adrianscholl

Tents are the lifeblood of late gameplay in Day Z. Elite groups of survivors rely heavily on items stockpiled in hidden tents. Unfortunately, they are currently in a very unstable state. Blinking Tents Bug Every time a server admin improperly restarts the HIVE along with their server, tents (and cars) are not loaded into the game. They still exist in the database and will reappear upon proper restart, but they will not show up until then. These improper restarts happen all the time because the game is currently in an unstable state. For groups that operate out of their camps, they never know when their tents (and cars) will be missing for the majority of a day. It also makes it difficult to tell if cars have been stolen or simply if the server just needs a proper restart. Tent blinking makes them extremely unreliable. [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6] Duplicating Tents Bug Every time you place a tent, it is there forever on the database. You can package the tent and place it down in a different place, however the server will still remember the old location (as well as the new one). Many people have encountered this bug and been able to essentially farm tents. Beyond making it extremely easy to acquire new tents once you have your first, this makes it virtually impossible to create an organized camp. Any tents you placed will come back every time the server restarts. Since ownerless tents despawning after 2 days has not been implemented nor has an ability to simply delete tents, this leads to a cancerous case of tentception in a campsite that will eventually take over everything you know and love. [1], [2], [3], [4] Difficult to Place Tents Tents have always been very fickle about where they can be placed. In the past, it was necessary to place them at least twenty-five feet away from any other objects (such as trees) and on a perfectly smooth surface. This makes tents incredibly difficult to hide, because they have to be in a clearing. Fortunately, this was noted and the radius was reduced in patch 1.5.8.3. Unfortunately, now tents cannot be placed at all. Anywhere. [1], [2], [3] The aim of this post is to consolidate the current issues with tents in order that greater developer attention may be focused on this area of the game. Comments and discussion are welcome.

We have many tents we were able to place previously, but now there are literally no locations that will allow me to place a tent. = (

Ah, I misunderstood you. Our actual cars are missing, things in many of our tents, and some of our actual tents that were placed (which is impossible for a player that is not the owner to do). Our issues are slightly different, but could both be related to server data corruption with the latest patches. EDIT: Server just restarted again. The tents and items from today reappeared. The cars and items from the previous day are still gone. We are now assuming it was a raid, followed by the "tent blinking" bug.

We are experiencing similarly lost gear. Our campsite had not been raided in over two weeks, so its location was very safe. The items we lost over the last two days has been lower tier, making us think it was not a raid. In addition, today 3 placed tents that were mine actually just dissapeared, which should be impossible for a player to do. The US HC1 server we are on has been restarted multiple times, so it is not the "blinking tents/cars" bug. In total we have lost the following: -Yesterday- 1 camo UAZ, 1 yellow UAZ (each of which had tons of car gear and fuel tanks) 30-40 DMR mags, 1 DMR (entire stack of dmr ammo) 30-40 Stanag SD (entire stack of sd ammo) 20-30 Blood bags (entire stack of blood bags) 1 M240 10 stored tents 10-20 food (all food in tent) 5-15 water (all water in tent) -Today- 3 of my personal placed tents that just entirely deleted, which contained: 2 M16 Acog 1 M4A3 CCO 20-30 smoke grenades and grenades 10 painkillers 10 morphine Can you give a more thorough description of what exactly happened so we can determine if this is the same issue? With the problems over the last few days, I am thinking it might be data corruption.

To access RPT files: C:/users/[your name]/appdata/local/arma 2 oa/arma2oa.rpt Dev email: dayzdevteam@gmail.com

To access RPT files: C:/users/[your name]/appdata/local/arma 2 oa/arma2oa.rpt Dev email: dayzdevteam@gmail.com (I am also unable to log in to any server.)

Also having this issue. I sent the RPT file to the developer email. Here is a description of my problems: Throughout all of this I was repeatedly respawning, because I was experiencing strange things and trying to unglitch my character; in addition, I was joining several different servers (Texas 1, US servers, Virginia servers, USHC1, Colorado) to determine whether it was a single server's problems. First I started spawning in non-spawn locations (Polana, Dolina, Cap Golova) with zombie kills and random amounts of blood. Then I started spawning in the exact same place in Polana grocery store as if it saved right before I clicked respawn. The patch was released minutes after this, so I updated. After update, I now spawn in the debug zone bleeding out with broken bones. I have bled out and been killed by players. Every time I respawn, I am placed in the exact same location in the debug zone, bleeding out.

I am having the same issue. Extremely low framerate even at low settings since the latest patch. Previously I was able to run Day Z at very high settings without framerate issues.

I just tested this by slow swimming a large distance back from the ocean debug zone with gear. I was put into the debug zone after sniping laying prone, so no exhaustion prior to ocean. While you can slow swim a very long ways, you eventually drop your gear. I estimate that I slow swam for somewhere under 5 minutes before I dropped my gear. I was unable to further test whether or not treading water every minute or so would replenish stamina enough to slow swim indefinitely. On a related note, I just lost a M4A1 CCO SD, M9SD, DMR, Coyote large, GPS, and a few other things. >_<

The town is Prigorodky, a small town between Elektro and Cherno on the coast. Pusta is slight north-east of Prigorodky.

Bumping the thread because sniping as a bandit (white on a black or green background) is extremely stupid and not currently viable. Snipers should be a hidden threat in this game. Not easily spotted from a mile away.

We are still having this issue where all tents and cars will temporarily disappear after some server restarts. It seems like every time the server is restarted, a die is rolled to determine whether or not the tents and cars will show up that time.

Please can this be addressed soon. It is getting completely out of hand. In our attempt to organize our large group, we picked up our old haphazardly organized 11 tents and placed a grid of 12 new tents that are perfectly aligned. Now, every time the server crashes, the 11 tents spawn again in their previous location. We are currently at upwards of 30 tents. If this is not stopped soon, I cannot fathom how many tents will grow like a cancer over our campsite by next week... "An explosion of tents that will blot out the sun, and rain down upon Cherno smiting all who dare stand against it. I fear the evil that we have unleashed upon this world cannot be contained" - [AATW] Bardy

Date: May 16, May 17 What happened: Tent duplication galore. Where you were: Dev PM for details What you were doing: Trying to rearrange a campsite *Current installed version: 1.5.7 *Server(s) you were on: Hardcore 1 *Your system specs: Intel Core i7 Processor 2GHz, NVidia GTX 460M 1.5G GDDR5 VRAM, 8GB SO-DIMM RAM, 1TB 7200RPM Hard Drive, Windows 7 Home Premium *Timeline of events before/after error: Placed tent, then packaged it, then replaced it. Server crashed. When server came back up, both new and old tents were there. Packaged old tent and put it in new tent. Server crashed. 3 tents... Please god, make it stop. It is now happening to three old tent spots. Our campsite is now hooverville.

All of our tents and cars are back. We have experienced this issue before. Extremely worrisome. I would not consider it resolved.