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Yes but I don't see why I have to have a gang of bitches with me to survive. I'm a joe casual player and don't really play hardcore enough to have ongoing friends to play with and to dupe gear with. And most people Ive met on this game the first clan i found were a bunch of hacking turds, the second were just fuking around in tents duping stuff 24/7. The third is just me rolling around with some other guy in his car looking for vehicles and other camps. I just want to play on my own without having to worry about getting my gear raped off me by some cheating bitch. Yes i know the game is alot easier with a group. And as to the post above mine, I'm getting shot in the back by someone appearing behind me, hes not crouched on teh floor, hes just straight up appearing

My character gotshot by a hacker yesterday. The way you can tell is when you are on a server with 4 people and they are all with you :) Then, another player joins, teleports to your location, is invincible to bullets and spawns into your back to headdie you. The beautiful VAN burned out too... but I wasn't unhappy. The game gets easier with friends. Dayz is hardto play alone, but as soon as you have one friend, on one server, you can meet up and get bandaged, hitch a ride in his car, etc. It's much more fun! The issue of shooting. Yes, I spend more time north than south. South is usually all about starting gear and Ghillies, whereas north is about vehicles and chopper crashes. Fewer people in north means less shooting.. However, at the hotspots (Stary Sobor, Airfield, Vybor) you will most likely meet someone. Happened to me. I had a car and copy-pasted "Don't shoot! I can take you to an offroader!". Needless to say they shot anyway - or one of them did. I stopped the car at the hangar, got into cover and talked to them on local. It all worked out. We repped the 4x4, drove on to find awesome gear and have played many good hours, since. Unfortunately, yesterday was the hacker attack, but for 4 days it's been good. Now we have a camp and vehicles with our found gear in it. I can feel your anger and frustration, since it's been the same with me. But once you get the hang of looting and moving stealthy. yet fast, in Dayz it becomes a lot easier to get equipped. Now I can even just take the most basic equipment and head for or camp or wait for pickup.

Same here, this is my own server, nearly 2 weeks old. I can see all the other vehicles have spawned in the logs, but no chopper yet..........

Some want PvP. Some want NO PvP. i want i want i want whaahhh whaahhh. Grow up and accept the fact that to please the majority of the players a balance needs to be achieved. To increase sales for when the stand alone is released, the game needs to appeal to everyone. So i say YES, let there be a PvP & a NO PvP option, why not? have them as seperate Official Hives. Somedays i like to play the good guy & somedays the bad guy. Having the option to play both would be great, Currently i can only play the bad guy on private hives due to private hives not saving humanity. On the official Hive my humanity is topping over +35,000, i love the hero skin so much i wont even pick up camo or ghilli clothes. My wish for the stand alone is that the zombies are so beefed up that surviving just them alone is dam near impossible, As it stands right now, zombies are weak as piss & the only threat in the world of DayZ are other players, and that makes me sad, i really thought this game was gonna be a realistic zombie apocolypse simulation where it was more likely players would jump at the chance to team up when meet another survivor, NOT shoot on sight. So how has it turned out? for most? run forest run, go solo, be lonely, shoot anyone you see, what a lonely & boring life that must be, id much rather make new freinds, create alliences, trade equipment, build bases and repair vehicles, but for that to work, the zombies need to be beefed up.

Same here, no heli since the update from 1.7.2.5 (when the server never saved the vehicles and made a rollback on every restart) to 1.7.2.6. Even a "friendly" hacker told, there is no heli on our server. So no heli in logs, no heli ingame, means there is no heli.. for 2 weeks (or more?). It's an issue the devs should take a look at (but they wont as it seems, they don't care as a lot of similar threads are open on the forum, but no reply from official side). Sad to know that the same support will be at standalone version. One reason not to buy it.

this is not the "cry to your momma" section if you lose your gear its your fault for hoarding weapons and vehicles. little crybaby hoarder

A lot will be changing about vehicles though - I'm assuming more of them and less fuel and why shouldn't people be allowed to camo their vehicles. To get around it people just park them at far edges where people never go. Camo would make people less cautious and park them where they'll actually be more likely to stumble across. A man in a ghillie Isn't impossible to spot.

