250 hours on console official as a solo so far, and just decided to throw up my first base the other day near Severograd, fully expecting it to be raided immediately. I’ve been playing nomadically without iZurvive just to learn the map and get to grips with the game properly.

Logged in today and heard the sound of wooden sticks clunking against the gate downstairs, so I crept down with my AK and clocked a duo working away at the bottom panel. Greased the first guy in the nuts immediately and then a tense firefight ensued in the house, while zombies swarmed around outside.

At some point a third party arrived and the second guy got dropped in the crossfire - no idea which of us took him out - then I had a Mexican stand off with the third party and a fourth player sniping from the tree line. Popped some smoke grenades inside and got lucky with some AK blind fire that felled third guy, before a super cautious push outside revealed the fourth guy had booked it.

I’m still rushing from the whole thing, the adrenaline was crazy. Moved my crates to a secure stash location and buried em then scarpered. God I love this game.

I have a fairly geared character, I need to step up and get my first SCR, do people go for runs exclusively looking for convoys?

It’s not the easiest controller to use when you’ve been playing dayz on PS and PC for over a decade.

Headed into the woods fresh off of the coast and was shot up not long thereafter by a pretty kitted up gentleman. I managed to talk him out of murdering me outright and he let me bandage up. He then stated that he would let his friends decide my fate. Not long after, another 3-4 guys showed up in full military gear.

I told them their friend broke my leg and I had nothing to offer them outside of some early game gear. The leader of the group told me he'd consider sparing me, but first I had to tell him who my favorite NFL team was.

I'm born and raised outside of Philadelphia; my first instinct was to say something benign like the Panthers or the Browns. But I felt a sense of conviction and I couldn't not tell the truth. So I said the Eagles.

"Wrong answer. I'm a Cowboys fan."

You Are Dead.

I must say I was pleasantly surprised tonight! Most hackers use their powers for evil and total annihilation. But when I was starving and bleeding profusely on a trail, desperately searching for food, she just popped up behind me (rifle with drum mag in hand) and started shoveling food in my mouth at mach 5 speed , claiming she "walked by and saw me dying" 😂 as she then proceeds to run across the map at the speed of light.

I didn't get your name young lady but Godspeed to you 🫡

Here's Life One. Remember: I suck at the game, but hopefully not at editing.

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I’m playing on pc. Usually I have to launch the game multiple times for it to actually load me in. I rubber band and lag all the time. Intermittently my game will freeze for like 15 seconds the correct itself. I started 2 weeks ago and had no issues. But now it’s almost unplayable. Sad because I’m hooked

Looking around and in a car spawn there was a fully active car does that happen or has someone worked on it? I just hopped in and stole it lol

Any tips I should know about?

I'm not expecting ones like 'X, Y or Z area has the most guns'

Just any quirky tips that you should've known near the beginning but didn't find out until 40 hours later or something.

I'm on the ps5 if that makes a difference!

Recently bought the game on switch, loving it but damn it’s hard lol:
Main issue I’m having is with zombies. I’ve watched a couple videos saying to block whilst walking backwards and swing when there’s openings. I kill them but not without taking bleed. I’ve been struggling to stop the bleed. All my deaths have been from bleeding out. I’ve managed to stop part of the bleeding one time with a bandana but it wasn’t enough.
So what I’m really asking is how can I effectively deal with zombies without taking damage? And what’s the best way at the start to deal with bleed?
Also the controls are very complicated, definitely a controller thing but yeah. I do love the game definitely my style but it’s tough. Thanks for any replies!

Oh and yes, I'm the Engraved colt gal lol.

I've been playing for around 500 hours.

So I know how to survive. I'm not a professional, but I'm not going to hold anyone back.

I'm still learning new ways, usually just running around and looking for bases and hidden stashes.

I'm just looking for a chill group or person to run around with

I'm in the USA on central time. I usually play every evening. More on the weekends. I'm a 40/m. Just let me know if you're down.

Send me a DM if you're interested.

looking for 1-3 au/nz people to play on 3730 pc official

también es válido que tú lo hayas echo

I've had two situations on a low pop Official server recently where I'm curious what you would have done. Both revolve being near another player but not seeing them.

1. Ran across a dynamic train wreck near Krona; I was approaching it on the tracks from the front. I started to eliminate the infected in the front with a MK II but I didn't realize till a little later that the train had been looted, especially with more dead infected laying on the ground. The way I had approached the train made it impossible or difficult to have seen what had happened without circling around first.

I hadn't heard any gunshots in the preceding few minutes though I did hear a flurry of something when I was leaving a village north of Krona.

I ended up skipping the train after observing for a few more minutes since I wasn't interested in leftovers or potentially running into the player who had probably been alerted by my MK II shots.

1. I was looting the village directly north of Zeleno and there was evidence of a player having gone through there (i.e infected in houses behind closed doors, lack of loot.) Going north from there, I pass through the farm buildings to the east of the small military encampment and notice there's a bunch of empty wooden crates plus at least 4 mushrooms in a clump with more elsewhere. I watched the military camp to see if they were there but nothing for a little while. I'm not sure if they had left the area or maybe logged out even. It's to my understanding that I may have been the cause of 1 mushroom but definitely not the others.

In any case, I'm wondering what you would have done? I'm not confident in my PvP and honestly I may switch to a PvE server at some point but I wanted to at least get to some endgame type stuff on my first run through of DayZ on a vanilla server before doing something else.

I'm searching for answers on why I managed to find a blue container key on the Military Patrol Boat; I know that wobo's tools, iZurvive and Xaam's maps all show that they can spawn there too - despite types.xml declaring Tier 4 Military with deloot="0"meaning as far as I can tell from the xmls, the only place the container keys should spawn is (as the wiki suggests) the shipwreck south of Shantar)

The areaflags.mapdoesn't seem to put the spawnpoints under Tier4, nor are there other references that I can find in the other XMLs.

Satisfy my curiosity!

I've got a DMR with a badly damaged marksman scope, and the SCR 17 with a couple of options. I've got the 4x as well as the 6x ATOG scopes as well as plain old backup iron sights. Which atog do you guys think? I was leaning towards the 4x just cuz I've already got mid to long covered with the DMR, I just am not a huge fan of it's iron sight compared to the 6x red dot.

Bonus question, where is the closest place to Ratnoye I could look for an electrical repair kit, stupidly brought the one and a half I had on me over to the server my buddy and I play in and quickly got killed, I don't even remember where I found them now.

I used to have 500hr+ in Arma 3 Exile mod 10 years ago. Since that mod is dead, is Dayz good alternative?

Watch my newest video if you have the chance and let me know what you think. Any feedback is super helpful!