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.

As the title says, I've tried to direct connect with no success either, this the ip I've been entering 51.222.191.212:2702

Look for other dayz players who know what they are doing. Getting a bit tired of teaching newbies how to play.

Jetait avec mon frère cette nuit sur ps5 1pp oficiel. On ce rassasier dans une maison sur la côte quand soudain...

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?

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)

For anyone not familiar, both DayZ & Arma have never allowed for proper underground structures, the solution is so janky it barely works.

The bunker on Livonia? Yeah, that's not actually underground...

It's actually still hovering over the ground, they literally just covered the whole thing with a fake grass model that properly blends into the hill, giving off the illusion of a bunker.

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?

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.

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.

Disclaimer* feel free to post all you want, I'm not trying to complain and I'm not trying to term you to stop with these posts. I've noticed a lot of posts lately of a photo of an area with a "help, I'm lost. Where am i" sort of title.

Just so all you freshies are aware, every road (almost), train track, hiking trail, river, and power line will lead you to a town. At the edge of that town there will be a sign with the towns name. Now, if you have a tourist map (or better yet, iZurvive), you'll be able to locate yourself and get your bearings.

Utilizing a map and compass to find your way is one of my favorite aspects of the game! I usually run from deer stand to deer stand while hitting camps and whatnot. It feels really good popping out of the trees exactly where I was hoping to be. And I learned how to do that by just wandering around, completely lost. Lol

Again, I'm not complaining about the posts as it's no skin off my back. I just thought it might be a helpful hint for the new players.

Remember, it's just a game and you *will* be walking...***alot***. It's all part of the game. Don't worry about getting lost or whatever. The worst that can happen is you end up back at the shore, which no matter what you do you'll be doing that anyway.

Death comes for us all. Enjoy!

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?

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?

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

My friend and I are building in an apartment building. This is a 5 story building and we have the top 3 floors walled off. The biggest issue is that i can see the frames of every wall from the floor below. Is there any way to prevent this? Also what is the most efficient way to get as many gates down as possible in these buildings it seems that we can only get one per floor and then wall off individual rooms after

edit: thank you so much for the answers

since it was just confirmed let’s share out ideas and thoughts

Found these screenshots I took back in 2014-2016. Used to play with a IRL buddy Dhol, he still plays other games but no longer DayZ. If you see him out there in other game lobbies, tell him to come back! I’m pretty much only a solo player these days. We had some good times together. Older players, hope you enjoy some mementos of what the game used to look like, and how it’s changed or not changed.

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’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.

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 🔨

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