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It's sad people think BF3 is realistic... Ammo pool, self healing vehicles, mav kills, tiny maps, insta respawn, ammo and heath boxes, magic repair tool... the list goes on. Try playing ARMA2 properly - hell even DayZ - forn while and you will see how close to cod BF3 has come - CoD with Tanks. BF2 PR was better, but now it's meh. P.S the fuck would I go to Elektro for? Everyone knows it's a noobtown

I would like NVGs and a Ghillie Suit...except I am relatively newish and don't have great gear/vehicles to get around...oh well I'll contact you in the future if I get anything to trade..

I don't think that I've seen this suggested yet, and I don't really expect it to be in the game. I just think it is kind of a fun idea. What if you could modify vehicles in the game to add stuff like armor and weapons? Think: the A-team. Take a regular car, truck, bus, etc. and modify it by welding on armor and adding guns. New items like welding kits could be added along with stuff like scrap steel and sheet steel for making the armor. Mounted weapons could be limited to launchers and LMG's which you would have to find in the usual ways. Armored vehicles could have reduced speed and visibility (eye slits for drivers and passengers being the only way to see out). Mounted weapons would mean that you would have to give up at least one passenger capacity for the mounts for weapon and ammo. Steel and welding kits could be extremely rare items, maybe the most rare in the game to keep the "tanks" from being too overpowered. That would help make these "custom" armored vehicles very rare themselves. I can see the problems and abuses that would come from this, but I still think that its a really fun idea. If not DayZ, some game needs to do it. Imagine the looks on people's faces when they hear a small car coming toward them, getting them excited thinking that they can kill the occupants and take their gear and maybe their ride too, only to see that it has steel plating and a M240 attatched to the roof. *edit to fix typo

Some vehicles just want a vacation, so the DB brings in temps to take over. Or maybe they just 'came out of the closet', or you just caught them cross-dressing, and you'll just have to accept that. It's just some motorcycles are just born wanting to be bicycles, you know. Why shouldn't a Ural who longs to be a colorful taxi just follow its dreams and be a damn taxi. It just hauls your ass around like a taxi anyway. Who are you to judge, man?

Wipe EVERYTHING. Get rid of all the loot that everyone has. Get rid of EVERY tent in EVERY server. Reset ALL of the vehicles. Make EVERYONE start from scratch. I would fucking love that.

O.o Never happened to me, but I havent found a lot of vehicles anyway.

I agree with a wipe but vehicles still dupe all items in them pre patch

I still get artifacts with the new patch. Also having problems with vehicles saves. They seem to have their gear wiped each server reset and they always want to end up in the exact same place before the update.

This is the site I pull up on my laptop to use for guidance lol. I've been trying to find vehicles using this map since I got Dayz.

This is a good place to see where vehicles might show up, not to mention it is just a great resource in general for getting around in DayZ! :) http://dayzdb.com/map#4.029.122

Did you fully stop the server and restart it? Apparently there are two kinds of restart and the proper restart will only bring back vehicles\tents

This server is so corrupt.. you only have to be on there for 20 mins to realize its fishy, the admin's who own the server; hack. There are vehicles everywhere, they ban people for looting their camps and ban people who pose a threat to the server and admins themselves. And that's where my story begins. I got banned for no reason for 'cheating and hacking', from one of the admins. Unless they provide proof of me hacking - I surely deserve to be un-banned from this server. Thanks, Gardij06 ing name Luculentkhan

I tried resetting twice but the placed tents and repaired vehicles are gone.

Just wanted to report that I have found a server where I can ride a vehicle for hours and no resets or kicks happen. The server is fairly low pop and does not appear to be under the control of any one clan. This experience is completely opposite from all my previous ones on a variety of busy servers, where every discovery of a vehicle led to either a kick or a reset. I am now more convinced than ever that losing vehicles to reset / kicks is part of a deliberate strategy by server admins protecting their clan's vehicles. This kind of abuse will remain rampant in the stand alone unless servers are centralized and control taken away from the existing admins.

My server the tents are not saving and vehicles dupe everything pre-patch that they had in them

We have to restart our server(s) twice all the time in order for our tents/vehicles to show up again. It's annoying. Edit: We even restarted twice but it seems like nothing is surviving a restart.

Near the edge of the map, on the edge of the map and just off the map on higher up areas etc.. Have found everything in these areas, from vehicles to lots of tents with gear.. Ran into people a few times, killed a guy loading in, so I would be careful all the time.

