r/dayz

I've played a lot the last days and now im sure, im done with it. Got killed multiple times by cheaters. Sometimes i was 100% sure, in some other cases i just was curious about it.

The Cheaters-Problem is massive, especially in a game where you dont want to die and you loose several hours of playtime each time you get killed. Its just so sad for the game...

I found a spark plug near my spawn and decided to just beach comb until I came across a boat. Finally found one, and had a blast cruising westward, never been in a boat as I usually play solo and don’t bother but this was fun as hell. Gas light was on, but I found another boat that had more gas so I swapped boats. Continued along until I found this little lighthouse on a peninsula, with a couple houses nearby. Turned out to be Skalisty, which I’d never been on before.

Looking at the map, I figured no one would be out there. Saw another dude in a boat but no bad interactions, just went our separate ways. I love playing the PVE aspect of the game, just living in the world. So I figured I had the perfect little camp, catching mackerel, warming up, filling up on water with the pump near by. Figured I’d hang for a while, get my stats up to full and take off.

While eating mackerel in one of the houses in front of a fire, out of nowhere there is a gunshot and “you are dead” pops up. I don’t think I’ve ever had such a love/hate relationship with a game before, but this game does that to a T.

On an epic trek across the map (taken me something like 13/14 hours to get to stary sobor)
But I don’t want to die the second I get there. Is it worth going for the fourth tier loot areas, or are they especially dangerous? Do snipers tend to camp around the airfield somewhere?

In games like CS2 sensitivity is represented by a number which, when multiplied by your mouse DPI, gives you your exact eDPI. For instance, a sensitivity of 1.5 and a mouse DPI of 800 would multiply to an eDPI of 1200. However, in DayZ sensitivity is represented by a 1-100 slider. Is there a formula I can use to calculate my eDPI based off the slider setting and my mouse DPI?

I come from rust and have checked out day z multiple times but usually only play for 2-3 hours and don’t touch the game again for months, the thing is I just can’t get into this game, I’m a big fan of tarkov and realistic games as well but it just seems like you run around for 2 hours find a gun with no ammo and look for ammo for another hour, is this the whole concept of the game? I don’t like playing super moded servers because it seems like a 3x rust sever and I’m more of a vanilla type of guy. Any tips on how to get into the game? Sever recommendations?

They run but they’re not very smart so I think they would be moderately survivable

Well yesterday I was with my team im the least liked they ask why I carry a sledge welp they found out everyone was panicking after a fight im out of bullets and one man was charging us I come face to face with him and just lay it on him dude was not happy and my team is astonished asking how and I said I mostly did heavy hits now how do I convince them to carry a melee

Ugh, it`s kinda weird writing this. I`ve always heard so much good stuff of Dayz, so I caved in and bought it like last month. I knew it would be hard, to expect few interactions and lots of dying. It isnt my first time playing a hardcore game and usually I LOVE this type of games.

I played through the main campaign of Cuphead, I also enjoy Hell Let Loose, System Shook remaster is said to be difficult but I again loved the slower pasted combat and focus on resources and exploration and I also started Hunt Showdown: 1896 shortly after buying Dayz.

Now that I think of it, only one of the games that I didnt enjoy was Rust, I didnt like the focus on basebuilding and the punishment for early exploration. Partly, that was the reason why I even bought Dayz, a game without 80% of everything being locked behind a stable base

All these games are also pretty hard, so I thought i`d enjoy the challenge for Dayz too.

I... did kinda??

Ugh, thing is, at first it was A LOT of fun! I knew I wouldnt get an action filled, Left 4 Dead-like game, and for what I expected, I loved it! I loved the athmosphere and the looting, and slowly finding out how things work in such a buggy, junky mess of a game. It was all the things that I wanted from Rust and more.

then I played a little bit each day. Once I even killed a goat and ate it over a fire, my biggest achievement so far. About 3 times i`ve been shot and about 2 times peoples where friendly to me.

