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EDIT: tl;dr: I am going to hatchet your ass. The Beginning: I have been playing this game since July 17th (my birthday). My younger brother purchased this game for me, and I have had an amazing time playing it with him and his friends (and myself... let's not mention that though). ;) After they taught me how to play, and I had a few encounters with other random players, I decided to give them some advice. "Shoot everyone in the face!" They immediately told me not to do that / that isn't nice / don't think that way. After a long debate, they convinced me that the 3 other people I had ran into were "bandits." So, I continued playing the game with the intention that a majority of the other players were trying to survive the same horrible zombie apocalypse I was. My Noob Years: My brother and his friend were in Elektro gathering supplies to move to our camp (obviously we should have been further north, but... oh well). I was nearby, so I asked if one of them could give me a blood transfusion. They asked me to meet them in the school (three story building), so I headed over there. I informed them over Skype that I was entering the bottom floor of the school house. My brother asked if I had an Enfield. I responded, "no." I thought he was asking if I had fired one and he heard it, or that I had the weapon in my hand. I was still new, so I didn't know you could see weapons on someone's back. My brother immediately started shooting at me, so I shot back and killed him. His friend was behind him and killed me within seconds. It all happened so fast none of us knew what happened until we saw the death messages on the server. (Note: Our server has no nameplates) My brother was quite angry, which I thought was hilarious (older brother syndrome). So, now I am confused because I was told not to immediately shoot people, but they shot me without asking if I was friendly. :( My "Being too Nice" Experience: One day, I log into the game near our camp, while someone is looking through our tents. After recently killing my brother, I decided to hold my fire and ask if they were friendly / are you my brother's friend? BAM!!! I get shot in the face. I suppose that was understandable, since the guy wasn't our friend. However, he could have apologized and I would have let him go... maybe. My Most Annoying Alpha/Bug Experience: I spawned on the coast (with all my stuff) without dying or server hopping. However, I had to try three times to connect to my normal server. That could have caused me to spawn on the coast. Either way, it is still annoying when I didn't die or server hop. But, this is an Alpha and a mod, so I shrugged it off (as I have with many bugs/glitches in PC games, mods, and alphas / betas before this one) and headed for my camp. My Close Encounter with Insanity: After two hours I arrived at my camp. (I didn't run straight there, since I wanted to check some of our other camps / loot areas on the way). My camp and all of the vehicles were gone. So, I decided to wait for a server restart. Insanity: I rejoined the server after a restart to find none of my tents or vehicles! Now... this is a mod, and it is in Alpha. It isn't even a game in Alpha... just a mod. So, I can't be mad at rocket, and I can't be mad at BIS (well I can be mad at them a little bit for their quirky engine). The only people left that I can be mad at / express my anger towards are the players. So, prepare yourselves for the wrath of the hatchet wielding maniac, the makarov madman, and/or the Lee Enfield lunatic!!!!! I AM COMING FOR YOU! Stay out of Cherno/Elektro if you know what is good for you! P.S. I am not actually going to do this... yet. Luckily, most of my rage has been released while writing this forum post. P.P.S Now I understand why people are so trigger happy... it releases anger (or maybe they really are just CoD PoS wannabe PC gamers... sorry to introduce consolism). P.P.P.S. You guys are awesome. I hope to kill you soon... or who knows, maybe we can team up some time (emphasis on the "maybe"). <3 nano

I'm having this issue as well. It really sucks, my tents and vehicles are up north, I have to spend all my time running the map so I can 'save' them.

Good to see no one has responded accurately to this yet. Most cars zombies will not attack. They will not attack it if the engine is off. They will not attack it if the engine is on. This includes ALL closed-top vehicles, such as the UAZ, Ural, Bus, Hatachback, Blue Van, etc. If it is a CAR WITH A CLOSED TOP THE ZOMBIES WILL NOT ATTACK IT. EVER. I have confirmed this numerous times. Zombies however WILL attack most open top vehicles, such as the motorcycle, bicycle, and ATV. As of 1.7.2.5 ALL closed top vehicles DO NOT spawn zombies when you approach a building, even if you completely stop and wait for a while. This makes it easy to tell if someone is in town, as zombies will only spawn in if they are on foot. In 1.7.2.3 zombies would spawn in if you were riding an open-top vehicles, such as the ATV. Last I checked, this has been corrected and even bicycles no longer spawn in zombies when you approach a building riding them. This could also indicate that zombies no longer attack you when riding these vehicles either, but it has yet to be confirmed.

