Fraggle (DayZ)

I think they respawn when the server is restarted. That's at least once a day on most servers, and once every four hours on some. I played for a couple of weeks at least until I even saw a vehicle. Now I seem to have found the knack for discovering them. It's because they are so rare that when you eventually find one you'll wet yourself with excitement. The best way to find a vehicle is not to look for the spawn point but to start looking for other players camps. I've yet to see a helicopter on my server, but I know there's one out there somewhere. I've already filled a tent with all the parts I need to fix one up when I do find it. It's things like that which keep me playing. If you want a quick fix there's hundreds of other mods for Arma where you can hop in a vehicle straight away. I promise you it's no where near as exciting as finding one in DayZ.

They're not. I have a massive blue truck stashed stashed in the forest near Zub castle. I found it near the NWAF. Last week, I had a UAZ hidden in plain site parked behind a house near a small village in the east for 6 nights. It eventually got found and so will my lorry at some point. I also managed to steal a pick-up truck from outside a church while the owner was looting the village. I play on a busy server too. There's many vehicles I've yet to find but it's only a matter of time until I find the secret stashes. Day Z is a game of patience, not short thrills.

50 + vehicles on one server! Are you kidding me. That's at least one per person on most servers, it's not wacky races. The thing that makes them so fun at the moment is that they're rare and hard to maintain. If I could find one with minimal effort then that would remove most of the fun for me. As it is, when I find a vehicle, it's an exciting moment. Then I have to think carefully about where I'm going to keep it so that I don't lose it. I like it how it is.

Kloza, here's how you need to get your ban lifted. I've heard that repeatedly smashing your face into your keyboard will instantly get you a full refund and a golden can of mountain Dew.

Yup, works a bitch, but at least it means we can afford the shiny new standalone when it comes out. Sweet.

Unlucky. Cheats like you are ruining the game for everyone else. I don't care that your banned or that you lost your money. The rest of the community is better off without you.

I really think some people just don't understand. For some reason, even when presented with the facts, they still insist the have payed to play DayZ.

Read this carefully. You chose to buy Arma to take part in the Alpha testing phase of a mod using the Arma engine. No one asked you to do this, it was never advertised. You chose to take part based on media hype. I've read the announcement and people that are taking part in the testing phase will receive heavy discounts. I'm not sure what else you can expect.

I'm looking for one too. If I find someone with two I'll give you a shout.

Take on Helis is the same engine but a very different game, it's a flight sim. It's way more simplified in Arma but it's still worth doing the Tuts just to learn the basic controls at least. Theres a good heli campaign supplied with OA too.

Lol, yeh I never understand why people don't use the tutorials supplied with Arma to learn how to fly properly. They just hop in and fly into the floor and then wonder what went wrong.

I've only witnessed two hacks in my whole time playing DayZ. I don't want to draw attention to my home server, but it's not in the US.

If you log off anywhere in the NWAF then your running the risk of that happening. Server hoppers will literally skip through tons of servers in the same spot just for the grind. Bastards.

Only on some servers, some are just as quick or even quicker than they used to be. One sure fire way to increase the times is to access a server directly from within the Arma mulitplayer menu. It's not quite as user friendly but it saves you from basically re-booting the game whenever you want to try a different server.

Perfect, then were all agreed and happiness can rule once again. Also (and I may well be wrong), I thought bandit skins were being brought back but just as an optional clothing item like the Camo and Ghillies. Like I say I may be wrong or it might have changed since the last time I read about it.

Your the second person to reply to that one post without reading the thread properly. I clearly said twice that it's about the inferred meaning. Read the thread properly and stop making me repeat myself.

Rocket has clearly said several times that just because a game mechanic is removed does not mean that it won't be reintroduced at a later date. This point of the testing process is to do just that, to test different ideas and mechanics. Hopefully a more elaborate system can be introduced at some point.

Every single one of your responses so far has either "paraphrased" someone incorrectly or plainly just tried to put words into their mouths without really taking their point on board at all. You've even edited your original response to my first post to make my second post look irrelevant. I think this is a debate that needs to be had, unfortunatly I think your the wrong guy for the job. You seem to be convinced that your idea is 100% correct and seem unable to take other peoples opinions on board rendering this debate pointless. I'm pretty sure whatever response I give to your original post is going to be shot down in flames so I'll concentrate my effort towards a post on a similar subject with someone who who is open to differing ideas and opinions. Much love.

Cheers, I will, thanks for the heads up.

Well thanks for the intel!

I don't want them to be reset thanks, nor do I want to be tagged as a bandit in the future for being involved in firefights. It's too much of a grey area to just be labelled as a bandit for having kills.

That vid is ok but you can't see the full effect because it's not in HD. Like I say, I think it's well worth it for the full experience. A lot of people that complain about DayZ graphics looking dated are running Arma 2 lite or have their settings turned down. If you can run the full version at decent settings the graphics are plain awesome.

I think it's well worth the full version. There's a massive difference in texture quality for most of the map including roads, signs, buildings and so on. Also many of the weapons will have low res textures using the free version too. if you want the full experience you can get the PMC and BAF add-onns too. It adds a high res texture to the basic survivor skin and some of the Britich weapons like the AS50.

It's not just bandits that think it will break the game. I'm a medic and don't want to see identifiers like this. I have a few murders under my belt, all in self defense, so what category do i fall into? If bandits want to pick up the clothing and choose to wear it then that's cool, but an enforced game mechanic trying to pigeon hole people is never going to work.

A tin of my finest beans.