Keep on truckin'

[Mookie (original) 799]

Faced with the prospect of a long run across the map to do a trade a couple of days ago, I was very happy to find a truck abandoned in the woods near Zeleno. The drive that followed, though, was if anything much more life-threatening than the yomp I had to do to get back. Here are some of the reasons, perhaps someone can benefit from them.

 

The game seems particularly laggy for me at the moment. The pain about this in a truck is that if you lag on a bend you will lose control and smash into a tree.

 

So laggy did the server become that it locked up completely driving through Berenzino, and I got 'session lost'. Fearing either death or, best case, finding myself back to the west of Gorka (last time I'd got out), the DayZ Gods smiled on me when I managed to get back in to the server. I was all there, and the truck was about 200m down the road.

 

If you drive through towns, the Zs that run towards you from the front are a real hazard. They will damage the truck, and come close to flipping it over completely if you're unlucky. By the time I finally got to Svet, this happened for the third time, and the truck hung itself up on a wall. No trucking back for me. :(

 

Trucks are complete zombie magnets. If you get stuck and there are two or three on the back, don't feel too scared about getting out and running. At least for the time being, they will be more interested in the truck than you.

 

V3S spawns seem to be either broken or non-existent at the moment. Sorry if this is already common knowledge, but I haven't seen a freshly spawned truck since before the weekend.

 

Always turn the engine off before you get out, and if the axis of the truck is on a slope, get out of the side facing up the slope.

 

Remember that if the server restarts while you are in a truck, you will respawn at the last place you were when you were out of it. So if you're doing a long trip, it's worthwhile getting out now and then so that if there's a restart you're not completely back where you began.

 

Anyway, hope this helps someone.

[BCBasher 2465]

An awesome "how to" for current truck behavior.

 

You mentioned the thing with disconnects... The truck stays where it was at serverside disconnect but you respawn where your feet last touched the ground. If it's on your end like your internet goes down or you unplug your modem you will spawn beside the truck where it occurred.

[GaryWalnuts 1680]

I've been using trucks a lot more lately, trucks make it much to easier to keep a camp in a distant/remote location.  I've noticed a lot of these things too, just to add a few other things I've noticed:  

The civilian model (the truck with the rack bed) seems a little safer when dealing with zombies.  They will frequently ignore your character and go right into the bed of the truck, then you can step out of the truck and calmly headshot them without risk, they won't attack.   With the standard model v3s (chassis model) they will wait at the door of the truck for you to exit, there's a slight delay after "get out" where you can be vulnerable to attack.  Also, the chassis model seems to get zombies stuck in the chassis if you run them over, making quite a racket, but less so with the rack body.  For what it's worth, if I'm driving around a chassis model and see a truck with a bed, I'll do a switch.

I've also got a few questions about the v3s:

1) The tank seems perpetually full and I've done about 4 runs from the northern border to the southern coast with the same truck, as well a lot of local runabout, has anyone else had the same "problem"?

2) Is there a way to check the condition of the truck?  Aside from being a little beat up looking I can't tell if hitting the next zombie is going to make the wheels fly off.

 

edit: question 3

 

3) While heli hunting last patch, I got a truck stuck on a rock wall.  I couldn't get it unstuck, so after about 10 minutes of futile bucking around I just gave up and ran off.   The next day I went by and it was alongside the rock wall but unstuck.  I can't imagine that someone else got it unstuck and just left it there ... so, does a server restart move the truck a bit if it's stuck?

Edited May 6, 2015 by GaryWalnuts

[Mookie (original) 799]

I've been using trucks a lot more lately, trucks make it much to easier to keep a camp in a distant/remote location.  I've noticed a lot of these things too, just to add a few other things I've noticed:  

The civilian model (the truck with the rack bed) seems a little safer when dealing with zombies.  They will frequently ignore your character and go right into the bed of the truck, then you can step out of the truck and calmly headshot them without risk, they won't attack.   With the standard model v3s (chassis model) they will wait at the door of the truck for you to exit, there's a slight delay after "get out" where you can be vulnerable to attack.  Also, the chassis model seems to get zombies stuck in the chassis if you run them over, making quite a racket, but less so with the rack body.  For what it's worth, if I'm driving around a chassis model and see a truck with a bed, I'll do a switch.

I've also got a few questions about the v3s:

1) The tank seems perpetually full and I've done about 4 runs from the northern border to the southern coast with the same truck, as well a lot of local runabout, has anyone else had the same "problem"?

2) Is there a way to check the condition of the truck?  Aside from being a little beat up looking I can't tell if hitting the next zombie is going to make the wheels fly off.

 

edit: question 3

 

3) While heli hunting last patch, I got a truck stuck on a rock wall.  I couldn't get it unstuck, so after about 10 minutes of futile bucking around I just gave up and ran off.   The next day I went by and it was alongside the rock wall but unstuck.  I can't imagine that someone else got it unstuck and just left it there ... so, does a server restart move the truck a bit if it's stuck?

 

When the truck respawns, it will respawn full of fuel and fully repaired. Does this explain your perpetually full tank?

 

Yes, I think when a hung-up truck respawns it will be un-hung up.

 

My experience with the chassis body is that the Zs often do get on the back of it - as if it had a rack bed. I had three on by the time I had to get out and run in Svet. You're right though, if you're in motion, they'll often get tangled up in the chassis.

[GaryWalnuts 1680]

When the truck respawns, it will respawn full of fuel and fully repaired. Does this explain your perpetually full tank?

 

Yes, I think when a hung-up truck respawns it will be un-hung up.

 

 

That explains the whole lot!  :beans:

[Red_Ensign 990]

if you're going through a town and the zombies start running at you, you won't take any damage if you dodge just enough that they contact the side of the truck not the front.  beware those wide shallow curbs in some towns though - they turn your suspension into a bouncy house and you'll have to really fight to keep control.

 

trucks spawns aren't broken - persistence is just actually working (that part of it anyway).  trucks are where people left them.  most are hidden, and the rest (the ones you find) are where someone got stuck or ran out of gas or got bounced by the server.

[BlinkingRiki182 54]

Hello,

 

Truck unstuck master here. I have unstuck countless of trucks by using what I like to call "the fireplace method". If you have your truck stuck on a tree or any other obstacle, craft a fireplace and start moving it until it reaches the point where the tires or chassis is stuck (you can move it by opening up the inventory and dragging the fire outside the inventory box, you need practice and you'll be able to move it in the desired direction). Once the fireplace is near the stuck part, you need to try to move the fireplace underneath it. Sometimes, the truck will bounce on its own when the fireplace is underneath. Other times you'll need to get in, start the engine and try to move it. Your goal should be to make the truck bounce hight enough to overcome the obstacle on which it's stuck. Sometimes it takes 5 minutes, other times it takes a good 1 hour. Best results are achieved if there are 2 people, one driving the truck (trying to move it) and the other one trying to get the fireplace underneath the truck.

[BCBasher 2465]

If it ends up stuck in a tree after a reset which happened to us the other day before you get in stand a safe distance up hill and shoot it in the door or cab somewhere and it will violently pop out.