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Couple reasons they might not be in yet.. I heard that the heli's have radar that allows them to see vehicles so until that's disable that could be one reason. The more likely one however was a recent interview (pcgamer I think?) where he mentioned wanting to make it so anything outside the map will despawn on server restart.

Got a better suggestion? The current system doesn't work as less than 5% of players have ALL the vehicles.

hmmm, well I hope its all sorted out soon. I've been looking for vehicles for awhile now. Havnt found anything :[

My group enjoys the hunt, the loot, and the thrills. We roll on a somewhat private server, about 15 of us in the group. We have set up a big presence on the server. Our (average) vehicles: -1 helicopter -2 Land rovers -2 Yamahas -1 Ural -1 UAZ -2 PBX(stached on coast) Something our group has that some lack is tactics. We raid the NW airfield on a regular basis. But we don't just half-ass it, we go full out. During peak server hours (50-60 people, all hostile, mostly in groups of 5-6), we use everything. We break our group into smaller squads, and use either teamspeak or vent to communicate. The squads: (everyone has NVGs) 2 sniper squads= (Irish 1 and Irish 2) -2 people per squad -both have ghillie consists of: sniper -DMR -PDW spotter -MP5SD/M4A1 SD -M1911 -No backback, instead has launcher. -Rangefinders 2 infiltration squads= (Smoke 1 and Smoke 2) -2 people per squad -both wear camo consists of: pointman -M4A1 SD/MP5SD -M9SD support -AK-74/M16/M1014 -M9SD 2 support squads (for when things get messy)= (Shepherd 1 and Shepherd 2) -2 people per consists of: heavy -M240 -launcher -PDW Medic -AK/M16/MP5 -M1911 -lots of bandages, blood packs, epi pens, morphine, painkillers 1 heli "Casevac" squad (for when SHTF)= (Papa 12) -3 people -1 pilot(very good) -2 gunners (all 3's gear: -AK/M16/MP5/L8/M1014 -Revolver -Food/drinks/medicine 1. Our sniper teams use the Yamaha's to reach over watch positions near the airfield, searching for other snipers as they do. 2. Once 1 is accomplished, The support and infil teams load into the Offroads, 1 squad of each type per car. They then head to different ends of the airfield, where the infil teams eject. 3. Support teams drive the offroads into the treeline and wait for call for help. Infil teams, with sniper over watch, systematically search the hangars/ ACT/ barracks. Any threats, whether Zed or player, are eliminated. 4. Once the looting is done, the infil teams regroup at the ACT, where one of the offroads picks them up. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED Contingencies: 1: Minor crisis the affected infil team reaches a defendable location, while the other infil team stays away. One support team deploys to evac them. 2: Major crisis both infil teams regroup at a defendable location. Both support teams deploy for evac. 3: When Shit Hits The Fan same as #2, but with a twist. The support teams do not go for direct intervention and evac, but set up a safe LZ. The chopper team lifts off from our camp and flies to the airfield(takes 3-4 minutes). Once they arrive, they either provide support or land for evac. Me and my GF ( yes, my GF plays this with me) are Irish 1, while my twin brothers are Irish 2. My friend and his cousins are Smoke 1 and 2. My cousins are Shepherd 1 and 2. My friend, his sister, and his Uncle are Papa 12. My IGN: Lobo Might catch me on the US servers when I'm not on my groups. Feel free to post your groups tactics. I might post more of ours.

I sure can't wait to get choppers back, although all vehicles in this game are great. Hiding them for later gametime is hard though :)

I have not seen a vehicle for 9 days now :) We got to the spawn points, nothing. I was speaking to an admin last night and he had two choppers, claimed he had 3 once. Server admin hoarding choppers and vehicles, now there's a surprise. Vehicles should respawn every week regardless of who has them. the original owners keeps them and duplicates should be created.

Thank you for the help, also, do you know if vehicles spawn on hardcore servers?

No Tanks are Hacked in, There are normally no Tanks in DayZ Check http://dayzwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Vehicles for all Vehicles that are in DayZ

OK I'm bored now, been playing so long the game has become no challenge at all. All I carry now is a crossbow, a 1911, and a few cooked steaks... I can easily avoid other players and have not had to PVP in quite a while. Now I am looking for a group of players who wish to find and repair vehicles - I can see that is the next logical step. If anyone serious is interested send me a PM I'd love to get some coop play going!

