How to Find the Perfect Server in DayZ - A Beginners Guide

[@camcantrun]

I know this is a very niche topic, but a lot of people have vocalized confusion in my comment sections about finding a good server. Server owners have become very dishonest in their advertisements so I hoped to provide some clarity. ALL LOVE ALL THE TIME.

[@Flicky800]

Where can the From noob to pro server be found?

[@camcantrun]

@@Flicky800 It's in the community tab. Filter From Noob and you should find it :)

[@Dcypled]

You can I both know they have cheats to find people, see skeletons and aim hacks... Cheaters gonna cheat. Not avoidable by choice.

[@sealofakatosh]

There's other videos about servers, but this was the most in depth & most clearly explained. Thanks again Cam!

[@603chefmon]

I played the mod and got stand alone DayZ at launch but never played much, I've watched thousands of hours of youtube and twitch and now have the itch to try playing again. This was the perfect video at the perfect time. thank you love the content.

[@Lacaze89]

Nothing beats the vanilla gameplay

[@ME-ci8zi]

Thank you, dude. This will help people, for sure.

[@joeschmidt3051]

Been going to 1st person only, vanilla. I avoid cheaters majority of time, the server doesn't have more than 40 players. It's more down low, which makes it perfect as I get more loot. People are a lot more friendly, I don't have a map etc.

[@MillerTheOriginal]

Officially or community?

[@joeschmidt3051]

@MillerTheOriginal community

[@randomgamer1433]

At some point vanilla gets boring 😅 you will be suprised by how cool moded servers are

[@joeschmidt3051]

@randomgamer1433 probably eventually, but I'm still in the learning stages. I want to remember what's what, etc The top thing deterring me from modded, is the cheaters.

[@randomgamer1433]

@@joeschmidt3051 hackers are realy only an issue om official since moded servers are usualy adminisered but good luck learning how to play

[@shlimms]

I’ve been following your beginner videos since yesterday when I bought the game, this couldn’t have come at a better time 😂

[@RitaDBT92]

As someone who just came from xbox to pc i appreciate this video...ALOT! Been struggling to find something i like so far. Definitely gonna check out ur streams of RP.

[@JohnFlowy]

new to dayz and just wanna say servers are what ive had the most trouble with, thanks for helping!

[@neo-farmers-dayz2052]

Thanks!

[@TheDashingInsanityx]

I always wanted to get into day Z but never got around to it but after watching a lot of your videos I think I will. I’m a PS5 player

[@konnorcw]

Ps5 is much easier to find servers as there's no modded ones

[@TheHabsburgJaw]

This is the best guide for servers for DayZ, this deserves more views.

[@MacoCompany]

Been playing DayZ for 10 years, and this still gave me more and better info than i know beforehand.

[@Deadbeatbeats]

Solid content bro, wish I saw this 5 years ago . I always thought community servers ment traders and skybases etc, such a wild range of servers out there. Worth mentioning the difference in moderating admins between servers. You can tell by the quality of the gameplay, but that requires actually playing on it to find out.

[@crimestick6648]

I've been researching the game for a few weeks now ( before buying ), this video has answered many of the "second wave" of questions that has been popping into my head. Thank you for your effort here. Subbed.

[@jeepsam2000]

lots of great info brother, thanks for the breakdown!

[@iestyn81]

wow i just found out ive been playing a scam server for over a week... was wondering why i had more interactions when playing on officials lol, thanks for the video probably wouldve never figured it out! subbed

[@GoatSays]

Thank you. I got frustrated trying to find a server that was like vanilla+ but came across all sorts of problems like you mentioned.

[@ItsSaDowwing]

This video I needed sooner!

[@_T.r.u.e._]

REALLY helpful bro. I have like 1500 hours. and still sometimes stare at the server list wondering what the best choice is. def gonna try more rp servers! hopefully I can pass the application process... I think your idea for a video dedicated to explaining the in's and out's of rp would be fantastic. ALSO that little animation you put at end of the video that you did is SICK!

[@GregoryWatkins-gb1uy]

Super helpful. Never have seen anyone else delve into this. Nice work!