Since tents and vehicles have been fubar since the beginning I can only assume they can't be fixed. None of the "fixes" have ever worked. I suppose we will have to think of it as a feature and not a bug.

If anyone has a sure-fire way of making sure tents and vehicles work, I'll be interested to hear it.

We did save EVERYTHING. Even trashed all the vehicles, AND saved them afterwards. They still bumped back to their original positions with all the loot in it.

Maybe I should have mentioned it in my previous post, but I did in fact experience the same thing as so many of you that posted here did. Logged out near the NW airfield yesterday, because me and my buddy flipped an ATV going too fast over a bridge and wanted to wait for the server reset. Needless to say, if you spawn on the coast afterwards, it's definately annoying since, as you probably know, vehicles can be hard to come by. So am I "compassionate" about what's happening...? Ofcourse! Doesn't change my opinion about the bulk of the posters here. The "universe" comment still stands. The "I want it! Right now, dammit!" attitude is still displayed by a majority of the forum members here. That...is what strikes me as childish and silly. By all means, continue to do so...it's what this forum is partly for. And we all hope that someone reads it and takes notice. However, I can guarantee you, yours and everyone else's comments and suggestions will be taken a lot more seriously when drafted in a less abrasive and sometimes downright insulting fashion. Or do we really need to include a fuck, shit or douchebag comment in every post we make, in order to make our post stand out from the rest? I'm afraid that, on this forum, it's the other way around. Apologies if my earlier post rubbed you the wrong way, fella.

Save it, save your vehicles or they will NOT be there after a server restart. It's crucial atm. Oh and tents don't work at all atm.

Script suites aren't currently updated to work with it. Been some amusing discussion on a site I follow to see what the tangos are up to and seems they can't even spawn vehicles at the moment without literally sacrificing a goat (don't ask me how occult rituals come into it). We've had a really nice day on our server. Fairly good population and absolutely zero hacks the entire day.

Well, we only got 1 kill on the enemy group, though they definatly were searching for us. However, we are completely sure, that we saved all the vehicles, even the ones we trashed after the last restart. Yet now, they are in their previous spots, good as new, with ALL the loot still in them. No manual restarts right after. Was after a good 6 hour period.

I found a pickup truck and a tractor a few days ago. Sometimes the loot would stay in the vehicles, sometimes it wouldn't, and sometimes it would reset to what they had in them two server restarts ago, and sometimes it would have old loot I'd transferred out into tents, and the new loot I'd put back in them side by side. I stashed them away and log back in today and they have disappeared. I'm assuming they got stolen, but I've had tents empty themselves and refill randomly and vehicles disappearing only to reappear later. I have no idea how to prevent it, or what causes it.

So, yesterday at around 20:05, me and my 2 friends snatched a heli and bus from a group on de399. Within a couple of hours we stole an URAL truck and GAZ. We set up a camp with 4 tents, and stashed all the gear there, and drowe the vehicles away and fooled around in the chopper. After the next server restart at 02:00, all our tents was emty ( shit happens, either stolen or bugged ). We checked all the places the vehicles had been before the reset, and they were all there again, exactly same loot, and exactly the same positions. Once again we emty it all into our own tents, but this time we destroyed all the vehicles exept for the chopper. After the next server restart, all our tents are emty again, beside one of then wich has some minor items in it. Allright we were looted. However, when checking a couple of the previous vehicle spawns, the URAL and GAZ was right back, with ALL the loot intact, even all the minor stuff. Any good reasons for vehicles and loot to behave this way? All the server restarts weren't manual, scheduled restarts.

Hey, I'm basically looking for a clan or a group of people to team up with. I'm 18 years old, I play the game seriously but like to have fun too. I am only interested in teaming up with people who are already geared up and ready to go (and who are experienced in the game). I have been playing DayZ for over a month now and would class myself as a skilful player, I know all the main loot spots, how to repair vehicles and how to move across the map undetected by other enemies. If you would like me to join your clan or team, or find out more about me then feel free to message me via the forums, or simply add me via Skype @ kerr.macgowan Thanks

