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My clan had recently acquired a new server because the old one's hardware was hacked. We were happy to find that instantly on setup all the vehicles were at their spawn points and proceeded to fix and gather them, while setting up tents.. Fast forward to today (after a couple restarts) and after a restart this morning, everything has disappeared and the vehicles aren't respawning. What could be the reason for this?

He's right about the sounds being loud and stuff. But you described a hacker, especially with the 3 vehicles sitting not far away... Not sure what he means by being invisible if 2 players are prone. Not really true. Harder to see them in 1st person view, but nowhere near invisible.

1.) Running as fast as they currently run is probably going to be changed. Their ability to keep up with Cars, at times, it's pretty insane. Other than that, I'd rather not play a zed, especially in a small town on the northern part of the map. You'd almost have to die to a Zed on the coast or the NW airfield to have any real fun. 2.) These items have use, learn to use them. Breaking hospital windows, distracting zeds. They ARE in the game for a reason.... 3.) This would only persist on the current server you are on. They wouldn't transfer to different servers, just like tents/vehicles. 4.) What kind of crafting is in this game? 5.) I agree with you on a few more melee weapons. Right now all we really have is the hatchet. As far as regular guns, I'm pretty satisfied with what we have.

My V3S (same as Ural, just looks different) disappeared on a server restart. As did all other vehicles, and tents. Now they won't come back, even after more restarts... very weird

For me, logging out any other time than quitting for the day would ruin the game for me. It's supposed to simulate the experience of survival, you have to feel like you're in the world fighting for your life, and if you rely on a 'get-out-of-jail-free card' when things get dicey, that breaks the immersion and the experience, as well as severely lowers the difficulty. You can't logout of life. It's ok if there's clearly hackers (teleporting, invincible people/vehicles, thunderdome, nuclear bombs, etc.) because they break the immersion when they do impossible things, but aside from that, I'd rather stay in character and fight it out. If I die that means I was careless and need to not do what I did next time. Just my 2 cents.

I'm relatively new to the game and just died to a guy I couldn't see. I was at that big airstrip with the hangers and I was prone in the grass with a ghillie. There where 3 maybe more vehicles on the runway and I was waiting to see who owned them. I figured it would be a big group but there was no one around. Suddenly I hear panting next to me. I turn and the grass is flattening as if someone is crawling through it but I can't see anyone. The thing keeps on coming till its right next to me and then stops. I still can't see one but can here the player panting right next to me. I wait for a while and when it moves again I start to shoot. It shoots back and I get killed. So, when you are prone in the grass are you invisible? The fact that he didn't shoot until I started made me think perhaps he couldn't see me either. Then I thought, with all the abandoned vehicles, he might be a hacker just having some fun with me. Sorry if it's a bit of a stupid question.

I saw zero my first 2 1/2 months. However, I've seen about 8 in the last 10 days with 4 being in the last 72 hours. Still, I love the game and will keep playing. But, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't playing less and having less fun because of the constant possibility of being part of a mass teleport or shot by an invisible player. Sadly, I wish it was "only" hacked weapons and vehicles. One at least has a chance against that. Previously, I never was too bothered at all by the glitches, loot hoppers, dupers, DC-ers, and spawn killers. Those were things that might occasionally annoy me, but never affected how often I played or my enjoyment of the game and I realized they were either due to the game being in alpha or simply a byproduct of a persistent game set up (which I love!). But these recent mass-griefing hacks have become too common, too rampant. It's so bad now the scripters/hackers are crowding each other out and many are hitting even low pop servers. I truly hope the stand alone will allow the devs to make the integrity of the game a top priority. Personally, I think they know what's currently going on and, without being able to manipulate source code (it is only a mod), have severely limited options. No, they can't stop all the hacks, but stopping 90% of them would make a big, big difference. It's just a hacking free for all right now. Let's hope the stand alone comes sooner rather than later. I would happily pay for the mod as a standalone (in it's current state) if some semblence of control over the hacks were included.

