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Wander around the north parts of the map and stumble onto vehicles, tents, camps, maybe even other survivors. Sneak into Cherno and loot some buildings, even if you don't need anything. Being in a high risk area like that plays with the emotions. Find a boat and check out the islands. Collect as much ammo as you can and then declare war on the infected. You're only limited by your own imagination.

Problem is when he logs off people can get there. Most AWESOME thing ever would be making a base with about 25 players, and make sure there are ALWAYS people in it guarding it. That way you have an epic base where you park vehicles and have tents, lol.

I've been playing on one particular server for a few days and I've found some nice stuff (vehicles), so needless to say I'm quite eager to play on that particular server again. The issue is that now when I join it, my FPS is very low. Like, in the 1-5 range. Normally I get over 50 FPS when out in the woods, which is where I am, and when I was playing on the very same server earlier today and yesterday I was getting perfectly fine performance. I've joined other servers and I get fine performance there, too. Does anyone know what is going on here and if so how can it be fixed? Obviously it's quite impossible to play with such lag. It is simply very unpleasant and I've grown rather attached to my ATV and all the stuff inside of it. I'm running the steam version, and launch the game using six launcher. Windows 7 64 bit, nVIDIA GTX 250 GPU. Thank you in advance (hopefully...)

Date/Time: 5/24/2012 10:45 P.M. What happened: I was crawling through Berezino and I hit six or seven loot spots, including a grocery store. There was absolutely no loot, not even tin cans. There were zombies, but no loot. I hit both industrial and general loot spots. The only exception to this strange occurrence is that there was a fuel tank part for vehicles in a shack. I asked in chat if anyone else was experiencing weird loot and a few people said yes, not sure whether they were being sarcastic. The server went down shortly after these events. It could be unrelated, the Chicago servers say they reset every six hours. Where you were: Southwest cluster of Berezino What you were doing: Looting. *Current installed version: 1.5.8.4 *Server(s) you were on: Chicago 2 *Your system specs: [irrelevant] *Timeline of events before/after error: [irrelevant]

The Brotherhood/ TBH What is our goal? We are going to be playing the bandit play style.We want to be productive and get things done, such as setting up multiple base camps on multiple servers, getting vehicles, and having fun while doing it. We are looking for players that can joke around, but can also be serious when we get in a firefight or raiding a high threat area, such as Stary or NWAF. What can you expect from us? We value coordination and communication above everything else. We have a multitude of tactics we employ when going about chernarus which we have found to be very efficient. Even though we might be bandits we're still a nice bunch of guys to hang out with. We are not a bandit group that hangs around the south killing noobs, we enjoy roaming around in the north and we try to headhunt players with decent gear and actually get some competition. We enjoy the thrill of a good firefight! Clan/Group Info: 18+ Teamspeak3, a good working microphone combined with the ability to speak fluent english. You're a skilled player and you're familiar with dayz as well as with arma2. You value communication and cooperation. No whining about getting gear or losing gear. Gear is trivial if you know where to find it. Active, we want to see you play often! Once a week is not enough. No disconnecting to avoid deaths, take it like a man. Additional Information: We do have a home world. We usually play on a daily basis, between 6pm-12pm. We have access to a stable teamspeak server. If you meet the requirements and you are interested in joining add my skype CharlieTBH No more then 7 people will be allowed to join so be quick!

How vehicles work: The server is restarted (sometimes, I think, by arrangement so the people in the know get the vehicles) Then the vehicles spawn, and people grab them and go hide them. Looking at the supposed spawn points is almost useless. Look in the woods, particularly along the west edge of the map.

Saw a guy by the name of Sketty today. He shot our friend in our campsite, as two of us were just coming back from a supermarket run, so we changed course and approached from a different direction where we'd have a good overview of what was going on down there. My friend and I see nothing moving down there, we scan our vehicles, when one suddenly drives off. We jump in our jeep and try to cut him off. We "succeed". Succeed in that he finds us. My friend unloads close to a full clip of M107 with the AS50 into the drivers seat, and we both see blood. But the truck keeps moving so we shoot it apart whilst he is in it. He gets out, but we have no other visual confirmation for this but the fact that we see moving blood spurts, so we just go trigger mad. Predator style. All of a sudden, our jeep starts driving off. We shoot that up too, and blood spurts come out again. The server restarts. Phew, all our stuff was still fine when we got back, but that almost sucked major balls. Sorry for terrible punctuation and other forms of literal suckiness.

