Finding Vehicles Useless

[patriots20068@yahoo.com 100]

At this moment in the game, I'm finding vehicles useless. I've been playing for three weeks and haven't came across ONE vehicle. I use the DayZ DB map so I know where the vehicles spawn. And if I'm ever in the area, I check. I hate walking all over the map. I've made multiple trips from the coast North to Stary Sobor so many times on foot and back its ridiculous. Just give me a bicycle, motorcycle, ATV. Something. If clans are just going to horde all the vehicles when the server is made, or hackers hide the vehicles, I find them useless. Its like a part of the game I'm not getting to experience. I've made it my mission just to vehicle hunt every life from now on.

[SawseBawze 17]

cry more.

[Priceless 154]

Wow u mad? It took me like 1.5 months to get my first NVG things like that and vehicles are supposed to be RARE!!

[Ped 80]

As I'm sure you can understand, vehicles are a rare commodity. Are you sure you want one? Because, unless you hide it particularly well, it will be taken. Perhaps it will be taken out from under your dead body.

I find them to be a liability. Not only do they alert people to my location from how loud their engines are (unless it's a bicycle but who can feel like a badass sniper riding a bicycle through the forest?) and how easily they are shot into disrepair.

It is better to use your legs imho.

[SadPanda (DayZ) 181]

I've found several UAZ (Red) at Stary lately. (Different servers, of course)

That's where me and my friends found our first vehicle.

[Viles (DayZ) 93]

Ive still never found nvgs ingame its always come from another player by choice or not.

Why dont you just find someone who has a car.. be friends with them go to the shops and buy battlefield 3 and drive all you want

[BunnyHillPro 111]

JOIN A CLAN?!?!??!???!?!?!??! *face palm* *The answer is right infront of you*

[DEOVONTAY MCSLANGA 149]

Try a consistently lower population server. Hackers don't frequent them as often, as they want to fuck with as many people at once as possible. They're also less likely to have large clans bogarting all the vehicles too.

Our current server peaks at about 10 players, today alone we found an off-road pick-up truck, three bicycles, an ATV, and a bright red motorcycle (the only one we actually stole from someone's camp). Obviously it's a lot easier to find more vehicles once you have one of your own, as you can check the spawns much faster and hunt other player's camps more efficiently.

Sadly we lost all of those vehicles to a sudden server restart. Although we saved all of them, they disappeared along with our six tents. Not sure if they're ever going to come back. Kind of sad.

Also, there are only a few times when vehicles actually appear at their spawns:

1. Someone parked it outside the boundaries of the map and waited more than 24 hours.

2. The vehicle explodes AND someone saves it as a toasted wreck.

3. The vehicle isn't touched for more than 7 days or so.

So theoretically if all the vehicles on the server are already taken, you will never ever find them actually at the spawn. Also, most of the spawns for vehicles are still undocumented on most maps so you'll commonly find them where the map doesn't show a spawn.

Your best bet if you really want to play on a high population server is to try to find other player's camps. Places to check would be:

1. Anywhere on the northern and western borders of the map. I will warn you, this is boring as shit. Literally all you do is walk through what feels like vast and pointless forest hoping to spot a tent or a car. It really sucks, but the payoff is spectacular when you find a camp with a UAZ and a couple tents filled with goodies.

2. Parts of the map that are not between major loot areas. There's a few small towns that no one ever visits because there's no reason to go there. This is where really crafty players build camps. People know to check the borders for camps, but they rarely bother looking inside a low value log cabin in Shakhovka.

3. Specifically if you want boats, check Krutoy Cap. Most clans will hide PBXs among the rocks for easy loot transportation to Skalitsy island (assuming they don't have the helicopter. Even if they do this is the only useful place to actually have a boat).

4. Anywhere you look on the map and think "Damn why would anyone ever go there?"

[DEOVONTAY MCSLANGA 149]

cry more.

Grow up.

Many servers legitimately have their vehicles essentially removed for weeks at a time because hackers teleported them into the ocean.

Also, even though clans earn the right to have all the vehicles if they find them all most do not do so legitimately. You hear a lot of stories about amins locking down servers right after a new patch or restart so they can hoard every vehicle on the map. This is just plain shitty.

[ajbader@umich.edu 7]

Seen many tractors... but who the hell wants to drive one? They can haul stuff, but you're helpless when you are driving the plains with them.

Other than that, driven bicycles and ATV's. Seen a bus to drive once on another server but it was in the middle of cherno and wasnt worth the risk. Seen a bunch of people driving cars and pickup trucks, but never got my hands on one myself.

Haven't seen a helicopter though.

[The Sad Panda 113]

Honestly, at first it sounds like having a vehicle will be awesome...but... once you realize that

> Using a vehicle makes you extremely high profile

> You end up worrying about your vehicles safety more than you get to enjoy actually using it

> Hackers love to blow up your precious vehicles

> Shifty Admins have a nasty habit of kicking you from the server to steal your vehicle

> Most vehicles end up being bigger tents, because it's very hard to keep them safe in the field

At least, that's what I've come to realize after owning a few

[Markedgun 15]

I for one, believe vehicle maps are completely useless because A:I believe that vehicles spawn in completely random spawn points like crashed helis and B:Most servers have either hackers/trolls who just hide vehicles or clans who horde vehicles.

