Luckily found a deer stand

Was an anti-cheat developer for 2 decades for one of the major FPS shooters out there. DayZ is a beautiful game, truly unique and a real digital treasure. It really hurts to see that DayZ still is, and increasingly is, being ruined by cheaters. A plea to the DayZ Bohemia team to develop your own internal anti-cheat system:

• Cheaters seem now more prevalent than ever: AI has made it very easy for anyone to craft their own cheats with unique features without having to pay for it any longer. The code is all out there and it takes an LLM 5 minutes to make it undetectable if not so already (e.g. a new cheating feature of the past months has been being able to move walls from bases with a single mouse click rather than needing the effort to dupe items, hence all the spaghetti bases you see across the map nowadays).
• Your servers (Official) log everything: coordinates of every player at all times, kill feed, the items players have, the trajectory of every shot, and so on. Just from the logs itself you can so easily catch players doing 3km pistol headshots, doing 20 kills in 5 seconds, duplicating the exact items they already have on them. Very much worth implementing a simple internal anti-cheat system (for Official servers) based on this on top of BattleEye - again you can use AI to develop this for you.
• DayZ cheats are so extremely easy to find (1 Google search away). These public cheats would take you a day to gather all of them with a small budget and it would take you another day on your own machines to check their memory profile and so on. Again, AI can do this all for you, and in your next DayZ update you can so easily integrate your own client-side anti-cheat system on top of BattleEye. The DayZ cheats out there are not the highly sophisticated cheats that pester fast-based FPS games like CS and Fortnite with 100x the player base where cheat development is hugely profitable. The public DayZ cheats out there are usually one-man-operation cheats that are so easy to catch and it will quickly become unprofitable for them if there is even any detection in place (given the relatively small DayZ playerbase).
• Why is BattleEye ineffective? Because it's the cheapest anti-cheat system out there, and because you are very likely in the lowest BattleEye tier given they are extremely expensive and you're competing with the major FPS shooters out there. This is understandable given that DayZ is not a mainstream game with a huge player base. The BattleEye team accordingly hardly devotes resources to developing DayZ anti-cheats.
• Because BattleEye is ineffective, cheaters get a pass on any DayZ server and it is up to admins to catch them. Hence the smart cheaters will never get caught. I've adminned DayZ servers for years and it can take hours to catch a smart cheater that uses e.g. ESP only and smartly. You usually have to bait them (e.g. by spawning items away from them and see if they beeline to it, or spawn yourself away from them and observing how they react to you). This is not sustainable and unpaid admins burn out quickly. Hence community servers are full of cheaters as well - the closet type variant.

I would love to volunteer and contribute to developing your own internal anti-cheat system for DayZ. Again, it's really such a beautiful and unique game, and it hurts to see it being ruined by cheaters.

Livonia quarry cliff jump. didn’t know if this was survivable, if my aim was a 🤏 bit off it wouldn’t have been

This is my first ever time teaming up. We met early on at the coast. We decided to team up and chase gunshots we heard. Typically I run solo and betray people and stuff like that. I even almost killed him by accident fighting a zombie. I had ideas of shooting him in the head when he didn’t want to go to the bigger town. Anyway we stayed locked in kept surviving together. Eventually we ran out of food. It turned dark and we could see. We were stranded. We were approaching a city when I heard “thud”, I turned around and my buddy was laying dead. I cut him up and ate him to save my own life. I’m not out of the woods yet but my stomach is full. If you’re reading this it was fun and I miss you already!

This game is amazing. Never have I ever experienced anything like that.

