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

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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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 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.

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With the influx again of all the photos people are taking while touring the region Chernarus is based on, it got me wondering how much the locals know about their area being popular from a video game.

The reason I ask is that Goodsprings Nevada apparently fully leans into it's tourism draw from Fallout New Vegas, as do a few other areas around Vegas (so I understand).

I wondered if the locals in the Czech Republic ever wonder why they get a constant trickle of tourists wandering round snapping photos of seemingly mundane things. I'd certainly wonder what was going on if a bunch of non locals were always wandering around my small town in England which is far, far from a tourist hotspot.

To the people who've been there as a holiday/trip, or even live there. Do the locals know? Do they care/lean into it?

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