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I have a cold right now and it made me think. If the standalone is going to have some kind of dynamic weather system, nights could have slightly different temperatures also. Body temperature should be further affected by how fast you're moving in 'unshielded' vehicles, when you're not wearing thick enough clothing. Because it is DARNED easy to get sick that way sometimes. Examples: driving around on a motorcycle driving around in a car without windshields sitting near the sides / being the gunner of one of those helicopters that have open sides If you stand completely still, a stiff breeze should have the same effect. That + heavy rainfall should chill you down to the bone even if you're wearing a lot of clothing. Bonus thought: running around a lot can make you all hot & sweaty. But if you're not wearing a space suit, it will likely also make you a slight cold the instant you stop running. Getting sick & feverish on top of that would end up making you hotter as well.. HM.. all this calls for a more complex body temperature mechanic. Maybe keep track of a white blood cell count within the blood? I didn't get to post this in the little reddit suggestion event the other day. Felt like I needed to leave this somewhere. :)

There was a video with a guy running with M14 throu cities and giving hell to people, eliminating groups of three or so with high end gear including vehicles from short distance. That's what called massacre. If you'd posted something similar you'd get some respect here. But judging by your video you're just a pussy.

Please read the whole thread before commenting/passing judgement. I was thinking of ways to possibly better the game for the general community the other day, and I came up with this: New Item: Laptop Functions: Connects to a satellite which generates a relatively close up snapshot of a provided area (user chooses a 10 square kilometer zone for the photo (number not set in stone)) every 5-10 minutes (this number is also not set in stone). In the photo, the user would be able to zoom in quite a bit in order see the position players and zombies were in when the photo was taken. Players or zombies that were inside or underneath cover when the photo was taken would not be seen. Stats: Only spawns in military areas (this is not set in stone). Has a very, very low spawn rate/chance. Restrictions: The photo produced by the satellite would not be heat sensitive. The photo produced would not designate certain objects as "players" or "zombies". Only close and thorough analysis of the photo would be able to reveal the identity of individual objects. Note: I have not yet thought of a way to deal with player-owned vehicles and tents. Should the photo reveal these as well? Or should these be hidden from the gaze of satellite in order to protect player item ownership and sort of "nerf" the power of the "Laptop"? I'm not really sure. This is up for debate. As you can see, the primary function of this device would be to locate targets that have remained stationary for extensive periods of time (campers/snipers). So just tell me what you think, fellas. Thanks, Scoopolard

Who cares if it requires skill? Better weapons are supposed to require less skill. The entire point of the game is finding things to make life easier (vehicles, camps, high end weapons, NVGs, etc.).

Just so you hotshots know, 1.7.2.5 has some issues and wont save vehicles... So they are there and if you fix em up they can be yours...We try to be fair. :thumbsup: Just looking for people to play on our servers.

No clan servers ever have vehicles, not worth it

there is a server called ZUST that is a private hive with vehicles all over the place. Was pretty decent, only had the entire server killed by a hacker once in 3 hours, which is pretty good. Just be careful of the guys that run the server, they like to approach in groups and say friendly - you need anything?? before shooting you.

I have something to add to vehicles. I would like to see some modifications for vehicles that will effect its performance. Not anything like replacing the engine because that requires specialized equipment. But something like an improved muffler to reduce the sound the vehicle makes or all terrain tires to improve speed while off-road. Also after reading the suggestions for bases I would have to say that you would need a much larger world to allow for good size camps to be built. Simply because groups of players will likely spend long hours building an underground base but it only takes one player could come along and ruin the entire thing. Also editing the world to have a more balanced population would be great. Currently the world had high concentration zones such as Cherno, Electro, and the NW air field. This creates problems because of the number of players moving around in these areas. I think as the DayZ standalone comes out world editing will become much more common and that issue could solve itself. All in all this is a grade A thread with awesome suggestions and I hope many of them make it into the actual game.

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.

Pft you waited to tell us after you rounded up all the vehicles

if only tents and vehicles didn't FORCE you to dupe items...

In Episode 8 we discover a fully repaired URAL truck, one of the best vehicles in the game, and fuel it up for some looting! After finding a crashed chopper and blaring some rock 'n roll over VOIP, we decided to blow through the gates of the North-West airfield with our new toy.

This would just result in more deathmatch so I am against it. Once your inventory full of good stuff it's either find more stuff or go shoot players. I rather hoard vehicles and items than go shoot players at the coastline

No it was 56 minutes between your ban and Araefel's. Yes lately I was spending most of time logged in in the pine trees around my base watching the vehicles with an LS85 and server Rcon, so don't worry I won't be running a server again you can count on that.

24.08.12. 01:00 AM our Heli and V3S Truck disappeared There was no server restart, no respawn and nothing Player Jigsaw and another one (cant remember his name) where the only one on this server with my team (notime, surprised,wolfie the fox, doxybene, paddy, joker) Timezone is UTC +2 please check this, its the secound time we've lost our entire equipment and vehicles

Well we tried every method of reloading it unfortunately we can't test if it refills on server restart because our server has the issue where vehicles don't save their location when the server is restarted. We just know where the helicopter spawns and log out with the items required to fix it upon the next server restart.

