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so i have no chance of finding vehicles in old servers?

There are alot of issues in this game, one of them being vehicles disappearing. Were you in a town where you found this bus?

Been playing for couple of weeks now, i just have few questions; If a server restarts does that mean all vehicle reset? because ive been struggling to find some form of transportation. Whats the purpose of save on tents and stuff? also does anyone know when the server LU194 restarts? because thats the server i play on mostly and hoping server restarts will reset vehicles. thanks. CloneCharlz

Setting: Tropical Island This kind of place is where you spawn Guess what? Last night? That was a thunderstorm. A pretty bad one, indeed. The power is out all over the island, chances of it getting back on? Pretty much zero. Wanna know why? All the electricians are dead. Wanna know why? I mean, when has that ever worked out? Basic DayZ rules apply. Perma-death, you start without a weapon, have to get food, drink, etc. The good stuff. To get weapons, you scavenge former park rangers vehicles/tree stands/stations & security checkpoints. Bear ain't got shit on a T-Rex Food can be gathered from one of two sources: 1) Canned supplies 2) Killed dinos. Except of course, gunshots attract all kinds of pre-historic creatures, so watch the fuck out. Locations vary from this to this to this Each are has its own kind of 'saur which is native to it (i.e. raptors in tall grass, pterodactyl in plains), plus a bunch of generic ones you can find anywhere. T-Rex and other super-carnivores are very limited per server and basically roam randomly. Oh, also, they're pretty much un-killable. Just hide in the tall grass, thick woods, caves or whever. Watch out for raptors though. The Elektro/Cherno equivalent would be the main visitor area with its souvenir shops, hospital, hotels & shopping mall. And Dinos, don't forget the Dinos. The rest of the map obviously wouldn't be just jungle, either. Just like Chernarus has its sporadic towns, etc, this little island has its ranger stations, airfield and sporadic bungalow clusters. Except keep in mind that in this world, the jungle isn't any safer than the town. For higher level players, there's a semi-connected network of tunnels, underground laboratories and bunkers which are accessible through various locations throughout the map. Like this Or this... This area is both more and less dangerous than the surface. The smaller space means that large dinos, such as the T-Rex, etc, obviously aren't present, though smaller, more agile beasts still are. Like Asians. And Raptors Also, since there still isn't any power (duh), the most you get is emergency lighting, if at all, which means you're completely dependant on chemlights, flashlights, flares, etc - which of course give away your position and are known to attract... you know it: Other players. Oh, and raptors. So there you have it: With only a few changes we could have the best Mesozoic Park game ever attempted. From what I gather Rocket, you still have like, a few months until the DayZ standalone is supposed to be finished. So if you could just include these minor changes...

The part that I found rude was where Mason said "You will get your vehicles as soon as possible, more tickets will not help." . I had already closed the previous ticket because I know how annoying it can be to have tickets open when working support. I was however happy with the response that Jonathan left me. It was very to the point and professional. Trust me there are no cars on the server. Not one.

Currently every decision made by a player is driven by his motivation and goals. It's a "do anything you want/do anything you can with this engine" type of game. Introducing NPCs or even quests would change that for the worse i fear. Get a group of friends and make your own quests: Who can get the most kills in a given amount of time? Who can gather the most food/ammo? Get a few vehicles and organize a race from NWAF to Cherno or something... The possibilites are almost endless when you realize how many tools you have been given..

Yeah I wouldn't mind for the server I play on to give me back all the vehicles I had loot stashed on back too... :/

also always possible while you weren't on the server someone came and took the vehicle you were waiting on and has saved it out in the woods on the edge of the map somewhere... vehicles aren't guaranteed to spawn on time either

I was playing at Ballota tonight and from the onset the graphics glitched and almost appeared to tear. This only happened when I looked at area's changed by the dayz devs, things like damaged vehicles, the medical camp and the airfield. I could look away and the graphics would be fine, then turn look at the items and the graphics would tear. I tried altering all the settings and reinstalling my graphics drivers but to no luck. Anyone have an idea as to what I could do to resolve the issue? The first shot is of the warehouse to the east of Ballota airfield: and screenshot 2 taken just a nudge above the warehouse. Thanks.

