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You should ask rocket to make a mod on top of the day-z mod, it can be filled with heaps of military vehicles and the whole point to it is to killed opposing players. I would like to suggest the name ARMA 2 for this day-z mod.

I've been playing for what I think is over 3 months now. Largely as a lone player who seeks variety in my evening of gaming. I've trekked the entire length of the map just to see what a town looks like, have set myself personal challenges and yes, unfortunately, have also sat in a bush with a sniper rifle waiting for some poor unsuspecting player to wander into my sights. I enjoy the thrill of potentially being seen though and an happier with an assault rifle so wander most frequently between Stary, Vybor and NWAF. This is all only said to paint the picture on my chances of finding rare items, versus time spent looking versus actual rate of finds. So, in 3+ months now I've found only 1 ghillie suit, am yet to find a single max-slot backpack, haven't seen a range finder, don't have a clue what a pair of NVG's look like and have only been on 2 working vehicles: a bike and a tractor. I guess these items are supposed to be rare but is this my luck taking the Mickey just a touch?

I've been led to believe that tents are incredibly unreliable at holding loot though, vehicles seem to be the only option?

Depends on the server. I used to play with a clan and the amount of action that happened with bases was insane. I honestly don't bother with vehicles, they are too big a target. If your going to make a "base" I seriously wouldn't put more than one tent up. Any more and your going to end up getting griefed. If you put more than one up, spread them out by like 3kms. Larger amounts tend to get "griefed" pretty quickly, whilst single tents seem to be left alone. People will find and tents or vehicles you have, its just a matter of time. The map is way too small to hide them. Although, one thing Ive noticed just recently and I don't know how they are doing it, but some people are pitching tents inside rocks. The just have the end of a tent pointing out of the rock whilst 90% is inside the rock. Probably the best hid tents in the game, wish I knew how to do it. Also this: I presume you know hackers can identify any tent/vehicle on the map. This is why I mostly only leave stuff in tents they don't want, like food and water. I carry the main things I don't want to lose with me.

So... yesterday i finally set up my server on the hive and spent about 8 hours nolifing it until i went to bed. Me and a few friends found a Ural Civilian, a motorbike, and a bus plus a load of equipment so we were happy. The server is set to restart every day at 8am GMT so it had restarted since we last played, i have just joined it though and the Ural Civilian has gone and a bicycle has been put in its place! The motorbike hasn't been touched and i assume the bus hasn't either (crashed it near camp without a wheel). There has been a few players join since we quit so i'm thinking, is a cheater trolling us? Did they steal our truck and replace it or is it just a bug on the hive? I don't think anybody would stumble across our camp since its a long way from any town and very well hidden so unless you know where it is, you'd have to locate the vehicles using a cheat and find it that way. Me and my friends are a bit pissed since that truck was pretty much fully loaded with some decent stuff, now we need to go find it all again :(

I'm with OP on this one. Zed's speed is still ridiculous and the only way to lose them is to run through a building, up ther hill, down a slope or just shoot them. Reducing zed's speed makes the animations less buggy and actually hitting them a bit less pain in the ass. Of course you can't just reduce zed's speed and just call it a day. You'll have to tweak the whole system to get it work right. First of make zed's punching animation reach a lot further and not to make them stop in their tracks (I know they sometimesdo this run by hit but you can still safely run away from them). Second thing is to make zed's more slow, maybe just a little bit faster than player running with W pressed, but still lower than player using double tapped W to sprint. Thridly introduce exhaustion when sprinting (note this would only affect double tapping sprint so you could still travel by foot). Also make sprinting bit faster and normal running just a little bit slower to create more difference between them. So in conclusion we would have a system where the sprinting (double tapping W) would be only used in life threatening situations like zed chasing you. You could out run it for a while, maybe even get enough distance to hide, but you could only keep on sprinting for a minute or so and your aim would shake extemely for next 20 seconds making aiming really hard. Also zeds would gain you slowly if you would only run (one press of W) but a less slower rate than currently. Running would still be unlimited to allow people lacking vehicles to travel across Chernarus.

