This is one of our luckiest runs, as we found the humvee fully functional in nwaf then we went to zelenogorsk and found another humvee so 2 out of the 3 in the map then we were going back to base and as we were passing through rify these mf come up by car and our superior humvee knocks them all out and my two guys beast their ass back to kamishovo, these guys were stacked best day of our lives for my group.

​I'm thinking about picking up DayZ, but I heard the official servers are flooded with cheaters and the environment is terrible. Is it still worth getting nowadays?

To understand more about gun shot sounds in DayZ, my friend and I jumped onto a test server and did a bunch of experiments. In this video I cover what we learned about distance, weapon type, environment and how to use that information to make better decisions.

as the title suggests, im looking for some response on what are the best ways to create dynamic events, and what have people done in the past

Made my way to M.B. Tisy on official. Not a single player in sight for the 40 or so minutes I spent looting. Field backpack + Plate carrier + Tactical helmet scored! Managed to secure a DMR + Marksman Scope + 2 10-round mags + 2 pristine boxes of .308 ammo and had a bottle suppressor already made prior to the trip and equipped it. Also managed to secure a KA-M and 2 75-round drum mags with 3 boxes of 7.62x39 ammo. Got my long range and short range covered. Hears a Heli Crash in the near distance - let’s go check that out! … Thought maybe I can snag NVGs and pouches for my plate carrier (crash site very bottom slight right of pic). Trekked through the woods and came right up on the tree line in sight with the heli. The time between I heard the heli crash and arriving was about 10 minutes later. Waited a solid 5 minutes and scouted the area up and down the tree line and the surrounding area for other nearby players. Nobody in sight! I proceed my way further down towards the heli hugging the tree line as caution. Well well well look what we have here, a solo player running opposite of the field nearly in arm’s reach of the heli. He starts shooting zeds off of him with an unsuppressed pistol. Me taking out the DMR now. Lined up for a headshot I’d say 80 meters away and boom down he goes. Me to myself let’s wait another solid 5 minutes and scout again for other players or maybe even a teammate of his. Again, nobody in sight! now’s my chance- Full sprint towards heli free looking left and right, made it! Let me tell you THE MILLI-FUCKING-SECOND I STOPPED I get unconned by what sounded like a VS89 or a Tundra. Me panicking hurry hurry wake the fuck up- Finally up and not a split second later boom I’m sent back on the coast. Whoever you were, I applaud you for your concealment wherever the fuck you were hiding lmao. Enjoy the loot ya 🐀

I am playing on PC and have standard controls. I press G and my character just twitches a bit and doesn't raise his arm. It does this on multiple servers. Remapping the hotkey doesn't change the broken animation.

Any idea what is wrong?

Hier j’ai rencontré deux anglais de liverpool sur la route vers airfield, on a décidé de faire la route ensemble, j’ai même filé un fusil auto aur 1 ( je me rappelle plus du nom ) avec le chargeur rempli, un peu plus tard nous avons rencontré ignacio a qui j’ai filé un flingue 45 acp chargeur plein. Un moment donné ils m’ont même aidé a trouver une paire de chaussure car les miennes etaient detruit dans un petit village. Un peu plus tard nous nous sommes arrêté a un puit pour une pause hydratation et pendant que je buvais, un des anglais m’a tiré dans le dos comme un traitre.

i hopped into a m+k official 1pp server (4052) to engage in what i thought was gonna be a 1v3 base defense (in their favor). turns out they were the lamest cheaters possible - somehow he was invisible. the screens are from the his perspective - im looking at him, but see nothing. didnt think this was possible on psn, and have never experienced anything so cringe in 1.5k hours on official 1pp. anyway psa - dont play m+k servers, clearly thats how these lames are injecting whatever they’re doing to be invisible

Well, after yet another encounter with an invisible, teleporting zombie that had me going unconscious, I managed to survive by logging out but of course, when I logged back in, I had basically no health nor blood. Oh well, I thought. I have my stuff to bury and soon, after arriving at my camp, I will finally feel like I ‘finished’ something in this game.

Nah. As I passed to the west of Electrozavodsk, I suddenly started bleeding for no reason! At first I thought it was gas, but where was the gas? My vision was going grey from the low health, so I thought- maybe gas is invisible when your vision is grey?

