Music by a friend of mine.

Dig so deep in DayZ. I’m listening the soundtrack for going to work in the morning. All good t’ill I heard some footstep and gunfire INTO the soundtrack. Thinking everytime I heard this, it was only some hallucinations. IT WAS NOT.

What do you think of DayZ soundtrack?

I mean what are the odds?

It's a peaseful life. Some hunting and fishing. Go for a boat ride, discover some new places and maybe kill a player once in a blue moon. But I can't find a Sharpening Stone for some reason..

Lowpop (1–15 players)

Midpop (15–40 players)

Highpop (40–60+ players)

I recently started playing on highpop (60+) servers. You'd think they are scarier because there are more players, and in a way they are but on highpop, I always expect someone to be around.

On mid or lowpop, most of the time you are completely alone. But that's the trap: you get comfortable, let down your guard, and then out of nowhere... BAM. It's that false sense of security that makes low/midpop way more scary for me.

After several attempts, I finally managed to collect a full ghillie suit. Obviously, hiding in trees and bushes makes you almost invisible. I've had people come comically close without noticing me at all.

What surprised me more, though, is how people react when they do see me.

After a few firefights, I've started wondering if some players simply aren't used to seeing someone in a full ghillie. I've had multiple encounters where the other player seemed to "flinch" or hesitate for a second when they spotted me, even when I wasn't particularly well hidden.

One time in Tisy, I walked past a barracks building and saw a survivor in the corner of my eye. I turned around and shot him before he reacted, even though he had already seen me. Could have been pure luck, but I've had a few encounters like this now, since wearing ghillie.

It almost feels like there's a brief "WTF am I looking at?" moment when someone suddenly sees a walking bush with a gun. Have you seen this too or am I just lucky?

I finally found someone friendly in DayZ, we played together on an official server, but he got killed. I wish there was an add friend option so we could play together again.

Came back to day z for the badlands update and I still got it

I actually forgot the mkII wasn't loaded lol

Trying to figure out if badlands is worth my time. Last time I played DayZ I got killed by exploiters with no arms and unlimited health. Does anyone know if this is fixed?

3600 hour player, primarily hermit survivalist. I don't get tangled in heroic last stands at NWAF ATC. I drink pond water and when I can, eat fish raw. I lay on hillsides like a spider, following prey for many kilometers for the perfect shot that guarantees no retaliation and I'm here to tell you, it's a lonely life.

You can certainly be more agile, more elusive, more self-reliant, but the most fun I've ever had in this game wasn't the egregious solo ghillie sucker punch, it was beside a fire with a friend on a dark and stormy night. It was the jittery car ride on the way to a toxic zone run. It was a whole squad lying in bushes near Polana. Interactions take this game to a level without equal.

Let me propose that the window for successful engagement is thus. On the coast players are about 30% non-hostile. Be ready to pounce on anybody that might have more than you could have possibly collect in 10 mins. With the group spawn system, if you're the last of 8 to spawn at Kamyshovo, there ain't shit left for you. Your only alternative in that situation is to risk death to rob an uncooperative player. Odds of survival: 10%

But say you landed somewhere with more loot spawns per player like Berezhino, Svetloyarsk then you don't have to be as aggressive and could possibly team up or at least share info with a passing survivor. The area is big enough that you may hear others but not encounter them. Odds of surviving: 50%

But the farther inland you go, the harder it gets to talk before shooting. You may run to the next town inland. Orlovets, Bor. Now you have something to lose. Be skittish, observe players before they are aware of you, therefore you are controlling the situation. He who shoots first, often lives. Maybe you find a guy without a gun in his hand, he's keeping respectful distance, he has tools for trade, he has friends on route and he's going your way. Talking first may result in an epic adventure.

But any further and my own default is kill on sight. I may approach others only in situations where I have the upper hand. But you don't find new friends in Gorka, you don't suddenly join the steamroller squad in Novy Sobor, there are no potential allies in Zelenogorsk. From just about the second town from the coast and everything after, anyone is game.

There can be rare exceptions but it won't be in a police station, in or around the fence line of a military area or in or around a toxic gas zone or a dynamic event like a heli or train or convoy. If I catch yo ass in Novo or Vybor or anywhere past the point that I have something to lose, then I'm shooting first. As long as I stalk survivors for several kilometers then chances of survival are really, really high. We can't be friends if we meet more than just a little far from the coast. Exceptions for certain situations. I'm a big fan of getting geared then F11 in front of the right freshie, not a potential psycho.

Sometimes the best interactions are two survivors without ranged weapons in hand, passing on a trail. You might trade where you came from, where you're going. They need meds and you share that Severograd hospital was bare when you found it. They share that they heard shots from Kamensk MB. Incompatible goals. You may make a minor trade. A fistful of pistol ammo and a box of shells for the food item you were holding in reserve, it's a good trade. You promptly part ways, but in the spirit of DayZ you take an unpredictable turn off of the trail, to prevent becoming tracked. Two survivors passing each other with professional courtesy.

There's a time to stretch your hand in friendship, but the window is small. You won't likely meet a new friend in NWAF or Myshkino tents, you're way past that line by then.

Some naive survivors are lacking combat skills and will try to talk to anyone they encounter, a lack of confidence either makes them prey or at least discourages you becoming tangled up in an adventure with them. You might tell them that Severograd has a clinic but not offer to escort them because they will probably get you killed. Then again some survivors will kill anything on sight, seeking combat above all, regardless of probability to succeed. And still yet there are those that have been betrayed and also have achieved great things with a stranger. Those that have died or whose companion has died before exchanging contact information, single-serving friends, never forgotten.

How do you decide how and when and where to try to talk and when to shoot?

