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Im here for PvP too. That has nothing to do with CoD Style or Deathmatch cause first rule is always: SURVIVE. If i'm alone I would not jump on a four people group and killing newbies is very rare I think. Most Players are looking for PvP up the north where better equipped and expirienced people can fight each other. Collecting things, cooking meat, repair Vehicles, drive around with it and raid Cities is one gal of the game and is the main route. But if we come across other groups who want to raid the same airfields/supermarkets or whatever it will lead to a gunfight.

Those vehicles are used at least three times a day, and sometimes we just go driving around looking for vehicles and car parts. When you have very large numbers, you're going to have stashes of good gear, lots of vehicles, etc. etc. It's a reality of any sort of persistent game such as Dayz. And to the accused, your videos damn nobody, except make yourselves the fool. You have no names, no video proof of anyone but 1 truck and one body having a m107 TWS (A realistic number for a large group to have kept over the last 4-5 weeks since it was removed) and many questionable parts such as the audio muting over, the video missing small sections at intervals, and several awfully convenient 'coincidences'. Your mole could also have not have known about the movements of people in the van after they dismounted, as it was a locked channel with only those 6 people, all who have been playing with us for over a month (and wouldn't want to play with high pitched mouth breathers like the prepubescent boys in the video anyways). Anyways, the fact is is you claim to post an 'uncut' video of the raid, when clearly 10-15 minutes of the raid is cut out, audio being cut out at random intervals, and god knows what else was edited out. If someone who had the ability to do anything about this even cared enough to read this, we'll leave it to them. We don't need to justify ourselves any longer here, you've already dug your own grave.

So, we had huge server problems yesterday since the Hive went crazy it started to lag the shit out of everyone. We lost all our tents and vehicles by now. I joined again today and I spawned in the middle of nowhere with all my equip gone. Only thing still there is my kill counter and such stuff, the rest: gone. Tents, vehicles, weapons, everything. Player Name: Dominik Player ID: 13587782 Server: Germany 13 Would be nice to get my stuff back and my location restored/reset since I already had alot. The most important stuff I had: L85A2 RIS CWS BAF AS50 NV Goggles Rangefinder Here is a screenshot: http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/542930855854862574/5FE09B54B06CF33E51081CC3F80DB08DF69B4F81/

Damn i hate the clans that hide their gear 'off map'. This doesn't look like survival it looks like a regular ARMA 2 game with duping and possible hacking. Where's the survival? What's the point of small groups (non clans) trying to get vehicles when all this hoarding is going on? Especially with the hacks that may be in use. Is this how the game is supposed to be played? Both groups look suss to me.

Hey all, me and a few friends play on EU 31. But sometimes after a restart the tents are gone. vehicles and so on are there but all tens are gone, same with wire and tank traps. Any ideas why ? Ohh and looking for other players to play with as well. pm me

me and my buddy just got back from raiding a tent city we discovered which also had a vehicle in it so we loaded it up with everything from the tents and drove off with it. After storing the vehicle with the stuff at our site one of our buddies who just got the game was walking around cherno-electro area and spots an ATV with no gas and everything else fine. Thinking we could add to our collection of vehicles (we already had a hatchback) we clear out the hatchback except for a mp5 and g17 for our buddy and some ammo. me being decked out in a ghillie suit with the M16 CCOs/m9SD/ .50 cal i was feeling like a bad ass and my buddy was using an m16 CCO as well. we head over to my friends location but somewhere along the coast the game was night time for us while it was day time some how for everyone else so us driving along in our hatchback stuck out like a sore thumb. I think it was somewhere around cherno outskirts where we had to slow down to avoid entering the city when someone popped us both while in the car with a pistol (i think 1911) killing us both. After respawning however we were able to manage to get to the ATV with jerry cans and secure the ATV. It sucked losing all that gear but its replaceable & i would gladly trade a hatchback for an ATV anyday!