To the extent of my knowledge, helicopter spawns are disabled across all server except some of the very old ones. I have recently read that both the fuel tank leaking and epic lag when flying problems have been fixed, so why they have not been added back is a bit of a mystery. My hypothesis is that they are trying to find a way to remove the radar functionality from them, as this makes finding other vehicles a snap.

That's weird, if it worked for you it should work for us... Except nothing is re-spawning for us... And please decrease the amount of days for which unused vehicles to not 7 days but more like 3 days... because in all honesty its not an easy thing to run around Chernarus barefoot, especially if its as big or even much larger than like skyrim, we need something to ride on to get us through faster.

Well, ive found most of my vehicles(2/3 :P) in the small towns that no one will go to, which ithink makes it very nice to go their and worth it. Sadly most small towns only have like 1( not even one) or 2 enter-able buildings and in total like 6 to 10 loot spawn locations, with 40% chance of their being loot its very likely you will get no loot at all, plus they have quite a lot of zombies anyway, like i counted around 15 zeds in a town that has 1 enter-able house and like 6 to 8 loot places ( with only 2 of them actually spawning anything), that is more than i see in cherno or elektro( i know people spawning in their does ruin it but that should be fixed)

Where can I report players for spawning vehicles that doesn't even spawn in DayZ mode ? I have screenshots with proofs.

Also we checked all of the spawns that we know of and all of the ones we have heard of nearly every day since. We checked all of the little barns, lone houses in forests and fields, abandoned shacks, the small unmarked towns, and even taken extensive trips through empty forest and fields. Everything on the map has essentially been checked by our group and we have not been able to find anything except for a single Jeep and a single PBX anywhere. Also, the Jeep was gone as well after another restart. We had hoped that the vehicles would reappear after a while thanks to the new patch where you need to drive them or they despawn, but we have had no such luck in finding them. The restart that they were gone after was exactly one week after the patch came out where if you do not drive the vehicles they despawn. It was also, as mentioned, during all of that hive trouble where nearly every server was down. Could it have something to do with that new patch despite all of the vehicle being driven all day every day? Or with the hive trouble?

Save ATV doesn't mean to rescue it, it means save the location. DayZ tip Number one AVOID any bridges with vehicles, you'll have to wait till the server restarts for any possibility of getting it back.

Thanks. As for hoarding' date=' well there are many clans that have 10+ vehicles and the fact that new dont spawn 99% of players are left without cars, while clans have tens of them..... [/quote'] Clans =/= admins. The clans cannot realistically remove every car from gameplay. Even if you find just a bike, and you WANT A CAR bad enough, you can take that bike, and just scout the edges of the map. You will find some sort of automobile. My friends have found 3 cars on the edge of the map in about 4 days. Given we have already blown 2 of them up, we still manage to find them, and new cars spawn. They are out there. (I mention a bike because they spawn often, as do ATVs due to them being so fragile and not the best for big clans, as they only hold 1-2 people. You can find one of them with relative ease just by checking a map with spawn points of vehicles and searching for them. http://dayzhq.com/map/) Admins don't do as you describe. Car spawns are slightly-unique to servers (They still have the same 'global' spawns, just I hear some servers dont spawn vehicles in all of those locations). The admin would have to personally memorize where every vehicle spawns, and go to all of those on foot or with another car (would need friends aswell then, so one could get out and drive the other car) to see if any spawned and grab them. It just doesn't happen. IF it does, I'd say just switch servers, simple as that.

Please explain me how often do vehicles spawn ? Helis, cars, buses ? I heard its 7 days AFTER the vehicle destroyed right ? So if you park away ALL the vehicles new ones will NOT spawn ? How often does loot spawn ? How does it work exactly? Near players, far from players, how ?

Of all the guns and vehicles you took from us, I am most sad to lose my m4a3 holo... I only put it down for an hour since I got the damn thing and took an l85 out and now it's gone....... I will hunt you to the ends of the map to find that gun. .... Lucky for you guys who are apparently horrible shots my brother would not stop the damn jeep and let my ass out when you tried to ambush us.... By the time he let me out you were probably ten km away

Survive. If you have good gear your eligibility for survival is at max, essentially you want to look for vehicles or kill people. Whats that you say? "But horse, i don't want to kill people i want to be a gentleman". Well to that i say; nice guys finish last, and spawn on the coast bitter and without beans. You can try and help people out, but you will eventually run into someone with low level gear that will view you as a mobile treasure chest. If you want to be nice with people, organize with them before you join the game and meet up. You can't trust anyone you don't know in the game, it will always put you at a disadvantage. Remember this video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_BfBwyOXJ4. Consider it a reminder.

