Vehicles

[phil bottle 9,742]

I've not really played much DayZ standalone since early on, prefer to wait until it's in better shape.

 

According to an announcement today they're finally adding vehicles.

 

In the experimental servers first, and pretty rudimentary but this is a positive step in the right direction.

 

Now I wantz the heliz too.

 

http://steamcommunity.com/games/221100#announcements/detail/145568104466458813

 

 

[J4MES OX4D 10,025]

It's been a long road but DayZ is finally getting there! I think the devs have done extremely well despite falling a couple of months behind and having to deal with people who bought the alpha and were left dumbfounded when they realised it wasn't a finished game I've really enjoyed the game this year - mostly done two months on and two off between updates but I'll be hopping on again in the next couple of weeks to see how it's progressed past ver.50. I hope vehicles aren't too readily available and easy to get going as the already-toxic community will be causing carnage with the feature just like the tent frenzy! The game is fantastic on foot though but vehicles in some form are highly anticipated and welcomed. 

 

Still a long way to go but DayZ has the potential to be one of the best games ever produced. 

[jordie1892 681]

Hunting was a big step forward and now vehicles. The game is starting to fulfill it's potential. All that is left is the ability to make base camps

[phil bottle 9,742]

I had a go last night and took a trip up to the NW airfield (like old times lol). I think I was on a weird server as loot was stacked upon loot everywhere, could have kitted out a small army.

 

Vehicles are great and when they're fully implemented they'll be very useful, though more for hearing when trouble is approaching, as in life I prefer to cycle.

 

I believe there's supposed to be persistence already but I won't know until I find a tent and test it out. I'm a hoarder.

[J4MES OX4D 10,025]

0.51 stable live now

 

New Items:

• V3S
• Ghillie Suite (Hood, Bushrag, Top)
• Ghillie Weapon Wrap
• Jerry can
• Military Tent
• Human Flesh
• Netting
• Steyr Aug
• MP133 with pistol grip
• Burlap strips

New Mechanics:

• Vehicles
• Vehicles refueling
• Prion Disease
• New crafting recipes
• Updated heat transfer
• Watering plants

Fixed:

• Abuse of vomiting to gain energy
• Mending balaclavas
• Splitting and combining netting
• Splitting and combining burlap strips
• Ammo box dragging on magazines
• Combining and splitting worms
• Breaking out of restraints fixes
• Uncuffing using keys
• Picking up mp133 from the ground
• Rangefinder mechanics
• Items are no longer pristine only
• Skinning should now give pelts properly
• V3S going uphill
• V3S physics simulation
• V3S damage to characters
• V3S collisions
• V3S fueling mechanic
• Memory Leaks
• And a lot more!

Known Issues:

• Item locked in hands slot
• Items can't be picked up sometimes
• Left earpice sound volume is lowered sometimes
• Ghillie will probably react badly on chemlight, flare and other light sources
• Some items will freeze in midair when you throw them multiple times in a row
• Some items will visually duplicate themselves if used from the ground

@Phil^ seems the loot on some servers were botched to buggery - I found 23 pairs of trousers, 16 potatoes, 12 compasses and about 10 backpacks on my usual server but feck all ammo which is typical! Seems like it's fixed now though

[phil bottle 9,742]

Nice one James, I hadn't noticed, I've been trying out the experimental servers recently but couldn't get near a vehicle.

[J4MES OX4D 10,025]

Nice one James, I hadn't noticed, I've been trying out the experimental servers recently but couldn't get near a vehicle.

The closest I got to a vehicle today was nearly getting run over by a truck  Luckily I was on a night server so I wasn't spotted (I don't think) but I heard it coming down the road and didn't realise what the noise was until I saw it 10 feet away before I dived off the road. 

 

I still ain't found a normal tent yet so I'm not holding out much hope of getting behind the wheel any time soon! 

 

Those military tents look decent though and 250 slots apparently - plenty of room for my 25 potatoes to fit in now

[phil bottle 9,742]

Yep, my search for a tent is never ending, I hear they spawn in the high rise buildings in Dubky so I'm headed there tonight

[jordie1892 681]

I'll probably be on later tonight and have a look. Sounds like we're getting closer and closer to the finished product.

