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Yesterday I was browsing the forums and came across the Wasteland Medic thread in the Survivor Camp subforum, and had a quick read through the OP. Upon seeing a name I recognized in the list of Whitelisted medics (someone who plays quite often on the same server as me, at usually the same times), I contacted him on Steam with the intent to just say hi, and maybe offer the aid of my well-geared survivor group, but as we got chatting, he tells me that his medic camp was recently raided by bandits, and that he had lost his vehicles that he used as ambulances and was about to give up on this server and start again somewhere fresh. As he was describing it, it all sounded a little too familiar. The UAZ filled with guns and meds that our group liberated from a camp just the day before had turned out to be his. I took a quick vote from whoever in my group was online at the time, and we all agreed to give it back to him. So anyway, after a couple hours of drama, including a hacker stealing my groups chopper and a long corpse run for me, I finally get to deliver the medic's ambulance back to him, with a few extra items inside for goodwill. I spend a lot of my time anti-sniping noob snipers on the coast, but this was totally different, felt like I was really contributing to something better.

The problem with vehicles is they don't appear to return to spawn ... well ... ever. So the first people in a server essentially get their pick, they repair the vehicles, horde them in a corner somewhere and never let them see light of day until some dude with a bike stumbles onto them.

So I wrote Bastian Suter (BattlEye-dev) about the current script/hacking situation, here is my letter (and their reply): "Hey! I'm just writing to you to show my support for BattlEye, I think it's great that you are developing this product and working toward preventing cheaters and hackers from ruining the game. With that said, as a player of DayZ my experience is currently pretty much ruined due to the fact that the client can send scripts and bypass the server. I am not a fan of the Arma 2-engine in terms of preventing illicit scripts to so easily override the game, so we have to rely on you guys to help. There currently are a couple of scripts that are the worst, 1. Invulnerability 2. Teleporting (either the player itself or other players to the players location) 3. Spawning of objects (such as crates with ALL items in the game) 4. Firing of vehicle weapons (I've seen a player shoot grenades similar to one of the air vehicles). I see AT LEAST one iteration of these 4 cheats on every server I visit these days with players playing DayZ. Even with your latest 1.168-update. Please, please do something about it. I beg of you. Kind regards, <Name omitted>" His reply "Hi, I know about this problem very well and many things are being done to fight it. I understand your frustration and I'm working hard with the game developers to improve the situation, because a great part of it is caused by the game's too open multiplayer engine. Please have some more patience, solutions should be provided very soon. Regards, Bastian Suter"

Well that escalated quickly... And no, last thing we need is more military weapons. @OP: Yes, more damaged vehicles would be nice. Let some of us that don't horde on the server have a chance to play with them.

Our server restarted this morning, upon restarting literally everything had disappeared (tents, vehicles, traps, sandbags, wire, tank traps etc etc) someone read around that another restart would fix this issue so we tried that and still nothing respawned, any ideas?

We noticed it close to 2 weeks ago. We thought our camp had been raided because our 2 atvs, hatchback and van disappeared but tents were intact. A few items were missing from tents so we thought we were raided. We packed up some stuff and headed further north. we placed some tents and moved our most valuables things north, We got luck and found a truck and 2 atvs and a motorcycle. We thought things were good and then we noticed alot fo activity around our camp again and decided to move before it was found. So we moved east and we had a good setup. vehicles lasted about 2 days and then they were gone, we though we were raided but this time we kept vehicles empty and all the good stuff was in tents. We couldn't fathome why someone would steal 4 empy vehicles and not fill them first. We thought it might be hackers summoning vehicles becuse the server got bad for awhile.. So we were just gonna let the server run out and play on another. But we found the same thing happening on other vilayer servers. Since returning back to our server wehave found a atv that disappeared the next day and bicycles and other small vehicles that just keep disappearing after restarts. So we started asking questions to the vilayer guys but not getting anywhere. So your not alone :) REC5| Fyrex

Nice a broadcast for all script kiddies!!!! All welcome! Need to keep your server on the D/L or you might as well cancel your server fee's...Kiss all your vehicles and camp sites goodbye. All BS aside ill get me and my boys to try it out for yeah. If it can stay hacker free for more than 30mins.

