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my group stopped messing with vehicles when they randomly started disappearing. Had; 2 atvs, 1 UAZ, 1 dirtbike, 1 bus, 1 V3S, 1 ural, 1 offroad truck. Since Thursday, they have been disappearing at the rate of one a day. Not being stolen, tents full of shit about 20m from vehicle, impossible to miss. Either database is corrupted or they are getting despawned. I've also seen a teleport closest vehicle script that hackers are using. Nonsensical to spend hour or two retrieving them only to have them randomly disappear.

Hackers can see every vehicle and tent location on the map, they're pretty rampant with this latest patch unfortunately. Happened to us too, but not only us, every camp on the server was hit within a 6 hour period, over 50 tents, and 20 vehicles all gone/destroyed.

Server has had about 2 restarts since we lost all of our rides. There are only 6 of us and we are all RL friends. Nobody took them from our group. I never seen a vehicles spawn in a place they should be. I shot and killed for every vehicle i have found except the V3S. I took it from a guy filling up his jerry cans. We had just about 3-4 of every gun in the game. We would all load in the big blue ural and go on raids. We would just drive up into a city/air field and get out guns blazing. This 2 part video shows a little of how we got the vehicles.

Surely you could have kept only the vehicles you needed and let some other guys experience them. Sucks that you lost all your shit though, i know that feel bro.

Let me help you, because no one on these forums will provide you the 'help' you're asking for, and it'll save the rest of them the trouble. "It's alpha, bro." "Don't get attached to your gear/vehicles." "A clan could have organized that theft easily, don't just blame hackers, or bugs." Sucks though, eight vehicles. I struggle to find any. Did you get those from their original spawn points, or steal them from the woods?

Items don't get deleted when the tent is full; they appear on the ground outside of the tent just a tad bit far away from it. :P But I do agree with this: tents and vehicles should probably show how many slots they hold and how many are available.

I've played DayZ for over 160 hrs and still love it and find new things to do...maybe you need more imagination my friend. Also vehicles are ridiculously easy to find once you know where to look, especially now that they can't be hoarded off the map. Most of your post is whinging so I won't address your points except for this one: you do not turn into a zombie because survivors are immune to the infection. So sayeth the Rocket.

If you were the ones to take the Helicopters ect from the hackers, then why did you not report the hackers and destroy the vehicles? Instead you hide them off the map. You say that you kept them because you found them, if so why did you then hide them off of the map?

I completely agree with this, it is just I hate going into servers (and most servers that I have entered seem to have this) where maps show you exactly where you are with a blue dot, show you your direction, and even show your friend and any vehicles you have found. I was just hoping that this mechanic would replace that with making it much harder to navigate that way unless you have found both a map and a compass, and have 10-15 seconds to spare. Honestly if servers weren't allowed to have the option to show where the survivor is, then I would be happy, but the only thing is, is that if that happens, then in-game maps will become virtually useless, because the many out-of-game maps have much more information and are much easier to read. This feature would give maps a use that out-of-game maps couldn't, yet without making it extremely easy to find exactly where you are.

OK.... WHOEVER BROUGHT DUPPING INTO THIS.... PLZ STOP. THAT ISNT WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSE TO BE TALKING ABOUT HERE. LETS ALL MEET ON MUMBLE AND TALK THE DUPING ISSUE OVER. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE ABILITY TO REMOVE ARMA 2 GAME FILES FOR OBJECTS IN ORDER TO SEE FOR MILES, SHOOT THROUGH OBJECTS, HIDE VEHICLES WITHIN BUILDINGS SO THAT NOBODY CAN USE THEM AND ULTIMATELY DESTROY THE GAME FOR EVERYONE ELSE BY DOING SO. THAT IS WHAT HAS BEEN TESTED THE PAST DAY, NOT THE OTHER STUFF YOU GUYS BROUGHT HERE WHICH IS UNRELATED TO THIS EXPLOIT. LOOK AT THE FIRST POST MADE BY GARFUL. THAT IS WHAT MOST OF US ARE TRYING TO DISPUTE. To be honest I agree with Faindizzle about meeting up on the mumble for NY7&8. Just to talk all of this over. This thread has gone to shit and I know its going to be either taken down after this post or closed. I like you all personally and don't want to tarnish what relationships we have left. I genuinely think much of the confusion around this whole thread will be fixed if we just talk this out. Also, if you deny this offer because you don't want to take 5 min out of your day to install mumble, which is free btw, that is no excuse for ignoring the most civil way to dispute this little scurry we have all gotten in.