[☣BioHaze☣ 7337]

Seen many tractors... but who the hell wants to drive one? They can haul stuff, but you're helpless when you are driving the plains with them.

....

A tractor is fine too, it has good off-road but only seats 1. But it beats the heck out of walking!

That being said I've been playing for over a month; I'm a lone wolf mountain man sort who avoids PvP for the most part, and I've come across more than a few very large camps, and even more vehicles.

I also play on low pop servers and scour the northern areas as suggested above, this seems to work really well if you have some patience.

4 tractors, 2 bicycles, 3 pickup trucks, 2 buses, 1 SUV, and just the other day a pristine fully fueled Motorcycle with 2 jerry cans in storage was found just perfectly perched on a hill just before debug plains.

Buzzing the NW airfield wearing NVG's doing 90mph watching the bewildered survivors gawk as I plow through zombies.....

I must have lapped the map 4 times that night, good times, good times....

Shitty server reset made me lose that bike while riding it.

P.S.: to keep a low profile just avoid the roads in high PvP cities and areas. Driving through the woods with most vehicles isn't too tough.

Edited August 12, 2012 by BioHaze

[DEOVONTAY MCSLANGA 149]

Seen many tractors... but who the hell wants to drive one? They can haul stuff, but you're helpless when you are driving the plains with them.

Other than that, driven bicycles and ATV's. Seen a bus to drive once on another server but it was in the middle of cherno and wasnt worth the risk. Seen a bunch of people driving cars and pickup trucks, but never got my hands on one myself.

Haven't seen a helicopter though.

Tractors aren't too bad, they can reach speeds of 50-60 km/h offroad and over 100 on paved roads. The open driver's compartment does make you a sitting duck though and they're extremely noisy. I'd still take one any day over not having a vehicle, makes it that much easier to find other people's cars (and preferably more subtle cars).

Also, buses are usually a trap. They're fairly useless unless you have 5+ friends you want to play with and you don't have an ural, especially considering they can only viably drive on paved roads. When me and my friends find a bus we drive it to the middle of Elektro and set up to snipe anyone who climbs in it... so your choice to avoid that one was probably for the better :)

[DEOVONTAY MCSLANGA 149]

A tractor is fine too, it has good off-road but only seats 1. But it beats the heck out of walking!

That being said I've been playing for over a month; I'm a lone wolf mountain man sort who avoids PvP for the most part, and I've come across more than a few very large camps, and even more vehicles.

I also play on low pop servers and scour the northern areas as suggested above, this seems to work really well if you have some patience.

4 tractors, 2 bicycles, 2 pickup trucks, 1 bus, 1 SUV, and just the other day a pristine fully fueled Motorcycle with 2 jerry cans in storage was found just perfectly perched on a hill just before debug plains.

Buzzing the NW airfield wearing NVG's doing 90mph watching the bewildered survivors gawk as I plow through zombies.....

I must have lapped the map 4 times that night, good times, good times....

Shitty server reset made me lose that bike while riding it.

P.S.: to keep a low profile just avoid the roads in high PvP cities and areas. Driving through the woods with most vehicles isn't too tough.

This is pretty much our whole "clan" (there's 4 of us).

We stick to low pop servers and avoid people, but we pack a lot of very large guns if people mess with us. We worship the Boar Gods to keep our pretty things safe, but when bad things happen to them any way we wander into town on a high population server and lure a few kids up to Mount Olympia (home of the Gods and shitty shotguns). Then we break their legs and slowly bleed them out, only to give them a few transfusions and do it again. It's a mean thing to do, but the Boar Gods demand sacrifice and who are we mortals to deny them?

[Zeromentor 169]

Yep, most if not all clan owned servers are down for about 6 hours when they are original put up. This is called, "Testing", but in reality they are collecting and repairing the vehicles, hitting crash sites and checking out the NWAF.

After that, they open the server.

Non-clan servers have a similar problem, again clan related. But they are not locked while this happens.

Some servers have individual hoarders. Some have collectors, and a small few are just bugged or hacked and have no vehicles.

The chances of finding a vehicle in a spawn is very low due to this. Beware using vehicles on some servers, as they have a habit of "accidentally" kicking you when a friend of the admin spots you driving around. I have no proof, so I won't name names.

[thee_grandmaster@hotmail.com 11]

Will trade you a car on a good server.

PM me with an offer.

1 Red car.

2. Tractor.

Keeping the rest :-D

[Frunk 29]

Found my 1st vehicle last night, an Off Road Truck, it was sitting at the Fire Station in Cherno I believe. Drove all the way to Devil's castle, and was almost out of gas, and got the truck stuck on some random rock driving off road. But it was a nice free ride up to the NW Airfield. Only to eventually get respawned to the coast today :(

Edit: This was on a lower populated server, less than 10 people.

Edited August 12, 2012 by Frunk

[AllYoYens 34]

Found tons of them. Key is to not look for them. You will definitely find one that way,