Hey! Our guys logged onto our server today, just to find out that all camps and vehicles disappeared. We are asking ourselves if there was a server-wipe or if it is a saving-bug withing the hive, since I read a lot of inconsistent posts about bugs that occured after 1.7.2.5, making me believe that there is a problem on how data is saved. Would be glad to receive input on this! Thanks!

1. I think zombies should be more of a threat. At the moment, considering all players would work together, hell would it be boring :/ Going into a city and looting is too easy, there are too few zeds, and if you are working in group, ur fiercest enemy is the loot, because theres too much empty tin cans :/ 2. There must be more bicycles. Really, in cherno and electro there should be up to 5 and in the smaller villages there should be about 1-2 spots, but therefore no bicycles outside settlements.The thing is, it takes way too long to cross the map, but u need to in order to get to the norhtern lootspots. The game gets boring if you see 80% of the time empty forests. Once the max player count reaches 200 maybe this wont be a problem, but then you really need more bicycles because otherwise you have huge spots of death in southern regions, whilest in the northern regions theres almost nothing but annoying campers who snipe the airfields and stary. At the moment the gameplay is in quite a desolat constitution.Its really funny the very first times you loot barnes, cherno, elektro and so on, but it gets boring once youve done this a few times and you realize that any sort of action takes place only in cherno and elektro, and outside them theres just a quick sniperdeath or an empty zombievoid, which absorbs all the fun via ridonculous traveltimes through wastelands. The game is about survival, of course, but its also about fast paced action. We are not playing arma here but a mod, which simulates civilians in an apocalypse. Chaos must spread, but at the moment this chaos gets stuck in a far too easy early game and a boring endgame. PvP should stay a core aspect in Dayz, but it shoudnt be the only way of lategame, because therefore you simply die too quickly and it takes too long to get you back on the road, unless you grap that winchester and kill anything you can and then die again.

Ok, i get your drift but consider the following: Items are only randomized to a certain extent. Lootable buildings follow rules, you won't find military gear in barns or supermarkets. Of course the loot is random but you know in advance which loot will await you. The same goes (and should go) for vehicles. You can't expect to find a helicopter at a barn or light tower. Same goes for pickup trucks, they only spawn at barns or comparable locations. Still, to follow up your suggestion, one could think about custom "skins". Vehicles could differ by design and maybe minimal speed/storage capabilities but they shouldn't appear out of place. Implement more vehicles but restrain their spawn locations to where it is logical. I could live with that.

