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Survivors, We come to the end of a very exciting year for us on DayZ and to support the end of 2021 we are included in the Steam Winter sales with our biggest discount of the year.
DayZ Steam Winter Sale is here! Not long after update 1.15 you can get DayZ for up to 50% off and DLC (Livonia up to 25% off)

Live Event:
We are currently live with our Christmas Themed Event. Santa sleigh is around with gifts that can be opened for bonus loot. Careful if Santa catches you ːsteammockingː

DayZ year in review:
This year, we released five game updates in order to provide you with new content and keep the game interesting. Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and us switching up office spaces, we managed to release those updates on schedule.

DayZ's 3rd year of live ops support and 8th year of development overall was focused on supporting our creators. We revised our systems for post-processing and particles, and the newly implemented contaminated areas are fully configurable, even without installing community mods.

We love our PC modding community, but we care about the entire community regardless of what platform they’re on, including consoles which can’t benefit from modding. That’s why we nurtured the ability of console users to modify gameplay experiences through server settings, thereby enabling them to easily adjust to settings that we saw appearing frequently on PC mods. This applies, among others, to tweaking building restrictions, altering stamina consumption, the spawning of structures and loot, and adjusting contaminated areas. We already saw plenty of creativity emerge from the communities, and we’re excited to see what they’ll do with these new tools.

6 new/returned weapons
Introduced contaminated areas
Wound infections
Increased support for modifying console community servers
Continued modding support
Read more about the year in review Here to learn more about what we got up to and snippet of future focus.


Chernarus (DayZ Standalone) - Up to 50% off
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) - Up to 25% off
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.

On behalf of the DayZ team
Scotty

Last update:
Please read the full article here:
https://dayz.com/article/game-update/DayZ-Update-1-15

All new additions, changes and fixes can be found here: Patchnotes:
https://forums.dayz.com/topic/251778-stable-update-115/

The makers of Arma and DayZ have revealed Enfusion, the new cross-platform game engine they plan to build future games on. No, Bohemia Interactive haven't announced Arma 4, but they do say they would use Enfusion for "any potential new Arma game", so maybe that's something to bear in mind while looking at its screenshots of vast landscapes. While they don't have much more than screenshots and a wee video to show right now (sorry, engine enthusiasts), they do hint that they'll release some sort of "playable demonstration of its features" at some point "soon".

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Hey Survivors,

2021 has been an exhilarating ride for all of us. We started off strong in January by hitting our peak player count on Steam. 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. 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 collaborate with each other to tailor the DayZ experience to your unique tastes.

This year, the team has worked rigorously to release update after update and introduce new content that includes various firearms, new playstyles and upgrades, customizations to community servers, and an entirely new environmental threat that radically intensifies the DayZ experience. 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

DayZ Steam Autumn Sale is here! Not long after update 1.15 you can get DayZ for up to 40% off and DLC (Livonia up to 20% off)

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.

What to expect with update 1.15:
We're introducing another bullpup assault rifle - the iconic AUR. It comes in two variants, both accepting 5.56 NATO ammunition. The A1 variant offers limited customizability with its fixed scope and a dedicated 30 round magazine. The AX variant on the other hand offers a full range of options for the scopes, suppressor and is compatible with the standardized magazines as well. Besides a new rifle, we're also introducing new civilian gear - the hunter vest, which offers great storage capacity and can be found around the hunting areas. Finally, we're also opening up the combination of the barbed wire and baseball bat to craft a unique looking and powerful barbed wire baseball bat.

A brand new female survivor is now available in the main menu character selection to increase the variety. Speaking of characters, we've resolved a major clipping issue of balaclavas and all available head gear items. While looking into the head gear, we've also made a change that allows you to wear a head torch in the glasses inventory slot, meaning from now on, you'll be able to wear a head torch together with your head cover of choice.


We've adjusted consumption and thresholds of the player character's water and energy in a way that makes it harder to retain higher values, while making it less impactful on lower values (that includes lower damage to a character's health). The adjusted thresholds give you better heads up on when exactly you should start taking care of the needs of your character and the decreased processing rate of the stomach contents means it's harder to eat everything at once (eating will generally take more time).

