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Disagree. My friends and I have spawned all over the map from eachother, and even after the tent/vehicle wipe of 1.5.4 have managed to find one another with relative ease (browser maps of Chernarus are rad) even during the night, and set up a camp with vehicles floating around. I will admit that it's somewhat more difficult to meet up with other pubby players, but again, browser maps or just having a good existing knowledge of Chernarus are rad. I've seen countless groups of randoms locate eachother over side-chat, work together to move north, and ultimately get ganked by the Bandits who were working together to follow them!

Are the vehicles back yet????

Yep, Dallas 1 server, put a tent down, put a few items in to see if they would stay, logged off for the night, came back the next day, items are gone. However, Vehicles are persistent and the items stay inside them it seems.

Hey, liking the server so far. Although I have been kicked once without explanation, I assumed it was because my ping had gone up a bit, but I never received a warning or anything. I'm actually from IL and live about 4 hours south of Chicago but I don't have the fastest/most reliable internet connection simply because it is not offered where I live (out of town). Most the time I have a solid ping, but I get desinc'd pretty often it seems, even when my ping is low. This seems strange considering I live as close as I do and my ping is fine. Other than that and seeing a few people complain about new people not knowing how to do anything rather than just telling them how to do it, Pretty good time so far, and great luck finding vehicles so far lol. See ya in there. Also, Mojo you should check out the server teamspeak thread, I think by Soldier, there is a TS3 server that will give any server a channel for free, then whoever was playing in your server could get in the team speak server if they wanted to use voip.

I was initially against the whole anti PVP thing, but lately its getting worse and worse. If someone kills you for your gear, your weapon etc fine. That's understandable, its survival and you had the better weapon or food or they were desperate, I get that and that's what this game is about. But now every American sever and now the NZ server in the few hours its on is being RUINED by people who just kill for points. No gathering items, no getting better weapons, they just find a spot, sit there and snipe anyone they see without warning. Whats the point of the game if all you do is get murdered by random people? I've played this game since its release, I know to avoid the major cities like the plague, but it doesn't stop some PKing little shit ruining it for everyone else who wants to play it the proper way, survival. Who wants to quietly creep through a town, avoiding Z's to get some few precious supplies only to be shot by some jerk who wandered into or was camping the area and saw you (who incidentally wasnt visible when you scout the town before going in). They bee line for the military camps or airports, get the DMR etc and just sit there shooting anyone who comes into sight. They camp the coastal spawn zones shooting people as they spawn in, fire indiscriminately at people who have nothing of value, no one spawns in? They move to another spawn zone and wait there. I spawned in and SPRINTED for the woods, non stop running to get the hell out of the area, within a minute bullets whizzing past me as two PKers took pot shots at me. They don't play the game, they don't do the survival thing, they don't even loot, they get rifles, hide and kill anyone. This is not what this mod was about. These people are ruining the game for everyone else, defeating the purpose of sneaking, eliminating those tense moments when you meet someone in the wild and slowly approach to trade. The game is no longer enjoyable and I LOVED this mod. As always some little shits ruined it for the majority. The Aussie/NZ servers were great, you could go in, travel around, see someone, announce, meet up trade food (or gunfight if they shoot back), chat and head on your way, now all you do is avoid everyone and risk getting PK'd for having a fire to cook some meat or crawling through a town to get some water/supplies. Evening travelling in groups is no longer fun. You spend hours getting supplies, repairing vehicles and setting up a camp - whats that? Some little shit saw you and your friends in a town and just shot at you all for no reason then ran off? Bandit skins were an idea, no FF will not work as it ruins the tense moments of meeting someone. I don't know, have a script that shows where these jerks are on the map or HUD markers who have more than say 5 friendly kills in a set time frame or more than 10 friendly kills etc. Either way the game is ruined because of these people.

Hey,i am not a veteran. Hope you guys dont mind. Have some idea to set up an army ingame, where we build our headquarters, store our vehicles/stuff etc. etc. From there we can form squads with leaders and go on patrol missions to gain more equipment and vehicles. To start a war against zombies and other militias. It is an idea,maybe you guys and others with me feel the same and it would be a nice roleplaying ingame as well.

