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I had this for 2 times now: I find a vehicle, drive it to a safe location and safe it. Then I go to a near city to loot something. After 30 Minutes I come back and the vehicle is not there anymore. But on the next day (after server restart I guess) Its there again with all items in it. Is this a known bug? Has anyone else this problem?

Title says it all! I'm getting on to go vehicle hunting. We can help eachother out. Steam me at my username.

Ok so I found this van, repaired everything but the engine parts, after looking ages for them I decided to move the van to a safer place. I drove it up a hill got out and kept looking. A few minutes later I heard a BOOM and saw the explosion, I quickly ran to it and there's my van upside down all blown up, next to it a dead survivor (who obviously stole the van) I really wish it wasn't so hard to repair vehicles in this game, Was it because of no engine parts that made it blow up?

I wish it would be a way of locking vehicles with a key. ( when you have saved an unused vehicle you get the personal "keys" to the unique vehicle ) so that you can get out of you'r car in the middle of electro and feel safe. but on the other side you are not, if you for example have a crowbar you may be able to brake the window or something and get in the locked car and drive away with it. This way make it able to find player's cars in places where it's able to find it, instead of players driving the car on the end of the map where there is a chance of 1% someone would be. When you die, a player could loot you and find you'r keys. On the key description it would example say something like this: ( player name ) 's vehicle, UAZ red... thanks, and i hope you liked my suggestion :D

They magically disappear every server reset, any sort of effort to get one is useless. Same goes for tents. Pretty frustrating.

one question what happens if you find a vehicel and take it.... but it is hacked.. i mean ok if you find a tank or something it is simple to know that is hacked but if you find a normal truck or heli.. i heard from a few people who founf some hacked cars didnt know that and were banned is that true? because I found 2 helis a truck 2 police cars and a black car and i bet they are hacked..

Hey guys... if I've got several vehicles and I die... do I have to save them just like tents, or will they be ok for the seven days or whatever? Just not sure how that works, and appreciate any insight you guys can provide. Thanks.

Just a curious question. I would like to apply a rule to my server that 1 time a month (maybe once every 2 months) vehicles get refreshed. As in, pretty much a fresh DayZ server install. Reset the vehicles to day 1 status. Is this allowed? The reason I ask / want to, its nice having a server that gives everyone a chance to get cars/motorbikes/atv's every month. Sure, a clan or two co uld hoard all the vehicles one month, but after that its refreshed and they have to work for em again. As i asked, is this allowed? And if so, how do i do it without reinstalling the entire server?

Hey guys, I really enjoy this game, especially the part about the game being realistic. But first of all, I want to tell you the reason for making this post: After two days of collecting car parts (especially the engine parts.. jeez that took some time), my group finished repairing the bus. We were really happy about this and started driving around the map (we avoided towns, since we didn't want to raise attention). Two hours passed and we decided to pick up a friend in Elektro and then it happened: We heard two or three shots and the bus went up in flames, killing us in the process. This was our first vehicle at all, and had we known that they are destroyed so easily, we never would have went to town in that sweet ride. So I searched Youtube for some vids about this and found this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWOcbHRl-BI In my opinion, this is beyond ridiculous. This a game based on realism(well expect the zombies of course) especially things like the possibilty of breaking your bones when you fall down a ladder or a roof, or being killed with one shot, bulletdrop etc etc. But destroying vehicles so easily should be changed. Maybe it would be possible to add an armor system. You repair the vehicle with one pile of scrap metal, and then you can add another 3-5 piles of metal for extra armor(just an example). Or that vehicles in general get more hitpoints or something like that I would really appreciate some feedback. Thank you very much for your attention fellow survivors, have a nice day/evening hunting/surviving. firef0kz

Hi, After logging onto a server with my friends, spawning at our camp location we discovered that all our tents, the loot inside, tanktraps, wires and our vehicles are gone! Relogging didn't fix it and we have no idea what happened. I read this topic: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/25099-out-of-bounds-itemvehicles-cleanup-2012-07-06/ and also the other about cleaning up barbed wire and empty tents that were unused for 7 days. Though our tents are used and saved every single day, and we're not out of bounds we're just on the limit inside the map, inside of a forrest. Anyone have any idea what happened?