**SPOILER ALERT** Part of the game is figuring out how to survive, please do not read this unless you are absolutely desperate and need help to survive. **SPOILER ALERT** Also I like to keep this short and simple so I won't be going into much detail on each subject. Rule #1 Don't waste your time going for low loot spawns, too many zombies not enough loot... risk vs reward. Rule #2 Don't go anywhere without Morphine and Bandages. Rule #3 In Cherno and Elektro, kill or be killed. Rule #4 NEVER shoot or melee in 3rd person view, the sights are off and you actually hit lower than the crosshairs. Starting Out - Spawned, check your location, it appears briefly in the bottom right hand corner. - Look at dayzdb.com/map, see if you are at least 10min run from Cherno or Elektro and find your way there. - Hit the big industrial buildings outside of the city and try to find an Axe, a Knife and Road Flares. - Stealth your way to the Hospital for medical supplies and loot anything you find on the way. Make sure to keep an eye out for other players in windows and on rooftops. Listen carefully for footsteps, gun shots and avoid others at all cost. - Hit the supermarket and med/high loot spawns in the residential areas to try to find matches and a Pistol then GTFO ASAP. - If you have the inventory space pick up Crossbow Bolts, you are gonna need them later. - When having a hard time doing the above, just try to get an Axe and Medical Supplies then get the hell outta town. Surviving - Make trips to all the Med/High Loot places, Deer Stands, Farms, Supermarkets, Industrial and Military loot spawns. - Farms to find a Crossbow, Supermarket for Camping Supplies, Industrial for a toolbox, Military for GPS and 24-slot Coyote Backpack. - Keep an eye out for animals to gut for food. - Drink all the Soda you find immediately to stay hydrated. Don't bother wasting space on Soda if you have a Water Canteen. - Same goes for canned food which also helps keep your blood level up. - Keep at least 4 or more pieces of cooked meat on you at all times to heal up in case you get in trouble. - Manage your temperature, if it starts to go below 38 degrees then find shelter or cozy up next to a fire. - Try to keep your Blood over 9000! Any lower and you risk serious injury. Camps & Vehicles - If you have a 16-slot backpack and a toolbox by now then make some room in your inventory for vehicle parts. - You will want at least 4 slots free in your main inventory and 12 slots free in your backpack. This allows 2 large vehicle parts to be stored in your bag and 1 in your inventory. - Find a wrecked vehicle and repair it! Check dayzdb.com/map for vehicle spawns, not all vehicles can be repaired. Easy way to see if its repairable is if it can be entered or not which then tells you what parts need repair. - Once you have a Vehicle drive around to all the Supermarkets and High Residential spawn areas to find a tent. - Fortify a camp with your tent surrounded by Sandbags, barb wire and tank traps to stop vehicles from running over your tent and destroying everything. - Make sure to save your tent and vehicle by mouse wheel menu and then choose Save. Bandit - Grab a military weapon/ammo and goto town... please don't shoot noobs with Coyote Backpacks... - Hit the industrial areas to also find more military grade ammo. - A Ghillie Suit, Night Vision Goggles and a Range Finder will also be very useful. End-Game - Start or Join a faction. - Find Land to claim. - Gather Supplies. - Build a base with even more Sandbags, barb wire and tank traps. - Go out Raiding other bases! Pro Tips - Don't bother picking up any primary weapons till you find a Crossbow. The Axe is far superior to kill zombies silently. Although this leaves you prone to being killed by bandits, but they would probably kill you anyways as they have better military grade weapons. - DayZ only allows the player to melee/shoot when standing still or walking. So when engaging in melee you can dodge zombie attacks by walking backwards/sidewards and hitting at the same time. - Flares are your best friend, they can be used to lure a group of Zombies away from loot spawns and out of buildings. Beware this gives away your location, so keep an eye out for bandits. Reload your stack of flares as you find them. - You make more noise and move a bit faster when crouch running with your Primary Weapon out. So equip your Pistol when crouch running through grassy areas past zombie for only 1 noise level. - With primary weapon you can strafe crouch run for 1 noise level through grassy areas making the same noise as crouch running forward with pistol. - Strafing left or right while walking is actually a tad bit faster than going forwards without making anymore noise. - If you are completely surrounded by zombies but they don't see you yet then you can slowly crawl away for 0 noise level. Do this by equipping your primary weapon, go prone and hold shift to slowly crawl right behind a zombie. - With your pistol you can kind of slow crawl for 0 noise level by using W+A, W+D or S but only through grass areas. - Stand walk through most zombie infected areas, then if you see a zombie looking towards your direction crouch walk. Only need to prone when they are at least 15m away from you. - Zombies seem to be able to see/hear through walls, if you are in a building and zombie is passing right by you get ready to take care of business. - To lose zombies chasing you use the terrain to your advantage. Run them up and down steep hills, zig zag up/down it to run faster. Leap over fences and run through buildings or over bridges to put some distance between you then start to crouch run. - Also Once you have distance from them run into the dark woods and start to crouch run in the shadows to lose aggro. Then finally prone in the shadows behind a tree and crawl away to safety. Or if no woods around try to break line of sight around a corner of a building then immediately go prone. - Never fire your weapon around an infected area, if you get zombie aggro in town then crouch run out to an open field. When out of town start stand running to get some distance and then kill 'em all. - Militar areas can have Mophine, also try to kill military type of zombies for extras. Can find Morphine in industrial areas but is even more rare and risky. - dayzmap.info/ is good for searching for individual item spawns where as dayzdb.com/map is nice to see all the different type of spawn areas. - You can use distant zombies as an indicator of other players in an area. I always ask myself when overlooking a village etc. "am I close enough to have spawned those zeds or did another player in the village spawn them?" This has saved my ass on numerous occasions. -SystemiK Crossbows - Only need to carry 4 bolts at a time, by killing all zombies you should loot more bolts off the hunter types so this should keep your supply going if you happen to lose one. - Shooting from Irons Sights isn't what you would expect, the shot is actually about a 1/3 of an inch higher than the tip of the bow. Check this screenshot for exact placement. http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/9207/crossbowshot.jpg - Crosshairs are much easier to use than Iron Sights, so join a Normal server if you want to use Crosshairs for perfect shots. - Be very patient with your shots and make them count, you don't want to lose your bolts. - Get as close as possible to the zombie without aggroing before you fire. - Line-up directly in front or behind the zombie as this makes for a a wider target. - Don't move your crosshairs to the zombie, let the zombie walk into your crosshairs and then fire. - If you have aggro with the Crossbow equip either run away into the field and pull out your pistol or allow the zombie to come right up to you, when it stops to attack then fire. You might get hit once this way but at least you wont lose your bolt or aggro more zombies. Might think of some more tips later... so check back. Feel free to add your own tips, might update this post with more info. If you found this useful please reply and comment, thanks!