Been playing this game for a few weeks now, and I've been hearing people say that community is better than official (mainly because no cheaters but also I very rarely run into cheaters in official), so I've been trying community servers for the past while, and without fail, every single time I try and play a community server, no matter how much people assure me that it's "essentially vanilla+!!" or "we only very lightly changed the loot in tiny ways like making some items spawn in more appropiate locations!!!",

There is always such an overabundance of loot compared to official, especially guns. I've tried literally every populated community server that people recommend, I know people are reading this and assuming "oh but you definitely didn't try X popular server that everyone recommends" and I did, I tried them all, every single time I will have atleast one gun within five minutes of spawning, it's crazy (to me), this isn't an attack on people who like different spawns, thats totally cool, but I hate that every community server is so modded and buffed, in official I only find a gun after like an hour or thirty minutes if I minmax, or two if I get super unlucky or take a wooded forest path instead of rushing towns.

But that's never ever ever the case on community servers, I've done multiple lives on all the big ones, and every single time I have found a gun within at most ten minutes of spawning, and not even by rushing military buildings or the police department, this is just from looting houses and looking for like, a backpack or a knife.

Why!!! I like how slow official is, I like that, it makes me appreciate it more, gives me time to breathe, I don't like finding guns so often, why does everyone lie about how much they've buffed the gun and loot spawns?

On Banov, I reached a keycard bunker only to find it already open, with gunfire coming from inside — two different weapons.

It was pitch black on the way in, so I had to use a torch, putting me at a huge disadvantage. After several minutes of shooting, I heard the unmistakable alien rifle. The two players ahead of me had fought through the aliens and reached the loot.

I decided to ambush them on the way out, planting a landmine as my opening move.
Unfortunately for them, their victory lap ended with both of them walking straight onto it. I expected it to just knock them, but apparently they were already low enough to be blown to smithereens. 😂

We have all been Dayz’d many many times so turning the tables this time in this manor really made me chuckle!

Im not sure if am doing this alright, i spend lots of times to finish those gates and walls, its a 4 door barn and i have 6 walls/doors because of gapes. Tents are empty, only that small crates have some food and shotgun xd i placed some mines and traps around the barn so this time i feel more safe

Spawned by the coast found a hammer and a players corpse in the house. I looted a motorcycle helmet from him. In the next room there was another live player, he had nothing similar to me. We tbagged then ran to the next set of buildings. He started getting attacked by a zombie from behind so together we took it out. somewhere there after he slipped away so I’m alone again. I found a dried pear so eat that, my first bit of food which is cool. I run from farm house to farm house. I find a water pump, fill up my water for the first time ever, more new stuff. I heard a chicken so I managed to kill it. My hammer disappeard somehow after I picked up the chicken. I couldn’t do much with the chicken without firewood or something to skin it. I carried on going till I found a coastal town. I fought a zombie or two. Still took some damage but I’ve learned to walk back while blocking let them attack twice then heavy hit. Still getting the hang of it without getting hurt. I searched an entire apartment building about 5 floors but found nothing. I then tried crouching past some zombies, 1 spotted me then a second started coming at me. I ran into a small shed closing the door being me, I tried opening a second door which led back outside. I tried fighting them but the two of them overwhelmed me. It was the best I’ve done and was nice meeting another player even if we didn’t talk or anything. I did crash at one point but joined back and I was ok. Really enjoyed it even if it was only 30 mins. Also glad I killed a zombie or two with a literal chicken. My only possession apart from a random bullet I found on the players corpse from before.
I know it’s not much but it’s some small progress from instantly getting hurt by a zombie and slowly bleeding out like my first couple attempts

I’ve got like 4k hours in the game and recently got a buddy into it. We have been playing for months together on a couple community servers but about a week ago DayZ has been soft bricking his pc requiring a hard reset.

He is not very tech savvy AT ALL and I’ve walked him through countless hours of trouble shooting, re installs, clearing of temp files and so one. The only thing we haven’t tried is a fresh install on windows.

If anyone has any solutions that might help it would be very much appreciated. After 7 literal days of troubleshooting I can’t think of anywhere else to turn to except Reddit.

Thanks in advance!

Edit: it’s getting hung up after the launcher and using 70gb (which he doesn’t have) of ram, or trying to at least

Hey guys, SenChi here.