You know I understand it's an alpha. I understand the limitations of the engine. But frankly I thought the addition of dogs was a bit weak... Feels more like something you'd add onto the wish list to complete. What this game has been needing for a long time is a good end game. Something to do with your time after you've got app the vehicles, weapons, equipment. Yes tents are broken - but I haven't died once legitimately in the last 5 deaths! All from hackers. That rare gear I spent hours and hours finding? Gone in seconds even though I'm careful. Tents we're the only thing equalizing the hackers. I feel the lack of an end game kills this mod. It's fun for the first 20/40 or even 60 hours - but then what? The replay capabilities become stale because you know you'll die at some point, probably to hackers and just have to restart all over again. For me I like to play this game largely avoiding other players, challenging myself to stay alive as long as I can. But after 5 days? Nothing left to do... Once this game gets some sort of end game I'll be back. I think that's what the main problem is now - more then hackers/dupers/bugs etc is the chronic lack of endgame.

I've found and repaired two Ural Civilians now, great trucks, but both times I've hid them they're gone by the next day... I hide them in obscure places and spend a lot of time doing so, so it's really frustrating... I hear about people who make bases out of their vehicles that actually last a long time but I've had zero luck every time... I save the vehicle like a dozen times before I leave it... Anyways I just want advice on areas that I can hide stuff, or how to actually make some progress lol... I've had Nightvision three times, GPS twice, silenced cco M4s.. tons of rare good loot, but I can't ever back any of it up for when I die, cause it's inevitable haha... I only play on low pop servers, like under 10 people, and I stillll run into hackers regularly.... Can anyone maybe suggest good servers? The thing is I've been told to go to newer servers for vehicles, because more are left to spawn and not stashed away by other players, but it's hard to find a new server with an established admin... Anyways I love this game, regearing isn't a big deal, it's just frustrating that there's nothing to work towards. I had my one Ural filled up with about a dozen guns including an AS50 ( I just don't really like carrying them around for general use... ) and I had like 25 cooked meat saved up at one point too in there, and like 10 water bottles shit like that, was starting to save up parts to repair other vehicles... Anyways, any advice is appreicated..

Think your wrong sharp. vehicles are not saving new items at all. tents will only save new items in a virgin tent if you will. pitch a tent and it will save the items you put into it. Try to add things after a server restart and nothing new you add will save. Honestly, this is why I am taking a break from Dayz

At the moment, tents won't save the loot inside the tent. What tents do is every time the server resets it deletes all the items added since the latest patch. If loot was inside the tent before the patch, the loot will continue to respawn at server restart. Vehicles however do save your items. I have a bus I've put a few things in about 2 days ago and it's all still there. So at the moment, vehicles are the safest way to store your equipment, but ofc remember, someone steals ur vehicle, not only you lost the vehicle but your stuff also.

Well tents seem to be on and off. You save them, the server restarts they disappear, it restarts again and they come back. Vehicles always just seem stuff up. On NZ 25 me and my clan have repair the same van 3 times in the last week.

Just wondering if there is, at the moment, a way to save vehicles or items in tents? Or is there no possible way?

Be -VERY- careful joining this clan as the server owner tends to abuse his server powers and some members are known to hack and hunt each other without warning. Their server has mild hacker protection most likely because their members cheat, and it is full of hacked gear which their members are seen using on a regular basis. They also vehicles horde the map. BEWARE of the server and clan. Just a heads up.

THIS. Happened with my group, too. On several of the servers that go shut down, we had vehicles.

Are any hackers being banned quickly? And are the vehicles saving on restart. Might come check it out:) need a new home server anyway.

I could not join the server because "[lot of files]...... are not signed by a key accepted by this server". I have gotten this on other servers too, but some servers work. These servers work for me: de 3, de 4, de sanctuary 60+ vehicles, and some other. I don't have a keys-file right now. I had one earlier but it didn't fix anything.

Here is my top tip. The road that runs north to south in cherno is a high traffic area. Plenty vehicles in cherno. Let some other numpty fix them. Ambush them on the way out of town. I have done this a few times, although once it backfired due to hackers.

No this would be a horrible idea. I like vehicles the way they are, as in my opinion the infinite fuel tanks should remain infinite. Fuel tanks are massive, they would take at least a hundred jerry cans to run out (I'd guess), and since that is so many, it may as well stay infinite. But I think they should lower the abundance of fuel tanks because, in fairness, you can get to any fuel tank from where you are in probably 3-5 minutes.