I mean, come on, everyone just keeps respawning anyways until they get there, why not start everyone there? That's where the most action is, and that's where the most beginning weaponry is usually found. Not trying to be a dick and say "These other spawn locations suck" but... they kind of do. There have been so many times when I have spawned at Cherno, built up a supply of something and then killed off, or fallen off a building and just want to get back to doing what I was doing in cherno, and sometimes it is just disheartening to get a spawn that is far from it. Sure it's supposed to be a zombie survival game, but a lot of fun is taken from it when you spawn at Kamenka... let's face it, nothing good ever comes from Kamenka... No open houses, no vehicles that spawn there.... nothing. Either spawn everyone around Cherno and Elektro (because Elektro seems to be a ghost town to me no matter what server I join, so it would make it more popular) or boost the spawns of those other towns around the shore. Give the shore line some vehicles that spawn better, I would LOVE to get a bike at Kamenka, or a car that ISN'T broken down, something to get you the hell away from the coast and all the 'newbie bandit killers'. I know this probably will get a lot of hate... but hey, it's better to have said something and it get rejected then to have never said anything and something good go to waste... right?

I would not necessarily agree Nerd, for the very simple reason that no endeavor of free cooperation on this scale outside of large clans (Who limit their membership in any case) has ever been tried before in the game. Should something like this become established and run for even a short time, most participants will realize that this is...essentially...more fun than anything they've done before. Having played in survivor groups, I can tell you that once you've participated in a group working towards a specific goal in the game, lone-wolfing it afterwards will seem boring...even deadening, in comparison. The challenge and resulting excitement of maintaining and defending a cooperative trade outpost will outweigh even the repairs of vehicles such as the helicopter (The current pinnacle of group cooperation in the game). So both bandits and survivors will keep coming back, because if this goes well, anything they do afterwards will not be the same. Nobody wants to crawl around in Cherno stalking newbies, or run up to the North in an endless, fruitless grind to get better gear before dying and ending back up on the coast, after dying in defense of a collective trade outpost. No, they will return to that trade outpost and try to start things up again, even after multiple deaths, because dying in the name of a worthy goal is much more entertaining than surviving endlessly without purpose. And it would be in your best interest, bandits, to let this happen, unless you also enjoy killing newbies in cherno or running around in vehicles up in the North hoping to find someone to kill or good loot to grab. Why would you enjoy such things if instead you can throw yourself against organized opposition in a tooth and nail fight over potentially valuable trade goods?

