Tips to Spot Players in DayZ - Tricks to Get More Kills and Survive Longer 

NVGs only spawn at Convoys/Heli/Livonia Bunker NVG Scopes only at Static Gas Zones. For Official.

'' If you think you heard something in DayZ, you usally did '' Me afraid of every drop I hear while its raining in DayZ because it all sounds like footsteps

#1- MUSHROOMS: If you see mushrooms, a player has passed through the area between 5minutes to 1hr beforehand. If the mushrooms are in pristine condition, they are no more than 10 minutes old. A pristine mushroom accompanied with the sound of flies, means the player in still within a decently close range. If you see two or more mushrooms in a tight group, it usually means a player has been occupying a small area for 15 minutes or more. #2- ANIMAL AGGRO: Animals make distress noises when spooked. If you hear an animal spook more than 30 meters away, it was someone else. #3- GLOW STICKS: glow sticks in loot locations are a sure sign that someone has looted the area. #4- ZOMBIES: Use optics to scout towns. If you are more than 200 meters from the town and see zombies, someone else triggered their spawn. If you see more than four zombies gathered at any particular building, either the building is occupied, or than was the last detected location of a player by the zombies. #5- REVERSE IDEOLOGY: always look where you would be FIRST, then look where you expect them to be. A lot of places have just a few obviously ideal recon points. Look for who might kill you first, before looking for a target. #6- PATIENCE: any decent player will have a cache or base somewhere. If you run across a cache, they don't have anything irresistible, or aren't close to home... leave everything as you found it. You don't have to go full recon... just keep a mental note, and keep an eye out when passing through. It's best to let their loot grow to desirable levels, than trigger a reaction over a box of ammo. COUNTERMEASURES 1- avoid traveling the same route more than once in a 3hr period, or your mushroom trail will make it obvious. 2- it seems great to have a base camp with limited access... but what you want, is limited line-of-sight. Limited access forces you to travel areas close to home far more frequently, and greatly increasing the chance of detection. 3- WILDERNESS CAMP: if you have a base established in a building, IT WILL get raided at some point. It's important to have at least one stash in the woods, far from any buildings, trails, or other points of interest... and only go there once a month to keep it from despawning. In this camp, you should keep a full set of clothes, a bottle of pills, a hoe, tomato seeds, a basic shotgun, ammo, a compass, and a pair of binoculars. If you can swing it, a MK II pistol and ammo is great too. You may never use it... but if you go back and your stuff is missing, you know someone is routing through the area.

Best way to bait players at night is to light a fire in a different building you can scope easily, wait for curious George to attend and teach him a lesson about being nosey

One of the big ones to make sure you spot people is to scan opposite of your reading direction. For english speakers that mean scanning for players to start going right to left, bottom to top. It makes your brain actual process information better since you aren't just overlooking things. Another tip would be to slightly un focus your eye when scanning and let your eye jump to movement.

Man you guys are ruthless lol I am newbie if I see a player I run. I just got myself a fully loaded lemas and I find myself running from fresh spawns lmao

#79 Tip: If you see a zed walking with it’s arms up shaped like M with a crooked back, that means someone just recently lost aggro.

For me you are far the best DayZ guidance I've seen since 2 months I am playing this game and searching the best out of it. Everyone else is making their guides nothing closer to yours! Keep it up.

Dude I’m hundreds of hours in this game and I still don’t really go for kills unless I’m pushed or I’m sniping. I actually stumbled across a dude at a military base the other night I downed him just for the simple fact it was me or him, but I checked him for good loot, he had nothing apart from like a ridiculous amount of raw chicken, he must of had 7 chickens worth. I didn’t finish him, I just left. Kills don’t really do it for me, robbing people’s stash on the other hand or gas runs, that’s more fun.

I started playing DayZ a few weeks ago and your videos helped me a lot. They are informational and fun to watch

I play wolf noises through my mic

do not run dayz video when playing dayz video - cause you won't manage to differentiate ingame sound and the video sound (happen to me yesterday :) )

This is gold. I haven't played DayZ in a long time.

At night on the coast on the road with a dead zombie next to it and a little glow stick looks just like a player that has starved to death. Freshies are like moths to a flame, you can reliably get two to three customers a night.

Usually before you die there are cues, Ive thought its probably a zombie or its nothing so many times

I love yours videos very helpful for new players and I’m also finding out new things from your channel keep it up

All of these are great, and naturally can be adapted, but how about some tips to identify whether players would shoot first rather than start a conversation? These progressively become more matters of how to murder, not merely stay alive. Just saying. DayZ seems to do things to people.

I post up a few minutes at a time while casually moving around big towns. A majority of my kills are from players aggroing or fighting zeds.

Whoa, I didn't know a scope can be used as a telescope!

"Binoculars take up alot of space..." (Me remembering when it was 3x3)

me with 1300 hours still watching these videos xD

Im a sub 100 hour player, been walking around with both binoculars and a rangefinder, is that a mistake?

Unless someone is using aimbot or ESP, I don't understand how players can turn 180° and INSTANLY line up a perfect 1-shot on me.

Avoid jumping or valuing if at all possible. I’ve killed several fools that I heard hopping over the fence instead of walking another 10m to walk thru the gap

1:29 "Hello there"

Abundant mushroom or fruit when you only just arrived at a spot... Also if on ps4 and ur surrounding begin to glitch , grass disapear is good indication of buried loot or base nearby very close...also glitching scenery like tress appearing/disapear or walls etc...is a 100% sign a player is in your load zone , a square roughly the size of a medium milirary base, if u see this BEWARE IMMEDIATLY 😮🤔😉

I like killing players from my base in a apartment

Nitno evening the field of play.

