Baty Alquawen

Topic edited: Update 1.17 introduced new control scheme for the controller on consoles. More info about the changes can be found here. MAIN MENUS INVENTORY VEHICLE COMBAT STANCE SENSITIVITY SETTINGS

Hello Survivors! The long awaited update is out now! 1.02 brings a stylish and super-fast Olga 24 sedan and you can also find two new .308 caliber weapons on Chernarus. The design team added a HUD noise indicator, so now you always know how loud your actions are to the infected. For the night owls among you, there are also some good changes to night lighting! New vehicle - Olga 24 Once a high end, "Executive" level car, the Olga 24 is a four-door Sedan easily able to reach top speeds on the Chernarussian roads. New Firearms LAR The select-fire rifle LAR is used by specialized military forces. It comes with a 20 round magazine, using .308 caliber bullets. M70 Tundra The M70 Tundra is a bolt-action hunting rifle using .308 caliber ammunition. New & improved weapon attachments Usable backup iron sight of the ATOG Compensator for the Mosin 91/30 Mini Sight (small red dot) RVN sight Individual zeroing of iron sight and telescopic sight for compatible items Clothing Holster and pouch for the plate carrier vest Assault vest and its butt-pack Other Possibility to kill an infected in melee hit (e.g. with an axe), from the back Changes to night lighting New Noise indicator to encourage stealthy gameplay NOTES In case of problems, please check the Bohemia Interactive support F.A.Q., DayZ F.A.Q., or BattlEye F.A.Q. You can help us to further improve the game by posting your feedback on the Feedback Tracker. Patchnotes KNOWN ISSUES This update is not addressing the issue with some player characters not being saved properly. This is currently still being investigated by our teams. Players affected by this issue will experience character inventory rollbacks - these rollbacks are a preventative measure that we introduced to prevent your characters from being deleted completely, or locked from playing. FPS drops in bigger towns. Individual melee hit registration issues against infected. Going unconscious with an open map can cause freezes. Combination locks from the 1.01 patch can cause issues. Player is not able to move to the right in vicinity (2nd+ line) Crash After Suspending Title And Switching Accounts Favourited and Previously played filters in Server browser aren't working. Game freezes when holding large item (barrel, generator) and making shrug or surrender gesture Release Candidate Item Description Remains On Screen Zeroing down and VOIP are using the same input - down arrow D-pad. Combining items in Quickslot isn't working. Basebuilding - Character Picks Up Wrong Item Basebuilding - Unable To See Built Lower Frame Until Respawn Unable to unzoom a hunting scope once zoomed 1PN51 Scope day night mode inverted Player is walking and scrolling simultaneously Servers sorting by Full-Empty doesn't work Having a container with items in it in hands and escaping using RT/LT creates oddities afterward. ADDED Added: OLGA 24 with attachments Added: LAR with attachments Added: M70 Tundra Added: .308 WIN ammunition Added: Assault vest Added: Utility buttpack Added: Plate carrier holster and pouches Added: Mini red dot and RVN sights Added: Mini red dot sights now compatible with CR-75 and BK-133 as well Added: Functional back iron sights on ATOG optics Added: Precise weapon lifting by weapon length Added: HUD noise indicator Added: Ability to one hit kill infected from behind with selected items Added: Particle effects visible on the inventory player character Added: Inventory character has items in hands Added: Client-side personal night light (environment is subtly illuminated from the camera at night to save players from becoming completely blind without a light source) Added: Mosin 91/30 compensator Added: Independent firearm zeroing for iron sights and scopes Added: Hand cramp for brain disease Added: Injury animation is visible in inventory view Added: Footsteps sounds for movement inside tents Added: Footsteps scuff sounds for grass surface Added: Sounds for lock/unlock doors action Added: Sounds for combination locks Added: Sound animation events for heavy hit animations Added: New set of sounds for male infected Added: Sounds for hot and freezing character animation Added: Foley sounds for movement with heavy items in hands (Power Generator, Barrel, Tents, Sea Chest) Added: Sounds for pick up and drop action for various items Added: Position dispersion when infected cannot see the target, but can hear it Added: Muzzle flash effect for Mosin compensator Added: Tutorial: Inventory screen Added: Logout timer: Disable quick logout FIXED Fixed: Server crash caused by in-game actions Fixed: Server/client errors upon loading weapon Fixed: Client error when equipping bandana Fixed: Server error when manipulating vehicles parts Fixed: Client error when manipulating barrel Fixed: Client error when manipulating radios Fixed: Client error when manipulating dead infected Fixed: Client error when removing wooden logs from fence or watchtower Fixed: Client error when disconnecting near a radio control panel Fixed: Client error when removing rag from the mouth Fixed: Client error when attaching combination locks Fixed: Client error when committing suicide with weapon Fixed: Multitude of environmental issues (models adjustments, objects collisions, incorrect LODs, ) Fixed: Various IK poses (base building and electricity items, seeds