Search the Community

start searching around the NEAF for crash sites; but having no luck. so i decide to go check if the PBX is there. and of course Knowing that this server doesn't reset and that it is a dead end for aquiring loot i begin my trip down to myshkino so when i hop ill be able to fix up the truck there and begin gearing up on a decent server that atleast resets sometime. Before i leave i decide to check the deer stand behind the barn... only to hear a motorbike driving in the woods. i run and get back into my truck, to see him drive up to the barn. so we begin just driving around the field running over the zombies... and then he runs into my truck damaging his tires to where he can barely drive. my friends tell me to pick him up (my #1 rule in this game is to never trust any person you come across that has anything in his hands). so i say luls okay and let him get in. i drive off down the road to despawn the zombies so we could either fix up the white truck, or he could get back on the motorbike (the glitch where vehicles fully fix themselves if you get off would have repaired the tire). i drop him off at the barn, start fixing up the truck. i go back inside my truck; he walks up to the window starts shooting it... blows up the truck killing both of us. total play time: 7 hours total vehicles found: 9 total crash sites found: 2 total rare items found: 2 (ghillie, mtn dew) i completely forgot to take a screenshot of the you are dead screen too :( i guess ill make 1 more character since this guy was cut short by breaking the one and only rule i have for myself.

Holy cow, nice luck on finding so many vehicles. I guess it's just luck of the draw with servers. Good to see someone making a log of there legit last play through. I'll also be getting dark souls just dunno how long my patience will stay playing it. GL on your final run in game until standalone.

Not everyone wants to spend the entire day searching only to find every vehicle is horded by the hosts. If you do for the sake of e-honour then have fun but i cant see that being fun... hive system only encourages this style of play. Furthermore not every hive server has vehicles spawned and there is no way of knowing unless the host tells you.

i am not gonna tell you which ones, but some vehicles spawn them.

The same happened to me with a truck today. I was stuck in the middle of nowhere. It was the server where my clan is, and a clanmate was near, so I asked him to get near and kill me. But before he was able to arrive, he got a call and logged out while driving his bike. Meanwhile, I spent my time trying to move, and I finally was free. But when he logged in, he was stuck too. What I did, was take his bicy and get it near him, so he was able to call the menu and get onto it again. Maybe it could work with another vehicles too. But you'll need someone to help you. You can't even kill yourself...

The history of the Ural brand is steeped in enough intrigue to script a political thriller fitting enough to have a movie, with allegations including tales of Hitler providing Stalin with sidecar blueprints before World War II, and another of Russians reverse-engineering Urals from BMWs smuggled through Sweden. However beyond the impenetrable history is a 21st-century company that is working hard to reshape its perception in the motorcycle world. Before the fall of the U.S.S.R., Ural churned out as many as 130,000 motorcycles per year in a Soviet-style factory where vertical integration reigned supreme (see history.jpg). Nearly every component was manufactured in-house, from bolts and rubber trim to pistons (possibly parts you need to repair or maintain in game). I would love to see this kind of vehicle added to the game when it becomes a standalone. with additional parts added to industral spawn sites for motorcyle and smaller vehicles (anything worth having should be difficult to achieve). Rather there be different models of ural aviable (mounted machine gun, camo, and color etc) I would love to see this piece of russian motor history in DayZ!

Hey Guys, Just wanted to let people know I have started renting a server: US 2336. I have a public teamspeak for people to join and play together or group up with random people. Because of the Hive saving issues all vehicles are freshly respawned after each restart, But Tents still work as long as you dont save more than 2 before a restart or you have a chance of no tents saving. Before all restart I give about 10 minutes warning and do count down warnings. Come in and play. If you have any questions you can talk to me in Teamspeak. Teamspeak: 50.97.203.133:6931 PW:2336 Thanks, Chris - Vulture

Hey. Very interested in the server. Are tents and vehicles saving on your server or are you having the same problems as everyone else? I am also a vet so it would be great to play with other vets/active duty.

I just find vehicles in the game funny sometimes. You find one, celebrate by driving it around Elektro or Cherno, and end of losing it by death, or theft the next time you log in. I just find vehicles in the game as temporary transport, because I know for a fact you will be noticed eventually driving something, you will be followed, and your pimp-mobile will be stolen... ...I miss pimpy...

