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I suggest the incorporation of the ability to harvest/forage/scavenge scrap metal and possibly tires from the debris piles and vehicle wrecks that obstruct roadways and towns in Day Z. This would remove the pile or wreck and make the town more accessible to vehicles and provide materials. I realize the number of objects to harvest are finite and vehicle repairs are not so, while I would recommend decreasing the scrap metal spawn to encourage this activity I would not recommend its elimination. Improving the environment would also hint at a route any endgame or future of the game could take by providing the means to establish a base for a group, faction, or even some RP ideas of societal recovery. My preference would be to see this function necessitate a tool, preferably a Power Cutter. The idea being that whatever metal is there is not useful or transportable in its current state. This would force the player to use this tool in a primary weapon spot and make them more vulnerable to attack. Their vulnerability would in turn encourage teamwork with a buddy needing to cover. The tool would be extremely loud and likely aggro zombies and possibly players as well as shoot sparks up in the air. Would the tool require fuel? They do IRL but I don't know if that would be making it more annoying than fun. -Inspired by Arcoolka's "Real Time Settler" from Fallout 3.

if that thing about clans locking servers for ages to hoard ALL the vehicles is true then, you're dicks. literally worse than any bandit fucker. if you work together as a clan an manage to find loads of vehicles WHILE OTHER PEOPLE ARE ON then thats completely fair, you have earned them. but otherwise, fuck you immensely, how is that not cheating?

I like this idea, I was about the make a post similar to this, with a few extra ideas. You should be able to find loose bullets as well as ammo boxes. For example, you can find a small amount loose bullets, say 1-8, that can stack up 25, then top of this you can a ammo box (ammo specific) that can hold 50 bullets, found with anywhere between 0 -50 bullets in it and it takes up one spot in your gear. The loose bullets can be loaded into the box to save space and/or then loaded into empty magazines. This idea could just be adding an extra level of nothingness but I feel it will give a greater range of items to scavenge for and add to the whole what to keep and what to drop dilemma. As for where to find loose bullets/ammo boxes/magazines I would suggest that you have a small chance of finding them around the destroyed military vehicles that are in most towns, as I could imagine soldiers dropping ammo/mags as they are frantically loading guns while being overrun. On the point of magazines you could have gun specific ones (Glock takes a Glock magazine with 9mm ammo) or calibre specific magazines of different capacity (9mm guns take Glock, M9, PDW and MP5 magazines with 9mm ammo) ? This last part is me just spit balling/rambling at the end of the post.

Hello. I have a really big problem with getting this game to work. All along actually it has been very hard to even make progress to semi getting the game to work. After many days of working on it there is really only one problem left from keeping me from playing that no one seems to know anything about and i have no idea about. The problem is that when i play arrowhead, the loading screen is all messed up. Even though I would be playing arrowhead, the loading screen is from arma 2 and then the main menu is the one from arma 2. The loading screen is the green one with the soldier on it and two helicopters instead of the arrowhead loading screen and main menu. I really believe that this is messing up the game and not allowing dayz to work. The game doesnt load at all like arrowhead with the tanks and vehicles in front of the hangar and then the main menu is like tanish. Its almost like my game isnt updated even though it is. Then when the game goes to main menu, it says like it can't find a file or something. It is really messed up and anyone who knows anything about this or experienced anything, help would be so much appreciated. Thanks. p.s I posted the pictures of what the loading screen looks like and the main menu screen below.

Car Troubles and Camp Raids Part V Features include a new day, a slight hesitation, an unfortunate death, an excellent revenge, and more camps. Car Troubles and Camp Raids Part VI Features include a rescue, multiple vehicles, a bicycle, near death, a wrecked huey, a sexy tractor, and a not so dramatic conclusion.

My other adventure series was recorded over the course of about a week. Myself and my buddy Jason had an incredible amount of luck that started with the finding of a UAZ. Which turned into an epic adventure full of vehicles and camps and a bit of pvp action. Car Troubles and Camp Raids Part I Features include crawling through Krasnostav, re-killing the dead, finding a UAZ, and some tunes by yours truly. Car Troubles and Camp Raids Part II Features include refueling, driving, picking up the Gumbala, and driving.

