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Should ofcourse be extremely rare and drop at high risk areas, but I'd love to see a camouflage net item that you could apply on your vehicle to cover it up a bit more. (maybe only camouflaging the top of the vehicle to cover from overflying helicopters)

So yesterday I found a vehicle and I managed to fix most of it up, but I couldn't find any engine parts. I realized that you could still drive even without engine parts, so I hid the vehicle in the woods. I'm really afraid to drive it much more in case it blows up or something. I haven't found any engine parts yet though. So I was wondering, how well do vehicles work without engine parts?

I've been playing for about a month and a half now but only just recently acquired a vehicle. I had a choice between a Truck, a blue van or an ATV. Most of my friends have quit playing or barely play at all so I decided on an ATV. After using it to run a few errands and then hiding it in a well placed spot I have a few questions. 1. Sometimes when I start up my ATV or stop then start moving, my vehicle struggles to even get moving. It just slowly crawls for about 5-15 seconds then actually gets moving. Everything on the ATV is green including fuel. All the tires are also there but it still has problems. 2. When I was hiding my vehicle between some pine trees I was hearing this horrible crunching sound, it would stop soon after but starts up again for a few seconds whenever I get back in my vehicle. Is this just the ATV clipping with the tree or is it going to actually damage it if it happens enough? 3. After parking my vehicle and running around a bit to see how visible it was I noticed that whenever I put my actually looked at it a distance indicator would show up saying ATV (25m) or whatever. I am pretty sure the server I play on doesn't have name tags but not 100% sure, but would this even show up on a name tag server?

Hi, i'm the admin of DE 853, and i have a reoccuring problem. Since a couble of days the Server seems to have only one point from that it's loading after a reboot. New Vehicles and Tents are not saved, after a reboor its simply resets to a point from about 2 days ago. Anybody else experiencing this problem?

So first off, I feel like I'm missing something when it comes to saving vehicles to keep them through server restarts and what not. Every time I have clicked Save Vehicle on the ones I've gotten (about 6 now) it has never actually saved. It's always missing after a server restart or update. I feel like I'm doing something wrong. There were a couple that could have been stolen potentially, but I've lost vehicles even within 30 minutes of logging off, the server restarting, and coming back on, on servers that had zero players on them besides me. So what am I doing wrong? My second question is about a more specific and recent incident. I found a player camp with 2 offroad pickup trucks and 1 UAZ. Being by myself, I loaded all the things I wanted from the 2 pickups into the UAZ and left to stash it somewhere else. I had to leave for a bit, so when I found a good spot to hide it, I made sure to click Save UAZ several times before I logged out. The server restarted within the ~1 hour or so that I was gone, and when I came back, the UAZ had disappeared. I went all the way back to the 2 pickup trucks to see if they were there, and they were missing as well. Now today, the next day, when I logged back on, the UAZ is still missing, but the pickup trucks are back where I had found them, WITH all the gear that I loaded onto the UAZ the other day. So where the hell is the UAZ, why is all the gear that I put into the UAZ back in the pickup, and why can't I get my vehicles to stay put?

i play together with my brother and we try very hard to find a vehicle to travel around chernarus faster. i have 2 questions to the communtiy: 1. Where are the best places to look for vehicles? 2. can i take a vehicle with me to another server? if i save it it is only saved on one server right? but what if i logged out within the car? is it coming with me? thx 4 ur help

Functioning vehicles are scarce - i get it. But my problem is understanding how a normal citizen is able to repair an engine (even worse an high tech helicopter) without any knowledge, so here my idea: Before you get the option to repair a vehicle, you have to read a manual on how to repair said vehicle OR you must have the manual in your inventory as a tool. BUT - an engine can't be repaired without tools, so the toolbox would again be necessary to repair vehicles. Now players need 2 rare (heli superare?) items in order to repair a vehicle. so the spawn numbers of vehicles could be way higher than now. Yes - I do see this effect could be abused to get many many vehicles, BUT: Third point I don't get the point how a normal civilian is able to fly a helicopter, people without real training would crash and die when attempting to fly with one so again: What are your thoughts on this guys?

I was wondering if it was possible for Vehicles to spawn with a few items in them? Because we're trying to figure out weather we encountered somone taking stuff from our camp and leaving behind an ATV with two broken wheels. Or we just encountered a massive tent glitch where server restart deleted all our stuff. Since our camp site is near an ATV spawn it wouldn't surprise me one way or another. Thanks in advanced for anyone who replies.

Is it possible to get in a truck, bike etc with a broken bone as long as someone else is driving?

US 92 TX Steamgamers.com server. My home server was down so... I was loafing around and found a campsite with three cars. There were three when I found the campsite earlier in the day. When I decided to make a video of going back to it, I only saw two of them. Anyway, I decided to share unlike the guys that rounded up every single vehicle on the server. :) Let the tree stand be your guide. The video will make it very easy once it is uploaded. Heh. Here is a map clearly showing where the campsite is. Here is the video (it may still be uploading when you see this):

US 92 TX Steamgamers.com server. My home server was down so... I was loafing around and found a campsite with three cars. There were three when I found the campsite earlier in the day. When I decided to make a video of going back to it, I only saw two of them. Anyway, I decided to share unlike the guys that rounded up every single vehicle on the server. :) Let the tree stand be your guide. The video will make it very easy once it is uploaded. Heh. Here is a map clearly showing where the campsite is. Here is the video (it may still be uploading when you see this):

Just 2 simples ideas to enchance the realism. 1.why not have an option where you can ride in the tray of the pickup truck to act as a gunner or 2. be able to break the glass and shoot from the passenger or back seats of vehicles. Imagine doing drive bys on zombies and players alike... Thoughts?

