[TAW] GunRunner

Updated the post with a video of the start of the op. If this kind of gameplay interests anybody you should definitely check us out. We do all different kinds of operations too, not just tactical ones like this.

I've seen a few others on reddit, but none on here.

See, I see alot of people complaining about the effect that group identification will have on immersion. I think the BIGGEST effect is the graphical limitations of the game. IRL: I could identify a friend from 200m away having just seen them. I could pick out there size, shape, clothing color, the way they move etc. In game, some things don't render properly and graphics settings alter between players. The character models are limited and all animations are the same. There is a limited number of types of "desired" gear (eg: camoflage, helmets, military boots) so most people wear the same stuff. Those right there are the biggest immersion breakers IMO. If they can compensate for THAT by making differentiating between friendly/enemy players easier, then I personally don't care if friendlies have a glowing green orb above there head. I'm sure there are those of you out there that disagree, which is fine. But also.... if they do decide to implement something UI based don't you think they would give the option to turn it on/off?

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: YES! YES YES YES! YES YES YES YES YES! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: That and vehicle persistence are the two biggest things (imo) that I got out of this. Can't wait!! A couple side questions though. Are the Wednesday persistence wipes going to stop soon? Or at least become bi-weekly, monthly, etc? Right now its extremely annoying to have to pick up tents every week and get rid of a ton of good gear. A lot of our people in TAW don't even bother with tents because of this :( And when 0.53 is pushed to stable will there be a hive reset? I know it was said there will be one soon, but we are all wondering how soon it will be. Mostly asking because we are planning a few special events for our clan that require a ton of items and I don't want to waste time collecting them all just to have them wiped before we get to do the events.

We found 4 of the 5 V3S spawns within 30 minutes of a reset. We decided to meet up with the rest of our friends who were online on our TAW.net server. During that same time frame we also found all 3 helicopter spawns. Have any other groups out there found all 5 V3S spawns before a reset? PS- Happy New Year from TAW.net!!!!!!

I'll chock that up to bad luck my friend. The main road on the west side of the map (running from Vybor to Zelenogorsk) is the best place to look for trucks. There are 23 Points along the road and in the towns it runs through. If you extend out a little bit and check the outskirt spawn points (about 500-750m to either side of the road) you can add an additional 10 locations to that. Statistically (33 points checked out of 72[iThink], 5 trucks), doing so would give you about a 45% chance of finding at LEAST one. But logically its more around 75% as nearly half of the potential points are in that area and there are 5 trucks per restart. Unless you are severely unlucky and every single truck spawns away from that area, you should be in good shape. And I also have noticed gas canisters spawning less and less. It seems a good place to find one of those is in the Military Research Base near Pavlovo. Its risky, as its a high traffic area, but there are 15 small storage sheds/garages in that 300m X 400m area that could potentially spawn them. It is also 5.5km away (in a straight line, factor about another 1-2km in for road travel) from Vybor. As I have heard, a truck that spawns with 20L of fuel can travel up to 8km before running dry which should be plenty to get you there. There is also a single gas pump in the base to refuel near that gate that is directly in front of the hospital. Hope this helps :)

You are partially wrong. When you pick the items up and then drop them they do not go back on the "list" as a spawned item. You can keep picking things up and dropping them as items continue to respawn. True, they may be junk items that come into game but that is because there is more "junk" than useful things on the list of items that spawn in X location. Also, the grid in which these items respawn varies in size. Some that you may think would be extremely small, may extend an extra 500-750 meters. Kamyshovo for instance: The town itself is obvious. However, Otmel Island (the little one you can walk to) as well as the Deer Stand up the hill to the northwest of town and the feedshack along the dirt road to the north are confirmed in the same grid. Castle Rog, the radio tower near Rog, as well as the few buildings near Krutoy Cap may potentially be as well (didn't check those). If you continuously just check the town itself loot will eventually stop spawning there and be piled up in the outskirt locations. Source: Personally tested multiple times with a group of friends to speed up the process. Tested ONLY on persistence enable servers PS- If you do this make separate piles. Put junk items in junk backpacks/clothing to make it a bit more organized. And share the wealth! I did this in Kamyshovo and invited all the freshies running by to grab what ever they wanted.

Yes I understand that. The thread title was mostly a joke with a little bit of "clever marketing" mixed in to spark interest and draw attention. Its a cheap ploy, I know, but hey.... it apparently works ;) Haha thank you. When we met up with our clanmates, they had no idea we were coming. They were in Cherno and there reactions of "Truck incoming... wait... two trucks. Three...... FOUR?!?!? WHAT?" was absolutely hilarious.

