A tale about the scrap ferry...
Posted: 04 Dec 2015 11:43
Here is my question... How can you get a truck back from Vlad to the main island?
And here is a tale about my attempts last night:
I had been thinking to myself, I'm bored of using my Merlin to go everywhere, and feeling the pressure landing it with an engine on 4% with AI always being in the vicinity; why not get a cool looking truck I thought to myself?!
I have a friend a with a wikkid looking mercenary truck (aka colonel truck). Where did you get that I asked? He told me he knew where another one was but it would be difficult getting back as I would need to drive through the military island (he called it PKKK or something like that).
I then had a 'lightbulb' moment. Its OK I said, Ill just put it on a scrap ferry.
So, I get his better half to fly us over in their only working chopper, land safely, repair the truck before server restart. All ready for my next trip - finding my ferry and crossing to my homeland.
Logged back in to find myself under chopper fire - damned mission had spawned instantly where I was (luckily I was behind a fruit bin). My friend log in and we manage to get to a bunker for safety. My friend has a pc moment, crashes... logs back in with a broken leg and bleeding. Chopper seems to have gone now so result! Or so we thought.
I get in my new wikkid looking truck and start to drive away. Then I hear - 'the chopper isnt working'. OK, so I am feeling bad now. Ive lost them their only working chopper all because I wanted a cool looking truck (which to add insult to their already injury, they wouldnt be the only one with that cool looking truck).
We decide to take the truck back and I will fly them back in my Merlin to get their chopper - easy!
AI chopper comes again but we evade it with some dardevil driving!!
We found the ferry at first attempt on the shore where I had made a guess there should be one - happy dayz! I make a splint for my friend - things are looking up.
The truck fits - Wooot! Fill the ferry up with some fuel and the three of us jump aboard.
It takes a few minutes to get her off the beach but finally we are emabarking on what has so far been a mission and a half just to get a truck - but we have it!
'We're sinking!!!' is what my driver tells me, and he is certainly on the money with that one. So we decide to work our way back to the beach... try to reposition the truck... off we go again.
At the bottom of the sea swimming with the fishes... we eject and swim back to the beach.
So now we are on the wrong island, no food, no water, no ammo left, no vehicle and nowhere near home.
My friend, the 'driver' as will be known, decides to dive back in... he lowers the ramp of the ferry and then attempts to free the ferry. Whoooosh! He flies past me at a rate of knots shooting out of the water and landing in the trees. By this point of three of can no longer contain our laughter - we ring out in hilarious tones and end up saying... thats Dayz for you!
We did manage to get the ferry back in the water and return to the main island, got a few too many Zeds on our trail trying to return to a base - and yes, I managed to accidentally 1 shot my friend when trying to lessen the swarm of Zeds - Ooops!
So that is how my evening rolled out... just because I wanted a truck from another island.
So can anyone help me in how to get a truck back from an island?
And here is a tale about my attempts last night:
I had been thinking to myself, I'm bored of using my Merlin to go everywhere, and feeling the pressure landing it with an engine on 4% with AI always being in the vicinity; why not get a cool looking truck I thought to myself?!
I have a friend a with a wikkid looking mercenary truck (aka colonel truck). Where did you get that I asked? He told me he knew where another one was but it would be difficult getting back as I would need to drive through the military island (he called it PKKK or something like that).
I then had a 'lightbulb' moment. Its OK I said, Ill just put it on a scrap ferry.
So, I get his better half to fly us over in their only working chopper, land safely, repair the truck before server restart. All ready for my next trip - finding my ferry and crossing to my homeland.
Logged back in to find myself under chopper fire - damned mission had spawned instantly where I was (luckily I was behind a fruit bin). My friend log in and we manage to get to a bunker for safety. My friend has a pc moment, crashes... logs back in with a broken leg and bleeding. Chopper seems to have gone now so result! Or so we thought.
I get in my new wikkid looking truck and start to drive away. Then I hear - 'the chopper isnt working'. OK, so I am feeling bad now. Ive lost them their only working chopper all because I wanted a cool looking truck (which to add insult to their already injury, they wouldnt be the only one with that cool looking truck).
We decide to take the truck back and I will fly them back in my Merlin to get their chopper - easy!
AI chopper comes again but we evade it with some dardevil driving!!
We found the ferry at first attempt on the shore where I had made a guess there should be one - happy dayz! I make a splint for my friend - things are looking up.
The truck fits - Wooot! Fill the ferry up with some fuel and the three of us jump aboard.
It takes a few minutes to get her off the beach but finally we are emabarking on what has so far been a mission and a half just to get a truck - but we have it!
'We're sinking!!!' is what my driver tells me, and he is certainly on the money with that one. So we decide to work our way back to the beach... try to reposition the truck... off we go again.
At the bottom of the sea swimming with the fishes... we eject and swim back to the beach.
So now we are on the wrong island, no food, no water, no ammo left, no vehicle and nowhere near home.
My friend, the 'driver' as will be known, decides to dive back in... he lowers the ramp of the ferry and then attempts to free the ferry. Whoooosh! He flies past me at a rate of knots shooting out of the water and landing in the trees. By this point of three of can no longer contain our laughter - we ring out in hilarious tones and end up saying... thats Dayz for you!
We did manage to get the ferry back in the water and return to the main island, got a few too many Zeds on our trail trying to return to a base - and yes, I managed to accidentally 1 shot my friend when trying to lessen the swarm of Zeds - Ooops!
So that is how my evening rolled out... just because I wanted a truck from another island.
So can anyone help me in how to get a truck back from an island?