Update - Havent respawned on the beach the last couple of times I have logged in, I have tried limited my logins to a couple of reliable servers to hopefully minimise this. Glitches are still there, seems to be a lot around tank traps too though this could be a result of something close or behind. They really are bad though, worse I have seen. Ammo count seems to be working fine however one glitch encountered was with the axe, when I logged back in the axe was empty and could not be 'reloaded'. I had to put on belt and take back off, reload it again and it worked well. One other issue that is happening every time I log in is that my kill counters are all reset to 0 each time. My humanity starts at 0 each time as well however I am still wearing my 'hero' skin. Logins time vary and im starting to think this might be more a server issue however I did come across a server today that logged us both in very quickly, insanely quick actual. Script #185 keep happening to everyone on one server I was on, it came up and booted everyone back to the login screen, someone said it was a 'safety kick' so instead of an insta death it drops you out of the game and protects you, this was nice once we understood what was happening. Our home server hasnt updated yet so we havent been able to log into it all weekend but when it finally does I will be able to test the vehicles. Zombie pathing seems to be smoother and looks more realistic, good job with the zombies. Hero skin looks great, does anyone know if the females have a hero skin as well? or is my partner evil to the core ?:) Thats my update for now.

The halos are stupid. I see them on veteran servers too. Sometimes zombies/animals are white, players are green and vehicles are red. WHY do we even have the option?! Horribly immersion-breaking.

i think that server admin doesnt care at all because i still see the graveyard of vehicles ad chests with all the loot in them

Got everything you need, but im only in need of vehicles... You got any? :)

My Server is now 8 days olod. we're looking for vehicles.. :(

theres really much around actually, but so many "hoards" the vehicles, just go up north and follow west then south, usually find 3-5camps with EVERYTHING like as50 nvg ghillie and such. i also find 0-7 vehicles :) Good luck the hunt

enough said, make more cars that have no wheels, broken engine, broken fuel tank, and bad hull, be more plentiful so it requires teamwork to get all the parts together and fix it before someone else does, i don't think there are enough around right now

Simple solution to the whole thing. Vehicles are moved back to their original location 48-72hours after their last save. 72-100 hours after their last save they are reset completely (cargo wiped, and repair reset). If you are unable to save your vehicle at least once every 3 days then you have no need for it. If a clan is active on the server then saving their vehicles that often is not a problem, but this will solve the problem of scripters, and troll clans gathering up vehicles on servers they don't play on actively.

I still get artifacts sometimes. The Flush seems to more reliably resolve them, but it's not perfect. They also appear to be more frequent when it's night-time in game, but don't have enough data to determine if that's related or not. I installed by copying and replacing all of the DayZ files. ARMA2 and Operation Arrowhead were not freshly installed. I also have found that tents and vehicles do not seem to save their contents past the initial save, so every time the server restarts all of the items placed in after the initial save are gone. I hope that helps.

Definitely happening on our server too. Things worked perfectly in 1.7.2.4 but since 1.7.2.5, after a server reboot vehicles revert to their saved position (and contents) as of wherever they were with 1.7.2.4 Tents do the same thing. New tents can be placed but they will not save any contents at all even after a reboot. Our server is running: Dayz 1.7.2.5 HIVE 0.7.3 Arma Beta 95883 We have also experienced the report of vehicles swapping spots with each other like Tobosaku said in his post.

Definitely happening on our server too. Things worked perfectly in 1.7.2.4 but since 1.7.2.5, after a server reboot vehicles revert to their saved position (and contents) as of wherever they were with 1.7.2.4 Tents do the same thing. New tents can be placed but they will not save any contents at all even after a reboot. Our server is running: Dayz 1.7.2.5 HIVE 0.7.3 Arma Beta 95883

Yeah I don't get it, majority of the NZ servers are now unplayable due to hackers, the longest i've gone this weekend without dying a hack related death was about 5 hours. And due to there being such a small server pool for us down here, the hacker to server majority is quickly getting out of control. During today's play, i've died to hackers using godmode scripts, insta kill scripts, teleport, invisible, just about any imaginable way to die, a dude even spawned a truck on top of me and drove it around with god mode on trying to run me down. Last night we even had 2 vehicles stolen from us while we were driving them, This has occured on NZ - 2, NZ - 3, NZ -6, NZ - 19, NZ - 20, and im going to go ahead and assume all the other NZ servers. I might go back to ANZ servers, but i'm going to assume it'll be the same there. So yeah, the atmosphere is gone, i'm keen for the standalone, but if that falls to hacking too, it'll be a sad end to such an amazing idea.