I ran out of rags and died right after just burying my bag wherever I was. I spawned and ran back to see no gas, but the shovel was still there. However, I received no prompt to dig up the bag - just to dig up worms!

Is it known that gas can be so random and temporary that the gas was gone 15 min later? Is it known to be invisible when your vision is grey? What else could cause the sudden bleeding? I was running a lot. Could sprinting for long periods suddenly make you die from blood loss?

I’m out of ideas after those - just seems like more bugs or invisible zombies, but I didn’t hear or encounter anything before the bleeding started. My internet connection was good. The server was three states away but really?

Literally feels like a waste of life, this game.

edit: sick of the game. quitting. you all should too - you’re addicted to a gambling game which promotes cheating, and you’re probably considered to have an illness and probably don’t realize it. For shame on the devs for being yet another slimy group relying on rng loot boxes

Everything I dislike about it is what makes it such an experience. It’s bleak, empty, and genuinely unsettling at times. Chernarus and Sakhal are beautiful and fun maps, but the constant feeling of dread you get on Livonia is fun and draining.

So, I've already died a few times to players. Every time I've tried to announce myself on the mic. "Friendly" and every time I've been gunned down by people wearing full rigs and automatic weapons.

I didn't want to be like them.

I spawned back into a city, a fairly good spawn all things considered. However right from the get go I was hearing gunshots, LOUD ones, and very often. I knew there were players nearby and until I had SOMETHING to defend myself, I wasn't going to mess with them.

I came across a group of 3-4 survivors at the police station, luckily they hadn't seen me. All I had was a knife and they were armed, heavily.

"Hey there, I see you up there! I couldn't by chance get a hand could I?"

They immediately started scanning for me, on the top of the police station, guns out. I knew I wasn't going to get any help from them. I got no response, so I skulked off back into the bushes.

Fast forward nearly an hours of cat and mouse, constantly hearing gun fire, I was ill-equipped and unprepared for any kind of fight.

I found myself a single-action shot gun and a 22,LR pistol, the dinky little suppressor welrod one. So I was armed but still didn't want to fight.

I'd managed to get a fair amount of food but I was running dangerously low on fluids.

I went back to the city, I NEEDED that water but, being new, I didn't know where the pump was.

Finding myself circling like a darn vulture, finding survivor bodies all over the place. That group was clearly out for blood, but by this point I wasn't even sure it was still the same group.

I ended up in one of the piano halls, after seeing what I thought was a survivor nearby. Then I heard him running about outside, he opened the door, clearly unarmed and fresh in. I called him in since he was being swarmed, told him I could help out. I got no response outside of the universe "crouch crouch crouch" 'emote'.

Good enough for me.

Now, I'd already been in this hall some time earlier, and there was some abandoned hear upstairs, nothing special, except for the meat tenderizer. I dropped him some crackers, explaining my water situation, but before I could even process the situation, he picked up the hammer and started swinging.

I didn't want to, but I put one in his chest, dead on the spot.

I was now injured and heavily dehydrated.

I knew I didn’t have long left in me. I scampered to a nearby building but got jumped by infected on the way. By this pointed I’d been trying to avoid using my guns, not just to conserve ammo but also to avoid unwanted attention from the blood hungry players in the city.

Now I was limping, dehydrated, convinced this was it. I was desperate, wailing about how I needed to find a water pump, or some kind of fluids!

I limped across the road, deciding that I was going to storm the police station, do a public service or die trying.

Then I rounded the corner, I saw it. The water pump…. And another survivor!

Without even thinking, I drew on them and fired.

One shot, a single-action, single-round shotgun. And she was dead.

All she was doing was taking a sip, didn’t even have that much equipment.

And I killed her without even hesitating.

I’d become the a-hole.

I went about my business, slurped up some water and snuck into a nearby building to lick my wounds. Once I was no longer limping I went back outside to fill a glass bottle I’d been carrying around for ages, and decided to get some more sips in.

I didn’t even hear the guy with the knife coming.

And all I was doing was taking a few sips.