And then there`s the exploration aspect. Oh mannn, I love that as well! All places feel like actual places and traveling from town to town feels like a dream I`d wish I could do irl rn. I actually always think of trying hiking irl everytime I play Dayz. Something about the sheer quietness and natural beaty of those places just makes me feel happy (both irl and in-game, but prefer irl ofcourse(but im too young to hike)).

But like, all of my most recent rounds have been very VERY different.

My first complaint: I just aint seeing any players. And again, I know this game is supossed to be isolating and shits, but year me out for a second pls! I played for 30h, almost 2h every 3 days, I died like 40 times, AND I HAVENT SEEN A PLAYER **AT ALL!** I know, how seeing a player every 20 mins ruins the tension, but godammnnn, at this point, I dont even feel any tension, just cuz I have not once been shot to death by some random sniper. This game feels singleplayer at this point!

The only times I`ve ever seen a player was my first 3 or 5 rounds. I met quite a few on spawn, and even if we/I died shortly after, ts was what I wanted from Dayz. Some actual interactions with tension, where the other side could be doing planning anything.

In Arc Raiders, the abmm (action based matchmaking) removes the tension. In Rust, everyone is more toxic than the average Discord mod so shoot on sight, meaning no tension. And now in Dayz, there just are SO FEW INTERACTIONS, I literally am not scarred in the slightest bit of getting shoot.

Secondlyyyy: Performance sucks ass. Servers are laggy and I often get kicked out cuz they`re too full. This might be a mild complain and maybe only because I live in germany without any modern wi-fi cables, but it is so annoying.

And final point: At some point, everything just feels too harsh. Everything feels luck-based to be exact. I know none of the maps or spawn locations. I spawn, then I walk around and then, I either am unlucky and die or I am not and I.. survive for 2h max. I even learned a lot of mechanics of the game from youtube and from in-game experimenting. But I die so often, and every time it just feels like I wasnt lucky enough to find a knife in 20 mins. Literally what can I do against this?!

Maybe the game gets easier as I get to know the map and just have memorized where the next police station is. But like, am I just supossed to die for 200h straight cuz I cant learn a complex map?! Is everything in this game just tied to knowing the map?!

And if it is, I just dislike using maps honestly. I, as I said, like the exploration aspect, the feeling of being lost in a very real world, of discovering new unknown places. Do I have to give up the whole exploration aspect, just so I dont starve on every run!?!

All of this kinda makes me feel likes I expected the wrong type of stuff from this game. I expected more of an social game with looting, others say Dayz is first and foremost just and survival game, and to be honest, I usually dislike extreme survival games.

Should I just stop playing at this point? The only thing I can fix about my playstyle would be just switching to modded servers. I only play official so far and many people see it as a "challenge" to play on those.

pls give advice.

also, I dunno what to play so imma play Dayz now

Just trying to find a good server for pvp and high loot , can’t find any servers except roleplaying and a bunch of bs servers

I'm new to the game, with 100 hours of gameplay. I saw an announcement on Discord saying they were recruiting players, including newbies, and I thought it was my chance.

I joined this clan, there were over 10 players, all super nice, except the leader. From the start, he started being rude to me, sometimes even offensive. If that was all, it would be fine. Basically, every time he died, I couldn't pick up his loot, but when I died, they literally took everything. Also, when I made a mistake, this same leader would insult me ​​quite a bit. I never argued with him because I was new there.

What really made me take the action I took was announcing to everyone on Discord what I was wearing. I was still wearing the clan armband when the leader basically killed me. I complained, he threatened to kick me out of the clan, I pretended everything was fine and kept playing. At 4 AM, I secretly logged in, used his items to build my own base and some secret hideouts. I took a lot of stuff: 4 AKS, 1 SVT 40, 1 Lar, 2 semi-automatic rifles, lots of ammunition, food, medicine, nails, grenades, etc. I thought about leaving everything that was left at their base on the ground and ruining it all, but I didn't because everyone was kind and helpful, so I only took what I needed and left.

why are they so fn rare me and my gf just want to build a base weve been searching for 8 HOURS💔💔💔