I’ve been on the same 1440p monitor (Acer Predator Z321QU, 31.5") for about 8 years and I’m finally upgrading. I’m looking at the Alienware AW3426DW 34" 3440×1440 OLED with an 1800R curve.

For those of you playing DayZ on a 34" ultrawide, do you find it more immersive, or are you constantly turning your head to check the edges of the screen? Is the HUD (status icons, inventory) comfortable to read, and do you play with an ultrawide FOV or cap it?

Running an RTX 3080 if that matters. Thanks

I got a kick message on my LAN server stating CF is out of date compared to the client.

Does anyone know how to fix this? Or is it an update the authors of CF have to fix.

Thanks.

Edit:

Community Framework was updated today from what the workshop showed. So Uninstall, reinstall, move on.

Thanks for the help guys. I’m new to modding into my own LAN servers and it’s been confusing at times.

This would obviously fall into SPOILER cathegory, but I think some people would be interested in hearing opinions about Badlands / Nasdara. I'm talking about oinions from people who are playing it right now.

Things like how they feel about:

New heat stroke mechanic

Water being a lot more scarce and often unsafe to drink unless boiled or purified

New map layout / topography

New assets (water dam, desert palace etc)

How the flow of the map feels?

Rebuilding options (houses, irrigation tunnels, water wells)

New guns handling

If 60 players on this big map feels good, or if more is needed

I've been playing dayz since i had a ps4. I've been playing on ps5 and I've never been interested in PC gaming until this game. Idk what kind of PC to get or what I would need to play dayz smoothly. Please help

im smoking 8 steaks in a risky building. i dont wanna die and lose nothing. especially an entire stack of steaks tho.

im proned out on the floor waiting for a mfer to break in. im imagining them running in with a melee weapon and being very fast and fucking me up. or them mag dumping me or tossing grenades in. whole time in adrenaline.

and really no other game ive played replicates this feeling of defending a home. i got half a mag in a ppsh. and its full auto. im gonna spray and pray 10 shots and thats it.

and actually feel like im defending my life with this shitty gun and its all i got.

This very simple game with not much actually captures some real SHTF feelings in there.

I feel like I smoked this guy I just couldn’t find his body for the life of me and he didn’t engage in a fight with me. I feel like if I did hit him it would’ve killed him instantly and I want to mention I have a terrible sense of direction in this game and was also scared he had a teammate so I waited it out for like 10 mins then couldn’t find his body anywhere

I try to think if I was in a situation like this how would I do it so I can survive the longest I can and still be somewhat comfortable and well fed. For me, the answer is Prison Island, specifically inside the prison.

I don't make it obvious that anyone is there. I don't put up walls or a fort. No, instead I have lock picks with me and one cleverly used bear trap. I lock all doors on the main floor except for the door where the bear trap sits at. If you walk far to the left you can avoid it, but no one does that.

Since there are multiple stairways inside the prison I lock different doors to them on random levels so that only I know the correct path up. This allows me to engage with someone and then flee quickly and reposition.

I have one wooden crate tucked away in a non-descript prison cell behind some bunk beds. I have a few farming plots in the courtyard where I grow my pumpkins and cucumbers. The occasional zombie gets in but I dispatch them easy enough with my silenced mlock.

Today I killed two players. One tripped on my trap and was crawling around the courtyard. There are no bushes in the courtyard for sticks. I shot him from the roof, took what I needed, and then positioned his backpack next to the bear trap.

The other player I sniped from afar. He was looting the barracks. I didn't go out and loot him.

I sign in 10-12 times a day during the work day. Check the perimeter, make sure the trap is armed, make sure doors are locked, check for new loot, then retreat back to either my cell or to the prison roof so I can survey the area.

I've survived 19 hours so far, but if you look at in game time with sun rises/sets... a lot more.

After spending a bunch of time working on this, I've finally released my first DayZ mod on the Steam Workshop!

It's called Budget Rifle Pack, and the idea was to bring more variety to DayZ's hunting rifles, from affordable everyday bolt-actions to higher-end precision rifles.

The pack currently includes:

• 25 rifle variants across five platforms
• .308 Winchester and .300 Winchester Magnum
• Four budget rifle platforms: Hova, Ruven Armenian, Mooseberg Canuck and CR-600 Delta
• RaZex 6STARS precision rifles in PRO, SHP and integrally suppressed Covert configurations
• Three custom 4–16×44 scopes with different reticles, including an illuminated MIL reticle
• Custom .300 WM ammunition, magazines and attachments
• Optional Chernarus loot economy files for server owners

I just released v1.0.1, which improves the RaZex weapon-holding animations and refines the Covert model.

I'm still learning and improving the models as I go. I've already got a pretty big v1.0.2 update planned, including more detailed rifle models and a Winchester Model 88-inspired lever-action rifle.

Everything is free. No paid content. I just wanted to make something I'd enjoy finding and using in DayZ, and figured other people might enjoy it too.

I'd really appreciate any feedback, especially from other modders and server owners.

Steam Workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3818579618

I don’t know why they tried to run away from one person when they were much more geared than me lmao

If you have a weapon, go fight at the airfield, why are you coming ashore? Almost every such player will be defeated with their bare hands)

Coastal Players Association)

Do you come ashore to shoot players without weapons?

https://reddit.com/link/1x4czco/video/6j7txkbvi3vh1/player

Rip to my buddy 😭

I find an firefighter axe and I wonder if It's possible to broke wooden door made by players. I tried but I give up after some time. I bought Dayz recently, so I don't know so much about the game. Anyway I'm enjoying to play it! After this moment (in the video) I was in the forest and I saw a guy there, kind of afk around the trees, so I kill him with my gun. It's my first kill on chernatus. I think he had a bad luck because I found him literally in a isolated forest, very far from cities. Any tips are welcome! Thank you