Use this Map (Alt tab if you need to, second monitor is ideal) http://dayzdb.com/map#3.013.096 Keep respawning until you land in Kamenka. Head north, looting dear blinds on the way (shown on the map as red towers). Dear blinds will spawn three zombies each, and typically infront of the dear blind. Run far outside of the dead blind and come at it from behind, crawling if you need to. There is no reason to agro any of the zombies there, just be cautious. You can find some of the best items in the game at dear blinds as they are military loot spawns. Do not overlook Coyote backpacks 24 slots, which can be confused with the backpack you spawn with, 8 slots. Once you loot a weapon of any kind, hit up Zelenogorsk from the south west (easy entrace to the grocery store, shopping cart on the map). This should give you the food and drink you probably need at this point in time. Grocery stores are one of the best places to find everything you need outside of vehicle parts and military grade primary weapons including an Alice backpack and a sidearm (1911 or revolver being the best you can find). Loot the grocery store, and continue heading north to Pustoshka, looting dear blinds on the way. Enter Pustoshka from the west for direct access, again crawling to avoid agro. If at any point you get agro, run into the front entrance of the grocery strore (big glass doors) and shoot the zombies as they enter) At this point in time, you will likely have at least a primary and secondary weapon you can use to defend yourself, an upgraded backpack, most common utility items and enough food and water to at least sustain yourself for the time being. You comsume water faster than food so always load up more water than food. Wash, rinse and repeat. Healful tips: Scope out any building you are going to loot prior to coming within 300 or so meters from the location. If zombies are present, someone is likely there, and its better to simply move on unless you want a firefight. Use your side arm to kill zombies. Especially if you find a 1911 or revolver, its a one shot kill. They are quiet, and the ammo is fairly abundant. If you find yourself running low on ammo consistently with your side arm, try finding a 1866 wynchester (sp). They are very quiet and take down zombies in one shot. Only do this however if you do not plan on killing other players, as the effective range is relatively low compaired to assult rifles. Many ammo types are interchangable or combinable to be used in other guns. Do not be too quick to dismiss ammo if it does not immediately seem right for your gun. Other high loot locations within towns are churches, apartment buildings, schools, bar/hotel, large barns with stairs. Other loot locations are typically not worth the time. Avoid Cherno and Elektra always. There is nothing you can loot in either of those towns that you cannot find in deer blinds or in grocery stores. Zelenogorsk and Pustoshka, as well as most deer blinds are typically player vacant, and full of loot, while Cherno and Elektra are almost always spotted with a sniper, and other players gunning for your gear. Also, avoid Stary Sobor and the North West airfield unless you are looking for PVP. Follow this and you should have no trouble surviving for a long period of time and should also have no trouble find all of the gear you could want outside of vehicles and rare items like NVGs.

001-001 is the place for refueling vehicles, just behind the barn is an old rusty tank..

maybe some sort of heat signature could be given off by vehicles with the right euiptment people could locate the vehicles or track them down. this would also make people like clans who hoard them actually move them about so maybe some sort of satalite over the island or other type of detection. seen what others have mentioned already server owners or clans just getting all best crap then opening servers up pretty low tbh

I usually get shot when going into Elecktro. That is why I never go there except when I really need supplies. But I usually just camp in little buildings along the northern parts of the map. I can find enough raiding bandit and survivor camps in that area. It is quiet enough, if you find a good place. But bandits love it up there, as they can use vehicles to get around. So I just camp in that area, raiding camps, killing most all. I usually play alone, or with 1 or 2 others. We live up there. Just letting you know that area is a very good survival zone, if you play it right.

The best place to get vehicles are places people go for fuel that aren't big cities. I won't say where I go, but if you think about it no one with a vehicle is going to risk refuelling at Cherno etc.

your gear is saved and you should have the same things on all the servers, as well as be in the same spot that you logged out from. Sometimes there are glitches or sometimes things are not saved purposefully since the game is in aplpha testing, but ive never survived long enough between play session to have this affect me. Note that tents and vehicles are not saved between servers. So if you have a car, it will only be parked where you left it on the server you left it on. So once you start getting really settled into a server make sure you make note of which one it is so you don't loose your vehicles and stuff (Assuming that no one takes them while your away)

Grouping up already has huge advantages. If I want to lone wolf into stary I have a high probability of being murdered. But if I am in a group of three or more (even two in a pinch) I can have someone on overwatch on the hills above the military tents calling out zombie positions and giving warnings of survivor sightings. Plus to give a blood transfusion requires another player, and someone always breaks their leg without having morphine (I am the medic so I never have this problem constantly running around with at least four blood bags and four morphine shots if not more). You can tailor skill sets too, I am a brawler who does not mind having to respawn and loot the coast, while other players are cautious types who will set up bases and find vehicles but dislike going into the places frequented by survivors. If some players can not see the benefits to going in a group then they have not experienced this game in the way intended and are probably server hoping for loot or disconnecting to avoid danger. I am not complaining too much about those tactics (I will say it really bugs me when some little sissy logs off during a firefight but not the point), it just tends to dilute the need for cooperation.

We didn't have any satchels in our truck. I just spoke to Kevin, Kevin looted it once but was used to destroy a church a few mins later. So we've never had any satchels in our vehicles. Kevin is the only one of us that have looted a satchel.