Ghost Response Team [RECRUITMENT: CLOSED] Warning: This is a recruitment thread, and a wall of text. If you wish to skip the reading and join us, please go here http://dayzgrt.enjin.com --------------- What is Ghost Response Team? GRT is a group of like minded individuals who share the same common goal, survival, protection, and family. We have been focused on nothing except expanding our numbers and outfitting them with the best gear we can find. Which in turn allows us to find more people and get them geared. We look to help those in need, and punish those who focus on hurting others for no reason. We respect that people play the game how they see fit, however if they choose to kill, loot and pilage, then we to will attack with the full extent we can. We are a Military Structured team. That being said, we do this more for functionality of gameplay rather than busting down recruits and pushing for progression of the ranks. We have missions / overwatch / medic response / assault squads / mechanics. Doing it this way allows everyone to play how THEY want to play. What time zones do you play in? Actually the beauty to GRT is that we actually have two fully operational squads so far: Alpha Division - 1st US Command - These are the players who play in the US / Canada Bravo Division - 1st UK Command - These are the players who play in the UK & Surrounding Areas / Australia / Pacific How long have you been playing this game? It's a mixture, on average most of us have played since it was first launched. We have new members that are constantly learning, and we have others range from two days to 2 weeks. At this point we aren't looking for ONLY experience players as our core 20-30 original members are already experienced. What sets you apart from other Clans / Guilds / Groups? I get asked this a lot, and I find the simple answer is, everything. I have been gaming for about 14 years. Through those years I have been in countless clans, guilds, groups. So many I can't even list them, because honestly they lacked what people look for and need for fun gaming. A community, a family. Sure people can offer that, but how many people have belonged to a 200 person guild where everyone knew each other? Their girlfriends and boyfriends names? Knew what they did for a living? Met up and hung out? Well I have, and have always promoted that. Gaming is something that should be done for enjoyment, not rage, not anger, frustration. It should be done for enjoyment. When I get off work I look forward to going home, hoping on TeamSpeak / Vent / Skype / Mumble and start gaming with everyone. Joke with people, relax, ESCAPE reality and your normal life to something more. So what do we offer? That, the escape to have fun, mixed with the push for perfection. Do you honestly have squads? Correct, we do have squads. What is the point of having a squad? Well this game more than any other game really does promote this type of process. You have a Squad Leader who is responsible for direction of the team, where to go, how to approach things. He decides what the play is. He should be praised for accomplishing and doing well, and feel responsible for when things don't. We have a sniper, who provides overwatch and is an excellent marksman. This person doesn't go into the city, he watches from afar and alerts to the squad what is going on around them. They are responsible for dispatching, upon command, as many people as needed to make sure the team leaves in one piece. We have two assault/comandos who are in the trenches covering the medic(s) and mechanic(s). They are who you want with you to get you out of any building. They will push through troves of zombies or a full unit of attackers themselves. You want them to to put their lives on the line when you are in the shit, because you know they will come out on top. We have two rotation spots, usually being two medics. However the situation may arise for two mechanics or one of each. The Medic(s) aren't helpless fools. They are in-charge of keeping the squad alive and helping survivors. The reason they are a medic though is that they focus on holding epi-pins, morphine, bloodpacks, bandages, etc. They have some ammo, and some food, but the others carry the supplies for them so that they can be the most efficient. The mechanic too is a commando, but he carries a lot of things that others don't. Thus sacrificing the stopping power of weapons, but gains the power of mobility. If we look to get off this damn rock, we need to find some transportation. Do you help everyone in need? It depends. If you are already one of us then you will have our help no matter what happens. Through thick and thin. If you aren't one of us then we will do what we can to get you out alive. We apologize for our hesitation, but we do know a lot of people lay traps and ambushes to try and better their gear, which is I guess how they play, what keeps us safe is our numbers. You may take a life, but be sure you understand you will not make it out alive. But yes, in general, we will try to help everyone in need. Where do you normally hang out at in game? We have a few different areas that we stay close to so that we can respond quickly. We also are always on survey and security around heavy traffic areas. We know survivors will head to these locations in order to look for help, supplies, or to cause problems. With each of those scenarios, we can help. Can you give me free stuff? We aren't a charity network, but we will help where we can. Like I said if you are one of us, then we will make sure that you get geared so that you can aide us in the best way possible. If you are an experienced DayZ player you know that gear comes and goes because of Zed's / PK'ing / Alpha Glitches etc. We have a team dedicated to nothing but getting gear for our team. How do you get all of your gear / equipment / weapons / camo? Some of our team has the best of the best. Real players of DayZ know the great areas and where things spawn. It takes time and patience. Once again though numbers play a huge roll, if we find something on someones wish list we take it and deliver it to them. Do you have vehicles? We do, do you? Are you guys bandits? Not at all, we focus on the positive side of the game. That being said, everyone turns into a bandit when they need to. Think of us a Robin Hood's Pirates. We protect those in need and make those who don't play nice suffer. We take loot from the land and give to the poor. Our rule of thumb is that we do not shoot the unarmed and if you shoot at us, do know we will shoot back. If we miss, we will hunt you down. We aren't here to grief people, and we aren't here to make people not enjoy the game. Do you kill without reason? Never, there is always a reason. Do we spawn kill and grief other players? No. What do you feel about hackers? Glitchers? Game Abusers? I'm not a white knight, and i'm not hear to tell people how to play their games or live their lives. Everyone does things because they feel they should. We don't condone hacking, glitching, or game abusers. Why? Because my grandma says those players are rookies, and i'm not about to call my grandma a liar. -------------------------------------- Join us now! http://dayzgrt.enjin.com So in closing, we look forward to seeing all of you in game one way or another. Myself and my team has had a lot of fun playing so far, as we look to the future we are excited to contribute to the growth of DayZ. If you have any questions please feel free to respond to this thread, however my main source of being contacted is at our forums or our Mumble chat. Thanks for reading, good luck and happy hunting! -Ghost