Actually they aren't the same thing at all, true HP ammo has a hollow cavity to maximize expansion, this results in a measurable increase in MOA, especially at extended ranges. Ballistic tip/Pollymer/Lead Core/Open Tip etc are expanding bullets that either have the cavity filled with soft matterial or are of a lighter density and not fully jacketed. This allows them to expand but also reduces the increase in MOA one experiances when using HP ammo. Also I said A-Max not V-max, and here you go http://www.midwayusa.com/product/813470/hornady-match-ammunition-50-bmg-750-grain-a-max-boat-tail-box-of-10. Civilian ammo is always better than MilSpec ammo in terms of MOA, it is built to a higher tollerance. Milspec .50 ammo could encompass a variaty of cartridges other than HP, and also include "hand loads" as most sniper elements are outfitted with ammo outside of normal mil spec to decrease MOA. Never the less being shot with one in a shtf scenario would mean the end of your life, as would most gun shot wounds, but really anything over .308 would likely end you within minutes. I agree disabling a target is the name of the game, Knockdown power. Thats why big fast expanding bullets are the king of big game hunting cartridges. And yes being gut shot with a small caliber weapon or being stabbed would allow you to fight back as long as you didn't go into shock or become preoccupied with trying to hold your blood/guts in. Being shot with a .50 or even a 308 in the gut would not allow for this IMO, especially if you were shot from range. There is simply to much to overcome (Finding target, your gun, pain, shock, knowledge of your imminent death) and to short of a window before KO/Death. I have used blood bags in combat, and had them used on me. Time for effect is the same as a bandage this is why you keep one in your inventory and use it before bandage when your friend gets shot. Insta Kill has to exist to represent that people aren't recoving from injuries. The current med system allows people to be completely cured of internal/external blood loss and back to 100% health in a matter of seconds. I agree you don't want to have to "heal up" but if your critically injured you should not be able to be instantly cured either, I think bandages should only lessen the amount of blood loss for this reason thus requiring mutliple bandage applications and multiple blood bags to keep someone alive after injury. This would allow for less instant blood damage because it would mean to keep them alive would be harder, while getting them back to "healthy" would remain easy. Agree poster is dumb if he really believed those were people, but it does make me think.... Round made for big game v small game and round made for vehicles v humans... no similarties Could get explosive, incindiary, Armor Piercing, Tracer, Ball, Match Grade M1022, or XM1022. There are alot of options, but I agree civilian .50 bmg would be rather rare, a rifle runs in the 8-14k range and if you used the link above you can see the cost of ammo. Regardless it would still wreck someone 1 shot. Agree on the loot farming, with out actual scarcity via hard caps nothing is ever rare just harder to obtain. Couple this with what people will actually take off of a dead body/tent/car and you have an ever increasing amount of "good" weapons. This can only be fixed by throwing out the fixed rate loot spawn system, I've posted about changing to a dynamic rate that caps when possession rates get to spawn rates. Make the servers query the hive to get loot spawn rates and you have fixed rates everywhere. Rocket could use this to tortue everyone, and it would amplify the have's v have nots even more, but thats fine IMO. The rest of your arguments focus on glitches or design flaws that are going to be fixed in the initial release of stand alone, (AltF4 and Hopping) I think getting rid of weapons based on this would be throwing the baby out with the bath water. Range is an advantage in combat, thus snipers will always have an advantage, add to this the truly open setting and you have the ability to kill people, not pvp that would imply competition. As you noted there is an easy defense, the sniper's major consideration, player movement. It is easy to avoid the majority of lone snipers out for kill counts, simply avoid major traffic areas. I think this is fairly authentic, as major areas of oppertunity would be the most dangerous locations, see watering hole...

Not after helicopters so much.. Would have been fun to fly around once and maybe find a different vehicle but.. I only like vehicles on a medium + pop to frig around with. ;)

i was just wandering if anyone knows a way to find recently created servers.like servers that still have much of the vehicles and such still at spawn. I've been searching spawn points for weeks on multiple servers for vehicles and it seems that there always taken and hoarded. Just wandering if there is an easier way to get them, then walking on foot from one side of the map to the other in search of hoarded and hidden vehicles. Man it would be so cool to ride an ATV for a bit. Anyways if anyone knows anything that would help, its much appreciated

I have in my possesion an extra pair of NVGs, and a M14 AIM (with 4-5 full DMR mags). I will consider all serious offers of rare guns, ghillie suit(s), etc. No vehicles as trades.