NorthWEST Airstrip* ;) And yes, the only place to find military tent spawns are in those buildings you described. Alternatively, you can run along the western edge of the map on a persistent server in the hopes of finding somebody's tent they have set up. The hills and valleys in the woods is a VERY common place for people to put them down. ALSO, even though you can find them on any server, you MUST place them on a persistence enabled server otherwise it will disappear when the server restarts. They are also currently wiping persistence during the Wednesday 7am GMT maintenance so the tents and all items must be picked up before then and on your person otherwise it will be gone.

They will be adding more zombies into the game, as well as improving the AI. As of right now, they are working on a few things so there's no point in updating them and spending man-hours (aka- money) on something that will be thrown out in the coming months. Same goes for optimization of the entirety of the game. Things will get smoother once the necessary systems are implemented. Think of it this way. Would you invest $500 to beef up your windows 98 machine when you know you'll be buying a shiny new and state of the art one in 4 months for $1000? Same goes for DayZ. in relation to your first thread about FPS issues: -If you use an Nvidia graphics card check this quick 45 second video -After that is done, follow this guide as well: http://www.dayztv.com/standalone/dayz-performance-guide-crash-fix/ - Then, if you are still having FPS issues reduce ALL settings to minimum besides your resolution (set to what your monitor is currently), your rendering resolution (set to 100%), and your aspect ratio (if using a widescreen set to 16:9/16:10 depending on what size screen you have).

There's no way for you to host your own server. Everything is run off servers hosted by gaming server companies. If you want a private DayZ SA experience, you will have to rent a private shard from one of the companies SmashT listed above. From there you can set a password to it and only share it with your friends.

You do realize that by posting that, you bumped a thread that was a week old right? -_- Anyway, this was posted way long ago and is no longer valid. Should be locked.

As organized as we are, the TAW clan still has those little bumps in the road every now and then. This was recorded by one of our members during our most recent group operation. Looks like this bambi made out like a bandit ;) p.s- the audio in this video is spot on! hilarious!!!

Haha no problem bud! I posted it up here as soon as you sent me the link because it was that awesome!

We lit the truck up as he was driving by but sadly none of them penetrated the truck :( As you can see in the video, he pulled over shortly after stealing it and drove with the hood up so he essentially had a shield to stop all of our bullets. After he took shots from 6 other guys he decided it was best if he just continued on his way. I don't think anybody recorded it but I'll ask around.

Tents: Get binoculars. Sit on the top of the apartment shown below. Use binoculars to check surrounding appartments. Hop servers. Repeat. Trucks: Only 3 spawn per server reset so you have to be fast. Find a server that just reset within 15 minutes (9:00, 12:00, 15:00 are the most common reset times). Check Kobanino, Vybor, Lopatino spawn locations. Server hop. Repeat. Doing that I have found 3 blue tents in an hour and a half. May have been luck. Other times it has taken me about an hour to find 1. For the trucks, it may also be luck but I seem to always find one in one of those 3 locations in the span of 3 recently reset servers. Hope this helps. You may have just had bad luck buddy.

I would like to have a cargo bay on the back of the V3S so I can carry all the freshy's to the middle of NWAF and have them go at it "Hunger Games" style :D p.s- I believe you meant DAYZ Mr. Jericho :P

Congratulations to FriendlyFlashMob and The Midnight Crew from all of us at TAW.net!!! As for the report itself- suppressors, FULL LENGTH ghillie, and the Alaskan is what I'm really looking forward to. May get back into some bambi-overwatch in Electro if I can throw a supressor on my AKM. Combine that with a few strategically placed walkie talkies around town so I can warn them of incoming bandits and we have ourselves a hella-good time. :D

My clans server is no longer showing up. It was fine for a bit after the most recent .49 patch but for the past few days it simply doesn't appear in the list. I can still connect to it if I join off of one of my steam friends but when I go to my favorites, history, or filter for it, it simply isn't there. I tried doing a remote connect with no results to speak of. Tried setting max ping to 100,000 and max players to 100 and still nothing. It seems just about every other server I've played on in the past couple months appears, except for my home world. The issue itself is straightforward, but I cant resolve it for the life of me. I've been playing the same server for months now and have never had this problem before. Any ideas DayZ Community??

Problem solved. Thanks.

Yes it has updated. Like I said, I can connect through my Steam friends just not the server browser. The provider is Multiplay.

I was literally just thinking "where the hell is this weeks report?!?" Refreshed page aaaaannnndd WHAMMY!!!