Lots of barbed wire + tents (like, 15 of them?) multiple vehicles, sand bags in a small valley. Also directly east/west/north/south (don't want to give it away...) of a town... Wasn't hard to come across for me.

Interesting... I stumbled upon this camp last night. All the tents + barbwire were there, and three vehicles, all of which were undriveable. Thanks for the ammo and M249, though :D

Actually you can ban the guy above... I know the admins on that server. The reason why they got banned. First of all they have not been on our server before. But still they find our camp at first attempt. One of us find our camp all blown up, all our 20 vehicles destroyed, and trees were gone. Then he suddenly see some RDT guys. Our team gathers some of members and track them down, our members starts firing, all the RDT members are DC'ng. Since they used huge amount of extremely rare explosives (Probably spawned by RDT with hacks) The server needs a restart, after the server reset some of the items and vehicles are back in full condition. We decided to move the camp, then suddenly some of them are shooting at us in our camp. Some of us get killed, we regroup. We find them lurking around in our camp, we fire at them and kill some of them. Then suddenly there are 10 RDT people in the camp. Trying to kill the few of us left in the camp. Some of us have managed to get off the camp with some vehicles, they find us at some random place. We jump off the ATV, they do the same. There 2 or 3 of them. I shoot at one of them and injured one of the RDT. Then i get killed by one of them. And my friend manage to kill of of them too. Then suddenly some RDT people spawns behind him. We are far away from our camp, and they didn't have a vehicles except UAZ which 3 of them used to stalks us with. We think its kinda fishy that they suddenly come to your server, find our well hidden camp, blow it up with huge amount of explosives which is extremely rare for fun? Then suddenly shows up everywhere and know where we are all the time. They even found our new camp which is far far away from our old camp which is also well hidden. We find G36 and some others stuff in our tent, which prove they've already been in our new camp and dropped spawned weapons... We realize that these guys must be using hax since they're spawning weapons, teleporting and using maphack since they find us all the time. we also have found in our server logs that there been used scripts, like teleporting... So we've evidences in our server log that proves the OP and his friends are using hacks. We've recently banned 2 of them today, they will probably be global banned because they've used teleport. I logged in earlier today once again they were raiding us. I see them at the tents i shoot at them but miss, they DC which is against the server rules. Few mins later they both decide to re-log, i kill one of them. I walk around suddenly the second guy fires at me. The admin was just looking at the server log, and saw the teleport scripts were being used. And therefore they got banned for using hacks.

Not that I mind losing gear in survival attempt, but.. what's really sad is that you spend hour collecting some stuff and then lose it to a cheater who respawns instantly on the same position you've killed him and spawns gear, weapons, vehicles, can see through the whole map location of every single player and every single tent. That's what very desperating... And losing gear due to bugs, zombie rushes, other fair players - pff who cares, that's Alpha mod of survival after all, collecting gear, surviving, stalking and looting that's the goal for now.

Retarded? I see NO fun with stealing others vehicles and giggling about it with an admin. That's just not right! More stupid to show dat moment when he's reading his mail!

I do not understand why I would be banned. I have never hacked or anything at all. But it does seem to just be this server that kicks me. My groups vehicles and camps are on this server and like I said we all play together on it & have done so for weeks. Yet it is just me that can't get in.... In fact, I have never even played on that server without my friends. So there is no reason at all I should be banned from it.

Markers are usually used to spawn items like weapons, crates or vehicles upon. Generally speaking I'm sure your friend will know, even if he doesn't want to admit it, which is also why I think I consider this dealt with, for obvious reasons.

so hording all the vehicles, huge tent cites, camping high loot areas and killing everyone that comes near isn't selfish and doesn't hinder wider range of players testing content?

lol i knoooow, i cringed a bit after i realised how much id wrote, (actually tried to cut it down a bit :s). LAst night i had a completely unrelated random thought whilst crashing an ATV into a tree. Its annoying when ye get vehicles stolen from you after hiding them away, or making brief stops, and how much more useful having keys to a vehicle would be, whilst recognizing how many peeps would then be prevented from driving. Unless that electric toolkit was also used for hotwiring a vehicle. The idea kind of lost momentum a bit when I realised how easy it CAN BE (if you know what your doing) to hot wire a car, maybe it could help speed up the process of hot wiring or other simple elec activities or be essential for hot wiring a helicopter. But it could add potential functions for an "e-kit".

If I'll find u guys, all ur vehicles will be stolen and burned or just burned there, I promise. Just because this video, u're guys sucks. And I don't have any sympathy to this guy who sent u an email. I don't have any word for u... Not funny at all.

Most servers I am a regular on are completely devoid of all vehicles. Since these servers are usually frequented by the owner/cohorts, mostof the vehicles will be hidden away at the edge of the map somewhere. It's a pain to look for them, but usually worth it.