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hi all, is this server able to save vehicles after server restart?

Does the entrenching tool actually work? I've been able to build sandbox-hinders without it, and I don't see any other use for it. Wouldn't it be more appropriate if you needed empty sandbags + entrenching tool + a pile of sand (eg. at the beach) to fill the sandbags, and then had to haul them to wherever you needed to place them? Is it possible to actually cut barbed wire? I've seen it everywhere, but I have yet to find any wire cutters (they must be super rare), I wasn't able to cut the wires with a toolbox (which I guess is only used for repairing vehicles). Regardless, barbed wire-syndrome seem to be omni-present, people are using them as a means to block entrances to buildings rather than setting up defensive positions, and with every zombie having noclip, you can't block zombies off either. Beyond the obvious explanation (this is alpha, etc.) - is this the intended use for these items? Or is there something I just haven't figured out yet?

I second this. People make come as being arrogant when they nitpick on your spelling, grammar and syntax but you must not take it as a personal attack. Especially not by replying in an off-topic manner to your own topic to try and "show them who's boss". It's something to make a typo or to misspell a certain word repeatedly, it's another altogether to write lik dat and expect people to try and figure out the quirks and specifics of what amounts to your own personal language. So, to be on topic: ->Zombie spray; No ->Customizable vehicles (pimping); might be cool (note that "being cool" can often be detrimental to your survival, hence, contrary to the direction DayZ and the coming standalone might try to take) ->More store specific loot like hunting gear or military surplus shops; Good idea. Needs balance (you need to learn about loot tables). ->Military convoy "crash sites"; so, the equivalent of an helicopter crash site but low-med level military grade loot? Cool. ->Player customization screen; considering you think it would be more fun to play dress-up OUTSIDE of the game itself, I'd shoot down your idea if it ever came up on the board (and I had a say into what goes and what gets cut away) ->Kevlar and armor vests don't work the way you think. Look into them and come talk again. ->Better melee system; knocking out zombies instead of being lethal (and loud) or simply pushing them pack (without affecting them). Sort of a good idea. It really changes how DayZ/The Standalone would play. No objection but not in favor. ->Zombie hungry, zombie heard sound, sound mean food, food mean zombie no hungry no more... run away from food? I suggest you read into zombie logic. Check you local library and ask where the Undead section is. P.S. Did someone ever tell you how horrid your phrasing itself is?

I hope 1.7.3 will fix disappearing tents and vehicles. Nothing more. New features? I can wait for it month or two. And yes, ban all damn hackers! btw, guys, read news on home page - my glitches gone ;)

I am alive for almost 50 dayz (check my sig, and hell yeah i am proud of it...), in that time went to Cherno, Electro NWa, Balota NI a...and saved some ppl with broken bones, gave few blood packs, got some vehicles (i actually avoid driving in vehicles, feel very vulnerable) gathered many vehicle parts, build many camps...but yes mostly I played on server with 10-30 players and important is no 3dp (no 3dp is the key for long surviving coz on those servers u have less sniper kiddies...), and i never go to Cherno just to shoot at players, and i never go to any hot spot if i don’t make recon, go around more times to scout and see if anyone is there, checking every bush/tree where someone could be hiding, avoiding shooting at ppl /not showing where i am/ ...and still i have 3 murders and 2 bandit kills (BKs not showing in the debug monitor but they are confirmed)..i shoot only if i cant avoid other players, or when i spot other players and i am in a Inferior position i will do the kill... When i go through the forest i run from tree to tree, bush to the bush...don’t run like a dog around without checking surroundings’ 360 all the time. On almost 50 dayz only one or two times i have been spotted before i could spot other players, but even than i had some sniper cover and got out only with broken bones and lost cca 5k of blood... in those 50 DayZ i have seen or followed like 20 groups of 2 and more players that were just running through the woods (once a 3 man group missed mi in the woods between cherno and Balota for 20m and they didn’t see me...I could take them out with my DMR but i am not a killer i am a lover... But that also means that i need much more time to get from one part of the map to the other... At the end i think, it is a Mather of decisions, do u wont to kill other players, do u play surviving game or COD...no one cant say that i am not an Active player, in those 50 dayz i think had only 2-3 days that i dint play DayZ, and when i play a play around 3-4 h, weekends even more if i have the time... Alt+f4: i did once abort when infected broke my legs after i had that awful glitch when u first spawn "dead" and next time u spawn on the coast without any gear not even a backpack, i was pissed off and frustrated without any gear trying to get to my body near Zub Castle, and in one occasion aborted in NWa coz suddenly i got the graphical glitches so i didn’t had a chance to defend myself, was just to stupid way to die... Hackers: once teleported to thunderdome, disconnected right away, once lost all my gear due hackers but ok, they changed all the gear to AS50 and m4 SD, full ammo load, but lost all my food and medical supplies, once they played "duel" with me through out the woods (damn i got scared this time, running in the woods near Stary and suddenly a car with headlights turned on spawns in front of me...), and once i hacker spawned near me in the forest trying to talk to me but I disconnected.. Yes it is possible, just be patient in the game… and of course u need some luck Oh yes, I play the exact same way on low pop servers as on high pop server, even if there are only u and just one player on the server there is a possibility that you too will meet somewhere.. GL&HF

