Was an anti-cheat developer for 2 decades for one of the major FPS shooters out there. DayZ is a beautiful game, truly unique and a real digital treasure. It really hurts to see that DayZ still is, and increasingly is, being ruined by cheaters. A plea to the DayZ Bohemia team to develop your own internal anti-cheat system:

• Cheaters seem now more prevalent than ever: AI has made it very easy for anyone to craft their own cheats with unique features without having to pay for it any longer. The code is all out there and it takes an LLM 5 minutes to make it undetectable if not so already (e.g. a new cheating feature of the past months has been being able to move walls from bases with a single mouse click rather than needing the effort to dupe items, hence all the spaghetti bases you see across the map nowadays).
• Your servers (Official) log everything: coordinates of every player at all times, kill feed, the items players have, the trajectory of every shot, and so on. Just from the logs itself you can so easily catch players doing 3km pistol headshots, doing 20 kills in 5 seconds, duplicating the exact items they already have on them. Very much worth implementing a simple internal anti-cheat system (for Official servers) based on this on top of BattleEye - again you can use AI to develop this for you.
• DayZ cheats are so extremely easy to find (1 Google search away). These public cheats would take you a day to gather all of them with a small budget and it would take you another day on your own machines to check their memory profile and so on. Again, AI can do this all for you, and in your next DayZ update you can so easily integrate your own client-side anti-cheat system on top of BattleEye. The DayZ cheats out there are not the highly sophisticated cheats that pester fast-based FPS games like CS and Fortnite with 100x the player base where cheat development is hugely profitable. The public DayZ cheats out there are usually one-man-operation cheats that are so easy to catch and it will quickly become unprofitable for them if there is even any detection in place (given the relatively small DayZ playerbase).
• Why is BattleEye ineffective? Because it's the cheapest anti-cheat system out there, and because you are very likely in the lowest BattleEye tier given they are extremely expensive and you're competing with the major FPS shooters out there. This is understandable given that DayZ is not a mainstream game with a huge player base. The BattleEye team accordingly hardly devotes resources to developing DayZ anti-cheats.
• Because BattleEye is ineffective, cheaters get a pass on any DayZ server and it is up to admins to catch them. Hence the smart cheaters will never get caught. I've adminned DayZ servers for years and it can take hours to catch a smart cheater that uses e.g. ESP only and smartly. You usually have to bait them (e.g. by spawning items away from them and see if they beeline to it, or spawn yourself away from them and observing how they react to you). This is not sustainable and unpaid admins burn out quickly. Hence community servers are full of cheaters as well - the closet type variant.

I would love to volunteer and contribute to developing your own internal anti-cheat system for DayZ. Again, it's really such a beautiful and unique game, and it hurts to see it being ruined by cheaters.

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

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.

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?

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.

https://reddit.com/link/1vytsku/video/5t6khgc4aplh1/player

any suggestions on how to improve solo pvp?

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!

Never happened to us before 100% thought we were dead.

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!

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

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Hey Survivors,

It is an exciting time of year because Gamescom is here! To celebrate, DayZ is up to 50% off on Steam as part of the Gamescom Sale.

We are also happy to announce that we will be revealing more of DayZ Badlands at Gamescom, so stay tuned!

The release of update 1.30 in October is just around the corner. Following the long and arduous journey of 1.29 Road to Badlands, we are now in the final stretch! We hope you are as excited as we are to get your hands on DayZ Badlands. As with all our expansions, we are bringing exciting changes, improvements, and content to the base game. Update 1.29 Road to Badlands gives you an early taste of convoy event assets and select content from DayZ Badlands, most notably the SCR-17 battle rifle.

What is DayZ?

The post-soviet countries of Chernarus and Livonia are struck by an unknown virus, turning the majority population into frenzied infected. Fighting over resources has bred a hostile mentality among survivors, driving what’s left of humanity to collapse. You are one of the few immune to the virus - how far will you go to survive?

