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it will respawn in it's last saved condition upon a server reset. If the vehicle is not saved for 7 days it will respawn in one of the spawn points on the map. The real question is does every server have a set number or is it completely random what and how many vehicles a server will get.

I've asked far and wide and nobody seems to know: What is the current respawn behavior for vehicles? e.g. If a vehicle is destroyed, how long can we expect to wait before it respawns somewhere on the map?

i think i know the bridge, its an engine problem not a dayz problem. there has been multiple deaths in our group because we crashed a car into some invisible rock, or debris on the road that pops up about 5 feet in front of you while driving 100 kph use vehicles at your own risk, and not gunning everywhere usually helps with being able to stop before you kill all the occupants and yourself

I enjoy hunting for vehicles on server at night time. I don't bother with going to spawn points, I go to green mountain and black lake or what it is called, that is about it. Otherwise I just wait in areas where vehicles go for vehicle parts shoot the driver and any other players that is in the vehicle, take it and drive away. and make sure I do as little damage to the vehicle as possible^^

Rocket please, I beg you, fix this issue and that cars dissapear on updates, restarts. This is so frustrating, our team has lost 3 vehicles already. in a few days. Yesterday I was driving around with the Off-Road Truck, and then the server info said that the server restarts in 5 minutes. So I did stop it in the bushes, safed it like 20+ times, was spamming the safe button, after the restart I went back in and it was gone. I mean the only thing we can drive around with is a tractor atm., lol. By the way, does anyone know if the truck is completely gone, or is it back on a previous safed position?

I've flipped a hilux in a ploughed field and as for the 'All Terrain Vehicles'... i think everyone knows they are anything but all terrain and if you drive them on any terrain other than the road they will flip

So needless to say...the small group I'm with stumbled onto a vehicle horders camp and stole their vehicles....and moved them to our camp. No big deal...except the fact none of us knew of the 'invisible wall' on ditches and the even bigger one on the bridge. I wish I had the snapped videos of us flipping ATV after ATV followed by the pick up and jeep. My question is....are there spots all over the map like this? I understand that its 'alpha' and I'm not bitching..but damn..knowing that my truck was gonna flip up 50 Ms and land on its roof would've been a nice heads up! Anyone else ever have the same problems? Cause I know with the motorcycle and bike....no such problem happens.

When I ordered my server from Vilayer, they informed us that since the instance id was 6000 or higher, it would be a couple of days before vehicles showed up and were added in by rocket and co. It took 2 days, and then I logged on one morning and found an ATV, got on teamspeak and was like "FOUND THEMMMMMMMM" :P

A fixed amount of fuel/server would lead to intensive server-hopping to rob another servers fuel. But i would appreciate more driveable vehicles and more rare vehicle-parts. Maybe a chance of breaking vehicle-parts due to use, so you have to repair your vehicle from time to time. And I suppose to switch the topic to the suggestions-section.

ok so i have been watching streams of choppers and it makes me wonder. once the servers chopper(s) are taken there is not much point any more for the lone wolf or even upstarting group of survivors to go crash site hunting, get a vehicle or set up camp. crash sites are found and looted by the chopper crew within minutes. camps and hidden vehicles are insanely easy to find now due to ground vegitation not being rendered at long distance. i understand that choppers are fun and all but i personally think it has a negative overall effect on the game.

Hey op. Try to raid some camps on the northern/northeastern part of the map, where people hide they vehicles... Went there yesterday with mates on a german server...found tent city and a car park...:) Try to do it on a busy server(more people playing-bigger cahnce to find their camps), but be avare those guys with top tier stuff usually guard their camps. :D

Here just my idea to change the way vehicles are in this mod. Firstly apart from the drivable vehicles in this game, all the cars you come across are burnt out and rusting away, I think this should be changed. I believe that all vehicles on the map should be drivable, however they need certain parts to repair. Just because its a zombie apocalypse doesn't mean all the vechiles in the world blow up. To balance this however parts should be as rare as a SVD camo and there should be a set amount of fuel on a server, for instance, a normal server starts with 600l of fuel combined across all fuel tanks, some of the vehicles in the game world would also have fuel in them that you could use or take out off, once that runs out then there's no more to go around. This could introduce people stealing fuel from other vehicles and clans. So basically all vehicles are drivable but it's 20x harder to get the right parts for it. Any suggestions, this thought came to me when I thought of the walking dead and the motorways filled up with vehicles.

I run my own server and I have no way of knowing really. We just got our vehicles turned on since it's a newer server and we've seen quite a few honestly. I can think of 6 ATVs alone.

To tent or not to tent that is the question. The answer is to tent. Most people don't have vehicles so the vehicle storage option is not useful. Also, unless you are parking your vehicle way off map then someone will likely stumble onto it and drive off with all your gear. Sometimes tents don't work. Not always sure of the variables as to why. For instance I set up a tent last night and put some items in it and saved it and today the tent is there but the items are gone. Could have been someone stole them. Could have been the server lost them. Could have been I was de-synced at the time and the items weren't saved. So what is the answer? If you put stuff in a tent there is a chance you will lose it. If you don't put stuff in a tent then you will either never pick it up in the first place or eventually someone will shoot you and you will lose it. Tents are a chance to lose. No tents are guaranteed to lose. Vehicles can be blown up, stolen, pilfered, run into trees, moved to an unknown location, etc. etc. If I were you I'd go with the tent. Find a nice out of the way place to put it and store a few things you might need later after you die. All this said, there is no way I would trade for a freakin' tent. They aren't too rare and can be found in many civilian and residential buildings. The items you offer are also common and not worth risking your neck for. If I'm going to trade with someone it's going to be for something big to make it worth bringing my crew along with me for back up. You go into a trade for a stupid tent you are just begging to get murdered. Thems the hard facts brother.

