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Will it only appear on vehicles?

like i said check after two resets... I parked a heli on a roof it poofed after reset and then after another reset it came back. I also noticed it happened to the PBX's i saved on three different other servers. Granted the heli is not working like other vehicles, but the PBX sure is imo :thumbsup:

Helicopters are primarily for transportation. You can go end-to-end on the map within a minute or two because of speed and the fact that you can take a direct route vs. up and over hills, around trees/obstructions, etc. The M240s mounted on the doors are of extremely limited use and really only best as suppressive fire. The desync issues in vehicles make the guns only able to be used about 75% of the time (the other 25% it looks like you're flying into the ground to the gunners). At reasonable speed to avoid the average sniper's fire, the M240s are incredibly difficult to hone in on a target. To get a good shot at a target with them you have to slow to speeds and keep a steady heading that make it fairly trivial for someone to snipe door gunners. If someone in the trees has an AS50 or M107, it doesn't take much at all to drop a chopper. THe other day a choper flew around in Cherno. They were over 1km out from my position and I couldn't see them due to whether (but could hear them). They coincidentally ended up trying to egress the city almost directly over me. I fired a few rounds of my AS50 into the chopper (aiming for the main rotor area) and dropped that thing like a rock even though they were going about 200km/h by then. Helicopters are a lot of fun to play with, but it also adds a layer of responsibility. They are much more difficult to hide given you need a reasonably sized FLAT clearing to land them. This makes them easer to spot by far as compared to ground vehicles/tents. The places you hide them generally mean if you lose it to someone you're in for a LONG hike back. I would love to see the addition of a very small capacity transport only (no mounted guns) helicopter that is more plentiful (2-3 per server) for the standalone.

If it's like my server, vehicles are not saving. So it's probably back in it's starting spawn point.

We've had more responses and good feedback so far - anyone else want in please Email us. We've even left some fixed up vehicles around the map for you guys cos we're nice like that :)

Hacker teleported every vehicle on my server last night to the north of Cherno, unfortunatley for him i was in the legit chopper with my crew, when we landed next to him and got out, he lasted all of about 5 seconds, got killed then banned, so we put a server wide message up telling everyone on the server that all the vehicles were there and to help themselves. (after we got rid of all the hacked and duped gear of course!) Never felt better to be honest!

Hey guys, I was just placing some guns in my tent earlier when i realised that they were disappearing. I read up on the internet what the maximum number of tent slots there are, and it said 53. Alright. However, when i went back in game, i counted the amount of slots the gear and guns in my tent would have taken up, and it was well over 53 (i had 6 guns with a lot more other gear, which definitely amounts to over 60 slots). This concerns me, as it seems that the Wiki is wrong on this point, and i still don't know the true number of slots in my tent. If anyone knows the true amount of slots available in tents (and vehicles if you know), please could you tell me? Thanks :)

Pretty much this. Also, only the ATV has issues with bridges. I regularly hoon across bridges at 100kph on my motorbike and nothing ever happens. Also, the motorbike and pushbike are the best vehicles in the game. pushbike has 0 storage space, but self repairs. It's silent, extremely fast on and off road, but very fragile. The motorbilke has AMAZING fuel economy, goes upwards of 50 offroad, sometimes up to 70 on grass and up to 100kph on a bitumen road. It only has 5 storage slots, though.

Yep, upon server restart vehicles got teleported back to their "original" position in their "original" state (e.g. they had to be repaired again and all loot gone)

Hey, 08.30.2012 hacker spawned all sort of vehicles near Airstrip Balota and teleported most of current players. I had some luck in this because I was biking while I got teleported, so I left the place immediatly. After a minute or two, admin decided to ban everyone online. (5-15players) My friend who was in skype and in the same server shares the story. I hope you can do something about this. Regards Tom

Hi guys, i would know if have tips to do not capsize the ATV. And a vehicle with the fuel icon yellow this means the he will loose fast gas?