packets, ammunition, vehicle parts) Fixed: Blending of textures on Skybox (previously causing sudden flashes) Fixed: Weak dynamic lights during dusk and dawn Fixed: Items can be picked up through walls (T137847) Fixed: Texture artefacts on the crosshair Fixed: Player can skip vomiting by staying crouched Fixed: Player can skip vomiting by jumping Fixed: Salute gesture keeps items in hand Fixed: BK-133 does not change textures according to damage states Fixed: FPS drop when dismantling/destroying base building parts Fixed: Barbed wire attached to fence will now move properly when opening gate Fixed: Player does not get proper damage while standing in flames Fixed: Driving over a character with a vehicle does not inflict damage Fixed: Some gestures with weapons make arms twitch Fixed: Infected do not inflict any damage to animals Fixed: Player becomes deformed for others while sitting in a car Fixed: Windows cannot be destroyed for some of the vehicles Fixed: Projectile impacts do not alert infected Fixed: Swapped clothing items can remain in characters inventory when standing in the vicinity (T136679) Fixed: Sawing off Mosin 91/30 with attached optic/loaded ammo deletes the items completely (T136205) Fixed: Players are able to access dismantle actions on towers from the outside (T136666 + T 137639) Fixed: Item size changes visually for wielded item when logging off (T136822) Fixed: Attacking infected clip through the player (T137370) Fixed: Hunting scope allows looking through walls (T137033) Fixed: Crafting improvised suppressor takes 1 % from the duct tape (T133200) Fixed: Collision of packed Car Tent remains in the middle of the unpacked Car Tent Fixed: Weapons cannot be reloaded while lying on the back Fixed: Handheld optic, binoculars or rangefinder were not usable (T137102) Fixed: AIs might get stuck mid-air after being killed by vehicle Fixed: Enduro helmet attachments are out of place in inventory Fixed: Fitting of localized item names in tool-tips and headers Fixed: Electric devices (spotlight, cable reel, etc.) getting unplugged after server restart Fixed: Server crash upon respawn Fixed: FX-45 was not functional Fixed: Getting shot underwater put the character into falling animation Fixed: The first gunshot caused FPS drop Fixed: Server VMEs related to the in-game map Fixed: Character noise indicator not being present Fixed: Character noise indicator not showing appropriate values Fixed: Collisions of base building objects remaining after their parts have been detached Fixed: Rangefinder drawing its value on other clients' screens, assorted client error, and interference between rangefinders Fixed: When opening doors for the first time, the whole building model can move slightly Fixed: Client error connected to player presence indicator Fixed: A client-side crash connected to the base building feature Fixed: Fence gate cannot be opened after server restart Fixed: Fence can be walked through after server restart Fixed: Client error tied to base building Fixed: Ruined tires now affect vehicle behaviour Fixed: Fire geometry for offshore worker infected type Fixed: Invisible dynamic events and custom objects Fixed: Adjusted MRDS post-process on FX to make it more usable Fixed: Tuna can miss the "Open" action in certain conditions (player/others nearby manipulating with a Compass) Fixed: Stacks of .308 Ammo spawning with 0 quantity Fixed: The player now dies properly from hypothermia, preventing client errors and other issues Fixed: Only one player in a VoN conversation can hear the others Fixed: Vehicle radiator cannot be refilled until the car has been started Fixed: Character movement speed desynchronization, where the character moves as if aiming down sights even when they are not Fixed: Client error connected to using a water bottle on a fireplace Fixed: Leaving ADS on weapon actions Fixed: Server Browser: Crash during network cable disconnect Fixed: Inventory: Equipping from vicinity can be done using both Y and B Fixed: Basebuilding: Player can move fences, gates and watchtowers using inventory Fixed: Radial Menu: Player cannot equip and hide item without leaving Quickbar slot Fixed: Controls: Remove iron sights on left trigger tap Fixed: Controls: Remove iron sights on left bumper double tap while holding left trigger Fixed: Radial Menu: Selecting main category in gestures menu doesn't bring you to presumed subcategory Fixed: Controls: Character performs barrel rolls while moving in inventory in prone Fixed: Inventory: Can't equip items from vicinity Fixed: Inventory: Hands: Missing capacity info for containers Fixed: Inventory: Tooltips are missing in zombies inventory Fixed: Inventory: Split action(Y) is missing toolbar info Fixed: Inventory: FPS drops when opening inventory in vicinity w/ multiple other items Fixed: Inventory: Closing container breaks scrolling Fixed: Inventory: 1st container stays highlighted Fixed: Inventory: 1st container header not shown when scrolling upwards Fixed: Radial Menu: Radial menu doesn't work with sensitivities toned down to bare minimum Fixed: Radial Menu: It's possible to use quickslot menu in car Fixed: Server Browser: Server scrolling freezes after refresh of servers Fixed: Server Browser: Favorite server is not saved after restarting the game Fixed: Controls: Player can`t switch between user actions in car Fixed: Menu: Respawn button gets skipped after dying Fixed: Menu: Game Displaying Wrong Copyright Year Fixed: Menu: Warning message that your character