The crashed heli's are loot nodes that reset and relocate with each server restart. They cannot be repaired. Just random 'buildings' that spawn the rarest and best military gear in the mod. If you find one shortly after a restart, it's like x-mas, your birthday, and a land-mine all rolled into one. Be -very- cautious approaching crashed heli's and don't go to ANY that are marked on the map. There is a very good chance bandits will camp and kill anyone approaching them. Serviceable helicopters are the UH-1H (Takistani) and can be repaired and flown. Recently, there has been a bug causing many vehicles to be unsaveable. They tend to re-locate themselves to their last location and have even been known to respawn fully repaired. My buddy and I had one for all of a day before a reset ported it back to the site where we found it. After the second reset, we gave up on refueling the thing (100 gas cans for full tank) and left it be.
So I guess someone had been there since the last reset and gotten everything. I approached it at night mostly because I saw the light and wasn't sure what it was. Do you know how often/when 1182 restarts? FYI, that is the server I was on when I encountered the heli... any idea who those guys were?
Game was really fun... Bethesda is going to be making it into a full game for real. i can't wait for that to come out.
oodlez..we really need to play. ive been on it all day today. was rescued by a medic team (have their own TeamSpeak). Then followed along to offer my gun and support incase they needed support fire while doing their thing. Im also scavenging around for vehicle parts for them so they can fix up more rides since they use them for good (not hording them like clans do). I have a secret to show you in the game that will allow you to use a single soda and single food item (like beans or something) and you can eat and drink a thousand times and it wont ever go away. eating the food also restores a 200 blood count forever..no need for blood packs EVER. all you really need are stims for when you break something. i think you can even use the same method for bandages (use 1 for ever). someone i ran into showed me ingame randomly...its not a cheat, its a glitch in the mod..since i was tired of dying from dehydration in a day or hungar in a day, i felt it was justified until they lengthen the time it takes for those to go down. i really want to find some trustworthy players to start grouping with. ive been on 1407 and 1563 (non dallas) since they were pretty empty. the full ones are FULL of TKers and i cant stand random deaths unprovoked. my dayzforum account is ".Ender." and my ingame name i go by is "Ender".
After spending a morning on 1182, I'm seeing a lot of sync issues (bad connection to the Hive) and am re-thinking of making it my home server. I'll come check out 1407 later this morning and see what I can see.
I was play with ghizmo on 1182 last night getting him started, food/water/weapons. We were raiding a supermarket, encounteredanother "friendly" who left peacefully.... then returned 5 minutes later in a car and ran us down. Awesome. Back to square 1.
Re-started at lunch for a little bit. Spawned near Elektro and skirted it heading WNW, looted a small town for soda, water bottle, CZ with scope and a few mags and a hatchet. I got greedy and was moving towards another industrial building but was spotted and cut off. I ran to the woods and dropped 2 zeds in so many shots, but am down to 7500 blood. Not a terrible start. I'm heading to some residential drops on my way back west and hope to be hunting soon. As for the server, I'm not picky. Frankly I enjoy the higher difficulty servers, without the challenge it really kills the point of playing for me. But, if ping is the issue, I'm fine with exploring others up until I get a tent.
I can help with the blood. And some useful supplies. You're also in a perfect spot to meet up, providing we can get online at the same time. I'm back to work (from my weekend) so will be available most in the early AM PST (the time of this posting is a fluke. Couldn't sleep).
Hrm. Disregard anything on 1182 for the moment. It appears that they've rolled their server version back to 1.7.2.4. Something smells wonky.
Yeah the server I was on glitched all of our camp items. we had about 8 tents FULL of the top weapons, vehicle parts, EVERYTHING. Tons of outfits, supplies, night vision, gps, etc. ALL GONE. it wasnt stolen. i switched servers, switched back about 10min later and every tent was just gone. this was on a diff server. moving our stuff from US 1967 because we didnt feel our stuff was safe on that server with people roaming the north/west forests. so now im down to all i have on me. Coyote pack which is nice, and a bunch of supplies...good thing is I do have another tent so i can try to find another location. im just weary of where to put it..affraid it wont be there next time again.... with night vision i play mostly in night servers...much better for not getting randomly capped by a sniper. been playing with organized medic units raiding towns and stuff, going to the aide of hurt survivors as their support as they need it.
Word is that the Hive server is reaching or has reached capacity, causing gear issues. Especially with tents. I'm thinking we'll be seeing a reset soon in preparation for the stand-alone.
I've died and restarted a few times over the weekend Varg, but as always I'm back on my feet. Right now I'm pretty much in the middle of the map with my DMR, a 1911, Silenced 9mm (no ammo), food/water/ability to hunt. Once again, I'm just trying to find that tent and start on a vehcile. Rather than brave the NW airfield, I've been trying my luck with supermarkets and med/high yield residential drops but to no avail. Is there a good place that you've found reliable to find tents that ISN'T a highly dangerous military zone?
I had left a tent with a fully loaded (incl. a tent for you) backpack at the coordinates I PM'd you with.. Thanks to a glitch, or someone finding it (unlikely), the gear was gone when I last checked. As glitchy as things have been, you may want to check there on 1182 to see if it's respawned the gear. You find tents in Residential spawns, mostly. Grocery stores have been my best bet.
Yeah, with all the glitches, bugs, hacks, server hopping, etc... I'm slowly realizing that the long term playability of the game outside of wanting to camp loot spawns and shoot other players simply isn't there. Not that I'm quitting, as there are still some things on my Dayz bucket list I want to do, but I'd be surprised if I'm still playing 10 days from now
Agreed. I -really- want to keep with it, but spending an hour each time I log in running back to (hopefully) loot my own corpse isn't my idea of a fun time.
Probably the last thing I'll do is get a military vehicle up and running, drive it to NWAF and go full throttle up and down the tarmac, horn blarring. I'll promptly be shot to hell by machine gun fire and probably call it quits until a standalone is released I've not really been on Dayz forums, is there an official site for the developing standalone? Schedule, etc?
Dean Hall (Bohemia Interactive) is the guy who started up DayZ in his own time (read: not paid) and has convinced the studio to get it going full time. His plan is to adopt the "Minecraft" style of development and release a paid Alpha that will get you the full version at release. Updates will be frequent and incremental, but we should see a lot of improvements right away in the realms of anti-cheating and other good infrastructure fixes.
Played DayZ for the first time today with a dorm buddy. First I kept hearing pinging for five minutes before finally getting shot in the head. Realizing that it was the world's worst sniper taking five minutes to finally kill me. Then a hacker teleported everyone n the server 40 yards above the airfield so they died on impact with the ground. After that we switched servers and found a broken car. Spent the better half of the night finding parts to repair it then moved it to a safe location and saved. I could get easily addicted to this game.
As much as I loved the game, it simply has no replayability for me in the current PvP environment. No incentive not to just kill everyone immediately and it turns the game into a buggy, graphically awkward version of CoD. I am awaiting the standalone and hopehul it will address the many meta aspects of the game.
