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Added, at Guglovo right now ** Free bike and unrepaired vehicles for any medics blown up/sick of the hike!

I second the shooting out of vehicles, and you all have my beans :) I think shooting out of vehicles is a good idea, however only on certain vehicles. A bus, for instance, should not have that feature, whereas a car should. Perhaps you can only shoot if you're in the seat across from the driver? Just throwing out suggestions here. Also, some of the vehicles up top would work, but I agree with Kyzahh, that truck with a machine gun (also known as a technical) would be good to add. Maybe you could even be able to attach a LMG to the offroad pickup, making a makeshift technical like this? http://www.kairosautonomi.com/images/Nissan_Truck_Technical.jpg Just tossing out ideas though.

Playing a bugged Alpha legitimately - you serious? We can talk about a legitimate style of playing when tents and vehicles work, you're not spawning on the beach again for no reason, or spawn in the debug forrest losing all your gear, break your bones by crawling into a bush/walk on plain field, ... Until then it's just whatever suits your fun (except hacked player killing and hacking in stuff that's not supposed to be in the game). If it were M4A3 SD's they were hacked. But I guess you meant M4A1 SD's. BTT: Let's just say there are definitely "decent" spots to hide tents. Not saying they won't ever be found, but chances are relatively slim. Just don't take the most obvious spots.

I dunno, vehicles seem a bit bugged. I found a bike which was hidden by another player and I took it. Later on I stashed it and saved it couple times. When I logged on later it was gone, I figured someone stole it. I checked again and there it was, hidden in the same spot where I originally found it. It could be that only the first save matters, just like tents. Or it's just fucked and who the hell knows wtf is going on lol.

There is nowhere safe to hide tents or vehicles in this game. They are both too easy to spot through the trees, tents stick out something awful because of the shape and vehicles because the glass makes them stand out. The game needs denser thicker forests with more bushes and smaller trees placed in between the bigger trees to make it easier to hide things. As it is you can stand on one side of a forest and scan right through it unless the gradient of the ground prevents you seeing something. Some sort of effective camo netting would be a nice addition

Mmm, why not I guess, though it should increase fuel consumption and reduce acceleration due to the added weight. The term "bulletproof" isn't actually used either, since enough firepower will break it. It also wouldn't stop shots through the vehicle bodywork (which actually offers very little in the way of protection). Overall, I have no real opposition to the idea, but if it was modelled accurately then it wouldn't be hugely useful; vehicles could still be easily disabled and players could still be killed relatively easily even if they couldn't be shot through the windscreen without it taking a lot of bullets..

Hi, yesterday i found and repaired a bus in elektro, once repairs were completed i went to hide it because it was kind of late, when i logged off the server there was no one in the entire server, i saved the bus 2 or 3 times. I just want to know if somebody somehow found the bus or it just deleted its self because I have seen a lot of posts about peoples vehicles getting deleted.if anyone knows anything about this please tell me

Actually, we are probably going to upgrade to .5. It kind of sucks that we are losing players because we are not on .5 and nobody is willing to downgrade to keep tents and vehicles. But I guess we can upgrade to see if anyone else will join us.

Hey Guys, My crew and I have descided to pull the plug on the server in 24 hours. So for the next 24 hours I invite everyone to loot our camps. (Tired of Script Kiddies joining and we are not allowed to do s**t.) Our server is "DayZ - DE 474 (v1.7.2.3/Beta 95248) [VETERAN][GMT ] dayzmod.com - Hosted By Anxiety Wasteland | dayzhosting.com" Please note that server is running version 1.7.2.5 even though it says 1.7.2.3 Now to the fun part. Camp 1 is located 007 - 068 - got a medium camp with lots of ammo, weapons , food and medical supplies. Camp 2 is located 134 - 034 - smaller camp - alot of vehicles, weapons and Vehicle parts. I will restart server every 3rd hour so the tents will be restocked. Have fun and hope you guys will enjoy your days in DayZ. [AW] will still be around but on random veteran servers

