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I know this thread is getting longer now, but I try to be very explicit that there are many weapons/vehicles which are far outside the bounds of what is already included in the game. Weapons outside the bounds of what already exists legitimately in the game would include, at the top of the list, Main Battle Tanks, along with thermal/nv weapons not already included (AS50 TWS). These weapons and.or vehicles should be dealt with more harshly than they are currently. However, many of the weapons in A2/OA are nearly identical or analogous to stuff we already have, but people are being banned from servers for having them. See the M9 SD vs Makarov SD comparison in the OP. I added another item to my list at the top of the OP to also make it clear that I am not condoning or supporting hacking or spawning in weapons. I just don't see any reasonableness to the staff's and community's current approach of banning people for weapons that give them no real advantage over the current stock and that they might no be wholely aware are hacked in the first place. If they included all reasonable and balanced guns from A2/OA in DayZ then the only weapons people would be getting banned for are the ones game-breaking enough to be worthy of it, and I would fully support the banning of people spawning or refusing to drop these imbalanced weapons.

Why go all the way north when all I need to is find an Enfield, go to a high populated and shoot a sniper on Electro's sniper hill. Then I'm fully geared out, I have everything I need and I save myself the need to try to repair vehicles or spend a bunch of time walking.

Looking for mature players to form a squad with or a clan to join either or, getting tired of looting nwaf then heading back south on a long walk to pvp. I could never trust someone i met in DayZ so this is the only way I see any good groups or teamwork being formed. Tired of walking everywhere, I check vehicle spawns everytime I play....never anything everytime i fucking check. Only been picked up once then lost connection hahah, so if your group or clan has vehicles im defiantly down to join up. Im 21 years old, live in phoenix, AZ so id be looking for a US group. Im a mean shot with a sniper rifle, also really good with a assault rifle and ruthless as fuck when it comes to killing people. I fucking trust no one I meet and id hope posting in the bandit section will help me team up with like minded survivors. Just reply here or shoot me a pm, I can download teamspeak if necessary as well just havnt needed to playing solo.

Vehicles vehicles vehicles, I'm tired of running north only to find one person in stary and maybe only a few people at the NW airfield, players are too clumped up down south in Elektro, why? Because the lack of vehicles, I'm not saying that urals and UAZ's should be spawning everywhere but more vehicles in general add to the excitement of the game and up the pace of things. When I was in a private hive server with 80 vehicles and only 25 people in the server there were people everywhere. Stary, zelenogorsk, NW airfield, not always people with vehicles but you could tell that people wanted to be in those areas. The server had 3 helicopters versus the standard 1, it wasn't uncommon to see helicopters circiling camps and nothing but gunshots ringing out trying to take them down. This really took the population out of the southern towns and made up north hectic. Now every other server is so shy to have vehicles around the map (mostly due to hoarding) which really hinders the spread of people on the map. not that I'm opposed to people having 5 car garages in the middle of the woods, but seriously, if people can get anywhere on the map faster do you think they would really just camp Cherno? TLDR; private hives with more vehicles and less players > Hives with more players and less vehicles

Here is the current best fix for tents and vehicles on 1.2.7.5, doing this you wont have to roll back to 1.2.7.4 http://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/z6p65/fixserver_side_how_to_save_items_in_tents_and/

What version of Hive should we be using if we want to roll back to 1.7.2.4? I did a roll back on server because we were having issues with tent and vehicle saves and it seems to erased everything. All tents and vehicles are gone on the rollback restart. I did a test tent with two items and did a restart and the tent was gone on restart.

The first reply told me to go use the weapons in the game Arma II. The OP is specifically concerning the use of these weapons in DayZ. Personally, to me his reply sounded like trolling. I apologize if I enjoyed writing my reply too much for your taste. To a degree, you are right, if a paticular vehicle is in Arma II and has no functional difference from a current legitimate vehicle, then I see no arguement to keep it out of the game except what I presume is a limit on the number of vehicles a server or the hive can handle/maintain. I completely agree, which is why I think the AS50 is rediculous, outlandish, and unnecessary given that the M107 already fills this role but is properly loud. Furthermore, I support your point that the amount of military grade hardware in the game is absurd, and I would also prefer if the more rudimentary weapons were much more common. Also, why does the hunting rifle (CZ550) not spawn in hunting stands, but CCOs and M24s do?