I've been reading some topics about this issue... About vehicles missing and tents emptying... is this accurate?

Did you just admit that you server restarted to get your vehicles back? Besides that it's amazing that everyone who harms something of yours is suddenly a hacker when they have seen the items you have in your extreme camps on this now less than a week old server.

"So, recently we killed off 3 clans from playing in our server. and now there are no more!" No, you did not. We've been the same people with different names. "We are the only large group left in server ZDU." Large? there are like 4 of you. The ZDU server barely gets above 9 players unless our whole clan is on. "We are looking for more players to be actively involved in the ZDU server community, my group or perhaps to play against us." New people to play with you? You mean spawn a URAL with maxed weapons and gear, and spawn near player coordinates to kill them? Play against you? You mean ESP other players in the server (Like you have been/just did to us for the 3rd time today) and spawn 2 URAL's with maxed gear/weapons and kill them/us and STILL GET WIPED OUT BY OUR CLAN FOR THE 3RD TIME? OH, don't you think it's a little coincideltal that right when the server becomes outdated (Though there was no update) that all of our vehicles are gone? So, you rolled back the server/Restarted the server, so you could prevent us from getting on the server (though I rolled back my files too and saw everything was gone) and getting our gear? And the URAL's that you spawned with the max gear? That we stole and wiped you with? Freaking pathetic. Your server is a joke. Your little "clan" is a COMPLETE joke. You are a couple of sore loser scripters who still got their lives wrecked by us, legit. You have no class, no skill, no integrity, nor any respect in the least for other players. You die, and spawn your cute little selves new gear to go back, crying, and try and kill us. The fact that the OWNER of the server is involved is all the more funnier. We have everyting caught on footage, 1080p HD, along with various screenshots, of you all and your little scandals. We've contacted "BattleEye" about the issue, and your withering "Community" Which has mainly been US, will be Blacklisted and banned from the Network. Have fun becoming a private HIVE server, and having nobody joining because of your pathetic antics and garbage sportsmanship. -HellJumper |BMC| + |YIFF| + |TBL| P.S. (We'll post the videos on youtube for you to be ashamed of later.)

everyone gets butt hurt about changing the look of the vehicles for some reason. i like the flavor.

Yep, most if not all clan owned servers are down for about 6 hours when they are original put up. This is called, "Testing", but in reality they are collecting and repairing the vehicles, hitting crash sites and checking out the NWAF. After that, they open the server. Non-clan servers have a similar problem, again clan related. But they are not locked while this happens. Some servers have individual hoarders. Some have collectors, and a small few are just bugged or hacked and have no vehicles. The chances of finding a vehicle in a spawn is very low due to this. Beware using vehicles on some servers, as they have a habit of "accidentally" kicking you when a friend of the admin spots you driving around. I have no proof, so I won't name names.

Hmm. Not my experience. We found a couple vehicles that had gear stowed on them and repaired. My tents are still where I left them and stocked with what I stocked them with. Duping.. I don't do it, so I've never investigated it.

A tractor is fine too, it has good off-road but only seats 1. But it beats the heck out of walking! That being said I've been playing for over a month; I'm a lone wolf mountain man sort who avoids PvP for the most part, and I've come across more than a few very large camps, and even more vehicles. I also play on low pop servers and scour the northern areas as suggested above, this seems to work really well if you have some patience. 4 tractors, 2 bicycles, 3 pickup trucks, 2 buses, 1 SUV, and just the other day a pristine fully fueled Motorcycle with 2 jerry cans in storage was found just perfectly perched on a hill just before debug plains. Buzzing the NW airfield wearing NVG's doing 90mph watching the bewildered survivors gawk as I plow through zombies..... I must have lapped the map 4 times that night, good times, good times.... Shitty server reset made me lose that bike while riding it. P.S.: to keep a low profile just avoid the roads in high PvP cities and areas. Driving through the woods with most vehicles isn't too tough.

I can't find a solid answer with searches ive done. The server my group and I play on just went offline and then I could no longer find it in dayz commander. I did a search and found out today it's name was changed. Does this mean everything we had in tents and our vehicles are gone? I was running on foot to a pickup truck spawn that I found earlier when no one was online to drive me down to it, so I don't have a quick way to get back to our camp to even see... plus I can't even load into the server atm Are we SOL, or will I be relieved if I take the hike back up to it?