Crashed air vehicles bug out on dayz servers.

To Tyler and Cameron, and their third clanmate, sitting in between cherno and elektro with your two vehicles and l33t loot, the joy ride in your UAZ was awesome! The only weapon I had was an m1911 and 4 mags, and I took out two of you and stole your UAZ in the process :D I knew I shouldnt have gone back for the pickup truck sitting there, however it was too tempting to pass up. Too bad your guy with the DMR and nvg's raped me on the way back! If only I had had a rifle... how different things may have been. Pro tip: don't sit a kilometer from cherno with the headlights of your vehicle on, SITTING in the headlights chillin next to eachother. Chatting on voip too. The WTF?!!? was priceless! Your tears, they are delicious!! EDIT: So I went and ate dinner, CAME BACK! And decided I'd go check if the UAZ was still where I hid it, to my delight, it was!! I drove it away and hid it somewhere safer, and then went back to the spot where the original two vehicles were! Some guy was standing there, and he was apparently AFK, with a dmr, nvg's and tons of mags! I rolled up to him to not make any noise as I was unarmed and wanted to search his pack for a weapon to kill him with! He had nothing, and I saw an industrial shed in the distance. I prayed, literally prayed for a hatchet. THERE WAS A HATCHET GISDGLJDSLFGHL. Anyway, I grabbed it, ran back, owned him!! Then stole his stuff and tried to get in the truck but I couldnt for some reason. Oh well, it seemed to be broken which is why they never moved it I guess, but this was just crazy :D

Damn, I should hunt up north more often, but I just don't have the patience for it. I got no pics but the biggest camp I ever found was at the middle western part of the map on top of a hill, 2 vehicles and a shit load of tends, not all filled tough. Damn, I wish I could have one of those M16A4 ACOG guns, or the M4A1 SD...

