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So is there any kind of ETA when you guys might toss helicopters back into the game? I'm not talking about an exact date, just like a general idea or like frame of time?

I ran a forum search and realized how confused people are about the whole vehicle respawn thing... The first question people want to know is what happens to the vehicle count when a vehicle is destroyed? Some say that the vehicle is gone for good, and the vehicle count on the server will slowly decrease until all vehicles are gone and destroyed. Others say that the server is supposed to (Or if not, then should) note the vehicle that is destroyed and respawn a new vehicle in a random location at the next server restart. That's fine and dandy, but as far as I know, vehicle destruction is permanent. So when a vehicle is destroyed it is gone for good, and eventually all vehicles on the server will be gone. If this is the way it works, then the only way to replenish vehicles would be to run some kind of an uber database reset like that of a few days ago, when all the vehicles came back. Unless I'm mistaken, isn't this currently the only way to bring vehicles back? And if so, when one of these resets takes place again, what will happen to vehicles owned by players currently? Will they disappear (As well as the items inside them) and respawn as useless husks elsewhere?

Date/Time:Not exactly sure, between 3am to 6pm on 6/12/12 What happened:I log in and all my vehicles/tents are missing, I am not exactly sure if this is a bug, I have heard some people talking about bad server restarts and I was wondering if that is what happened. Where you were: Very for North. What you were doing: Logging in. *Current installed version: 1.7 *Server(s) you were on: Seattle 9 *Your system specs: *Timeline of events before/after error: I drove my vehicle to my base(GAZ) and log out, get back on later and all my stuff is missing. About 6-10 tents, UAZ, Ural, Bike, ATV, GAZ, Van.

Taking the ATVs out for a spin and making ourselfs useful by giving lifts to mates. Let me tell you, these things are a lot of fun. Also check out the other video I posted some time ago(thread got lost after the rollback) How my ghillie suit saved my life:

Date/Time: 12/06/2012 13:50 What happened: Getting in new vehicles added, rather than getting in the PBX it dunked me in the water first Where you were: At the Guba inlet What you were doing: Trying to get in *Current installed version: 1.7 *Server(s) you were on: UK3 *Your system specs: 8GB Ram, Windows 7 64 Bit, i5 2500K, AMD Radeon HD 6800 *Timeline of events before/after error: Just ran up north and tried to get in it Ran to where the PBX spawns at the Guba, it's a new spawn and nobody has moved it, I select to get into it from the shore and it puts me swimming in the water despite it being at the shore for half a second during which time I see I've lost everything, before then putting me in the driver seat. Can see all my gear at the bottom of the water, and it's put all the gear further out than where me or the boat is. But it won't let me get the gear back. http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/4677/40271470.jpg http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/1388/96462568.jpg Feeling a bit annoyed since it should have put me as the driver, rather than dunking me in the water first. Lost Big cayote bag NVGs Rangefinder Hatchet Watch Toolbox Compass GPS Knife Matches 2x camping tent M4 CCO SD (no mags) DMR and 3 mags Ghillie suit still in its parcel 2x tents Kept my M9SD with no ammo. Would like a character fix if possible. If not, at least be aware of the bug. :) Thanks guys.

Most of the vehicles are already repaired by a certain group in each server. and they do this SUPER easy with the item duping bug. the vehicles should completely reset later when the fix for the item dupe bug comes out. This item dupe bug is really ruining with the ingame item supplies. i see gps and NVG in every bodies. i actually want a whole character+item reset in the future. so the amount of rare loot is kept to minimum.

I Restarted my Server today after that all that Vehicles are gone ? Whats Wrong, has that something to do with the Hive ? Server: Germany / Cologne Thx

Hello, on my servers the people write that the vehicles explode when he join it :o ? why this ?^^

Date/Time: 1:03 am central time What happened: ALL tents / vehicles / everything on server disappeared. Where you were: The entire server. What you were doing: Restarting the server due to weird lag issues which caused zombies to run in place from the viewpoints of 3 people. *Current installed version: 1.7 *Server(s) you were on: Tx11 *Your system specs: Good enough. *Timeline of events before/after error: Server lagged, restarted, stuff gone.

For the 3rd day in a a row when we logged in we have found that our car is gone. We are hiding them in very remote locations and even the atvs are well hidden inside pine trees yet every day without fail they are gone. We are making sure to click save several times before we log. Is someone finding our stuff? If so how? Or is something else going on with the server and saving vehicles or server restarting doing anything

Once upon a time I found a UAZ (Red). It was my first vehicle ever and I was jizzing all over the place after I fixed the wheels, hull, and engine. While cruising through Polana I maneuvered to dodge some debris. I must have bumped it, (Dispite the lack of a banging noise) because my UAZ (Red) slowed to a stop almost instantly! Then I exploded. Another time, I was trying to get through Gorka with my newly acquired Old Hatchback... Green everything, but an orange Engine of course. I hit a fence with the hopes of knocking it over. But naturally my Hatchback merged with the fence, and promptly exploded. I totally understand this is an Alpha, and I'm not raging like a bitch... But damn, it's like their carrying landmines or something!

