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Hey, no worries at all, my group grabbed what they could off my corpse and we met up further down the coast. We were looking for vehicles [hence why we let peaple run off with them] and had a party of 6 or so scouting bero for supplies so we spawned a shit load of zeds in too. Was a damn nice shot though ;)

Maybe it has to do with the fact that 1.7.2.5 ruined tents, vehicles, and left the gfx bug unaffected right before the devs took 3 weeks off.

Last new spawn I: - grabbed an AKM from the Balota ATC - Raided the Cherno supermarket for ALICE pack and consumables - Logged off in the forest - Logged back in, sent to the coast near Otmel - Hit up deer stands as I go north to the Solnichny factory - Finally find a damn hunting knife in the factory - Proceed north to Berezino, hit hospital for medical supplies - Fixed an ATV found at Klen Hill - Crash the ATV along the fences of Krasnostav airstrip - Continue North looking for camps and vehicles (current)

A hacker by the name of :GB: Donald. it started at 11:30PM ET till 11:40PM ET, driving back from Stary sobor with a friend, we came across said hacker spawning vehicles. we had killed him as he got out of his car, while looting his body he respawned back at his body somewhere outside of elektro. my buddy had killed him again and we drove off in our bus. my buddy picked me up in elektro and as we were driving along the south shore going east he respawned inside a new vehicle attempting to kill us again ramming into our bus making my friend start bleeding, we ended up killing him again but as we were driving off he destroyed our bus when he wasn't around us! the bus broke down and caught fire, we lost all of our stuff and he killed my friend afterwards when he wasn't even around us. fortunately for us my friend recorded this things with fraps and if need be we can provide video evidence that he was hacking. justice needs to be served here. thanks for your time Ryan

HOW! What is this method of finding vehicles?

US 1712 Eastern (8:00PM) i joined this server and noticed in elektro that there was a vehicle spawn just outside of elektro with tons of military vehicles.

Nice. Im doing the exact same thing now. I don't come across vehicles like you do though. The server I am on is a clan server so I'm guessing they are all hoarded somewhere. Not that I mind, I prefer moving on foot.

Yeah the reason I'm on 1.7.2.4 is because 1.7.2.5 is really buggy with tents and vehicles saving and I don't like having to get everything again as respawn said.

aite time to post up all these last screens and be done with it for good spawn: solnichniy server pop at the time: 9 (ive never seen this server before either) gather up the supplies to fix a vehicle and begin checking spawn points. V3S civillian there? Nope. Blue van? Yup and then all the adventures (dont know why this picture is so fucked up) so i start running the fields west to try and find some crash sites. upon reaching lopatino i see this in the field next to it being close to the airfield with a bike and low pop server i decide to go do a barracks run :( i forgot to take screenshots of the end of the coop char, but its still vehicles every 10 mins + crash sites

Sooo... I've been bicycling all over the fucking map to get to our camp. Got there, fixed our vehicles and placed some tents thought everything was fine so I went to get some pizza. Came back - was dead. We were 2 people on the server; Me and the hacker named 'Maslenok'. He killed me without being there and my friend checks the camp 1 min after and he get instakilled. All our vehicles were gone at that moment and he left the server shortly after. Luckily though, I got his name at the scoreboard and made a highlight about it. http://sv.twitch.tv/...lol/b/330071643 Hope it helps. Also added him on friends to see where he's going next to fuck things up. This happened ~15 min ago. Also sorry for the language, It's swedish lol.

The game is almost unplayable at the moment. Vehicles broken, tents broken, server restarts broken... Patches broken... Hackers everywhere. No support from the dev team. I play it anyway, I guess I'm a masochist.

Vehicles I wouldn't count on being there next reset, but the stuff in your tent on it's first save should be there, but you can't put anything else in after that and expect it to stay. If you've already saved your tent I would try to find a new one and stash your stuff in that and save it.

Well, if you're already running a private server that you're not supposed to have, why not add vehicles you're not supposed to have while doing it?

That's the funny thing about ATVs, you're bound to flip it eventually, no matter how well you drive or how careful you are. The idea is to have fun with it and use it to find more stable vehicles like cars.

Vehicles are a bigger issue, sucks when you fix up a UAZ and next time you log in its gone back at its spawn, same with 2 atv's and a tractor.

eventually you banned me for that: 1) my friends have put a few tents on the island and brought back parts for vehicles 2) my friends and I took away the loot of the tents on the edges of cards 3) and for the fact that I had and still have two of my friends were with AC50 TW What are cheats? And where exactly did you find hacks?

