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I second Papa Duck's point. A skin that matches the terrain better would be a step towards making tents hideable. Especially from choppers flying overhead. The few tents I have found on the server during my travels have been hidden amongst the branches of carnifor trees, but still stand out like a sore thumb due to the light green/yellow textures the current tent skin has. Or instead of a change to the tent's texture, perhaps a new item could be implemented? The camouflage netting from the military tents would be good for placing over an existing tent or parked vehicle. Although it doesn't do much if someone passes by on foot, it would protect camps/vehicles from the eyes in the sky. Probably more tricky than a texture change though.

anyone that doesn't think so why do people care about hackers? edit: obviously Rocket was worrying about "balance" when he was picking and choosing what weapons and vehicles would be in the game, tweeking zombie behavior, etc the game is meant to be "difficult", and achieving that is a form of "balance" like i said, if you don't care about things being "fair" and "balanced", you should have no problem with hackers running around with god-mode, aim-bot, etc

Well well.. as far concerning the whole rage inbetween.. I'll ignore all of that. I'll be honest that I haven't flown a chopper in Chernarus at all yet. I play solo most of the time and fixing one on my own is probably close to impossible (for me that is.) I've flewn in a Huey as a gunner in Takistan. which is more of a vehicle fun map or.. die out in the ass of the map.. but yeah I only then noticed (might also be due to the lack of fog in the map) that you can scout out the map with little to no effort. Now speaking for myself, I was enjoying it but at the same time I noticed how much of advantage it gives you (and your team) not to mention that as a team you already are more of a threat to others. but in Chernarus, I've rarelly encountered Heli's up in the air. though when I hear one comming it does give you that kind of excitement of danger as they might be out there to kill you or they're just flying about picking their friends from the coast. I can imagine how bandits would love to take out a chopper or try and hijack it even. so in some aspects I think it has it's home in DayZ but it can greatly surpress other players who have no proper gear to fight against them. Also considering a heli crew can have a team on the ground to smoke out the people they've spotted from the heli. So yeah back to the whole OP's statement. perhaps there could be a way to reduce the visibility of interactive objects (players and vehicles etc.) when you're gaining altitude. it's probably absurd but it might be something. other than that. they could replace the huey with a more civil kind of helo. with minor visibility to the ground. being able to fly across the map in moments is advantage enough I'd say. so I guess it would become more of a transportation helo rather than an all around heli with multiple advantages. though I can only imagine the frustration of losing a heli to a sniper with an M107. but in this case when the heli would be replaced with something that would only serve as transportation. I'm sure you'd try to avoid crowded areas anyhow.

First name: Atte In-game name: Yourname Age: 17 Country: Finland What time are you mostly on: 5pm-11pm Why you are searching for a group/clan: Ive played this game with my friends like 5 months, all of my friends quitted like a month ago so i dont mind playing alone anymore, im experienced in this game and i got good gear and i can drive vehicles, Also i wanna play in loyalty group and have fun also some serious playing ! Skype: attejoo Experience: 5 Months Dayz, playing everyday.

YO! We are looking to add 2/3 more players to our group so that we can play as a squad and on a more regular basis. Currently there is just me and adam, we have played together for 3months and have recently just started playing on Private Hive servers. What were looking for : - Any nationality as long as you can spracken ze English - 20+ please (were both 23 and mature about the game) - we play on hive servers as we love PvP without being interrupted by hackers/scripters/f4'ers. Our goal is to set up camp and go out with the intention of taking out other squads/raiding their camps. So we would like people of a similar mindset - We use TS3, Skype tends to lag the game. - Be active 3 nights a week at least. The Hive servers we play on have settings such as 50+ vehicles, tents with camo nets, and a command meaning that if anyone alt+f4 then their body stays active for 30seconds, therefore they cant get away with it. It's like the old style of dayZ, where you have to work for what you get and finding a map/compass is a good find as opposed to everyone being kitted up with rangefinders etc which have been hacked/duped. Let me know if this sounds what your looking for, please message me on here or add me on steam - '[]-[]otshot'. Cheers, Rick

