next wipe

[Kingfisher5564u 46]

My son said he saw a video on Reddit that stated There was going to be a full wipe on Feb. 25th.  Any truth to this?

[merropa93 104]

  On 2/13/2025 at 1:36 PM, Kingfisher5564u said:

My son said he saw a video on Reddit that stated There was going to be a full wipe on Feb. 25th.  Any truth to this?

Hello,

Yes, it is. All maps and characters on official servers will be wiped. The wipe of community servers is up to the owners and is not necessary in this case.

[Riddick_2K 186]

  On 2/13/2025 at 1:39 PM, merropa93 said:

Hello,

Yes, it is. All maps and characters on official servers will be wiped. The wipe of community servers is up to the owners and is not necessary in this case.

Why?

For what purpose?

All these wipes make you lose the desire to play... you never manage to conclude anything because everything is always deleted... and too often without good reasons, even...

😟 😥 😟

[nemorus 281]

Dayz programming is one reason and there's of course the other: official servers quality. These places are barely working and must be purged from time to time.

[Judley 20]

  On 2/13/2025 at 3:19 PM, Riddick_2K said:

Why?

For what purpose?

All these wipes make you lose the desire to play... you never manage to conclude anything because everything is always deleted... and too often without good reasons, even...

😟 😥 😟

All you do is moan

[KA-74USER 52]

  On 2/13/2025 at 6:53 PM, Judley said:

All you do is moan

OH MY LORDY WE GOT A NEGATIVE NINNY

 

[Riddick_2K 186]

I've already written it in detail a few times, this one I'll summarize: I have a vanilla server, since 2020 (opened with 1.06 and the first update was 1.07) where I have NEVER done ANY WIPE!
It doesn't have any particular problems of any kind other than its own "game programming problems"... the same ones you can find with a clean install. I have some bases scattered here and there and one (my main one, full of stuff accumulated in the first years of playing).
Sometimes some friends have played it a bit too.
I can let anyone who asks to test it try it.
Server performance does NOT depend on the things accumulated but on the power of the processor used.
Artificial intelligences consume a lot of the processor, if anything... try filling it with animals or infected and you will really see a nice drop in performance.
The more people enter and the more animals and infected are activated, the more the server "gives in".
The accumulated objects mean practically nothing, if you don't pass by them... and even then it ALL depends on the processor power.
Above the modified servers we can discuss, I've had one for less years... anyway has NEVER been WIPE, but a lot changes depending on the combination of mods used. But that's another story.
Server managers often use the "performance excuse" to do a WIPE (which many like because they have a distorted vision of the game) and often, also, because it's convenient to accuse the game of defects that actually depend on the mods themselves or on a poor "construction" of the "server combination" (vanilla server setting + combination of mods + setting of the same; it's a complicated thing, but if done well it works without further defects).

Official servers: the WIPE does not improve performance by itself, it only eliminates the objects distributed throughout the map. If the server is well "structured" (I'm talking about the hardware server), nothing should change. If something really changes, then there is a problem, but not with the objects of the DayZ server, but with the hardware performance of the "machine server" used (or with a bad management/modification).
The WIPE of the character is the most "NOT Necessary" thing ever!!!
I still remember not to mix the discussions between: Vanilla DayZ Server, Modded DayZ Server & Used Hardware Server.

The only real reason why a "Map WIPE" would be justifiable... which would not be "unavoidable" anyway... is in case of major changes to the map.
I can confirm (and show to those who wish) that even in this case the "potential problem" is absolutely NOT serious: nothing skips, nothing gets tangled up... the whole game proceeds as if nothing had happened... with its "usual defects and problems".
In my Vanilla server, running since 2020 without ANY WIPE, in one of the various updates of the map I found a lamppost inside a tent.
No problems, no crashes, no glitches, no people flying or ending up inside the map... NOTHING of this sort!
That pole has been there since I don't remember what year it was.
I could choose to empty the tent, close it and move it... or accept the "grotesque" situation of the light pole inside a military tent (full of stuff and barrels full of stuff). I had no space to move it and it stayed where it was. Period.
Absurd to see, ok, but EVERYTHING works perfectly.
I can show and try if someone asked.
A "serious and correct" manager could only warn players in time that in those coordinates (xxxx:yyyy) there will be changes to the map and to move any bases or, alternatively, that the "safety" of the same is not guaranteed.
This would be "technically" possible and "ethically" required... as I see it.

