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I lost my hopes.. more time passes and more cheaters comes. Even worse now half of the streams on twitch.tv in example are about cheaters "helping" the streamers (ie: spawn vehicles and weapons for them) or the opposite: cheaters hunting streamers. The "funniest" (if you say so) was about a guy helped by a cheater (L85A2 spawned in gear) but then killed by another cheater! lol ... If i were care about my gear (at least a minimum) now i'm trolling all over.. you never know when you're going to die, even if you pay much attention you can die suddendly by a nuke, by being pushed in the air, by being shoot by a cheater teleporting to you. I start to agree with ppl that are playing this like a death-match .. there isn't much sense to collect stuff, coz the only way to "survive" against cheaters is: to not play at all.

There is no evidence of cheating and no one cheated. You shut the server off after your friend got killed so no one was there to claim your items or vehicles. I hope you found the bus we hid.

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I take that back... after they restarted the server several times I was able to make it in for a minute... to find that they had removed all of their equipment. There was probably 20-30 barbwire fences/sandbags/tank traps and ~15 vehicles. They definitely wanted to cover their tracks. Too bad I already got it all on video. ;]

Also I wasnt online when you guys stole the Offroad and the rest of the vehicles on the hill. The truth is in the logs thats all there is too it...

Meh. Thank you. Also While not an item. I would like to suggest using repaired vehicles as a mobile tent. Not the small vehicles but cars and trucks.

So DayZ is in my top 5 of video games (due to it's need to think plans through). But I have one small problem: loot is ridiculous. I mean it takes you ages to find a water bottle, when EVERY house should have one. I know it is an apocalypse and everything is looted already (not to mention that the apocalypse has probably been going on for days, even months). Guns are rare, but I always find them at the airport, which is ok. But when it takes you 40 minutes to find a WATER BOTTLE? Really? Same with matches and cars. There should be more vehicles in the game. Let's be honest, in any 225 square kilometre area, there shouldn't be 10 vehicles. I'm not asking Rocket to change this, it just seems a bit unrealistic. Share/Argue your own opinions below...

There are TONS of vehicles in this game, only a few handful are operational all others are destroyed beyond repair. Walk through the towns and open your eyes.. Everything is destroyed and has been raided. This game takes place in a POST apocalyptic zombie world. Finding the bare necessities should be difficult you have to assume people have already been through that town and taken whatever they needed and continued on. You're sorting through their tossed aside crap.... It's why we are surviving on cans of beans and not cans of chicken! all the good shit is gone.

Nah you're good to go , but DO check out the armory (ingame training where you can test all weapons and vehicles). This way if you find something good , you'll already know how to use it properly.

Tents and vehicles save to that server.

So if you took our vehicles from our camp and we found them at your south west who spawned the svd dragunov camo in the truck? Thats a hacked weapon how about you explain that since you were the ones that took the vehicles from us and we know what we had and that certainly wasnt ours...

I like the idea except.... It just becomes Arma II + food, water, weapon finding.... If servers could hold more people, and I mean a lot of people... You could have multiple 'gangs' battling it out. maybe one 'owns' NWA, another 'owns' cherno, ect... That would be pretty cool. with limited vehicle spawns, vehicles would be the focal point im guessing. The NWA's have a chopper! We need to launch a raid and steal it!

Might have something to do that it is the bike. Me and my friends got 4atv's 2jeeps. 1 truck. 1 van. 2 pickups. 1 hatchback 1 'lada'. We HAD a bike. But it refuses to save! Also.. remember to save like 10 times if you want to be 'sure.' When we park our used vehicles for the night we usually save it 3-4 times each. Per person. (For the lulz and for the paranoia that they might dissapear.)