Not really. We found the vehicle last week, lost it last week hours later. Obviously the server has since been reset and only today have I gone to look for vehicles as im on the coast, and my camp is 200km away. I just cant find any. Reset the server earlier as I dont have regular restarts, I literally cant find any vehicles in their spawn points. How long is the delay?

There is already a bandit uniform, Military Weapons, Giant Back Pack NVGs Friends Vehicles If you see players with the above they will kill you, them having a hood on doesn't make a difference. Everyone will become a bandit because everyone needs to defend themselves, unless you have a designated killer in your group.

Request ban for Tackles After some hardcore hacking (i wasnt recording at that time, but he did amazing stuff like making vehicles explode remotely and aimbotting), i met the guy again. He wanted to "help me". So i frapsed while he spawned a gps, a map and a tractor for me. Date: 03/08/2012, ‏‎20:48:55 Server: 85.236.105.39:2302 Proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6pUh_fjpHQ

Hey! Recently my friends and I purchased Arma 2: CO, and therefore installed DayZ. We are looking to team up with 2-3 mature people (16+, with exceptions) to create a nice small squad on a server of our choice. Currently, there is myself and two other friends that are attempting to play together. (Although failing most of the time ^.^ ) Our aims are to : - Gear up to a sufficient standard to where we can survive for a long time in 2's or 3's. - Make our way all 3 airfields with succession. - Find and repair a couple of vehicles. - Create a small camp to store our goodies and vehicles out in the wilderness somewhere. We will mainly be using Skype, or even the Steam Chat to communicate until we can sort out better methods (ie. A TeamSpeak server). Add me on Steam to ask any queries. Steam: Olliecus - Ollie Edit: We now are using a Mumble server for those that are accepted into the "squad" type thing.

I think there should be some more armed military vehicles, at least a humvee with a .50 cal. One or 2 per server

M9SD: great for when you have to take out a few zombies and don't want to alert nearby players or zombies in the process. MK 48: by far the best PvP weapon for mid/close range. does insane damage, is very accurate, has a great sight and 100 rnd mags. Against zeds i would pick the M4A1 CCO SD for obvious reasons. AS50: one hit, one kill against players and insane damage against vehicles with NATO rounds. Compared to the M107 the zoom is inferior but it's quieter (against other players) and has far less recoil.

Vehicles have a spawn delay, they dont spawn instantly after they get destroyed or a restart, to prevent the "abuse" that you just clearly admitted to ;).

Thanks, top help. Although not what I meant regarding vehicle spawning. I have been using dayzdb map and I know all the locations. But I was wondering more about the mechanics and circumstances under what vehicles can spawn. For example, is each vehicle capped to X per server. Is there a cool down time before a new one will spawn, do vehicles ever spawn in perfect condition etc?

There are three things making dayZ way too easy and unplayable: 1)Rapant hacking (if you never ebcountered hackers before, get on a server with more than 2 people) 2)Duping and glitched tents 3)Unlimited ammo This three things turn the normal gameplay of dayZ: I spawn, i collect stuff from a town with loot spawns and head north, where the better stuff is, maybe i find a low tier gun, maybe nothing into: I spawn, i found a camp with 25 ghillies and L85 + AS50 with ammo once, i still know where it is, i get the stuff, and have full equip after 10 minutes and have nothing to do than searching for vehicles When searching in the night, i get sniped from 800 meters away with a .50 gun (no NVG, dark night, so probably a thermal hacked weapon)

OK. So how is it i can never find vehicles. Lets say I had my own server, me and a few mates found a van at a petrol station - a listed spawn point. We then lost said van after driving it into a pond and witnessing it suddenly vanish. Reset the server a few times and the car isnt at its spawn point again. Same goes for other vehicles. We found the truck at the quarry. That got stolen fair and square but after a server reset, its not at its spawn point again. Is there a way of wiping the server completely clean so to speak so that everything is restored? Tents and all.?