My clan just got butt raped, bunch of German dudes found our base location. Funny video though.

Just played and I was peacefully riding along on my bicycle and then I heard engines running so I quickly pressed F9 to record it on Fraps. I was just wondering if anyone was interested in the video? It will be up in about 45 minutes.

So my vehicles are showing up on my map, I'm playing on a regular server. Can anyone with a map see them? Sort of like how ppl can see the map notes/?

Since I've pretty much got all the gear I want, I've been fixing up vehicles. I feel like I've just been wasting my time though. So far I've fixed 5 ATVs, 1 ATZ, 2 bicycles, 1 pickup truck. 1 ATV was stolen from me, 2 ATVs got bugged on the docks and killed me, the rest disappeared randomly when I rejoined the server. I save the vehicles whenever I get out too. But everytime I rejoin the server, they just vanish. and I doubt they're being stolen

Hey Guys, Im playing with a Friend on a american Server and we placed our Tent on a secret Place :P But thats not the Point. So we found a Vehicle and logged out. On the next day and a Serverrestart the Vehicle was disappeared. So Ive got the Question, is a Vehicle after a Serverrestart never at the position as before? Or has that other reasons? Sorry for my very bad English... greetz. Mike

I've been on a epic journey all morning driving my tractor with all my loot to set up my new base, I had 2 fals, one m14, m16 and a akm. I spent ages looking for a jerry can, then drove nervously across the map trying to get to my location. After about 1 hour of work I arrive there and try to hide my tractor in the bushes. I must have touched a tree in the process at about 3mph and the tree fell, my engine then went red and I was shot out from the tractor, I fainted and managed to survive with 800 blood. Why did this happen? I literally hit the tree at 3mph.

Hey, im looking in the forums for a while now, but cant find the informations i need. So here are my questions and our story. We found two cars yesterday and succesfully repaired and defended them. At the end of the day we hided them in the woods outside the map, but after the new CO-Beta-Update today they are gone. So is this normal? Was it wrong to hide them outside the map? Are they still somewhere maybe? What can we do, that this will not happen again? I hope someone can help us, and pls forgive me my bad english. Greetings Koerschgen.

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Me and my friends were recently talking about it, but I haven't seen anything about it. Can anyone clarify how long it takes for vehicles/tents outside the map to respawn? No, I am not hiding tents and vehicles outside the map, I was just curious.

Anyone else surprised that a city like Cherno only has like 4 (or something) working cars? Let's say something like a Day Z event happened IRL and Cherno is like Boston (East Coast US). It'd be very easy to find a car that works. In the world we know, cars are everywhere. Ever just watch a highway? Where did all those cars go?

