Those things they never tell you.

[pieflavor 38]

As with every game out there, there are things that are looked down on. I am of the opinion that everything is valid so as long as it's not abused, and as such, I compiled a list of tips of things you can do to survive easier that are considered lowly to do by the community and therefore are often left in the dark, leaving many new players unaware of them.

1. Disabling post processing effects on the video options disables the blur caused by low blood, leaving you with a clear vision below 3000 blood (albeit desaturated)

2. setting high dynamic range to very high on video options, then setting gamma and brightness to maximum will allow you to see at pitch black night time without night vision goggles.

3. Recruit servers allow you to see the range to your crosshair point if you scroll your mousewheel while having a main and secondary weapon or while looking through binoculars with a main or side weapon. It will also describe the item you're looking at. There are some servers in which this is not available, it depends on the server settings.

4. peripheral vision simulation places a white orb on the screen edges indicating a living being nearby outside of screen vision range. Scoping in the thermal vision of the l85 will further enhance the detection of white orbs, allowing you to spot easier. this setting may be disabled on some servers.

5. old bikes and motorbikes use a different vehicle database, and every time you get out of them, they repair completely without the need of vehicle parts.

6. If you somehow obtain a radio, you have enabled hit markers, as each time you hit another player, he will call a blue on blue (friendly fire) on radio, allowing you to know if you hit him or not (this might be disabled in some servers.

7. loot spawns on designated piles if there is a player within 30 to 120 meters from it, and if there is nothing else in the pile, if you find a gigantic depot of trash you can pick everything up and fill a zombie with it, walk around for 10 minutes not closer than 30m and no farther than 120m to cycle the loot and obtain fresh new stuff. doesn't work for helicopter crash sites, and the loot spawn rate depends on server performance. CORRECTION: zombies spawn within 200m but loot only spawns if you approach to 120m.

8. low pine trees hide you from zombies, running into them will allow you to lose them easily. Similar thing happens when you enter a supermarket, as the entrance is covered with an invisible wall. As long as zombies can't see you and you're not making a lot of noise, you will lose them, running around a small building and losing sight of them seems to work equally.

9. Hero skinned players run 10% faster, and they will completely fill up half empty magazines on relog.

10. pressing P ingame shows you a playerlist, works in every server.

11. to access gear inside a vehicle, press m, then select units, then your name, then press on gear

12. pressing I ingame shows the server info and a scoreboard with zombie kill count, useful if you want to check your kill count without opening debug. some servers have scoreboard disabled. it does not show current players but rather a leaderboard, to see current players, #10

13. A server restart unflips all vehicles, an ATV will completely explode if flipped 180 degrees, but will remain as a container if flipped just 90 degrees.

14. Having a crappy PC will delay the rendering of road blocks and rubble in cities, allowing you to drive through a city safely at full speed.

15. you can press the respawn button during "setup completed, please wait..."

16. in order to remove a wire fence you need a toolbox and must look at the second stick at the right side of the front in which the original placer was looking to while placing the wire, if you manage to clip that stick inside a wall, the wire fence becomes unremovable.

17. a lot of wire fences will guarantee the creation of artifacting, allowing you to conceal yourself when running into the wire fence.

18. aborting right before hitting the ground if you are falling from a helicopter or a hacker who sent you up might be your chance to save your life.

19. DayZ commander allows you to track down people playing on servers by their in game name. Just go to the friends tab and add his/her name on it to track him/her down as soon as he/she joins a server.

20. reserved for steam overlay W key jamming, don't know the exact details on how it works, will need to research

21. smoke grenades are able to destroy buildings, supermarkets and churches are very weak and a couple smoke grenades will turn them into rubble, even better than barbwire, now loot can't even spawn.

22. a survivor or hero driving a vehicle will appear as a green orb and a bandit driving a vehicle will appear as a red orb instead of the normal white orb.

23. if someone spawns at the same position as a vehicle, the moment they move their mouse they will die immediately.

