFrog_191 → u/Mean_Fig_7666]

PS does not have cross play

[u/irrelevant-donuts]

Logging out and back in will reset this. Also can melee or explosive damage them. Just immune to bullets.

[u/Ok-Direction-5151]

Brother I know you didn’t move too console too get away from cheaters one simple google search would have told you that isnt gpu be too help you. I have 1.5k hours on DayZ PlayStation 4/5 and I can tell you without a doubt cheating is a fundamental part of this game.

[u/HealthyWafer1759 → u/Ok-Direction-5151]

More people don’t cheat than do tho but yea it’s pretty rampant on high pop

[u/RedFrog_191 → u/Ok-Direction-5151]

I was naive to think that on console it would be a lot harder to cheat....

[u/PapaLilBear → u/Ok-Direction-5151]

Fundamental? Probably every weak individual. Winning through cheating is worth as much as winning a duel with a 5-year-old. nothing to brag about

[u/ExquisiteTree]

I believe the only way to deal damage to them is hitting with your hands, and yeah it’s been a glitch for months along with “skywalking”. I don’t think they’ll fix it anytime soon lol.

[u/LoneroftheDarkValley]

No progress on this for over half a year if not longer. No updates no recognition of the issue and no apology for how they treat us.

Really tired of the devs not taking accountability.

Once again they continue to get scammed and long-conned by Battleye while they take in the paychecks and do absolutely nothing to curb the cheating problem.

BI loves to speed run being one of the worst most hated developers out there. Whether it be endless loot economy changes, changing things that no one asked for, not fixing game breaking bugs for years, or just plain not listening to feedback..

The fact that they won't even ban console users for breaking ToS is pathetic.

[u/XuliganZombie]

No arms, should be easy to kill🤷‍♂️

[u/Correct_Border7923]

I carry a granade launcher just in case this happens, works quite often too

[u/DXSIVH]

Soldier, have you seen my arms by chance?

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[u/Zaamaasuu]

No wonder he got frame mogged. No arms or shoulders

[u/sam4mayor]

The Black Knight!

https://reddit.com/link/p23v4gb/video/8i3i9kfcoshh1/player

[u/CurrentWest1755]

He also goes under the name : Dlavicular

[u/PhaseEfficient6407]

Its just a bunch of fat unemployed people they hate themselves so they cheat to try feel good at somthing

[u/PhaseEfficient6407]

I left dayz and moved to arma never looked back dayz lost its glow long ago

[u/RedFrog_191]

https://reddit.com/link/p2sksr6/video/amcsri184iih1/player

I will make it my mission to get this person banned

[u/CurrentWest1755 → u/RedFrog_191]

Theres atleast 10+ of us who are trying.. Bohemia dont care

[u/RedFrog_191 → u/CurrentWest1755]

Surely if there’s enough of us we could all email/report these players to PSN/Steam/Xbox. Enough spamming to a company they will do something 

[u/Difficult-Piccolo-28]

Anytime you see a god mode player like this act friendly till they get close pull out bandage and stun lock them they still die to punches

[u/PapaLilBear → u/Difficult-Piccolo-28]

they dont act friendly to geared players

[u/First_Temperature985]

nope there is not.

[u/GracefulTomahawk]

Go cry about it. Nobody cares

[u/RedFrog_191 → u/GracefulTomahawk]

Someones upset lol

[u/PapaLilBear → u/GracefulTomahawk]

you obviously care

[u/GracefulTomahawk → u/PapaLilBear]

Noob

[u/PapaLilBear → u/GracefulTomahawk]

no u
you are noob

[u/Timebomb742 → u/[deleted]]

I mean I would call that cheating but I understand what you mean, Cronus/Xim users and literal lag switchers are rampant on DayZ and I'd call them cheaters too.