So I realize that when driving around towns that items and zombies don't spawn. But what about Animals? I have seen rabbits in the Airfield, but I have yet to find a cow/sheep/boar. I don't know if it is because I am not looking, just wondering if I should ditch my car for a bit to go hunting, or if I can drive around until I find something. Another question is about when I reach below 3k health and start collapsing, I have reached the point of collapsing while running, I have collapsed on a ladder before which insta-killed me, and I have collapsed in my car, fortunately I was stopped looking at the map, it made me fall out of the door, so my question is if I am driving 40-60 kmph if I will die if I collapsed in the car since it would throw me out. I have 2879 BP.

lol... go take em. We hoarded these vehicles over the course of a month or so. All of the good ones have either been looted from our site already, or we've wrecked them. Also, if you can identify the coords to this camp based on the image alone, I'd be pretty impressed. Please do so if you actually have any idea where it is. I will reply honestly if you're right or wrong as we're no longer set up there.

- A map that is large enough for certain amounts of players. (20-30 players feels about right in Chernarus) - 2 or 3 major cities and many smaller towns. - More islands and complex coastline, you cant simply ''own'' a boat currently because they will be stolen right away. - Bigger lakes and ponds. - Maybe a few rivers and bridges, chokepoints for vehicles? - Points of interest like Green Mountain and such. But with more importance of course. - Better and more places to hide tents and vehicles in. - Maybe more interiors.

I would like to start a story thread and hopefully we can be all get a nice chuckle from here to there. This may be helpful for other survivors to avoid similar deaths :3. I was playing with my friend and we were transporting vehicles parts to fix up a v35. When all of a sudden we had to travel down a steep hill. Now I've been able to just go down these hills fine in the past, but unfortunately I was moving down pretty fast. All of a sudden I walk off a couple rocks and I could not have been more than 3-4 meters off the ground when I fell. The first thought that came to my mind was, "Oh that's not bad, I might just have a broken leg and be unconscious." The next thing I read on the screen is the death message from the server. I was in utter shock that such a small drop would kill me. Fortunately my friend was able to fix up the truck and able to transport all my gear onto the truck. He was able to pick me up from Elektro and we were on our merry way. I would love to hear your story, whether it be a glitch, friendly fire, or silly shennanigans. Thank you. Be safe!

I am running vilayer and today in the updates tab i see this DayZ 1.7.2.5 & Arma2OA 96061 Security Patch This will install all the regular patches on the server and patch the server so hackers can-not spawn items within the server such as vehicles, weapons etc... This has been released early so please use at your own risk however it should make sure server much more secure. YOU WILL NEED TO RE-SAVE YOUR SERVER CONFIGURATION FILE AFTER PATCHING YOUR SERVER. DayZ 1.7.2.4 ROLLBACK You must have the latest security patch installed before this one for this patch to work correctly. This is to only fix tent saving etc.... It is interesting to see that the 1.7.2.4 rollback should be applied after the 1.7.2.5 and i think i am going ahead and do that. bye bye 1.7.2.5

Turrets would NOT make a vehicles less vulnerable. On my phone and can't edit.

Doing the daily marathon run on the edge of the map looking for vehicles I heard this heli and ran towards it.. Recorded this fight, can skip to around 53 sec if you don't want to wait.. :) Will be 1080p in a few mins.. The heli will probably still be there and need some repairs. The group might be around trying to do that also.

One of the biggest problems is the lack of occupation for end game. If a group, clan or individual had to assemble a .50 cal in the back of a pickup that would occupy some time. Also, it would make the vehicle less vulnerable so caution would need to be used in pvp. Most sniper rifles should go bye-bye. Military snipers are rare, so the spawn should be more rare. They should be replaced by civilian hunting rifles. More muzzle flash for these weapons as well, they don't have flash suppressors. That will make snipers more vulnerable to groups. Military (non-armord) vehicles with mounts for machine guns would be cool. Something valuable but not invulnerable to protect. I personally think assualt weapons should be the primary weapons found in military spawns, with only a few select places spawning sniper rifles. I vote for much more vehicles and less gas. It makes more sense and leads to less admin/hacker abuse. There will still be repairs, vehicle destruction and pvp at gas tanks. Think of the dynamic, would you bring your firepower/valuable vehicle to a risky place to gas up? Or just run in, fill up and run away? If you know a group has a humv with a turret and you see them gassing up on foot, you can follow them and ether destroy or try and take their vehicle. Helecopter battles, enough said.

