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Seattle 118 went up a few days ago and I can confirm that vehicles are there. Maybe people are getting wise to certain spawn points.

My group and I opened our own server up three days ago. We've onlyy found one bus and one ATV, nothing else. We've searched through basically the entire western region (Zeleno, smaller towns, etc.) and all of the known vehicle spawns, yet we've found nothing. This and some server hopping to attempt to find cars has led me to believe that cars are simply not spawning.. I doubt that all vehicles could have been taken off of the map in the three days that the server's been up, and I'm asking you, the community; do you believe that vehicle spawns could be bugged? We plan on searching the eastern region now, hopefully we're able to find something!

if a vehicle is not used (driven for a relatively good amount of time) each day, it will start degrading - i.e. rusting - and will require parts to fix it back up to green. if it stays in the same general area for too long it will degrade exponentially, eventually blowing it up for it to respawn somewhere else. this would stop clans from hoarding every fucking vehicle in the game unless they switched bases alot. hoarding is annoying and this would fix it

So are the spawn locations in the wiki not up to date anymore? Because I found none of the vehicles on them but mostly at gas stations or factories/docks and one at the appartments in cherno.

Vehicles spawn on server start, so they will be there whether you drive or not. That being said, bicycles which are the exception to this do in fact spawn while driving. Evidence:

This is... awesome! I already thought about dxtorying a reenacted version during our last coast guard night patrol. Probably we will do it soon though :) But sadly we were all stuffed with LEEWT we needed for other vehicles and some jerry cans for our PBX. Does every PBX eat everything you put into its gear like ours? Boats have no inventory... DERP

Hi, as you might know zombies and loot doesn't spawn right now if you're driving around. It also doesn't spawn in your surroundings if you get out, you actually need to approach things on foot. Now I'm wondering if this would be the same for cars, because I mainly found them in big towns where other player might have spawned them (by walking near them on foot), but not in the supposed spawn locations far up in the north, and I looked nearly everywhere (shortly after a server restart). Also Helicopters are currently not spawning on new servers right?

Not sure if this has been mentioned before (I did a quick search and couldn't find anything) but I think that batteries should be an essential part of the game. There would be nothing more terrifying than running around at night in the pitch black with just the light from your torch when suddenly it dies because you have run out of batteries! Also all electrical equipment should use batteries like the GPS, NVG etc. Could even have car batteries as an extra component to repair vehicles! Just a basic idea so far. Anyone got any suggestions?

i'm not a big fan of achievements(actually i think it's no content and waste of time). but why not make a optional quest to "leave this zombie overrunned place"? everyone is fascinated by the vehicles ingame and it's a common thought for real people to find a safe place to live in a zombie apocalypse! let's do this a goal for this game: TEAM UP AND LEAVE. We have airports, docks and roads. let's do a quest for 10-x people. Collect all the goods to leave this f'ing place! You must collect a lot of stuff and it's rare. distributed and lost all over the map. so many people must look out for the stuff! you can repair with that parts: - a ship - an airplane/heli - big bus to leave this place!!! it would be great: it's a real reason to team up and work together. maybe you need first to build a car for the transport of the big engines to the ships/airplanes. you can really play in a team even with random players. split up to search in sectors and coordinate your search. maybe implement walkie talkies to enable a chat-channel 1-15 to organize for every search team! the best: NOT everyone MUST play this. other players can do their own game and maybe there can be a battle or a race between two teams on one map! it would be great.

Why are you worried about "custom" server? Even if it will be easier to find loot.. or to totally farm, is really a problem? I mean you gonna have the same stuff, over and over.. to do what? It's not that having 3 DMR is better than having 1.. and you're probably going to die because of an hacker on another server.. so farming or not doesn't make any difference. It would have been different if you were able to collect vehicles, but they sits on the server so it wouldn't make any difference. Stop raging.. leave to those ppl their fun, it wouldn't change your PvP'ing.. mostly because they wouldn't PvP with you at all. :)

Wasnt a server wipe. The admins do not have that power. Its a bug. Sometimes when server restarts vehicles and tents are gone, but on the next restart ( or if Admin is paying attention) they will reappear. Most admins will do back to back restarts if they notice their tents are missing too :)

I dislike using vehicles alone. Which is why I never try to fix them up and use them by myself. If I want to go driving around, I'll either get some friends on or run around Cherno/Elektro telling people I have a vehicle nearby that I want to repair/drive around, get a group going, and go do shit.

A couple friends and I have been doing some recon on a couple servers that are run by one clan (they killed one of our friends), and we finally made our move. Last night we found their ural parked, waited for it to drive away, shot the driver out, got in and started driving it when we get "No message recieved..." We think wtf! We've been watching them move in and out of town for 45 minutes waiting for our moment to strike! We hop back to one of their other servers where we have a car and some tents with a pretty nice pile of gear and decide to get retribution on them for pulling the plug on the first server. My sniper friend and I manage to take out 3 or 4 of them at their tent city, and steal away with some gear and drop it off at our camp site. I logged in earlier and everything was fine, looted some choppers and came back to camp when "No message recieved..." pops up. When the server came back online, all of our tents and vehicles had disappeared and all of our hard work over the past week was destroyed. I had no idea admins were able to basically 'erase' the server that way, and they didn't even post a message in chat about the server resetting beforehand. Very frustrating. I know that restarting a server in order to save your stuff is considered admin abuse and grounds for blacklisting, but I don't know about wiping a server clean. :/ Unfortunately this is the only screenshot I managed to nab when we stole their Ural:

Before somebody blows a gasket, no, I'm not suggesting they be removed. I just don't personally see what the point in using one is. Sure, the speed and storage is nice but you can hear the damn things from so far away that you're essentially broadcasting your location to every player within a thousand or so meters to come and murder you, so they seem impractical to use outside of maybe clans using them to come pick up their buddies on the coast. Driving them around to loot attracts way too much attention from what I've seen. I feel so stressed out every time I'm driving one that it's almost a relief when they do inevitably end up getting stolen.

