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I'd be extremly careful with that. I haven't heard of any armoured vehicles so far, so this seems to be an asset that does not belong in the mod and was brought in by someone using a hack. There is a british assault rifle (L85A2 RIS CWS) and nvgs included in dayz but I'd be also cautious to pick them up since if the tank was illigally brought into the game, those items were as well. There is already someone on these forums who got banned for picking up cheated items. So leave them where they are to be sure. I hope, I could help.

Oh sorry forgot to say, I'm not sure why that has happened but tents, vehicles etc are not saved locally and are stored on the master database for DayZ. We don't have much control over this.

If you have access to a Huey you can get in the pilot or crew chief seat to view the radar which will show near by vehicles.

I think the main problem is that there isnt much incentive to play together with other people. People do what gives them the most personal gain. Currently, that means shoot first to avoid any risk. While I can understand that some people enjoy this, you have to understand that it takes a whole subclass of possibilities away from the game. When I started playing I always thought 'oh another player can I trust him, or not?' this tension is now gone, as I am better off just killing everybody. Now, I can only speak for me, but this gets boring over time. After six or so hours with my character it really does get boring and I would love to team up, but I wont, because there is a very high chance that I lose my hours of progress if I try to do so. Now, instead of making pvp more difficult or add negative consequences too it, why not incentivise teamwork and make the risk actually worthwhile? Currently, there are only two incentives for teamwork: blood transfusions and building vehicles. The last is so difficult that it doesnt happen that much anyway. We need more like this. There must be more things in the game that can only be done with multiple people. Creating factions for example. Buiding a base and remove zombie spawn from a small area. More items that can only be used together with other people. Infections from drinking bad water or eating bad food that can only be cured by other players. And so on. This way, you can still play lone wolf if you want, and survive, as long as you are super careful, you can still play bandit, but it now actually makes sense to group up. //EDIT// Now that I posted this I think it might actually need its own thread.

Pretty much anywhere really. Here are places I have seen vehicles spawn: NE airbase: UAZ next to the air tower NE airbase: UAZ between the hangars Govzdno: White Hilux parked up beside a house near the barns Cherno: UAZ parked outside the international hotel I've heard of vehicles spawning: Outside the shops in Zelenogorsk Outside petrol stations Bikes / Quads at the green mountain radio tower

Please, reboot NY2. Vehicles and tents r disappear again.

When Arma 2 first released it caused a lot of butthurt in the CoD crowd. The controls are too difficult to learn, it's not optimized for a Pentium 2 / Voodoo 2 / 256mb RAM system, the vehicles make it impossible, the AI sucks, etc. Those complaints about the base game seem to mirror the complaints about darkness, not enough "teamwork" and so on in this mod. I predict in 2 month's time - max - this mod will mostly be over and you'll be searching for a "good" server to play in. One that, you hope, can routinely see 30+ players rather than spamming connections to 50/50 servers just trying to get in. That's just the cycle of gaming these days, it's not a comment on the dev team's (excellent) work.

A-Team theme song...given the amount of time i spend fixing up vehicles (still no word on how to fix leaky choppers)

Any game mechanic that forces you to play is a bad one IMO. Although I think vehicles (especialy helicopters) that have been recovered by players (and well hidden) that haven't been moved for an extended period of time should despawn and respawn somewhere else broken.

anyone have info on what happened to virginia 3 and when it will be back up? Will it still have the saved vehicles?

Date/Time: 5/21/2012 12:30PM PST What happened: Tents and vehicles disappeared. Was saved. Date/Time: 5/21/2012 07:00AM PST What happened: Server crashed. Restart. Tent and vehicles appear, but not all. Date/Time: 5/21/2012 09:00AM PST What happened: Another restart. All other tent and vehicles appear. Date/Time: 5/22/2012 12:30AM PST What happened: All disappear again. Where you were: 142015 Current installed version: 1.5.8.2 Server(s) you were on: NY2 only

I do believe that was happening on our server last night, people started talking about vehicles in buildings, then alot of people died at once. Shortly after, my team were bombarded with RPG rockets while we raided NW airfield. Thankfully we found the offending player in the server logs and have sent the information off to the development team for action. Hacking on a server full of admins, biiiig mistake.

1. on the main menu underplayer profile, you can change your name and face but that is about it. 2. no, your character location and inventory are saaved on a central database and will be the same across all servers. vehicles and tents will only stay on the server you place them/find them in. 3. i'm not sure if there is a favorites list but you can filter the servers list and search for servers by name using the filter. 4. you have to hit abort and disconnect once to get back to the servers lobby, and then hit ok to respawn. 5. yes, you can use the mouse wheel scroll to pick it up. to throw it a short distance just tap the fire button once when you have the flare equipped. or you could throw it against a wall and hope it doesn't get stuck out of reach. 6. Make sure to pay attention to the server list when you are joining or just ask in global chat. press . to change chat channels and / to type. hope that helped :)

