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I agree with your second point, after spending 4weeks in the game i have enjoyed it alot. the biggest gripe for me atm is not seeing vehicles not just at spawn points but anywhere, i have not seen a single travelling vehicle once in my alpha play, only a friendly hacker who picked me up and gave me everything(character died) i have all this gear and would like to assault a group who are out and about with a vehicle, maybe i can steal the car? but like i said i haven`t seen one. the chance to get about faster with a car would be fun i guess but sadly hasn`t happened yet. i have looked through the forests up north but it does take a lifetime to get about on foot. the Arma3 map could be exactly what is needed Peace

If a hacker spawns something, it is typically deleted after server restarts. We found a few vehicles that disappeared because a hacker spawned them. However, we've also had hackers teleport vehicles off the map. As for the V3S being turned into a bus? Either someone driving a bus found it and took your v3s, a hacker turned it into a bus for giggles, or you had a glitch I'd never heard of or seen before. I think the previous two seem more likely.

We were firefighting for a while, I could hear you and see you push over foliage...You missed 2 shots at me when you "magically appeared" in front of me. I freaked out and unloaded 1/4 of my clip at you and you finally died. I should have FRAPSed it. When you were by the rocks too I most definately shot you in the back. @Moe how did you know exactly where I was T_T As I was going north I see a random ill-equipped player. How'd you get on the island too there were no vehicles around the island. You swam?... As for the settings, everything was set a normal but post processing was turned off. Updates/Betas are the latest.

Yeah hoarding is a big problem with vehicles currently. I seen only 3 vehicles and I am playing this game for a few weeks now. I didn't get to drive any yet so... Having vehicles only on 1 server also reduces the amount of server hopping because people tend to stay on servers where they have a vehicles stashed up. So thats a bigger plus, than having your vehicle go with you on any server :)

the fuck? theyre meant to shoot out engine blocks in vehicles, not to blow apart humans. if people use them against other people fucking deal with it. its not their purpose but their purpose still exists as long as vehicles are in the game.

Hey guys i am interested in joining.. i have tested out the server to see the ping and i am having a max of around 45 which is alright. Because of that i am more interested because i want a good connection when playing. Im from the UK also (SE) so timezones should be fine. Also have TS3 so i have joined name is - zZ Jack Zz this is the same as my in game name also. I am geared up quite a bit.. Ghillie, GPS, NVG, M4 CCO SD, range finder, and usual kit. I am new to the group play in DayZ but i would like a camp to set up and a couple vehicles aha, i did steal a Ural on another server which explains all the kit i have... it got stolen 2 days later from me as i just couldn't keep it protected on my own aha. PM me back or what ever , cheers , Jack

So in general could become like a STALKER mmo.... side story quests higher end gear bandits vehicles wildlife skills hmmm

I would like to see more bikes and its like most vehicles, people get them when they spawn and horde them away.

I think that you have made up a quite nice list of points there, and would like to give my input on them. 1. I do agree with you, but the reason why there is som much high end gear, is because tents and vehicles can be used to dupe items. This is likely to be fixed before the game is released, but i also think that it should be much harder to raid the high end gear places. NWAF is pretty ok, considering that you almost always bumps into another survivor while beeing there, but crashed helis are for most of the time in totally remote places, and it's pretty easy to raid them. 2. Chernarus is a big map, but i have heard that Arma 3:s map is even bigger, and is an island. I have heard rumors of a standalone DayZ, but if it's not, your whish will be fullfilled. I would personally see a really big city on the map. Having a really big city with maybe a military facility(government building) deep within the city with unique high quality gear, would provoke survivors to raid the city. 3. Partly see 2. about the city, if the endgame gear is in a crowded place, you will get endgame action. Removing the survival gear as the knife and water bottles is just weird in a survival game. I do have another proposal for more action, and that is a horde of infected that is wandering around the map (inspired from the Walking Dead). Maybe two or three of this horde with around 50 infecteds that wander the map straight through cities and woods.

Sounds like it's something the DayZ dev team do, I assume there's a waiting list of white listed servers they work through? From Multiplay's website: Please be aware of the following when ordering a DayZ server: The DayZ instance ID is provided by Multiplay. Certain entities (including but not limited to vehicles) are controlled by the DayZ development team. There is no guarantee that these will regularly spawn on your service. The server must remain public at all times. Passworded servers are not permitted. Your service must comply with DayZ naming conventions set by the development team. The DayZ server code is in the alpha stage. As such features may be missing or unstable from time to time. This includes but is not limited to memory leaks, server crashes and high CPU. We will pass any information of this nature to the DayZ development team for review.