Once I was with my squad running around Black Lake and we found a camp with 8 tents, 1 URAL, 1 V3S, 2 Bicycles, and a UH-1H. We approach and I spot a ghillie guy going through a tent, I take him out with one shot and loot the body, find Mountain Dew in his bag. We loot the tents, max out our gear, blow the vehicles and take the Huey. We fly around just fucking around, we I spot 3 snipers on the hill NW of Elektro. Due to incompetent gunners we don't take any out and they fire a single shot fucking up the engine. We're too high to emergency land, so I tell everyone to bail. First guy bails early, is hit by helicopter rotors, I bail safely into the forest and last two guys don't even get out of the helicopter. After hiding in the forest, the 3 ghillie guys run down to search the bodies and I shoot one with my AS50. Magically the other two vanish into thin air. Pussies. I then loot the body, another mountain dew. I run to a vantage point of both Elektro and the crash and spot a black guy crouch running to the crash, apparently the server had name tags on and his name was Tupac. I fire a shot and the bullet passes straight through his backpack. He stops, I fire again, he takes two steps forward, I fire again, he suddenly stops and bullet goes infront of him, then he magically disappears as well. My friends arrive back to loot their gear, and we're down at the crash when suddenly bullets start whizzing by. I turn around, spot a black guy, and well if it isn't Tupac again about 20m away. I shot him 4 times with my G17 just for the laughs and left him bleeding in the field. He ALT+F4'd after about 20s. So to sum all that up, in my experience, having Mountain Dew is bad luck and will cause your helicopter to be shot down in one shot and make everyone you engage ALT+F4.

Apophis, Its nice to hear a mature response to the accusations made against TG by our group. I can assure you that I have not misrepresented our activities or the activities observed on your server in any way while playing on US 137. Additionally, I did make blanket statements about TG as a whole and for that I apologize. I am referring only to the majority of your active DayZ player base that we encounter when we play on US 137. We in fact have our own server and are extremely vigilant when it comes to banning hackers and disconnecters. Yes there are times when we suspected people of hacking because they seemed to know the location of everything and were going on massive killing sprees. But unless we had solid 100% proof of hacking or exploiting, we didn't ban them. This is DayZ and its a small sandbox world. Experienced players know where to look and experienced groups can decimate a server in a matter of hours. These are things you already know. TG may not have a "main camp" but there were several very large camps that we can only assume are maintained by the dominant clan on the server. Also, during the initial raids, it was only us and TG members on the server with perhaps 3 or 4 non-tagged players. So it would stand to reason that when were fired on whilst raiding a large camp, it was a TG camp. What exactly was observed that was a bannable offense? We do not disconnect during firefights EVER. In fact, Fidel and I have been playing on this server for a long time and have had several times where we were bested by you guys. We left with our tails between our legs and lived to fight another day. I don't understand what your members could be basing these ban claim on to start with. YES we raided camps. YES we shot and killed many TG members. YES we kept sniper positions on camps and vehicles. YES we hunted down players in the woods for sport. While this may not be your play style, these are not bannable offenses by any stretch of the imagination. If anything, our rivalry should make the whole DayZ experience more fun for you. We always joke about the DayZ lacking endgame, but then we realized that for some players, beating our group and killing us would be the endgame. So this keeps the whole experience fresh and exciting. If you are accusing us of hacking or cheating, I would LOVE to see some server logs for that since there is no way they can exist. I was banned in the middle of the day when I wasn't even on the server. Same with some others. We even have one guy you banned who only just started playing and doesnt even group with us on missions. He just asks us questions and runs around on the coast getting killed a lot. What was the reason for that? He is of no threat to you and is definitely not a hacker. He barely knows how to use a compass, lol. That was really crossing the line imo, because that shows you issued bans to everyone in our teamspeak as he was not wearing clan tags. The teamspeak we use is actually owned by a group of players who mostly play BF3. All of this being said... we STILL have not been given a real reason for the bans. Just generalisations dancing around broad strokes. No real proof. Where are the screenshots? Where are the videos? Where are the server logs? From where I am sitting it appears the bans are based on hearsay from upset players. As an admin you should have confronted us first if you suspected foul play. You know as well as I do that everyone is quick to point the hacking finger when they get killed or robbed. TG members are no exception, especially when you have members with questionable credibility and honor; alt-f4s, server restarts, etc. Given the disorganized nature of your DayZ division, perhaps you should consider who let wear your clan tags. I will be posting a ban appeal on your forums to have our bans removed. But am going to keep our admin abuse report open as well because I still believe we have been wronged and I want this to be investigated. Its getting almost impossible to find a server with legit admins anymore and I am just plain sick of the bs most of the admins give us. We were banned from a server the other day because the admin was too incompetent to read his own server logs. Banned 20+ people for things he misread in the logs and crap he skimmed on forums. If you are truly dedicated to running a legit server, you will investigate your own admins and check your logs against our players yourself. I would not be making such big deal out of this if it wasn't justified.