I was lollygagging around in a server with side chat last night and I was at the Northwest airfield and leaving. When i got to Kabanino I asked if anyone happened to be in the NWAF because I would team up with them, it gets boring killing innocent people by yourself, nobody responded. So 8 minutes later when I got near Stary Sobor some guys said they found a bus at the NWAF. I asked them how long they've been there. They said about 20 minutes. So I told them because they didn't tell me they were there when I asked, that I should go over there and kill them. They then said, "lol good luck with that". CHALLENGE ACCEPTED MOTHERFUCKER! So I run up to the airfield again and scope the area out with my L85A2 and see nothing. I proceed to sweep the airfield. Nobody there. okay.jpg A couple minutes later they asked anyone if they wanted to join them in their travels. One guy went to go meet up with them. I logged out changed my name and joined back in asking if anyone wanted to team up and they gave me their TS3 ip so I joined. As time passes they establish themselves at Zub and waited for the guy they originally were going to meet up with. He appeared on a motorbike so they killed him and took his stuff. Then they drove their bus and motorcycle to pogorevka. All of a sudden theres a server restart and they lose their vehicles. So they're wondering where they can find more vehicles. I tell them to check the western vehicle spawns while saying I ran up to the NE airfield, when really I was sitting in stary waiting for some poor survivor. They started talking about going to zelenogorsk so I went on a marathon run to zelenogorsk. When I got there they were still looting, and I was in the forest area west of the town and couldnt get a clear sure shot.(I didn't want the other guy to disconnect when his buddy goes down) So after they're done looting one logs off to edit some document for their clan and the other decides to meet up with me. We decide on stary because they think im still at the Northeastern part of the map. So as I follow him from a good distance(800m-1.2km) I find two trucks both needing 4 wheels, a fuel tank, and engine parts. So I told both of them that I was actually following them around everywhere they were going. They were suprised and laughing wondering how i did it. I told them I Lied to them about everywhere i was. They started saying how they need to improve how they go around. I tell them about the two trucks sitting in the middle of a field. So the guy still connected came to check If I was serious and when he got there i was watching him and he checked the trucks for gear(which I had forgotten to do since i carry a sniper and two assault rifles with essentials for survival) and he shits bricks because theres 5 L85A2s in there, satchels charges and all kinds of goodies. So i crawl up to him and creep him out(ghillie suit FTW) then his friend comes back on to search for tires and all the necessary car parts. We make a reluctant run to cherno to get parts. After we gather everything we need we make the long run back, fix up the cars and proceed to hide them because we're all tired.(It was around 4-5am and i started the hunt for them around 1am) on our way we find a bus in the middle of the road. Awesome. We grab that and drive our convoy to the specified location and park everything and save the vehicles and log out. The whole time I was debating on whether or not i should still kill them. But when we found the bus I decided not to. But what I did do was pick up another friend an hour later and drove him up all the way to the top of the map and we drove all of the vehicles somewhere else so when they log in they have no vehicles and they have to run all the way from the edge of the map back down to towns. I'm an asshole, currently at 17 murders and everyday that number increases.

I've never been able to keep a vehicle for more than a day/play session. Tents sometimes save, sometimes wiped of contents and sometimes they just disappear completely. The only items I've ever been able to keep for more than ~2 days are the ones I'm carrying with me, but even then they sometimes just disappear. Kind of makes me want to log off and just wait for the standalone. I want to survive, (re)build and settle down in the game, not just running around looking at the same trees, houses, loot spawns and the occasional bandit every time I play. My play sessions nowadays consists of running and running for hours on end just looking for the rare sight of survivor camps and vehicles, because it's more dynamic than raiding the supermarket for the 354468413th time, picking up the same loot from the same spawns and using the loot for the same things every. single. time. Eating beans, drinking cokes, throwing cans, ignore the rest because I already have all I need to survive. I'm trying to be creative, but playing alone really doesn't allow for much exciting experiences when all there is to do is jerk around with friends and organizing events. Organizing my one-man-army isn't very rewarding or challenging, not to mention the conversations between me and myself are growing thin when there isn't much new information to be process around me. I'm just hoping for the few dynamic mechanics there are to be more stable and reliable. Building a camp of tents, wires and sandbags(of which I haven't found a single one in over 200h of gameplay) is better than to just keep running around trees. tl;dr: I'm bored with the game, but too stubborn to accept the sad truth that the game is too static and repetitive in its current state.

Yep. Hacked vehicles are more common that the regular ones. Last night hackers spawned a tractor, UAZ, 4-5 A-10s, a dirtbike, and a Huey at Elektro on a server, then left (or were banned). Also my buddy found a UAZ earlier near Elektro (different server) that was out of Gas (we thought it was legit) that disappeared with most of our stuff on a server restart. As for the OP, I guess you're wanting confirmation that you're a douchebag, because I don't know what else you're looking for. Congrats on using the hacked vehicles too.

