ReforgedZ brings back that old school DayZ Mod experience if anyone's interested
Full disclosure, DayZ standalone is what I personally prefer, but I recently tried ReforgedZ and it took me straight back to 2013/2014. Playing on Chernarus, setting my base way up in the hills, sneaking into the airfield for a nice sniper and taking fresh spawns out in Cherno, doing patrols in Elektro - it brought me straight back.
If you want that old school DayZ mod feel, this is it.
It has some problems though, I suspect the admins aren't as on top of hacking as anyone would like. The market where you can put items up for purchase never gets used since most people just peer-2-peer trade. Also, there's some gameplay stuff I don't personally like but that's here or there. The servers aren't full all the time. It is a mod, so there are a decent amount of glitches and jank.
Putting all this aside, this mod is pretty amazing for what it aims for. Hopefully they don't diverge too much from its current state.
They have a wiki, a discord, and the community is pretty cool. Cheers!