its not hacking when any idiot can modify a cfg file, its simply cheating. hacking/cracking requires actual knowledge and skills which none of these cheaters have. what someone learns off youtube or by some other fellow idiot can be done aby any 8 year old with a PC these days. its bad enough we have server/game glitches that destroy/kill/lose/etc all of our equipment and vehicles, we dont need to worry about some jackass killing us after surviving for days and actually building wealth legit. I love this game and cheaters wont discourage me, but ive found lately it to be more annoying that an admin will kick me for no reason when theres maybe 4 or 5 people on the server. ive had almost zero ping minding my own business then it kicks me 'You have been kicked by Admin'. Some admins kick the players and reset the servers so they can go to the spawn locations and grab all the gear for their clan members (mostly done with helis im sure). But every game/server needs maintenance to clean up the trash (cheaters/corrupt admins). Looks like we got a good maintenance crew set up...so keep up the good work! Have some beans!

More broken vehicles, less vehicle parts, scarce fuel Less high powered/military weapons, more "around the house" type weapons (though still difficult to find - hello apocalypse) + degradation + scarce ammo. Searchable/lootable items inside buildings: chests, wardrobes, desks, nightstands, safes... you know like at some point in the not too distant past people actually lived in these places. I like the idea of underground building but I would like to see this underground be an actual place - like a subway and sewer system. Underground tunnels and stations, rather than just some empty instance you load into and create a base in. Example: You drop through a manhole and make your way through the tunnels to your base entrance (instance). **ASA WELL AS - the ability to dig into the ground/mountains. With the creating of bases, I'd love to see the inclusion of being able to create amenities such as electricity - to light/heat/arm said bases. Water filtration systems. Cooking appliances/facilities beyond a simple camp fire... I mean this all depends how far into the "rebuild civilization" part of it you want to go. Stamina/Endurance/Agility/Dexterity(aim) directly related to and affected by hydration/fed/temperature/health level. Animals - dangerous wildlife. Fishing - another food source Infected population independent of players. It's too much of a giveaway: zambies here means player here. The diary/note creation Enter-able tents: out in the wilderness, have my tent in my pack, starts raining. I'd like to be able to set my tent up and climb inside to get out of the rain. "Friend" identification. If I'm looking at my team mate "Joe", I'd like to be able to tell that it's "Joe" and not the other random guy that has the exact same skin/equipment who just happened to come around the corner. Maybe some sort of customizable clothing flag - armband, hat decal, bandana... something. EASTER EGGS (What could be at Green Mountain? hmmmm)

Never said you were hackers. You said we were hacking? So it was you guys? OldMan was one of you? Yeah, Me and Jeremy were driving around in the white pickup asking players if they were friendly. Obviously you guys are bandits so whatever happens to you, you deserve it. And...that's what happened. After that we called out KoS on your clan/members. Your men got killed by the numerous members we had in Elektro. To be honest, i could careless if i die. It's for a good cause anyways. We have too many vehicles to know what to do with them. So driving around in Elektro is fun and we killed a lot of you bandits that way. We should of killed you after you guys didn't respond to our "Are you friendly?" request. Our bad, we waited like 20 seconds while you guys got into position. Oh well, not like dying means anything since we got all the weapons in the game and more. I was driving the truck but i shot you guys with 149 rounds of my SAW but you wouldn't die. I cough it up to lag since my team did get two of you. Me and my passenger died though. Did your expert salvage team manage to salvage your bodies? Cause when i got there they were still there... IMO, L85 sucks. Have as many as you want.

Everyone chooses how to play, and I fully embrace the fact that destroying the camp was not the most morally sound thing to do. I turned bandit a long time ago, after being killed dozens of times on the coast by bastard snipers, and I havent looked back since. More specifically in this case, I didnt try to destroy the camp just for shits and giggles, I was trying to kill as many of the campers as I could in one blast, since the end goal was only to gain control of the Huey. By blowing the vehicles, I was hoping to distract anyone I didnt catch in the explosion long enough for me to make a run for the chopper and get the hell out of there. My friend had even resigned himself to the fact that he would probably die, but was willing to do so if his death allowed me to get the Helo. That being said, I figured it wasn't Melted who restarted, since he had gone offline about 45 minutes prior to our little terrorist action. He seemed pretty chill. I might even join the mumble server.