Not sure if this is the right place to post, but it seemed appropriate. First off, I'd like to thank Twyst and his buddies for giving my squad a great little skirmish yesterday on US958. It's refreshing to run into people that fight and don't ALT F4. By the time the dust settled and everyone scattered 2 people had died and 2 vehicles were burning wrecks. Me and my buddy were rolling along the coastline on our ATVS when we ran into your group coming at us head on with your Van and Bus - my friend didn't stop in a very opportune place and he got killed rather quick. I managed to spin a 360 - head up the road and pull away far enough to hit the treeline and line up my sniper rifle and call for backup. The rest is history. If people are looking for good fights, I can vouch for atleast our two groups that are currently going at it on US958. It was an intense 30 minute engagement and I hope for many more in the future. Kudos!

You may be right with your opinion about the vehicles driven in the docks, but that's not against the rules. As an admin you should only interfere when foul play occured, like hacking or teleporting etc. But that what you did was sadly, simple admin abuse.

BattleEye doesn't ban you for picking up / using hacked weapons. "No one is banned for using non-hack programs (like Fraps, overlays, etc.), picking up or using hacked in-game items, weapons or vehicles, being on a server at the same time as a cheater, or other passive non-cheating activity. Therefore all requests mentioning these things as possible reasons for the global ban are ignored."

I believe someone said on here that to the west of Myshkino there is a clearing where a lot of vehicles are stored are many servers. Haven't checked it out myself, but it doesn't hurt to check over there. EDIT: http://dayzdb.com/map#5.009.079

Look harder. Theres a limited number of vehicles per map, and they only respawn every 7 days after being destroyed, so chances are someones beaten you too them. Most organised teams spend hours searching and preparing to find vehicles.

so wow, bummer. I logged in and my scooby van is gone. That's cool, though. I know to search up north for good vehicles, already repaired by other players. Just as I'm musing about finding the heli on the server, there it is.. In all it's glory. I'm stoked. I stalk it. I work my way up. No one is around. I check gear... 2 jerry cans. I grab them, fill it up (already mostly fueled) and take off! I fly around. Very interesting. Some "landmark" vehicles that others have stashed in the woods, but I have noted are still there. Then I find it. A giant camp. Couple dozen tents, four or five vehicles. I'm set. I have a plan. I marked where I found the heli. I'm thinking, why should I do all the work when I can just have all the fun? I'm going to land it back where I found it, swap their empty jerries that I burned up joyriding with the two full ones in my back pack, and go do my thing, borrowing the heli as long as I don't get caught. I'm a good pilot, so I'm eeeeeeeeasing it down at the edge of this clearing. 40m to ground..... Game locks up. Sound but the video is frozen. Nothing works, so I have to reboot. I reconnect, heli is nowhere to be found. Sorry, guys that stashed the heli on the server where I play. Find it and fix it and stash it there again, please?

I use the day z db map(not sure how current it is but never in tons of servers i goto do i ever find a vehicle i can repair and or drive...when they blow up do they go back to their spawn points or where they were detroyed? and tricks or tips to finding any thanks!

We find that if we dont hard reset the server (Close the exe) , and just use the #restart command, it will not spawn vehicles. Solution: Hard reset server.

true but dude im telling you its the saving system i found 5 vehicles in 2 days they were all dayz mod vehicles...they all vanish...same with the tents i set up they either vanish or they get wiped gear wise....ever since post 1.7.5 the saving system has been broken.

They might have been hacked in I guess. All hacked vehicles will disappear after restart even if you save it I think.