Me (ingame: [DIE] Graegi) and my friends ([DIE] Bear Grylls , [DIE] Voker der Schlecko) were banned because of different causes from LU 197. We followed a helicopter to a camp with many tents and vehicles. Later we came on the same server with other names and loot the gear from the tents, then we were shoot by a sniper (probably one of the admins) and the server crashed a little later. When we tried to join the server, the BattleEye Client said to us that we were banned (all because of different reasons). So we think that they banned us because they are afraid we can loot their tents again. Thus we were banned for no "ban-reason". We hope we will unbanned soon ;)

So the way I play DayZ is the same way I raise my kids? WTF is wrong with you idiots? You assholes assume so much from a single sentence, but thats the internet for you. Your children being mentioned because you dont mind someone giving you a weapon? Thats out of bounds. Especially you, Bottlerocket, youre 37 years old, you should know better than to say anything about anyone's kids (or even add to) , even if it is on the web. And for the record I have never hacked or cheated in a single video game and Ive been playing for over 20 years. Never have I killed another player in DayZ, and I've been playing since the beginning. I always try to help out others in DayZ. I travel to the airfields/firehouses every chance I get to try to acquire weapons and rare loot. But you want to know what I found is worse than hackers? Clans. Clans (or groups) that fucking horde all the vehicles in a server. Clans that horde every damn rare gun or equipment on the server. That means that Ive been playing for a few months and have never seen a pair of night vision goggles or a range finder. Ive found a few cars, and when I climb in them, drive away, the admin or whomever boots me and takes the car back, THIS is what ruins DayZ.

So here is the story... I logged into a private hive server to do some banditry, and was very happy when I realized I spawned in Elektro. I made my way into town, and hit up the firestation, then the church. I ran outside the church to hear heavy gunfire. It was obvious that it was an LMG. I saw the gun, and instantly knew it was hacked. I know all of the LMG's in the game, and I've had all of them. The one this player had was hacked. I talked to him through direct coms repeating "Friendly, Friendly, I have no gun don't shoot!" He went into Direct, and stood still to type, while zombies were hitting him. I knew this was a hacker. He said follow me. I asked if that gun was hacked. And then i was like "I know that shits hacked, bro spawn us a chopper and lets get the fuck outta here." He crouches down, for a moment, and BOOM xD A chopper. I hop into the pilot seat, telling him to get in. He gets in, and I fly off. Far north. He asks for me to stop for a second. I make a landing and he says "I'm going to spawn all the vehicles in the server to this spot, I reccomend you stay in the chopper for your safety." i was like this this is gonna be dope. i asked, wouldn't there be people inside the vehicles, that means I could die? He replied with ill god mode you. I was like well shit, ty <3. he does it, TONS of fuckin vehicles were all over this valley. I'm checking them while getting shot at, and there was so much shit it was awesome. I put ALL the guns I could find inside the one ural. Take off to my camp, place some tents and unload. Do the same thing a couple of times, and then take off with one of the legit helis. I went back to get some more vehicles and supplies. I got back to take off with a second UAZ, when i got shot with a 50. cal. I guess the god mode wore off. Then after that, I got to my camp, grabbed some sniping supplies, and headed up to a mountain over looking the whole thing. I killed about five poeple who were trying to scavenge stuff. Then the server got that no msg recieved to so long of time msg. I got back on, and all the shit was gone :( fun while it lasted.

I like the idea because when your "avatar" dies, the next one you control doesn't know where that tent is so the tent should be gone. The same should go for vehicles as well. The reason why most people protest is because they're running around hoarding stuff (including me) and wouldn't like to lose that since the items are currently stored away "safely". The fact is, death now means "long run". If it actually mean that you would have to run around in Elektro/Cherno and dodge the snipers, while looting, would make death sting more than it does now. And it might make one of the many snipers realize how much of a bitch it is to not only avoid zombies and other looters in addition to the snipers when you try to get stuff in Elektro/Cherno and since they now have to work hard(er) for it - appreciate their equipment better.

As already said updating to 1.7.2.5 doesn't cause any wipe or removal of vehicles/tents. It does, however, introduce a Hive update 0.73 I think it is, that has had nothing but problems. BUT this is due to be fixed soon when the Hive is moved to a new home server. In the meantime, I'd stay with 1.7.2.4 if I were you. Tents and Vehicles aren't reliable on a server running 1.7.2.5 right now.

Hey guys, some friends and I own a server and we would like to update to the latest version. Only problem is apparently it wipes vehicles and tents. We have a few vehicles and tents to ourselves as im sure many of our players do. My question is this. If we update, will all vehicles and tents be wiped?? Thxs

If you want to play on the public hive there are rules.These rules keep the game fun for everybody. If he wants to play on a personal server he can generate his own hive. Otherwise his hoarding vehicles and rare items just makes the game less fun for everybody else on the entire public hives. Bad servers bring us all down.. nobody wants to face a constant stream of over geared server hoppers who have an invulnerable home base where they'll probably ban you if you join. This guy can probably use his super private camp + private chopper to attack any of our bases via server hopping.. and killing him won't stop him because he'd probably just reset his server and dupe his gear/vehicle back. He's one step up from a scriptkiddy and he needs to be removed from the public hive. If he wants to play on the public servers he's gonna have to play by the rules.

^^ i wouldn't set it to 1725, your vehicles will not save their positions anymore (after a restart).. I would wait for a fix or a new version or you play with vehicles only from restart to restart (which sucks imo).

anti-material rifles aren't needed as its not like your trying to shoot tanks in DayZ or anything, A normal sniper is enough against normal vehicles