DayZ on Xbox

not sure if there's a newer thread but I couldn't find one.
There's been a big increase in dayz users since it was added to Gamepass so its getting very popular again.
I've played this back in its arma2 mod days and its hardly changed really but I'm really enjoying it now and having to look up the tips again.
I'm on 3930 (server) with a mate , apparently there's 2 groups of bandits but they're easy to avoid really.
Use iZurzive map app on ios/android or the website...its brilliant and you can create groups, add players to those groups and mark your spots etc and other players can see it.
It was always going to be shoot on sight for new players starting off again as that's what they're used to ..but more and more players are now engaging first/chat etc/

yeah I met some guys who tried to kill me etc but they were nearly all people who just spawned etc.
I met another lad way up north in the wilderness as it turned out i was in his cabin trying to remember how to light a fire and he was dead on. Lit the fire for me, gave me an SVD and NVG goggles etc but we lost each other then afterwards as we were only using in game chat.
Another lad gave me loads of tips etc so its good to see that side too.
Maybe we should have a boards discord channel or xbox group for whoever is playing it on here.

mixed up wrote: »

I was playing on the DOTD Community server today, i was going across to loot a house when a player comes up behind with a gun pointing at my, tells me to put my hands up and he ties me up, was talking to him and he asked if i was from Ireland? 🀣 He was too, he let me go gave me a bottle of water and a few other bits 🀣🀣

I must definitely check out community servers.

For anyone interested we've set up a Dayz server (Frankfurt DE).

Server Name : Dayz Core - Loot+ at Military, x4 helicopters.

Its basically replicating the official servers with just a few changes.
Days are 4 hours, nights are 1 hour approx.
Helis have been increased to 4 times the normal amount. So that's 12 or 16 helis. Still just a small amount when you consider how many heli sites they can potentially spawn at.
We've doubled most of the lower tier guns or close to double etc but ammo spawns are still the game so people can't really go spraying and praying at the moment.
All guns will spawn with mags but the number of bullets in them are random. The guns with internal mags however we haven't touched. (need to research this part)
Introduced giftboxes...just randomly spawn with stuff like ammo or nails, batteries etc.
Increased number of compasses generated from 70 to 120.
Double the number of knives generated to give you a better chance to get food etc.


So basically its still tough to survive but the zombies and players are the bigger threat now.
Also to combat the dupers we increased the AR rifles by x2 but now held guns are no longer counted when spawned.
Official limit for example M4A1 to 10 and that includes any that are buried, hoarded or on a player or on the map. So if dupers had 8 M4s only 2 would ever respawn.
We've increased the limit to eg 20 and it only counts what's M4s are presently on the map. So it basically makes duping pointless really.
Our aim is people will spawn and either fight or cooperate for resources and if they want to gear up they have to hit military checkpoints or find heli crash sites.
For those geared players who no doubt will try and kill the fresh spawns they know that there's a good chance that the fresh spawns are lightly armed but still a much bigger threat now to them.

Kenjataimu wrote: »

Even on community servers with rules against KOS, it still happens.
As much as I'd like to have interaction with people, it doesn't seem to ever go well unless I'm a complete new spawn.
Once someone is fully geared, they don't take risks or they'll die.

I enjoy playing DayZ but it's still a buggy mess in places.
And it's only fun if you are teaming up with people in my experience.
Running solo is boring as hell.


@Blazer it might be hard to get a community server up and going, I've seen a lot of new servers die quickly.
Have you a discord set up for the server?

yeah I have a discord set up.
Said we would play it by ear.
I much prefer official mode but the dupers make it impossible to compete across the map.
https://discord.gg/dutnmJE

If it works out it works out otherwise I'm not too pushed.
Its one of the reasons I'm keeping it as close to vanilla as possible. I don't want to be spending my whole time adminning. I done enough of that back in my battlefield days.