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The following armored/combat-purposed vehicles should balance each-other out. 1) Civilian or military jeeps and pickup trucks with attachable weaponry. Unarmored, carries few (2-4) but quick and lethal. Urals are the exception to the rule, as they can carry more passengers and are a bit tougher. Very rare. 2) Small, very old armored personnel carriers with no attachable weapons. Slow, but shields well from small arms fire. Sustained fire from a LMG could take out these rusty giants, but zombies can't do shit. Perfect for carrying multiple passengers in dangerous areas, and a great addition to any convoy. Extremely rare. 3) Battle-bus. The perfect combination. Unarmored, but metal sheets can be attached to protect the hull and passengers, to a certain extent. Can also be equipped with some weapons. Buses are easier to find than the former two vehicle "classes", but must be heavily customized to serve it's true purpose. And then there are the unarmored, combat-ineffective civilian vehicles such as the sedan. Easier to find.

Alright, story time. I play on a rather bad laptop that was not made for gaming, much less ARMA2. But I get by. Playing on a laptop also means resorting to using the mouse-pad instead of an actual mouse. It can get difficult for me sometimes, but again, it's playable and the game is far too fun to just give up because of little things like framerate. But enough about such things, on to the story! I had just respawned from a hacker teleporting the server to The Thunderdome and killing everyone, and when I spawned I had absolutely no gear in this dark, unforgiving world. Not even a flashlight! So I headed to Elektro and spotted a flashlight. It was obviously another new spawner so I ran up and teamed up with the no-mic, him giving light support while I shot the many zombies that had us cornered. After surviving that we were the best of friends, looting all of the now strangely zombie-free quiet town. The grocery store and the church had been blown up, but the hotel alone gave us enough that we could travel North with our newest friend from the school. We pretty much played follow the leader with the chemlight all the way to NW Airfield, talking to a guy in sidechat that had actually survived the massacre of Thunderdome and was happily looting, but was stuck in by the walls around the fort. When we all finally arrived we spotted a heli that had been blown off to the side. (The hacker had been spawning mass-vehicles in the middle of thunderdome and was blowing them up on us.) It was fully fueled and repaired, so we obviously wanted it.. except for a small problem, no flight experience. Out of the four of us, not a single one of us had ever flown, with the exception of the guy that -had- done the tutorial, but said he managed to flip and die even with auto-hover on. He was not chosen to fly, and eventually I stepped up! It was rather shaky at first, inching my way from the outside perimeter of the walls into the inside of gear central with auto-hover on, and an even sketchier landing across the blown up rustyard. But once we landed we all hopped out and grabbed pretty much everything we could to make a hasty retreat into the sky, this time actually having to turn off auto so we could go forward. A few thousand meters later and we had picked up a fifth to our happy little group, loaded him out and gave him a seat. Now's when the lesson kicks in.. We ended up at NE airfield, and after looting I stopped at 150~ meters high and checked my map so I could set a waypoint back to Cherno for more rescue missions. When I hit 'M' again, chaos. I don't know if you've used a mousepad before or not, but sometimes it will glitch out and when you lift and re-press on it, and the cursor shoves itself to the bottom of the screen for a moment. This is what happened when I exited the map, going directly into a frontflip from a small altitude. Panic quickly settled in, but after doing a full front-flip I thought I could balance it out again, which was wrong. A fresh spawn of zombies set my FPS just low enough that I couldn't pull back up in time, sending us into -another- frontflip to which we hit the ground hard upside-down. We were still in sidechat while we yelled to our deaths, to which the entire server got their share of laughs I'm sure, and we ended up laughing at ourselves too, because the gear didn't mean all that much to us. Needless to say I won't be flying again anytime soon, unless of course I get the proper training and an actual mouse. But as a solo player it had been one of my funnest experiences so far on DayZ, I was happy enough just to find strangers that didn't shoot me in the face on sight, so teaming up with a group for the first time was certainly worth it! (Even though I ended up killed us all, sorry again guys!)

I like the idea of more options rather than less. But I don't think we want Cherno to look like Black Hawk Down Somalia either. So maybe you would have the option of mounting an M-249 or other machinegun to the back of a pickup or adding armor plating to vehicles at the expense of speed. No armored fighting vehicles like tanks or Bradley IFVs (or BMPs I suppose since it's former Soviet republic).

