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We have spent the last several days scouring the entire map with our group of four to ten (depends on the day/time) people after our vehicles, hidden in several locations, decided to disappear after a sever restart. We have found useless boats, a broken ATV in the woods, and one crappy jeep where everything goes to orange if you hit one fence. We used to have nearly every vehicle and none of them have respawned at the normal spots nor any other spot. We have scoured every city/town/outpost, every small barn, little shack in the woods, mountain tops, along the road sides, across fields, essentially we have searched nearly the entire map and nothing seems to have respawned of the vehicles that we previously had. The jeep was of a type that we had never seen before and ATVs are common enough that one we didn't find was fine, but everything we have previously found did not respawn. Also, it was exactly seven days after the patch came out that makes vehicles respawn if not driven for too long despite us driving them all multiple times a day.

We have been playing on US 132 and have yet to see one. Is this a server side setting or does every server have to enable them?

Something to do with luck and something to do with knowing where to look. Also, to everyone complaining that people are hording/hiding the vehicles, I have a few questions for you guys. If you found a vehicle, would you leave it in the middle of Stary Sobor when you logged off? If you found a second vehicle, would you just leave it for the next person who comes along? Ya, I thought so..

Does this mean that EVERY time a server restarts (often once or multiple times a day) vehicle locations get reset? If I'm not mistaken' date=' are you fucking kidding me?! People who work hard to obtain vehicles now lose them in under 24 hours. That makes them utterly worthless. If you meant that only after *THIS* server restart all vehicles will be reset, I request you make your wording more clear. That said, thanks for the update. [/quote'] They were reset only after the changes were implemented. The third note clearly indicates they don't reset after restarts:

I have never seen a vehicle in a listed spawn location, but I have definitely found multiple vehicles untouched by other players.

Me and my ground have touched every piece of equipment that can be found in the entire mod except for four things. What we have not been able to find in our now slightly more than two months of playing is the SVD which we want terribly, the radio which we would enjoy to find just to be able to say we have had every single tool, the pipe bomb/c4/satchel charge, and the AT-4/M136 single use anti-tank rocket launcher. We have found every other gun and currently have several M249s, MK48s, M107s, everything. We have used every vehicle including the helicopter (only for a few minutes). We actually had most of the vehicles until a server error wiped every vehicle off of the map and a week later they have not respawned. Anyway that god damn M136, SVD, and C4 need to be found. If anyone has those and is willing to trade (yes I know trades go terrible in this game but I am willing to try) any other item in the game except for vehicles and mountain dew as we do not currently have any. NVGs, rangefinders, GPSs, M107s, MK48s with belts, L85A2, AS50, I can get you anything for those items.

This is why I'm curious if they need to maybe re-think the situation on the vehicles, with the new popularity its gone from being challenging to get a vehicle to impossible and for me at least its really taking something away from the game (atm)... Thanks for the link to the map, I had already discovered this little gem. I can confirm that I have trekked to numerous vehicle spawn points, and also switched between servers in my attempts to re-locate a vehicle! ;)

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The only things I now of that I can't find are: GPS, rangefinder, ghillie, NVGs. And ALL vehicles. Seriously, I have 45 hours played of this game via Steam and I have not found a single vehicle. I found a bicycle once but as I was running towards it the server reset... I've visited over 6 vehicle spawns and no luck, been all over the map. I've even started walking on the outskirts of the debug forest hoping to find an off-the-map hoarder's cache but no luck..

I agree, I think they go through fuel a bit too fast, but I also feel that all the vehicles do. In the real world I can go a long long time on an ATV before I need to refuel. Thank fuck for jerri cans and refueling tanks.

I'm not sure how people think tents work, more often then not when you die, your still going to have to get food and water and probably one morphine (you can always break a leg it seems) before I can get back to my camp. So the game is still fun for me when that happens. Find a vehicle dude they need constant upkeep, are extremely useful and are awesome when you find another crashed vehicle and you have all the parts stored in your working one already. I play with my 4 roommates, we have a new objective every night sometimes its food sometimes its pops/drinks, sometimes its medical supplies(that stuff is as good as gold now that you don't spawn with it). Currently our objective is to collect as many tank traps and wire fencing kits as we can and were planning on setting up a roadblock to hijack vehicles. Our plan is to try and let them live but who knows how that'll work out. It'll be just way funnier if we don't kill them and they have to stand there and watch us drive off in there vehicle lol. Also if your getting bored your not taking any risks then obviously. And for the love of this game NO quests lol. If you guys want quests go check out Wow or SWTOR or EVE or pretty much every other game in existence, please don't put it in this one.

Just 2 wishes: 1)Realistic vehicles that dont explode under fire 2)Realistic zombies that dont lag, teleport or run in any crazy and "immersion-breaker" way Thanks!

