My Car Experience

[slowfast70 12]

[There's a lot of text with criticism at the end]

Meanwhile I only play on a little visited 60 slot server (always low). There were just too many assholes on the road who hate life and just kill everything that comes their way, even if you show that you are not interested in conflict. I want to be fair: there was actually one player who asked at our encounter: are you friendly? Thanks, these players still exist...

On the new server, after some time, I found an Olga 24 at a base in a small village. But this base seemed to be abandoned, because nothing was locked and many wooden boxes were lying around. Three tires of the car were ruined, probably shot, one tire, battery, radiator and spark plug were missing. I decided to repair the car. This took a lot of time and food. I had to walk over 2 km every time for one tire, of course interrupted by rain showers again and again! The tank was still filled with about 40% gasoline, radiator about 75%, I thought! Then came the big moment: I started the ignition for the first time. The engine was running! Carefully put back and put the car on the road. In the past you had to be careful in the mod version that the server did not simply "correct" the position of the car while driving and you suddenly hit an obstacle. I drove the first meters, but the engine symbol already turned yellow. Why that? I drove slowly on the road. Since it was very dark and I was driving slowly without any light, I didn't notice the smoke from the engine that bad. Only when the engine symbol changed to orange I got the idea that something was seriously wrong with the cooling. So I poured two bottles of water into the radiator. Then I started the engine again and drove a few meters. The engine symbol changed to red, I braked immediately. Still not enough water? I left the car on the road and drove back to the village, where there was also a well to fill up the bottles again. Back to the car again and put the two bottles of water into it. Then I remembered that I also needed water for myself. So back to the well to fill up the bottles again. When I came back to the place with the car, the car was gone! And of course all my things I had put into the trunk! 😕 Red probably means "engine damaged" and there is only little time left to save things from the trunk.   

In another session I started again in a city to collect items. This time I also collected things for a car in advance in the assumption that I will find a new one again someday, so that I don't have to start searching when I get to see a car again. And indeed, after several hours, instead of a scrap car, there was an Ada 4x4 at a farm house. This time only a tire and a canister had to be found. And this time I filled up the radiator completely with a found canister! But the water level indicator seems to be mirror-inverted. When the radiator is full of water, the indicator is at 0 and not at 100. Or does the pointer show the temperature? But you could have thought that it is the amount of water that is displayed. Because in a car that stands for days, the water cannot have a high temperature! That's why I thought with the first car, it's the water quantity of 75% and not the temperature.  From my "base", I had the opportunity to drive up and down a stretch of road between two cities and side roads to become familiar with how to control the car. I also found a shed where I could park the car, where I thought that the car would not be found so quickly. The next day the car was already stolen. When leaving the server I always took out the spark plug to make it not so easy for a finder. Small comfort were my buried wooden boxes with spare parts for a car.

I wanted to check what actually happened to the places where I had found the two cars, whether there was a scrap car there or the area remained empty. When I came back to the village where I found the first car, I suddenly saw another car standing in the forest, but not far away from the road. It was a Civilian Sedan. But the car was standing so strangely between the trees that I asked myself: how did the driver manage to park the car here undamaged? The car was fully roadworthy. Nothing important was missing, the tyres were all ok. Huh? I lose a finished car and in the same session I find a new finished car elsewhere? Is the server going crazy? But there were items in the trunk of the Sedan that another player must have collected. Maybe an overtired player had parked the car there at night and didn't know what it looked like there during the day. But maybe it was also a player from the abandoned base? I might go there and wait to see if the base was abandoned after all. I took the car to my "base". I will check if it is still there 🙂 Letz play car sharing ...

But there is one criticism I have to get rid of: why is driving the cars so uncomfortable even on paved roads? First, it sounds as if the cars have no shock absorbers. It rumbles again and again with loud basses. And then, what I think is really bad: the visibility wobbles too much while driving and even when stopping the car the screen just doesn't stand still! It makes me really dizzy! Is this intentional to make car driving harder than it should be or is it just not getting better?

 

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[slowfast70 12]

Hello,

I found a car on the road, but it's on the side. It seems someone was driving too fast and lost control. Is it possible to straighten the car up again, like it was possible in the past with the mod version, or will this car accidentally be spawned somewhere in the landscape at the next server restart?

[aux7 234]

5 hours ago, slowfast70 said:

I found a car on the road, but it's on the side. It seems someone was driving too fast and lost control. Is it possible to straighten the car up again, like it was possible in the past with the mod version, or will this car accidentally be spawned somewhere in the landscape at the next server restart?

the car should right itself on the next server restart, or if it has badly damaged itself, it will despawn

[slowfast70 12]

I logged in same server and I got the following message: Timer prolonged and position might be altered due to server change (95 seconds). The car was in Gieraltow where I logged out hours ago. Now the server spawned me at Lukow. NOT FUNNY!

