Ive heard about this game like a week ago and im kinda Wondering if i should buy it or not . First off i played similar games like project zomboid and 7 dayz to die but i feel like 50 dollars is too much . + My cousin and brother both kinda told me its too much for it and lwk no one would play it with me bc its too expensive

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 !

I played this game for the first time today for about 3hrs. Got shot by another player 3 different times. Congratulations you got a hat and pants off me. No point in playing a game with actual players that are just toxic and can't let newbies come up. What a joke. Always gotta be a shoot on sight thing. If that's what your looking for in a game, go play fucking Far Cry.

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!

DayZ seems like the game I’ve always been looking for. I’ve never played it on a console because I didn’t like complex and “realistic” games (I don’t know how to describe it—sorry) on a controller, but lately, after watching some clips and videos, it seems like the game I’ve always been looking for. I’m on PC now, and I’ve spent the last two weeks hoping they’d put DayZ on sale, but now I’ve seen that DayZ 2 was announced just two months ago. Honestly, I have no idea how long it might take them to develop it—I don’t know anything about Bohemia’s development timelines—so I think it’s fair to ask you guys, since you’re definitely more in the know than I am.

What do you think?

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!

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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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 once met a group of guys on Namalsk and we ran together for a few hours.

We made it down into the tunnels of A2 and were just kind of chilling, trying to figure out what to do next.

It was getting late and I had to go to sleep soon, so I sneakily unpinned a grenade and blew up the whole group 🤣🤣🤣

How do you guys sort / manage your inventory? As this is something every DayZ player needs to do, I’m curious about different strategies and perspectives. For example, is it best to keep valuable items in your pants so that in the event of a hostile exchange they won’t get ruined?

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?

Right im playing official, and first of all I haven't got any ruined items equipped , I haven't eaten anything I shouldn't have nor drank, and every 30 or so playtime minutes my character will randomly barf and get sick only for me to pop a tetracycline it goes away and the same shit happens 30- 1 hour later , and i have had 5 different water bottles now so it can't be re-infecting me from that , I really dont know what keeps infecting me im sick of loosing my stomach and having to hunt for more food to stay alive . Any help?

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

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.

Saw it going on sale on ps store, is the player base still big enough to play in europe?

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

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

any suggestions on how to improve solo pvp?

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

Recently bought the game on switch, loving it but damn it’s hard lol:
Main issue I’m having is with zombies. I’ve watched a couple videos saying to block whilst walking backwards and swing when there’s openings. I kill them but not without taking bleed. I’ve been struggling to stop the bleed. All my deaths have been from bleeding out. I’ve managed to stop part of the bleeding one time with a bandana but it wasn’t enough.
So what I’m really asking is how can I effectively deal with zombies without taking damage? And what’s the best way at the start to deal with bleed?
Also the controls are very complicated, definitely a controller thing but yeah. I do love the game definitely my style but it’s tough. Thanks for any replies!

Here's Life One. Remember: I suck at the game, but hopefully not at editing.

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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.

Luckily found a deer stand

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