As in the topic title... Me and a few friends were running as a group on SE4 server a few days ago... We found in the space of 45mins: - a tractor [2 guys camo/ghillie repairing it, camo died, my guys found it mins later - ghillie boy had fled] - a v3s truck [found as i was running back to the skirmish] - 3-4 'small boats' [found after v3s desync killed us all] - rubber dingy [this thing is totally badass.] I -believe- we were the cause of the next 3-4 server crashes tbh, although obviously i cant attest to this because i dont know -exactly- what every other player on the server was doing... But basically as soon as we got in and started driving/boating around, it would go fine for a good 5 minutes before it would start to desync.. For myself, as a passenger, it was the usual arma-passenger-related-desync... but slightly worse. My position would stop being updated and although i can hear the engine running the truck is static with the wheels spinning accompanied by at least a yellow-lag-chain... Although i believe in some cases there was no indicator of lag and also we were getting no desync in the 'p' menu, but it was obviously still broken as our comms through voip quickly went to discussing our different locations. This was then accompanied by the server crashing... We managed to check out the island using the dingy successfully, it was a larf for the most part... So i mean, the vehicles are working, but (and dont get me wrong, i KNOW its an alpha) but in its current state they were more deadly than the deadliest of players... But the time spent refueling the vehicles and actually having a 'goal' - other than 'GEAR UP' - was quite interesting, also better having to question whether to take tht jerry can and scrap metal or extra ammo :) So... lots of fun - but, because of the fact it only worked for, at most 15 minutes.. until it crashed.. It was shortlived fun before rage insued. Stability would be great! :D Easier said than done though, rite?

I'd like to see global Vehicles (like my inventory) in DayZ. It would allow players to have vehicles and dont worry about not getting the vehicle to drive because the server crashed or was shutdown forever.

Ok I know there has been a lot of thread already on spawn points for vehicles, but I can't seem to ever see one. For exemple, I went to the spot near the Hotel in Cherno on about 4 different servers and could never see any car or truck that I could enter. I did the same thing by going on the road to the west of Elektro (there is supposed to be 2 cars on the way between cherno and elektro) and went on 3 different server. Still nothing. Is there any trick to catch one or am I just extremely unlucky and each time someone already took it?

So I did a few forum searches and THEN I did a few google searches. Found no such list. Can anyone help me out with servers that are REGULAR difficulty and have vehicles enabled? The server I found a vehicle on (Chicago 34) is down and has been for the past full day :( so I need some new ones. Thanks in advance !!

Bicycles, dirt bikes, helicopters, airplanes etc etc will not be part of DayZ in the foreseeable future. The reason is not that the devs don't want it, it's because the DayZ devteam is not assigned the resources it would need to implement the necessary systems into the engine. If and when DayZ is shifted to full Enfusion that will change things, but current development is purely stability, life support and minor content implementation. They (the DayZ devs) have said numerous times that there will be no major graphical overhauls or changes to the game's physics. That means no flying vehicles, no two-wheeled vehicles, no ragdoll physics, no volumetric clouds, no lighting improvements. It sucks - but it is what it is. BI are focused on building Enfusion to have a platform for the next Arma. DayZ is a guilty pleasure and not likely to be allowed to get all the nice stuff before the flagship Arma... As for new vehicles I expect they will eventually add the old transit bus and perhaps the s1203 van, as well as a couple of more V3S variants (chassis & open flatbed). Since two-wheelers are no-go for the above mentioned reasons, I hope they will consider adding quadbikes too at some point.

Dirt bikes would be cool, but adding vehicles isn't a priority for them I assume. There are much bigger issues they need to solve first.

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Have a look into the steam workshop, there are a lot of mods for other vehicles.

I was wondering about how vehicles work on servers. Im pretty sure they are reliant to a specific server correct? As in say you remake a heli and switch servers it is no longer there?

Hi Everyone I am Merlono. I have a question. Does anyone know if we will get any new vehicles any time soon?

From what I've seen since the latest patch, crashed helis and repairable cars can't be entered. The scroll menu option for it just never comes up.

Date/Time: 17:30 GMT What happened: Unable to fill Jerrycans unless i relog, Vehicles lose inventory on server restart Where you were: NE Airfield What you were doing: Attempting to refill Jerrycan *Current installed version: 1.5.8.4 *Server(s) you were on: UK8 *Your system specs: n/a *Timeline of events before/after error: Drove Vehicle up to tank, go out, couldnt refil, just got an option at the tank to save UAZ. Relogged could fill jerry. After the Jerry was emptied into UAZ could no longer fill it again, instead got save UAZ option at tank. Also from 2 vehicles all gear had dissapeared but gear remained saved in the tents

Did you know only 28 vehicles spawn on server resets? and that only 15 of them are cars? Did you know when vehicles blow up they don't come back? Honestly when I played Taw_Tonic's wasteland before Dayz came out the balance of cars was pretty nice. For this I would expect 50-60 vehicles on the map. More civilian cars should be introduced there is too little variety. Vehicles in dayz should play a bigger role. Considering how many parts you find laying around.

Found a couple of crashed venoms recently, both were inaccessible. Couldn't mount the gunner seat. Also found a repairable car but wasn't able to enter it either. Anybody else having these problems?