I just spent 8 hours walking from cherno to the air fields. I picked up everything on the way, literally everything. I had the 2 rarest rifles FN FAL night vision with 6 clips, L85A2 with 7 clips, every tool literally everything but a guille suit. This is not the first time i've had most of this, no no. probably the 8th time. Guess what happens every single time? I get sniped by someone i should of killed but is running an alt f4 program. This game is the concept we have all been waiting for, but this is absolutely the most infuriating game i have EVER played in my ENTIRE life. 1. The bugs are the biggest threat in this game, I have died 10 fold to BUGS then anything else in this game. From glitching through floors, walls, to zombies 1 shotting me from max HP and putting me in shock for 5 minutes that i cant even ESC to suicide. 2. 90% of the time spent on this game is worthless fucking running, holy fucking god is the running terrible. There is two things i worry about every time i die, 1. My backpack and 2. How fucking far i just ran and how many hours i just spent to walk into my own grave by some random sniper or glitch. It's not the act of bandits and people killing me it's realizing how much of my fucking time i just spent feeling great finding all the best gear you can have only to have some kid already camping in the best places to be with 1 shot weapons just waiting to ruin the 8 hours you just spent hiking to your own funeral. Funny part is, my last death i saw the guy first with infa-red switched to my FAL and burst 9 rounds into him all of which didnt make contact due to... 3. The WORST hitboxes i have ever seen. It's as if you took the left 4 dead zombies and literally removed their hitboxes completely. If it's not the garbage hitboxes, it's the clunky interface randomly popping up messages and taking 10 seconds to switch weapons. 4. I've lost more weapons to infinity and beyond then i have getting killed. After 2 straight days of playing non stop, putting in 8 hours getting all the best gear, then dying over and over im done and not coming back till a full release unless SOMETHING is done about the following.. 1. Time spent traveling, and aquireing items needs to be balanced. This is absolutely the most important that needs to be worked on. Weather you increase the spawn places of items, rates of items, place tons more vehicles or just all of the above shit needs to be done. There should not be "the best and worst" places to be on the map, period. The glamour of the game will watch as players quit left and right as they finally realize the 10 hours they put into the game over and over again to reacquire the same shit over and over is not worth getting blind sided by a sniper 2 miles away or dying to magic logs of doom. There is only so many times someone is going to want to pick up a tent they can't even fucking place or use. Let alone a barn full of nothing but hatches and entire towns wiith buildings you cant even enter or loot. After my last death and playing nearly 8 hours straight aquiring the same shit i've already got 10 times over already, im not putting in a single hour again until travel is made easier. I remember at one time i literally ran and checked over 11 deer stands, and 2 grociery stores and found NOTHING but axes and tin cans. Just checking those stands and stores took over 2-3 fucking hours, to literally get NOTHING then get 1 shot from a zombie who spotted me 300 yards away. People say the game is "high risk high reward" more like "What stupid fucking way am i going to die this time after spending 10 hours looking for the same shit you've found 300 times over. 2. Alt-F4 needs to be fixed. It's bad enough everyone kills you for shit they dont need, but even worse when they miss you you shoot them, they quit, rejoin, and hit you with the shot they already missed. 3. Hitboxes hitboxes FUCKING HITBOXES 4.Every single bug that makes shit go poof, because nothing is even better then spending 8 hours getting items and not getting killed then watching them randomly go poof or spawning with all your gear gone. 5. Animation times need increased, Let us switch weapons while running, Fix all the exploits (as much as i love having unlimited shotgun, m19, and FAL ammo, it's a joke) Stop trying to implament new things and fix the MAJOR bugs. You can't go a single 60 seconds in this game without some kind of stupid crazy bug making you literally say "What the fuck" out loud. Everything in the game is one gigantic inconvenience, and the game it self is fucking easy, what makes it so fucking hard is learning how to work around the bullshit, literally unlearning how to aim because of the hitboxes, "you cant do this because you will lose that" bug learning curves, glitchers, and greifers. That's it. People keep coming back because of how long it takes just to find a fucking box of matches gives people the self entitlement of accomplishment that they keep getting over and over. Anyway, done ranting. Call me butt hurt, call me mad. Because i am mad, mad that i wasted 2+ days of non stop play to literally restart over and over again, running to the same places, picking up the same shit, dying to the same stupid glitches, and getting banned by the same abusive alt F4 server admins.in a sea of greifers to stop you from getting the same shit you've already gotten time and time again. I'd rather have to spend 1 week to find just 1 item i need like a box of matches to keep it permanitally then to waste 100's of hours getting the same shit over and over again like pokemon energy cards.

When you ban a player from your server, you steal: all the tents the player owned all the loot within those tents all the vehicles the player owned all the loot within those vehicles all the razor wire, tank traps, bear traps, and fortifications the player had set up This is why we need universal rules on bans.