[McWendy 675]

2 hours ago, slowfast70 said:

I logged in same server and I got the following message: Timer prolonged and position might be altered due to server change (95 seconds). The car was in Gieraltow where I logged out hours ago. Now the server spawned me at Lukow. NOT FUNNY!

So then it wasnt the same server..... 

 

[slowfast70 12]

1 hour ago, McWendy said:

So then it wasnt the same server.....

It was the same server, because I use the IP address to filter for my server and I startet not as a bambi. May be it is a failover-ip that was switched to a backup-server because the active server crashed. I dont know how good active server are mirrored. 

Edited February 9, 2020 by slowfast70
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[McWendy 675]

1 hour ago, slowfast70 said:

It was the same server, because I use the IP address to filter for my server and I startet not as a bambi. May be it is a failover-ip that was switched to a backup-server because the active server crashed. I dont know how good active server are mirrored. 

A damn weird way to lose your car that's for sure. 

[slowfast70 12]

I was looking for a jerry can in Lukow and got tired and logged out. Now when I logged in again I got the same message: Timer prolonged and position might be altered due to server change. The server spawned me at Bielawa now. What is wrong? Why is DayZ fooling around with me. Why is my gaming experience so ruined?

[slowfast70 12]

Ok, I have to accept that you dont want me to play this game. After my message I tabbed back to the game and see the message: you re dead!  I give up. I have to say: Good bye! 

 

 

Edited February 9, 2020 by slowfast70

[Alphajim 16]

Well goodbye... If you quit for one death it's definitely not your kind of game.

One or two years ago, I got my legs broken on a room with the only door having stairs, so I got stuck with nothing to kill myself. I had to wait for 1 hour to die from starvation. 

Edited February 10, 2020 by Alphajim

[slowfast70 12]

New try new chance. Here is my new car. It was not my intention to repair a car. But then I found this car on the road near Brena. Gas was very low and spark plug was missing. I dont know why someone stopped and left the car there. May be someone decided to get gas at the gasstation (500 m distance). But you would hide it first, right? 

[slowfast70 12]

On 2/10/2020 at 10:12 AM, Alphajim said:

I had to wait for 1 hour to die from starvation. 

This must have been very painful 😉

[slowfast70 12]

I was driving with my car yesterday. Suddenly behind a curve there was a tree on the road and I could not brake in time. The two front tyres were ruined. But I managed to drive carefully in first gear to my base to fix it there again. I secured some items from the trunk in my boxes. Then I walked to the next village to look for two tires. It took a few hours until I was back at my base with two tires. The car was not there anymore! It is almost impossible that players drove away with the car because I took the ruined tires off. A finder would also have had to look for tires, unless he had tires in his luggage - very unlikely in the southern forests. Will the server automatically place the car somewhere again if it has a damage? How much time do I have to repair a car? 

Two tires but no car...

 

Edited February 15, 2020 by slowfast70
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[drgullen 596]

 

@slowfast70

I've had some similar experiences with cars and never quite figured out why it was happening, but yeah, I think yours vanished due to damage.

I have no proof of this whatsoever, so this is simply my theory based on experience -- I think once the car (or a part thereof) gets ruined, the entire car itself is marked for respawn, so even though you removed the ruined tires, the car vanished anyway.  I crashed once and the only visible damage to my car was the radiator and I did the same thing as you did -- I removed it, discarded it and went looking for another one.  In my case, there was some industrial nearby and I lucked out and found one very quickly (like within 15 minutes), so I was back where the car was within 30 minutes and it was also gone.

Now sure, it is possible that someone saw me, had a radiator on them, popped it in and drove away, but I was never shot at while driving, saw nobody in the area and my gut feeling is that it simply vanished.  It had no other red-state (i.e. "ruined") items on it, including the car itself, so it should not have disappeared.

[slowfast70 12]

@drgullen Thanks for sharing your experience. This would explain everything. Either you already have important parts with you or you have to go and look for them. In my case, I would have had to drive from place to place with the car and the broken tires to the scrap cars. It gets difficult when it has just gotten dark. I also noticed that a server doesn't want to give you any tires at all! I once walked from scrap car to scrap car of the same brand for a very long time (5 scrap gunters in Sitnik). At some point, of course, you give up. Only after I logged out and logged in again after a certain time, I finally found some. In your case you even cant drive with a ruined radiator to secure your car, you need to fill it with water first. The engine gets ruined quite fast.