Update--- 7th Day and still no cars on my server. Let me tell you a story about a 30 year old kid that wanted to host a dayz server- I was playing dayz and thought to myself what a cool idea. This game is awesome. I would like my own server. After researching for DAYZ :) I found that the servers in my home would not have enough bandwidth so I would have to purchased a managed server. So off I went, I went to a site called VIlayer, They were nothing but rude and could not get my server up after 3 days so I got a full refund. I then went to a site called Defcon servers. They have been okay for now. They seem to respond to tickets rather quickly. Only issue is keeping the server up. Now it was time to have some fun. I had a new server and friends to play on it with me. We started off getting all our supplies and trying to find a vehicle. Never found one. After a couple days we started to get worried and I put a ticket in with Defcon. They explained that there was nothing they could do. Only Dayz staff could help. So I did a little research and found that if I had an ID above 6000 it could take up to 7 days to get vehicles. Man that sucks I thought to myself. So to confirm I put a ticket in with Dayz Staff. Department: Troubleshooting Date: 11/08/2012 18:05 Subject: No Vehicles after 7 Dayz on new server Status: Closed Urgency: High Dustin || 11/08/2012 18:05 I bought a new server and it has been 7 days without any vehicles. We have looked everywhere. I have read that many people are having this issue. I have been whitelisted since day one. I have the server with DefconServers. My member id is US 2114 and my mission id is 8238. IP is 207.210.254.162.3402 I read that if it is above 6000 it could take up to 7 days. I have posted in the forums many times before contacting you. Please help. I really want to be able to get a car like on other servers. Thank you ---------------------------- Jonathan Dalton || Staff 11/08/2012 18:09 Hi Dustin, Your instance ID was submitted on 08.07.12. It was probably approved that day or shortly after. It has not been 7 days. - Jonathan DayZ Community Support Staff ========================================================== Dustin || 11/08/2012 18:23 Thank you for the info Jonathan. I must have been confused cause they had to give me a second ID cause the first one glitched out to say US 405 I think. So you are saying the cars should be on the server on Day 7? Is there anything that can be done to expedite this? Reboot more, Pray to the Dayz gods, Donate? Thank you for any information you have that can help me get the server going. Jonathan Dalton || Staff 11/08/2012 18:23 Hi Dustin, Unfortunately there is nothing that can be done to expedite the service. Vehicles SHOULD be on your server by day 7. - Jonathan DayZ Community Support Staff ========================================================== Dustin || 11/08/2012 18:31 How will I know when to start looking vs when to give up? Does a reboot need to be done once the cars do show up? Or will they just appear in front of me at some point? Is it possible that they could show up today? Or is it 7 days no matter what? Thank you Jonathan Dalton || Staff 11/08/2012 18:33 Hi Dustin, A reboot will be required. As for when/if/etc., I can't comment on that, only that vehicles should be on your server by day 7. - Jonathan DayZ Community Support Staff ========================================================== Dustin || 11/08/2012 18:39 Thank you for your support:) After this ticket I was hopeful. So I got all my stuff together. DMR, Silenced bison, GPS, night vision , etc. Then I saw a helicopter on my server. I though to myself WOO HOO vehicles! Then we all died and lost all our stuff.. Everyone on the server died all at once because of a hacker.. AWESOME!! (Sarcasm) So now I'm back to square one.. No items, no vehicles, No money cause I bought this stupid server. So I awaited day 7 for vehicles and some small amount of hope that I could have fun on this server. STILL NO VEHICLES. So I decided to put a support ticket in with Dayz again and see what was going on. Department: Troubleshooting Date: 13/08/2012 21:50 Subject: No vehicles on server after 7 days Status: Answered Urgency: High Dustin cody || 13/08/2012 21:50 Hello, I bought a new server and it has been 7 days without any vehicles. We have looked everywhere. I have read that many people are having this issue. I have been whitelisted since day one. I have the server with DefconServers. My member id is US 2114 and my mission id is ****. IP is 207.210.254.162.3402 I read that if it is above 6000 it could take up to 7 days. I have posted in the forums many times before contacting you. Please help. I really want to be able to get a car like on other servers. There has been no vehicle spawns on my server since I ordered it. (aside from hackers spawning heli's and jets) I was wondering why there are no vehicles for the poor guys that want to play fair? What needs to be done to get the game working correctly? Thank you Mason Henrickson || Staff 14/08/2012 00:25 As was told to you in your other ticket "Unfortunately there is nothing that can be done to expedite the service. Vehicles SHOULD be on your server by day 7." You will get your vehicles as soon as possible, more tickets will not help. ~Mason Henrickson DayZ Staff ========================================================== Dustin cody || 14/08/2012 01:06 Let me start by saying I have been nothing but nice to you guys. This is the second ticket I have put in on an issue that has lasted 7 days. I was not trying to annoy you but just solve a problem. You say I will get my vehicles as soon as possible. I am curious why a hacker can put cars and heli's on my server but you are unable to? Can you expand on SHOULD? Are you saying cars may never show up? If that is the case what is the point? can you at least act like you care even a little bit? I find your customer service skills to be upsetting. Again my only goal is to be able to play Dayz on my server with cars included. I am not asking for anything out of the ordinary. Jonathan Dalton || Staff 14/08/2012 01:20 Hi Dustin, At this time we are encountering some problems with vehicles spawning on new servers. We are working diligently to correct this problem and your patience is appreciated. I understand not having vehicles on your server is extremely frustrating but please know we are aware of this issue and are working on a solution. - Jonathan DayZ Community Support Staff After this I was a little upset. I could not believe after all this that the Dayz staff I was bending over backward to be nice to was going to be rude to me because they have an issue with the game. So now here I am, Sitting waiting for Defcon server to get my server back up so I can go to the quarry and be sad cause there are no vehicles on the server. That is the sad story of a 30 year old kid and his very own Dayz server.