Yep. That was us. We raided the hackers' base and found multiple vehicles and 3 helicopters, therefore we took them. There were 4 A10s flying around, those were not us.

A little about me in 19 from the USA and have played for about a month. I have exp driving vehicles and using snipers/ARs. I do prefer using ARs. I am looking for a group that knows how to communicate well under stress and would lick a new member.

Hell, right now Im in Cherno killing players while yelling FIX THE GAME (legitimately). When we found this exploit I almost lost all interest in DayZ. I dont care if this game is in Alpha, this stuff should be fixed ASAP and we are telling the developers exactly what is going on. I don't want anyone to have to experience a player killing another through the buildings in towns, have no ability to find vehicles because they are hidden in buildings ETC. And I keep seeing players with modified files coming on every server more and more. That usually means they are attempting to use the same exploit but messed up. If we were to find this exploit and just tell the dev team IT EXISTS, what would that accomplish? Nothing but stalling development of this game so the developers can figure out the thing we already know. Nobody is going to tell the dev team whats up who legitimately uses this exploit because they love it and don't want it to go away. WE DO WANT IT TO GO AWAY so people can leave Rocket alone with the crappy hacker reports that are indecisive and have no real evidence of what is going on. This exploit explains most of the posts on the cheaters forums, the others are hacks that have already been dealt with in one way or another to an extent. I would love to play this game without having to worry about others hacking, exploiting ETC, but the one thing DayZ tries to teach you is don't trust anyone, so we cant just will all the bugs and hacks away, we have to force them away. So that NOBODY can use them.

It's not just a few renegade, if they want to hamper us from protecting our server we are going to stop paying to host servers for the community, and people will be on here bitching about every server being full, I am paying out of my pocket for the server, I haven't had any luck getting donations because the game doesn't have reserved slots which is the main way to get money for server hosting. I generally don't ban for DCing and stuff like that unless I am 100% sure, and even then it's just a day or two temp ban. But I do permaban hackers I catch, and even that is against the rules and can get you blacklisted. They expect you to tempban hackers and submit a ticket that takes them weeks to respond to and possibly not even have the player banned from DayZ because you can't even offer logs as proof any more because they bypass Battleye. Banned a hacker this morning, had video proof so they will be banned but they don't show up in the scripts log at all. Edit: Honestly I am pretty fucking pissed and frustrated right now with Battleye, Bohemia, and DayZ. Hackers have run rampant the last 2-3 days and it's fucking ruining the game. I have people coming in 2, 3, sometimes 4 times per day teleporting to every player and killing them, teleporting to everyones tents/vehicles and satchel charging them, teleporting in invincible and spawning/stealing cars and running you over, spawning helicopters, nuking the server... none of it shows up in the logs. The damn scripts.txt doesn't stop them because they bypass battleye... it's fucking annoying. I am regretting paying in advance for the next month of hosting, I would probably just shut down the server if I hadn't.

I found this a few days ago too, there's a lot of advantages with this. For example, shoot while moving without shaking and shooting from vehicles. :P I too made a video of this. [/url[/media

Looking for a friend or two, to join myself & another friend in Dayz. We are tired of travelling alone, and wish to travel / scavenge and use general team work to accomplish tasks. Our main goal / hope is to find a vehicle, and use that vehicle, to find more vehicles. - If you regularly play at the hours I posted above, then you'd be more than welcome to join up & perhaps build a camp with us, a mini clan as such. Our main goal is to have fun, but of course, we all want a vehicle. - Once we have found more vehicles than one, if we do decide to part ways at the end oft he night, and expect to never see each other again, we will divide the vehicles equally amongst people. - I will be sharing my vehicle regardless. ANYWAY, The upshot is, we want to travel, have fun, defend ourselves & explore the world more so in the process. Mature & experienced players are welcome. Don't be a boring bastard. Cheers! - Will check this thread back at around 21;45 GMT. PM skype info is interested, and post here to keep bumped, thanks.

I'm curious. How do you know that the camps or hoarding spots you come across are admin? Is it because there are a lot of vehicles at these places? I've seen places with lots of tents and stuff and I've stumbled across places that have multiple vehicles. I usually hightail it right the hell out of there as fast as I can since I assume very nasty people are guarding those piles of stuff. I guess I just always figured it was highly industrious and organized bandit groups with twitchy trigger fingers who have that hoarding disorder.

I didnt get banned the first day. All what i know is that your admin - yeah alcatraz you are in that clan too - said he tried to ban me. I didnt know anything about it until he said it, no ban the first day. Ah and one last addition - this clan moved their base, a friend killed one one them in it after all tents destroyed and 20+ vehicles were gone. Heli is still there. + They kick for members. Also not allowed.