Does this mean that EVERY time a server restarts (often once or multiple times a day) vehicle locations get reset? If I'm not mistaken, are you fucking kidding me?! People who work hard to obtain vehicles now lose them in under 24 hours. That makes them utterly worthless. If you meant that only after *THIS* server restart all vehicles will be reset, I request you make your wording more clear. That said, thanks for the update.

http://www.own3d.tv/Salyaris/live/334802 Someone sort this crap out. He is spawning vehicles and any equipment he wants, he has wallhack to see every player connected to the server.

Hey, Enjoyed reading your story. I was in the same boat as you I literally bought Diablo 3 played it for 2 days (got to level 13 lol) and then heard about this game, bought it and haven't played anything else since. Also for future reference about vehicles after you get one take it to a spot you think is safe and jump out and mousewheel over it till you get the save option. Now if the server randomly resets or crashes the vehicle SHOULD be back where you saved it if its not right next to you when you log back in. No guarantees though but it will increase your chances of keeping it

No doubt farming loot at the airfield or hording vehicles, scumbags.

Right, speaking of vehicles, the fact they explode from regular gunfire or crashes seems really silly. Mythbusters has proved that you cannot explode a car hollywood style even if you shot it in the gas tank. Maybe disable car explosions in the mod? I know it makes sense for a military simulator, but nobody should be firing an M1A1 Abrams unless they are hacking anyways. Disabling vehicle explosions seems like it has no downsides to it, other than maybe server cleanup or something.

face it folks it’s a sandbox. the 50 players on a server are all playing a different game for different reasons. people server hopping for loot get good stuff quick then get bored and then start killing.. BATMANs guys above a perfect example. they don’t need to spend a long time looking for stuff (the bit of the game I actually enjoy) or even surviving... why walk for over an hour to the NWAF when you can get to 50 by server hopping? do one walk and then 50 hops and your bored shitless... so you start pinging around on top of the factories shooting people for giggles... my teenage son would find that hilarious... but I don’t play with him. so whatever reason you give for playing the game is irrelevant when there are 49 playing it for completely different reasons. they need to sort out persistence and server hopping as this makes persistence a boon for hoppers and a bane for survivors. stop hopping or make persistence server based rather than meta, like tents and vehicles. Or move the spawn points for loot around on each instance of the world, like helicopter crash sites, so you can’t ping through 50 different servers and 50 barracks. If you have to find the barracks after moving map you won’t hop.) also reduce the loot you can take from survivors (as high velocity rounds will do damage to a dudes gear as well as kill him, NVG’s with extra bullet hole are useless) to reduce but not stop PVP (lazy buggers will need to search instead of kill a guy for his stuff and it then makes sense to try and team up with a well equipped guy just to have his gear in the group) So my problem isn’t PVP, its bored hoppers killing me for shits and giggles, so change the sandbox to force them out. I want to play in one sandbox, not multiple sandboxes with Einstein-rosen bridges allowing travel between them... really why walk when you can hop down a wormhole to a different instance...

Curious but isn't the exploding vehicles an Arma 2 engine issue. So might not be fixable with a mod.

As I know a lot of players and clans etc. setting up camp and hide all the vehicles out side of the map, I think there should be trigger in both left and top of the map to say that the player is leaving the game world and if he's not return he will die. for all those who needs extra "reality" it can be simply explained that those areas are more infected and that why you cant go there... :cool:

@shanks, disagree myself. Although I'm not keen on the idea of quests either, because this is a survival sandbox, there's needs to be more happening to stop you basically becoming comfortable at 'higher levels' (ie: kitted out and stock up). Maybe the occurrence of one off /rare events, NPC/AI powered higher level enemies (make use of the military zombies). Some higher level goals than maintaining vehicles. As much fun as it is, I have found myself leaving my squad and just going back to elektro to hunt bandits to keep the game tense and exciting. I'm really curious to see what features are implemented to keep the game interesting and engaging once you move inland.

Our group has collected a number of vehicles, and while I like to use them aggressively, they're basically gone forever if you use them. What I would like to see is this **Vehicles need to be fueled AT gas stations. Forcing you to actually take risks** Right now, I take the truck with 20 fuel cans to the most remote tank I know of and safely fuel it up with no risk. Have fuel for days

As has been stated before, at this stage of development I am sure that actual game play mechanics and balancing are higher up the list than fluff for the background story...you might even see the country DayZ is set in changing. It also depends how far down the authentic and realism route you want to go with these things. If you want to go to full realism, then you would be spending a great deal of time, cleaning some of your more modern western weaponry after crawling through the mud,rain, saltwater and gunked zombie than would really add to the game.The MP5 variants spring to mind here in being infamous in needing rigid cleaning and maintenance. There should be a huge bias in Soviet weaponry and vehicles in the games present setting but in the grand scheme of things, just wait till they get around to it.

Yeah I agree, it seems a bit over the top that vehicles explode like that. Also more vehicles would be good, would love to fix up an Army humvee :)

Yes, vehicles should only break, not explode. Not realistic. There should also be MORE vehicles. Right now only clan members have vehicles and park them behind the map border. Cheaters.