Yes, use DayZ Commander and filter servers by searching "SurvivalServers.com Hive" The TC Admin setting applies the timezone to your host name but does not actually change the time zone. The DayZTools setting changes the time zone. No, that's not considered out of bounds. Out of bounds is outside of the "boundaries" of the map: Chernarus X -- minimum 0 maximum 14700 Chernarus Y -- minimum 0 maximum 15360 Lingor X -- minimum 0 maximum 10000 Lingor Y -- minimum 0 maximum 10000 There are 77 max spawn locations for Chernarus and 67 for Lingor Island at the moment. We intend to increase the amount of spawnable vehicles but it will take time since we have to manually locate ideal coordinates for each. No, you should schedule an automated restart at this time. TC Admin scheduled restarts run on GMT-7 time - same as DayZTools time. What do you mean by "the server shows an older version." How are you locating that information? Thanks!

Bad idea, vehicles needs to circulate. if you hive an ATV with camo it will be 100% impossible to find and not 90%

Hi! After a few weeks without helicopter on our server (and several other vehicles), we decided to do a complete serverwipe (Thanks to multigamer.no for the quick response and help on the matter). Now, after having wiped the server clean, gotten our new instanceID etc, it seems that the helicopter still doesn't spawn. We've checked all the other vehicle spawns, and all the vehicles are at their spawns, but not the helicopter (none of the spawnpoints!). Has anyone else experienced this? And what the hell is it that makes vehicles disappear and never reappear again? We've been without several vehicles for 2-3 weeks now, including but not limited to the GAZ, UAZ and the Ural. My worst fear is that it is some strange bug included in the 1.7.2.6-patch, but tbh I don't have the time nor skills to figure those things out. Thanks in advance for any replies! - dANIELZN

If someone could manage to make a DAYZ + ACE multiplayer server on a private hive? Some guy made the singleplayer DAYZ work with ACE, if someone could get MP working, Dayz would be epic, with better sounds, more/better weapons, and added vehicles from the ARMA ACE mod. The "some guy" I'm referring to:

Okies, been testing this afternoon. ATV flip worked fine for me to a point. Tried it twice no problem righting it again, then I picked up a guy (sirrat) and we flipped it again, when he tried to right it, ATV broke his leg and knocked him unconscious, amusing considering I assured him it was safe...heh, whoops. Just for fun I loaded sirrat onto the ATV while he was unconscious, but I noticed the option in the menu did not disappear after he got off, 'unload patient ep_v1' or something similar. I never knew you could kidnap unconscious folks in your vehicle, is this new? Next time I flipped, it was on a bridge, when I righted it, ATV disappeared. I looked under the bridge and there it was, on four wheels again. I checked 2 heli crash sites and there was very little loot. On both there was a loot pile inside the wreck of the chopper itself with nothing more than a bandage, soda and morphine. On one of the wrecks there was also only a single empty soda can, that spawned outside the fuselage. I am not sure how the loot spawn works on these but I made sure I parked my vehicle a long way off and walked up to the second one. Just gave my ATV to another guy just before logging, hopefully he has morphine handy, heh. Also, toolboxes are not that rare, I think needing one to repair vehicles would not be too much of a stretch. In fact, finding a vehicle and not having one would definitely drive the 'I need a goddamn toolbox adventure' quite nicely. Let me know if you want test data sent elsewhere, other than this thread. @BlindProphet you should be in the toolbox, cos you are a tool, and not a very sharp one at that.

A server having no people has nothing to do with whether or not vehicles will be in their spawn locations. Once they are moved, they stay where they are until blown up or moved again. Apparently, hackers like to toss the vehicles into the ocean which bugs them out.

It might help. But at the same time Ive noticed one thing that won't be stopped by it. What I used to do before giving up on vehicles was to shoot out the wheels before logging out. I kept and collected spare wheels and kept them in my pack before logging out. Problem was, players would find the vehicles and when they realize they couldn't drive them they would destroy them. Whilst keys would resolve the issue with players stealing vehicles easily and save me from having to shoot out my tyres, it wouldn't resolve the hackers who are griefing players by destroying their vehicles. Its the same issue in the end. I can't protect myself whilst Im not online. If this is a real simulator, when Im offline I would be resting or sleeping near or in my vehicle and theft would result in the death of either me or them.