Rasmus has been banned. This SUV is a Cadillac Sedan 2012/08/04, 20:21:11 Cannot load sound 'ca\sounds\vehicles\wheeled\sedan\ext\ext-sedan-getout-1.wss' 2012/08/04, 20:21:11 Cannot load sound 'ca\sounds\vehicles\wheeled\sedan\ext\ext-sedan-getout-1.wss' 2012/08/04, 20:23:57 HIVE WRITE B char=24114202 (name=Rasmus) coor=086,127 (G=1.6 !! v=115) weapon= gear= pack= 2012/08/04, 20:24:07 ERROR vehicle has nil characterID 2012/08/04, 20:24:36 Cannot load sound 'ca\sounds\vehicles\wheeled\sedan\ext\ext-sedan-getout-1.wss' 2012/08/04, 20:24:36 Cannot load sound 'ca\sounds\vehicles\wheeled\sedan\ext\ext-sedan-getout-1.wss' PS: thanks for the report and screenshots.

So me and my friend decided to join SESUK 1, only to find out that players and vehicles were marked on the in-game map so that everyone could see it. Screenshot below. Server: SESUK 1 Time: 17:01 UTC +2 What happened: Opened up the Map, got pissed, disconnected and changed server. After that little incident we changed server to FR 129 hoping for better luck, no way. After looting cherno a while we heard a vehicle approaching us, a black SUV, wtf? We shot the driver (whose name I can't remember...) and took some screencaps. Server: FR 129 Time: 17:32 UTC +2 What happened: A black SUV p-i-m-p style rolled up next to us. Oh and our long time server we played on (US 883) probably got some script kiddies with vehicle locators. We tried hiding several vehicles all across the map and every single one of them disappeared very quickly. I really hope BIA guys can somehow get these cheaters/hackers to stop ruining the game. If not, I'm eagerly waiting for the standalone version of this game :)

I think that the guys that accually is satisfied with water bottle, knife, hatchet and matches are pretty few. This is not an endgame setup, and although they can survive in the wilderness forever, they will still raid cities and military bases for weapons and vehicles. I have got bitten twice and had to go to Chernogorsk to raid hospitals for antibiotics, so there is still reason for high geared survivors to raid the big cities. Removing the said items would make the game setup weird... survival game without a knife.

Can i have the coords so that I can run over all of the tents and then frag the hoarded vehicles?

check on the ground where you were flying when the server restarted. the vehicle is usually saved to it's last known location automatically when server resetarts - at least for all the ground vehicles.

I think we're just unlucky. Military vehicles, as I've heard, are ungodly rare to find. I myself have only ever seen a bus and a car. Ever.

Does this server allow vehicles to be parked off map or do they reset during the server reset if parked off map. I have searched and searched about every inch of the map for Helicopters and found nothing along with the ural.

All the idiots that said that making zombies more difficult would make people play coop failed and we all knew it would. Now we have zombie line backers running through walls doing 1 hit KO to worry about on top of every other player that shows up and sniper fire from the hills. How much harder does it need to get for the honest players? It really isnt worth game testing this alpha anymore. I rather let everyone else go through hell and back while I wait till the game comes out. The game is an FFA death match where zombies annoy the hell out of everything and you have to get through them to get to a weapon to defend yourself. Most of the bandit/ clan fags are already setup with tents and vehicles while the rest of us are starting to quit. The community has turned murderous. They shoot you even though you declare yourself a friendly unarmed player. Artifacts started appearing commonly near military loot (Only military loot buildings), coincidance maybe but annoying as hell. The matter of fact is that I am done until the game comes out. It's taking forever and the gameplay for this mod, which is the only incentive there is to test the game, has become disgusting and almost unplayable.

DayZ is not a zombie-survival simulator. It has the window dressing of zombie-survival as a hook. Zombie-survival is the window dressing to draw players in. But the gameplay focus of the mod is: sorta-persistent-world deathmatch on an enormous map. The zombie-survival aspect rapidly becomes a hoop to jump through so you can pvp over l33t weapon spawns and vehicles. The pvp itself is fun. But that's just the base ArmA pvp at work.

My friends and I have settled on the server but we are making sure not to hoard many vehicles. We have a few but we've passed up and given away a few also. It's fun to hunt for the vehicles when others find em first. Lol.

Not to mention the lag the extra vehicles would cause.

That makes no sense. Vehicles can be easily taken out with small arms, especially the LMGs. .50 cals are really in the game because rocket is too lazy/unable to fix alt+f4 and dcing in combat. His solution is to give players the ability to 1hit kill each other so that there is no opportunity to alt+f4.

And how are sniper rifles directly linked to vehicles? You can use any gun on a car.

.50 cals are in the game because there are vehicles in the game, genius.

Oh you mean this? It's pretty useless for finding people and half the vehicles/tents don't appear + When you already have 17 vehicles I just leave the old bikes and ATV's for everyone else. And it's just the server saving the data, it can also be read by reading the process memory and and creating a program to map them for you which can be done by anyone :\ The arma Engine isn't meant for people that play DayZ and that's probably this games largest flaw.