it wasnt luck... This was in a remote area near our camp. Two guys raided out camp i killed one with a LMG the other hid behind one of our vehicles i saw him log out. I repositioned myself under another tree around 200m from my orginal position as i knew he would server hop. Then 4 mintures late. I got DMR'd. Also sorry i didnt look at posts, i was raging a little to hard.

I have been following this, and watched all 3 videos, I must say the first 2 videos were intense and opened my eyes. The bus one confused me a bit only because of the start of the video and where the vehicles came from.

Bandit here. 1. Anyone who parks a bus in an area like that deserves to die. Hopefully a d/c timer or equivalent is implemented soon. 2. Vehicles such as the bus tend to spawn fully operational so who knows/cares about how much work was put into it. Doesn't matter because of point 1. 3. If there are that many people in a group, someone should be on overwatch. It's common knowledge there are players out there to kill, so if you want to run around like ants that is your choice. 4. People making statements about using 3rd person and cursor servers make no sense. there aren't that many servers out there. People play where they can and if there is the option to use these things we will - because everyone else would be too. TLDR learn to play the game before you cry about it.

not 100% on this, but i know that helis have radar that makes finding vehicles extremely easy. jeeps might have something similar.

We have had many camps raided, and lost everything before. We have always had an optimistic attitude about losing everything and enjoyed the challenge of finding everything once again. We had a camp for several days that no one raided, and suddenly the same night we get vehicles there, it's discovered and raided. THE ORIGINAL BASE WE HAD RAIDED was NOT THE ONE FEATURED IN THE SCREEN SHOTS. Not even within 20Km of the one featured in the screen shots. So those screen shots you posted couldn't have possibly led you to a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT BASE. We still had no problem with this base being raided suddenly within a few hours of bringing vehicles to it. Easy come, easy go. Shocked at how someone found our base, for the hell of it, one of our members ran straight west from our old camp til he ran out of food and water and found someone's camp. LAUGHING we realized that someone must have just stumbled upon our camp, all thoughts of being followed or discovered through the forums went away. This new camp we found was filled with vehicles. We had a few members jump on and after some time found and relocated the vehicles to somewhere completely random and nearly off the map (understandably debatable). Within a few more hours the same people were raiding this camp, over 60km (grid squares please correct me if I'm wrong) in a random direction from their camp. We found this: http://www.***.me/forum/arma-arma2/76564-crappy-vehicle-locator-script-2.html Just a note: the players we killed did not have GPS. After reading the above link do you think they are somehow locating exact pinpoints that you can't see from trees within 2km and within a few hours with no reason to look in that radius other than a screenshot that is BEYOND VAGUE. Please explain to me how that screen shot led you without a GPS to that grid point down to the Km. I have sent GhostDad a personal private message inviting him to talk to us in voice before he made this post. We don't at all care to ban people for feeling they bested us. We are a mature gaming community and have had a high reputation for years. We have loved all the patches making the game more difficult, we've lost everything (the screenshots you linked, ghostdad, were from our old camp that disappeared well before you raided it due to the vehicle reset patch, and then the tent reset patch. I can't stress enough how those screenshots DO NOT SHOW REMOTELY THE BASE THEY CLAIMED TO HAVE FOUND BY SCREENSHOTS.). You can have as many people post in the DayZ forums as you'd like, and I wouldn't at all mind to speak to anyone from DayZ (though they have better things to do) staff or the proclaimed "victims" via ventrilo to reach a resolution. It has been our experience in YEARS of hosting servers that where there is smoke, there is fire. We can talk to anyone mature and look forward to them adding insight and clarity to a confused situation.