But does that really need to be the case in DayZ? I don't really see evidence of a military occupation when I play this game. What I see are out of place weapons and vehicles inside the humble military installations of a country not yet in its prime. However, I do understand that this may be a an insurmountable limitation for the mod because of ARMA 2. We may need to wait for the standalone game for a more authentic setting which is fine. At this point, I think all suggestions should be directed at the stand alone game anyway as that is what really matters for the future.

Update--- 7th Day and still no cars on my server. Let me tell you a story about a 30 year old kid that wanted to host a dayz server- I was playing dayz and thought to myself what a cool idea. This game is awesome. I would like my own server. After researching for DAYZ :) I found that the servers in my home would not have enough bandwidth so I would have to purchased a managed server. So off I went, I went to a site called VIlayer, They were nothing but rude and could not get my server up after 3 days so I got a full refund. I then went to a site called Defcon servers. They have been okay for now. They seem to respond to tickets rather quickly. Only issue is keeping the server up. Now it was time to have some fun. I had a new server and friends to play on it with me. We started off getting all our supplies and trying to find a vehicle. Never found one. After a couple days we started to get worried and I put a ticket in with Defcon. They explained that there was nothing they could do. Only Dayz staff could help. So I did a little research and found that if I had an ID above 6000 it could take up to 7 days to get vehicles. Man that sucks I thought to myself. So to confirm I put a ticket in with Dayz Staff. Department: Troubleshooting Date: 11/08/2012 18:05 Subject: No Vehicles after 7 Dayz on new server Status: Closed Urgency: High Dustin || 11/08/2012 18:05 I bought a new server and it has been 7 days without any vehicles. We have looked everywhere. I have read that many people are having this issue. I have been whitelisted since day one. I have the server with DefconServers. My member id is US 2114 and my mission id is 8238. IP is 207.210.254.162.3402 I read that if it is above 6000 it could take up to 7 days. I have posted in the forums many times before contacting you. Please help. I really want to be able to get a car like on other servers. Thank you Jonathan Dalton || Staff 11/08/2012 18:09 Hi Dustin, Your instance ID was submitted on 08.07.12. It was probably approved that day or shortly after. It has not been 7 days. - Jonathan DayZ Community Support Staff ========================================================== Dustin || 11/08/2012 18:23 Thank you for the info Jonathan. I must have been confused cause they had to give me a second ID cause the first one glitched out to say US 405 I think. So you are saying the cars should be on the server on Day 7? Is there anything that can be done to expedite this? Reboot more, Pray to the Dayz gods, Donate? Thank you for any information you have that can help me get the server going. Jonathan Dalton || Staff 11/08/2012 18:23 Hi Dustin, Unfortunately there is nothing that can be done to expedite the service. Vehicles SHOULD be on your server by day 7. - Jonathan DayZ Community Support Staff ========================================================== Dustin || 11/08/2012 18:31 How will I know when to start looking vs when to give up? Does a reboot need to be done once the cars do show up? Or will they just appear in front of me at some point? Is it possible that they could show up today? Or is it 7 days no matter what? Thank you Jonathan Dalton || Staff 11/08/2012 