This is partly my fault. It's the group that I hang out with when I play (I think my group and BSB/AOD have had helis the most). They know (because they've been playing the longest) that right now the only spawn locations configured for the littlebirds are at NWAF. This is just because I haven't had time to plot out additional spawn points for them. I've scolded them for hoarding helis and was even planning on giving out 2 of the 3 to random coastal people until it turns out parking all 3 on top of the hotel (just to see if we could fit them without crashing) resulted in them all burning up on next server restart. As it stands they only have 1 heli now, and I think another group has a Huey. I plan on spawning new helis much less frequently than new cars. I'm also holding my group I hang with to a 1 heli max. Like you say, it just gets silly otherwise and pretty unfair. Although, the littlebirds are ridiculously easy to shoot down when compared to the hueys. Someone knocked one out of the air the other night with an enfield. If you see one, don't hesitate to fire. I'm not ENTIRELY sure how to combat camp spotting with Helis, but it may just be finding better/alternate ways to store gear than the big tent graphic and then vehicles just being the wildcard that you have to park away from your camp and hope no one grabs it. It's definitely something that needs to at least be thought about and considered.

Advertising this again our server has been full during peak times two days in a row. Though i'd like to see more activity during non peak times! I'm putting a bunch of ATV's / Motorbikes near spawn points for people who want to try this server out and get alittle boost forward! As of 2:30pm EASTERN I will bring the server up with these vehicles for you guys, come in and have some fun!

I'm sure venthos will think of something to make vehicles & tents harder to find from air... But indeed, it's a pity that one group got all 3 helis... no-one stops us from taking those from them tho.

Yeah, I always thought there should be an "under attack/under fire" detector, to prevent people who are defending themselves from turning into bandits. When you mouse over someone, the game can give you nametags for vehicles (if enabled) They could've used that mechanism to tell if someone was lining up a shot trying to shoot you first, or you attacked them. Atleast you don't lose humanity for a pre-emptive bandit clipping.

See Jex is it so hard to discuss a point without an insult? Who cares about realism, we can just assume that our characters have a military background since they seem to have basic weapon and survival skills since if we get into this whole realism argument our characters would be extremely limited in what they can do. If we go with a strict realism argument you might as well get rid of medical system, shooting, fixing cars, running for prolonged periods, and other skills that not everyone has. As far as advantages I will say it again, this game is not about balance. If it was we would have starting loadouts because the guy with an AKM shooting at the guy with a double barrel shotgun is unfair as well. Why should someone who is good at the game or has put in the massive amount of work that goes with finding and repairing a helicopter be punished because they now have a legitimate advantage over other players. The advantage was not easily obtained and the helicopters are very rare and stay destroyed for up to 7 days so they are not a common occurrence on regular servers, not really seeing why this is some huge problem that can not be solved with a few minor tweaks. Helicopters are rather easy to take down and almost every player will attempt to shoot at the players in a helicopter and the helicopter itself so it does come with significant drawbacks. Your argument about ease of travel applies to vehicles and I have used an offroad truck to effectively search for campsites and hidden vehicles in the past, so many of your points transfer over to items, weapons, and vehicles that you seem to be perfectly fine with (this is why people assume you are butthurt about a particular incident, maybe you are not but you can at least see why some would think that). We will most likely disagree on this topic no matter what either of us says, just try not to get so worked up over this shit it really is not worth it and the reason you get harsh responses is completely on you. When the majority of people respond negatively to the way you are acting it is not an indication that everyone else is stupid.

This went from talking about tents and vehicles to Hacked weapons to Servers...Where else are we going?

Is that natural in this mod that there are so much more zombies than in the original mod? I saw a zombie spawn happening twice. No offense , I'm just curious. Another thing that there are 2 littlebirds in the mod? One new vehicle is okay , it's a good idea for transporting , but two? A group owns all of the helicopters and that's 3. (Or maybe more , I don't know.) I'm not butthurt because they got the helis. I'm just saying that 3 helis are too much in my opinion. Even if the littlebirds got no guns. They just kinda own the whole map if we are talking about vehicles. :| Oh , I have forgotten. Did you fixed that if you save something in your tent , after a server restart there will be the saved stuff in it? I know you fixed the item doubling , but was that meant to be fixing this feature too?

if you can find the option outside the vehicle then simply jump into the vehicle, open your map. goto inventory then click "Gear" and you will have access to the vehicles storage menu

I may make my server a RP server when I'm done modding it. So far I have made the zombies walk only, increased there numbers, they spawn and attack vehicles if your in them, and loot spawns while in vehicles. Also added sandbags to industrial spawns and increased tent spawn rate in stores. Still trying to figure out what else I want to change on my server before I decide anything else.

