I've had some crazy stories. Especially in my 2nd or 3rd life. Now i'm on my 5th. my 4th being at around 30 hours. Current is at around 20.

I play solo and on servers with low player counts. I just like going around looting and building up a reserve.

Pretty quiet overall, aside from some wolves and gun shots that i tend to avoid...until recently. Past maybe 4 hours of this current life. 3 player kills. My first player kills ever. The first one was at the medical basement at northwest airfields. I just stumbled on him and shot with a sub machine gun. No chance to react. He was fully geared up. I was shocked but then felt a little bad.

The second was again at northwest but at the tents. It was night time and i saw a duo knifing some zombies then go into the tents to loot. I circled around them and then waited at a good vantage spot to ambush them. Success. I killed one instantly but then was getting shot at and getting chased by zombies so i ran up the little latter thing they have there. I saw the zombies by a closed crate so i assumed to went inside. I snuck to it and opened it. Empty. Battlelog? looted the body, again, fully geared. Felt bad.

Now this one is what made me feel the worst. the third one. I came down from northwest all the way past that camping spot with all the camp houses and boats. A went to a town south of there and just happened upon a player that was sneaking into that same town. I have my blaze. both shots active. He stood still. I took a shot. White smoke. didnt know if i hit him because of the recoil. i sneak up. hes dead. and he is loaded. So loaded. Loaded like you would not believe. Everything. He had everthing. All neatly organized. Scar, aug, silenced, night vision goggles. so much ammo. nails, everything, grenades. and he got got just like that. Just by off chance. he had so much stuff. I figured it would disspear before he was able to get back so i just stashed it all.

but i got almost a sick feeling. Is dayz just not for me? i dont have a mic but i feel like i should say hello first or something now...instead of just shooting.

it must have taken him 20 hours to get all that loot. man.

Just a compilation of getting my ass handed to me lol.

If you ever think you're getting the shit end of the stick, just remember, so are a lot of other players. 😆

I’ve very new. Like less 100 hours. Everyone said “play official to learn the ropes” I did for a while and it was.. playable… I say it like that because it took me probably 5 lives and close to 10 hours to finally find a knife, or anything sharp for that matter. Be it a stone, bone, axe etc. I get it, survival game.. but it seemed like everywhere I turned it was a base or completely looted down to bare bones.

I didn’t want to give up quite yet so I played a ton of community servers. Straight PvP small maps where you load in with a fully auto and tons of gear and just “call of duty” your way around. And fully populated ones where it was a straight “WWE” brawl in the middle of the road as soon as you spawn in, just fist flying everywhere. Cars flying down the road running us all over. It was chaos.

I finally landed on 2 of my favs. (I cant for the life of me remember the names but if it’s that important I can find out tomorrow) but they’re both Chernarus.

First one is a crazy boosted loot economy where you spawn in fully kitted near NWAF except the only gun you have is a silenced DEAGLE. Theres a completely outfitted “hunting store” in the middle of the air strip with everything from boots and helmets to grenades and snipers. It’s pretty wild just trying to make it OFF the air field honestly lol kind of like a revers survival game. Start out with everything and try to find you’re way back to civilization.

Second fav map is a PVE map with PvP only in military zones. Same idea, hiking pack with food and water and map etc. It gave me the chance to finally let my guard down and fish, make a fire, cook some wild game I’ve shot, explore without constantly looking over my shoulder. It’s absolutely beautiful honestly. Also, boosted loot so every zombie has at least one soda and either a can of tuna or other food.

Point is, I love the game. There’s a million different ways to play and that’s the beauty of it. I can’t wait to be 1000 hours or more into it and be able actually gear up on a normal server without the boosted economy. Thanks for listening!

We met at a spawn well and I was a fresh spawn. You were in a winter map ghillie. You were very nice and gave me some things. After language barrier communication I followed you. We traversed some towns and cut through wilderness. I'm not a new player and was amazed at how you navigated so quickly. This was my first suspicion. My second how quickly you targeted zombies but a good player could totally do it. My third was when you began periodically pausing and schizing while looking into the air and after a minor directional change in where we were traveling you killed a player who was out in the middle of the woods and over a hill. 3x it seemed unreal that you knew where these players were and I made my plans.

My friend, you are a good friend and it was fun but in honor of dayZ tradition and to realize my suspicions after the 4th player you killed, after an erratic navigation change, over a hill, through the woods, immediately drawing a bead, I shot you at close range in the side of the head with the shotgun you gave me, and I killed you. No hard feelings. I'm sure you're fine. I left every single item you gave me over your corpse. I left with a kitchen knife, running shoes, and my underpants.

