May 11, 2023

DayZ | 1.21 Experimental Update & Special Mission

DayZ - scottyb

📢Dear Survivors,
We are deploying a special mission for this Experimental update.
You will spawn inland up north with sufficient gear and armed with crossbows. (Bolts included)
Read more about this Below.

PC servers will go down at 13:00 CEST
The downtime is approx. one hour.
Patch notes: https://t.co/X2yIvMXNYX

We're embarking on a special mission to gather valuable feedback and insights on our Experimental servers, and we need your help to make it happen. We're aiming for high-populated servers to ensure best analytics and feedback.
Your feedback will play a crucial role in refining and improving the gaming experience for 1.21
Gather your fellow gamers, invite your friends, and spread the word. The more players we have, the richer the feedback we can gather.
To ensure that your feedback reaches us directly and efficiently, we kindly request that you submit it to the DayZ Feedback Tracker.
This platform allows us to collect and analyze all your valuable input in an organized and effective manner.
https://feedback.bistudio.com/project/view/2/

There are 30 different spawnpoints around the north of chernarus. The spawnpoints are always located in outskirts of villages, cities or other touristic locations (often with maps).

The survivor loadout has been adjusted. Your current character will not be affected. Only fresh characters will spawn with hunter equipment up north.

Crossbow set

Crossbow

2x5 Improvised Bolts
2x5 Improvised Bolts with Feathers
1x5 Hunting Bolts
Warm clothing

Survival items

Canteen
Knife
Map
Compass
GPS
Handheld Radio
Gas stove with a pot
General medical items

On behalf of the DayZ team,

Scotty

Enjoy and we look forward to your feedback.
https://feedback.bistudio.com/ Thank you

Apr 20, 2023

DayZ | 1.21 Experimental Update - Medieval Update and Return of Crossbow

DayZ - scottyb

Greetings, survivors!

We are happy to announce the start of the experimental period for game update 1.21! We’ve got a really interesting theme for this update. This time around we’re getting medieval and traveling back to the Middle Ages!

One of the new additions we’re introducing is the crossbow – DayZ’s first ever spring-powered weapon. It can load a variety of bolts and be fitted with a number of sights and scopes. Legacy players may recall this model originally having a quiver, a characteristic we decided to scrap in order to focus on the behavior of bolts. Our aim is to make the projectiles recoverable, as well as animate them with every entity you hit. The ballistic properties of projectiles, along with their recoverability, are the most complex parts of the crossbow, and we are interested to see how they behave on public servers.

While the crossbow itself may not be strictly medieval, we have incorporated medieval themed replicas of various items and clothing throughout the world. Don’t worry though – we’ll let you find them on your own instead of spoiling the fun for you here.

Experimental update 1.21 also comes with rebalanced quick slots, so now you won’t have to open your inventory as often. Fall damage has been rebalanced as well and should be much more readable. Continuing with the theme of readability, you now have the option to adjust the brightness of the in-game UI. Furthermore, we adjusted the lighting of the inventory camera. These two improvements should make your inventory much more pleasant to look at. We also made a few fixes regarding thrown items falling through the ground, and we’re curious to learn how often you stumble upon this issue after this update.

One more thing we’re introducing is the ability to spawn bushes, trees, and rocks through the server-side object spawner (and script). Last, but certainly not least, we are in the final stages of testing our Linux server distribution. We encourage anyone on Steam who wants to play experimental update 1.21 to try and do so on the Linux server, as we are monitoring it closely for any issues. If you’re interested in running your own Linux server, you can already do so on the experimental branch.

A full list of changes can be found on our official forums. We hope to see you in the public playtests and look forward to hearing your feedback!

Patchnotes: https://forums.dayz.com/topic/254711-experimental-update-121-change-log/

On behalf of the DayZ team,

Adam

Enjoy and we look forward to your feedback.
https://feedback.bistudio.com/
Thank you

Feb 14, 2023

DayZ 1.20 Stability update Out Now & DayZ in 2023

DayZ - scottyb

Greetings, Survivors!

We have released our first update of 2023 today! Say hello to update 1.20!

We’ve already started gearing up for a full year of DayZ support and felt it would be wise to spend a bit of time tackling various issues and addressing all the feedback we received during our very busy developmental phase last year.