18:33 Hi Dustin, A reboot will be required. As for when/if/etc., I can't comment on that, only that vehicles should be on your server by day 7. - Jonathan DayZ Community Support Staff ========================================================== Dustin || 11/08/2012 18:39 Thank you for your support:) After this ticket I was hopeful. So I got all my stuff together. DMR, Silenced bison, GPS, night vision , etc. Then I saw a helicopter on my server. I though to myself WOO HOO vehicles! Then we all died and lost all our stuff.. Everyone on the server died all at once because of a hacker.. AWESOME!! (Sarcasm) So now I'm back to square one.. No items, no vehicles, No money cause I bought this stupid server. So I awaited day 7 for vehicles and some small amount of hope that I could have fun on this server. STILL NO VEHICLES. So I decided to put a support ticket in with Dayz again and see what was going on. Department: Troubleshooting Date: 13/08/2012 21:50 Subject: No vehicles on server after 7 days Status: Answered Urgency: High Dustin cody || 13/08/2012 21:50 Hello, I bought a new server and it has been 7 days without any vehicles. We have looked everywhere. I have read that many people are having this issue. I have been whitelisted since day one. I have the server with DefconServers. My member id is US 2114 and my mission id is ****. IP is 207.210.254.162.3402 I read that if it is above 6000 it could take up to 7 days. I have posted in the forums many times before contacting you. Please help. I really want to be able to get a car like on other servers. There has been no vehicle spawns on my server since I ordered it. (aside from hackers spawning heli's and jets) I was wondering why there are no vehicles for the poor guys that want to play fair? What needs to be done to get the game working correctly? Thank you Mason Henrickson || Staff 14/08/2012 00:25 As was told to you in your other ticket "Unfortunately there is nothing that can be done to expedite the service. Vehicles SHOULD be on your server by day 7." You will get your vehicles as soon as possible, more tickets will not help. ~Mason Henrickson DayZ Staff ========================================================== Dustin cody || 14/08/2012 01:06 Let me start by saying I have been nothing but nice to you guys. This is the second ticket I have put in on an issue that has lasted 7 days. I was not trying to annoy you but just solve a problem. You say I will get my vehicles as soon as possible. I am curious why a hacker can put cars and heli's on my server but you are unable to? Can you expand on SHOULD? Are you saying cars may never show up? If that is the case what is the point? can you at least act like you care even a little bit? I find your customer service skills to be upsetting. Again my only goal is to be able to play Dayz on my server with cars included. I am not asking for anything out of the ordinary. Jonathan Dalton || Staff 14/08/2012 01:20 Hi Dustin, At this time we are encountering some problems with vehicles spawning on new servers. We are working diligently to correct this problem and your patience is appreciated. I understand not having vehicles on your server is extremely frustrating but please know we are aware of this issue and are working on a solution. - Jonathan DayZ Community Support Staff After this I was a little upset. I could not believe after all this that the Dayz staff I was bending over backward to be nice to was going to be rude to me because they have an issue with the game. So now here I am, Sitting waiting for Defcon server to get my server back up so I can go to the quarry and be sad cause there are no vehicles on the server. That is the sad story of a 30 year old kid and his very own Dayz server.

