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When a server first starts is there a timer on vehicle spawns? I heard choppers take up to a week to spawn, but is it like that with all vehicles?

I love you, triscuit. I was reading the quote by the guy who said that there were enough vehicles, and I found his comment to be riddled with errors. If you search 100 different vehicle spawns without success, I think that is a clear designation that vehicles are far too rare. And also, the only time I have actually found vehicles is when some bozo drives a tractor around until some bandit thinks that it is funny to toss him a hand grenade. I have put in countless hours into dayz, and I have searched a great deal of vehicle spawns, and never have I found an interact-able vehicle. In fact, I lied. I stole a truck from a hacker once, and I must say that THAT was one of the greatest moments of my dayz experience, and if there were more vehicles available for interaction, I GUARANTEE that more players would have greater incentive to return to the game for countless hours of fantastic gameplay. Vehicles should be rare, but they should be more common. And in no way am I encouraging a whole bunch of unnecessary vehicles. I would really hate to see a whole bunch of chumps driving around the streets like they just passed their driving tests. I think that the vehicles should be very vulnerable to decay, as triscuit mentioned, and that in the wrong hands, vehicles would only be a temporary convenience. Whereas if a hardened survivor came across a vehicle, he/she would be able to properly maintain said vehicle. Thus, balanced supply of vehicles. Take my beans. I have pasta too.

No, not all vehicles can. I don't recommend bumping the heli out with a car, as you have an extremely high risk of destroying the car, heli, or both.

This is my first time posting on this forum, but i am looking for a group to enlist with in DayZ. any server. The following are my credentials. Name: Kevin Brawn Age: 18 Experience: 500+hours played, mostly in the 438th Force Recon server (Stealth and Reconnaissance) Very familiar with Cherno. Have made it 5 days so far in Dayz {GT}, have yet to die. Translating: I speak a lot of Russian, German, English, and a little bit of Ukrainian. English preferred. Skills: Map reading without GPS or in map icon "Veteran difficulty or harder". Navigating using layout of land. Sneaking. Shooting (much combat experience). 80hrs Piloting (jet or Helo, but in Dayz it is obvious =P). Designated Corpsman in 438th FR. MO: Im looking to expand my horizons on DayZ. Instead of lingering from place to place trying not to die, I would prefer to scout new areas, with the hope of building up a camp, or vehicles, or anything of that nature. I am interested in any group who will take it somewhat seriously, but still treat it as fun as it should be. ( I DO HAVE A MIC :D ) I am currently posted in Devils Castle, armed and loaded with a lot of ammo and with 2Km worth of travel supplies at the ready. I am injured, 3K health, but i can move. I need assistance to get started, but if you can help me on my feet, id put my toon's life on the line for the team. Message me on steam { Kabato7 } Or skype { kevin.brawn } I may not see posts on this forum often. Thank you!

So im at my camp almost off the map in the middle of BFE and i did a server reboot. All of a sudden POOF there is an ATV there at the camp. Now the strangest thing is not only did it spawn in middle of nowhere but its spawned right in the middle of my camp like it was a gift from rocket or something. One thing to note is that my server that is brand new and hasent even been spawning vehicles that save. The ones that have spawned havent been at the typical spawn points and dont end up saving after the next reboot. Just thought it was strange to happen anyone else see things like this occur?

I connected to the server and our whole camp was not there. 2 ATV's, a boat and 4 tents were completly removed. Not destroyed. I thought okay could be a bug, but 5 minutes later me and my friend got teleported to Chernogorsk and ALL Vehicles were there. An invisible Player killed us with helicopter.

Indeed. The key here is choice. The uncertainty of a bandit status adds something to the experience, but here's a option: Humanity works as before, but with these changes: - If you hit the 'bandit' rank, whenever you spawn, you spawn with the bandit skin. - Spawns of other outfits are given a small % chance in residential buildings. - Bandits can change skins if new outfits are found. - Outfits cannot be stripped from dead survivors - that would just increase killings and the ease of changing makes the bandit skin 99% useless. Skins have to be found at spawn points or tents/vehicles. - Remember, one or two guys in a bandit skin may be just a target for those up for the challenge. A group bandits in bandit skins, however, is something to be damn wary of. This psychological aspect may foster a 'pack mentality' and actually change bandit group behavior in a way. The bandit skin may be a curse for the lone wolf, but an interesting tool for bandits operating in larger (4-5+) groups. But perhaps, one last addition - - If your humanity score drops to the lowest 5% possible (what were the limits before? +25000 to -25000? So any score below -23500) you cannot change your skin from the bandit skin (on your next respawn - no automatic changing of skins) until your humanity rises above the 5% limit. This keeps the bandit skin as a permanent mark for only the most ruthless, and addresses the issue of 'borderline' bandits who just crossed over to a bandit designation. I think this solution can be done with minimal coding (compared to an entirely new feature/mechanic as the humanity/bandit code is still in place AFIK, but deactivated) and minimal database work (Outfits added to database and spawn points set and files are already available for all people currently playing from the existing ArmA 2 files) Edit - I know many bandits will just run to their tents ASAP and be back to normal, but so what? Almost all of us do the same with our weapons and gear anyways once we have a tent. While they are running alone back to their camp, they are the target. They get a little bit of fear. Only the ones with the most blood on their hands are stuck with the bandit skin, and it will mean something again.