As for theme Chernarus is great. Tropical island like Lingor (custom map) or Mediterranean island like Limnos (ArmA 3) just don't have the same feel. It doesn't really have to be ex-soviet state though. Imean, the only thing making it one now is all the russian text. Even though there are some Soviet/Russian weaponry, there's also plenty of western European and American stuff anyway. I do wish the new map would be an island though. The current 2km empty forested zones at edges are just boring places to go wander to find camps or vehicles. I'd much rather have those replaced with water or at the very least have those zones way smaller. This way all the vehicles and tents would have to be stored in places where people will actually have a chance of finding them by accident when they travel between landmarks. In general I would like a bigger map only if server populations go up too. Honestly though, current Chernarus could easily handle at least 100 if not more players if the player spawns only were more spread out. It's no wonder Elektrozavodsk and Chernogorsk are so crowded since they're fairly small towns where every freshly spawned player wants to go and most spawns are fairly close to those too. If there were more spawns around Berenzino and probably around some of the inland towns too it would feel far less crowded - though those inland spawns could be annoying. The beach is a nice "people spawn here"-indicator. No random stumbling upon your party by fresh spawns when you are in outskirts of an inland town either (and since it's beach, even the inland sides of shore towns don't have people spawning on top of other people) So yeah. Bigger map if networking supports it. Island or at least far smaller edge areas - possibly also flatter and less forested. Preferably using assets similiar to current ones or at least those based on non-southern European/Northern American towns. It's not like I'll avoid buying the game even if it just has Limnos or Lingor or old Chernarus though. Oh yeah, I'd also like to see some slightly bigger building complexes. Like a bigger military camp or a bigger airport. Those shouldn't be too taxing on resources since they'd probably still be smaller than any of existing Chernarus cities. I'd also like to see at least one city that's considerably bigger than any of the current ones with some taller buildings. They don't have to be skyscrapers, just closer to 10 than 3 floors. Also while I don't think all buildings have to be enterable, more of those would be nice. Especially in the smaller towns where buildings are smaller too.

I had 3 vehicles before i restarted the server, i saved them at least 5 minutes before restart but no vehicles appear at all, players are reporting their vehicles missing too.

They shouldn't be banned at all Polli. The majority of people that come in a read this thread will think you're the one at fault here. You hoarding vehicles is fine with me, banning people that take said vehicles and destroy them so they respawn is UNACCEPTABLE. You're abusing the privilege of having a server. Undo the 7 day ban. Also, how the hell is this anti social?(those vehicles respawn so other players might have the chance to find them) You are in fact the one who is being anti social, hoarding all them wheels.(again I don't have a problem with that, just your crap admin ways)

I've found two fully repaired helicopters recently on two different occasions, both on low population servers. I'm starting with the second one first because that one confuses me the most. The second I found was sitting in the open near Lopatino. (its a trap!) I take it west and over a hill - the only way to see it is to climb up another barren hill. I wait about half an hour before my friend gets on. My friend and I leave to find parts to repair an ATV I found earlier. There is about 6 people online. In about an hour the ATV is fixed and we head back to find our helicopter gone - keep in mind we scavanged towns all around where we left the helicopter. (Lopatino, Pustoshka, Vybor, NWA) If anyone flew it, we'd hear it. The first one we found on top of a large building in cherno as night began to fall. A friend and I drove it around for a bit during the night and eventually landed it northwest west - far from anything near the border of the map, but in bounds. Eight hours of night time and it was already gone, our tent hidden between trees emptied. Note: The first one we landed hard on one occasion and damaged it, saving it restored it completely so we're inclined to believe it was hacked. TL:DR - Do helicopters mistakenly despawn more often than other vehicles? Do hacked helicopters bug out (disappear/not save)? Does anyone else have there helicopters stolen quickly?

http://da.twitch.tv/iweemandeano Another good old cheater, and smart enough to stream it. Ingame name " Deano "

Assuming your playing on a server that doesn't range with scroll wheel. The SVD is the easiest rifle to range of all the snipers. M24 and DMR basically range the same with mil-dots. CZ is its own animal. 50.cals still have to be ranged with mil-dots. Your only argument against 50.cals being in the game is that they are 1 Shot kills which is fucking dumb. Urals, VS3 become tanks if you take out 50.cals. Helicopters fly around free with out 50cals. Yes you can kill all those vehicles with those weapons but it's going to take alot of ammo. It's a dumb argument do you really think if a sniper has you lined up with a DMR and knows its not going to be a headshot he still won't take the shot? He is still going to take the fucking shot so your only argument for skill is that he has to shoot you twice because his gun isn't as powerful as a 50.cal.

You ban them because you failed at hiding your camp where you horde all the vehicles? You sir, are a complete butt nugget, I wish I could open my beans and throw them on you.

we run our own server for about 5 days, and every server restart causes the same problems. vehicles disappear and spawn at their original, or instead of the cars there is a bus in midden of our tents! this sucks, all the hard work for nothing -.-