[@novatryshots]

Plenty of others have done this type of videos but nobody beyyrt them cam 😂

[@TheBoomshanka]

Hi Cam thanks for the video, very informative as a new affiliated streamer this was awesome, one thing I think you should have added though to your genre choice could have been hardcore survival, Intenz CHF PlayZ Barba Rija, I know you're doing modded and vanilla but hardcore survival is getting increasingly more popular so I would love to see a video on these if not it's cool I appreciate you dude, boomshanka love and respect

[@skoibear]

Great video. Something that wasn't mentioned was the DayZed server routing is exhausting (they have literally hundreds of spam servers listed that all route players into the same few real servers they run). All player count spoofed, all ping spoofed.

[@bushu69]

Very good video for new players !!!

[@dayzthestruggle]

Much appreciate the recommendation for The Struggle!

[@stevemorris4603]

Thanks, man, this was very helpful. I just started playing stand alone to get used to the mechanics (and I didn't have a mic), but now that I have my mic I was just getting ready to go on official when I happened across this video, so hopefully it'll save me some frustration. Cheers!

[@Odinsravenhugin]

Thank you so much for this video. I started playing a month ago on official servers but have wanted to get into the community pool and was SO confused.

[@ganjahiwalker2641]

Step 1: Install DZSA Launcher Seriously though, great video this will be great for new players

[@Dolphinho]

whats the difference?

[@ganjahiwalker2641]

In my experience DZSA launcher works better. A lot of servers that I play on DZSA won’t even show up on the vanilla launcher

[@ganjahiwalker2641]

And the vanilla launcher is oddly slow at loading the server lists for me where DZSA is instant.

[@Slinkymango]

Very useful Sir. I've a lot better understanding now as a noob(30hrs). Your my go to for Dayz info. Love your Vids. ❤from UK.

[@oakenleif]

The Struggle community server will answer all your needs

[@dayzthestruggle]

I concur! Thanks for playing!

[@dv8mls2]

Awesome video! Going to turn DayZ on after work and poke around with the info you shared!

[@andreassrensen282]

Btw if the location says DE it's a german server, DE stands for Deutschland which translated means germany. If it was danish it would say DK, just FYI. Really great video tho, which I could've used when I started out :D

[@clamidiha]

DE means its hosted in Germany, not necessarily a german server

[@limacharlieactual]

Thanks! Great breakdown for the new players!

[@Jonty161]

Dammit, u got to this idea for a vid before me. good on u dude.

[@olalundqvist3080]

So, I'm playing the game on console (ps4 pro edition), the game flows pretty smoothly in my own Very humble opinion. To get to my point, to My knowledge... I've never run into a cheater or experienced someone somewhere sitting in a bush somewhere right on the other side of the map headshoting me through a brick wall. That being said, I can't say for sure that it doesn't exist, I'm sure that someone somewhere has figured out a way to break into the game tweeking it to his advantage in some way, but as I said, I haven't... to my knowledge experienced it (cheaters) on console... yet.

[@searchingforknowledge]

This all makes sense now… I joined one of those with an inflated player count and didn’t find anyone for hours

[@iniHdu]

Thanks, just bought the game and digesting your content atm, bery helpful and straigtforward. Do you own a server that is not on the latest expansion?

[@illidur]

This is 100% true and I agree its sad about the deception. You can change so much about the base game without even adding mods too. Like boosting loot, changing weather, night length/darkness, gate HP and stamina etc. Shoutout to The Struggle players.

[@dayzthestruggle]

Yeah! 🏴‍☠

[@gwoody4003]

I just started a few weeks ago. I began with a low pop Livonia PVE server to learn the game and the map without being killed just for existing 😂. There is never more than 10 people in it, and they have all been cool people. Its been a dope hiking and camping trip with occasional zombies. I have a charachter for Official servers that I have so far had good luck with. Only been killed by someone I never saw a couple times. But I always pick low pop cus I am still terrible and want to limit my combat encounters to one at a time. 😂 I have not made it to the military base yet though, I am stopping to smell the roses and explore. For now, the survival element is what I am after. I really don't care about PvP, at least for now, but I like the potential of having to deal with hostile people in my survival experience. Makes it authentic. As we see in every Zombie Apocalypse movie/show... Zombies aren't really the big threat, you learn to manage them. Its other survivors you gotta watch out for.

