Zombie Jesus

I will number you questions for ease. 1. Usually not. 2. The couple of times a vehicle survived a restart (out of 9 vehicles only 3 have survived) the gear never survived. 3. Do not think so. 4. Until server restart, if working properly for quite some time if alive and I think death it will wipe after restart if not saved. 5. Tents are very have big issues, but if you put a fresh tent down and put gear in the tent and save it only once it will probably survive a restart. In fact it will do something else weird but I will refrain from saying what because why make another duper. 6. It is supposed to, but considering they all disappear I have no clue. Finally, it was most likely a server bug, but you never know.

Yea man it is called the interweb, but I can see some of your point. When players ask a legitimate question on the forums I will try to answer that question despite the answer being on Dayz Wiki and all over the forum, but I am tired of the "I am quitting this game" threads that just rehash stupid shit. You were killed by a hacker, well who gives a shit join the club. Aw someone killed you on sight, well lesson learned and once again welcome to the club. Please tell me again about the graphic glitches, I have not seen that whine enough times. Then we have the geniuses who think this game should work like a finished project and whine forever about issues that will not be resolved until the standalone (why can't hacking be fixed, just break the actual game Arma II so I can play a free alpha rocket jeez). I will and do answer stupid question though, I have answered three vehicle threads so far in the last couple of days without even a hint of attitude about doing so (despite the same question three topics below). I get being new and once in awhile I will see someone running near the coast and give them some gear, but I will not teach them the game for fear of being shot in the back. The reason 50% of the people on the game act the way they do is experience, you can only hold back on shooting and get murdered so many times before you just decide to kill everyone you encounter.

I still let new spawns and low armed players pass as long as they are not being aggressive (which usually means they have not seen me) and do not actively hunt players unless I am in a group. There is not much to do besides kill other players though so I do not see much of a problem with the current state of PVP in the current game, just hope the standalone addresses this fact and adds incentives to teaming up and not shooting on sight. It will still happen and we should be glad because zombies are easy, but it would be nice to not have to kill every player with a makarov who decides it is a good idea to shoot at the guy holding an M240 (have three kills in the last two days where guys shot first with a pistol, they deserve death for the stupidity). Just realize many people do not find the current PVE all that interesting and are seeking a challenge after exploring the map, sure it sucks for new spawns and those who are new to the game but what can you do.

It is like every idiot on these forums thinks anyone who plays differently has to love CoD (refuse to even acknowledge your slight of Battlefield by putting it in the same sentence). CoD was a good franchise that has fallen off in recent years and I can bet anything that the majority here have liked a version of CoD (mine was CoD 4 the first Modern Warfare, the new ones are not my style). Just because you got shot does not mean the person likes CoD or is a child, I am a 28 year old who hates the recent CoD and I will shoot you on sight the majority of the time because I have actual friends both in the game and in real life who play the game, so I do not need you as part of my group. Stop being butthurt and blaming everything on CoD, it has way more to do with duping making gear common, graphic bugs in Stary and NWAF making the north useless, and hackers.

This guy is full of shit. People call hacker any time you have full gear because they are unable to live that long or kill other players. It is very easy at this point to gear up without hacking due to bugs and killing other players.

Thanks been wanting to try and was waiting for my character to die so nothing happens. Now I can just try them out.

Warped_jack, does playing on a private hive server mess with your public hive character. Have wanted to try but don't want to lose all my legitimate high tier gear.

Warped_Jack, sure you could hop between servers like you said, but that would be a pain in the ass. It could always work as anytime you change servers you spawn on the coast, but either way it removes 99% of the problem (most people will not walk two or more characters to the same spot on different servers just to server hop, they will not be able to ghost or get to sniper positions so two problems solved and one almost solved). The shit storm would be if they completely bound a character to one server using the current system, like I said admin abuse happens quite often right now so unless you remove the admins and server owners that problem will continue. While the standalone should fix many hacking problems no game is foolproof so what happens when a hacker is running loose.? Or if the server just becomes incredibly unpopular but you do not want to lose high tier items obtained through weeks of looting. This would flood the forums with angry customers when they could have just gone a middle road and allowed for gear to be transferred between servers but not location.