I currently am kitted out with the following : (All the tools, for simplicity sake) G36C SD CAMO (9 mags, but it uses STANAG SD, so no worries) AS50 TWS PDW SD (5 Mags, but uses 9mm SD mags) Soldier skin in the tent, currently in Ghillie but i'm also Hero skin. I used to hate hacked weapons and I used to be a supporter that this shit should be banned off a server but then I said, why? Hackers will bring this stuff in constantly and it will never be taken out of Arma 2 because it's a weapon in the main database. What people fail to realize is that THIS IS A MOD OF ARMA 2. WHICH MEANS THE WEAPON DATABASE IS AVAILABLE IN THIS GAME REGARDLESS OF IT BEING DAYZ. Arma is a heavily modable(sp) game and thus allows this stuff to be brought in. No I want you to note, I do not advocate hacking or scripting rather in this game nor do I support these weapons being given out, but I will use it. Just like I use everything else I come across I am gonna use these rifles until I die. Then when I die (not if, when) I will go back to the coast and grab some randoms shit and start all over, it's the way of the game. I don't care if the weapon comes into the game, they don't make you a god because unless the person is hacking then they can be killed. What bothers me are the people who say 'Oh you use a hacked in weapon, you're just as bad as a hacker!' because you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. I'm not as bad as a hacker because the hacker scripted these items into the game, I just blew the back of his head off and looted the item just like I would anyone else I saw with a bandit skin. The big difference between me and a hacker for having these weapons is I didn't cheat to get them. Now if you want to play the pot meet kettle game let's talk about how most of the people in this thread have had their ammo reload on them while logging in and out. Accidental duplication of gear, backpacks when switching skins and all the other easy to recreate bugs that are in this game, are bugs and exploits. We all do them, we're almost all guilty of it, so thus does this make us all cheaters? Taking stuff out of tents now that 2.5 doesn't save tents vehicles? Getting off bikes to completely repair them and getting back in? Yeah, we all cheat in one form or another.

in 360+ hrs of gameplay ive only found 2 vehicles ! a bus and ute

Maybe there should be a stickied known bugs list somewhere? All this time, i thought someone kept stealing my vehicles. I have had about 2 PBX, 5 ATVs and a few cars, but i can't seem to keep them for more than a day.

Sad to say it is the latter, no traces whatsoever in logs. Now a freshly spawned player with full loadout is a dead give away, but when you are gettin like 10 of these cheaters an hour it sucks. And they don't spawn stupid crap either, just items within DayZ parameters, so unless you activly looking at each new player in the db you might miss it and if somone been playing for 5min then you can't really be sure they havent gotten their stuff legit :( Well doesn^'t matter I just wanted to make sure I hadn't fucked something up, not that i thought so cause im still gettin a few bans in on stupid skiddies who try to spawn all kinds of vehicles/artillery and really stupid stuff. ^^

[PpH] Frostycrotch was banned. He uses ESP and teleportation. He's actually a nice guy since he teleported one of my member around. I didn't even know hacks could teleport vehicles and players. Oh well. He uses ESP to kill and teleport to move. Anywho, i was going to ban him but i asked Ryahn first, since he's the one who's experienced and the HFB employee, and he banned him himself. No one can shoot me because i'm always camping and doing administrative duties. You only killed me cause you used ESP to shoot at me behind a hill. You killed 5 of our members using ESP. You also combat log when you get shot. PS: That base was moved a while ago. Welcome to go visit the empty place though.

I am currently on 12 days, my longest character so far, me and a friend have been playing together, looted Stary about 3 or 4 times and found 2 crash sites in the area around there, so doing pretty well on the survival side, got everything we need to survive in the wild, just really looking for Gillie suits (we have the normal camo's on) and vehicles now really, gonna hit up the NW airfield for the first time to see what we can get.

Vehicles in DayZ are hard to conceal, temperamental and scripters can summon them all to their location at any moment. The first day I found a vehicle I want on to find a heli and a bus hours later by using it. I then promptly crashed the chopper due to misjudging how much gas was needed, returned to my ATV and flipped it within 60 seconds. Then I tried to take the bus only to get it wedged solidly between two barricades in a major city. I found a car yesterday and fixed it up entirely, hid it well and today the server is offline for some mysterious reason. Easy come, easy go. Do not get attached to your gear. The funny thing is the more you lose stuff the harder you have to work to find more gear and in turn the better you get at attaining gear. If you stick with it you will soon be up to your balls in guns and rides. The only way you can really fail to be is by staying in Cherno or Elektro all the time.