So I gathered from some of the more relevant posts on this thread that the chopper is the ultimate camp-busting machine and also provides an unfair advantage in locating other vehicles by radar. I've only flown a heli twice in my time on Chernarus and never used it to locate camps (believe it or not that never occurred to me), so I can't comment on that, though I certainly believe it. But these are issues that can be easily fixed with a few tweaks, rather than taking helis out of the game completely. Imo that's the way to go, because having airborne threats really adds excitement to the game. Like I said: I'd like to see aircraft stay in DayZ and hopefully they will have a larger role to play in the SA, albeit tweaked so that they don't provide a totally unfair advantage.

Hi, you are welcome to check us out at The BSB Network. We're a social gaming community that is dedicated to fair and fun gaming. We have over 200 players in various Fire teams and groups playing Day Z and using our Teamspeak Server to communicate and coordinate their scavenges and raids. These teams have several bases, vehicles, camps and play across several of our own home servers. The community is mostly adult gamers over the age of 20 (well over in most cases!) but there are no age, time or skill requirements - all we ask is you play fair and have a bit of common sense about you! Our members are based all over the world and are on at all times of the day and night, but all speak English and most are based in the UK and Mainland Europe with some in the US too. We've been gaming as a community since 2002, so we're not some ad-hoc fly by night clan that's been quickly set up and will be gone in the blink of an eye! There is no obligation to join our clan or any of our affiliated clans/groups to take part in our sessions though, everyone is free to urn up and get involved. If you're interested check out or website @ www.bsbnetwork.com and try to hop on our Teamspeak 3 server and say "hi!" 212.187.246.58:9140

"it's not what you put into a game that makes it great, it's what you leave out of it" Of course we could add jetpacksand lazorguns and all that shit to dayZ, but that wont make it a better game, dayz in fact is way too easy it is right now, and balance is important in EVERY game, even if rocket calls it an anti-game without balance, everyone will run around with the best shit example: every duper runs around with L85 and AS50, guess why, they are OP as shit in comparison to other stuff, just like NVGs have no downside at all, it isnt even irritated by rain, which in RL is a huge problem, and things without downsides are never good for a game, at least not if those things are so common i'm not a fan of the L85, AS50 and NVG awesomeness, with the standalone they wil require much more care and batterys, which is awesome, i hope they reconsider the shoot-your-toe-drop-dead-oneshot stuff as well with the .50s however, back to the helo, its just THE anti-camp thing there is, its not especially good in fights, nor bad, and risky since .50s tear it apart, but the bugged view of tents and vehicles and the big white indicators for cars and other hueys when flying a day makes it just to much to easy lets just make it the servers choice if they want to have a huey or not, and be good with it

:beans: PRIVATE HIVE :beans: US 1369 is a private hive which attempts to provide the members with a hack free community. :lol: MAP: panthera (latest map) SERVER NAME: US 1369 ADMINS: Max, ROFloLMA0mg HOST: Vilayer.com This server has been purposely created to give legitimate players a chance to play DayZ without a hacker disrupting them. The server, US 1369 provides you lag free game play as well as 24/7 up time. :beans: In the future we hope to host enough servers to provide a hack free zone on every map. :beans: To Apply For This Server Please Fill Out The Following Application Template And Post It Below ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: In game name: Age: Location: DayZ Experience (how long you have been playing?) Do you hack in any shape or form? Have you hacked before? If so please state what you did. Why would you like to join this community? Are you respectful of other players? What would you like to see form this server? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Application: Name: Lance (IRL) Proximus (In-Game) Age: 23 Time zone: EST (Usual play time: 6pm - 12am) Experience: Usage of all guns, vehicles, & What you can bring to us: I have atleast 1 if not 2 of every gun, inventory item, and plenty of ammo. Just pure experience aswell Play Style: Scout/Sniper, I rarely miss. Used to playing reaction based pvp games. I am quick in all aspects Good teamwork? (Not Judged): I love my solo time, but I believe I work better with a team, and the game is much more enjoyable Mic / Teamspeak 3: I own and operate my own Ventrilo server, I suppose I can download TS3, makes me feel so euro though :P Add "Hermon Li(Ryan)" on Steam!