I'm basing these tips and tricks through my Dayz experience and hoping that you can pick up on these tricks too if you haven't already. If not keep practicing until they're second nature. 1. Scan: You'd be surprised how much you miss if you don't scan. There might be a tent filled with loot, or a guy with an as-50 sniping your ass. Regularly scan, even if you think you're safe in some wooded area, you never know whats around that tree. 2. Getting shot at? Don't Panic!: I cannot tell you how many times I probably could have saved myself by taking the time to aim my shots, or just picking a clever route to evacuate, or some distraction to get away. When you get shot at find the nearest cover, and think your plan out before you execute it. You will notice that survival rate is much higher. 3. Realize that your going to die on every character: When I first started playing this game, I was always scared of seeing other playing and worried about dying. I didn't want to die because some bandit wanted my stuff, and to be honest with you, it kind of stopped me from having fun. I didn't like to go into hot-zones for fear of dying and I began to realize that I was removing a major aspect of the game, the risk. So the sooner you realize that you're gonna loose your equipment sooner or later, the more fun you're going to have. 4. Never disconnect in hot-zones: Even if you're running out of time, try to disconnect in the woods, even when you're in a small town. You may reconnect in that spot later with a guy pointing a gun at you, and probably shooting you. ( I actually killed a guy this way, and he had quite a bit of stuff on him). 5. Grow a backbone: If you know you're going to die, don't disconnect. The guy that shot you out bested you in a fight, let him have the satisfaction of getting your loot and killing you. If everyone in this game did this tactic, it would be a whole lot more fun for everyone and enjoyable. 6. Explosives: Hand grenades and M203s are the only explosives in Dayz (besides the satchel charge and AT4). Hand grenades are a bit tricky to use because Arma's tossing animation, but are just as effective as M203s. M203s, if you can get hold of an AR gun that has one, are much easier to use, being faster, quicker to load and shoot, and overall practical to use. Now to the explosive part, Arma 2 is actually one of the few games that doesn't go wimpy on the blast radius. So, you really only need to land your explosive in the general area of the target, about 25 meters and your target should get hit. Not only are explosives dangerous in that respect, but they're a great intimidation tool. I once fired a M203 at a group of six survivors and I pinned them all down even though I had missed. Even one man with a M203 has enough firepower for 6 men, so yet again great thing to have in your possession. Satchel charges are mostly useless and is usually used for trolling, scaring, or for the lulz; but it can sometimes be used for ambushes, place it on a vehicle or something else that will attract any survivors that pass by. Unless you place it in NWAF; or any other highly populated place expect to wait for a long time before anyone comes. And even then you might just get pretty bad loot from the survivor. Be aware; satchel charges cannot blow up vehicles, it is a well known Arma 2 bug, that makes it impossible for satchel charges/IEDs to blow up vehicles. However; it will always kill the people inside the vehicle. The AT4 is to be used similarly to the m203, but from a longer range. The splash damage on the AT4 can at some times be broken and not deal any damage to survivors at all unless you get a direct hit. 7. Never use weapons outside their effective range: Although this is already self-explanatory, I cannot tell you how important this is. Even when in the effective range the weapon is still wobbly nearing it, meaning that your shot will have reduced power and accuracy regardless of the round type. Always try to shoot within the range. 8. Having two different primaries: I myself keep going back and forth between which one is better but, its all about your preference. Would you like to carry more stuff as if you were going on a supply run, use a single primary. If you are going to do some banditry, use two primaries (usually a long ranged rifle and a assault rifle, sub-machine gun, or a assault rifle and a machine gun is another good combo.) 9. Watch and stalk your target: Sometimes your target is not alone, he may have a buddy covering him or a whole team behind him make sure you watch around him and let him run for about a kilometer and follow. Even if he does have buddies you should have a good kilometer buffer zone to kill your target. 