Definitely do not want more vehicles..sometimes it is like peak hour traffic as it is :D I watched a three car chase the other night, nearly got run over by a truck then was chased ny a motorbike with some crazy dude laughing at me over direct. No more vehicles. Map size is too small once you know it, i am too paranoid to place a tent anywhere. Give us another 500 miles to play with please. I am fine with the distances, i just miss my cryo invisibilty stealth mode ;) Getting shot by a random sniper after doing the run up north is what makes you keep on edge. Zeds are too easy, that i agree with. I dont wanna see your ass.

this just happened tonight (06/17/12) on US217 (DALLAS) I reported them and showed this video to the server admin, but i really think these guys deserve a full ban from dayz... spawning gear, vehicles, hacked weapons, teleporting. its all here!

When the tick boxes come up a text box comes up saying "addon dayz_anim requires addon CA.Dubbing_counterattack" WTF is this. Also when it comes onto the main menu a box comes up saying "no entry. bin/config/CFG vehicles/citizen1.scope. What do these mean and a box comes up when i try to join a server saying something to do with dependent on downloadble content. Please help i want to play dayz so badly.

I think people confuse griefers and bandits/kos/conflict. I think the percentage of people actually griefing (shooting on the actual coast, or shooting newbs in cherno/elect) is pretty low, I'm not saying that violence is low just people griefing is lower than people think. I think you just have to accept it, its the end of the world some people are going to go off the rocker. KOS is another matter though I think it can be explained by looking at the scenarios that lead to it. KOS is a product of the game and the scenarios players find themselves in. It will not go away, but rejoice as there is an easy alternative already in place that does not require gamification or magic skins, you simply choose to play the game in the way that will result in the most fun for you. And I will throw in some free advice.... As i'm not sure what game all of the nerf bandits/kos sight people are playing, I will explain the scenarios & game play most people find themselves in. Even if your playing lone wolf a characters life cycle should resemble something like this: 1. Spawn on the beach 2. Go into a major city (or to Balota) 3. Loot all necessary survival equipment and medical equipment (If at balota find a gun and wait for someone that will have all survival equipment) 4. Leave Coast 5. Hit deerstands on way to Northern Location 6. Loot Stary, NW, Berizino for military equipment 7. Find tents/vehicles 8. Make a camp 9. Loot other peoples camps 10. At any place in timeline above locate and loot helo crashes 11. Farm any location included in stage 6 and horde gear for your eventual death. If you look at the life cycle you see that at points 3, 6, 9, and 10 you are in direct competition for resources with other players that are at a similar stage in their characters life cycle. This is why people shoot each other in these locations. You decided to go to the fire station first so you have a primary, they went to church so they have a secondary and back pack, you both need/want each others gear so you shoot each other. I think 90% of pvp is centered around conflict or precieved conflict over resources. Precieved conflict equates to someone seeing you were they want to loot. Leet Advice: Most "vet" or experianced players spend 80% of their time at the above locations listed in stage 6, as this is where they will have a chance at the best gear or best equiped players. If you don't want to be shot then avoid these areas. Once you get past stage 7 above you have invested a fair amount of time and are well geared, this is the second cause of shoot on sight, you now know that you are a walking target/safe deposit box. People want your gear,cars,tents, etc. So you shoot anyone you see as this is the safest solution. This is just as it would be IRL, trusting someone you don't know has inherent risks and most players/groups that far along have more to lose than gain by being friendly. This can be avoided to a degree, simply avoid equipment that you know other people would kill you for. IMO there's nothing wrong with the above, or the current KOS play style people use. I think it can be fairly logically explained when you look at the scenarios that occur, and I think its actually fairly authentic. For all the people that don't like it, there is even a simple solution, just *avoid* the areas described above, and don't pick up gear people would kill to have. There is no need to add anything to the game, or change things to make it less authentic, players simply need to actually play the game the way that maximizes their enjoyment. If you don't want to be shot in the face then avoid the areas, players, and reasons that get you shot in the face. This solution is available to you because the game is a sandbox, you can live like a rat and avoid all contact with other players, you can be a civilian that avoids conflict, or a survivor doing whatever it takes to thrive instead of survive. TLDR: Before you QQ about bandit skins or shoot on sight ask yourself the following questions when in game and you are thinking about going to a location or you see a player: 1. Does highend loot spawn here? // Does the player have high end loot? 2. Do other players need/want to come to this location? // Do other players need/want this item? 3. Is this location on the way to a high end location? 4. Does this item make me feel like a badass? If the answer is yes to any of the above avoid that location/item and understand that the other player will murder you.

ATV's are still death traps. Most vehicles are already all hoarded so good luck finding any, but I just reccommend searching for camps