Unplayable lag tonight that's only effecting the zombies. I'd shoot a zombie with a 1911 and instead of killing it it would just agro, in that particular case i shot it twice more at point blank with all 3 shots hitting and showing a blood splat, zombie then knocks me out and I die with my friend not able to do anything. Previous to that a zombie absorbed 5 shots before randomly de-agroing my friend and walking off, I should have logged off then. We also had a zombie agro from far away, run all the way up to us, take a shot to the chest making a noise, then turn around and walked off. On the bright side my long trip back to base in a straight line made me stumble into a players tractor which I filled up and stole, the jerk then fired a bunch of shots at me hitting me for a whopping 1k blood. :D A few minutes later I found a helicopter crash site with a 3 mag FAL and a M249 with 1 mag, so all I have now is a fine collection of vehicles and some heavy weapons, no food, no water and no equipment :lol:

Saturday 7/21: Today's play saw Four return to Chopper Alley. Heading west through the Old Fields area, he hit a deer stand south of Prud, where he located a DMR. This is a very nice long range weapon - like the M14, only featuring a magnified sniper scope. I couldn't resist. I headed Four into the trees, where he changed into his camo clothes, then discarded his old civilian clothes, STANAG SD mags (*sigh*), and a dose or morphine. Then back to the stand to claim the DMR and one magazine. Four carries three primary weapons once more. From there he continued west south of Kabanino to the deer stand at Veresnik. Still no choppers! Chopper Alley wasn't living up to its name today. From Veresnik, the plan next was to head W-NW toward the trees lining the western edge of the map, cutting between Vybor and Pustoshka and taking a last look about for crash sites in the process. But upon breaking free of the treeline surrounding Veresnik, I spotted a tractor parked close by in the fields. At first I just noted its presence and kept Four moving, but after a few more steps I stopped him and turned about. Why not? Four's entire life consists of jogging around at a crouch with a pack full of military hardware. He deserves a break - he's probably got the mother of all blisters on his feet by now from so much moving about on foot. Besides, the open ground between his present location and the trees at the western edge of the map eliminate any sense of secrecy or stealth, so I really wouldn't be adding much risk by throwing in a little noise to boot. Four hopped in. As has been his experience with all of the other vehicles he's encountered, this one had fuel and was in workable condition. He started it up and headed west. This was more like it! I made sure to give anything resembling a building an extremely wide berth so as to avoid any zed aggro. After crossing the road between Vybor and Pustoshka, I needed to veer a bit left to stay in the clear. There was a wooden railing situated next to a line of small trees which began where the railing ended, but it looked like I'd be able to squeeze between the end of the railing and the start of the foliage. There was one very small shrub there, but running over that shouldn't present any problem at all. Wham! Whoops. The shock icon appeared on screen, and the engine stopped. I'd lost a couple thousand points of blood. Evidently that shrub was more of an obstacle than I'd imagined. A tractor killer, even. Oh well, so much for the joyride. I activated the mousewheel menu to get out, and noticed a "shut engine off" entry there. Four's accident had killed the tractor, but did I still need to turn the engine off? I was considering this when it happened. BLAM! The tractor exploded. Four was now outside of it, bleeding, ~3.8k blood, and promptly passed out. A long one too - that hourglass was filling *very* slowly. Oh, man. All of the things he's done, the places he's been, the equipment he's salvaged, and it's going to end like this? As I watched the hourglass and his blood level steadily declining, trying to determine which out of a return to consciousness or death from blood loss was more likely to occur first, I began to eulogize Four in my mind. How would I spin this? I couldn't, really - this was a moron's death. I crossed my fingers and hoped for the best. ...to be continued Health: 3800 and dropping fast Zeds/Survivors/Bandits killed: 451/0/0 Future goals, in order of priority: Be less dead.