My name is Duffman And I'm a DayZ Veteran! I played DayZ for over 200 hours! I'm looking for a serious (18+) Group/Clan of Veteran Players! I know my way in Chernarus without a compass or a map. I'm Experienced with all the weapons (Except SVD Sniper, Never Found One). I'm good at driving chopper and all sorts of vehicles. I'm playing a LOT of Chernarus map, but also Lingor Island (I don't know Lingor very well) I'm from Canada GMT-5! speak English and French. I play around 4-6 hours of DayZ a day (when I'm not working) LOOKING FOR A SERIOUS GROUP/CLAN OF PLAYERS 18 YEARS OLD MINIMUM!

Being a sarcastic bitch doesnt help your argument. By your argument/logic, hacked in vehicles should be fine too? Because theyre available in ArmA? The game is set in generic eastern bloc country 101 in (from what I can tell) late 90s-mid 00's, youre not going to be finding MURRICA FUCK YEAH military grade hardware lying around all over the place. If anything, what this game needs is the number of military spec weapons reduced and more civillian weapons like hunting rifles and perhaps shotguns that dont suck.

Any news regarding the broken HIVE at 1.7.2.5 that causes alot of servers not to save vehicles and tents?

Hoarding vehicles is stupid, and thus I think you're ineptitude of driving serves you well. I've never had any problems driving motorized vehicels. The bike, on the other hand...

All these responses are nonsense. Go to Kamenka and follow the road west, until you reach the very end of the road (it becomes grass eventually). Turn right Go straight along the edge of the tree line for as long as this takes (it won't be long, trust me) Along this line you'll find plenty of tents and vehicles for your perusal, because a lot of people are actually stupid enough to make camp here, they think that there's no reason for anyone to be there as there are no towns. Seriously, if you want to gear up before you begin to PVP this is how to do it. I've been using this tactic for a while, and generally within an hour I've got everything I need, and we're talking endgame gear. At the moment my loadout is: Ghillie suit, NVGs, GPS, Rangefinder, Coyote Backpack, M4A1 CCO SD, M9SD, Mk48 Mod 0. All raided from western edge camps. By all means, run the gauntlet through Cherno or Elektro and get an AKM and a Makarov, but that boy on the hillside with the AS50 will just yuk it up when he schools you from a klick away. If you want to gear up quickly, this is what you need to do.

No, the original tutorial has now been updated. A few server owners are reporting that all tents and vehicles now work as they should on 1.2.7.5 but the chopper dosnt spawn. So it is a compromise, tents and vehicles working as they should, or the chopper you have to fix after every restart.

Hey what's happenin. I am 22 from Canada I can't seem to add your skype so ill leave a message here. Been playing for 5 months, I have 2 of my own camps set up with all the gear I could ever want. Repaired and stole countless choppers and vehicles, and know mostly every little tip and trick in the game to make our lives easier. My skype is lovestosplooch and I am interested in playing with you guys. I don't use or support the use of hacked weapons, but if you all find some and wanna use them that's your game. I know Id be an asset to the group. Hit me up. Edit : Lots of experience piloting/driving Main roles are scavenger,spotter, assault, pilot and sniper each I do as well as the next.

If they are to ever do it, it needs to be when the first iteration of standalone gets released! And obviously do it for the standalone. Back when I first started playing, those were the best times, as half decent gear, and rare gear were very rare!! Now, you have a million players, picking up weapons, being killed, someone else picking up that weapon as another one gets found and eventually you can have everyone in one server (if they were to stick to it and play legit), kitted out with the best gear in the game. This is without server hopping to farm loot and all the hacking. Getting rid of everything thats been placed on the map; tents, vehicles, traps, barbed wire, sandbags so it's all completely clean. Wiping all players characters and going in fresh for standalone will bring soo much back to the game. Also think the spawns need tweaking a bit, all too common to find half decent AR's at balota airfield when they should be further up north and less common.