[@oldmilk3y301]

Great info for New and Old players good job Cam 👍

[@MrDSmith]

Great video. I play on OK Chernarus too. Hope to run into you out there and go on an adventure some time 😎😎 gonna check out your server today as it looks awesome to me.

[@KiffgrasConnaisseur]

In my experience, player number rarely matters anyway, especially on the new map. Played on an official Sakhal server with ~10ppl, me and my mate took out a whole Squad at that military near volcano with the radio tower on top. Fired first round and the next thing we saw was the surviving 3 people running straight to the barracks, cramming in the bathroom together. lmao I dunno what it is, but if there´s 5 players on the server, me included, you could almost bet I´m bumping into the other 4

[@jannesvermeersch5989]

Wow! I had no idea! Thank you so much

[@Modest661]

I joined DUG a few times I was a bit throwback by how deep the characters are 😂 I was not ready for it.

[@SpinCrash]

You're a goddang legend. Thank you for this.

[@Billgiles-56]

Very useful video, thanks for taking the time to make it.

[@nurfuerverrueckte]

I started playing dayz two weeks ago and didn't even try official servers because I already heard about cheaters infesting basically all of them. I had to buy another SSD though because checking out community servers blew up my modfolder towards 100gb. I'm still not sure what mods I actually want to play even though there are some interesting ideas. I like the Stalker aproach with anomalies and all but tbh vanilla+ and free choice of spawn locations and a map is probably all I need.

[@inararii]

For consoles players Xbox servers guys I suggest 4413 or 4913 they are pretty good 😊

[@isbjornen7418]

I suggest 1450 and 1420👌

[@TwoCommaKid]

I think I just started playing on on 4913

[@futurekinggaming]

Another banger....very informative.

[@mikeFolco]

The other scam in the server is anything that has DayZed in its mod list.

[@jasko346]

This video is so good.

[@elijahknesel3344]

Pretty sure I ran into a group of 3 cheaters earlier this week. Scouted the hell out of Novy Sobor, was running around all over the perimeter and didn't see or hear ANYTHING then within 2 minutes of entering the police station (which I specifically scouted from every angle) I was surrounded, unconned, revived and handcuffed. I'm fine being outplayed, but that just felt so sus to me

[@ashryver3605]

I was actually quite lucky starting to play DayZ again with my friend, we play about a 10-30 pop~ server and never ran into one yet that we know of

[@theaustinfound8380]

Thanks Cam man super necessary your the BMF

[@YusufPonders]

I was having fun on Descent, waited for my mate to get on and prepared for a week as really wanted to rp with him. My mates microphone isn’t working, and while me and him are alone, he puts something in the local chat. He got banned without warning. The admin that was dealing with him seemed a bit like a douche as well. I’d only managed to run with my friend for like 15 minutes before then ban. And it was over absolutely nothing. Tried to dispute it they essentially told me to mind my own business. Really didn’t feel comfortable playing on the server anymore after that, if they ban people so quickly over something so minor. Fair enough if you want to be strict with rules but at least have a warning system in place. They operate with a “no bs” rule, which in the end just felt like a preface to an unnecessarily harsh admin culture with a few (not all) admins on a power trip.

[@inclinedplane0192]

Very useful video, thanks Mahogany!

[@erikwestrheim804]

Takk!

[@chrissandall6257]

As a DayZ noob, this was really helpful. Just one question: how do you get the server list to show all the details? Nevermind - I realised that I was looking at the server list in game and not in the launcher.

[@beckhamjarale903]

this!!!! is so helpful thank you for this video

[@ancientgruntgaming6646]

As an owner of a server that is not vanilla but not chocolate either it is frustrating to know there are servers out there lying about their ping and pop.

[@bisonz18]

as someone who used to use hacks, yes i preyed in max pop servers

[@priorsproductions2426]

As a long time dayz player as well who recently returned, im frustrated with how monopolized these community servers have gotten, all of them redirect you to the host server, and have fake player counts. If you find another group of servers none of them are unique, every server choses such similar mods, so its either ultra modded, vanilla + , vanilla + again, and official are your options. There should be a bit more of a gradient in between, but since i have about 5 different options to chose from its difficult, its especially annoying when you consider how many people are playing the game right now, this is going to just turn people away from the game.