I think we need more time to replace a damaged part, as your example with the radiator shows. Do the hood, doors and headlights count as important parts that have to be replaced ?

DayZ developer: please give us more time to repair a car.

Edited February 16, 2020 by slowfast70

[slowfast70 12]

I am back with car. This was really a hard tour to get a car. I even walked from Topolin, Zalesie, Polana, Nadbor and had fight with wolfs. They always wound you and ruin your clothes. And the zombies seem to be stronger now with better KI.  At different places I used wooden crates to store items temporaly. Now I am driving a tour to collect the crates.   

 

Here I use one headlight only

Sometimes the car rolls over for no apparent reason. So I always drive slowly. And when the message appears: No message received within x seconds, then I brake immediately and wait.  Maybe a synchronization is possible again.  But what really is annoying is this constant rumbling while driving, as if the car has no shock absorbers.  

 

Edited February 18, 2020 by slowfast70

[slowfast70 12]

Hello, I have to fix a new car, because somebody killed me when passing the checkpoint between Gieraltow and Wrzeszc. When the player fired at me, the car was directed against the sandbags and I could not get out...

I have to ask again about the rules for repairing a car to prevent the server from not placing the car somewhere else after a restart.
 
I had found a car and I only had to find a tire and the radiator to get the car ready to drive. After that I drove the car into a forest and then went to the next village to look for a fuel canister, because the fuel gauge was in the red area. I searched for a long time and came also back to the place where I repaired the car.  There was the same car again! So I went back to the forest where I had actually parked the car and the car was actually not there anymore! In the meantime the server had reset the car after a restart. Why? There was only little fuel in the car and the doors, hood and trunk lid were missing. But otherwise everything was ok, no damages!  

Please look at the following picture with another car.

I had parked this car there about three days ago and used all spare parts for another car with less damage. Here all tires are missing, battery, spark plug, radiator. The hood and the driver's door are ruined! So, why does the server leave this car on the picture there and put the car I made ready to drive today back to its origin place (without radiator)???

I just can't figure out what must not be missing or broken to not lose the car through the server.

 

[slowfast70 12]

Don't you think that the developers are overdoing it a bit with the damage to the car? I've had to leave two cars behind in the meantime. I started to lurch with both cars and as luck would have it, one of them ended up exactly at a road sign. I was still able to brake down to about 10-15 km, but I couldn't prevent the collision. But then both front tires, the hood, the radiator and the front doors were ruined. The road sign however did not get a scratch. A bit exaggerated for the fact that it can take quite a long time to get all the parts for a car together, right? 

When I had to sit out a rain in a damaged car, two players drove past and stopped.  To be on the safe side, I ran away despite the heavy rain. But then they could take all the spare parts and utensils. They must have laughed their heads off when they saw me in the car in front of the road sign.  But maybe they had some pity, because the car was still there and wasn't missing that much. 

[slowfast70 12]

Wow, new car made a somersault on the road, when I wanted to start a tour. Front tires, hood, one front side door ruined, radiator damaged. Is it possible to repair a radiator? I found a description of someone who fixed it with epoxy in the past. But it doesnt work. 

 

Edited February 24, 2020 by slowfast70

[slowfast70 12]

Oh no, I died in my base. I forgot to log out when writing the last message and I had a real meal after that. It seems as if it started raining again in the meantime, which then led to an undercooling. Stupid me...

[slowfast70 12]

I decided to make a big tour with my car today. When I passed Kolembrody I saw a Bambi fighting with zombies. I drove by them slowly.  I heard his voice: "Hey, please wait." I stopped to pick him up. He had only fought the zombies with his fists. He got in and I drove off. He asked me to bring him to Topolin. ok, Topolin was on my way 🙂 But I had to stop, he was bleeding. He had to put on bandages.

At Brena there was a big base on the road blocking the "traffic". I had to take a detour. Finally we arrived in Topolin. When I stopped to let him get out, we were already being shot from behind. So I had to accelerate again. The rear and front windows were shot, but we were not wounded. I drove on for 300 meters, stopped and he could jump out. He said: "Thank you, you re a good person"! 🙂 I drove on and came through Zalesie. I saw only one Zombie running behind my car and I couldnt say if the Zombie was already there because of me or of another player. When I left the village I stopped to check the damages. A rear car tire was heavily damaged. Of course I had repair kit in the trunk. The shooter in Topolin had  also tried to shoot the tires. When the tire was fixed, someone fired at me. The first shot missed.  My reflex was to get into the car and drive off. When starting the engine, the other player hit me. I died. Not fair, is it? 🙂 Well, it won't be my last car. Maybe it would have been better to pick up a gun and shoot too. The car could have covered me.  

Edited February 26, 2020 by slowfast70