Welcome to the Chernarus Anti-Task Force (CA-TC) Fourm Page/Post! *DISCLAIMER* The clan name is just based upon a lack of creativity but signifies what the "clan" does in-game. The name was not intended to offend any other clans with similar names. What do we do in Chernarus -We have not decided. This group so far is 5 friends (mostly IRL). We are based on the east coast. We have not decided what we intend to do in DayZ. All we know is that we want a friendly, social environment, and an enjoyable DayZ experience. YOU DECIDE! If you have a good idea (After joining) we will consider it. New players often have good ideas, so we listen to everyone. What is your status, over? - Our status is this. So far we have over 3 bases across 3 servers. Vehicles and tents are having a saving issue in the current hotfix so this will be resolved soon. We have 2 seasoned chopper pilots. The goal so far is to establish a foothold on our own server (Easy Operation) and to set a foothold on our enemy server (Medium Operation). We are geared. We will gear you if we trust you. We will supply BASIC gear! Basic Gear Camo Alice/Coyote Backpack Basic Tools (If Needed) Basic Weapon/Ammo (m4a1 CCO)(CZ550)(870)(Mp5)(Handguns) Food/Drink Possible tactical gear Application: Name: Age: Time zone: Experience: What you can bring to us: Play Style: Good teamwork? (Not Judged): Mic / Teamspeak 3: Add "Hermon Li(Ryan)" on Steam!

Pathetic evidence to base a serious accusation upon, if I might say. Collecting gear and vehicles over a long period of time; amassing it up so large that you have no need for it...but then you lose it. All of that hard work gone in an instant--that gives one the right to be 'scared'. Tell me, have you ever lost such a large quantity of gear--more than a full URAL and V3S combined-- in an instant?

"Yet" you state that as if such a thing--disabling tents and vehicle storage slots-- was stated by the devs to happen, when in fact it was not... Nothing, aside from tents, should be disabled until a fix has been found. Disabling tents and vehicles won't solve duping. You can dupe via clothing. Scripting needs to be fixed as well, apart of this.

Dayz Commander is created by the amateur hosters. Tried it and it's a shitty version I think. Lots of things floating in the air. It was a quick butcher job of an already good map. And they unban other vehicles to attract more people. Sad. Too bad all those using dayz commander version will have to play on a poorly remade map, and suffer the consequences of being quicked from the better version. 2 thumbs down for Vilayer.

Hi, I have a PVT hive server which has about 10 people currently playing. I have room for an additional 30 Slots. The server is password protected and will give out the password if people are friendly and will not hack, trash other people's stashes and kill players on site. If you would like to join the server please emai me at: [email protected] Please state your player name and any other people who you play with, so I know who you are and not to delete you when running maintenance. There are currently 77 vehicles in the game and more will be added when I understand the location thing, but there will probably just be a mass spawn in electro. I will respond to emails as soon as I can.

My 2cents - No Now, I know DayZ isn't about balance at all but with how the current loot spawns, helicopters are just waaaay to fucking powerful of a tool. Use this as an example - Team A gets a helicopter working, they can search the whole map for all of the vehicles within an hour and take them away to their base. After a server restart they can search for all of the crashed helicopters in the map and get all of the best guns without having much risk involved at all. Now, if AS50s,M107s and L85s spawned at the barracks then this wouldn't be as much of an issue but they don't and they are far to easy to acquire (duping aside) Now you may say "Oh but there are 2-3 helicopters on each server" Well what is to stop 1 team taking all of the other helicopters back to their base? Along with all of their vehicles. Do helicopters belong in DayZ? No, not at all. They take away much more than they add