Hi, Me and my Friend Play usually on DE 40. We were fine until we found our first Car. We had a nice Camp in the hills on the side Of the Map with about 7 tents and nice stuff and protected via some fences :) Then we found a red Car and repaired it( yesterday) . We parked the Car invisible (as good as possible) few meters beside our camp. We loged out for about an Hour. As soon as we're back on the Server we hear car sounds and horn signals comming towards us. We could get hide until they arrived. They were three guys with 3 offroad Jeeps . So as One started to loot our tents i shoot him and in Revanche a Bandit killed my mate. I could escape and come from behind. I stood now behind their Jeeps hiding. But than came One towards me i had to shoot and killed also him. I took the Jeep and escape. Then it starts getting strange. About five or ten minutes later i picked up my friend and just One minute later a Jeep was hunting us. We could escape with the Price of the life of my mate. Then i was driving on small paths when suddenly the Jeep guys were shooting on me ( out of their Jeep and the Jeep was invisible) I could escape again. I decide to drive into a whole New direction i headed berezhino via the costline. So i picked up my mate again in Elektro . No One followed us this time. I targeted a fuelstTion for some fuel. While filling in the second barrel they came again... This time they destroyed the Jeep and we lost the fight. I belive they could somehow see vehicles on the map. I mean they got three nice cars and i saw during my whole playtime only one crappy car :) And how could they find us on the hill? Cause of our parked Car and on the hunt they could just find us threetimes because they knew excactly where to look Cheers and hopfully somone can tell me we didnt had just incredible bad luck :)

I am his friend and can confirm this story and add some abuse to it. The admins have for a while been resetting the server when they log in. This is not a big deal, but they change the time to the middle of night and use night vision to raid the airfield. This proves to be an unfair advantage to other players who are in the middle of doing something in the daytime, and the server suddenly shifts to night. They reset multiple times a night in order to respawn loot and fill up their vehicles full of guns.

So, myself and my friend were just banned from Atlanta 24. Why? Because we found Aim2wingaming's base for a second time. Two days ago, using their PUBLIC forum posts, we figured out where their base was and raided it. Here's the link: http://www.aim2wingaming.com/forums/f77/dayz-convoy-2481/ http://www.aim2wingaming.com/forums/f77/rawr-rawr-rawr-video-2482/ Between those pictures and the video they took, and approx 18 hours of searching, we found their base, stole everything, and wrecked it in glorious fashion. http://www.aim2wingaming.com/forums/f77/we-will-rebuild-2493/ And again, these gentleman decided to post pics of their new spot. http://www.aim2wingaming.com/forums/f77/camp-goldenleaf-2496/ We found this camp by sheer chance while we were heading north to the NW Airfield. Before we could steal all the vehicles, one of their players (Mayor's Bodyguard 1) logged in, shot me (which is fine) and my friend DeathRambo shot and killed him. Then 3 more logged in and shot him (also fine by me). We run back to where we found their base from the coastline hoping to be able to grab at least one of their vehicles, I found one van, but before i could get in, the server goes down with 0 warning. I quickly try and rejoin only to find out that I've been banned, as has my friend DeathRambo. This happened on June 24 at approx 1:00am EST. Earlier, which can probably be proved with the server logs, they had been restarting the server and setting it to night so they could raid the NW airfield with NVG's to make up for what they had lost. Please, for the love of god, blacklist this server. We will get others to retrieve our items. This kind of shit cannot be allowed to continue to happen.

Dear Rocket, I have found out a way to get rid of all this Admin power abuse. Host your own servers!!! XOXOXOXO, Legendary_Strawberry But in all profuseness you really need to host your own SERVERS(this will insure us{all your fans/followers/game lovers that will eventually buy this game} fairness throughout the game, and i know there is reasons why you let other people host, but once you give man power they will abuse. Just imagine you have 2 vehicles 4 tents filled with items and you get ransacked, or they lose a car because it has been stolen with few click of the mouse they can get it all back!!!! and they will, this needs to be stopped!!!!!!!! I know hosting your own servers is troublesome but i mean give it a thought(im pretty sure you have), but maybe instead just make your criteria harsher on hosting. and maybe hire(for free/people willing to advise servers you lend out) to look over these servers and take in comments to keep the admins in check. Nothing ruins a game like cheaters, at least hackers have to work for there cheats(which means less of them) but when you have 1 ADMIN and 10-20 plus clan mates you now have possibly 21 cheaters. I just feel like this should be addressed alot harsher then it is now! thanks for your time, Legendary_Strawberry

nudging left and right to place one isn't difficult. Use vehicles to store stuff. If you can't find/hide them, then pack light and only keep what you can carry. You'll know this principle well if you've ever had a motorcycle.