Found a couple tents loaded down with stuff but no vehicles. Limited bag space so I grabbed the AS50 and the mags and ran like hell. I'm not interested in another sniper rifle as my group already has that covered, looking to get rid of this for something more useful. Not going to request anything specific, just leave me any offers. If you'd prefer, PMs are acceptable if you would prefer a more silent auction. Edit: Already have a ghillie suit, looking for preferably weapons/ammo.

I just want to say that Tyler and Brandon have been wonderful to work with, every ticket I've sent in has been responded too in a very fast manner and Tyler has worked with me on every issue I've had. He really is a great guy and great server hoster. Nothing bad to say about our experience so far, yeah we don't have vehicles but that isn't his fault. Most likely the Hives fault.

I'm really tired of everybody freaking out over hackers. Rule #1- Don't get attached to your loot. That was everybody's mantra, slogan, bedtime prayer, and name when the forums were all survivors complaining about bandits a week ago. But now that hackers show up it's okay to cry about losing our loot, and its okay to name your AS50 Spitfire's Thunder then flip out when it's gone. You can get a good gun with loads of food and already be headed North within ten minutes of spawning, and be at the NWAF within an hour. Even if all you've got is an hour you can come back the next day. Yes hackers are a problem, yes I have been hacked. In six hours over the course of a week a few friends and I went from having no vehicles to seven without stealing any of them except for one, and then lost everything because of hackers. So horrible. But they're working to fix it and crying won't solve anything.

Sweeping the northern forests and fields. I found a fly able helicopter the other day. That helped me find some vehicles and a large camp. I found three vehicles full of hacked vehicles, blew them up with grenades from on board, then almost got shot and ran off. Unfortunately, server restarted. I'm now comfortably watching someone's camp from 500 meters, through a scope....

Its no trouble I have the problem myself and have yet to find a permanent fix for it. Btw have you seen any vehicles on the server? its been a week and I have yet to find a legit vehicle <_<

I used to live just north of Berezino. Paranoid with fear of losing our car entire ride from Berezino to Golova and back. The second I drop my guard, on some back road in the middle of nowhere, AS50 shot that definitely came from the hacker who was handing them out the other day pierces through our car tire and everybody dies. Now we just wander. Went from having a bunch of vehicles to getting shot by AS50s everywhere from nearby the airfield to inside the grocery store. It's an epidemic.

That's normal. Vehicles respawn where they were destroyed. I guess you have to save the destroyed vehicle. Then it should despawn. But two Helis we had despawned too after a crash because a hacker teleported us while we were flying. If you destroy a car, just restart and it reappears where it blew up.

just posting this here in case it gets lost in the other thread: Hacking is currently making the game unplayable and is THE #1 Issue, becoming more and more common... The night before last the server I was playing on flashed white a few times - and then everyone in the server got teleported into the sky and people fell to their death - fortunately I managed to D/C however a few friends ( and many others in the server weren't so lucky ) . Last night I joined 3 servers, First one I noticed strange white circles around NPC's and then within 10 minutes someone had teleported next to me (I was totally hidden in a tree) spammed leg breaking noises and was then instagibbed / insta-killed... then the server went down... lost all my stuff. Met up with friends on another server starting fresh, got some basic gear started making my way to meet up with some friends... after meeting up with them within 30minutes we all got teleported together and everyone was killed. Trying to rejoin another server and their were vehicles and tents spawned everywhere - then that server got shut down.Completely unplayable... My friends and I lost all our gear / spent time trying to meet up only to have completely game-breaking hacks scripted in to ensure that there is no point putting any more time in the game until there is better prevention. US500 , Seattle 61, NZ 04 / 06 , ANZ 04, were some of the servers for those interested - but honestly it seems as though its everywhere at the moment.

