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Bicycles is where its at. They must be the most OP vehicle in the game. Almost silent. No Fuel required. Small target area. Easy to hide when not using it. 50kmh+ On Road. 30kmh+ Off Road. Top speed 92kmh downhill on the wilderness hills. I've lost 2 this week after hackers teleported all the vehicles on the server to one spot :( Would give my right arm for another bicycle :D

Just to say this, instead of people wanting the devs to make looting and surviving zombies as a fresh spawner up until you get some good gear - they should add something worth playing after you have the ultra gear, something that wouldn't make it boring, because you know you have all the loot, vehicles and killed alot of people and nothing else to do now.

Yeah we ran into him last night on UK333, a really stuck up punk, over confident little shit. I killed him once and a friend of my mine killed him when he teleported himself behind him. He then proceeded to basically screw our server, teleported me into a building and then killed me, killed all of the pubbies and crap, all vehicles gone etc,but nothing a restart can't fix. We talked to him for awhile and he said if we banned him he would just come back because he had "infinite" amount of keys. We banned him and he didn't come back after that we got his GUID and IP so we are reporting him eventually.

The only vehicles I would take over an ATV are the Escalade (Vilayer Hive) or the Huey, so much fun doing power-slides and very easy to flip back over once you know how.

you should probably do what I do. When ever I fix up a vehicle or just steal one I don't try to take the main roads as much because of players near by that could probably hear me around the area. Once you reach your location and park your vehicle just get out and go stand like 40+ meters away from it and hide yourself. Wait about 4-5minutes if no one comes over then you should be fine. I've had that happen to me where a player was following me who was near by the area (vehicles are ALWAYS SO LOUD). I got off the truck and went to put some stuff in before I head over to the town to loot some supplies and I see a player 150 meters away running towards me. Another incident I wasn't able to prevent the player from getting into the vehicle and he started driving away. I threw my grenade to blow up the vehicle and the player =). If I can't have it NO ONE CAN.

You know vehicles are bound to each server right? You would have to find someone from your specific server to trade with

If its an open public server then its probably hackers during the night teleporting all the vehicles to one location, sometimes its off the island. We have the exact same problem and no solution. Of course it could be just a respawn glitch.

In order to modify the map you need to modify pbo files outside of just the dayz server file. This means all your users would have to download that version and only play on your server. It is the same way if you want to add more kinds of vehicles. If you have some other way to make it work I would be shocked.

Hey there, we recently were given a new instance ID to fix some vehicle respawn issues (they weren't respawning). We got the ID last night and since then not a single vehicle has spawned on our server, not even at the locations were vehicles always spawn like the quarry on the coast etc. We've had 2 natural server resets and now 3 manual resets to try and fix this and nothing. Anyone got some hot tips on what is wrong?

1. Modern anti-material rifles are not anti-tank weapons. They are ineffective against modern armored vehicles. They are used for disabling vehicles such as technicals, equipment like generators, radar, comms, gun emplacements and other soft targets. 2. The proper way to balance them would be to make them use up far more inventory space (20 slots or more) or take up both the primary AND backpack slot, and give them enormous barrel swing when not being used from a prone position (you can't fire a 30lb rifle accurately without a bipod), and reduce running speed and eliminate sprinting. The damage is fine, I'm have no issue with being killed by a single shot from one.

If you only drive vehicles then you will miss out on the sweeping, beautiful world that BIS created - just like you missed out on it in Arma 2 (if you have it) because you drove everywhere. The views in the mornings after sunrise can be breathtaking, you crest a hill in the forest and you just have to stop what you are doing and admire it. Re the hoarding. Maybe we should start a thread sharing the Server name and GPS coordinates of vehicles (and tents) ? Or, now that vehicles have been 'fixed' in 1.7.2.6 then just take some Grenades along and blow the vehicles the fuck up. Alternatively, you can just do nothing because the hoarders use the vehicles as massive storage devices for all their hacked in weapons. So just take whatever you need, whenever you need it.

