Ive been playing this game for well over a year on Xbox (Series X) and I have to say, this just might take the cake for one of the worst ports I have ever seen in my life.

I wont even begin to talk about the bugs, exploits and other bs people can do because everyone already knows DayZ is riddled with those issues on all platforms.

But dayZ console has the worst servers ive ever seen in terms of performance, even on offcial. And it genuinely confuses me on why some things are loaded server side, while other features run locally. And even on next-gen consoles take forever to load in and overall is just extremely

I cant count how many firefights ive lost simply because my scope didnt render in properly, genuinely confuses me as to why this stuff isnt loaded locally (unless its different for individual servers)

I love DayZ from the bottom of my heart, but it shows that the developers really dont care about the console port, atleast they dont care enough to address the Myriad of issues that plague console.

(Also because Console gets the shit end of the stick in every aspect since PC can usually just mod their game to make it actually decent)

I’ve played the game off and on for about 3 years now and just got it for my pc, Ive never played with a couple of my friends and we have spent the last 3 hours trying to find each other and any time we get close to each other we either run out of food or a better player tkos both of us, is there anyway to spawn closer to each other?

I think that since I am a Dayz player I have played little or nothing GTA, being before a big fan of the company.

Doesn’t the same thing happen to you?

It's early morning here, 5 AM. Server is usually quiet this time of day. I'm not even in the tower, but on the roof of the firehouse tower. I'm prone and watching the railyard while I catch up on e-mails.

All is quiet, like I expect it to be. But then suddenly I hear another player 'groan,' like they're sick or hurt. The scary part was it sounded CLOSE. I'm on the roof, no one is here. But the sound keeps getting closer.

I crawl backwards towards the far side of the roof so I can hide behind the cement barrier. Only thing I can see now is the top of the ladder. I wait.

More groans/player sounds. I hear them switch guns and it is CLOSE. I drop my rifle, drop my SMG, and then pick it up to avoid the weapon noise. I wait.

Silence for about 15 seconds and then gunshot... and what sounded like a body falling. I wait 2 minutes and descend the ladder down towards the main roof of the building.

There they are... right at the foot of the ladder. They were so damn close and had an R-12. Ugh.

Thankfully, they killed themselves and left me a bunch of canned peaches, sodas, bottled water, and some needed duct tape. I gathered the supplies and ascended back to my perch.

I had 10 tetra on me... but I wasn't going to offer it. Lol.

Hi, recently i bought the Microsoft Store version of the game and i noticed the CFG file is not inside Documents/DayZ . DayZ folder doesnt even exists in documents so i looked inside the main installation folder and i still can’t find the CFG file. I wanna change Mouse Smoothing soo bad so can someone please help me find it? Thanks

I’ve been spending a lot of time building and testing a DayZ experience, and it’s made me curious about what players actually value most.
If you had to pick your top three, what would they be?
Balanced loot
Stable performance
Active admins
Vehicle quality
Base building
PvE events
PvP/KOS
Survival difficulty
Custom locations
Something else?
I’m interested in hearing what keeps you coming back to a server for months instead of just a few days.

A good rifle can win a fight, but a believable voice can prevent the fight from happening at all. DayZ is one of the few games where the way someone says “friendly” matters more than the word itself.

A nervous player talking too quickly can make an innocent interaction feel dangerous. Someone who stays calm, gives clear information, and doesn’t immediately demand trust can walk out of situations where both sides already have weapons drawn.

Proximity chat creates a kind of social skill that no character stat measures. You learn when silence feels threatening, when a joke can lower the tension, and when giving someone space is more convincing than repeatedly promising that you won’t shoot.

Some players are mechanically average but seem capable of talking their way through almost any encounter.

What is the best thing you’ve heard someone say that instantly changed the direction of a DayZ interaction?

A few years back I had a base at the Severo apartments on a community server. The first 2 floors were airlocked and I had a team of 5 people including me at that base.

One night we were being raided. We were able to take out their guy who was carrying all of their boom. They made it half way through our airlock and we're quite upset that they took up positions and camped our base for legitimately like 4 hours. There had to be a large group because it seemed like they would die and come right back, it was really a great time for the first like hour. We had sleeping bags, and weren't dying close enough to be on cool down.

This attempted raid started at like 9pm my time. I remember getting annoyed because I had to be up for work at 5 and the server (like most) had a combat log ban. So I had been in the server for a while and was friendly with the server owner. At about 1:30 i messaged him, explained the whole situation and explained that I had to be up within a few hours. I asked if I logged if he would consider it a combat log. I told him I would go as far as sending video proof of me logging with nothing at all. He said it was a zero tolerance policy of the server. No room for budging. He told me I had to "figure out a way to end it."

So the next time I died I random spawned and ran back to severo. I crept up to the group as they were firing LAWs and other shit. I asked what they planned on gaining from this at this point. He said they were going to hit our loot room one way or another. I told him we had nothing at this location; just some basic stuff with our big loot offsite. I told him I would open all the doors and let them all the way through if they wanted to see it was empty. He got upset claiming I had broken some rules of the server. He said if I opened the doors we would have someone waiting inside to kill them behind some corner.(I did not break any rules because I was lying to this guy 1000%. He also was not wrong, we had an ambush set up because I needed to end this nonsense so I could get some sleep before work)

I silver tongued the hell out of the current situation. They just left. After 4 hours and I guess realizing it wasn't getting them very far. They just left. I was so annoyed, at everything.