+_1 beans to this guy and Op, i cannot tell you how lame this thread is. You play on a private hive (lawl) to hoard gear and vehicles off the map? clearly people just don't understand what Dayz is meant to be about.

How about this: Downgrade to 1.7.2.4, get all vehicles into a camp, fill it with goodies. Then save everything and update to 1.7.2.5 and voila, you now have a camp that cannot be destroyed cause everything will reset back after a restart. The hive is fucking you? well fuck it right back.

Guys I will only say it one more time. Downgrade your server to 1.7.2.4 then all your issues with vehicles and tents will be solved! I also don't like that new updates are slow, that devs don't talk to us and so on. But there is one really easy solution. Downgrade! Or maybe I should say UPgrade to 1.7.2.4. If you stay on 1.7.2.5 you will keep whining and nothing will be solved. You will have to wait for a real patch. And who knows if the next patch fixes anything. This one didn't. Hell they didn't even test this patch for 5 minutes and yet they released it. And all you dumb folks immediately goes on to be the best in class and upgrades your servers to a shitty version. Downgrade and have fun while waiting for a good patch. Problem solved.

I love solution one, or POSSIBLY even two. Not three though, seems a bit weird. Because, at the end of the day, there's one massive and unfixable flaw in DayZ which takes away from the realism. The fact we cannot be online 24/7. In real life, we do not simply log off and come back on later. In real life, groups would take shifts and similar to guard vehicles/tents and make sure they aren't spotted. Since this is virtually impossible to do in DayZ unless someone somehow never leaves the computer for several days, we do need to implement some sort of unrealistic (possibly) feature to counter our offline status. However, I think simply digging a hole and making it look similar but not identical to the surrounding area would be a brilliant idea. It's perfectly feasible and realistic, and means we don't have to shove our vehicles in bushes and trees - who would do that!? - to prevent them from being discovered. Shower of beans!

Yes, I'd love to spend a week getting all my rare gear and vehicles back, it's such fun having all my work wiped off like a clean slate. /sarcasm off, hackers will have their stuff back in minutes. Enough said.

pretty sure the last three updates broke gillies, broke tents, broke vehicles, caused artifacting, caused stuttering, broke and re-fixed zombies two or three times... these are pretty good indications it isn't exactly practical to even move seriously forward with the mod at this point when the standalone is in production. It's like patching a ship and having another hole pop up next to it. Be thankful he's spending any time on it at all.

You can install this quick patch to have guns firing out of your vehicles: patch is here

Considering how lame vehicles are implemented right now, I could not bother less if all the vehicles on all the servers were hoareded off the map.

I wish we could shoot out of vehicles? I REALLY want to make a bandit bicycle gang XD

no, no. i mean the tents are completely gone, not empty they dont stand there were we placed it. that the tents and vehicles dont save ur equipment that u put in after a server restart is another bug that should be fixed at the beginning of september 2012, i hope so they will.

Third time poster, long time lurker! :D Was curious if there are any medics out here interested in having in-game custom profile info (press P while playing) and medic logo (also appears on some vehicles)? There aren't very many people who's using squad.xml's and I thought it would be nice to see more people with them, especially medics considering they can all use the same logo. While you can host your own XML I'd be willing to add people from this forum. The only downside is you can't edit the info or change your name, but I can update them on request. Here's what the logo would look like. If anyone wants to make a better one, be my guest. I'll use it instead. I'm still running into transparency issues or it not loading at all (it loads my old logo instead). Does ARMA load png files or does it have to be 'paa'? Now to add your information. For security reasons, please PM me these details! Example: Player ID = 654984154 (fake) Player Name = Spaceghost (CASE SENSITIVE!) First Name = Real Name or Whatever Email or Custom Info = My Steam Community Info, My Email, TinyURL to DayZ Forum, Etc. IM Info (MSN, Skype, ICQ, ETC) = TS Server: 84.125.10.11 Quote, witty remark, etc = Don't murder me, bro! To find your player id, go to the main menu, then click player profile, then click edit. You will then add the URL that I provide into the box shown above. URL (enter this exactly): http://www.djcyphers.com/dayz/medic/squad.xml If everything goes right, you'll have your custom info and medic logo in game! Not to mention there are certain vehicles that will display the logo for others to see. The URL will not work until I enter your data in first and upload the finished squad.xml! Changing your name will cause the logo to disappear, but your custom info will stay intact. Please be patient as I add people and make changes to the list. Any help/ideas is appreciated, including your beans! :beans:

The fact that you do this is disgusting to me. The fact that you use a zone of the map that was never intended for play in order to secure yourself and your buddies vehicles and weapons is basically destroying any chance of others enjoying themselves in your server. The game was designed so that vehicles were not something you kept and hoarded forever. They were high value, difficult to fix, and easy to steal. It's a rewarding feeling when you're traveling through the woods and find someone's well hidden UAZ stock piled with guns. The chance is low and that luck and, for the other player, bad luck are all part of the game. Gain and loss. But you chose to destroy that. You remove all risk. It's part of the game, losing your stuff, your vehicles, having to start fresh without a place off in the middle of nowhere so you can call up your pals and say "Hey, fly over with the Heli we've had for month that no one else has gotten to fly and bring me back to camp so I can get my AS50 and L85 back." While not technically a place that players can't get to, those of us who play with the idea of staying true to the game and its intended design will not be wandering thousands of miles in the middle of nowhere just to see if someone set up a camp out there. By doing this, you are destroying the playing experience of everyone else on your little "private hive" server. I'm sure everyone else loves having no vehicles to find or enjoy while you hoard them all in your "safe zone" running around fully geared no matter what happens to you. I'm glad you play an a private hive actually. See you never, friend.

Problem: You're inexperienced Solution: Play the game The next time you spawn in, I suggest you grab a hatchet as soon as you can and head to Cherno or Elektro. Break into a hospital and grab as much morphine, bandages, and painkillers as you can carry (make sure you have enough room for food and water, of course.) Get the hell away from there and head to the Balota Airstrip (west of Cherno) and loot the hangers and control tower. If you're feeling brave, go into the army camp that you'll see just before the airstrip and take whatever you can from the towers. Head north from Balota, following the main road (stay inside the treeline with the road in your sight at all times) until you reach the next town. You'll run directly into a supermarket where you can find everything else you need to survive, but sometimes the supermarket is a bit glitchy (there will be, literally, nothing inside it.) Look around town until you find a canteen and then head back to the market if it was glitched to check up on it. If it's still glitched, I recommend that you change servers simply because this is a glitch that you cannot fix and can be a real nut punch later. Get offline, do something else for an hour, then get back on. If it's glitched on that server too then fuck it- you've got better things to do. At this point, it's best that you loot barns and other farm areas for equipment you'll need to make a fire so you can cook meat (in all, you'll need matches, a hunting knife, and a hatchet) from the animals you hunt. Keep moving around but try to stay north while hunting deerstands until you find a good military grade weapon such as the Mk Mod 0. Do not, I repeat, do not use an AK or a Lee Enfield unless you like dying. A Lee Enfield will kill anything you hit, but there's a reason it's called the Dinner Bell. The AK takes three shots to bring down a zombie- you don't want that for what you're about to do. You want an Mk Mod 0 because you get 100 rounds per mag and it takes down zombies in one hit. Go to the nearest castle and loot the fuck out of that place, but be warned: players will often hang out there. I recommend that you be on a low population server unless you're willing to risk your ass. Hopefully you'll get something useful (a map, a tent, binoculars, etc.) If you don't have a tent, get on over to the NW Airfield and loot the shit out of that place until you have one. Go tot he DayZWiki to see how to get there and not get a bullet to the skull. Find a remote(ish) location and set up your camp. It's best if you find a place near some bushes or other terrain that would make it hard to spot from multiple directions unless you were to walk directly on top of it. There's one place in a field near Balota that would be perfect, but the problem is that there is no marking terrain (it's a huge fucking field) that will help you figure out where your camp is once you set it up. This problem is rectified by finding a GPS. Above all else, you'll probably need NVGs. However, you'll probably get killed