[@neo-farmers-dayz2052]

This to me is a very interesting point. Faking player counts and ping is just ridiculous because people will figure out once they are in there. But the mod thing is what made me curious. I don't care much for heavily modded servers mostly because there is going to be a larger server with a staff of 30 that can come up with way better integration that our staff of 5... In your opinion how does one stand out? What mods are important and different enough? Some of the basics are just there for quality of life, earplugs etc.. For awhile everyone ran SNAFU but in my opinion it was always over the top, they ran BBP but that seems to have gone out of favor. More just a curiosity, but always looking for feedback.

[@Krisjohnson83]

What is the point of faking the player count and ping? Is there a monetary benefit to get players in their servers?

[@priorsproductions2426]

I would say what makes the server stick out is when the owner picks mods you dont commonly see that work well, for example dayz expansion vehicles etc are seen often, when i see something like care packages but not surrounded by 50 other mods i would consider that to be unique maybe, or bear mountain, that is a unique concept/set of mods And to the other commenter, yes there is incentive because of subscriptions to discord channels so they want to have high pop to maintain high sub rate

[@19stoned90]

KarmaKrew are servers from Frankfurt btw.

[@cbr600rrturbo]

Thanks for the help

[@RecognizMe]

As a Malaysian, there aren't many Asian people playing this game, so yea either the server got no people or just modded or locked.

[@DanielJohnFPV]

Once I'm already in a server (I can see my player, but before launching), how do I look at server stats (ping, # of players, etc.) without accidentally leaving the server?

[@iosof]

Guys video starts 19:35

[@TheFerumn]

1:30 Cmon there is not so many. You will find maybe just around 100 servers with first person perspective where you can play because others will have too big ping or just no players at all so its not even worth looking for...8:34 yeah 1 filter and you have around 1000 already when most of them is useless. 11:30 So can anyone explain is DZSA launcher also showing spoofed ping or not ?

[@thatguy7085]

Thanks

[@sjfjaisncnsa.]

good video, im gonna stick to official after i joined russian servers and i had to uninstall 2 times

[@matt-z5j]

I dont understand character creation in dayz. I appear to not be able create new or delete old characters. Some characters are locked to certain maps, but I have no way of finding out which map they are on.

[@miksha.moksha]

Спасибо за видосы дружище! ❤ Мне как новичку твои видео были очень полезны. Длинные приключения тоже крутые

[@camcantrun]

I need a native CYRILLIC speaker for a video! Please join the discord and message me PLEASE!

[@jakuarias8003]

Hey I have been looking for a close to canola day z server that would allow for me and my 3 friends to join a party together and get to playing day z straight off the bat together with a good party system, thank you for any suggestions!!

[@EnveBeats]

I have a question Cam....ive been playing on a sakhal server, when i first load the launcher the room has 200+ ping...soon as i refresh my list it says 30ms. im in the US playing its a german server, so most likely the ping i see before i refresh is the REAL ping not 30ms huh ???

[@runDnC14]

Is there a good vanilla server that will allow people to spawn together in roughly the same area so we can learn how to play the game?

[@camcantrun]

Official DAYZ has a mechanic for this, make sure you both load in at the same time or RESPAWN the same time :)

[@runDnC14]

@ okay thanks!

[@letrface_8596]

When I was first starting out what I would do was just type trader into the top search bar or else mods that I liked that I knew I liked playing with and just so you don't spend 20 minutes downloading 60 mods only to find out that the server sucks ass cuz that will happen I tend to bounce from server to server so if anyone's looking for some good PVE or PVP servers let me know on PC

[@Jimmy-e3b]

Karma krew always lying to me saying I’ve got 18 ping when I’m in Australia. Haha

[@stonic5]

I see this in rust too. Servers with eu and us showing 40ms. Like mfer i only get 70 to aussie servers haha.

[@BigRedUS]

Good video.

[@The_Real_bubbazaneti]

Well....as a total noob.....and playing on official servers for a couple of dayZ, time to hit the "from noob to Pro" server!!!! Now....? is, will I die quicker in there??? 😂

[@turbofox23]

communityZ is pretty good they have no mods and don't allow 3rd party voip so IMO it's the closest you can get to official vanilla but without cheaters

[@nurfuerverrueckte]

How do you block 3rd Party voip?