A story of Love, Explosions, Heroism, And Tragedy This story starts on the Loading screen. As I am sat and waiting for my character to spawn, random & unknown survivors who are also loading the game are talking over the Group Chat. I join in with some silly banter, and all of a sudden a voice starts saying my name... "Daan.... Daaaaaan... I love you man. I love you, Daan." His tone is kind of sleazy, but it makes me laugh. "Daan," he says again, "I'm serious, I love you man. Not in a gay kind of way, this is not about sex. I just love you man!!" Though feeling slightly bewildered, I do see the humour in this strange conversation, so I chuckle a bit until I finally spawn into the game. Being a fresh spawn with no weapons or loot, I quickly make my way into Elektro. My play style tends to be rather careless, as I enjoy encountering other players even though 9 times out of 10 I get shot in the face. Nevertheless, I often enough do meet friendly players and those encounters have always led to the best DayZ experiences. So here I am running through Elektro in an extremely busy server, continuously talking over the voice chat in Direct Communication with the intention to attract the attention of nearby players. As I enter the school (police?) building near the supermarket, still randomly calling out for survivors, I suddenly hear a voice coming from the first floor: "Who is this? What is your name?" I call out my name and lo and behold, it turns out to be the sleazy voice from the chat on the Loading screen. "Daan! It is me! I love you man! Daan, come upstairs!" Having nothing to lose, and my curiosity prickled by this weird character who is so intent on proclaiming his "love" for me, I make my way upstairs, fully expecting to get shot in the skull as soon as I head out the stairwell. Upon entering the first floor, I see two survivors in ghillie suits, and one of them immediatly continues his awkward proclamations of love, until he points his gun at me and shoots me in the leg. He starts to laugh, "Oh no oh my god! I think I have broken your leg! Hahaha! Look at your leg!" He then tells me that he has a grenade, that he's never seen somebody being blown up by one, and that he would love to try it out on me. However, for whatever reason he then proceeds to bandage my wounds, and his friend gives me a shot of morphine to patch up my leg. Meanwhile the first guy, whose name turns out to be Tom Twice, continues to tell me that he seriously loves me, but -to my relief- "not in a sexual sort of way." Nevertheless, he does make certain comments about my virtual physique. My responses are generally just laughter and random jolly remarks, as I am still expecting to be shot as soon as they have enough of this strange roleplaying game they have going on. After a few minutes of random banter, things settle down a bit and the conversation descends into normality. Tom Twice has finally grown tired of saying that he loves me, and now plans are being made to team up and look for a vehicle. I tell him and his friend Ben that when I was on this same server a few hours ago, I saw a couple of broken vehicles west of Cherno, and so we decide to head in that direction. Predictably, as we make our way out of Elektro, we get shot at by various snipers, but we press on and get out of town unscathed. As we are running through the fields towards Cherno, the conversation has now entirely turned to casual banter, with no traces left of the awkward start we made. Tom Twice even apologises for his earlier remarks, which I shrug off as I see the humour in all of it. Anyway, to cut it short, eventually what happens is that I lose sight of them near the edge of Cherno due to it being dusk and them wearing ghillie suits, and after pressing on alone I find four satchel charges inside a tent. I quickly check the vehicle spot, notice that they're all gone, and then decide to head into Cherno to try and blow up some stuff. Having never used satchel charges before, I'm curious to see if I can take down some buildings. Cherno is full of life: someone's lit a a road flare, and gunshots are aplenty. I sneak my way into the firestation, lay down a satchel, arm it and make my way the hell out of there. Just as I am running out of the station and around the corner, I hear a voice: "Daan! Daan! It's me, Tom Twice" - my friends have managed to locate me. And then BOOOM my satchel goes off, scaring the shit out of them. "What the fuck was that!!??!" It went off only a few meters from our rendez-vous. Unfortunately, the building is unscratched. After they have calmed down we decide to head to the church and try the same trick again, as I'd seen a video on Youtube of someone blowing down the roof of the church somehow. We lay down a satchel - massive explosion, yet still no result. Meanwhile, we hear plenty of sniper shots coming from the general direction of the industrial area, so our next plan is to go there and try to take out the sniper(s). Sneaking our way through the lanes, buildings and alleys of Cherno, we eventually pinpoint what we think is the sniper(s) location - right on top of the tallest industrial building. I elect myself to be the first to climb up on the long, long ladder, as I personally don't mind dying, especially having no loot other than 2 remaining satchel charges, and a Lee Enfield. When I am near the top of the building, I predictably get shot, as the sniper(s) must have heard us talking, idiots that we were. Ben and Tom Twice are in light panic, asking me what is going on, whilst I simply lie there on the second landing / balcony of the building - I can't get up, but I don't see any blood loss either. I'm basically stuck, but I don't appear to be dying, and when I tell this to my friends they heroically climb the ladder in an attempt to save me. As they are climbing up, the world is set on fire. What must be easily 20 explosions all start going off in quick succession, all around us - we have no bloody clue what the hell is going on, all we know is that we're in deep shit. Explosions are everywhere, in what seems to be the entire city, but definitely in very close proximity to us, though it is difficult for me to tell where exactly as I'm still lying there, unable to move. Then a rain of gunshots, and both my friends are killed in quick succession. I feel a pang of loss, regret and guilt, and hope that they will log back in to claim their dead bodies' loot. Meanwhile, I am still stuck, paralysed on the balcony with no visible blood loss, and so I decide to abort and log back in to see if that clears up my predicament. Upon logging back in, I now see the hourglass to indicate that I am passed out, so at least things have turned back to normal. As I'm lying there, slowly losing blood, I can hear someone climb up the ladder that is next to me. I'm asking myself, "Is it Tom Twice, is it Ben?", but I can't communicate over voice chat as I'm still passed out. I hear bandaging sounds - this guy is patching me up! Next thing I know is that I am being dragged away, presumably to a safer place. The hourglass is still half full, my saviour waits for a bit, and then proceeds to give me an Epipen. I wake up, stand up, and thank this kind sir - whose name turns out to be Sgt.Potato. He says nothing, turns around, walks away, and goes down the ladder. Gone. Did he just climb up there to save me?? And I don't hear sniper shots anymore... did he take out the snipers as well?? I see that there are at least 4 dead bodies of unknown survivors around me on the balcony. I loot one of them, and find the entire kit: NVGs, GPS, Coyote pack, everything. I have just survived the world being blown up around me, then got saved by a random hero, and now I am fully kitted out - luck is clearly on my side! I make my way down the ladder, still hoping that Tom Twice and Ben come back into the game. When I reach the ground, I hear a groan really nearby... somebody is lying somewhere, dying. I must be his Sgt.Potato! I must save him!! I try to locate the dying survivor. Walking around a bit in the general direction of where the groans are coming from, I suddenly hear a quiet sigh, followed by a message in the bottom of the screen that somebody has just died. I despair, I came too late... I take another look around, setting a few steps forward... ...BOOOOM!!! Out of nowhere, another massive explosion goes off, the metal structure to my right hand side is falling to pieces and sinking into the ground, and I am killed instananeously. To the fallen survivors: Ben, Tom Twice, I love you too - and not in a gay kind of way :) To my hero saviour: Sgt.Potato, press on and stay safe! Heh... :)