Yeah, the only reason I can think of not to add more vehicles is if it adds server lag. I've played on normal ARMA servers with a lot of vehicles though, and they seemed fine. The other important thing is fuel. It should be realistic usage, I should be able to drive at least across the map in a car with a full tank (but fuel should be scarce). Further in a motorbike (but obviously without anywhere to store a fuel can). I don't know what it's like now because I've never found a damn vehicle as they are far too rare, but I've heard bad things. The map is just too damn big to play without vehicles! Most people stay at the coast, and it's a huge waste of playing area. Rocket seems like a really smart guy, so I'm sure something will be done to address this. Inland spawns and more vehicles that all need fixing would solve this problem, I just hope that's what we get :)

Perhaps the game needs more stats shown on the scoreboard - kills, cans eaten, soda drank, transfusions performed, zombies killed, time alive etc. Also, there do need to be some objectives added - switch on the power, get the train working, turn on the lighthouse, build a base etc. We already have the vehicles which is great - I think we should be able to build some kind of infrastructure back into the world, and have others bring it crashing down.

you need a bunch of gas but you dont need a full tank. 2-3 jerry cans of gas can you get you to any of the fuel pumps on the map You need a tool box. You need engine parts to fix the engine. You need a main rotor assembly to fix...the main rotor assembly You need scrap metal for the hull, tail rotor and nav system. Hueys are in no way end game items, though. They run out of ammo quick if you are raining down death to nubs on the coast. I agree. It's extremely tedious to fix a vehicle' date=' and I don't even know how you actually go about fixing the broken ones you find. I've just found clues like a tire or a gas can. I get that they want vehicles to be an end game item, but they should at least be a little easier to obtain, if only by rarity. [/quote']

Maybe you didn't got that i'm full with that guy, not against him. He's exploting the game to take an advantage. He exposes the fact that without rules, in the name of the "realism", you're not going anywhere.. simply because this is a game not the real life, and a game needs a set of rules to be played, that's why it is called "game". I may list thousands compromises adopted to make this game (sort of) balanced.. in example the vechicles: do you really believe that in real life it would be so hard to find a working vehicle? Maybe the fuel.. not the vehicles itself.. there should be hundreds of working cars all around, but there's only few.. why? Because otherwise this will be transformed into a "racing game", with ppl jumping with those cars up the hills laughing in chat (totally unrealistic). It is a sandbox.. isn't it? So where's all the vehicles? And all the bazookas? And all the helicopters? Planes? This proves you that you need to "force" ppl to follow certain rules to make the game enjoyable for anyone, and the the bandits behavior is only helping mostly those cod-style players that are not interested into the RPG part of it. Removing the skins is only increasing the problem, since now you don't even have the drawback of being a kill_em_all plr.

I agree. It's extremely tedious to fix a vehicle, and I don't even know how you actually go about fixing the broken ones you find. I've just found clues like a tire or a gas can. I get that they want vehicles to be an end game item, but they should at least be a little easier to obtain, if only by rarity.

I would like to see an increase in repairable vehicles as well, my group of 5 has been looking for one but hasn't had any luck in a few days. I remember hearing that a lot of vehicles can lag the server though. I've only seen one vehicle and that was a helicopter in my first night playing, wish i would've been able to fly it :D

1) British Armed Forces and Private Military Company are two Arma2:Operation Arrowhead DLC-Addons. Luckily Bohemias DLC policy is non-exclusive so, if you don't buy it you will still be able to play with others that did and use all skins, guns and vehicles. The only drawback to this is, that you won't see those assets in full detail that's why it sais (lite) because it uses lower quality textures. You can see the effects of that on your ingame character. The skin of any survivor is one from Private Military Company if you compare it to cloths of zombies or bandits you'll recognise that you're cloths look a bit more washed out in comparison. If you value the high resolution textures of these skins and maybe want to play some of the offered missions and campaigns that come with those DLC you might want to buy them. I hope this answers your questions. All other questions were already competently answered.

Bump. I find this to be a pretty important bug. It makes vehicles absolutely useless until fixed.

You should be asleep in the night. True story :sleepy: Either get a torchlight and enjoy the game or if you can't handle the dark find a server that's currently in the morning, it's really nothing to be complaining about, sorry for getting so direct with you but I've seen this kind of comment too often. The reason why its so dark 'compared to vanilla' is that there's 0 artificial light coming out of buildings, vehicles and equipment in DayZ compared to the milsim.

Very simple suggestion here to increase realism and enjoyment, picture included to illustrate. Remove the top left heads up display for vehicles (apart from what needs to be repaired). I.E. take off the speedo and petrol gauge. The dashboard indicators seem to work perfectly and it will add to immersion. The UAZ speedo as seen in the picture seems to be 4kmph out, but then again my peugoet 206 IRL is 8kmph out according to the satnav. Thanks for reading.

Agreed. I guess it's more fishing for ideas as to what I should do next to keep things interesting. I guess vehicles are considered end-game content.

Yhea i run/pay for Eu12 trough the olut crew , it had vehicles in 1.5.6 but after 1.5.7 they stopped respawing . Still not respawing on 1.5.8.2 so there is hardly any left. Hope they get it fixed soon , i love vehicles ! =) Tiri : i confirm what you said They don't respawn