[@EnveBeats]

Ok so i went to Cactus tools and my server i play did show up, but it doesnt show the ping....im convinced its a 200+ ping even tho it says 30ms everytime i refresh uggghhhhh

[@HerEvilTwin]

Great freaking video Cam, if only this existed a couple months ago when I started playing and had to learn all this shit the hard way lol. Joined a +200 player server thinking it would be chaotic fun, no one was in there. Joined a “basically vanilla” and found rare loot immediately with unlimited stamina and maps. Chose servers based on good pinf and wondering why my ping is horrible. You doing good work here man, always looking forward to the bext upload

[@kabadayz]

Is there any Eu server using DayZ Underground mod? It is by far the best mod in my opinion

[@williamkeefner9162]

@8:30 Wait but why would they lie about how many people are in a server???

[@phyllip7426]

I imagine to deter cheaters from seeing if the server is worth them joining

[@jbrav55]

Alot of players won't join a server if it's low pop, it's too "boring". It's a tough cycle for even good servers to break out of by being honest. High pop servers can be lucrative. On their discord they sell everything from merchandise to priority queues and receive alot of donations that may come with perks. In extreme cases cheating players will donate alot so that admits won't kick them off the server for using cheats.

[@KazingaD]

look out there's a 22 min delay on I-80

[@techgamer1597]

Get this man Windows 11.

[@camcantrun]

Classic Shell ;)

[@roryclynes]

Does this translate to ps5 servers, too? (Cheaters) cause I’d love a built in excuse to some of deaths

[@camcantrun]

No, cheaters are WAYYYYY LESS on console :)

[@filipo5143]

I love hardcore server Laik Cold Zone HardCore

[@nova-j7r]

KK lying about their ping lmao. Noticed it right when they started doing that s***.

[@klocper]

If youtube had chosen me to come here this early I will comment to boost the algorithm. Cheers

[@camperlou1]

We're the chosen ones

[@Krisjohnson83]

What is the purpose of faking the player numbers and ping? Is there some kind of monetary gain to be had for having more players in your server?

[@jbrav55]

Alot of high pop servers make money from their discord or sometimes actual websites. They sell everything from merchandise to priority queue, meaning you never have to wait you just log right in. They also accept donations which sometimes comes with perks. The more players, the more donations.

[@yiosomething]

Dayz is a really dishonorable gaming experience

[@ericmathews4862]

What is the point of paying the money to host a server and then spoof the population so that no one plays. I'm not arguing that it doesn't happen, b/c it obviously does, but why are they doing that? What is the gain?

[@kainemead3307]

i need find a sever where u can find the best guns anywhere and so easily more of a pvp sever but easy easy easy loot not looking for 45 minute for a gun.

[@lkaszu6599]

god the "basically/almost" vanilla pisses me off so much

[@thatguy7085]

I didn’t know there were PVE servers

[@jbrav55]

Some of them are surprisingly good, PVE doesn't always mean easy. They can have everything from hardcore survival to advanced ai enemies to make it challenging. Just being PVE pretty much eliminates toxic players and cheaters

[@sckrolik]

200 ping are enjoyable for fps shooter? I'll be damned

[@camcantrun]

Europeans can't aim. KAAAAAAAAAAAPA

[@antonipuka1294]

@@camcantrun dude that's rude 🥺, just joking....

[@camcantrun]

@@antonipuka1294 ahhaha, it's pretty well known EUROPEANS in literally every competitive shooter dominate americans.

[@antonipuka1294]

@camcantrun Probably we both can agree that the Asian are the best in FPS shooters

[@camcantrun]

@@antonipuka1294 No, europeans are the best. Look at professional CSGO, that's all you need to do. Russia/Europe dominates forever. Asians generally speaking do good at MOBA's like LOL mainly because DOTA is hyper dominated by Russia/Europe as well.

[@antonipuka1294]

Bruh no way I'm the first hahahaha....Nice vid

[@christiandruan]

Just play DayOne servers.

[@netiosys4677]

DE means Germany, DEutschland