That sucks, but there are countless other threads that attest to this bug working. The gear will only save once, but it will come back with every server restart. Vehicles will most likely disappear.

Will it mess with your hive character?

Quick question, does anyone like the new CoD MW3? I actually respect that series (not as much after this last one), but I have yet to find a person who will just flat out defend this game as a great game, they might say it is fun but when pushed they will say it is not great. Other than that BF3 was the last FPS I played consistently.

Why, because the mod hates you that is why. That is why standing on a rock results in death, opening a door near a wall will break your leg, and the reason zombies can walk through walls. Just kidding, the vehicles are hopeless so do not even bother if you are going to care about losing it on restart, but with tents put everything in all at once and save the tent only once and it should come back on restart.

Unless the servers are maintained by BI I am definitely not in favor of this. Had a Ural almost fixed and was heading back with only a tire when all three in the group got kicked. Tried to join and two of us got bans, we hadn't even murdered anyone and were playing 100% legit. So if we still have admin abuse at least 10% of players will lose everything due to some pissy admin, also if hackers to pop up we are stuck or have to start over. Simple solution, coast spawn on any new server. That gets rid of server hopping, ghosting, and logging into sniper spots. But it will save your hard earned loot so you don't have to start over from scratch, everybody wins. Long story short most of you are missing the extremely easy middle ground that would please both groups, one group gets to see less nonsense in the form of server hoppers, griefing snipers logging into good sniping positions from low population servers, and ghosters. The other side will not lose everything just because another server is down, has been hit by a hacker, or has run into one of the many abusive admins. Or we could do it your way and create a shit storm.

I will trade a M240 and M 249 with a gps and mags for that mk. Plus nvg if needed

Im going with this, life is random and this simulates that fact. After dying on the rock I was picked up by my group's convoy and watched one car smash into another and one of our group died in the fire. Random shit happens in this game. Ill think of insta kill by hack as a massive heart attack and thunderdome as a trip to hell.

Like a great deal of bugs it isn't 100%, but yes it has worked for me on this patch quite a few times. Worst case scenario is you lose the same stuff that is wiped from the car on restart, so what do you have to lose. Make sure to only save it once after getting all the parts you want in there.

Just a bug. I don't really want to say the whole reason because people us it for bad purposes, but let's just say a good deal of the time the gear saved on the first save will survive the server restart.

Was a hero just for running with a group of five with one accident prone idiot. It was funny the first couple of weeks but I have less of a tolerance after he needed blood and morphine on each gas station trip last night. Lost the skin as soon as I got it for shooting the same guy in the head because he decided to run between a firing gun and a zombie. My playstyle is somewhat like a bandit, but I don't go looking for murders.

Get a tent placed near the truck spawn and put all the stuff needed to fix the car in the tent and then save the tent only once. The gear should survive the restart and if vehicle is there you can fix it up quickly and have a car for a day.

Same story but at the control tower at NWAF. A buddy and I had a mob coming up the stairs and climbing ladders. Two full M 240 boxes later and they are still coming in. Tried to fight my way out the front but ran out of ammo and then was swarmed. Broken leg and passed out they pushed me through the wall and I managed to live. This on the same day a rock killed me at the NW Ural spawn so it was nice to have a little luck.

When the server restarts it will probably be gone. I've lost two cars, a bike, and a helicopter, but yesterday three vehicles my group had survived a server restart. This means your work probably wont be saved, but you might get lucky. Im really hoping the two trucks, van, and hatchback we have survive the next restart, but I really doubt they will.

Yea I was way north at the helicopter spawn above the NWAF and died on a rock fully geared. Worst part was running back to loot the body, would have killed for a coastal death.

So you were actually being serious, alright then. They haven't said that you can so I will go out on a limb and say no.

Yea hackers can change everyones weapons but I truly doubt anyone teleported to you just to put something in your bag. Hackers be hacking man.

Server side option. Some servers have a player marking on the map while others don't, kind of like 3rd person and crosshairs.