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DayZ 1.18 Out Now

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Greetings survivors!

The time has come for update 1.18 to be released to a stable branch. We’d like to thank everyone who joined the experimental servers and helped us by playing and providing their feedback. We’d also like to offer some info regarding the update to the vehicle simulation. While internal testing is in progress and the results look promising, we were unable to include it in the build for 1.18. we'll keep the community posted on the progress of Experimental servers in near future.

Now let’s get to the rather explosive content of this update.

We are very excited to introduce the first grenade launcher to DayZ – the legendary M79. This single-shot grenade launcher is able to deliver deadly 40mm fragmentation grenades up to a distance of 300 meters and opens a whole new realm of possibilities for encounters. Besides the 40mm fragmentation grenades, we’ve also added 4 different smoke grenades (black, white, red, and green), as well as one special type of grenade, which you’ll have to search for in contaminated areas.

We’re also introducing the Claymore - a new and remotely detonated directional mine. Scavenging industrial sites might produce plastic explosives, which need to be combined with a remote detonation unit in order to detonate them from a safe distance. Protector cases can be combined with the electrical repair kit to craft an improvised explosive device that can accept a variety of explosives and can be activated by using an alarm clock, kitchen timer, or the aforementioned remote detonation unit. Being unveiled for the first time as well is a new event item – the fireworks launcher. Commonly found in amusement parks, this item is ready to light up any party, or be used, perhaps, as a distraction while dealing with the infected and other survivors.

Aside from explosions, we’ve added our smallest firearm to date as well. The Derringer is a two-barrel, .357 pistol that can be hidden pretty much anywhere. Speaking of firearms, the Revolver and Blaze rifle can now be sawn off.

You can now stumble upon a new type of dynamic event in the form of an abandoned train. This event makes the existing railway networks of Chernarus and Livonia worth traveling as it adds new points of interest in areas that were relatively empty in the past. The trains come in a variety of types and spawn military, industrial, and civilian loot.

Read more including Steam Achievements from our article.

On behalf of the DayZ team
Adam

Please read the full article here:
https://dayz.com/article/game-update/DayZ-Update-1-18

All new additions, changes and fixes can be found here: Patchnotes:
https://forums.dayz.com/topic/252959-stable-update-118/

DayZ 1.18 Experimental Update - New assets that go Boom!

Dear survivors
We’re excited to announce that the experimental build of update 1.18 is now live on Steam. We’ve got a lot of new tools to discuss this time around, changes, and fixes.
Head on over to our forums for the official change notes:
Change Notes

First off, there are plenty of new explosives to be found and made. There’s the Claymore, a directional mine found in high-tier military areas which can be detonated remotely. Next we have a powerful plastic explosive that can be found in industrial areas and combined with a new remote detonation unit, which is meant to be detonated from a safe distance. Finally, all you crafty survivors out there can also create an improvised explosive device from a protector case. This device accepts a variety of explosives found in the game and can be activated with a remote detonation unit, alarm clock or kitchen timer.

Speaking of explosive things, we’ve also added a grenade launcher. We chose to go with the legendary M79 – a single-shot grenade launcher – because we feel this one fits our gameplay the best (unlike the underslung grenade launchers for existing assault rifles, which we deem too powerful). We experienced a few challenges in terms of aiming, so please let us know how the current setup works for you. The M79 also comes with a variety of 40mm grenades, which can be found in different places across the world. There are other firearm additions as well, but we’ll leave it up to you to discover what they are.

Since many of these newly created items are considered very powerful combat and base raiding tools, they will be difficult to acquire under the balanced economy we intend to provide. To allow for easier access during this experimental period, we’ve adjusted the spawning of these tools so they appear more frequently and in lower-tier areas.

We hope you’re going to have fun with all these new tools, and we look forward to bumping into you during our regular Friday playtests!. If you have any feedback or encounter a bug, please report it to our feedback tracker.

Read more from our article here: DayZ Experimental Article 1.18

On behalf of the DayZ team,

Adam

DayZ crossplay - can Xbox and PlayStation players play together?

DayZ started out as an Arma II mod - can you believe it? The post-apocalyptic zombie survival game has since been released as its own standalone game on many different platforms, meaning that you can run out of water and die of thirst no matter which platform you play on.

While DayZ is a game that makes you ponder life's biggest questions after encountering hostile players, like whether zombies or humans are the real monsters, you'll likely want to team up with friends to combat those pesky snipers in Elektro. Those friends might own different consoles, so we're here to help you find out if DayZ crossplay is possible.

Read on below to see whether you have to have the same version of DayZ to play together. We'll keep this guide up-to-date, so check back to see if there has been any change in the game's crossplay implementation, and what platforms the changes pertain to.

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DayZ base building - recipes, tips, and more

DayZ base building is a core mechanic that you'll need to master if you want to survive for longer and keep your loot safe. There's only one rule in the popular post-apocalyptic zombie game - survival. But the longer you survive, the more dangers you're likely to face. Like most survival games with a major online component, you're going to meet other players, and they're more likely than not going to want to take all of your stuff.

That's where DayZ base building comes in. A major feature that sets the standalone version apart from the original ARMA 2 mod of yore is that you can now build your own complex bases, rather than just try to hide a tent somewhere.

Whether you're taking over an existing structure and slapping on a door, or building your own watchtower from scratch, you can now create secure places to rest up and defend yourself. It's not as hard as it sounds to create a basic stronghold - either from scratch or using existing buildings - but the more complex the er, complex you want to put together is, the more materials you'll need to gather. Here's everything you need to know about building a base in DayZ.

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The DayZ player count record on Steam just got broken, again

For the second time this year, the DayZ player count record has broken its all-time record on Steam, adding up to a very healthy 2022 for the survival game - and possibly the most popular year DayZ has ever had since it launched nine years ago.

When DayZ officially launched on Steam in December 2013, it had a peak player count of 45,398 - a respectable number for the zombie game but, as SteamCharts shows, it would steadily decline. However, DayZ enjoyed a resurgence following the release of version 1.0 in late 2018, and it finally beat that launch record count in January this year with 52,751 players.

Well, it's now three months later and DayZ already has another concurrent player count peak. The record on Steam now stands at a count of 58,523 players, an impressive achievement to be sure. This arrives hot on the heels of last week's 1.17 update, which adds a few accessibility options such as the ability to adjust sensitivity settings along with alternate control methods.

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