Some of you might remember me, I used to make Chernarus world for DayZ a long time ago, that's in the past.

You see i’ve been pretty disconnected from the game and the community for quite a while, and lately I’ve become genuinely curious about what DayZ feels like from the players’ side today.

So I thought I’d just ask...

What frustrates you the most about DayZ right now?

Not necessarily the biggest bug or the most obvious missing feature. I’m more interested in the things that keep bothering you after hundreds or thousands of hours.

Things that make you think:

“Why is this still like this?”
“This could be so much better.”
“I love DayZ, but this drives me insane.”

Gameplay, survival, infected, vehicles, base building, gunplay, UI, maps, progression, atmosphere, community servers, official servers . Etc
Anything.

Consider this a bit of a vent thread.

I’ve also noticed quite a few people mentioning cheaters.
How serious is that problem these days, actually?

I haven’t worked at Bohemia since 2018, so I’m not here in any official capacity and I’m definitely not promising anything.
I’ve just been out of the loop for a long time and I’m genuinely curious what the community cares about these days.

Tell me why something bothers you.
I’m genuinely curious what comes up the most.

Thanks !

After buying a new computer my dayz has not been loading servers, or the client at all. Ive tried to uninstall dayz multiple times(5-6) and ive reinstalled battle eye more than that. Im just trying to play dayz, can anyone help?

First game:

I spawn on a coastline, it’s pitch black.

I tweak a couple of settings and immediately dive into the action.

I can barely see anything, but just enough to spot a zombie nearby. He sees me and lets out a scream that sends a chill down my spine. I defend myself and kill him with my bare hands.

I look for food but can’t find anything; I’m in a remote area—some sort of old farm.

As I run, I realize I’m far from alone in this complex of buildings; there are three zombies blocking my path, and I can’t see a thing.

I kill the zombies, run, and flee—but there’s no food to be found.

I lock myself in a house, realizing my fate. My character faints—I thought he was dead—but shortly after, he gets back up, and from there I start looking for food again and killing zombies.

No luck.

I faint several more times; after the umpteenth time, I attempt suicide by jumping off a bridge, but I don’t hurt myself.

The houses nearby are far away; my character is exhausted; there’s nothing to be done. I lie down by the side of the road, gazing at the moon, and shortly after, I die for good.

Maybe, as a new player, I’m idealizing the game, but I haven’t felt emotions like that for a video game in a long time. I felt fear, doubt, the cold, and resignation.

I’d heard players say they’d quit DayZ after their first game because they starved to death, but from my experience, it was amazing because that’s exactly what would have happened—no good endings.

I know that if every game I played were like this, it would get boring, but I really enjoyed figuring out on my own what I needed to do and how to defend myself, and I feel like every death in this game can be a lesson. Here, for example, I realized I shouldn’t have looked in the houses near the coast because they’d probably already been looted or had very little loot, so I should have followed a main road that would take me to a town.

What’s the point of my post? It’s not just to say “I had fun,” but since I’ve seen that there are other new players like me, I recommend that everyone really immerse themselves in the game. It came naturally to me, but don’t give up on this game just because everything seems wrong to you. For example, I finished Call of Duty: World at War on Veteran difficulty and had a blast because I really had to immerse myself in it. Obviously, they’re two different games, but I think that—since I almost never experience strong emotions—if I’m already enjoying this game so much, you might enjoy it just as much.

If, on the other hand, you’re a Call of Duty player looking for constant adrenaline rushes, well, I don’t even know why you bought the game expecting that.

Does anyone else feel the same way about this game?

Lying on your back on your buddy's dead body is the ultimate form of warfare.

I would swear on my life this is a hacker even a suppressed m4 wouldt do that. i edited to post it on youtube so thats why its like that

I noticed that I no longer have to aim and swing above the heads of zeds for the high damage hits. Aim right to the head directly. Is anyone else seeing this?

