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I don't understand why people hoard vehicles the way they do. You'll have situations where a small group of players have a fleet of 5-10 vehicles. In servers where that is happening you will never really find any vehicles, because they do not respawn unless they have been destroyed (afaik). Defeats the purpose of death in this game for me. If you die just run back to your truck and restock on some gear you've been hoarding. Half the fun and excitement is because dying is a painful experience and trying to avoid the inevitable gives such a rush!

well admins/owners can look at server logs and see where vehicles are saved and whatnot

If you don't know this map already, check it out : http://dayzdb.com/map There are also a spawn locations here : http://dayzwiki.com/...?title=Vehicles No, you don't need to repair the vehicles when you find them. I found a car at a spawn point that was perfectly fine. I don't know how much time you have to wait for the respawn, but I know that if a player saves the vehicles somewhere, it will stay there even if there's a server restart. Players hoard all the vehicles they can in the forests, and I don't think they move unless destroyed. The only time I found a car at his spawn point was when the server had just opened and I was one of the first player.

Does anyone know the respawn times for vehicles in servers? I think it was mentioned at six hours though this was speculation from a post I read aaaggeess ago. Also, do cars always need to be repaired before you can drive them away? or are there some that need a fix up but can stil be driven. Sorry for the nooby questions, I'm just needing to move onto end game stuff now, already lived up north off the land etc so need somthing new to do.

thank you to all the people who just got their camps raided, found 4 camps, acquired the following: 1x Ural 2x ATV 1x Bus 1x Old Hatchback 1x GAZ 1x Bicycle 1x UAZ oh and not to mention the L85, the 4x M4 Silenced, 5x M14 aims, M107. was a fun day hunting, good luck finding it back :) anyone else had their good days finding vehicles/camps aswell? share your stories

Ok now jeez. Before this turns into an all out flame war I just want to say this. I forgive you for killing me. Its part of the game. I was shooting your friend driving the URAL so you shot me and saved his life. I was killed on day 31 with like 250 hours of gameplay on that character. Yea I was kind of upset for a second, but thats dayz. I had fun lighting up the URAL with my pee shooter. I put about 30 bullets through the windshield of that URAL with my Bison SD and then about 100 more into the side of the truck lol. Then I got sniped because I obviously gave away my position. I should have just shot 1 clip and then logged off, but oh well. Im not mad, its a game and I had fun defending our camp to the death. After my death I met up with my group and got every single item back within 20 minutes. Im sorry we chased you down and killed half of you but you did steal our vehicles. I just wish your other guys didnt log out when we chased them down. Im am NOT a hacker and my little brother is DEFINITELY not a hacker lol. He hardly knows how to work a computer. This game is the first PC game lilchronic ever played in his life. Also... You think my account would have lasted 31 days if I was hacking? Hackers get banned almost weekly and then they just buy a new key for operation arrowhead and start hacking again. Rinse and repeat. If you guys wanna come back to our server bring it on. We can be enemies or allies. I don't give a flying fuck. I can promise you this though. More of you will die than us. In the words of Hitler... "ALT-F4ing Pussies!" Oh and btw dont listen to spec. He made us look really bad a few posts back talking about the hacked in SVD Dragunov and L85 Thermal and camping the barracks 500+ hours yada yada yada. Come on spec. Tighten up bro.

yeahhh.... U know that vehicles don't disappear when you log out right? Someone else can just come along with the last wheel and drive it off while you are logged out. Thanks for the PSA though..

So, if hackers got all the vehicles and destroyed them. Then why have i just ran around the map for the last 5-6 hours checking all known vehicles spawn locations and havent seen a single vehicle? Should those vehicles they destoryed have respawned by now?

I spent four hours last night running around fixing up a red car in Starry, all I needed was one last part (rear wheel). Before I logged I was still sitting in the vehicle, I logged back in this morning to be kinda glitched into the car, seconds later I just suddenly died, no bleed-out or anything, I assume it thought I was crushed by the car lol. So guys, DONT LOG OUT IN VEHICLES - i've certainly learnt my lesson, lost all my military gear, GPS, compass,map etc....god...

You could just try Arma 2 tutorials and throw as many grenades around as you want in safe enviroment where nothing is at stake. In Armory you can also practice with other weapons, like sniper rifles and such, how the aiming works and how to hit longer distance targets. Not to mention spawning bunch of vehicles in Chernarus map and trying em out, just use editor for that. There is also trick for unlocking all weapons in Arma 2 Armory, so you can try whatever you want.

yep, you also don't have to spend 1-2 hours gathering items before you can move a piece of loot, then more time moving it through hostile territory. plus your loot can't get stolen while you are logged out. yep all of our vehicles magically appeared, fully repaired, in our camp, they also all magically disappear when we log off, LOL. the fuel tanks also refill themselves.

In my opinion, what DayZ lacks is some sort of character development. Yeah sure, you can get the best gear or all of the gear in the game and that could qualify as character developing but that is quite boring. It is also fairly odd that once we take control of this random person that has awoken on the beach, they instantly know how to handle WWII weaponry (Or any weaponry in the game), gut animals, gather wood, drive various vehicles, and fix various vehicle parts successfully. I certainly don't know if the ARMA 2 Engine could handle this type of mechanic, but proficiencies would give more replayability to the already lacking replayability state of DayZ. For example: The more you cook meat, the more you're proficient at it which reduces your chance of making burnt meat. The more you fire and hit a target, the more your gun proficiency increases, thus less sway when aiming. The more you repair vehicles, the more health you restore to the part in which you are repairing. (As far as I've seen, once you repair a part, it turns fully green.) A person more proficient at something another player is not at could encourage teamwork and such also. Thoughts?

