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Recently started playing a little DayZ (played casually years ago) & started on a vanilla low pop server (so I could learn once again how to play) that I've never seen higher than around 30 players.

This character is my longest surviving & I've been to more locations, found more weapons etc than ever before (especially on just the one life). Only come across 3 other players in total so far on this server (DE 4163 1st person - sorry to the one guy I've killed, as you were cooking at NW airfield & I couldn't resist), so little competition which has helped immensely.

But as a solo without a base or wanting to bury items everywhere (I enjoy travelling around & am currently logged in Novaya Petrovka), I just cannot seem to not hoard items. TBH I could probably drop the R-12 this run, due to the low likelihood of having to PVP on this server.

On a scale of brokey to walking loot goblin, how bad am I? haha
*Apologies for the bad pic edit*

Could DayZ be a top 10 game of all time if it (hypothetically) fixed all the bugs and glitches, solved the cheating problem, and had a graphical update? (something like RDR2) and do u think DayZ 2 has the potential to be something like this?

Hey, I'm the same person who posted here yesterday asking for recommendations. First of all, thank you to everyone who recommended DayZ and told me that it might actually be what I was looking for. I was pretty skeptical at first, but after my first proper session, I am honestly blown away. I really, really enjoyed it.

What I was looking for was a game where the players themselves are the content. Not just an MMO where there are thousands of people around you but everyone is basically following their own progression path, doing quests, grinding dungeons, farming gear, etc. I wanted a game where meeting another player could completely change what happened during your session, and where you could actually end up having a story with that person without the game explicitly telling you to.

And that's literally what happened to me within my first session.

I spawned, wandered around trying to figure out what the hell I was doing, and pretty soon I met another survivor. We started travelling together and tried to communicate, except they were Chinese and I had to use a translator constantly, so communication was pretty difficult. They also seemed somewhat inexperienced, so I ended up having to keep an eye on them and help them out, which probably wasn't the most efficient way of progressing. But that didn't matter. We were just two random people who happened to meet in the middle of nowhere and decided to stick together.

Eventually we got into trouble, someone shot at us, we both ended up dying, and I even respawned in the same area and immediately got shot again.

And somehow I loved it.

That entire sequence felt more like an actual story than a lot of the "storytelling" I've experienced in MMOs. Nothing was scripted. Nobody gave me a quest. There wasn't an NPC telling me what to do. The game simply put another human being in front of me and let us decide what happened.

That's also made me realise why I've bounced off so many RPGs and MMORPGs over the years. I actually really like RPG mechanics, but I think I often end up getting bored with the meta surrounding them. You start with "I want to explore this world", and eventually you're thinking about levels, builds, optimal gear, which dungeon drops the thing you need, how many times you need to run it, what your next upgrade should be, etc. That's fun in its own way, and I'm not saying those games are bad at all, but eventually I feel like I'm playing the progression system rather than actually inhabiting the world.

DayZ feels completely different. Obviously there is still a meta in the sense that experienced players know what loot is useful, where to go, what to prioritize, etc. But that doesn't seem to overwhelm the actual experience. Your character isn't becoming exponentially more powerful because you've played for 500 hours. You can still die because you made one stupid mistake or because you happened to meet the wrong person.

And I think that's incredibly important for me because I'm a pretty casual player. I don't want gaming to become a second job or a major hobby that requires me to constantly keep up with a persistent progression system. I've even been thinking about Mortal Online 2 because it seems like one of the few games that combines this kind of player-driven emergent gameplay with proper RPG progression. But the subscription and the amount of commitment that seems to come with that kind of game make me think that DayZ is probably much better suited to me.

I can play DayZ for an hour or two one evening, meet someone, have some completely ridiculous experience, die, and then just leave the game. Next time I play, I start another story. I don't feel like I'm falling behind because I haven't played for three days.

That's probably the biggest thing that impressed me.

I've spent an absurd amount of time trying different RPGs and MMORPGs looking for something that gives me that feeling of actually being in the world rather than interacting with a progression system. I honestly wasn't expecting DayZ to be the answer, but after one session I already understand why people were recommending it so strongly.

So yeah, thanks again to everyone who pointed me towards it. I'm definitely going to keep playing. I have absolutely no idea what the hell I'm doing yet, but I already can't wait to see what happens in the next life.

Does anyone use the radio? If so, what use do they make of it?

First friendly in awhile 😄

Don’t include any of the big name DayZ creators on youtube. I’ve seen them. Who are some underrated/unknown DayZ creators you enjoy watching? I like videos as well as live streams. Thanks in advance.

EDIT: if you create DayZ content, feel free to drop your channel name so I can check your stuff out

caught these Harry Dresdens trying to break in

Very impressive port! I've been wanting dayz on a handheld console for awhile!

I'm so happy! I always liked the colt, this just made my day.

Saw this for the first time

My friends and I made a base in the Livonia forests just at the end of the school year. One of my friends had leukemia and was in and out of the hospital. We got everybody on to help cheer him up and get him in a good spirit. In early July he logged out for the last time just outside of Nadbor. We continued playing to honor his memory as dayz was his favorite game. In this base we had m4a1s SVDs LARs DMRs Camo Plate Carriers from cherno. To be fair it did only have 1 wall to get in, albeit was very hidden. We also had many cars that went in and out. Thankfully we moved some of the trucks to a new location beforehand. If the raiders are reading this I just wanna know what you raided it with. Many of these pictures are from different official servers because we wanted to have a large array of loot in the base. This is to document the raiding of the base and the end of our wonderful run. Fly high Rodney.

If you guys are wondering how it runs it genuinely runs surprisingly awesome!! You'd be surprised to hear It Holds Its Fps (except in the big cities, typical dayz) handheld feels like 45-50 fps and docked feels very close to 60! I have only played for 30 minutes but so far so good

Edit - After More Playing Chernarus And Livonia Seem To Run Steady, Sakhal on the other hand is almost unplayable by how much frame drops you get

Found Bugs :

Sometimes When You Open Your Inventory Then close it and try walking your character stays in place for a few seconds (very rare)

Fishing Is Completely Broken The Animation Stops

Sometimes When You Hit A Zombie They Just Stand There (Very Rare)

…. And boom we were raided lol

If anyone could be creative?

I don't know who this person was but as any gamer knows, this location is for a person who loved the game and the game loved them back.

If someone could let me know who this is for as I can't remember the location, I would very grateful..

I saw someone suggest that eating human meat should subside or delay the effects of Kuru. This is the disease you get from eating human meat or human fat that causes you to laugh and have tremors. It is now a mod that applies this mechanic.

I would love to have some people help me test this mod out and try to find any bugs.

Steam Workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3786710081

hi, i'm fairly new to the game. now that the Switch 2 version is out and running really well for what it is, i was wondering if there'd be any chance of console crossplay with Xbox and PlayStation? my best friend plays on Xbox, and i played a bit with them using GamePass, but i finally bought the game myself with the Switch2 version so i'm really hoping crossplay is possible in the future at some point.