Hi guys, we have a few vehicles. When we pack items into vehicles and restarts the server, these items will not be saved. We have saved the vehicles. The tents to keep items even after restarts. can anyone help us? regards marv

Wouldn't hurt for more vehicles. Doesn't even have to be military, because even after the apocalypse, some civilian cars would still be working, just needing repair. +1

Been playing for the last week or two (downloaded just before the big hype) and absolutely love it. No game gets me going as much as making a dart through sniper bullets to get to the supermarket. Having said that, there are obviously serious flaws. Keeping Up To Date With Devs Basically I was just wondering on the best way to keep up with devs, there projects for future versions, and there opinions on matters within DayZ. Do they tweet or blog somewhere like ol' Notch? HIVE? Sorry for being dumb. But when I hear this term, am I meant to assume that people are talking about a database that works over numerous servers? (The ability to take items across servers etc) Is There Public Knowledge on Vehicle and Crash Site Spawning Apart from knowing that crash sites spawn on fields and change on server restarts and loot does not respawn without a restart either, I know little about this. Is there any more info that would help me be more efficient in finding vehicles and crash sites. I know they are rare, but ive only found 1 car at a spawn point. How Confident Can We Be That Going Standalone will Reduce Hackers Luckily, I am yet to die from hackers, although I have been teleported and one of my mates found hundreds of parachuting cows in the air once. The problems seem to come from Arma rather than anything Rocket at co have not done properly. Even when its standalone, wont it run on the same engine? Thus still having many of the problems it already has. Is there an ETA for Standalone? Standard question :) And Lastly.. Are there any plans in place to make it easier to manage a server. At the moment this forum is riddled with reports of hackers having more power than server owners because of lack of admin functionality and support. I am part of a community (NV Clan) that originates from GE, a previous dominant CSS community and 'Pro' Team (Lan Goers). If there are plans in place, it is extremely likely we will go and get a 50 slot but dont see much point if we cant control the quality of the service we can provide? Thanks for taking the time to read! That last point being said, you are welcome to check us out if your into the community side of gaming, just google us. We play and host various games, not just DayZ.

I've seen many hacked server maps of vehicles (around 30), and can confirm not a single vehicle or tent was ever outside the border. If you're looking for camps, check South-West corner, on the mountain West of Kamenka Forest East of Black Lake North of Pobeda Dam North of Petrovka West of Lopatino Forest North of Rify (the shipwreck north of Berezino) And pretty much the North and West borders, NE corner usually has a large camp with vehicles.

Hey Zambeezee, it was me who pulled that stunt by counter stealing the V3S. You managed to kill one of my friends in the Ghillie, then he rage quit out the game. Challenge Accepted. I decided to go in alone. After shooting the wheels and noticing the vehicle wasn't stopping, I thought for sure that you guys would make a getaway with both the vehicles. Then one of you got out the V3S to shoot me I guess. That's when I frantically jumped in and drove off. By the way, was one of your friends on an ATV? Because I smashed head on into a guy on an ATV in a Ghillie with a DMR. Then he aborted after I had finished smashing the ATV (with him on it).

Bandits killed: 1 Reward: Vehicles to add to my collection! It was weird though. I was riding my bicycle along the west (as you do) and noticed a white car. I went up to it and suddenly this guy in a ghillie suit pops up infront of me (must've just logged on) and I panicked, ejected from the bike and unloaded my AS50 into him before he could even aim at me. I wasn't guilty at all when I saw he was a bandit :P I'll probably be on for a bit later to help some people in need.