Camouflage net for vehicles. I think there should be a net with camo so it kinda blends in with the world and should be as rare as a ghillie suit. ( Also found in residential buildings.) How to use: 1: Get the net. 2: Apply to the vehicle.(Just like a wheel or fueltank parts, but you can do it without a toolbox.) !!! : You can not drive while having the camouflage on your vehicle. The only option it will say when next to the vehicle is "Remove camouflage" 3: Remove when you need the vehicle.\ 4: Drive away! I hope people will like this idea, i find it pretty realistic. -Roman

My friends literally had their care for about 3 minutes until it just randomly broke. if you dont believe me we actually frapsed it, so you can see just how long a vehicle takes to break. just notice how little it takes before going "in the red"

nvm too quick you guys realise I edited this saying "nvm too quick" because i tried to join the server again and im not actually banned. Stop trying to act like cool kids.

So, first of all, I think this is a pretty fantastic experiment. It's both entertaining and somewhat revealing about human nature. When I say that, however, I don't mean so much about the moral ambiguity that ends up surrounding murder. Mostly, I think this survival simulation ends up putting a microscope on the real crux of human society. It all comes down to the haves versus the have nots. In the case of Day Z, it's become very apparent that the haves are those with vehicles and everyone else are the have nots. They are the "1%", so to speak. Now, I've heard that the longer term goals planned for the standalone include expanding upon fortifications with the possibility for people to create truly fortified camps/bases. I can see how that gives people something to aspire to and something more to do than just "stay alive". However, with servers that can support 50, 100, 200 players, and such limited spawns of vehicles (that will never respawn unless destroyed), it begs the question: what, then, are the long term goals for vehicles? It's currently very easy to "vehicle horde", as many have pointed out in these forums. With the vastness of the map as it is (especially when on foot), the possibility of stumbling upon a player camp with vehicles is about as good as winning the lottery. I think it's rather clear that the static nature of vehicles needs to be re-evaluted. While I don't have the answer, I'm sure there is one.

Whats with the suicide bomber vehicles lately? Everything seems to blow up at the slightest touch. I hit a lamp post at about 10kph and vehicle went from fully green to OH GOD EVERYONE OUT NOW ITS GONNA BLOW! ATVs flipping like gymnasts and exploding for no reason... Im sure they didnt used to be so explosive?

Whilst driving a ural a few days ago (my mate and I have never found a land vehicle before this) the admin decided to restart the server without any warning... We logged back in and were not in the vehicle, about 200m away from each other. We looked around in the area, even trekked back up to the last spot we saved it, to no avail. We figured sure... shit happens. Logged out where the vehicle should have respawned (last save point) and it never did, after multiple server restarts. Yesterday, we tricked a guy who was using his chopper as bait (different server to where we found the ural), managed to steal it and fly off with it. A little later, again... the admin decides to restart the server without any warning. We log back in, in totally random locations, around 2KM away from each other. We then trekked back to where we last saved the chopper, again, not there, again, waited for another server restart or 2 and it never came back to us. Are server admins resetting their servers to previous 'save points' or are these vehicles just disappearing into limbo because we were driving in them at the point of restart? In any case, it would be great if there were standards which server admins were held to. For starters, naming and tagging their servers with 3DP, CH in a universal format is a must. We spend so much time looking for servers because the admins can name it whatever they like and searching for specific settings is incredibly time consuming. Secondly, all servers need to have warning messages when they're about to restart. Seriously. If we had 30 seconds warning and we would have jumped out/landed our vehicle, saved it and everything would be fine.

How long do i have to get back to my vehicle when i died driving it(blood loss) before it respawns?

Rocket.. Cache's Like Tents and Preventing Off Map Saves of Tents & Vehicles? I really appreciate the great mod you've created. A couple of questions... Obviously you've considered caches... Is this something you might release in the future? Were you thinking of something that would operate exactly like tents (create/save/etc.) but be much less visible. Status on Preventing Off Map saving of Tents/Vehicles. I think it's great that choppers are making a comeback, but not if players will be able to hoard them 10 km off of the map beyond any reasonable chance of discovery. Are there any plans to either prevent off map saves or do regular nightly or random wipes of off-map objects? Thanks...

We have been running around the map a few days searching, vehicle spawns, cities, wilderness, airfeilds, boat spawns along the coast we checked the shore from cherno to the NE airfield, there were NO vehicles not even any tents. We thought there could ony be a few reasons why this may have happened, 1. the server disabled vehicles (if that is possible?) 2. hackers blew up all the vehicles and tents and they take 7 days to respawn 3. some one has hoarded every single vehicle on the map in one spot that we havent checked. (which i highly doubt, even though some dicks do) Anyone know who runs the server or any of its admins?

Here is a Camp Data Sheet for keeping track of all your tent locations across servers. After I created this sheet I searched the forums and found that Petllama had also created one here. Didn't want to hijack his discussion. Props to him because his is very helpful and creative! I just didn't need all the options and the blue and yellow highlighted text hurt my eyes. This is a very simple, easy to read sheet. Anyway, if you like it please let me know! (Or if you hate it.) Enjoy! Click here for the Camp Data Sheet on Google Docs.

So ive found 3 vehicles today that looked trashed, no wheels, all bullet holed up or rusted. I have went up to them and inspected them and i can save them. As soon as i save them they respawn like brand new. But i can no get in them or get gear from them. I found a URAL in the same condition with 5-6 medium ammo crates all around it. Green ammo crates and when i hit save vehicle it spawned brand new. Anyone know what to think about this?

The vehicles and coma are not showing up anywhere on my server. And havent seen a vehicle other than ATV in a long time. is there a way to role a server back to the start?

so it's come to a point where I know how to play the game pretty well and need some advice what is the best method to finding a vehicle and crashed helicopter sites? I have the map but the vehicles are never there.