me & friend found an atv, went searching for camps, and found a HUGE camp. like massive amounts of weapons and stuff. even the chopper and about 12 other vehicles were there. i saw a guy, and killed him with my mk48 mod0. i thought it was clear and got sniped down. the friend of mine managed to escape. i regeared and went to their camp, got myself an as50 and all the good stuff, and began to blow up every single vehilce of theirs. only one missing was the chopper. i saw it flying on top of me about an hour later, shot it down, and of cource the off chance happened and it camp down on my head. probably the best death ever. worst was most likely me being unexperieced, and going to the tower at the eletro firestation (the one near dobryy) and lying down. as most of u will know, i just fell to death, when i tried to stand up.

I just wish vehicles would work again. Tents are partially working at least.

I presume you mean you fixed your graphical glitches like that? This fix is just for the tents and vehicles on 1.2.7.5 without having to roll anything back

So, ban people who hang out in groups of people and hunt helicopter crash sites after server restarts? Trololol, so funny. On topic, it could use a wipe, but the only people it will seriously effect is people who play legitimately. The hackers will have their stuff back in an instant, and all anyone has to do to dupe is place a tent. Until they can get those issues hammered out, and the weird things that happen with vehicles lately (We've had the V3S turn into a bus, and bicycles turn into motorcycles.) there is no real good it will do.

No need for private servers, if admins see this post they can get tents and vehicles working on 1.7.2.5 :D http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/85148-server-side-fix-tutorial-how-to-fix-tents-and-vehicles-on-1725/

The fun is not the fact that you have unlimited gear, it's fun collecting all the shit for your camp. Some of my most fun dayz days have been setting up camps. It's tedious work, driving around looking for vehicles, searching airfields, looking for crash sites, picking a place to put it down, but it's always great fun.

I'm affraid it would only be used by hoarders who never use the damn vehicles anyway. So no. I'm against it. Even on low pop servers I rarely if ever see vehicles. That's just absurd. If anything, in a zombie apocalypse, vehicles should be plentyful. However, fuel should be the main problem.

There are in general too few vehicles on any given server, due to hoarding. But I aggree, it should take longer to respawn for the heli. Hoarders are shit. Vehicles should at least respawn immediately when destroyed. Edit: Look at this: SPWAN. That's how you spell it. Again, say after me: S... P... W... A... N... SHIT YOU'VE DESTROYED ME!

For the helicopter, was immediately. Recently something was updated with the hive and some vehicles save, some don't. Pretty sure the heli respawning @ server restart is still in effect.