10. Weather or not to aim for the head or torso: This really depends on your range and gun. Use this as a general rule: Sub-machine guns: short ranges aim for the head/upper chest, medium range aim for the torso, long range don't even try. Sniper rifles: Short range aim for the chest, medium range aim for the head, Long range aim for the chest Assault Rifles: short ranges aim for the upper chest/head, Medium ranges aim for the torso, Long ranges aim for the torso Pistols: Short ranges aim for the upper chest/head, and don't fire it past 50 meters at anyone. 11. Sniper Rifles and Distance: I'm sure some experienced snipers have noticed this but it's always important to notice drop differences at different ranges. For example, If I zeroed my rifle at 300 meters and my target was 325 meters away the shot would dip down a little, not too much. Now lets take this target to 525 meters, and I zero my rifle for 500 meters. The drop, if you notice, is much larger than the previous shot even though the difference in meters from zeroing is still the same; 25 meters. This can determine whether your shot is a hit or a miss at long ranges. 12. Should I take a silenced weapon?: In my personally opinion I cannot stand silenced weapons for quiet a few reasons. -Reduced damage -Reduced effective Range -Reduced accuracy -Reduced Flatness of your shot (More bullet drop). -The ammunition is much harder to find then the unsilenced version All of these is for the exchange of: - noise REDUCTION (Silenced guns still have that really annoying pew pew noise when you shoot them players can hear it up to 50 meters if I remember correctly.) -No muzzle flash For me the cons of silenced weapons out weigh the pros that if I had the choice between a M9SD and a G17 I'd chose the G17. If I had the choice between a m4a1 CCO SD vs an m4a3 CCO I'd obviously choose the m4a3 due to the fact that the m4a3 can shoot up to 300 meters + and still retain large amounts of damage whilst the m4a1 can only shoot maximum 100 meters and dealing almost no damage at all. This is mainly caused by weapons losing damage over range, silenced weapons losing a large amount of damage over a rather small range and unsilenced weapons less so. 13. Where should I bandit?: I never want to bandit in a town, ever. I would rather choose to bandit around a city/hot-zone then in it, or maybe even the out-skirts. Try to choose locations that people might run near, rather than the person's destination. This will ensure that you have a greater chance of not being spotted and shot at. 14. How do I beat suppressive fire?: If you're getting suppressed, first find the biggest chunk of cover you have near you. Next, return fire and try to suppress your target. If it isn't working or you have suppressed him lay down some aimed fire on him, after that you should be golden. 15. How to use cover: Always lean out of cover and never look over cover. You should do this for a number of reasons. - You expose less of your body when you lean out of cover. - It takes less time to lean back into cover than it does to duck back into cover. - It allows you to peak around cover more efficiently. 16. Why you should chose a high caliber gun over a smaller caliber: - Of course higher Damage - A higher chance to knock a man down - A higher chance to break a leg bone - Scaring the living bejebies out of the guy your shooting - Generally higher calibers equal more effective range 17. Why using sub-machine guns are a bad idea: - Extremely low damage compared to other primaries - Effective range is only 100 meters or less - You can the same sub-machine gun benefits if you used a ak-74U ( So get one if you want to play a sub-machine gun role) - Extremely inaccurate You might as well be shooting your target with an m9, g17, or makarov if your using a sub machine gun 18. Listen to gun shots always, they will tell you a story of you target: Listening to gun shots is one of the MOST vital skills in DayZ you can have. It can tell you what gun they're using, where they are, and how many people there might be (you might be able to geusstimate how many people there are depending on the gun fire rates and what gun types there are). Try to memorize the gun sounds this skill is very helpful. 19. Know the other guy's gun flaws and expose them: Is your target using a sniper class weapon? You should probably rush him and expose the sniper rifle's weakness. Is your target using a sub-machine gun? Get far away enough to use your gun, while making his ineffective. Is your target using a machine gun, try flanking him and make him hip fire (machine guns are terrible when hip firing and the recoil is ridiculous). Assault rifles are one of those exceptions, they are the all-rounders that are hard to beat. If your gun excels more at something than an Assault rifle get in a position to max out your gun's effectiveness. 20. When in doubt RUN, FOREST, RUN! There is nothing harder to hit than a moving target. You'll be surprised how many times your opponent will miss. Weave in and out of cover, change directions, and don't stop moving. Your foe will have a hard time smiting thee. I hope you will make use of this.. this comes from our forums but I thought I'd post it here.

