treetop82 59 Posted August 16, 2015 Ok, it happens. We turn too fast, flip the truck and have to just leave it abandoned in the field. With persistence on, I've come to find many trucks remain flipped over for some time. But yesterday I came back to the spot of a flipped truck to find it upright. It took 2 or 3 days but it's not sitting up and I drove it away. However, another flipped truck remains flipped after several server reboots. Does anyone know how this works, or is intended to work? What about a truck stuck on a guard rail, how long will it persist there before being removed? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Baker. 1484 Posted August 16, 2015 (edited) Ok, it happens. We turn too fast, flip the truck and have to just leave it abandoned in the field. With persistence on, I've come to find many trucks remain flipped over for some time. But yesterday I came back to the spot of a flipped truck to find it upright. It took 2 or 3 days but it's not sitting up and I drove it away. However, another flipped truck remains flipped after several server reboots. Does anyone know how this works, or is intended to work? What about a truck stuck on a guard rail, how long will it persist there before being removed? I'm sure they will enable some kind of "_this setvectorup [0,0,1];" at server restart at some stage of development Edited August 16, 2015 by B@ker Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BCBasher 2465 Posted August 16, 2015 Ok, it happens. We turn too fast, flip the truck and have to just leave it abandoned in the field. With persistence on, I've come to find many trucks remain flipped over for some time. But yesterday I came back to the spot of a flipped truck to find it upright. It took 2 or 3 days but it's not sitting up and I drove it away. However, another flipped truck remains flipped after several server reboots. Does anyone know how this works, or is intended to work? What about a truck stuck on a guard rail, how long will it persist there before being removed? Not sure how it works either but been noting little details. Ones I stash and park neatly are always moved a little, ones I've abandoned between restarts because of tires and gas tank punctures have been rotated 180 degrees sometimes. It looks like they spawn a brand new truck in the same colour with rough positional data and the pre reset truck's inventory. We have a few truck hoarders in the experimental discussion who have seen it all and may know something I don't. As far as a truck despawning they used to need to be completely destroyed, they change to a rusty burnt out texture but I have yet to see that since aerosols in fires stopped exploding although I have seen reports in EXP of them despawning due to damage. Land mines ruin all tires but do not destroy the truck currently, it'll have new tires and be good to go after a reset. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tux (DayZ) 325 Posted August 16, 2015 Until some desync issues are fixed, or I get better internet, I will never feel comfortable driving a truck. I'm a very good driver, and when driving solo in a more empty server, I can make it almost anywhere without flipping my truck. However, especially with the V3S cargo, I've been running into the problem of not even being in control of the vehicle during bad desync, and flipping the car without even realizing what's going on. Obviously if we were able to do more while riding in a vehicle (e.g. accessing inventory, shooting from windows, hiding in "boot"), the issues with passengers seeing the vehicle doing flips and rolling all of the time, despite the fact that the driver is actually perfectly on track, will have to be addressed. As for flipping vehicles, it would be cool to have some way to get a group of people, and use materials to upright a vehicle. Maybe some sort of jack for adding tires. Can't wait for exp 0.59 which should have the 3 new vehicles. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Baker. 1484 Posted August 16, 2015 As for flipping vehicles, it would be cool to have some way to get a group of people, and use materials to upright a vehicle. Maybe some sort of jack for adding tires. You are right, I take back what I said, it would be much better to do this than have the server do it at restart. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BCBasher 2465 Posted August 17, 2015 Until some desync issues are fixed, or I get better internet, I will never feel comfortable driving a truck. I'm a very good driver, and when driving solo in a more empty server, I can make it almost anywhere without flipping my truck. However, especially with the V3S cargo, I've been running into the problem of not even being in control of the vehicle during bad desync, and flipping the car without even realizing what's going on. Obviously if we were able to do more while riding in a vehicle (e.g. accessing inventory, shooting from windows, hiding in "boot"), the issues with passengers seeing the vehicle doing flips and rolling all of the time, despite the fact that the driver is actually perfectly on track, will have to be addressed. As for flipping vehicles, it would be cool to have some way to get a group of people, and use materials to upright a vehicle. Maybe some sort of jack for adding tires. Can't wait for exp 0.59 which should have the 3 new vehicles. I have terrible internet and always play on very low pop server but have still under the same circumstances noticed a big improvement at least solo. My oldest son is back from camp so I'm looking forward to seening it from the second POV as soon as possible, tried early in .58 with my daughter as a passenger and from her POV I crashed multiple times yet it was a smooth uneventful ride on my end. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CornProducts 315 Posted August 17, 2015 Anyone remember the trick to flipping 4-wheelers? Maybe it works for trucks too... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tofur 16 Posted August 17, 2015 Care to enlighten a vehicle noob on how you go about driving one? Do you need gas or do they usually have some in them? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BCBasher 2465 Posted August 18, 2015 (edited) Care to enlighten a vehicle noob on how you go about driving one? Do you need gas or do they usually have some in them? In stable yes they spawn with a full tank for now, when .58 comes out they require a battery and a glow plug. Both versions they get repaired, refueled and damaged tires replaced at a server reset provided they're not completely destroyed at which point they despawn but that's currently difficult to do on both versions without having explosives or exploding aerosols in fires. .59 is supposed to introduce yet to be revealed but more complex parts and repair mechanics along with a bus, four door car, and a little sport utility. Edited August 18, 2015 by BCBasher 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