I have currently spare: 2 ghillies 1 NVG 1 Range finder M24 mags SD stanag Mags GPS M9 SD mags Looking for: Any Light machine gun As50 with minimun 5 mags Grenades Vehicles with minimum 4 Seats M107 w/mags DMR w/mags M4 Varients Bison SD wth MINIMUM 6 MAGS offer other stuff I'll only be trading players on safe trade list, if you are approved on that with multiple trades i am fine with you having a sniper in the trees overwatching.

I like the idea of having more air vehicles in the game which aren't necessarily going to make it too easy to get the best vehicles. The idea of having another helicopter which is only small and likely not suitable for any group full stop, but still being quite rare, is appealing.

Sarcasm aside, you would be fully correct if this was some little dip shit mod operation. However Dayz has taken off full tilt, it gets LOADS of media coverage from video game sites, and the fact that the mod is now becoming stand alone does demand a higher level of competance. And theres something in it for Rocket. If they develop a stand alone and only charge 10 dollars they will make a killing off the hype alone. Dont sit there and tell me over a million of Dayz players were also Arma 2 Players before this mod launched. I bought Arma 2 just for Dayz, as did just about everyone else. Once it was decided that there was a profit to be made in launching a stand alone version of the mod then they should of upped the proffesionalism of the project as a whole. Hell if i was about to make 500 000 dollars in under a years worth of work I think i would be upping the anti a bit more. I mean simple shit like FUCKING SERVER SIDE SCREEN tearing......and vehicles/tents not saving.....And bandit skins deleting backpacks and shit. And these are all things that were not broken a month ago that are now for some reason not working.. This is not acceptable standards for a team whos moving from production on an alpha mod to a fucking stand alone platform. Its all grand and dandy that their devoting their time to launching the full game but letting the mod go to complete shit in the process is not going to help encourage gamers to beta test the stand alone when theyve come to expect no communication from the mod team on their current project I mean hell Minecraft alpha was far from perfect but its funny how Notch is always keeping his fans in the loop and addressed issues at a resonable pace

This is unfixable at present. I'd like for the artifacting and tents/vehicles to be fixed. Also the teleporting to the coast bug, if possible. I can wait until the standalone for everything else if I have to.

Hey Leute ich hab das Forum schon durchsucht und auch Threads gefunden wo mein Fehler steht, allerdings ist mir damit überhaupt nicht geholfen weil bei mir immer noch nichts funktioniert. Es ist halt so: Ich hab mir Arma2 Gekauft ( Combined Operation...also Arma2 Blackedition und Operation Arrowhead) hab alles Installiert, den Six Updater besorgt, Spiel ein mal Laufen lassen. Dann Six Launcher an gemacht und DayZ angewählt, Geupdatet und wenn ich das Spiel nun Starte kommt der Fehler das mir Vehicles Fehlen. Wenn ich dann auch OK Klicke gehts weiter und ich kan neinen Server auswählen. Wenn ich nun eine nServer auswähle Sagt der mir entweder Verbindung unterbrochen oder Das ich Expension Dateien Löschen soll weil der Server den Schlüssel dafür nicht zulässt. Ich weis nimmer was ich machen sol ldamit ich Entlich mal DayZ Spielen kann. Ja ich weis es gibt Threads die wie meines sind, aber damit komm ich net weiter weil der Fehler weiterhin Besteht. In Tutorials wird immer nur Gesagt ( Ja installier das Spiel dann musste dir den SixUpdater besorgen und den Launcher Starten, alels Updaten und schon gehts) ES GEHT ABER NICH ^^ Bitte Helf mir doch jemand ^^

I've been alive for 30 something days. I have biked and hiked and driven around the map maybe 15 times. I know the location of lots of tents, vehicles (but no helicopter). I've stolen vehicles and raided tent cities, teamed up with people driving in a bus there and forth. Dozens of players crossed the sights of my weapons without me firing. I've been shot at, people around me have been killed but I survived. It is perfectly possible if you don't drive through the center of Chernogorsk in a bus blaring the horn. Incidentally, the most dangerous part came when I accidentally lost all secondary equipment slots (handgun ammo + bandages) and needed to re-loot them. A single zombie hit could have taken me out.

Just tents and vehicles. Can deal with everything else until the standalone. They're the only things that make me think twice about logging in.