24. vehicle position is independent of vehicle gear, the moment the driver gets out of the vehicle, the position is saved as well as the status (fuel will reset to 0 upon restart) gear must be saved manually by using the save command

25. a tent on the ground can be picked up by multiple players at once, netting a tent for every player who picked it up, used to work for gutting animals, unfonfirmed on vehicle parts.

26. 3rd person camera can be used to peek around corners without being seen, simply hide on the end of a wall and look around on 3rd person.

27. fireplaces will eventually consume, putting a wood pile in will reavivate the flame.

Edited October 15, 2012 by Pie Flavor

[Sgt.Asshat 607]

9. and their bulletproof vest resist pistol shots better.

lol'd

[Dr.Duff 211]

I see 1, 2 & 7 as exploits, therefore will not ever utilise it.

[kingkrabbe.#bof 35]

Wow, pretty nice list.

I always wondered what this white orbs are. I thought they were some kind of light effect. =)

A good addition would be that key which shows you some kind of menu on top of the screen where you can scroll down and see every player on the server (looks a lot like the menu where you have to hit ok to go ingame).

I always wondered how you do that because I've seen this in many DayZ vids on Youtube.

EDIT:

to 1: can it be that this removes all the bluriness? When I played DayZ the first time and spawned freshly everything was kind of blurry (had full blood). I googled that problem and disabled post processing. Problem was gone.

Edited October 3, 2012 by kingkrabbe.#bof

[pieflavor 38]

Wow, pretty nice list.

I always wondered what this white orbs are. I thought they were some kind of light effect. =)

A good addition would be that key which shows you some kind of menu on top of the screen where you can scroll down and see every player on the server (looks a lot like the menu where you have to hit ok to go ingame).

I always wondered how you do that because I've seen this in many DayZ vids on Youtube.

edited #10

[Dr.Duff 211]

Wow, pretty nice list.

I always wondered what this white orbs are. I thought they were some kind of light effect. =)

A good addition would be that key which shows you some kind of menu on top of the screen where you can scroll down and see every player on the server (looks a lot like the menu where you have to hit ok to go ingame).

I always wondered how you do that because I've seen this in many DayZ vids on Youtube.

That would be i.

Edit:My bad, I meant p, i is for the scoreboard (which as far as I can tell does nothing.)

Edited October 3, 2012 by Dr.Duff

[BelMarduk 169]

Wow, pretty nice list.

I always wondered what this white orbs are. I thought they were some kind of light effect. =)

A good addition would be that key which shows you some kind of menu on top of the screen where you can scroll down and see every player on the server (looks a lot like the menu where you have to hit ok to go ingame).

I always wondered how you do that because I've seen this in many DayZ vids on Youtube.

EDIT:

to 1: can it be that this removes all the bluriness? When I played DayZ the first time and spawned freshly everything was kind of blurry (had full blood). I googled that problem and disabled post processing. Problem was gone.

Hitting "P" will bring up the players list, also in the map "M", clicking on 'players' will also bring up the list.

Also, (to 1 in the list) Turning on the debug monitor will also bring your vision back (caveat is all your 'meters' (hunger, thirst, blood) look 'full' so you have NO idea where they are (e.g. you could be starving to death, or bleeding to death and have no idea). If you you're hurting but need to 'see' you can do this until you get your blood back up.

[camycamera 36]

good ideas, but using some of these methods defy the challenge. I like a challenge, although that blurring effect is bloody annoying, thanks for telling me how to remove it.

[JackONeill (DayZ) 15]

I see 1, 2 & 7 as exploits, therefore will not ever utilise it.

1 and 7 are not at all. simple game mechanics that if you are aware of them its useful, also not every computer can handle post processing anyways so many players may have it disabled already. calling them exploiter's because their rigs are not up to snuff is some dumb shit. and knowing how far away from a building you have to be for loot to return come on... number 2 maybe a bit cheap as the darkness is supposed to hinder you and using such settings is a bypass, so ill give you that. cheap maybe... exploits I think not

interesting thread btw op

Edited October 3, 2012 by JackONeill

[dallas 5195]

Ahole spamming voip over side chat?

Press P, select his name, press mute.