Vehicles are hit and miss from what I've seen. Note, these are from my experiences, so you may see different results. Here's what I do with them: Have one person repair a vehicle, load all gear in it, and then save it once. If I do that, I can usually keep a vehicle about 50% of the time after a server restart. However, I've done the above (for example with a V3S last night), and then today after a restart it magically turned into a bike instead. We've had buses turn into bikes as well after a restart. Honestly though, for now if you try and repair a vehicle there's a decent chance all of your work will be for naught and the vehicle will just get reset, so be prepared for a lot of wasted time. If you steal a vehicle from someone, move it to the location and DON'T save it - if you do it seems to get reset on the next server restart. That means you can't modify items in it. Again, ymmw.

Not so sure about the windowed seats, but yeah, people should defo be able to shoot out of (most) vehicles.

I suppose you are right about the hot wiring already being in game. My point is that there should be a lot more vehicles which are not burnt out wrecks. And you should definitely be able to salvage parts. Maybe even move them into positions for ambushes or create barriers.

We do not plan on updating to .5. As tents and vehicles do not save properly on that patch. Which is why we are still on .4. We are waiting on 1.7.3 to come out and then we will upgrade.

Another one to add to the list that would be a bit more common I think than the military vehicles as these are quite popular with the taliban etc. I'd also like to see a mechanic where you're able to shoot out of the vehicles as a passenger in the standalone.

the game already has a "hot-wiring system" implemented. how else do you think you can hop in someone's car and drive off with it? adding keys to the game would just be clunky, obnoxious, and make it almost impossible to steal vehicles. it's a game and realism should only be taken so far - how many people do you think turned into zombies with their keys in their vehicles? most likely very, very few. the vast majority would have either run out of gas or been blocked by roadblocks, turned off their vehicle, and continued their journey on foot with their keys in their pockets. they could have made it miles from their vehicles before either dying or being turned into zombies. if they died from gunshots or were consumed by zombies, the keys would be left on the ground with their slowly decaying clothing and likely lost amongst the other clutter on the ground. if they turned into a zombie, well, what use do zombies have for keys? as a hungry zombie stumbles and runs through Chernarus, those keys could easily fall out of its pockets. and given time the keys would certainly fall out as the clothes begin to decay and tear from exposure to the elements and who knows what. but let's imagine you're a particularly lucky survivor and you find a pair of pants on a corpse in a supermarket with keys in the pockets. now what? you don't know what vehicle these keys belong to. if the roads are, as you say, littered with vehicles then you're going to have one hell of a time finding the single vehicle that will accept this key. maybe the vehicle is a burning hunk 5 miles south, but you have no way of knowing that. the keys that you just found are effectively useless to you. i say it's a damn good thing that DayZ assumes you know how to hotwire any vehicle you find. as for increasing the amount of useable vehicles on the map, yes it should be implemented and yes it has been mentioned many, many times before.

All 'fine' vehicles should be drivable(eventually, after repairs) IMO I'd rather have more vehicle choices and fuel being more rare, than what it is now.

In the real world there are many numerous benefits to being an active member of a community. Some of which are gained through no effort of your own. Other benefits require your time and energy to realize. Such is the mechanic I believe necessary to enable the path of the humanity-reclaimers in the wold of DayZ. Again, what we're discussing is as follows: 1. A set of rewards unlocked by either the exchange of goods (value for value) or meeting a given opportunities minimum Humanity score. 2. Humanity is earned through, direct, peer to peer support. Hand a fellow survivor a can of beans earn the value of the beans in Humanity. Some suggestions for the types of opportunities unlocked: - learn to bandage wounds more efficiently - improved weapon accuracy - operate complicated vehicles - generate power - reinforce structures - etc..

