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No, everyone running around with vehicles? No thank you. Mine as well just make a server thats more like a race track and a demolition derby than a survival game. It's survival meant to be on foot. Not cower in a car, or drive away when the shit starts to hit the fan. The concept is good just won't work well with this mod.

Joking right? I was north of berezino when i got killed. I lost some nice equipment/weapons at the time. Disappointed as I was I went back to where we last saw our vehicles, resupplied and went on with our business, only to die another time, losing the rest of my stuff. If this is about the quad we took from your camp, that's all part of the game. If this is not the case I'd like to know how you got to the conclusion to ban me.

Is there still errors on vehicles not loading? Was next to my moped before server restart, and it disappeared after restart was over

I think if he bound them to tents or vehicles, they would be fine. Also, there can be a server side limit and plugins to prevent trolling like in Minecraft. Also, its a piece of paper. Step outside the box and think about how insignificant they could be in proportion to the size of the map. ;)

It would be setup such that only being on the npc chopper and despawning in it off of the map would trigger the win. Getting there yourself could be a possibility, perhaps, but for way, way less points. And like I said, its a sandbox, you can ignore the event, or run around the airfields trying to find the good vehicles everyone arrived in, or kill them all and take their stuff, etc.

Also Tents and vehicles stay on the server you place/save them

ok so basically me and a friend played yesterday and got an off raod truck and a tent. we went way out into the wilderness away from any town or road and not near to any other spawn locations of other items/vehicles. its only a 24 man server and we were so far out and hidden it would be highly unlikely anyone could find our stuff where we were. we logged on this morning only 8 hours later and we both spawn in our spot but both the car and the tent were gone. just before we logged off we did the save fuction on both the tent and the car to make sure. removing the possibility that someone actually found them could a server restart or something have made us lose our car and tent?

I just have to comment on name tags being enabled. I played on this server for a good 5-7 hours before this event took place. And I can definitely say that all vehicles were farmed in a proper way as I was one of the guys running from town to town checking for vehicles. I can also say that name-tags were never enabled. I logged off about right before the whole event started as I was shot from nowhere in the head and decided to not bother running all the way back to re-gear. I literally logged off 10-20 minutes before the event from what I can tell, and I can remember clearly giving one guy a blood transfusion and had to tell him to stand by a particular car because there were no name-tags on this server and there never has been. TLDR From the first three seconds of this movie that THEY posted, you can see that there are no name-tags. Getting fed up with all this shit.

Hi guys! So yes, I am new to DayZ - but I've learned a few really helpful things over the past few days - seeing as I am a survivor, not really into PvPing, I thought I'd share it with you guys. One of the best locations I found for medical supplies, was inside Cherno, if you guys know where the hospital is there, you may know that nearby there are medical tents - I arrived with a broken leg on a busy server, in need of morphine - obviously it had been looted fully, but, the first tent I went too, just in the corner, allowed me to use the "Heal at First Aid tent" option. Although this didn't get rid of the icon, I could walk again. So here's the actual tip. If you want to avoid players, or there is no loot where you believe there should be.. Go to a quiet server! It worked really well for me. When I went to a new server, the same location had at least five boxes of medical supplies, even found an AK 47 with two mags not far from where I was, a map, a Czech Backpack. If you're looking for a weapon - move away from the villages - head to farmyards, find the open barns that you can enter, countless times I've been to them and found weapons and ammo - just this morning I was looking for Lee Enfield ammo, when I found a Winchester, with 4 magazines in the same barn for it. Also these barns are a great hold up if you're being chased, Zombies can't run up stairs, so they are extremely easy to kill from this location (or anywhere with stairs) - even with a Makarov, as long as you hit the head, obviously. Anyway, probably most of this stuff you guys have heard before - but the other thing is I would like to ask if any EU players are looking to team up? I am here to survive really, not so much into PvP, I have murdered twice - but they weren't my fault, people trying to kill me first - you know the deal. What can I bring to the table when joining your group? I have a lot of medical supplies, including morphine (Which seems to be saught after very highly) and the means to get them easily. I have means to gather meat, and cook it - and some good locations to find it. I am blessed with having an in game map - and I am happy to help find buddies, etc. I am armed, and well stocked on ammo - again, happy to share. Just looking for a group of guys to build a camp with, get hold of some vehicles maybe? Oh, and raid villages and kill zombies ^^. Just PM with TeamSpeak details or a Steam name so I can add you rather than spam the forums. - Shadow

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.