As part of our ongoing efforts to support a more immersive experience, we're adding audio feedback to the switching of the fire modes on a firearm. We've also added new onscreen directional hit effects. These replace the previous red-colored vignette effect with a splash texture, which also helps you to determine the direction from which an attack has come. This feature is also fully customizable server-side.

Server owners are receiving additional tools to manage their servers without the need for directly modifying game files through the addition of server-side gameplay settings. These include a new way of configuring the weather, adjusting various gameplay features (such as construction, placing limits, stamina and the new hit indication effects) and finally, a new way of spawning various objects to enrich the environment through the new object spawner. We're open to any feedback you may have on the current options or even things you would like to see included in there in the future.

If you had fun with the Halloween event we ran a few weeks ago on the official servers, then we have one more surprise for you this year - the Christmas event. We've worked hard on this one and we hope you're going to like it! Santa is coming down to the lands of Chernarus and Livonia, literally.

On behalf of the DayZ team
Adam

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Please read the full article here:
https://dayz.com/article/game-update/DayZ-Update-1-15

All new additions, changes and fixes can be found here: Patchnotes:
https://forums.dayz.com/topic/251778-stable-update-115/

Game Update 1.15 is now live.

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Greetings survivors,

We are excited to announce that the last game update of the year (1.15) has been released. While this one may not be as game changing as the last one, it still packs in a lot of smaller, quality of life changes, nicely wrapping up the end of a very busy year for DayZ.

We're introducing another bullpup assault rifle - the iconic AUR. It comes in two variants, both accepting 5.56 NATO ammunition. The A1 variant offers limited customizability with its fixed scope and a dedicated 30 round magazine. The AX variant on the other hand offers a full range of options for the scopes, suppressor and is compatible with the standardized magazines as well. Besides a new rifle, we're also introducing new civilian gear - the hunter vest, which offers great storage capacity and can be found around the hunting areas. Finally, we're also opening up the combination of the barbed wire and baseball bat to craft a unique looking and powerful barbed wire baseball bat.

A brand new female survivor is now available in the main menu character selection to increase the variety. Speaking of characters, we've resolved a major clipping issue of balaclavas and all available head gear items. While looking into the head gear, we've also made a change that allows you to wear a head torch in the glasses inventory slot, meaning from now on, you'll be able to wear a head torch together with your head cover of choice.


We've adjusted consumption and thresholds of the player character's water and energy in a way that makes it harder to retain higher values, while making it less impactful on lower values (that includes lower damage to a character's health). The adjusted thresholds give you better heads up on when exactly you should start taking care of the needs of your character and the decreased processing rate of the stomach contents means it's harder to eat everything at once (eating will generally take more time).

As part of our ongoing efforts to support a more immersive experience, we're adding audio feedback to the switching of the fire modes on a firearm. We've also added new onscreen directional hit effects. These replace the previous red-colored vignette effect with a splash texture, which also helps you to determine the direction from which an attack has come. This feature is also fully customizable server-side.

Server owners are receiving additional tools to manage their servers without the need for directly modifying game files through the addition of server-side gameplay settings. These include a new way of configuring the weather, adjusting various gameplay features (such as construction, placing limits, stamina and the new hit indication effects) and finally, a new way of spawning various objects to enrich the environment through the new object spawner. We're open to any feedback you may have on the current options or even things you would like to see included in there in the future.

If you had fun with the Halloween event we ran a few weeks ago on the official servers, then we have one more surprise for you this year - the Christmas event. We've worked hard on this one and we hope you're going to like it! Santa is coming down to the lands of Chernarus and Livonia, literally.

On behalf of the DayZ team
Adam

Please read the full article here:
https://dayz.com/article/game-update/DayZ-Update-1-15

All new additions, changes and fixes can be found here: Patchnotes:
https://forums.dayz.com/topic/251778-stable-update-115/