[Tutorial]All About Vehicles

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Introduction to Vehicles

Vehicles play an important role in the game. If you are tired of running around, being chased by zombies, and spending 30 minutes to run only halfway across the map, you should definitely put some effort into getting a car running.

Vehicles consist of four essential parts to run. If your wheels icon is red, your vehicle will not run; if you have no gas, same thing. If any other icon is red, your vehicle will work, but it wont be as efficient, and will either leak fuel, or have a greater chance to explode

Saving:

This is an important part of the game. Back a few builds, you would have to select "save" to save a vehicle in its place, and it was very glitch sometimes. This old system has been replaced, and now vehicles save automatically.

Be careful before server restarts. Sometimes there is a rare bug, which will destroy your vehicle, and completely disable it. This is very rare, and has only occured to me once, but has happened to a few of my friends as well.

Repairs:

Vehicles need to be repaired to function properly, and efficiently. Each vehicle has four different icons. Each icon labels a certain part of the vehicle. If any part is yellow, to red, the vehicle can be, and should be repaired.

Wheels:The wheels of a vehicle are as essential in this game, as they are in real life. With your wheels on orange, to red, your wheels will pop. Once your wheel pops, you can see it clearly, and your vehicle will be immobilized until you repair the wheel.

Engine:The engine is the most dangerous part of the vehicle. If on red, the engine has a chance to explode, with a 99% chance of your death.

Fuel Tank:The fuel tank, and the parts are important, and should always be maintained at a green level. If your fuel parts hit orange, or red, you will make a lot of stops at petrol stations.

Fuel: Your vehicle will not run without it

To be continued...

[murdock 1]

Good to know. I found a working helicopter but crashed it into forest cos i didnt know how to fly it. Lost my good gear and started arma 2 tutorials :D

[vlad_storm12@hotmail.com 3]

Once you play with the editor, and maybe the campaign. Which is pretty fun ( in my opinion). You will be more of a pro in dayZ. Since enemies with guns are more aware so you have to sneak around and strategize. Also you never know when a t-90 is hiding in the woods. Great vehicle practice and pro tip. Whenever you drive double tap alt to disable mouse driving. I use my wasd keys

[MOS182 63]

Whenever you drive double tap alt to disable mouse driving

Never knew that

[2saints01 0]

One thing that needs to be mentioned for all you newbies out there:

While in a vehicle, loot and/or zombies do not spawn (correct me if I'm wrong about the zombie part). So When approaching a town, park your vehicle in a spot that has decent visual cover so it'll be harder to detect, and approach the town on foot. Another thing to consider is the amount of noise your vehicle is making. Players can hear vehicles from a long way off, and some vehicles are much louder than others. Tractors can be heard from kilometers away, large trucks are the same. So keep that in mind if you're in an area that is visited frequently by other players.

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You are correct about the zombies, but a future update will allow them to spawn.

I will add the info to the main thread when I get on my conputer

[herrjon 478]

Also important to note, be sure to exit the vehicle before the server restarts. If you are in it when the restart happens, you will clipped through the ground and exist in the same space as the vehicle. The ground part can be fixed by using a combustible that plays an animation, but in order to move you should go to a different server and move out of the way. If you don't do both of these, you have a high chance of death.

Just be sure when you find a vehicle to research exactly when that server restarts. Not all of them give warnings. And definitely don't be flying when it restarts.

[Karl Pilkington 0]

Do you have to exit the vehicle and then stay out of it for a while before the server restarts in order for the vehicle location to save? I found a LR Defender and moved it to my base and got out with about 5 minutes till the server restarted. When I logged back in the next day the rover had disappeared and there were no items in my tent. For reference my DayZ version is 1.7.4.4 and arma version is 1.62.95248. Thanks in advance.

[Guest]

Thanks man, got a car and within 60 seconds found myself up a tree.

now i should go 70 seconds