A member of our clan found a camp full of tents and vehicles. We gathered a few clan members and began the march to raid together. While we were moving the admin restarted the server to fix the long loading time(it worked). After we all rejoined, we arrived at the site shortly. Upon arriving the admins spotted us and killed 2 members as one of our killed the two admins. As we started our raid nearly a minute after the admins were killed the server kicked everyone out. Our question is: Why would the hosts restart the server within 5 minutes of the last restart unless they were doing it to keep us from looting the camp after their death? Short Youtube video of raid: Higher quality video available later.

I usually only play on American servers. And I try to report the stuff everytime it happens. It is just getting to the point that whenever I make progress I usually die to a hacker. I havn't seen any hacked items or vehicles yet. But I have been teleported and dropped to die, teleported and shot to death. nuked when i was in cherno. everyone in the server I was in earlier had their legs broken first. then shot. It is just irritating.

No worries, chances are you won't have to worry about me killing you seeing as I doubt you have been as far as Zelengorsk. Also nice rebuttal there, first you have no comeback so you try to call me a CoD babby, then you go on and try to say you think your way to play DayZed is better than mine. Which is completely opinion but I guess you live in a world where if you don't get your way you cry and scream and call all those around you "little kids". Sound familiar? If you want to kill zombies all day and sit in cherno and horde c-tier loot, be my guest. But don't call me a CoD babby just because I enjoy killing something that isn't controlled by AI. As I said in all my posts. Me and my friends have fixed up vehicles and have all the loot we could ever possibly want. I have given solutions to the problem at hand, which is there is too much killing of players for a survival game (though I think killing the players is a part of the survival, one less person to worry about but hey according to you I am a 15 year old with no brain cells). If rocket adds more support for clan vs clan warfare, I will be the first one to support it. But until then if you happen to crawl off the coast expect to get shot at.

same as me. i use LA85 with termo to scan...expecially @ nite. once i find someone i switch to DMR and NVgoogles.... LA85 is also helpfull if you are looking for some meat.... talking about LA85 i think is not so accurate .... his most advantage is the thermo... AS50 is good againt vehicles.. but @ nite you can see anithing unless you launch a flare... but in this case you are loosing your advantege... be snake man....

I'm curious as to where all these hackers are... Are most of them on the US server perhaps? I mean, me and my group have only encountered a few hacked vehicles and items, but nothing major really. The only major thing I've seem was the Battle Camp thing in NW airfield... That was quite dodgy.

do vehicles spawn as soon as the prior spawned ones are gone or do they spawn randomly at those known places?

so you have a tractor? hmm ive lost a few vehicles from server restarts, you might find one of them on your travels, feck knows where they end up lol

You don't need range finders if you can do the math. Back to topic: This weapons are the most powerfull weapons in the game. The Sniper Rifle kills everything with one shot and has the strongest scope ingame. The L85a2 hat not only night vision but also thermal vision. Even if some players said it doesn't has thermal vision... this is wrong. A friend of mine found one on saturday. Just push "N"-Key a few time in sniper mode an switch between night vision and thermal vision. So... you can spot everything - even if it's a mile away, sitting behind a bush(even vehicles). And you can shoot everything, since the AS50 has the biggest scope, the biggest range and the biggest damage ig.

Haku may be a nice guy but im not....... Your a shitbag. People spend weeks somtimes collecting gear and vehicles only to have all those hours wasted by a loser copy pasting scripts that kill everyone with a keystroke. Please by all means buy another copy. Bis likes $, and it will make A3 even better. If you could'nt compete before without hacks why do you think you could now? You're only sorry because you got caught. You assholes are all the same. You have made it so I cant enjoy Dayz right now, and that is exactly what the hackers want. Thats ok though. Battle Eye bans in waves and every time it does I can feed off the misery of the douchebags that get caught and wash it down with their tears. What pisses me off the most is this.... Dean is just a cool guy. He isnt some big gaming company that is just trying to make money. He is a gamer/modder that spends so much time trying to make Dayz perfect for "US". He is active and respondant on these forums. He takes time to answer every stupid question. He repeats himself Adnauseum for retards (usually nicely). He ask the community for suggestions on every aspect. He is the only developer I know that gives a shit what "YOU" think. And scumbags like you just shit on him...... I really believe that a project like this is revoloutionary to gaming. If it is successful it could very well change how games are made. If it is successful all the gaming companies will take notice and the landscape will change allowing more intelligent games back into a marketspace that is flooding with "casual" and "arcade" games. All this is just "IF" people like YOU do not ruin it first.

Most vehicles aren't hidden that far out of the way. But you won't find any if you're one of those morons who runs on ROADS completely visible to everyone. RE: your idea though I do think it'd be cool to have a crafting system for in-game items as well. Not just as an end in itself, but also to (if made correctly) create more incentives for trade and socialization (assuming base building allows relatively safe havens for strangers to interact). Say I train a skill to make gunpowder, you train a skill to make bullets, and some other guy makes meds. Well you might make gunpowder and trade with the bulletsmith who pays you with meds (who he gets from the doc for finished ammo). Sure some players may try to train ALL skills, but life is short in Chernarus, and death starts you back at zero.

I have a server of my own and some times there times you need to test the patch first before opening to the public i.e. We updated our server last night and when we all rejoined our bus turned into a bike and our boat turned into a atv? we where like WTF but because every one was already using the new vehicles we left it the way it was, now if we tested the server first we could of found out there was an issue but we did not and lost allot of crap :( My point is I think it is OK to lock your server to test the new up date but yes locking it for over a day and having 5 people on there is a bit fishy.