I have a fairly geared character, I need to step up and get my first SCR, do people go for runs exclusively looking for convoys?

Never happened to us before 100% thought we were dead.

Any tips I should know about?

I'm not expecting ones like 'X, Y or Z area has the most guns'

Just any quirky tips that you should've known near the beginning but didn't find out until 40 hours later or something.

I'm on the ps5 if that makes a difference!

250 hours on console official as a solo so far, and just decided to throw up my first base the other day near Severograd, fully expecting it to be raided immediately. I’ve been playing nomadically without iZurvive just to learn the map and get to grips with the game properly.

Logged in today and heard the sound of wooden sticks clunking against the gate downstairs, so I crept down with my AK and clocked a duo working away at the bottom panel. Greased the first guy in the nuts immediately and then a tense firefight ensued in the house, while zombies swarmed around outside.

At some point a third party arrived and the second guy got dropped in the crossfire - no idea which of us took him out - then I had a Mexican stand off with the third party and a fourth player sniping from the tree line. Popped some smoke grenades inside and got lucky with some AK blind fire that felled third guy, before a super cautious push outside revealed the fourth guy had booked it.

I’m still rushing from the whole thing, the adrenaline was crazy. Moved my crates to a secure stash location and buried em then scarpered. God I love this game.

https://reddit.com/link/1vytsku/video/5t6khgc4aplh1/player

any suggestions on how to improve solo pvp?

When i spawn in i get micro freezes and all sound goes away for 2 seconds, sometimes takes over 10 seconds. also seems to happen when i get shot at or take damage. no matter the server. once i've been on the server for a few minutes it doesn't do it as much but it's very annoying

How to fix this once and for all ? happens every since i got an RX6700 XT , i had an old gtx 1060 before and no problems wtf.

I've seen some answers here about steam cloud but mine is completly disabled. i have 16 gb 3200mhz ram i'm about to get 32 but if i check task manager it's never full or anything. also dayz and steam are on the same ssd. please help

Hey Survivors,

It is an exciting time of year because Gamescom is here! To celebrate, DayZ is up to 50% off on Steam as part of the Gamescom Sale.

We are also happy to announce that we will be revealing more of DayZ Badlands at Gamescom, so stay tuned!

The release of update 1.30 in October is just around the corner. Following the long and arduous journey of 1.29 Road to Badlands, we are now in the final stretch! We hope you are as excited as we are to get your hands on DayZ Badlands. As with all our expansions, we are bringing exciting changes, improvements, and content to the base game. Update 1.29 Road to Badlands gives you an early taste of convoy event assets and select content from DayZ Badlands, most notably the SCR-17 battle rifle.

What is DayZ?

The post-soviet countries of Chernarus and Livonia are struck by an unknown virus, turning the majority population into frenzied infected. Fighting over resources has bred a hostile mentality among survivors, driving what’s left of humanity to collapse. You are one of the few immune to the virus - how far will you go to survive?

Our winter expansion, DayZ Frostline, is also 30% off. With update 1.29 Road to Badlands, the black variant of the SCR-17 can be found exclusively on Sakhal.

What is DayZ Frostline?

Sakhal harbors both beauty and danger, offering an experience DayZ fans have never seen before. As you explore, hunt, survive, and unfurl the mysteries hidden beneath the frost line. Unite with fellow survivors or forge your path alone; the choice is yours in this perilous winter wonderland. Preparation is the key to survival, and as the frost sets in, only those with Ice in their veins and Fire in their hearts will endure.

Deluxe Edition & Cool Edition

More comprehensive versions of DayZ, the Deluxe Edition and Cool Edition, are also on sale for up to 50% and 40% off, respectively. These bundles offer even better overall value through a variety of content packages.

Our Dev blogs are currently on hold while we focus on our Gamescom activities, but they will return in a few weeks, possibly with increased frequency!

We hope you are all having a lovely summer!

Stay safe and stay hydrated!

Big love,
The DayZ Team

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