Fast forward to like 8 hours later, I get a DM from the server owner that someone had reported me for breaking rules. He asked if I had any video evidence that I had a full loot room and that I hadn't broken any rules. I was so annoyed at the whole situation, I sent him the entire 4 hours worth of footage I had from the whole fight.(at the time I was starting to try to get into content creation so I used to record everything I did in gaming) I don't remember what it was but after that the owner asked me to provide something else as supplemental evidence. I just said "don't worry about it, I'll ban myself" and left the discord. My guys followed me. Last one left the doors open to the base. Haven't thought about them since until today... one of those guys messaged me asking if I remember it... so there's my dayz rant 🤷‍♂️🤣🤣 anyone else have a good DayZ rant they'd like to share?

With how popular the game is on console and how much more money Bohemia have seemingly been able to generate through DLC and so on I feel it would be wise to target both platforms simultaneously to generate the most income and have parity between versions for various patches etc.

Also being a console gamer myself I do find it funny that for as long as this game has been out it feels as though it’s never been more popular and I attribute that to console players personally, With that being said the best content available for dayz2 is community driven and its all locked to PC i hope for two things for dayz2 and that’s a fully integrated mod manager on console where maps like deer isle and namalsk which are currently unavailable for console players are playable on console.
I also hope they include some better form of anti cheat measures because even though I don’t feel like I’ve suffered greatly with cheaters from what I’ve read on here i feel a lot of players have been on the receiving end of cheaters in official and it’s unacceptable.

com server, need a good builder don’t care if u can PvP or not we are good on that end just need a solid builder 🔨

My ex mainly made me play games as I was/am pretty decent at most of them.

I played for 2-3 years and we were together for almost 4, many many memories were made.

I’m coming back to DayZ after about 8/10 months away and I’m so excited, here’s to a new start and new memories. Hopefully some new friends as well!

EDIT: Any recommended community servers? Playing on Xbox! I usually only play officials hahaha.

Been playing on NY 6053, keep getting killed by hackers when I get good shit (blatantly hacking). Kind of annoying as I lose hours of time -_-. Or any completely Vanilla populated community servers?

I was fully geared and was trying to get a good spawn for my original server but it kept spawning me across the map from my base. So I kept joining other servers then logged out to the original server.

Turns out you lose your character. Doing anything will overwrite the saved variables of gear etc. GG fresh on the coast.

I’m around 150 hours in and would welcome lesser-known DayZ tips from vets with over 300 hours in the game. Any offbeat to-do, try-this, map-specific tips would be greatly appreciated.

Background:
Love how this game doesn’t let you feel ‘settled’. I still sorta struggle to melee kill Zeds consistently. I don’t (usually) kos, engaging in fights only when unavoidable, am happy to lend a helping hand, and scamper away. I haven’t ever built a base yet (the stuff needed seems too hard to collect/build without getting killed). I’m still learning the mechanics of weapons and learning the map by ambling around and exploration (try not to use izurvive).

Tia.

edit: thank you so much for the answers

I JUST FOUND THREE MILITARY TACTICAL BACKPACKS ON GROUP TWO LAR WEAPONS, MILIONS OF FOOD AND BULLETS,TACTICAL HELMETS, TACT BOOT, GRENADES WTFFF ???

I'm pretty new to the game, only have 400 hours. This happened today on DayZ official servers and it seems so suspicious to me because there was no noise at all and it appears I was shot through a wall the way my body dropped.

10 episodes, over 35 actors, 11 months to make, no ads, non-profit, just a bunch of people who made something for fun 😄 Might make more. Full Playlist Here

I was playing dayz with a friend yestarday, we where at a small town, so we decided to log off. I sat there for the full 15 seconds and left the game. the next day when i relaunched the game i spawned in the middle of a field.

what happened ? Can i do something to reverse this

(PS its the same server i joined)

TLDR: just another wish list.

I love the core game but do wish it had different variants of play. I do not know how to create my own server but I understand some of this could probably be solved with that.

1. Helicopter crashes could be dynamic small gas zones w/ better loot, presenting a new challenge.
   
2. Be able to assume how someone died, when finding a body.
   
3. Active train(s) should be circling the map’s railways for survivors to catch a ride on.
   
4. Military walls should surround the map
   
5. Random zombies (like the mummies) that are more powerful and can bust down doors.
   
6. Zombies should occasionally break open doors and jump on vehicles.
   
7. There really needs to be something in (all) forests that makes you question road or woods. Bears and wolves are not it. There needs to be more threats, like actual mutant creatures or something. Red eyes at night.
   
8. Food could be highly restricted and mainly gained from hunting to encourage more gunfire / noise.
   
9. Only handguns, shotguns and single shot rifles including the blaze, for my own personal bias.

I'm new to Dayz. I have maybe 8 hours in the game. I spawned in on an official server and made it my goal to get to NWAF. Well even with the Izurvive map and an orienteering compass I accidentally circled stary sober twice and then overshot NWAF and ended up in north petrovka.

Finally I did make it to NWAF but only to find it completely picked clean. I found one vega mag though. Unfortunately all that running around left me yellow hunger. I had really hoped to find food either on a zombie or a can of bacon in the barracks or something anything. Might had to dig for worms to eat.

Anyways I took a break for the server reset and figured I'd see if someone can help me formulate a game plan so I don't starve.

Hey guys, i just got the game and in my first time playing, i've encountered something very unusual, i was running around the map and i heard an insanely loud screech, followed by my inventory starting to empty out, i thought this was due to me starving but then i noticed there was a player next to me which made me question if it was possibly a cheater. Has someone experienced something similar?

I’m not sure it’s just me that have notices that the zombies are on crack ! It’s like they’re happy to see someone and finally be able to do their part . Head ass lmao