[J4MES OX4D 10,025]

Day 2 and still haven't grabbed a truck

 

Plenty of potatoes and kiwis around though

 

I was on a server with ONE other person in the middle of fricking nowhere and managed to bump into him and save his bacon from two zombies. I was rewarded with a can of bacon too! I'm quite near Devils Castle and the NW Airfield so may have a butchers and see if I can grab a tent in the vicinity and see what the crack is down at the strip. I may have to bite the bullet and look for vehicle locations from the map although I prefer to stumble upon them. I've covered so many bloody miles today and turned up next to nothing and I'm still rolling with a shitty Repeater AR which sways crazily. Mags seem bloody rare even in barracks now. Plenty of guns lurking in the SW military base in the woods but jack shit ammo. The Balota barracks have also been removed on the SW coast but there is a new one called Myshkino in the North West so I'll have to check that out.

[phil bottle 9,742]

I had a quick wander round last night, made it over to Green Mountain but yeah I noticed too the lack of ammo and only certain rifles seems to spawn too. May simply have been the server.

[J4MES OX4D 10,025]

I had a quick wander round last night, made it over to Green Mountain but yeah I noticed too the lack of ammo and only certain rifles seems to spawn too. May simply have been the server.

I'm in prime position overlooking Myshkino Military at the moment and I'm gonna see what the gist is there regarding weapons and ammo http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/538508558089051133/70DA62FE89DB50AA7883A806C2816DC96128865F/Took me over an hour to get there from the other side of Devils Castle so I better not have a wasted trip. Hard place to find too because you're practically off the map far-west plus going up and down hills with not a single road or signpost in sight. I can see why they moved the base there instead of having it in Balota where you had the airbase and city either side. People just to to hunt there and then either cause hell on the airstrip or go straight up the road and PVP it in the town! Myshkino is way outta the way though and if I don't get something good here; I wont return.

[J4MES OX4D 10,025]

Well my trip to to the Myshkino base was a complete waste of time; turned up just a few tins of beans, a water bottle and a few boxes of single bullets for guns I don't have. I think I was first on the scene too which made the loot seem even more disappointing. Wont be trekking out there again that's for sure. Took a 20 minute stroll to the military backs just a little south east of Pavlovo and managed to grab 4 clips of 7.62 AK ammo with 165 bullets including a 75 capacity drum. Pity I have no AK of any sort though

[jordie1892 681]

Was on for a bit tonight. Had a decent skirmish at the NW airfield but found no decent loot whilst I was there. Still haven't seen vehicles or tents yet...

[phil bottle 9,742]

Talk of Myshkino  reminds me of playing the mod. I'd use the woods east of there to hide tents, vehicles, even helis. 

 

Makes me pine for a bike

 

I'l be on later, I have a new headset to test out

[J4MES OX4D 10,025]

I have a new headset to test out

They've added some new sounds which I knew nothing about until now which is your character basically going insane and laughing/talking to himself in a really chilling way. I was just playing on a daytime server strolling down a peaceful road and suddenly I heard this evil laugh and I'm not joking; I absolutely shit myself  At first I thought it was another player hunting/trolling me so I was running round in circles and trying to get cover and to spot the other person in the process. After nobody popped out and I wasn't killed; I continued on my merry way and then I heard the demonic laugh again and I was like; fuck that and logged off whilst standing in the middle of a road out in the open. I completely shat my pants once again! After digging around; it seems if your character gets the Kuru disease or is/has been recently wounded; he can kinda lose the plot and start talking to himself or randomly chuckling away. That has completely put me off playing for the rest of the night - I really can't believe how that caught me off guard  Bravo to the devs; that's some epic, sipmle audio that has a powerful effect!

[phil bottle 9,742]

^that's brilliant, I didn't know that. I didn't get a chance to play yesterday as I was drinking beer with a pixie in covent garden

[J4MES OX4D 10,025]

^that's brilliant, I didn't know that. I didn't get a chance to play yesterday as I was drinking beer with a pixie in covent garden

Skip to about 3.40 and it's 'Male Laughing 2' that caused my brown pants situation

[phil bottle 9,742]

I actually found a truck last night, VS3 I think it's called. In Devil's Castle it was.

 

I started back on DayZ again a little bit lately. A mate of mine streams his DayZ on Twitch most nights so I joined him for a laugh. He crashed the truck five seconds after we found it and couldn't get it started again.