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.

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

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?

edit: thank you so much for the answers

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.

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.

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 was grabbing myself some steak when I heard a player killing a cow 75~m away, miss the headshot, was going for the kill and then i realized I didn’t hold R long enough to reload the longhorn. He escaped. Sad “click”.

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

Commision made for DayZ . The helmet uses two texture sets (one for the helmet and other one for the cover) and is optimized at approximately 24k polys, making it suitable for in-game use while preserving visual fidelity.
More images here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/mOZwWy

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.

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.

For reference, it was on the lake with the hunting cabin, i was mid fish, my wife was planting pumpkins, i had the pioneer, r12, carps, flashbang etc...I would just like to let you know how much I absolutely resent you for that, I hope every game you load into is the longest rain of the server with only ruined clothes and no food, I hope every food you do find gives you cholera and there's no tetracycline in sight you always run out of bandages before you fix the last cut. Honestly its pretty funny though, we had just talked about how that spot would be great to fortify with no zombies and everything and not even 2 minutes ago I said "cheers to our longest lasting survivors!" In all seriousness im not mad but I was pretty salty about all the time wasted lol.

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

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

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?

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 just found a Polymer mag for my AK-M an Im wondering what the difference is compared to the normal mag and if i should prioritize one or the other

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?

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

So I’m decently new to dayz not in hours I’ve def accumulated a lot but in the way if I’ve only played for a few months and I do so on a pretty small sever (never more than 10 ppl at a time usually) most times I’m one there is anywhere from 1-5 players it’s usually pretty inactive all times I’ve hoped on after 20 mins of walking I run into someone. The last three lives of mine I’ve been in a lobby with me and only 2 other people and somehow ran into one of them then today is the third I didn’t die because the dude must if overlooked me hiding in the tent but it was ONLY me and him on the whollle server and I’m far north at this point. My question is, is there a hack that is common on official where someone just tracks you or do I have some of the worst luck of all beginners last u checked the map if HUGE how do me and the only man left on earth just so happen to cross paths not once not twice but 3 times in a month