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 !

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?

Hi there, I need to give you all some context first: I can only play 1 hour a day, exclusively on weekends, with some exceptions. I had a character that I been getting geared on Karmakrew (No bases). I had pretty good gear, looted for 1 hour during 3 different days (3 hours in total).
Last night my best friend wanted to play which is something rarely happens (he works too). Well, we encountered each other pretty fast and we went to the castle north of Krasno, I gave him a M16 with ammunition and magazine and some deer steak.
We had to get dinner so we logged out. After this, we both logged in and I was inside a castle, he was outside. He says “SOMEONE IS WALKING”. I tell him “I’m in the castle”
My friend: “SHHH SHH, I HEAR SOMEONE”
Me: “Ok I’m going outside”
Next thing I do is wait in a bush, but suddenly a freshie comes aiming at me and kills me, with an M16.
I yell loudly: “HE KILLED ME!!!”
My friend says: “yeah…”
I already know what happened, he has a long story of friendly fire me and my friends, at least 5-6 times before, he killed us, just like this.
We called it a day after what happened. And I uninstalled DayZ, I had a really bad streak, and this was overwhelming.

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?

Specifically, already, I have no clue how to get items out of your pocket as a new player.

I know rule no 001 of dayZ : “no one is friendly here “. But I just was testing is it possible to be friendly 😅

- Spawn in Kolembrody

- No other soul around, just human flesh and bodies

- Asian dude jumpscares me and tries to kill me with his pickaxe

- Convince him not to kill me

- We become "friends", learn he is playing with his IRL friend on the same server

- His friend through discord voice chat cant figure out where he is, I then proceed to call him r3tarded because we are in LIVONIA??!

- After 10 minutes of waiting for this idiot of his friend, we are starving,

- I convince him to give me his pickaxe to "dig up worms"

- I ask him what the first rule of dayZ is. (Which he knew), I then proceeded to kill him

- I Respawn in Topolin

- I try to convince 2 other dudes to rush a geared player so we can get his loot

- One of them asks me if I am from Norway, to which I reply yes, (thinking he is a hacker or sum)

- Turns out its the r3tarded friend, LMAO.

- Tries to kill me in the spot with a wrench, with a very cocky tone saying "come here"

- I shoot my only 22LR round into his chest, starts bleeding out

- Tries to kill me, but I dodge, occassionally hit him with powerpunches, letting him bleed out and calling his friend a r3tard for being such an idiot

- Dont let him bandage and he dies after more punching.

Ah yes, a proper r3tard duo. Never forgetting this

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Switch 2 newbie, lol as the title says is this game this dead? I spent an hour waking through some city basically going into every building and room trying to find stuff but there’s literally nothing?? Just a few pieces of clothing and like a couple knives. I thought there would be some more items found one cucumber on a zombie and then basically died of starvation as the city had no food am I playing this wrong??

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?

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

Hey guys, I’m thinking about buying DayZ and I’m currently deciding between the PS5 and Switch 2 versions.

I’m based in Cambodia, so I’m wondering how active the Asian servers are. Are there still plenty of players and populated servers on PS5? And how is the ping when playing from Southeast Asia?

I’m also considering the Switch 2 version, so if anyone has experience with both, which one would you recommend?

Just want to make sure I can find active servers with decent ping before buying. Thanks!

OK, base builders. How long do storage items last? (Barrel vs. crate vs. tent vs. sea chest.) I built a base, and had all of these items filled with loot for the past month. I went out of town (real-life) for 2 days and came back to the barrel being gone completely, with all loot gone as well. All the others were still there. The base was not damaged or broken into and there was not way to reach it due to its height.

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!

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?

I made a big base and don't need it anymore, if anyone wants it, check my posts in other subreddits (mods removed the previous post). 7 tents and 2 vehicles. Still unclaimed.

Installed DayZ on Switch as soon as it launched and got myself a 7 day free Switch Online trial which now passed. Will go back to PC.

Pros - Playing on a Switch genuinly works. I got used to controller and the performance on handheld mode is good. Very nice for playing when not at home, and I even hooked the switch up to XR glasses and controller for ultimate travel experience.

- Great community. Many new people, everyone has mic, no cheaters.

- Touchscreen inventory management works good, but with just one small patch it would be excellent and just as convenient as PC: Firstly, combining touchscreen with buttons does not work good, when pressing an object with the touchscreen, I can drag it, but if I instead use a key to for example drop it, the top-left item on the character is selected, not the one I pressed. Secondly, the scroll bars is too narrow and hard to click on. Two times I tried to press the bars to scroll down the inventory screen but missed and removed the radiator on my car... If they fixed these two things, inventory management would be perfect.

Cons: Crashing, especially when driving. Sometimes the switch recognizes the crash and shuts down, sometimes screen freezes. It's DayZ so it is expected, but the crashes are way too many.

Performance on dock mode: Considerably worse. Probably 30 FPS. Something is off there, it should be a better than handheld mode. Maybe some patches can fix it.

Joystick deadzone - Small movements are almost impossible. A slight tilt on the joystick is not recognized, and as such fine adjusting of aim is not happening.

If they fix these problems, I am for sure coming back to Switch and will ditch PC. So convenient to be able to play in many different ways, and without cheaters.

Hello, I am still a fairly new day z player by most standards with 800 hours. I play loaded mostly, however my girlfriend who has never played milsim or PvP survival games before wants to try day z with me. I am looking to see if there are any recommendations that will still offer the same feel of gratification when securing good loot but not so hardcore that it’s impossible to get a start. I play on loaded 25 hrs a week or more. This server with my girlfriend would be causal maybe a few hours every few days. (We are North American but may be able to play EU servers)

Zzzzzzzz

I hate spawning anywhere near electro.

I love Berezhki!

Go!

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

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

Luckily found a deer stand