Even all the updates of the new items...
It is true that a WIPE speeds things up, but if there are no programming errors or errors in editing the configuration file (at the beginning, my server was very modified, and I even made mistakes a few times... especially in the first few months... by making mistakes I learned better how it works. When I started the modded one, it returned original vanilla, always without any WIPE), a WIPE is NOT needed to add items... the loot cycle will do it anyway, sooner or later.
And I can also confirm that some items... not present in the official servers, but still present in the game files... work correctly and are still present in my server... NOT all of them, obviously.
Adding everything and removing the non-functioning ones, has NOT led to ANY disaster. You add, verify and remove the NON-functioning ones... everything will continue calmly as it should without any kind of disaster.
I can also show this in person to anyone who wants to...

 

  On 2/13/2025 at 6:53 PM, Judley said:

All you do is moan

So what?
I don't just cry, I argue because I think the choice is wrong and unnecessary
Does it bother you that much?

Those who play DayZ for what it "should be" (according to the ad: https://www.bohemia.net/games/dayz) should hate and contest the WIPE. It shouldn't even be foreseen by whoever wrote this game (nor have I already discussed it enough).
Those who look for and "enjoy" the WIPE are only those occasional players who are just looking for another "extravagant" version of ArmA, CoD or Battlefield.
In my opinion, these people have just chosen the wrong game.

 

 

@ all the potential critics:

I can physically prove what I write in person... If you want to make me change my mind (always ready if really necessary), you must at least demonstrate your right and my wrong... I am a rational person who reasons, not a "flag that follows the crowd" (of numbers or chatter).
Just think about this, without too many theoretical/philosophical discussions.

Then, as a personal choice it can be discussed.
A choice that I DO NOT share for the reasons that I have already expressed several times in more detail also in other threads.
And with every wipe I will continue to contest both the real "technical necessity" and the real "opportunity for the game".

I remember that we are in a democracy where the right to opinion and speech exists.
I have not insulted or offended anyone, it seems to me...

Have a good day everyone 😉

 

 

 

 

Edited February 15 by Riddick_2K

[Kingfisher5564u 46]

I hate the wipes as I play slowly and it takes me a long time to get geared, accumulate some quality Items and then bang its all gone and Im back to the beginning again going over the same ground. I'm frankly looking at other games as this one is becoming no fun.  This last update is a joke.  So I lost months of hard work getting good solid gear just to lose it all for what????? nothing and now I cant  drop items between players. I am being plagued with error messages saying connection failed because Im already in the target session. Or server unreachable when clearly others are on and playing. I do NOT play the way this administration wants me to play.  I purchased this game to play a no rules open world and I am denied at almost every turn now. This 5 minute, then 15 minute and then 30 minute wait time between characters is pure garbage. make them all 5 minutes or return it to the way it used to be. I am 66 years old and not some punk ass whiner. I have played video games since 1979 . I have played almost every good role playing game in history. This game is in need of either better programmers or a upgrade to better, newer servers. The wipes need to go.  There needs to be a better end game for experienced players who can stay alive , a place to go after the beach where there are no fresh spawns . I would choose this option over being wiped every time. 

[Kingfisher5564u 46]

Servers 4262 and 6799 have both been very unstable since this last wipe and update. However since my last post a few hours ago I was able to complete several drops and log ins without incident.  The error messages saying Connection failed I am already in the target session has stopped. I hope this is fixed because I was wasting hours trying to play and getting NOTHING done.