I shoot zombies whenever I can. You just have to leave the area quickly or wait for the players attracted by the shots to arrive. Going quietly and going unnoticed is not fun.

Will it work if I put quality to extreme and all other settings to Poor?

Study, Science & fox tactics. Move like the deer in the bush; Move like the Z Apex near human locations and become the hord 📯 or run with the wolves and earn your place as Alpha. You may want to be alone or think it best believe there is a guy in the bushes and that's me😅

3:24 MR BEAST

I try to be stealthy, but apparently im still doing something wrong. Nine times out of ten I get sniped from somewhere, and every time I die instantly. Gets frustrating, when spending days looting and collecting equipment, just to get shot instantly, without any sight of other players the whole time.

"If you think you heard something in DayZ, you usually did." hahahAHAHAH so im not schizophrenic, thank you

I'm a comparative noob as well, I got roughly 100 hours in this. And on two runs I actually got a pristine weapon with multiple mags and ammo. The first time I gotten in a tango with zombies and got in my hotkeys messed up which is how I got in a tangle with zombies... I needed to heal up. Seeing as it was night. I tucked myself into the tent of a military base... Someone with NVG's snuck up on me and put one in the back of my dome. Fortunately, one of the first videos ever caught about this game was dealing with gear fear. The fear of losing what you got, it's cyclical, and unpredictable, but, unless you're just really unlucky you will always find something that can work. The biggest lesson I've learned so far aside from some tips from these videos, when it comes to dealing with zombies, stealth is king. Even with a suppressed 45 I end up dumping all my ammo on for zombies and ended up dying anyway

When you talk about trash loot being ledt and things like that i means that is quite obvious alot of the time its been dropped . But whats the despawn time for items being dropped ? Thats the info we need

Thank you for the tips, killing fresh spawns like that kinda breaks my heart though. You gotta use your voice and make a story of it if you are going to mess with a freshie.

One word, Fast Sync. People will tell you you get latency blablabla. If you have a decent setup and can run the game at constant max monitor's refresh rate, activate it, if not don't use it. It will make you invincible.

if you drop a flashlight at the top of the stairs and stand behind it, you can see a player coming up the stairs, but they will be blind coming up in the dark

Be careful of times when you CAN'T hear someone or something. I was in a building during heavy rain. Once the rain slowed, I ran out, looted a building then ran straight into a pack of 5+ wolves I couldn't hear agro on me due to the rain... I managed to quickly sprint back to a building and survive without even a cut, btw. Also, if you hear a vehicle anywhere nearby while in a city and it stops somewhere in your area, but don't see it or where they stop, STAY PUT if you're not geared. Chances are great that they will spot you soon, and that'll end your run really quick. Get to a spot to snipe from (or defend yourself) if armed, and make sure you have an escape route with cover... If you do run, be sneaky, quiet, and careful.

I've seen wolves aggro on nothing while watching them from a distance... also, if you do need to camp in a house and make a fire, make one in a house you have a clear view of. Gives you a fair shake that they might check that one first.

Yup well said. Also watch out for poo poo droppings, in which warm indicates enemies are nearby. 😳

The key here is just ”To survive longer”, not ”To survive” lmao

Do your loot disappear if you've been killed by Z ? I manage to get back on my location about 1h30 after i died but nothing remain - i was wondering if a lucky player get there before me or if my loot dissapeared after i died...

People are apreading a lot of misinformation in this section.

Lol loot goblin mode, that made me laugh. Great video my dude!

and by periodicly freelook he means ALWAYS freelook

Another thing I do with rangefinder is overlook a town before entering like you did, but it's very important to keep in mind that if you see a zombie over 300 away? There's somebody in that town probably because zombies despawn very fast without players within 300m.

Your the first person Iv found that mentioned where to find the night vision in your tips 🙏

The way I spot other players is there movement. For example a zombie will have slower movement and predictable actions while a player will have sharper and faster movements. I will edit if I can think of something else

Logged into Livonia for the first time heard some shots ran towards them . I found a pile of killed zombies and humans , I also found another fresh spawn and we started looting together . After I noticed he found a rifle my pick axe naturally ended up in his head. I found some amazing loot from all these bodies night vision my best. Then I was shot at, luckily I only received a cut and made a quick getaway into the forest... A warm welcome

I sometimes use my eyes but that doesn’t work all the time

I do the whole TWD thing. How many zeds did you kill? How many humans did you kill. And y? It reall works. If ya aint got a mic then we all know what happens. But really questioning new ppl and light interrogation you should be good. I try to think of what would i would do if i was patrick bateman, ted, night slasher. All them psychos. They give you an idea of ppls minds when they aren't morally obligated or honorable.

I don't always KOS. I usually give a thumbs up and no need to kill everyone I run into...unless they're doing like this.

I wish PS5 had all of those available video options.

Should have mentioned the glow stick trick

how do i see players better on a laptop screen

Awesome ideas, thanks!

Great stuff Nitno! "If you think you have heard something, you probably did." Yup, Thats a big ole 10:4 good buddy. when i first started playing I'd think I heard another player but it was so faint I figured it was just my imagination playing with me. Shortly after discarding said thought. (You are dead.)

Habit for u sir..... GET OUT of third person

Free look is wack and not realistic at all now I see why people play first person only

all zombies despawn in 30 sec once youre out of the area

It should be tips to avoid players and survive longer....

Dont focus on fresh spawns

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🤣…you’ll have a way better experience if you just play the game naturally. It’s a apocalyptic survivor….not call of duty.😮‍💨

Very good tips thanks

great video thanks for the help! just recently started playing with my friends but want to try play solo and this video gave some great tips :3