Common DayZ Terms

Have you ever tried to integrate yourself in a gaming community with well established lingo? Perhaps it's a game where people tend to be loud about their well established lingo, likely due to the Zeds chasing you? If so, I have the information for you!

• Bambi

• Completely new DayZ player

• Newbie​

• New spawn to a particular server​​​

• Spawn point

• Areas on the coast where newbies spawn, can be seen on the iZurvive map

• PVE

• Player vs Environment ​

• PVP

• Player vs Player​

• Strictly not allowed on Evolution for any reason, including revenge

• Relogging

• Logging out of the game, and logging back in​

• Done to reset bugged issues, including the sound bug

• Bugged​

• Several known common issues that can often be solved by jumping, F5, relogging, or punching a wall. Common bugs include: ​​

• Hand bug--players will show that you have something in your hands that you don't, such as a gun you recently put in your inventory​

• Inventory bug--you're unable to take things in and out of your inventory, likely because you have the hand bug and don't realize you have something in your hands

• Sound bug--sound from the game disappears, can usually only be solved by relogging

• Emotes, including emote wheel

• Commonly referred to as F5, F11, etc.

• Emote wheel can be accessed by pressing and holding .

• F11/Suicide​​​​

• Killing onself via F11, or such as jumping off a building, or running into Zeds and not defending yourself​​​

• Can be done for a variety of reasons, such as getting a better spawn location, or a desired character

• Load out, or kit

• Clothes, guns, your general outfit​

• Cattle call

• Unique Evolutionary Gaming term​

• Standing on top of a building, such a shed, and firing a loud gun to bring Zeds to you (like a milkshake); then staying on the building and shooting the Zeds from the roof

• Taco stand, aka kiosks

• Unique Evolutionary Gaming term used to refer to kiosks​

• Building call outs/names

• Each building has a unique name; this will be important to learn particularly for other servers, where identifying which building you're in is invaluable​

• All building call outs can be found here

• Base

• On Evolutionary servers, a base can refer to a home, walled fortress, a tent, a barrel in the woods, a claimed car, buried loot, etc. ​

• If it's not yours, it's not yours

• Screenshot/F12

• To take screenshots in game, press F12​

• Removing HUD

• Quick press ` to remove your HUD​

• Long press ` to remove your character stats