I believe it is pretty clear that the OP wrote what you call a 'novel' in an attempt to get enough support so that something is done to improve the game in the current state. Yes, alpha implies in development, and consequently it could be in any state, stable or unstable, and in an ever changing state. That's how DayZ was in the early days. It had its problems, but it was playable for the most part. Things would get broken, and the more crucial bugs would eventually get fixed. Updates came about very frequenrly. But it is not like that anymore. The last two updates, which by the way took quite a long time, fixed nearly nothing (graphical glitches, vehicles, teleports, etc). I believe it is pretty clear that the MOD is being left behind, and given no attention anymore because of the standalone efforts, which by the way, I am really looking forward to. However, I also believe it would be smart for Rocket and BI to at least bring the MOD to a more stable state, fix some of the more crucial issues, and that way people can play until the standalone comes out. Alpha or not, the game does create an impression on people. Most game companies don't release Alpha to the public, and that's because it can generate negative feedback on the game. So the OP is probably trying to appeal to Rocket so that the game he likes so much doesn't suffer from negative impressions. I see no problem with this post. It is a valid post.

Actually thats not necessarily true about items not spawning when you arrive in vehicles. They actually will spawn. Its only Zombies that won't spawn when your in a vehicle. Although yeah, if its playing up I would get out and come in on foot again, but something Ive tested, the loot will quite regularly spawn whilst coming via vehicle as Ive seen it happen whilst still in the vehicle and nobody else around.

Try checking around the mountain peaks above Petrovka. The thing about this is Petrovka isn't really a decent place to loot and the decent loots in the North/NorthWest (above NWAF) are not very good. People don't go to Petro very often and that means less player traffic above Petro. Alternatively, another place worth trying is the area around Pebodo dam. There is a fair bit of clearing around there so there are limited places to hide tents. But people like this area, there isn't much traffic and its a good place to refill Water Bottles. Another one is near the inland water part that comes in from the sea above NEAF. I find alot of traffic goes through there though. And that traffic is usually clan players so youve gotta be careful up there. I find alot of vehicles and tents. I think its a major route for boats heading over to skalinsky island. You can't see the inland bit of water on the DayZ DB map, it stops just before the edge but its around 136 019.

You're done with DayZ? Good, GO! There's the door. Don't expect them to "shut it down" just because you get too emotionally invested in your items/vehicles. Plenty of us still enjoy the game, hackers and all. Would it be better without hackers? Sure, but it doesn't suck because of them, respawn and try again. If you can't handle starting over, you're playing the wrong game to begin with.

Because the mod is dead until all the game breaking problems are fixed. The rush of people from summer sale is over and everyone has logged a high amount of hours (im sitting on 192 hours and haven't played in 2 weeks) The hackers ruin the gameplay for people and once you rent a server or join a group and dupe items the rest of what's left after hackers breaks the point of dayz. A temporary solution would be to remove tents and vehicles.