Hey Emptytester, I think I found out the deal with the low fps...there is a problem when installing Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead through Steam.When I launch A2 OA in Steam after it finishes installing I get this first error saying bad serial number given in instalation. I got past that somehow and now I get a new error saying Addon 'dayz_code' requires addon 'CABuildingParts'. I can however enter the game and in the menu I recieve another error "No entry 'bin\config.bin/Cfg/Vehicles/Citizen1.scope. Errors and errors after errors...the files of A2 OA are simply f*cked and it is affecting the FPS, once every 1 min or so when I go to a new place I have like 4-6 fps for about 15 seconds like the game has to reload all the textures or something. I have played Arma 2 normal to see how it runs and on a 30 player server the game runs crystal clear with graphics on high. I tryied fixing the game cache in steam but nothing works, even reinstalled the game...im thinking of buying the retail version of arma again just because I want to play dayZ without having to suffer the fps once every 3 mins. If anyone has a solution tell me. Thanks.

Fare enough. I admit my mistakes. BUT WHAT ABOUT CARS, GODDAMMIT! There are a SERIOUS lack of vehicles in the game. And it takes a team to repair a car...

I know some vehicles spawn with some few odd-ends in them. UAZ At green mountain spawns with like 20 DMR mags. The White Pickup spawns with a Cayote Backpack. But with all that? Pretty sure you stole someone's stash ;) Don't worry. Me and my friends stole a clans 5-car 25~ or so tent stash. It's alright :D

Useless? You know how fast that thing goes downhill offroad? (my record stands at 130 km/h) It doesn't use any fuel, at the moment repairs itself for some reason every time you get off it (unless you totally break it), doesn't make much noise and is very easy to hide. Probably one of the most useful vehicles in the game I would say.

I'm an admin myself, and our server has had all tents and vehicles borked. While it sucks, I suggest you learn to deal with losing stuff in this game. Life's going to be very stressful if you don't. Best to just suck it up and move on, it happens. It's an alpha.

GPU = graphics CPU = calculations You can't just put the load on your GPU once your CPU is at its limits. Arma is NOT a very graphics intensive game. It's a code intensive game. It calculates a lot of stuff. Especially playing DayZ mod in situations with lots of zombies. Boot up the editor on the same map, i'm sure you'll get better performance. You can't really compare this game to other mainstream games in terms of performance. This is a game where you setup situations and it runs the simulation. Calculating on the fly everything that is going on. Most games out there are nothing more than scripts playing out. Pile on top of that the massive maps, extensive selection of destroyable objects, vehicles, ballistics, insane view distances, and amazing lighting. If you have a problem with how DayZ hogs your CPU usage, comment on that, don't blame it on Arma2 being unoptimized.

I haven't checked other servers, but we lost all vehicles and tents (that we know of) on our server. It's interesting it only happened after the Hive maintenance the devs performed on monday-ish. Again, I'm not expressing displeasure at this - this sort of thing happens, I'm cool with that. I made the resolution very early on with this game to not get too attached to anything. =) The nature of the mod, combined with the fact it's in Alpha means you will lose things. Be nice if one of the devs could weigh in and shed some light on this. Will a future DayZ update fix it? Do we just have to be patient and wait for a respawn timer or some such? Can we do something to help?

["Great" Admin] Hey guys, server admin here. Got some problems with the server, it needs a reboot. But, because some random dude who's never admined a server before said that a great admin would give an hour warning, we are just going to wait around for an hour with no loot, no zombies, no tents, and no vehicles. It's the GREAT thing to do.....[/"Great" Admin]

Sounds legit to me i'm afraid. We lost vehicles even after saving due to restarts. We play on a server that restarts every 4 hours (which I think you need in dayz else zombies/loot/clock starts messing up) - the restart message is automated, I dont know if that was the same for you. Its an issue with the vehicle system i'd say, perhaps it could be looked into next-next patch. I love the realistic "minecraft" style of play where you build a camp etc but i get a hot flush every time the server restarts / we go away for a week without playing because this game is not very "persistant" at this time. I really hope Rocket and the devs look into further ways of preventing item/camp loss over periods of time.