trying to find them. This is why I suggest you make a camp first- you probably won't lose everything. Put away all but the most basic equipment (you'll only need beans, bullets, and band-aids) and begin searching for a helicopter crash site. Try to find a low population server that restarted not too long ago; otherwise you only increase the odds that a (skilled) sniper will take you out. As stated earlier, be able to look out for subtle clues that indicate player presence- zombie spawns and dead bodies. If you ever come across a dead body, get down and head to the nearest treeline. Take your binoculars (or sniper rifle, if you found one) and search everywhere for the tell-tale signs of a sniper. Set your view distance as far as possible and put shadow detail on high. You should watch out for any movement- poor snipers will search for targets via their scope, thus causing their gun barrel and legs to move. A smart one will use freelook and so only their head will move (and just barely at that.) Above all else, you need to develope a KoS attitude. When you're in the North, the concept of "friendly" goes out the window. Their survival means more to them than yours- you need to adopt the same attitude. You don't have to kill everyone you see, but I strongly recommend that you kill anyone who is coming towards you (even if they don't see you) or is dangerously close to your camp. Don't kill someone who is in the general area of the camp- they'll know you're in the area and may come looking for you, and then may stumble upon it! Whenever you do kill, hide the bodies. It doesn't matter if it's an animal, a zombie, or a player. As far as you're concerned, only a player will cause the death of anything. Other players will have a similar attitude and you can expect they'll be looking out for bodies as well, so you need to hide them once you have what you need. Be on the lookout for zombies in random places- except for towns, castles, and deerstands, zombies will not spawn in the wilderness. If you see a lone zombie wandering about, then there's a good chance that a player just escaped them. I recommend that you head the opposite direction because you're unlikely to find the person and there's no use in risking getting seen- he'll probably be checking his back every now and then and may catch a glimpse of you. This leads to the most important thing of all: observe your surroundings. Abuse the freelook system- you're going to need it to survive. Maintain situational awareness by checking the area beside and behind you, or you may get a nasty surprise if you log out near your camp. I recommend that you don't keep more than one or two vehicles (if any), and I still recommend that you keep them away from your camp. Motorcycles get more leniancy because you can hide them near bushes. I also recommend that you keep spare parts- you never know when an invisible wall will take out your wheel. Personally, I don't even bother with vehicles at all. They make wonderful targets (it's hard to miss a fucking wall) and are zombie magnets. You can, however, troll people in Cherno and Elektro by honking your horn while driving slowly through the streets. Overall, just use your common sense. If you get killed it's probably because you were negligent, but that's okay- you learn every time you die. The biggest lesson you can learn is to not get attached to your items. No matter how cautious you are, you will eventually die and your camp will eventually be discovered. That's why, when I log out, I make sure I have my most valuable items on me (since no one can steal from your backpack if you're not in the game) if I can carry them. I also recommend that you go prone in the treeline near some bushes before you log out. You never know if someone will be waiting by your campsite. I hope that all of this helped!

I created a Lingor Island server with ace and acex_sm installed. Running smooth but need more people to test it. west coast players preferred as the server is in oahu, HI. Ping might not be showing correctly but west coast users should get around a 90 ping. come to the website http://dayzoahu.webs.com and register and head to the forums to get the links for the mod. hope to see u there. Trying to find bugs and work them out before i share my configuration with others. also read the faq because it changes alot of things in the game. also doubled the amount of zombies that will spawn around you. Thanks. PS - This is a private hive so all character data is saved locally. 24/7 Daytime 62 vehicles DayZOahu.webs.com Lingor Island V034 w/ACE and ACEX_SM Mod 1.13.522 (registration required)1.7.2.5/96476