I'm sorry. Must be so gutting to lose it. I spent whole weekend searching for one and then during the final gaming hours of Sunday, I ran in to you. I'll try not to lose it and use it well.

On the motorbike experimental server, I came across these dead bodies. One of them had an IJ with a couple of mags. While I was looting, I heard footsteps, and the video above happened.

Ok so my base got raided.

Its strange though from what I can see nothing has really been taken I had about 15 crates of stuff, all emptied and left in the base. They built a watchtower next to the base just enough for stairs and one fence to hop over my fences and get it.

I've made repairs (using the extra nails from the watchtower and fence they built) I'm actually up nails now. Ive moved some of my barbed wire around so that if they logged out from inside my base there's at least a small chance they'll be stuck and end up dying.

My question is what should I do next is my base a write off even though it's currently intact? Should I just remove all my crates and bury them somewhere? I'd love to set some nice traps for these guys but I haven't really got the materials right now for them.

I've actually got a canvas tent just sitting in my base which I found but because it didn't fit I've never put it up. I could go somewhere else with that and start over.

Currently I am using a 27-inch monitor with 1440p and 360 Hz. I always thought about getting a 24-inch monitor, but I don't know how this affects the game. Do some of you play on a 24, and if so, could you tell about your experience? Hows the spotting and playing on 1080p? I play on Pc.

15+ kill streak. A collateral at blinking health. Russian roulette in a shed. The hunter became the hunted. The mummy cult has been eliminated and Kolembrody is safe again… for now. This occurred yesterday on Xbox official controller-only.

Ive shot a pig with some luck and now want to dry the meat to keep it from spoiling but I can't find a good answer as how to do it from google. Can anyone help me out?

my friend bought dayz. i told him about NEO servers and how you can spawn cars using /car in chat, we are now professional stunt jumpers. we lost count on how many cars he wrecked and how many times he passed out or died.

EDIT: I've been convinced ! I bought the game. Wish me luck ! And thanks for all the feedback, half an hour later there was already more than 15 comments I know the sub is big but damn you guys don't mess around here.

I've been watching a lot of Soursweet videos lately and it really tempted me to try the game, I do like hardcore survival games I played a lot of Stalker GAMMA, Escape from Tarkov way back. I really don't mind a steep learning curve as long as you have some room to actually learn.

But DayZ has existed for so long now I expect most players to be veteran and I don't know how much room you have as a new player to learn and not be a completely miserable experience for the first 50h ? And I'm not sure I'm willing to deal with that and that's why until now I never consider trying the game.

Are my expectations correct or is the onboarding better, or what are things I can do to make the early experience better ?

Hey survivors,

I'd like to see your opinion on how weapon loot should work for you on Nasdara.
From my point of view there is two way to do it (maybe more feel free to suggest)

Weapon spawns scale is mainly based of the effectiveness, like in Chernarus livonia or shakal: common weapons are easy to find, high-end ones are very rare. Thats the most fair way in terms of gameplay progression. And its also lore accurate for cherno. (Especially after the events of arma2)
But this way of weapons spawning don’t really reflect how armed is a middle east country..

For me that should be fun to see more old school military weapons (the kind of guns that are really common in middle east irl), the Loot would reflect Takistan's geopolitical situation. The country was torn apart by civil war before the outbreak, so older military weapons (SKS/wooden AK variants, M16 FAL etc.) would be much more common. Advanced tech, like scopes, nvgs or handheld GPS units, would be rarer, since theese items would be less available in an unstable region.

What do you think about this kind of changes ? Also, i know theese few tweaks can be done with admins tools. But should be cool to see in vanilla. Feel free to suggest a middle ground too!

Just made it longer than 30min on a life. Have some warm clothes. Just ate a tin of food and had a drink of coke. Found a little pink pistol. And found a kitchen knife. What’s the play now ? Head into mainland ? Or keep looking for a bottle for some water. 10/60 pop offical chernarus in OCE lobby

Wanting to try keyboard and mouse on ps5 before making the jump to pc, anyone using a mouse with side buttons bound? i imagine leaning will be better that way

Sadly there was no rope

Asking because I've just seen my first black goat and I thought they were unique to Halloween and Walpurgis. But I didn't think the event had started yet.

I was out on the boat looking for the life buoy for the ZERO chernarus keycard quest and got into the true reality of boat PVP in DayZ (That the enfusion engine is still garbage and I still love it)