You might find update 1.20 lacking in the content department, but it certainly makes up for that with a wide variety of fixes and changes. There are far too many to mention them all here, but some of our favorites include more vehicle fixes, a resolved ADS bug, connectivity indicators, and improvements to the third-person camera. If you’d like to learn more about everything update 1.20 brings to the table, head on over to our official forums and check out the change notes Here.

New assets

Mime Masks
Carnival Masks

Livonia POI
This new point of Interest was in connection to a community competition. The winner's art would be displayed in the game and forever be part of DayZ Livonia

While we’re very happy to kick off the year with update 1.20, we’d also like to discuss what’s in store for the rest of 2023. As we teased in a recent live stream, this year is going to be a little bit different. One thing we’d like to clarify is that we will definitely be supporting the game throughout 2023. The content of future updates, however, will be a lot more dynamic in nature, and won’t always deliver the usual template of “gun, feature, bug fix”. The reason for this is because we plan on expanding our focus regarding the possibilities of the DayZ game, brand, and team itself. We can’t offer too many details at the moment, but the following are a few of the areas we’ve begun to look into as possible additions to future updates.

Character cosmetics will play a huge role in every update this year. We’d like to grow what is already a massive collection by increasing the variety of loot to be found and offering even more amazing clothes to wear. Don’t expect us to follow other popular games with an abundant amount of pink skins. Think backpacks and survival themes and outfits that exemplify the DayZ brand.

Another element we intend to update later this year is the iconic northwest airfield (NWAF) on Chernarus. Our primary focus will be to simplify the airfield’s layout and make the runway and taxiways more authentic. Obviously a change to this location is a substantial project and will require synchronization with a total server wipe.

We also plan on focusing more on infected AI this year. We’d like to change the way they move through the environment, as well as how you battle them. There are a number of factors regarding this subject that require further investigation, so we can’t share much more info with you at present. But suffice it to say that the changes we’re considering have great potential to change the PvE aspect of the game for the better.

Following last year’s addition of Steam achievements in update 1.18, we’ve spent some time thinking about how we can expand the selection of available trophies/achievements. We’ve got a few ideas up our sleeves and will be offering additional challenges later this year for all you completists out there.

This year will be less about firearms as we feel there is generally a good variety present and we would rather invest our resources into other features. We would also like to give more attention to some quality of life changes, similar to what we did in the 1.20 update. Furthermore, we will continue the trend of offering more tools to server owners, with our primary focus oriented towards console communities and the ability to manage their server.

That’s pretty much it for now. We’re really looking forward to another year of great adventures and hope you’ll continue to enjoy them with us!

On behalf of the DayZ team,

Adam

Jan 4, 2023

DayZ 2022 Year in Review

DayZ - scottyb

DayZ is currently on its winter Sales and last chance to pick up before the holidays end!
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/221100/view/5921701621740028527?l=english

Hello Survivors!
2022 was a total blur. Now that the winter holidays are approaching, we’d like to take a moment and look back at what happened throughout the year.

What's new in DayZ in 2022?

8 new/returning firearms
Huge Livonia update with underground area
Grenade Launcher
Several new dynamic events
Upgrade of vehicle simulation
Major character controller changes and fixes
Increased support for customizing console community servers
Continued modding support

DayZ received 4 updates this year. Our goal was to keep the game engaging for new and experienced players alike. We were once again able to release all of these updates on schedule, and to include some pretty big additions in terms of assets and features. While all this was happening, the team and its processes underwent major changes as part of the continuous restructuring in preparation for team growth and future challenges.
Another aim of ours was to stabilize the game. The stabilization process included a more in-depth look at long-standing issues regarding stability, exploits, and recurring bugs. We balanced these fixes with spectacular themes in every update to generate more attention and continue supporting our marketing efforts.

Update 1.16 kicked the year off with a clean sweep that was meant to stabilize the build, supported on asset-side by the firepower of the Bizon SMG. Meanwhile, update 1.17 was all about crafting. It introduced improvised bone spears and knives, as well as a very popular mummy outfit made from rags. Update 1.18 set out to define an explosive summer season with both industrial and self-made explosives, and a grenade launcher. Finally, the year culminated with update 1.19, which provided a significant update to our Livonia DLC, including the first large underground area in the game. We also introduced the M1025 Multi Purpose Vehicle, which was supported by an update to our vehicle simulation and character collision that fixed tons of bugs and exploits in the overall gameplay.