My friend and I are looking to get a bigger group together. We have been waiting on friends to get Day Z, but they are taking too long. We have a camp set up with 2 vehicles with a lot of gear. Both of us are good at the game and have a lot of gaming experience. If you're interested add "Micorboy" on steam or reply here Edit: We typically play during the evenings as well, and I can't play some weekends...so that's perfect

Hello everyone, I just posted up a new blog article about our adventures in DayZ and finding our first vehicle. This is part one of a two part story, where the vehicle discovery fuels an "El Dorado-esque" obsession to search out the safety and security of DayZ vehicles. Drive it like you stole it, y'all. Enjoy! DayZ Vehicles: How My Vehicle Obsession Eventually Cost Us Everything – Part One

Yeah. You are right. The BIG(like Cherno or Elektro) cities should have more zombies. Hordes. The same goes for airfield which I think was the last stand of the army protecting last way to evacuate civilians(also make the military zombies harder to kill). I am okay with number of zombies in villages although it can go slightly up(more for medium cities like Zelenogorsk or Krasnostav). [qoute]I'm missing more random events like helicopter crash site. I'd suggest to add randomly placed police barricades, crashed ambulances, supply trucks, military convoys etc and corresponding loot, so players get rewards if they travel in wildness. Czernarus has so many roads and places to pick 100s of random spawn zones.[/qoute] This. More random places. Crashed military vehicles, crashed supply cars, abandoned camp sites, air drops etc. Also I agree about changing loot tables. Change deer stands spawn to hunter rifles/shotguns(no pistols or military rifles) and some equipment. Add some more civilian weapon types and reduce chance for military spawn weapons.

I had Dwarden say it was a cheat. I also had some other random say it had to do with a vehicle, this happened 26 minutes after Sherman died so if he did make it back to his camp, his leader Foo said no vehicles were at camp. Therefore he didn't touch a vehicle which made it suspicious so I went with what Dwarden told me.

Soon' date=' they fixed the fuel leak problem. [/quote'] It's not only a fuel leak issue - vehicles are lagging up the servers like mad. The netcode needs work before they can reimplement them properly. (You're lucky land vehicles are there at all)

Believe it has something to do with vehicles.. not sure though.

addWeaponCargoGlobal Description: Add weapons to the cargo space of vehicles, which can be taken out by infantry units. MP Synchronized Players are not vehicles, and do not have "cargo". You would just have: unitName addWeapon weaponName if you were adding weapons to your character. It sounds to me, the script that fills cargo space in vehicles is misbehaving somewhat.

This is... awesome! I already thought about dxtorying a reenacted version during our last coast guard night patrol. Probably we will do it soon though :) But sadly we were all stuffed with LEEWT we needed for other vehicles and some jerry cans for our PBX. Does every PBX eat everything you put into its gear like ours? If you do do a reenactment, please mention me in some way

Where vehicles are? What gear people have and where they are etc?

It feels like the vehicle spawn needs to be tripled or even quadrupled. 80+ hours and I've found one vehicle, a tractor. And I definitely can't say the same for my friend who has logged about the same amount of time but has seen zero vehicles. If I played 2 hours a day, I would find one vehicle every 40 days at best. Good gravy. And that's being optimistic, like I said my buddy has found 0 vehicles in roughly the same 80 hours... The vehicle patch apparently didn't reduce hoarding enough. :( One should not have to roam the edge/outskirts of the map to have -any- chance of finding a vech. I actually super lucked out when I found that tractor at the top of a hill, didn't think I was EVER going to find a vehicle in this game unless I stumbled upon some packrat's vehicle collection. And it's not like extra vehicles are going to break the game either, just make 80-90% of them need repairs from spawn. If you really wanted you could also make vehicles consume more fuel on use to counterbalance having more vehicles. In short: It'd be nice to find a useable/repairable vehicle more than once every couple months. Please up the vehicle spawn. Seriously, who wouldn't want more vehicles? And maybe to prevent hoarding you could implement some sort of vehicle spawn reset if 3+ idle vehicles were within about 2 km of eachother (must be idle and not in use). Obviously you have more pressing matters like performance tweaks and such that I too agree are of more concern, but when you have time, I'm sure a lot of players would appreciate some vehicle changes.

Yes, you can refer to the wiki to see which vehicles have storage. For the bus, is can be tricky. The best way to access it while you are in it is Press M, for map (Even if you don't have one) then click on Units, then you'll see and option for Gear on the middle-right of the screen. Do that to access the Busses inventory! Most vehicles you can approach the car from a side, to access it you just have to keep scrolling.