More generally speaking, vehicles in real life are weaker. I mean hitting a human, or an animal at say 50km/ph can be pretty destructive for the car. (Who cares about the victim anyway :P)

Little things in the road that you should have no trouble going over IRL can sometimes cause MAJOR damage to vehicles. Is it possible there was something by the zombie in the road you didn't see? Me personally, I've never hit a zombie and had it damage the vehicle.

My only worry about flying is making it trivial to farm all 5 helicopter crashes within 30 minutes of server restart and making it very easy to spot player camps. I want to keep flight a bit rare. I'm thinking 1 big chopper and 2 small choppers would be the limit at any given time. That's already well above the "1 Huey per server" limit of vanilla DayZ. We'll see... I agree with you that helicopters are a ton of fun, though. A mechanic I'm considering adding is vehicle degradation to make it so no player/squad ever has a vehicle permanently, regardless how good they hide it. When that's added, I could see relaxing vehicles a bit. I haven't decided on the exact mechanic behaviors yet, but it would work by slowly "damaging" the car (the 0.0 to 1.0 damage value) as time goes on, and repairing things would not bring the damage below the slowly creeping value. Eventually, it just wouldn't come back after a certain point during the next server restart. A new action menu item would be available called "Inspect Vehicle" that would give you a non-specific generalization of its status "It looks like it has some decent life left in it" "It's showing signs of major wear and tear" "It looks like this vehicle may give out any day now". The degradation speed would be long enough to make repairing a vehicle just as worth while (2 weeks? No idea yet), but in its final days you would need to scout for a new vehicle if you wanted to keep one. I've got a lot of stuff up my sleeve, I just need to get it all coded out. Hopefully the server population starts to grow, as I'd enjoy working on this a lot more if people were enjoying the work being done. ;) So far, a decent start!

Looks promising. Would love to see a bigger variety of vehicles and non-lethal helis if possible - flying is the best part.

Yup, I have only ever found a vehicle at its spawn point two or three times in the last two months. I now normally find vehicles only by searching the entire map, but then usually just an ATV under a tree, a badly hidden white pickup or the odd bicycle. Never any boats except one time I found the boats on the west edge of the map in the forest!! Given that I reckon I know pretty much where all the tents are within the map on the server, I am pretty sure most vehicles are hoarded offmap somewhere in clan camps. Said clans probably have a helo too, as I never seem to keep vehicles for long, usually it is a matter of hours before they are stolen again...except for ATVs, bicycles and motorbikes which are very easy to hide.

Yeah I just realized that toolboxes are now useless in the mod while I was testing earlier today. I've tossed around the idea of simply requiring one to perform any sort of repair on a vehicle. Interesting idea though for using it on its own to fix something. I'd be worried about it just being able to give "free" repairs, though. I could see "consuming" the toolbox (under the premise it breaks) for an overall increase in the health of the vehicle. (Like players, vehicles have a damage value of 0 to 1. Consuming a toolbox to reduce the damage rating by 0.25 might work. Tools wouldn't break so readily though in the real world, so it seems like it might be a weird mechanic. I do quite like the thought of requiring one on hand to fix a vehicle. Combined with a bit more rarity and you'd have to protect your "engineer" (whoever has the toolbox) to make sure you can keep your vehicle purring. Thanks for the input.

Weird.. I've never had my vehicle hurt from hitting a zombie unless it was the bike. Have launched a lot of zombies with vehicles..

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I was driving my white offroad pickup truck in the middle of the road and a zombie ran in front of me...I ran over him, only to find my engine went red, the front right wheel blew out and the hull is red. Also, the windscreen exploded [all of it]. Why...

Quite happily testing tyvm. Can I suggest you find a good use for the toolbox (now that it is redundant in your mod), maybe fix a bike without parts? fix a flat tyre on a car? or maintain vehicles (fix the parts before they get red), that kind of thing.

So I've been playing Fallujah for a couple days now and I'm hearing all of this jazz about how many vehicles and stuff there are on the map. I've even seen screenshots with a plane, 2 helos and like 5 cars. Yet I haven't found any vehicles besides a glitched out Chinook and a blown up pickup truck, does anyone have any specific locations where vehicles spawn? I know it should be up to me to find this stuff but I'm not gettin any results on my own.