DayZ 2022 in numbers

Game Updates: 4 (1.16, 1.17, 1.18, 1.19)
We broke the all-time concurrent PC player record from 2021 in every month but one. The current record was reached in April with 58,523 players. (SteamDB)
Daily Active User peaks of 184,000 on PC.
Top monthly average of concurrent PC players: 31,070 in January (all-time record, Steam Charts)
Last year’s monthly average record was surpassed during every month of 2022, except for March.
DayZ saw over 3.9 million new users from January to November
Highest average monthly viewers on Twitch: 17,200 in June (all-time record, TwitchTracker)
BattlEye bans: 30,000+; reaching a total of 100,000 cheaters banned from DayZ
17,000+ mods created by players
3 seasonal events

TELLING A TALE OF THE APOCALYPSE
DayZ is all about the survivors and their paths in this post-apocalyptic world. This is why our recent trailers have focused on telling these stories and how they are interconnected and impacted by large scale events. With update 1.19, we were finally able to finish the first major story arc around the character named Hannah.

Hannah was introduced in our previous release trailer back in 2019, when she was ambushed and robbed of her backpack by two bandits with motorcycle helmets. She got her revenge later and retrieved her possessions. A battle-hardened Hannah returned in the trailer for update 1.14, where she witnessed what appeared to be a trigger for a barrage of mortar strikes across Livonia and Chernarus that were infused with toxic gas. Another mysterious character appeared during this turbulent period, this time in the form of the mysterious Yellow King. A bandit with a scarred yellow motorcycle helmet appeared, hunting down survivors while searching for something.
The hunt culminated in our trailer for 1.19, when the masked bandit tracked Hannah down at an abandoned underground ammunition storage, which appears to have found (and lost) new inhabitants since the outbreak. After retrieving [----] hidden in a safe, Hannah was ambushed by the Yellow King. She managed to fight him off but lost her lucky backpack in the process.

A wounded Hannah escaped from the underground and drove away, but the fate of the mysterious [----], as well as her pursuer, remains unknown...
Huge props to Scott Bowen and the entire video team for pulling off such amazing storytelling!

OLD AND NEW FACES - PUSHING THE LIMITS TOGETHER

We received increased support from both inside and outside the DayZ team in 2022.
While one team member left, the year started big with the return of our former Lead Programmer. Also additional new programmer joined the team to increase our implementation capacity and tackle complex topics.
Most recently (Q4), we expanded the ranks of our programmers once again, an established modder known for his participation in some of DayZ’s most popular mods.

Aiding our design team we have a new Designer, who joined us from Publishing QA.
We received reinforcements during the second half of the year. Joining us was DOJ, a long-standing DayZ modder who further added to our terrains as an Environment Designer. And let’s not forget a new Artist with thriving experience from one of our other titles (Vigor) who’s pushing us with asset production.
By the way, we’re still on the lookout for experienced talent in design and art!
We were able to accomplish the enormous scope of updates in 2022 thanks to our cross-project teams, Combined efforts from all our studios, which helped create Livonia’s underground facility and port the vehicle simulation from the lastest version of Enfusion to DayZ. The audio and animation teams also stepped up their game and provided invaluable help.
As usual, DayZ as a live service could not exist without the continued support from our friends in Deployment, Backend, Marketing, Platform Support, Publishing QA, Operations, and IT.

While we do try to highlight community content and success in our monthly community spotlight. We are well aware of contributions that don't get as much attention due to sheer amount of amazing work.
This year the DayZ team got more involved in community events that builds relationship of our team and player base (Including our Creative Lead Adam Francu)
Modders, community server hosts, content creators, chat moderators, social leaders, event organizers, forum admins and Proudfoots - "Proudfeet!"
We aim to expand more on existing features to enrich community led content.
A huge special thank you to all!