Vehicles don't "degrade" by themselves. Learn how to drive before complaining about broken code :)

1. You find a flat, clear area. Use your scroll-wheel and you'll get an option to put it down. 2. Tents can be looted by other players, but only on the server that you put it down. Your tent stays on the server it's placed in, so keep note of that. However, other players cannot "pick up" your tent. Only you can pick it up, but everyone can access it. 3. Find matches. Again, find a flat, clear space to place it, and scroll wheel. Select "make fireplace", then "light fire" once it's placed. 4. The only vehicles you will find in game, currently, AFAIK, are boats, civilian cars and pickups, light transport trucks (UAZ's, land rovers, etc. No Humvee's AFAIK), and transport helicopters. For land vehicles, 9 times out of 10 they are completely destroyed. They appear to be completely drivable, but without tires. When you jump in, you'll normally find everything to be damaged. For a standard car to function properly, you need engine parts, fuel tank parts, 4 tires (wise to keep one or two for spare, in case you break one), and scrap metal for the body, if it's damaged. You also need Jerry Cans to fill up the car. One jerry can fills about 1/5th of fuel. Pumps at gas stations don't work, but there are large tanks at gas stations that you need to siphon fuel from. Just have an empty jerry can and use your scroll wheel on the large tanks. [EDIT] Ninja'd, fuck :\

How do i set up tents? And can they be looted by other players, also fires, how do i set them up? I understand barricades can be taken down and rebuilt with toolkits. Also vehicles, how do i repair one, and what parts do for example, a HMMWV or w/e need?

Least this is the experience I've had with them. Found a mint condition motorcycle, drive it for barely 10 minutes and the tires are already red and need to be replaced. What is the point in even keeping the bike when I can't drive it even town to town without it breaking down Cars aren't as bad as bikes but they are still shitty. Go from a full tank of gas in a 'everything is fixed car' to barely 25% gas left after driving around 60km? What? I don't mind the vehicle system as it is currently I just think they need a buff when it comes to durability and fuel consumption

I don't get it. Winchester with binoculars, or M4 ACOG with a grenade launcher and rangefinders, you die all the same. If you're no good, no amount of top tier military gear will help you. On the flipside, someone who's decent at shooting in this game will have no trouble blasting a small group of tricked out survivors with said Winchester. If anything, this is Zombie Survival, not the Cold War. There 'shouldn't' be groups of paramilitary survivors running everywhere, and it shouldn't be easily obtainable in the first place. And when you actually do find that military grade sniper rifle, or a heavy machine gun, you will be that much more in awe in its presence. What does however need a boost, is vehicles. Zombies don't eat cars, and this sure isn't a nuclear holocaust, why are there so many wrecks?

In summary: You do not sync your position while in a vehicle. Vehicles do not sync while they are moving. Vehicles/tents are local to that server

Vehicles are going to be buggy as hell for the next few weeks, but what I can say is what they SHOULD do: Position sync request is sent when you get in/out of a vehicle. That is a forced save (instant). Inventory sync request happens if your inventory changes near a vehicle.

Ive had multiple vehicles disappear between restarts on Dallas 1 Edit: don't mean to hijack the thread or anything, just that it seems tents and vehicles share a lot of problems.

I heard about that - but what of the toolbox in what ways can it repair vehicles? :D Cheers Rocket!

Please tell me people are going to need a toolbox to repair vehicles!

I'm not sure about the vehicles but it can also be used to construct tank traps and barbed wire.

Hey All, I came into the possession of a toolbox earlier today and apparently it can be used repair vehicles? If this is the case then how is it used - does it simply repair the hull or can it entirely repair a vehicle in which case making all the other stuff (wheels/rotors/fuel tanks etc.) redundant. Thanks in advanced for your reply! Goose

Just to mention that I find vehicles can cause issues with the loot/zombie spawning. If you approach an isolated building (think barn etc, not a city/town/village) at high speed (like 60mph) the game doesn't seem to spawn the loot/ zombies inside. I presume because you get there before they can be spawned compared to when the client checks the building?

Need more info, such as when the heli was last entered/exited. How soon after that the server had crashed - really all the info you can. For obvious reasons, the server cannot sync vehicles like players - because if the server crashed while the vehicle was moving it would spawn in the air. It syncs on getout of a player, and if you disconnect while near it.

Has anyone else encountered this in 1.5.4 , i thought the vehicle saves had been fixed in this patch, but i managed to finally fix a heli and fly it away only to hear that the FR1 server just crashed and restarted and now the heli is gone..... My rage is obviously huge but Im more concerned as to weather or not the vehicle saves are broken for everyone of its just a single server issue.

Yeah i've seen vehicles spawn with ammo that i've not known to exist in the game. One UAZ had a 15 stack of FM FAL Ammo and RGS Grenades. I noticed Rockets and a few other things in Griffs car that i'm sure don't exist in the Dayz loot tables

A list (in majors towns) in form of a message board where you can see if you have friends playing, on wich server. Make annoucements (trade/group) And group to spwn saved vehicles nd tents for the group instead of one person.

Viewdistance is 1200 meters I believe. Important objects (like castles etc pp) are drawn at full view distance, so 1200 meters. Unimportant objects (trees, most buildings, vehicles, characters) are drawn at 2/3 of the viewdistance which means 800 meters. But probably the viewdistance is more like 1500 meters and thus the drawing distance is 1000 meters.

The initial vehicles which spawn in-game are all badly damaged with no equipment. So if you find something like that, then it's a player's hard-earned treasure.