It's a social game theory simulator. Put 50 people in a huge combined wilderness/urban setting with no rules other than survival and no equipment other than what they can find. See what they do. I disagree with the anti-high vehicle server crowd. Not like 1400 vehicles, but enough where I can find a ride to the next town if I need it. I know some would prefer a Bear Grylls style survival game, but to me the vehicle aspect is just as important. The show's called Walking Dead, not Walking Everyone.

Doing some work on custom vehicles atm.

They have a pk pickup already in ARMA so it would not be hard to put into DayZ. Actually considering chernarus mat have been in a civil war before the outbreak (assuming it follows somewhat the story from ARMA) technicals like that would not be out of the question. Even if no civil war I am sure police, military and even civilians would modify existing vehicles to be better equiped to survive zombies.

An RV would be awesome but only if it was the only vehicle you can walk while inside on the ground so things like Backpack management you could do inside and you could shoot while inside peer out the top that kind of thing and it could also be one of the only vehicles you can fuck with gun attachments while inside

Have you ever wanted to join veteran servers that are first person only, veteran, or ect but were disappointed by the lack of players? This thread strives to change that. Here, we will post server addresses of some good, hardcore private hives for all the maps, warranted there is one. That way, when we play, we will all play on those servers and have company! It's not like we're starting a group to find and play with eachother, we are playing on the same servers but separately. When I can, I'll be looking up some addresses and posting them here in a spoiler. In the meantime, if you'd like to participate, let us get an idea of how many players we are dealing with. Post your: -ArmA name -Timezone in GMT and play schedule -Maps you play and how often If you would like to suggest a server to add to the list, please post in the suggestion: -complete server address -server IP -features (no first person, ect) -review of the server based on your experience, mostly in active admins, hack protection, gameplay, lag, restart times, ect -keep in mind a review of how challenging the server was will go farther than recording your fortunes -you will need someone registered on the thread to go in the server and do a follow up, supporting your claims Keep in mind these are hardcore servers, so they must have/be/not have the following: -be veteran difficulty -have crosshairs, nameplates, and tracers turned off atleast, preferably first person only and no death messages -do not feature give aways, an excessive amount of vehicles, or starting gear that gives any more than an extra bandage or so -preferably no side chat, but is acceptable -whitelisted servers must be stated as so by the suggestor and posted in a separate section by me Let's get busy! You know.. in the gaming sense....

I'm fine with DayZ - there are plenty of servers that are perfectly good to play. I am just trying to find out why people want to play on servers where you can't move anywhere without finding vehicles and starting with loads of high-end guns. I really don't see the point as there are many other sandbox games where you can drive cars around - just wondering why people ply DayZ but take away one of the main game aspects.

Sounds like 2017 is the mod for you. I like the 2017 mod personally. But I also see no problem with the regular servers, or other maps with lots of vehicles etc. Play on the server/mod you like.

have you noticed the absence of me, the OP's argument about your playstyle? Why should I change the title when 'I' amd not arguing to you 'yet'? I think the title is pretty articulate. I'm disappointed.. Not in you, no, but the servers. You can go one having fun or "surviving" all you want, I just want some good servers that don't try to advertise me with so many vehicles or free giveaways like I'm some kind if noob. I don't care how you play. I'd just like somewhere that lets me play how I want too.

Hey! Me and two friends I met on the forum are looking for more survivors to team up with and start making serious progress. We're currently in possession of two vehicles (UAZ and a bus), a fair amount of weaponry and ammunition, ghillie suits, night vision. Our RoE are at the moment: If armed - KoS. We don't consider ourselves bandits, but we don't like to take chances. We'll avoid combat if possible but we're not going to back down from a fight. If you're interested in joining, add me on Skype (Tribal-Force), or throw me a message here with the following information: Age Location Playing Times Skype Experience Hope to see you ingame!