It was our vehicle depot on the SW of the map. We originally found a camp up at the NW in the trees just below the hilltop. That was when we got out with a truck and a uaz. That was when BigSarg was back trying to get another vehicle when he was discovered there and killed. By the time we got coordinated and went back the vehicles were moved, a red car was left wrecked, and tents nearly all empty. Some time later we had one of our guys locate (randomly spotted them as he went by) a dirtbike and the VS3 south of Guglovo (i think - anyway it was somewhere in the center of the map) which he had to repair both in order to recover them. A few days later we were scouting the NW in search of any camps when we saw someone driving the white offroad pickup. We initially lost contact with it, but me and one on a dirt bike continued to scout and decided to check the old location (we wanted to recover the red car that was left behind but it was gone as well). One last hunch to check the top of the hill for any camp because we knew that white truck couldn't have been going up that dead end road without a purpose. Sure enough, we located two guys with the British Offroad, two ATVs, and the white Helix and a bicycle. One of the guys D/C'd when wounded - I ASSUME that was you or one of your crew (a tad ironic after you decried other clans for D/C'ing on you). The guy in the ghillie suit hung around watching us while we held security for the remainder of our team to get the UAZ up the hill. We had just enough crew to take one person for each vehicle and boogie them out to our SW vehicle depot that you eventually discovered. We had quite the laugh that the two guys up there didn't throw themselves into combat between us and their vehicles but instead decided to protect themselves by hiding and disconnecting. And that is the entire story of how we got our vehicles. Oh, we found the bus west of Zelenegorsk but didn't use it much. We gave one of our member's son (young kid) the bus to use as his own, which you had shot up and left behind. Him and his dad repaired it and have since moved it, but it was the city bus - not the blue van bus. As far as the group split, it was was due to someone with a known association with a second group that we refused to merge with despite repeated requrests. The healthy assumption was that the dual loyalty and schism over the non-merger was enough of a motivation to divulge or vehicle depot location. Understandable I think you would agree. Anyways, once you nailed our vehicle depot in the SW we did not recover any other vehicles and have been playing on another server since. If someone is locating scattered vehicles rapidly after repeatedly moving them, I would suggest moving servers if you believe it to be because of a hacker. But it isn't myself, BigSarg, or Pusher. As far as any vehicle thefts happening over the last two weeks, I listed our raids above. Anything else is non of our doing. I will add, however, that if you are leaving vehicles scattered about the map people are probably just bumping into them as they traverse from point of interest to point of interest. I'm surprised you haven't figured out that most of this ground is traveled at some point by the numerous players that are on and off the server throughout the day. Oh, and about the offer to link up on steam to "straighten this out"... I don't think there is anything to talk about as I narrated the facts to you as they happened. There is nothing else I could tell you to make you feel better.

Well, we have a few of the better vehicles stashed. Last week a trio of hackers however teleported almost every vehicle in the game, including the ones we were using, to a plateau in the central/north of the map. How do we know they teleported them? Because all our vehicles literally vanished at the same time right in front of us, and a dude came sliding over a hill into visual range at roughly 500 meters a second. Two days later when we finally tracked the location down, they still had our gear in them. I'm not sure how much the vehicles have been moved since then. We do mark the rough location on the map when we have a full server. We don't really need the few we have, but, we'd rather keep an eye on them and donate them to a dedicated crew that is playing rather than let them sit out in the open and have a solo player blow one up and it be gone for 7 days :)

we had the same issues on people finding the vehicles, always when we logged out for an hour they would go missing, never when we were online, they just looked at the map and waited till our markers dissapear (because thats how they do it, usin cheats). We even split into small groups of 2 and parked cars all over the place but still got found, some people just hunt vehicles/camps so fair play... but alot hack, on our server i have caught some scripts already, the other scripts are detected it's just battle eye doesn't ban them immediately.