A week ago or so, my mates and I found a truck in the quarry. We just finished repairing and wanted to leave when the truck got blown to pieces by a few guys on the rocks behind us, and we couldn't fire back or anything because we couldn't fire our guns(Not that we had time to do that, in this case, though) and were an easy target. That got me thinkin' for a bit: Now anyone with a reasonable gun shoots a vehicle(except for the huey) on sight if there aren't too many people in it. Because people in the vehicle are vulnerable and first have to get out before they can fire back. Why aren't there any vehicles(boats/land vehicles) that make the others go 'FUCK ITS A ..., HIDE'? I'd love to see (lightly) armored vehicles or vehicles with mounted weapons on them. Ofcourse these would be military-grade and rare, yet a very valuable asset. These vehicles, and just like other vehicles, could be shot at the tires and come to a standstill. So you won't have a mobile armed death machine driving carelessly around your camp/hideout. It should also have other weak spots, but also be able to fend itself of or pack a punch for longer than the usual car. Examples for vehicles could be(russian/ukraine or not): ^Couldn't resize this one for some reason :S (can float, too) Haters gonna hate. PS: I don't know the names of these vehicles, just some examples of what I had in mind. PPS: Sorry for any grammatical errors of some sort :P

I simply changed what I want to do in the game. I simply run around with an axe, the best pack I can find, basic survival gear, map, compass, knife, matches, bandages, morphine and either drinks or water bottles. I then run around emptying camps and destroying any vehicles I find. If I die, everything is easily gotten again. I will expect more and do more when the standalone comes out.

Just spent a few hours, found 3 cars and 2 Boats and were repairing them, when hackers teleported to our Hippy Van and me and my friend shot them up, none of the 4 or 5 of them died, DMR shots wouldnt kill them, M4A1 CCO SD wouldnt kill them and they killed me and if my friend didnt abort he would be dead as well, i hope to god they dont find our V3S but if they could find all our other vehicles so easily then they prolly found the V3S, i have video evidence of the hacking including but not limited to, multiple deaths over a short period of time, teleporting and invincibility. This really makes me want to quit, i had so much fun finding those vehicles and boats, and thats just taken away by a group of butthurt asshats, where is the fun in getting everything handed to you? i worked for that shit doesnt mean you can just take it, fuck.

I think we all agree that the land of Chernarus should be littered with workable vehicles. However, how many of these vehicles would be useable to a wandering car thief? For example, for a car to be useable it would have to have the car keys available - unless Rocket implements a hot wiring system. My suggestion is to have vehicles quite common but useable ones quite rare. Vehicle parts however should be relatively easy to come by though in that you would just have to strip another vehicle. Finding random car engines, fuel tanks and tyres in buildings is a tad silly when the first place you would look is an abandoned car lying beside the road. My point: Keep the number of useable vehicles the same but increase the number of abandoned, but perfectly fine cars, trucks etc so that we can blow them up, strip them for parts or just look cool sitting in the front seat. Apologies if this has been mentioned before.

For this item to work, it would need to be group operated. And we had them in every vehicle when I was over in Iraq, so around military bases, vehicles, or zombie soldiers, there could be one waiting. I do agree though, just objects alone can't solve the problem, though they can encourage effects and results. It is just in my opinion that I would like to see the game stay realistic in terms of rewards being offered by spawn advantages (meaning extra items, placements, availability of your buddies). I respect everyones view of the game, I would still play if there were advantages such as extra goodies for those who were well behaved were implemented. Truth be told, I don't know what anyone could do for some tween all boned up for COD and play just to kill for kicks. But in a "real" post-apocalyptical world there is a psycho out there mass killing for fun what can you do? Avoid them or band together to execute the threat.

A parking lot??What Dayz needs is a freaky huge abandoned junk yard and the parts needed to repair vehicles expanded.Make this place a must go to spot if you find a vehicle in need of repair,like a hospital is now to meds.And if Green Mountain stays in game then make it spawn a special item....maybe parts needed if you find a radio.

They were also added for their ability to destroy enemy vehicles.

fix vehicles and tents and I will be happy till stand-alone release.