What's next?
2023 is going to be a very interesting year for the DayZ team and Bohemia Interactive as a whole. DayZ currently competes toe to toe with our other well know franchise Arma, and we are very aware of our responsibility in continuing the game’s success. While plans are setting and investigations are a go, We are unfortunately unable to provide more information at this time.
We look to giving more clarity of 2023 development in our - DayZ in 2023 Article scheduled for Q1 of 2023.
Furthermore you can check TopeRec's Interview with Scotty for some sneak peaks we would like to achieve.

The DayZ Team wish you all A Merry Christmas or happy Holidays and a Happy New Year
Bring on 2023!

DayZ is currently on its winter Sales and last chance to pick up before the holidays end!
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/221100/view/5921701621740028527?l=english

Steam Best of 2022
Yes DayZ got into the Bronze charts on Steam

Top Sellers
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/BestOf2022?l=english

Most Played
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/BestOf2022?l=english

Dec 22, 2022

DayZ Winter Sale

DayZ - nikolas.rasin

Hello Survivors,

Christmas time has come to the lands of Chernarus and Livonia and that means we’ve included DayZ with the Livonia DLC in the Steam Winter sales again!
2023 will be a big one for DayZ, the game will be further supported with updates and new content.

Our biggest discount of the year, you can get DayZ for 50% off and the Livonia DLC for 30% off from 22/12/2022 to 05/01/2023.

Chernarus (DayZ Standalone)
The post-soviet country of Chernarus is struck by an unknown virus, turning the majority population into frenzied infected. Fighting over resources has bred a hostile mentality among survivors, driving what’s left of humanity to collapse. You are one of the few immune to the virus - how far will you go to survive?

Livonia (DayZ DLC)
Livonia is a DLC map for DayZ, allowing players to experience the hardcore survival hit in a whole new environment. Up to 60 players on a server will be tasked with a single goal: survive this new unfamiliar land for as long as possible, by any means necessary.

This is DayZ, this is your story.

DayZ Year in Review - Video

DayZ Year in Review - Article
https://dayz.com/article/general/DayZ-2022-Year-in-Review

Whether it's gift wrappers or an infected Santa, Christmas events will be returning to Chernarus and Livonia from December 15th!

Santa’s infamous sleigh crashes will also be making a comeback. This time around you can expect the sleighs to be located on rooftops, which is where you’ll have to maneuver to if you want to get your hands on some goodies. Be a bandit. Be a hero. Or be jolly old St. Nick himself. This is your Xmas Story!

Merry Christmas / Happy Holidayz and Happy New year

Nov 25, 2022

Nominate DayZ for the "Labor of Love" Steam Award

DayZ - nikolas.rasin

Hey Survivors,

2022 has been an exhilarating ride for all of us.
In 1st quarter of 2022, We started off strong by hitting our peak player count on Steam and maintaining a high amount of active players. For this, we’d like to offer our deepest gratitude to our wonderful community who has stood by us and empowered us to prosper. It is such a humbling experience and we sincerely hope that you’ll stick around as we strive for newer heights!

At the moment, nominations for this year’s Steam Awards are underway and we’d like to ask for your support once again by nominating DayZ for the Labor of Love Award 2022. The criteria for this prestigious award is as follows:

“This game has been out for a while. The team is well past the debut of their creative baby, but being the good parents they are, these devs continue to nurture and support their creation. This game, to this day, is still getting new content after all these years.”

This, as you already know, perfectly describes what DayZ is. It’s not just a labor of love that belongs to the dev team or Bohemia Interactive in general; it also belongs to you, the community, who’ve made friends through the game and collaborated with each other to tailor the DayZ experience to your unique tastes.

This year, the team has worked rigorously to release 4 updates along with supported patches and 3 seasonal events, We introduced new content that includes various firearms, new playstyles and upgrades, customizations to community servers, and an entirely new point of interest added to our DLC map Livonia (underground bunkers). It’s been a long and arduous road for the team but it’s totally worth it because we know and love our committed community of modders, content creators, and server owners who have been pushing out amazing content throughout the year like creative tools, week-long competitions, and a plethora of new community maps.

We are incredibly grateful for your support and believe that both the community and developers deserve this amazing award.

So if you feel the same way, please cast your vote and show us your support.

Thank you,
The DayZ Team