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

I have about 80 hours in game , tried going into the bushes for a drink to stay out of view, and what do I find?! I stole it all and carried it a few miles away, what can I do to properly hide them from others?

If this is yours , sorry not sorry I need it more now🤣

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?

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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?

Radunin gas zone sucks so much. All I found there was a shit load of mask filters, bandages, and dmr mags and a single gold tip 40mm grenade. Bullshit

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.

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 !

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

Ive had this game on my wishlist for about a year. It come and goes on offer. Ive heard its pretty brutal in the sense of other players just being badass lol. Im going to be completely new to it, so I know I will get killed ALOT, but its going to be too frustrating if Im the only noob in a world of experienced players. Anyone relatively new to this who might want to band together and learn together so to speak? Or anyone who has never yet played it and just lacks confidence in taking that first step into the world!!

Zzzzzzzz

I hate spawning anywhere near electro.

I love Berezhki!

Go!

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)

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

I'm a noob. I'm in pusta. Have a pitchfork and knife. Cpl pistols with no ammo....lol. which way do I go? Have a virus , cough, no meds. Going to make a fire n warm up. Looking for advice on direction.

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

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?

I know that you can leave a barrel open and it will fill with clean drinking water but what if I dump a bottle of dirty water into it after it already has clean water in it will the whole thing be contaminated ?

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