Wow, this thread has really taken off. Anyway, i'll address some of your sayings w/o quotes because my phone doesn't like it and I'm riding passenger on the interstate. The main thing is that I love private hives. Not only does it prevent people who get AS50s on an empty server from joining in, but it prevents ghosting as well. Also, PHs are usually more secure, faster, and more community oriented. I spent an hour joining over 30+ servers and they all had vehicles or custom loadouts that just made it stupid. For my accomplishment in DayZ, all I want is a clean, organized camp with 1 vehicle and a collection of CZs, Winchesters, Enfields and double barrels. Then I go hunt bandits and be a medic. I haven't had a hacker pop up in a long time. A month or two, actually. Even so, once I die, my camp, vehicles, and gear are left to the buzzards. I don't retrieve them under any circumstance, unless its NVGs because there's just no finding those. So hackers destroying my work isn't a big concern. I like how I operate and never have a proem with doing it because starting over is fun. I often kill myself because I don't like the way I got my gear or the game played out, just because. I don't want everyone to play like this, but keep respectable distance. I mean, I spent 2 days up and down the coast and inside Chernarus trying to find a vehicle, and did not even find a bike. Now you go in and see a working GAZ on a red carpet? Work for it. This game is about reward and consequence, as well as what I said in the OP. So I'll be starting a thread soon about playing on some good private hives for some maps that I know are good, and I'll link it here when it's up. It'll be like a community thread, so we can all agree to play on these certain servers so they aren't so empty. We won't play together, just on the same servers, unless you want to. This way all the pro-hardcore players can have a fun little community to battle with. If anyone starts this thread I'm talking about I will stalk you ingame so hard you will never want to play again. This is my thread idea and please respect that I can't get it up yet but i will when I can. See you all soon, on the real proving grounds.

Hello Gents, looking for two battle ready men for a 4-team setup on Namalsk. Requirements: - 18 + - A working gaming headset that gives off as little static as possible (for longer gaming sessions, saves your ears) - 30 FPS ingame or more. - Fluent English - Can listen to orders from the team captain The team is going to be 4man, we're looking to expand to 6 when we retrieve more vehicles. Those interesed and fill the criteria add me on skype @ luburium

Requirements: - 18 + - A working gaming headset that gives off as little static as possible (for longer gaming sessions, saves your ears) - 30 FPS ingame or more. - Fluent English - Can listen to orders from the team captain The team is going to be 4man, we're looking to expand to 6 when we retrieve more vehicles. Those interesed and fill the criteria add me on skype @ luburium

This is what I want to do: Create a "secret society" that's main priority is to infiltrate and destroy other groups. Here are the key main things that would be taking place: 1. Initial group is small. Minimum of 4 people. 2. Partake all the way from killing members of infiltrated clan to orchestrating a server wide grand theft auto. 3. No one would ever operate under their real username. What the group would do is get inside group A, and hurt it in the best way possible. To be within it for a few weeks all the way to a few months (if the operation is big enough) and to take it down. I'm not asking to recruit you. I'm asking if anyone is interested in this idea. Before we could actually do this, we need people. If we had 4 people, we would be able to take part in a massive clan catastrophe, where multiple vehicles and clan members would die. We would be detested and remembered from that clan forever. And I'm ok with that. Reply back if interested.

I'm putting my own discussion points on this in a second post, so as to not tl;dr the main post: 1. This does go against the devs' "anti-game" theme, but barely. It gives the most basic, simple sense of purpose to playing DayZ beyond merely surviving. For some of us that's too easy--I find myself lacking motivation to play once I've geared up and have a vehicle. Giving an extremely bland telos to DayZ gives the whole world the smallest direction and limitation, yes, but it also builds motivation which feed the chaotic energy of the world: clans will battle over vehicles and gear not for their own sake, but because the clan with more gear will be able to climb the ladder more quickly. 2. High-ranking players will be hunted by low-ranking players: If you're in the top 10 with 8,000 kills, all it takes is a GameSpy search to find what server you're in, and me and my buddies are stalking through Chernarus looking to wipe you out with half of your kills. 3. Pretty inconsequential, but if the kills are rounded up then your first kill becomes an achievement, because mathematically you can never lose it. Just seemed like a nice thought to me. -Joker

Server name: ]Private Hive - 100+ Vehicles, Active Admins, reward system IP: 50.23.115.101:3034 Map: Chernarus Reason of reporting: The Banned me because i went to the admins camp and stole a weapon and some blood bags, which is part of the game if im not mistaken... they told me not to go there or i would get banned, i told them they cant ban me for playing the game... he said he wouldnt ban me if i didnt come back to his camp, which i did not, but this morning i go to play and i am banned... BS i had atruck with tons of items i had found, like 4 hours of gameplay on this server.. Evidence links: * wish i had some other then the fact im banned.. lame and fuck you whoever the admin is.. his name is Mandrit or Mandirt cant remember...