will die after pressing respawn button pops up when player is dead already Fixed: Items: Rangefinder/binoculars not usable Fixed: The title crashes to Xbox Home at various points during gameplay Fixed: The title enters an indefinite unresponsive state when using the Hold to talk feature during gameplay Fixed: Title crashes after suspending while in the Main menu or during the gameplay Fixed: Controller reconnect msg: Do not show during loading TWEAKED Changed: The weather simulation has been reworked, improving the network synchronization and lowering its performance cost. Changed: Improved the impact of dynamic lights on surfaces (including the roads) Tweaked: Minor tweaks to the global light config Tweaked: Alpha channel of mud road texture, so it's lit up properly by the dynamic lights Tweaked: Inventory blur intensity is now at half of the previous value Changed: Items located in fireplace cargo will now be burned to 'Ruined' state instead of 'Badly damaged' Tweaked: Damage system for ADA 4x4 Tweaked: Central economy (minor adjustments) Changed: Item view bounding box enlargement when attachments are added Changed: Improved behaviour of all light sources (fade in / fade out effects and more) Changed: Light sources slowly fade out when they are low on energy instead of suddenly going completely dark Tweaked: Slightly darkened breath vapour particle to avoid glowing at night Changed: Improved behaviour of smoking chambers on all guns (smoke escapes only while the chamber is open) Tweaked: Decreased intensity of all light sources during daytime Changed: Reflector surface of all light sources now shines properly Tweaked: Chemlight illumination radius increased Changed: Torch is now always transformed to stick when its rags are removed from it Changed: Bear trap damage output is now dynamic (it always causes the victim to start limping, but it won't kill them unless their health is already critical) Changed: Significantly improved quality of vehicle smoke particles during high speed Changed: Melee/weapons to animate with "spine3" bone (different shoulder animation) Optimized: Size of entity create network messages Tweaked: In-game map behaviour Changed: All particles are now preloaded during the game's initial loading Changed: 'FullAuto' fire mode set as default mode on all relevant weapons Tweaked: Infected are less perceptive in terms of sounds in general, limited vision at night Tweaked: Blood and health regeneration slowed by roughly 1/3rd Tweaked: Water and energy metabolism slowed down by approximately 1/5th Tweaked: Increased water, energy and healthy penalty by approximately 1/2 when heat comfort is low/high Tweaked: Chemlight illumination range lowered to 7.5 m Changed: Updated tourist trail map model and textures Changed: Lowered the Infected alertness caused by projectile impacts nearby Changed: Disabled attaching of MRDS to CR75 (MRDS currently has issues on the weapon that need to be dealt with first) Changed: Amount of blood loss from haemolytic reaction raised Changed: Lowered the illumination range of chemlight and the light around character at night Tweaked: Lowered chance of jamming for pistols Tweaked: Inventory: Button tooltips when switching between containers and places Tweaked: Server Browser: Disable controls during connect Tweaked: Other visual and functional improvements for Inventory and Radial Menu

31/08/2018 fixed issue of server reporting incorrect max slots fixed a crash when ending the trial version added sorting of servers based on the number of players and server names fixes in the server browser window fixed micromanagement in player's inventory

Dear DayZ Community, We are three weeks into our quite intensive development planning that will shape DayZ this year. It means sorting through, and selecting features, content, and timeline of their delivery - in practice a lot of meetings, whiteboard scribbles, and digging through our backlogs trying to identify what we're able to deliver this year, and when. In the meantime, normal development continues, and we have deployed a first bug fixing patch, with more bug fixing ahead of us of course, as we also have a backlog there to go through. The first quarter of this year is pretty much all about spring cleaning, and us getting on track to more scheduled Stable Platform Updates bringing new content and fixes. The first Platform Update is on its way to be released in February, and we will share more details once it's live on Experimental. We want to improve the game in many areas. We also hear you loud and clear and are aware of a vast amount of reported issues. They will get the attention they deserve when there's a right time for that, for now, let's look at some of the most critical and immediate ones. Top Community Issues Server Performance - server performance affects everything, from user actions taking too long, doors not opening, infected that stutter, to vehicle physics behaving in weird ways. Most of the gameplay can get affected when the server FPS dip below 20, and currently, that's happening on full or high population servers more often than acceptable. As such, this is our top priority to sort out. While the build out there right now has seen a noticeable FPS increase on low population servers, it still does not scale well enough when more players are active, and we are tracking possible causes of this server performance drop. Persistence - right now, we are preparing a safety net for persistence that will help the