[Mos1ey 6301]

I would consider no. 6 to be exploiting as I think radio's currently have to be scripted in and even if you hadn't scripted in the item yourself you would be using scripted items to gain an advantage over other players.

The rest IMO are fine and I use half of them myself.

[pieflavor 38]

I would consider no. 6 to be exploiting as I think radio's currently have to be scripted in and even if you hadn't scripted in the item yourself you would be using scripted items to gain an advantage over other players.

The rest IMO are fine and I use half of them myself.

not entirely, I haven't checked the source code but apparently, and at least in older versions, radios can drop from soldier zombies, might be an urban legend.

[Omaran 18]

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9. Hero skinned players run 10% faster, and they will completely fill up half empty magazines on relog.

Is that for real? I have only just got the hero skin and didn't know anything about this?!!

[pieflavor 38]

Is that for real? I have only just got the hero skin and didn't know anything about this?!!

yep, they never tell you about this, and it's looked down on, borderline exploit

[kingkrabbe.#bof 35]

edited #10

Hey, thanks a lot! So much useful tipps now. I think I'm gonna print that out! =)

Hitting "P" will bring up the players list, also in the map "M", clicking on 'players' will also bring up the list.

Also, (to 1 in the list) Turning on the debug monitor will also bring your vision back (caveat is all your 'meters' (hunger, thirst, blood) look 'full' so you have NO idea where they are (e.g. you could be starving to death, or bleeding to death and have no idea). If you you're hurting but need to 'see' you can do this until you get your blood back up.

Thanks to you too. I have noticed the debug monitur problem with the always full icons myself and nearly starved one time, so I won't touch that until it's fixed. =)

[Livingvicarious 0]

8. I use this often,I'm not really a bush wookie as much as a spruce goose ._.

[herrjon 478]

I haven't completely confirmed it, but I know in some areas, when people look at you from afar, it seems to them your body has clipped through a bit, and in some cases, having no backpack can make you completely invisible to snipers.

[tommes 331]

I have noticed the debug monitur problem with the always full icons myself and nearly starved one time, so I won't touch that until it's fixed. =)

Afaik you can activate debug, have a look, deactivate, and the indicators are back online.

[belesis 14]

9. and they will completely fill up half empty magazines on relog.

Didn't know this, is this accurate, I've never been a hero to find out?

[herrjon 478]

9. and they will completely fill up half empty magazines on relog.

Didn't know this, is this accurate, I've never been a hero to find out?

I can confirm this. I try not to abuse it, but it just happens. You really only need 2-3 mags for your guns if you play it right. More room for blood and bandages I guess. Also, another added glitch with Heroes, is when they log, they perform the falling over dead animation, and even have a chance of duping their body.

[belesis 14]

^ So it seems there are obvious advantages to getting the hero skin. Although when I think about it I can't say in 3 months of playing Dayz I've ever run out of ammo for a weapon, except for one of the pistols perhaps.

[pieflavor 38]

I can confirm this. I try not to abuse it, but it just happens. You really only need 2-3 mags for your guns if you play it right. More room for blood and bandages I guess. Also, another added glitch with Heroes, is when they log, they perform the falling over dead animation, and even have a chance of duping their body.

I've refrained from posting very obvious glitch exploiting, although some of those I posted are borderline, but not game breaking.

truth is, if I didn't refrain I would possibly have tenths of duping methods posted and a subsequent ban from the forums

[spankerfist 44]

9. and they will completely fill up half empty magazines on relog.

Didn't know this, is this accurate, I've never been a hero to find out?

Works without hero skin.

Also calling players exploiters because they disabled post process and using Low settings is fucking bullshit, none would in their right mind run on ultra low, its horrible and makes me wanna tear my eyes out

[herrjon 478]

I've refrained from posting very obvious glitch exploiting, although some of those I posted are borderline, but not game breaking.

truth is, if I didn't refrain I would possibly have tenths of duping methods posted and a subsequent ban from the forums

I figured it was ok since everything I said can be found on the wiki. Just showing how glitchy the skin is.

[kryvian 123]

"9. Hero skinned players run 10% faster, and they will completely fill up half empty magazines on relog."

what?