Yes I was as well so I can second that. He started with dropping almost the whole server from the sky. I just left that server because of him. He also did something to delete all the tents because my tents were gone after someone asked him to(to delete all the tents not just mine). What I dont understand is why most of the people on that server were treating him with respect. *started around 4PM Perth time, I left about 4:30 from being sick of hearing his voice in side chat. He said he took all the vehicles and spawned them in one place and sounded like he was driving around with many others.

All of you guys laughing at the OP.... shame on you. As odd as it seems, this is a simple misunderstanding of information in text. It's not the OP's fault that the description is vague - and it's VERY vague. I was also confused by the backpack/weapon slot meaning on vehicles until I asked someone who had experience with such things, and they cleared it up for me. Although I didn't think a sedan would fit into a backpack that can only hold a dozen cans of beans. I'll clarify for everyone who may be unsure or unaware (Please do note, however, this information is strictly observatory, based on my own experiences, and my interpretation of information): Some vehicles (not all) have extra capacity ("slots") in addition to normal item slots. These are weapon slots and backpack slots. In conjunction with item slots, this makes up the total amount of storage in a vehicle. For example, let's use the UAZ since I'm quite familiar with it. The UAZ has the following capacity: 50 item slots 10 Weapon slots 2 Backpack slots* *The wiki page says 2 backpack slots, but I have 5 backpacks in mine, so I'm not sure how that works out, lol. This means that you can have 50 cans of beans, 10 M107's, and 2(+?) Alice Packs (Or M136 launchers, as they take up backpack slots instead of Weapon slots - SO I HEAR!) inside the storage area of your UAZ. If you overfill the capacity, look on the ground around the vehicle (It will be a bit farther away than you might think, it's about 2-3 meters away) and the excess will be laying around. PLEASE: If I'm wrong about this, and you can show some kind of proof, please do correct me. I'm currently not able to get to my UAZ atm as the server it is on is currently not operational due to some technical difficulties.

I've lost so many vehicles near the ural spawn I've lost count. My offroad pickup hurt the most, give lingor a try before leaving for good. It is more casual playing legit since there are military spawns all over the map.

Yesterday I was running across the northern boundary of the map looking for camps and vehicles when a hacker teleported me into the heart of Cherno. Actually worked out pretty sweet because my housemate had just spawned nearby, so I ran around with him popping zombs with my M4 while he geared up. Even so, all hackers should be put to sleep (gassed).

Vehicles have storage capacity of varying sizes, that may have been what they were referring to. Some of them can also hold a certain amount of backpacks in addition to other types of items.

Someone by the name of Fraser openly admitted to using scripts to both; kill all of the people on the server and spawn vehicles. I don't necessarily have proof, as I wasn't able to take a screen shot, however, there are bound to be others who were on the server at the time when he was scripting.

I know this is a weird question but on the dayz wiki there's a bag capacity size for vehicles. Does that mean you can put a vehicle in your backpack? I didn't figure you could but thought I'd ask before I laughed it off.

Update: - ArmA2OA Beta Patch: 96493 - Server side fix for tents and vehicles. Now saving!!!

The "thrill of death," aka the 10 minutes it would take me to re-gear sans tent? How about the thrill of fighting other groups to keep your vehicles and tents secure? Because I found that to be the feature that kept many people playing. I, and most end-game players, can grab gear from a coastal city in no time flat, it's just not even a factor in our gameplay. How many tents do you see stocked with backpacks, compasses, binoculars, matches, etc? You don't, b/c end-game players literally just pick it up within 30 seconds of spawning.

i think everyone has to still figure out the pros and cons. For example, a hero(humanity +5000) runs significantly faster then a bandit. If you travel large distances without vehicles i think this is a great advantage worth considering not being a bandit

I agree but I think the more important things should be concentrated on first. Such as vehicle/tent saving, loot saving in those vehicles. Soon as servers restart the 6 hours you put in to getting a helicopter up by yourself is gone in a flash. I could careless about AS50 Thermals, hell I think they should be put in at a very low spawn percentage. That gun is awesome and fun as hell to use. People still have to aim and shoot with it. With most players on DayZ accuracy isnt common haha. Definitely work on the major bugs first. I definitely wont be putting much time or effort into this game until I am able to roll down the dangerous streets of Cherno in my bus with all my gear without losing it to a server restart. Should be losing it to a bandit. But for now I think Ill go back to my console game until the next update. Ive put way to much time into these servers to keep losing stuff. If I do play Ill be the douche bag sniping people from rooftops and forests not even to loot your body or steal your gear. Just for the simple pleasure of killing noobs that are actually trying to put cars together.

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HI, yesterday me and my friends were playing on a server. About 2min before a hacker connected me and my friend disconnected(one was still playing). The hacker threw everyone in the air and most ef them died. The server also had a restart about 30 minutes before. everything was fine, we went to our tent by car. disconnected safely. and then 2 min later the hacker occured. But before the server thrown in the air, my other friend who was riding a motorbike just died as if he was in debug zone all of a sudden. Now when i log on, our car is gone too and so are our tents. But there is no left overs of the tent, no crushed tent thing. Is it possible a hacker can teleport tents and vehicles too? or just erase them all?