I'm new but I'm okay at the game. I'll put in work to get us vehicles and weapon stashes and stuff. I really want to play with a group because I keep getting killed trying to find someone to play the game with. My steam profile name is 'Swordsman' I think. My in game name is 'Miles'. A little bout myself. I like first person shooters and zombie games ever since Resident Evil. I used to be good at shooting games but I haven't played a lot lately. I think I could get good at this one and be an asset. I have a mic.

OK had this game for roughly a week right when they took away the starter pistols with me and 4 other mates and thought I'd share what we are all currently geared with :P M249 Saw (3 m249 mags and 6 stanag) (this is currently on me) 2x M4A3 acog (11 stangag) M4A3 acog sd (no mags) Bispin sd (8 mags) Fn Fal (2 mags) 2x ak 74u (around 30 odd mags) Dmr (6 mags) rocket launcher with 1 rocket, (people with vehicles beware :p) several of each medical supply's morphine, blood bags, ect. and all the basic tools expect for none of us have found any NV goggles. it really the only thing we are currently missing as well as vehicles. and honestly we probably have more i just can't remember right now, but for are group i think this is pretty good for only playing a week :D along with 7 crashed helicopters looted 5 of them.

PVP is the fabric that holds DayZ together. Without it, this game would be little more than a zombie-themed grind-fest. You don't have to be a bandit to realize this. If there's little-to-no chance of PVP encounters, then here's the game-winning strategy: 1. Group up with at least one other player. 2. Have your friend wait on the edge of the town as you go in and aggro all zeds away from all enter-able structures. 3. Your friend is then free to casually stroll in and loot everything in sight without any resistance. 4. To lose the zeds, a) run into a building and kill/lose line-of-sight of the zeds or b) let your friend pick them off from a distance. 5. Rinse and repeat for all cities/towns/airfields until you have accumulated the best gear and all vehicles. tl;dr DayZ without PVP = fucking boring

You just invented Minecraft... GG No, vehicles are a rarity and are super rewarding for putting time and effort into finding and fixing them. To have that feeling be taken away from you because your wife demanded that you go visit her parents in the No-Wifi-Allowed zone for 2 days would royally piss people the hell off. (Example, I'm not even married o,0) I understand you want to find a vehicle. I, myself have only seen three in game. I've been playing this mod for like, a week and a half straight as if it were cocaine and I've had 2 vehicles drive past me, and I found a working Tractor the other night... yippee... Unfortunately, making that carrot-on-a-stick EASIER to obtain isn't the answer, because after you magically build yourself a bike out of rusty scraps of metal and two flat car tires within an hour after you spawn, you're gonna see 49 other people ringin' their frikken bicycle bells around Cherno, as well... and you're not gonna feel special for having a super-rare spawned item. Vehicles need to stay rare and unique for them to be something worthwhile, or else they're gonna end up being something EVERYONE has and it's still gonna suck.

You think there should be enough vehicles that everyone can have one? They are *supposed* to be rare. The only problem at the moment is that people can park vehicles off map as far as they like, and that choppers make finding the remaining vehicles (and other peoples camps) way too easy. Basically, a team fixes a chopper and that's pretty much it for anybody elses chances on that server, they can just hoover up all the rest of the vehicles and raid camps with practical immunity, then park it 10km off the edge of the map. Once the off map parking and heli problems are fixed vehicles will be easier to find again. But if you are complaining about people hiding vehicles ON map, then don't. The vehicles are still there and the on-map area is finite in size. Go find them, set an ambush, gather intelligence, and whatever. As far as "crafting" vehicles is concerned, that is just ridiculous. Have you ever tried to make something as "simple" as a bicycle in real life? It takes more than a couple of wheels and some scrap metal. Building a vehicle is a totally different undertaking than fixing one. You need more than just a tool box.

I'm gonna keep replying until there are more vehicles and ways to get vehicles if only bikes/motor bikes. @ Dick you must not play on full servers.