Server: US106 (NJ3) Hosted By: TotalPunishmentGaming.com Date: July 18th, 2012 My friends and I decided to explore the north of the map on US106 (NJ3) last night, we logged on around 7:45pm EST. We decided to spread out, one at 004 EW, one at 008 EW and one at 012 EW and run directly west searching for camps. At 8pm EST the server came down for scheduled maintenance, this took about a minute and the server was back up again. So we continued on our journey. At around 9pm EST, I stumble across a huge camp at 057 NS, 008 EW. I alert my friends to clear the surrounding woods and group up. After not seeing anyone or any vehicles in the woods within 300m, we enter the camp at around 9:05pm EST. Jackpot, there was enough gear in the tents to fully deck out our squad. We start formulating a plan; however at 9:08pm EST the server comes down. The inevitable question was, “Do you think that was because of us?” However we remained optimistic and waited for the server to come up again. At this point I lose track of time, I had visited their website earlier to see what type of competition we would potentially be up against. With their TeamSpeak3 server information visible to the public, I could see that there were 2 small groups of 4 working together. From this I assumed that they were out in the field collecting items or camping objectives. After this first restart they had all moved to one channel and the number of people had jumped up to 12-16 in that channel. It was obvious that they were preparing for something. Facing the inevitability of people spawning in all around us when the servers came back online ~(7-10) mins later our mission changed focus to getting whatever we wanted and moving out as soon as possible. Any element of surprise was blown. Whether it was a player seeing us or an admin's birds eye, we had a feeling they were on to us. When the server came back up again it only lasted < 3 mins before it was offline again. I don’t really know the reason for this second restart. Was their plan not coordinated enough? Maybe they needed more time for players to jump to other servers to get closer, who knows. Maybe they were having legitimate technical issues. We were sure something fishy was going on and told our main group about what was happening to us. At this point our element of surprise was delayed by over 30 minutes. The server come back up after the second restart and we get back in to the game. Immediately we catch a TPG player inside the camp with an AS 50 on him. We pop him in the head and he goes down and alt f4’s, the body disappears. The tent with the 3 AS50’s has none; we can only assume the other two were in his pack. We engage another player to the north of the camp a couple shots were exchanged but nothing landed. At this point we begin moving out of the camp to the south. All rules for legitimate combat had been thrown out the window after the first two restarts. We run until they lose sight of us, reposition and log. We were very disheartened by the whole event. Delaying us by so long to get the jump on us, and restarting the server to prevent losing anything really just isn’t what a restart should be used for. Our reinforcements arrived and we decided to go take look at what was going on in the camp. When we approached the camp, there were 2 TPG members in the camp and a UAZ. We took out the UAZ so they had no escape and dispatched the 2 clan members. Turns out they had been busy bees, moving everything to a new location. The tents were mostly empty. After this event, the servers were restarted again with the specific purpose of restoring the UAZ destroyed in the raid. We know this thanks to some nifty Australian espionage. This evening(7/19), I once again legitimately found their new camp 012 NS, 057 EW. So they should be busy moving it again. No restarts this time though, just a bullet like it should have been in the first place. I don’t have screenshot of the original camp location or fraps of the on goings. My team mates were unfortunately banned from the server for hopping. Apparently logging back into the same place you were when the server went down is hopping servers. I just want to get the word out there that if you find a camp on US106 (NJ3), admins will do anything in their power to prevent you from playing the game in a legitimate fashion. I do wish to apologize to anyone who experience all those restarts last night.

I just thought it would be a nice realistic idea (If it's even possible to be done with the scripting and all) I would think that being able to shoot out of a van or bus would be a nice feature, it could add an advantage to the people in the car in a situation like being shot at by a group of bandits and instead of hopping out or risking driving away, they could drive as well as shoot making it an even playing field.

Well today me and a couple of my friends were playing on our "Home Server" where we have a large camp with tons of stuff we have collected. Anyway, we stumbled across a blue Ural just down the road from our camp and we tried fixing it up and driving it away. The thing is, it was stuck to the building that it was by and it couldn't be moved. Well after about 15 minutes of us messing with this truck, a Huey comes in out of nowhere. The people in the chopper all had Ghillies and decked out head to toe (I managed to kill one out and steal his AS-50 and NVGs and stuff). Before I was able to shoot one out, they flew over and saw we were next to the truck then suddenly the vehicle disappeared and the gunner started to shoot infected around me (Still don't understand why). Well as any person would, they would be scared when they were starting down the barrel of an M240 on a Huey and would shoot, as I did. Then I tried to hit the pilot but bullets didn't penetrate. And now to the point, can hackers despawn vehicles at will. Also the server restarted not long after that and now has not restarted for a few hours like it does normally so we can get our gear back. Also if the server gets restarted but doesn't re-restart then could that mean that they were trying to make the server 'fresh' I guess you could put it? But I am not trying to be a noob and I have looked into this enough to know that most people who come in with a Huey and decked out with Ghillies and what not are usually hackers. Still don't know if they were officially but it appeared that way. Also I tried looking for things like this but wasn't successful. So please if this is a repeat then just point me to the forum post and not tell me to go look for myself, because I did. Thanks everyone :) P.S. I wanted to take a screenshot but didn't have anything to do it with. Also the clan name in front of their names was [GM]. So if you see this clan, try to stay away, they appear, from what I saw to be hackers, or they have just been alive and very lucky for a long time.

So, me and some buddys found a bus while driving 'round Cherno with our UAZ and suddenly the guy who was driving the bus goes like "What the fuck, the bus... desynced or something".. Seconds later, this happened to me and my co-driver (It's not laggy but slow motion, so you can actually see whats going on): My co-driver got killed in the process, i survived with a shock. We checked the coordinates you can see on the GPS later on, but the bus and the UAZ were gone.