I kinda want four things mostly to make me stay on one server..... 1) Fixed Tent so that items dont dispear sometimes when servers restarted by admins. 2) Ability to set a Tent being ur respawn, So if you die, you can respawn at ur tent or option to respawn randomly along the coast. 3) Ability to Destroy Tents with Crowbars/Hatchets. (just explosives is kinda pain to find sometimes) Than items from tent all burst around the place were tent was destroyed + Player loses their respawn place. (Ability to pick up destroyed enemy's tent as ur own) 4) Make vehicles not dispear or despawn after server restart or/and respawn rate of repairable vehicles being once every 30mins, byicles 1h+, helicopters once a day in random location. I had ATVs couple times now after hunting them down despawn on me on couple servers and taking them to safe location, after putting alot of work searching for them. (usually do it to pick up my friends along coast and take them to my tents to re-equip) Also couple of my friends unable to play at dark due to their bad computers, so sometimes we have to move around looking for day light server. (while i enjoy playing in dark in DayZ, i like playing with my friends more) 5) Fix Item not spawning on ground glitches, their alot of servers out their that dont spawn items on ground, or just backpacks. I mean if i see nothing, even empty cans in a gorcery store their a problem.... (in Bastnio only one gorcery store usually has items the other one is glitched with nothing in it)

How the hell do you people find so many god damn vehicles ? I call bullshit on that, i barely found a dirtbike and a gaz and stole some other vehicles from obvious camps. But to find SO MANY CARS just sitting around fields and streets, i can't really believe that.

I'm not sure how any of the above is "too convenient"; in fact it took me the better part of 3 hours to steal your vehicles! If you have issues with anything I haven't explained, you're welcome to ask for clarification. Secondly, I looked at the post history for both you and D4ssBlaster and thought it was rather odd to see all the posts requesting help to detect hackers, and you were met with responses about Jets/Helicopters and Tanks. Funny how we had none of that and yet you still decided we were "hacking" with supposedly irrefutable proof that essentially amounted to us destroying your camp. You may say to want to "start over," but we're still banned.

Hmmm this is a very strange mechanic. Why wouldn't vehicles be saved to the character the same way your inventory is? I think the developers need to make it like that if possible.

Yer I watched an Interview with Rocket on You Tube today, He said he took them out because they where way too laggy, But weirdly all road vehicles are also laggy as hell but they still in the game, Think he said he bringing them back when its all fixed.

Hello fellow survivors, I'm looking to team up with some people and get some better loot and maybe even form a small base somewhere. I don't have any vehicles, but I am pretty much decent geared. I've got a tent on uk170 geldof (I think its on that server anyway) but I am open to switch servers. I have plenty of morphine I will share, as well as some 1911 ammo. Just let me know what you would like to do and we will figure it out, I use dayz commander to launch my game, I play on uk servers, but I live in usa. And if you're in a clan I will play with you and yours, but I don't have a mic, nor do I have the time to play hardcore with a clan but I will help out.

Same thing happened to the one bike I ever got my hands on. Hid it in a place noone could find (not even people looking for such places :P), then placed it up against a tree, carefully hidden in a pine grove. The only way they could find it is if they were for some reason scanning every single tree in that area with a toothpick. I had trouble finding it myself when I returned later that day. I saved it a ton of times over that 2 hour period of bike ownership, never even moved it from that spot. Next morning, it's gone. The server could have just eaten the vehicle. It's been largely fixed but it still happens, especially if the server updates either the mod or the beta. I've lost all of the vehicles I've ever managed to get my hands on within hours because of metal-hungry servers.

Again.. Its more to learn the system more than anything. When do vehicles spawn back to their original spawns? Whats the point of having the map that indicates vehicle spawns when they never spawn there? Think about it. Lets say when the hive is reset or the server is brand new the vehicle spawns at one of the designated areas. When do they spawn back? 1. We know that when a player dies that saved the vehicle last it has NO effect on the vehicle. 2. We know when the vehicle blows up it has NO effect on the vehicle spawn, as it will spawn right back in the same spot when the server restarts. 3. We know that the vehilce position will save in the last place the vehicle is stopped. 4.... So when does the vehicle make it back to the original spawn? we didnt update our server for 48hours thinking that would effect vehicle spawns too, because no one would be using them for 2 days.But that had no effect either so whats the deal?

I read this as: It's not fair that I dont have every single vehicly on my own server, how can I reset the vehicles so I can get them all for myself.