My group found 3 vehicles last night, fixed them up and put them out in the woods with stuff in them. I logged onto the server about 2 hours before restart, still there, logged in an hour after restart, vehicles completely gone. I havent tested many tents but they seem to not save stuff either. getting frustrating having to fix vehicles everyday, be nice to have it when the whole group gets together instead of spending 3 hours finding parts and vehicles again. wouldnt be so bad if tents would save stuff, could just store alot of parts. but neither seem to be working.

With choppers it's generally a group that has it, getting someone to fly down to pick you up is the opposite of a pain in the ass. Also for distance it's hard to say, depends how much the cheaters want their vehicles... Someone in my group found a pickup truck over 1km off map.

my vehicles have saved their inventories since the last update. the only downfall is they have no fuel after the server resets. keep a couple full jerry's around.

Well, I've been thinking about how we could improve the game and make way some suggestions for the standalone. They may not be a great but eh, give me your thoughts's. Banners: So we all like playing with our mates. We tell eachother to jump on and we go and kill some bandits and find some things we need. I think there should be a way to solidify the unity of your group, and be able to be a recognised group in the game. To achieve this, i think there should be banners for groups of people, or "clans". And players can set up a group and create a banner in the game, to signal to players who they are and what they do. I think we don't want to abuse it, so there should be a certain number cap of players allowed in a clan. But some perks of being in a clan would be like a clan storage unit, of food, drink, weapons and other things that are shared out. This banner should be displayed at a clan camp site, and have a patch on the vest of a player. More Creative Weapons: I think some new weapons should be added to the game, giving it a new feeling. I personally would'nt mind seeing a flame thrower in there, and maybe some more surprising ones like a chainsaw or nail gun. Alot like the interface on Dead Rising, Where basically anything you pick up can be used as a weapon. Different Ammunition: So for the weapons on DayZ there is default ammunition rounds for all weapons. I'd like to see some different ones, such as incindenary rounds, explosive rounds, full metal jacket rounds for better penetration to vehicles. More Realistic Combat Experience: The best part about DayZ is the realism of it, it's very detailed and life-like, unlike a lot of other games. We could touch up on this though, I think there needs to be more variation in the use of weapon's. I think this could be improved if there were random weapon jams, when you're in desperate need to fire upon an enemy or zombie, your weapon jammed up and you needed to meneuver your weapon to fix it. I'd also like to see more realistic weapon penetration. Weapons can easily penetrate plaster boards and other walls, and it would be great if you could do this in game too, as part of the deteriation of a building. It would also be great if weapon impact was improved on too; there is no way a man could just stay up if he got hit in the chest with a round of an m16 or AK47, if he had a bullet proof vest on he would be a least breathless, so it would be good when you make impact on another player, they would stumble, and have to wait a short amount of time to be able to aim and shoot properly again. Factions: I haven't thought too clearly on this one, but maybe there should be a class prefix? Like classes in games, such as farmers and residents and military and so forth. There should be no over powering on these classes though, so in no way should one class dominated by another, such as a military personell over a farmer; each class should get their own perks and flaws. Factions should also have appropriate skill's to their name, so they're needed by other players; such as military personell having combat training, and residents having survival training and so on. Bases: So i think in retrospect to the banner idea, player's and clans should be able to maintain a building as their own. Using locks and building surrounding structures such as scout towers and birds next turrets. Bases should also be above ground, but also underground. Tunnels could be used as bases, simalar to those used by the vietkong. Underground tunnel complexes would be a great way to escape an enemy chasing you, and be able to maintain a greater level of security. Traps: Another Idea i have thought of is more dynamic traps. This could be a skill incorperated into the game, but it would be great; Setting up traps such as spike pits and Land mines and being able to create your own. The idea's some people would come together with would be amazing, and it would take lot's of creativity. Thats it for now, but just tell me what you guys think. No hate plz

as above. all our medical supplies and weapons (6 tents in all) have just vanished after a server restart. Ural still has all our gear we couldnt fit in the tents still saved so yes vehicles save and tents do not.

