Search the Community

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

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

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/

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.

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.

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.

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!

we already know that animals can survive this zombie apocalypse why not add horses? make it so instead of gas/repairing you need to feed and water your horse to keep it "running" and alive. (that's right bean powered horsies) Have some saddles you can find so u can eventually make it a pack horse. Make them a random field (5%?) spawn since vehicles are so rare but also make them not as fast as a motorcycle maybe like bicycle speeds or a bit faster? what you guys think? Maybe even add a feedbag in order to feed your horse? Horses could also suffer the same status problems as players broken bones, bleeding, etc.

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?

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 :)

Killapoo, I am unsure why you deem it necessary to kick [PRX] members on your Atlanta 44 server because we raided your base. What is more sad is that two of our members, who were part of the raid, not only destroyed your vehicles and tents, myself (who was not part of it) was also kicked by you from the server. As a peace offering, we have left you two bicycles in the camp to allow your posse to regroup and rearm themselves before we strike again. --- Prox12 Gaming, Inc. http://prox12.com

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.

My friends and I have had bad luck in servers lately. Basically, here's what we're looking for: - American time zone, not inverse. - Fast, high performance with low desync. - Admins that know how to properly update and restart without wiping tents/vehicles. - No deviation from Rocket's design, such as enabling side chat. - WORKING Dierct Chat. - Not full all the time. If any players or admins know servers that fit those requirements, please let me know! I'd be very appreciative. Thank you!

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.

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

Im considering leave the mod until a DLC arrive and MAYBE i will look again. Main reasons: Start game without weapon: 15 times i died because players where lurking spawn areas or main sites like cherno and electro, i couldnt enter buildings to find weapons etc etc... this sucks. Makes who already have a weapon even stronger now. Lag, Admin Abuse, Mass kills, Bugs Too much lag, yesterday i killed a guy with a Lee enfield shot IN THE FACE, and again i died and he didnt. Admin Abuse, if you kill a admin consider yourself kicked. Mass Kills, i dont have to say... everyone here already experimented it. Bugs, dont get close of a stone, tree, stair.. dont walk at all or you will have your bones broken. I know its alpha but tons of things here came from ARMA2, a game wich i LOVE IT but is poorly finished and the game go to stores unfinished, as results mods like these who tries to be bold are tied to features the game dont have it. Loose gear, come on you fight for a weapon and some SOB kills you inside a stone using a bug and you loose everything, or you loose DAYS gathering material to repair vehicles and take many of them to your group encampment and then all vanished, no explanation only "its an alpha" I dont accept it. So Rocket this message is for you, you will never make everyone happy with this mod but you need to have sense to see what needs to be changed and what will fuck up the whole game engine doing it, like crowbars who FIRE (we see the smoke effect like shot) to hit zombies... that was poorly made it and should never be added. This is not HAlf Life, this is not Left for dead this is not COD this is not anything we saw before. This is a WAR SIMULATOR GAME. If you force people to dont pvp and make super zombies no one will see reason to walk 50km in a day and die loosing his gear. Its hard read this kind of opinion i know, lot of haters and ignorant people will leave rage messages here, but as this is an alpha i have all right to express my feelings on the mod so far, and if a DLC arrives as a CUSTOMER i have all right to say if will be good or not and we Customers are those who keep the game industry working. Many people said i should be happy with anything you launch Rocket, i disagree im not a beggar im contributing to this alpha and its funny when you say something different of the majority, you get punished.

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.