First of all, that isn't ALL you need to be able to do, there is no basic normal stuff with DayZ. 1. There isn't jumping in this game 2. You need to be able to go prone, crouch walk, crouch run, walk, run and sprint, as well as being able to roll when prone 3. You need to be able to lean to look round corners 4. You need to swap from weapon to flares, as well as actually change what weapon you're using (Main and secondary) 5. You need to be able to shoot, reload, iron sight and zoom with weapons 6. You need to be able to use binoculars, compass, watch, GPS, Map, NVGs and a flash light 7. You'll need to chat 8. You need to be able to freelook so you can walk straight forward while still being able to look around 9. You need to be able to quickly navigate through your gear, any loot you find and your back pack 10. You need to have God knows how many different binds for vehicles 11. You'll hardly be able to use the context menu with a game pad 12. You'll not be able to aim as well as you would on a pad as you would with a mouse, no auto-aiming/locking like you get on consoles 1. You should bind the keys yourself so you know what you're actually pressing to begin with 2. There aren't 58431 buttons, and if you think there are you'll definately not be able to map them to a game pad Just because you CAN play with a controller doesn't mean you SHOULD, it'll cheapen the experience and you'll only come back to the forums whining about how DayZ isn't as amazing as it's made out to be. http://dayzwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=A_Beginners_Guide#The_Controls Read this to see what your list of "basic normal controls" is missing.

I shot 4 people that were riding a truck by simply killing the driver and then everyone that got out. I think that is stupid. There should be a way to make something like that: Metal plates with a slit to look through. Then you won't see much (on non 3dp servers at least), but you also won't be shot out so extremely easy! There could also be something for the wheels or w/e, but right now you are just fucked if someone finds you while driving around. Dead driver=everybody dead

We are a tight mostly pvp oriented bandit group must have night vision and we need one sniper/overwatch hit me up on steam DeltaDog123 we have vehicles and a camp with good gear so we can help you gear up some.

I know. my point still stands though. you can't compare the spawn behavior of loot with vehicles. loot is infinite, vehicles are finite

lol vehicles respawn after 7 days of no use. (sometimes before) if you realized how much effort went into procuring a fleet of vehicles, you wouldn't thrash anyone for doing it.

Clan moved their base, all flying around in a new heli... Saw them again, 4 people of their clan with Aclatraz126 on board. The whole clan is cheating / hoarding vehicles and flying around with helis, banning people who are stealing them. And they disconnect from death and relocate on other servers. Got that on tape with some friends, with their names. All liars, damn cheater clan / server. Uploading 3 videos tonight of their heli action. PLEASE blacklist them. @Mourek: You are right, banning for disconnecting is forbidden. A Dev posted it in the forums.

Not true, unused vehicles despawn back to their spawn locations after a period of time

Yes, they can see your tents and where you park your vehicles unfortunately. Move on, try a new server. Until they really start to care about security in this mod the problem is going to persist.

loot respawns. vehicles sit in the woods and are never seen again

I am by no mean hoggin all of the vehicles on our server. I was on our way back to our 2 vehicles when i got shot at several time by a m107. I took 20-30 min to look for the shooter and came up on his camp. I took his main vehicles and waited. killed him, and then destroyed their 3 out of 5 vehicles. I destroyed them 3 min before a random server restart. 2 days later the vehicles i destroyed we back in the exact same spot i parked them to destory them. I am not hording vehicles. I lost and found about 6 ATV and 2 dirt bikes. The only vehicle i cared about was the V3S. It had all of our loot. The rest we would take into town and get into gun fights with.

I have no idea what you people are on about vehicle hogging. You can't even hog vehicles since you cant stash em beyond the boundaries anymore. Person 1 finds a vehicle at spot A. He then takes it and hides it at spot B. Person 1 also has 3 other vehicles stashed at points C, D and E. What difference does it make if person 2 finds a vehicle at spot B instead of spot A? or spots C, D and E for that matter? If anything people trying to hog vehicles make it easier for other people, if he puts em all at one location. Then when someone finds em, he can tell others where they are, and more people get fully fixed vehicles at the ready. Or he can just leave them be for others to find, or he can blow em all up and return them to spawn locations. Either way, they're still all in the map and anyone can find em just the same. Explain what's so bad at trying to hog vehicles since all it ever does is change spot A to spot B, which is no different.

Yeah, you shouldn't be hogging vehicles like that. It's complete bullshit that you're fucking everyone else out of having one because you want to just look at them and circlejerk your epeens with each other.

I dunno, I kinda like that post where Rocket borrows a couch to someone and it's used for hardcore anal sex instead of sitting or sleeping. OnT : I'm just glad reserved slots are being worked on. In the long run, for Arma 3 or standalone I wouldn't mind paying a subscription fee for official servers. Endgame wise, servers might as well be local, considering that vehicles, tents and one can assume, any future bases or other sweet clan type content stuff are local.