Never tested it in a tent myself, but my clan does it in trucks all the time and it seems to work fine. Example: Guy dies, throw all his stuff into his bag and into the truck, along with anything that won't fit into the bag. Go get him, he reclaims his gear. As tents and vehicles operate on the same inventory system, one would be lead to assume that this method would also work for tents.

Me again, just reporting that last server reset deleted all the tents and despawned all saved vehicles, fyi

Some servers experience a bug where upon a restart no vehicles/tents/barbed wire etc spawns in. Doing an in-game mission restart usually fixes this.

Patience is part of skill. Just as a skilled F1 driver exercises patience in waiting for an opportunity to pass' date=' or a skilled soccer player exercises patience looking for an opening in the goal. [/quote'] Agreed. Patience amongst other things is oftentimes key for success (and for meeting the winning conditions in a competition). Well they are aspects of skill, but they are not measures, since there is no clear way to quantify and compare them individually. That's true. It's not what I do, but it's true. But that's not how I've survived for 18 days and 50+ hours in game. I own ~11 vehicles on two different servers, a network of fully-stocked tents (legitimately found) scattered across the map and well hidden. This takes skill as well - using the terrain and a knowledge of travel behaviors to choose tent locations that are not discovered. I have in my possession one of every gun in the game at his point except for the Camo SVD. I take chances in the game. lots of them. I survive because I play more skillfully than other people. To deny that this game requires skill is just folly. Thats an impressive archievement for sure. For people who strive to not die while accumulating as much gear as fast as possible (which is probably a large part of all players) it can be considered skillful. Still, for someone whose goal it is to run through all cities full servers with a flare at night it might not be that interesting. In the end, it depends on how you personally weigh different aspects of success. There is no formula that would yield a single measure that applies for everyone though. Whatever your goal, you have to be alive to accomplish it. Surviving is the universal goal. If you choose to do that in a boring way, that's okay. It requires less skill than surviving while doing exciting things, but that's your call. Not necessarily. If my goal is to just accumulate as much military gear for some friends in the shortest amount of time I might want to leave everything I have in my vehicles, minimizing my risk of losing anything upon death and just take a chance and run to NWA naked with an axe. A death might put me 15 minutes behind, waiting for reinforcements and executing a carefully planned operation would take way longer though. I'm not saying this is a particularly legit way of roleplaying, but its well within the game rules and mechanics and might even be fun to some. I'm not sure if we talk about the same thing here. A measure of skill is a variable by which skill can be clearly quantified (i.e. "measured"). It think we already agreed that survival time alone is not an appropriate measure of skill. I don't see how such a variable could ever exist, considering there is no winning condition and its a complete sandbox. You'd have to make a measure up, and then it still could always happen that other people don't really care about it, since they think other aspects are more important to them. So you can never really conclude that someone sucks unless you know his exact objectives. In the end, I'd say the most "success" to be had from this game is experiencing exciting situations. Thats where this game really shines IMO.

I assume you mean the Luxury SUV. Is so' date=' then to the extent of my knowledge, it is not currently in the game. The Vehicles & Repair guide on this forum mentions that it, along with the Little Bird and Mi-17 Civ. Helicopters, were available in-game during the pre-alpha, bue are not currently available in-game. [hr'] ESP hacks are cheats that allow people to see the locations of everything on the map if they so desire. Tents, Vehicles, Weapons, Players, all togglable and adjustable for distance. Therefore, if someone where running an ESP hack, they could filter only for vehicles, set the distance to cover the entire map and it would give them the location of every vehicle in game. As a result the only way of hiding vehicles with even a small chance that they won't be found by hackers is that you have to drive them far off the map and hope that either their ESP hacks aren't set to or able to reach that far out or that the large distance that the hacker would have to cover to reach them will result in him simply picking an easier target. Hackers ruin the game for everyone, high end clans to noobs.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13092928/dayzmapvehicles.jpg this is the vehicles i have found. btw can you find that big black car?