My DayZ Wish List Some of these have been mentioned before, some are outside of the capabilities of any game engine right now due to the massive load of tracking objects, but here's my thoughts. General Additions to the Engine - Sounds carrying further - maybe not enough to aggro zombies - but I know for a fact that I can reasonably hear a revolver shot from at least a 1000m, not the 52.8m set by the game. Wind should be a factor - don't worry about altering bullet drift yet, but I should be able to hear things for longer distances if they are coming downwind. - Have people be able to ride in the back of the pickup trucks, on the handlebars of bicycles, or even in the trunks of cars. - Holster/stow your pistol, put your rife on your back, and carry things like another backpack, a jerry can, or whatever. Move slower, fine, but I have two hands, let me use them. - Longer weapons or body parts poking through solid objects; not just prohibiting them from happening but allowing the body to move to accommodate them (i.e. legs and torsos bending along a wall as you lie prone) - It's not an easy task, but 'sold object' should mean SOLID. - More climbing, ability to jump, and squeezing though narrow areas - Fire! More Fire! - burn buildings, tires, tents, or vehicles - the smoke of a house fire could be seen for miles, and last for hours. More Object Control: - Put more things into other things - I should be able to fill barrels, bottles or jugs with fuel or water. Make me have to clean it so it's not contaminated (water in the fuel, fuel in the water) I'd rather be sick than dead from thirst. - Dumpsters - be able to hide in them. - Allow me to hide a stash of weapons or supplies in a container-like object like a dumpster, or under some rocks against an old rock wall - If I want to take a couple trash cans, put it in the back of my truck and drive it to a house across the map so that I can stack them and some boxes as well to get on the roof of a one-story house, I should be able to. - Dig a small hole and bury stuff - not an underground bunker, just a hole. With a tarp or box I could reasonably protect canned food, canteens, and other basic stuff. to reliably bury weapons, you'd need a box, a tarp, and and a great deal of axle grease. - No tent? Build a lean-to from wood, leaves and other stuff - works as well as a tent, I've built them myself, and if done right and placed strategically, can be camouflaged very well. - Even in the apocalypse, if I found a auto repair garage, I could modify my vehicle - you don't need power for ox-acetylene welding, just the tanks - for example, let me add light armor to civilian vehicles to protect tires, windows, and the engine a little better - I'd be slower, and still no match for an anti-materiel gun, but against lighter rounds have a bit more protection. Get a working generator and you can do more. - IIRC, towing vehicles is already possible in ArmA II. I would love to be able to tow cars, both useable and the rusting hunks in towns, and put them to use as barricades and whatnot. - Ropes; rappelling, climbing, stretch across a road to clothesline bikers, tie up hostages, or even string backpacks up in trees and have them act like tents. - Make your own cheap-ass, low quality, ghillie suit from plants and branches. Spreading charcoal from a used campfire on your clothes should help hide that clean survivor outfit of yours. A grimy old olive-drab tarp, covered in foliage, with a holes for the head/arms and worn like a poncho could work too. More points of failure - Cars break down - Guns jam, some rounds of ammo are duds, that old shotgun and box of ammo you found in a barn is probably not the most reliable. - Flashlight, l85 thermal sights, rangefinders, GPS and NVG batteries should wear out and may not be that water resistant if you take a swim. - That boat you found might have a leak, or maybe a tire blows out if you go too fast for too long or run over something hard or once too often (that one is at least partially already present). - Oh, your matches got wet? You should only have so many to a box, anyways. - Meat should go bad after a while - remember those raw steaks you put in your tent last week? Maybe that pig has trichinosis or that cow has a huge, pus filled infection that spreads during the gutting process. (perhaps mitigated by one of these 'learning skill' things I've been hearing about) - Ghillie suits need to be maintained after a few days. Hmm. I wonder if they're flammable?

2 other people, we act typically as survivors but it's kind of a mixed bag. We usually shoot on sight unless we don't feel it's necessary We don't have a camp because it's a new group. We plan on putting together a couple vehicles and use those as traveling camps

This thread is just a simple rundown of what needs changing in Day Z and why. Current positives -Loot works well and fine -Guns work fine -Status ailments (broken bones, bleeding etc.) are all fine -Vehicles work and repair fine Current negatives -Side chat is gone. There's a balance between gameplay and realism and it's weighted towards the latter rather than the former. There is VERY little interaction with players anymore, everyone just murders everyone they see and it's completely shit to be honest. Bring back side chat so I can get immersed in the game, communicate with it's players and have a better time. Removing side chat took away a lot of the social aspect of the game. -Spawning with no equipment is stupid. People keep complaining that zombies are too hard, so what happens? New players get their guns and basic supplies taken away. Why? Now people just get murdered as soon as they get anywhere and they have no way to defend themselves. Give us back our basic equipment, at least people won't be deathmatching quite as much. Nobody likes getting broken legs and having a disabled respawn button either.. -RE ENABLE THE RESPAWN BUTTON. What is the purpose in disabling it? Every time people spawn in a shit place like Kamenka they just get zombies to kill them anyway. Now we've gotta run 10 minutes just to die? It's retarded. -Find a way to stop stupid clans hogging ALL of the vehicles. They take them, hide them off the map and nobody ever gets to see them again. These are just a few simple suggestions to stop the deathmatching, improve the social aspect of the game and make it a bit easier for newbies. As it stands now, people spawn, end up somewhere horrible, run to zombies and get killed and do it over and over. Then they get killed by someone with a powerful weapon camping somewhere and they can't even return fire. Make the game how it was 6 weeks ago, everyone liked it better.

If the server is running 1.7.2.5 then your tents being empty and your truck being turned into a bus is just a bug from the recent patch. Nothing can be done about that, but you can start playing on 1.7.2.4 servers where vehicles and tents do save.