Problem with people these days is that nobody wants to really immerse themselves into games anymore. They want the best weapons and vehicles straight away with no work.The game is about the journey, take call of duty as an example, the game comes out and within a month people are hacked to the highest level, the fun in the game is working your way up through the ranks etc! (enough of call of duty, this is DAYZ! :P) Where is the fun in spawning in with all the weapons you want, running 10 minutes down to coast to have at your use, at helicopter or jeep? The point of this game is to start with nothing and use the wasteland to survive, roaming the lands scavenging what you can and making the best of it. As many people say this game is meant to be realistic. Say a zombie apocalypse happened in real life, your not gonna get a drop down menu pop up in front of you offering you guns, no your gonna have to search the area finding what you can! I think people really need to take a step back from the computer and really think about what game itself and really immerse your self into the game as if it is real life... ..and trust me, it will be a whole lot more fun! :D

BRAND NEW PANTHERA SERVER, FOLLOWING ON FROM OUR VERY SUCCESSFUL CHERNARUS MAP. SERVER WAS CREATED AT 13:00 TODAY, SO JOIN NOW TO GRAB WHATEVER YOU CAN WHILST ITS AT THE SPAWN. GMT-5 100 VEHICLES ACTIVE ADMINS GUARANTEED LOW PING FOR UK GAMERS PLEASE JOIN AND ENJOY!! SERVER IP 5.63.147.44 PORT 2532

your name tells me all I need to know Dayz is already the hunger games with guns and vehicles in a bigger map with abandoned towns the only difference is that most people would shoot on sight because the'rs no reason to team up when you can be backstabbed in one shot teaming up and being freindly while rare are an important part of the game

I believe your point was that 'whats the point of building up my bases and gear just to have a hacker destroy it'. Thats what it looks like to me. Well on PH, especially Whitelisted ones there is a very minimal risk of a hacker entering and destroying everyones stuff, thats why whitelisting is so popular. So you have your WL safe server, that has active admins and then decide.... even though hacking is not such an issue.... to make 24/7 Daylight, 500+ vehicles, spawn in with weapons and NVGs. Was this to compensate for hacking or to pander to the pathetic players that only want to take the parts of this game that appeals to them and not the rest. Survival is not hording, its taking what the game gives you and making the best of it, not changing the essence of the game to make it easier for people to have a lil fun before the SA comes out. Shouldn't you be preparing and training your DayZ skills for the SA rather then letting it go to waste?

The thing is we are all having fun with added vehicles and weapons until SA comes out, I mean do you really want to spend hours and days building up your base collecting your gear to get some hacker destroy everything? I am playing a private white listed server and now wasteland because I do not see the point what so ever putting hours on end in to a version of the game I will soon stop playing when SA is released. If there was a solution to the hacking it would not be the case.. We all know why the game has been made easier by admins because its just as easy for hackers to destroy all you have built up.

i like the armory in arma 2..with missions both for weapons and vehicles..

I can't believe myself.I had just died, and spawned near Cherno.I got to the military tents, cause my body and some hacker-spawned vehicles were there, and I thought I could use one of them.Anyway, at some point, some zombies start chasing me, and I get into a car to survive.Suddenly, a f*ckin bandit pops up.He fires a couple of shots into the windshield, but he stopped after I told him that I was friendly and had nothing.I told him he could keep the car, and I could keep my life.He moved his head in a positive manner, and headed for the tents.Then my genius friends tell me to shoot the guy.And I listened to them.I only had 1 shotgun shell (slug).I went behind him, and while he was in a tent, I bandaged him to seem friendly.Then I took the shot.He was either a hacker, or it wasn't enough to kill him.He left the tent, and while I was shitting all over my pants trying to combine pellets and slugs (didn't make it btw), he comes back and does me with a shotgun/lee enfield. This story is meant to tell you guys that you must never underestimate such a chance.When a bandit lets you live, you have been given a great gift.No matter what your friends tell you, no matter how confident you are of yourself, don't shoot him. If you ever get a chance like that, don't blow it.Either run, or play good guy.Just don't blow it. By the way, if you ever get to see this, mr bandit whose name I dunno, I'm sorry.You did the right thing, though.