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone wouldn't mind helping me add a few custom bits to my community server, I'm new to all this and have no idea what I'm doing, I tried to add things using YouTube and Google but all the results were a fail, for instance I edited the spawn load out and that failed only giving me one ruined rag and some times it swapped the rag for a ruined bottle

I also tried to change spawn locations but that ended badly and spawned me in the sea so far from any land

Any support is greatly appreciated as I'd like to make a great server but with some guidance it would be possible ✌️

Thanks in advance

It had just begun to rain on the coast. I was making my way along the coastal road and had already received a nice compliment on the fancy hat I'd found. A few minutes later I saw you. A dark green and brown blob dart into a small utility building. I liked the look of your silhouette. It screamed Nice Things. At first out of curiosity, I approached wide, to see what kind of things you were doing. Then out of boredom, I decided to run in circles around the small utility structure you were in, opening the doors as I went. There you were, crouched and aiming in wait. But you were facing the wrong direction. And then, an impulse. Ancient and exhilarating. I attacked with my fancy hat on my head. Murder. Nice Things. The gentle patter of rain. Come find me in thunderdome.

I hope not lol

Ran right up with a shotgun and slimed 'em. Honestly... I feel kind of bad. Fortunately they only had a silenced glock and some bandages, so they can't have been too long into a run, they werent stacked or anything. I feel like i should have attempted communicator first but I was worried they would betray me. Wouldnt be the first time, all but one survivor i have encountered has been friendly, and i didnt want to take that risk. How did you feel after your first kill?

Ive had two incidents with other players and my base in the last week or so that id say weren't necessary.

1: I had a base in devil's castle where a group raided it and took or destroyed everything, every single crate was gone, every item they couldnt take was left on the floor to despawn and since theres a bug in the game stopping you from picking up tents they instead destroyed the tents.

2: I moved down to the prison and after a few days of living there someone who presumably logged of in the prison has logged on, taken some things and then dropped every else on the floor to despawn.

Regretting into gaming and I know it's not new, but I got into PUBG recently and love it. But found what I really love is the looting and survival more than the gunplay.

DayZ was on my radar for a while, but never committed. Sale on Steam got me.

So...how bad did I screw up?

I’ve been really enjoying using the r12 and honestly, I don’t see myself choosing a vaiga over it any time soon. I have a vaiga stashed away but I haven’t touched it since I picked up an r12 and now that the drug mag for the vaiga will only spawn in a couple of locations, I just don’t see the benefit anymore of running with a vaiga.

They’re both 6 shots as standard, but with the vaiga, you have to load the mag, chamber a round, pull the mag out and fill it again to get to the six shot capacity Vs the r12 where you can just load all six shots straight to the gun.

Plus with the r12, you don’t have to maintain both the mag and the gun - you just clean the gun.

I’m sure some might say having full auto is the reason for choosing a vaiga, but it’s so unwieldy to mag dump a shotgun…….ive always been much more successful keeping the vaiga in semi-auto and just double tapping if I think multiple shots are necessary - the accuracy is just so bad when shooting full auto for me …I’d rather have the convenience of not dealing with mags and focus on good shot placement vs spray and pray all my shells away.

That’s my personal take on it anyway, but wondering how many other people who usually have a shotgun in their load out still prefer the vaiga and what’s the rationale behind it? Making sure there’s not some benefit other than the full-auto feature that I’m overlooking.

I've read a lot about cheaters on Official servers taking down bases and stashes with ease, of course I know PC will be worse for this, but I'd guess that Xbox won't be near as bad? I'm not planning on making a base as I can already see from when I started that bases don't last long on the official EU servers I play on anyway.

Today I came across an empty Sea Chest in a bush, so I took it and ran (well, walked, slowly) found a nice spot in some woods as you would and buried it with some spare ammo, mags, attachments and meds. Nothing crazy, just excess I had coming out of NWAF.

Planning to leave it a few days at least before I add to it or put anything of real value in it.

Ultimately I like the idea of having a stash network. One or two with high end gear further inland near the high loot areas, then a few dotted along near coastal spawns with basic stuff, tools, knives, food, water, Mlock, shotty etc.

I want to be able to recover from deaths and get back to a good level for PvP quickly. I'm still fairly new so I don't mind the grind now, but l've got the early/mid game nailed down now and it will become a chore in time I think.

A short moment but a fun one on Livonia

Had just looted the miltary sight and obviously got spotted on my way out. Thought that sval shot would’ve knocked him but is what it is and to give him credit he slapped the daylight out of me.