You will find plenty of people up north on mid pop servers. If you're really itching for a fight at NWAF, join low pop servers of around 10-12. I know it's not always the case, but I find that on 50 man servers, if I run into anyone at NWAF, it's only one or two people. If I join low pop servers though, more often than not half the server is at NWAF. Personally, I want to one day ride an ATV off Pike Kovlova. That's just one personal little end game idea for me. You could start looking to infiltrate and engage other clans/groups, get some rivalries going. You could make it your mission to protect the noobs of the coast, handing out low-mid level gear while killing all those pesky little bandit snipers off the hills and buildings of Cherno and Elektro. Get creative. It's true there's not anywhere near as much endgame content as their could be, but we won't see most of it until stand alone. That being said, there's plenty of things you can do with all that fancy gear and all those vehicles you have. The key is to use your imagination and, most importantly, not just horde it.

so me and my goup of mates are pretty much at the end game stage (great loot, vehicles, tent city etc) and im wondering what everyone else does at this stage to keep them entertained.. Its frustrating because i cant go to Stary, NWAF, Berezino, Balota and a handful of other locations due to the artefacts, i cant find players up north to fight because im always avoiding full servers due to hackers, and going south to troll noobs disinterests me.. So what do you do?

i haven't read anything except the first post in this topic, but I assure you off map vehicles disappear. trust me, I know from experience. I've only found 3 vehicles in dayz, a tractor, bus, and a truck. lost the tractor because 2 of the wheels were outside the map, lost the truck and the bus because of a hacker.

I can see all vehicles on the server on my map, and I can tell you now that very few vehicles are on the outskirts. most of them (like 90%) are still within bounds and very accessible. If you would like I can post an image of just how many vehicles there are scattered around on any given server.

Hacking is currently making the game unplayable and is THE #1 Issue, becoming more and more common... The night before last the server I was playing on flashed white a few times - and then everyone in the server got teleported into the sky and people fell to their death - fortunately I managed to D/C however a few friends ( and many others in the server weren't so lucky ) . Last night I joined 3 servers, First one I noticed strange white circles around NPC's and then within 10 minutes someone had teleported next to me (I was totally hidden in a tree) spammed leg breaking noises and was then instagibbed / insta-killed... then the server went down... lost all my stuff. Met up with friends on another server starting fresh, got some basic gear started making my way to meet up with some friends... after meeting up with them within 30minutes we all got teleported together and everyone was killed. Trying to rejoin another server and their were vehicles and tents spawned everywhere - then that server got shut down. Completely unplayable... My friends and I lost all our gear / spent time trying to meet up only to have completely game-breaking hacks scripted in to ensure that there is no point putting any more time in the game until there is better prevention. US500 , Seattle 61, NZ 04 / 06 , ANZ 04, were some of the servers for those interested - but honestly it seems as though its everywhere at the moment.

I would love to see that agile little thing in the game. Sadly with every shithead in the game rolling with radar and teleport its not possible to hide anything. As it is right now you will spend ALL of your time hunting down the vehicles those little fuckers drove into debug to grief you.

You'd need both Private Military Company and British Armed Forces (basically called "ARMA 2: Reinforcements") if you really want all the things to be high-resolution. The PMC-DLC gives high-res textures to the default player-skins and maybe one or two other things that I cannot name from the top of my head. However, even though the PMC-DLC has the AS50 included (if you check in the Armory while owning PMC only you'll have an AS50 with high-res textures), the AS50 in DayZ will still have blurry textures! The BAF-DLC gives high-res textures to the Camo Clothing skin, the Ghillie Suit skin (the BAF-Ghillie seems to have better-fitting colours for Chernarus, which may be why rocket took those over the ones from the USMC/Chedaki), one (or more?) vehicles (Old Hatchback but I may be wrong on this) and the AS50.

I've brought this up before, but my friends and I used to play 007 Goldeneye for the n64 and when we finally got bored after years we started to play I guess I'd call it civilization? Any ways we'd play on the level complex and each have our own house as there are about 4/5 places that look almost like small houses. If someone got murdered or someone went on a murder rampage we could kill that person, or have cops n' robbers sort of dealio. With DayZ and Arma II you could go so much more in depth with this concept and actually have a great time with friends. People living in the towns, with jobs, vehicles, stores, it'd be a lot of work and elaborating, but it could be worth it. :P Maybe when I get bored of DayZ/Arma II... As for your question, I have not chosen a place yet, but I usually travel from Cherno/Electro to the NW Air field.

Why not a bicycle, its one of the best vehicles :D, but if you google: dayz vehicle map you will find what you need.

Was there as well but I did manage to survive and get all my items back. What I did was : 1. Run from hackers 2. Prone in the bushes 3. Press escape multiple times while trying to click on Abort before it grays out 4. Reconnect to the server ASAP(That's when you get your items back) 5. Disconnect for real 6. Profit! But yeah those hackers are really a pain, teleporting everyone while stripping them of all their items and blowing like 10 vehicles around them and disabling the disconnect/save/whatever button you have in options except for the settings.