The idea wasn't supposed to be massively game changing, but it'd be nice to stumble onto a rare vehicle, hell it'd even be nice to see a rare vehicle fly past. Randomizing the spawns achieves the same thing that random loot spawns achieves. The game would get pretty boring if each barn spawned a shotgun, a hatchet and some beans. Not knowing what is inside the lootable building is all part of the fun. So searching for vehicles in the known spots will be made more exciting if this unknown factor is introduced. Like i said, its not meant to be a massive game changer, just something I think the player experience may benefit from

well in standalone it will be the weapons of Arma 3 ... Hmm I don´t think so. In my opinion it´s kinda unrealistic that 99% of the cars are totally destroyed..... There should be cars which are harder to fix to increase the number of vehicles.

Every zombie-spawning locale, either on a per-spawn basis or in terms of larger zones, should have a finite rate at which zombies can spawn. At first, zombies will spawn quickly, as they do now, and they'll be drawn from a population pool that's slowly refilling over time. When the pool is depleted, zombies will not spawn until the pool is incremented. In this way, it could be possible to lock down a gas station or a place where you're repairing your vehicles, so you can do your work without having to sneak from the gas tank to the vehicle and back again. Take for example Bor. It's got a dozen buildings, only three of which spawn loot (one being a lousy doghouse), and a few deer stands up the hill. Pre-apocalyptically, the population of the entire village was probably less than twenty-five people. Yet if I stand in the middle of town with my AKM I can produce a corpsepile that makes no sense in that area. So say Bor has a zombie capacity of 20, and can generate one zombie every two minutes. You and your buddies roll into town and exterminate all of them. Now you can take a breath, eat some beans and refill your bottles at the well, because the town is straight-up out of zombies. Every two minutes one will ramble past, but the horde is gone. Not hard to do, and not terribly worthwhile. If you go away for 40 minutes and come back, Bor's zombie population will be maxed out again Chernogorsk, on the other hand, would not be affected by this. The population can be understood to be massive, and no amount of gunslinging can get rid of all the zombies. Same goes for Electrozavodsk and Berezino. They'd be generating hundreds of zombies per minute, more than anyone could hope to kill in the same amount of time, and so the zombie population is effectively bottomless. In the medium area, between where zombies can be easily controlled and where they're unstoppable, are towns like Vybor, Zelenogorsk, Novy Sobor and Krasnostav. This is the more interesting situation, because it becomes possible to secure an area for a time. Perhaps most critically, it allows players to have an impact on the zombies, and makes the infection an enemy, rather than just a setting.

greeting players i am looking to form a team of mature players waiting to survive cruise vehicles and kill zombies i have a vent so plz have a mic and be over 16 message me for vent details.

these are some of the vehicles i want in the dayz mod with some other stuff 1. make the zombie not able to phase threw barricades and not be able to open doors 2. players turn after being bit by a zombie 3. please add the following weapons, flamethrower, desert eagle, 44. magnum, chainsaw, machete, M32 grenade launcher 4. please add the following vehicles, HMMWV, HMMWV (Ambulance), HMMWV (M240), HMMWV (M2), Offroad (DShKM), Pickup (PK), Pick-Up (Tube frame), MTVR (Repair), MTVR (Fuel), MTVR (Ammunition), UAZ (SPG-9) [ChDKZ], LAV-25 (HQ) [uSMC], MTVR, MH-60S [uSMC], MV-22 [uSMC], Mi-8MTV-3 [Russia] 5. please add a vehicle customization feature in garages so you can add spikes, plows, mounted guns, more lights around the vehicle and lots more like that just look up zombie apocalypse vehicles on google images and put that kind of stuff in the game

Day 9 for me, still no vehicles.. - UK 276

Yep, maybe even more. the amount of vehicles at the moment is depressingly low

Whatever you do don't update to 1.7.2.5.. Especially if you value your vehicles, equipment in the vehicles, tents, your backpack (skin changing bug), and if you like to not log in on the coast.. .4 is your friend for now trust me.

My server and most other newer servers just aren't spawning vehicles at all. :(