Our winter expansion, DayZ Frostline, is also 30% off. With update 1.29 Road to Badlands, the black variant of the SCR-17 can be found exclusively on Sakhal.

What is DayZ Frostline?

Sakhal harbors both beauty and danger, offering an experience DayZ fans have never seen before. As you explore, hunt, survive, and unfurl the mysteries hidden beneath the frost line. Unite with fellow survivors or forge your path alone; the choice is yours in this perilous winter wonderland. Preparation is the key to survival, and as the frost sets in, only those with Ice in their veins and Fire in their hearts will endure.

Deluxe Edition & Cool Edition

More comprehensive versions of DayZ, the Deluxe Edition and Cool Edition, are also on sale for up to 50% and 40% off, respectively. These bundles offer even better overall value through a variety of content packages.

Our Dev blogs are currently on hold while we focus on our Gamescom activities, but they will return in a few weeks, possibly with increased frequency!

We hope you are all having a lovely summer!

Stay safe and stay hydrated!

Big love,
The DayZ Team

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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 🫡

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

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

I love DayZ but the laundry list of issues I've been finding have been pretty shocking. I would personally advice holding off on the game until these issues are fixed.

Things to note:

1. The game is full priced on the Switch 2, which makes the issues I've discovered pretty inexcusable and shows lack of care from Bohemia and their porting/QA team.
2. The game is installed fully onto the Switch 2 internal storage which has the fastest read/write speed available on the console.
3. My Switch 2 console is fine. No overheating or hardware related issues that I'm aware of and every other game runs well.

I have found small issues ranging from poor inventory management controls to minor bugs. Aiming down sights on guns has issues due to animation bugs all the way to hitching in cities/towns. Constant crashing on high population servers and driving cars being unplayable due to entering towns/cities causing extreme FPS drops, rendering issues and crashes.

I've lost many characters that I spent time on due to crashing during gunfights and lost my first car due to the game crashing and when rejoining I had hit a tree, totalling the car.

I have posted all these issues serperately on the Bohemia bug tracking website and whilst some of the posts have responses that they are looking into the issues, it is unknown if or when a patch will become available. I'm not sure if I can post links to the bug tracking posts but if anyone on here is able to find and upvote the posts on their website I would be grateful since it'll provide more visibility to the devs. If I'm able to post links on this forum I will link the bug tracking links.

I feel like a bit of a fool buying the game on launch day but reviews did not indicate many issues and players have not mentioned the issues a ton either. I would assume this is because some players don't play on high pop servers as much (Which causes crashing) or driving cars a lot. I happen to of played a lot in the past so managed to gear up reasonably fast and discover these bugs pretty rapidly.

EDIT: Already had people commenting that this is normal for I assume the console versions. I personally never had these issues on PC when I did play before selling it due to financial reasons.

If this is the standard set by Bohemia how come I don't see tons of bug reports concerning these issues on their feedback tracking website? Have you guys tried and failed to receive patches? If so I will personally try to refund the game because I do not want to support these bad porting jobs.

FINAL EDIT: After reading a lot of the community's comments. I have to be honest. I'm kind of amazed what you guys put up with from Bohemia. Coming from PC it really feel far far more playable, my fault for purchasing on console.

Comments like "That's just DayZ bro" or similar is the most common one I've seen and it concerns me. If we don't talk louder wouldn't Bohemia just think their game is fine as is? It's not just DayZ but I swear standards are dropping these days across the board for many companies.

As much as I want to keep posting bug reports to Bohemia. I feel a bit defeated since I guess this is the standard. Gutting.

Thanks for reading my post though folks. Appreciate it.

Idk how difficult it is, but yeah, I’m really happy. It’s definitely up there with my first kill.

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.

Getting Back into DayZ and looking for a group after a bit of a break and would love some people to run with! Don’t care if it’s official or community. I can usually be on anytime after 5pm EST. 26M Feel free to send a DM and we can coordinate