Yep, the game's not even feature-complete yet, much less polished. What we have here amounts to a proof-of-concept, a test of the basic mechanics of what will (hopefully) turn into a game in the future. It's a lot of fun, but complaining about things like hacking, server stability, control variances and even core play mechanics like tents and vehicles not working correctly is a fool's errand. There's a list of things to do as long as your arm, and a list of things to fix that goes for miles and grows every day. Either get comfortable with the game not working right, or stop trying to play it until the full, complete version is released.

We see the wrecks of vehicles every where in dayz i think they should all be repairable but the more broken cars should be very very hard to repair, e.g the cars with broken axles, engine blocks and other important things should be very hard to repair but still possible. and when i say hard to repair i mean so hard that everyone doesn't have a vehicle.

I have on occasion engaged in some of this activity. Mostly I have become bored running around looking for vehicles/repairing them and having them disappear on the next server reset. So at times I resort to sniping the unwary in Elektro and or Cherno. I suppose I could take more time and identify whether or not those people are actually armed or not but usually they are too far away for me to actually figure it out. (Sniping with a AS-50 from quite some distance.) I actually do feel bad for some of them, but there is an entertainment value to it. We have also all had the same thing happen to us at some point I am sure. A little payback in game never hurt anyone. My guiltiest of pleasures has to be sniping a guy with a full load-out and then waiting the 45 minutes it took him to return to his corpse and hitting him again. Horrible I know, but... such is DayZ

Anyone else had this problem ? Is it Ghillie Suit related ? Did you guys have Ghillies ? This patch has so many more cons than pros - basically it is a patch that legitimises weapons hoarding by fixing tents and vehicles. Nothing else on this patch is worth losing the infinite bullets exploit for.

That's a good suggestion, but in reality is really a poor workaround. The problem is that there are people who play the game and aren't sitting around camping server resets for a chopper. I want to be able to find a broken car within a couple towns so that I can move inland. It's crazy that there are no vehicles on the entire coast and I'm the only person on a server for two hours. I thought that was the whole point of having crappy broken vehicles in town - it made the game more realistic: get food, drink, weapons, supplies... find a vehicle... get the eff out of the big cities. Isn't that the plan for most survivors?

Grab the chopper and go vehicle hunting! It'll be on Skalisty Island right after your server restarts. Try this if you like (having a friend will make it many times easier): 1) Find a tent (grocery store, apartments) 2) Find a boat (on the shore) 3) Take the tent to Skalisty island via boat and set it up. 4) Collect a main rotor assembly, 3x scrap metal, and put it in the tent. 5) Collect at least 6 full jerry cans and put them in the tent. 6) When the server restart warning appears, haul ass to Skalisty. 7) When the server restarts, take your parts and repair the chopper, then pour all your jerry cans into it. Throw the empties in the chopper. 8) Fly to (132, 99), refill jerry cans, fill up chopper, rinse/repeat. 9) Go vehicle hunting and note the locations of the ones you find! Might sound complicated, but this is currently the best way to find vehicles.

Even if you find a way to get the vehicles out of the Clan hands, it doesnt stop the hackers who just teleport the vehicles to themselves. Sick of finding boats inland.

Hoarding resources like weapons, tents, ammo, food, etc. is fine, because they respawn constantly. In fact, it makes sense to have stashes of food and such around the map, but with only like, 12 vehicles or some garbage, it becomes increasingly annoying to have these very few items taken off to the far reaches of the map and sit there unused, while people who actually play the game can't get to them.

This is getting out of hand. I cannot for the life of me find a single vehicle that hasn't been grabbed by a clan and stashed away at the north and western edges of the map. I don't really care what the solution is, but something has to be done about this. We can't just rely on server resets to solve this issue. I propose that vehicles degrade over time, a very small amount for the first hour or two after a player exits the vehicle, and then exponentially over the next hour or two until the vehicle despawns, dropping all stored equipment. All we have now is a huge sh*tshow of clans camping vehicle spawns after server resets, and those of us who actually play the game, need some way to get the heck off of the coast without wasting hours of time walking through forest and starving to death.