current shortcomings where entire areas get wiped when the server crashes during the writing process of the snapshot of the world state. In simpler terms, the persistence data does not save correctly because of a crash. The proposed solution is in testing and will land on Experimental once ready. When that happens, we will do our best to share useful information on the usage and functionality of the safety net solution. Server Browser - we know the new server browser still has its flaws, and performance issues which are getting in the way of the DayZ experience. We are looking into possible improvements on a more granular level; however, those might take time, so at first, we will dig into the issues that damage the experience the most. Once there is more information to share, we will provide an update. Animation issues - we are tracking multiple issues that break characters/weapons and more, and these require engine level fixes that are in discussion right now. Once the details get sorted out, and fixes are confirmed, we will talk about these in greater detail. The issues above are our primary areas of interest as of now, but the list of reported issues goes on, from bullet damage to medical items not serving any real purpose, or item placing being very limited, and more. While the list above does represent some of the reported issues (arguably the ones that break the gameplay experience the most), it does not mean we're not considering, or working on the rest. Modding We'll do justice to our company motto - Curiosity, Creativity, Community - by delivering significant modding improvements this year. Documentation, samples, and fixes that make new things possible are all in our pipeline. We will look at the topics of licenses and content usage, as well as making sure that with upcoming Platform Updates, we provide Experimental server branch to everybody so that both server owners and content creators can look at the game changes happening, and make necessary arrangements for their creations. We're already seeing lots of cool creations in the Steam Workshop (some prime examples in the video below!), and it'll be exciting to see what's possible in the future. Weapons We have a massive weapons backlog to go through, and you can expect that we will not only look into current issues with firearms (both visual and functional), damage and unconsciousness values but most importantly into that big stash of weapons that haven't been implemented yet. Our weapons strike team has already managed to make steps toward having two new firearms implemented in the upcoming February Platform Update. We will share more details when they're ready. Vehicles Vehicles have a lot more polish coming to them this year in terms of stability and functionality. As already mentioned, we know and understand that server performance has a huge impact on the experience, especially when player counts go beyond the recommended 60 players on community servers. Server optimisation plays a huge part in our early spring cleaning, so bear with us. While this is, of course, important, we can't forget that we should expand the variety of vehicular transport; this year will bring more options to players. Once again, we will share more details on the upcoming vehicles once we're sure we're ready to deliver. Consoles Recently, we've opened a round of Community Feedback targeted at our Xbox Survivors, and it proved to be a great source of useful information. Our console specialists in Bratislava are already looking into Xbox specific issues that were reported often and can be scheduled for a relatively easy fix, and there are of course the more complex issues like rendering and performance drops that are being investigated. DayZ launched with very decent frames in Xbox Game Preview, and we believe we can get rid of the current drops. It will take some time though. We also know that we still have a large sleeper community on PlayStation 4 patiently waiting for a release. While we are currently not able to dedicate more resources to advancing with another platform, we're taking small steps towards a PS4 release later this year. Communication With many internal changes in planning and how we approach update releases overall, we will also need to be rethinking how often and in what forms we're communicating with you. We still have a lot of brainstorming to do, but it's very likely that the frequency of development Status Reports will no longer follow the 2 week period. Instead, we'd like to think of ways how to more actively work with what's happening in the community, engage in the events organised by community server owners, and improve the direct communication across channels. Before the PC 1.0, we've made an attempt at Focused Feedback rounds with our game designers, and we'd like to get back to that idea when we know our developers can invest the time into carefully evaluating the feedback we receive on balancing, or specific game design topics. What we mentioned today is merely a fraction of things that are ahead of us this year; there's more to share down the road, but only when we're ready to talk about it. Once our internal roadmap is fleshed out, we will start our deep dive into how exactly DayZ will change this year. Until then, see you all in Chernarus! - Eugen Harton / Project Lead

Hello Survivors, There's been a lot of great stuff happening in the community and today's Community Spotlight is once again completely packed, so make yourselves a cup of tea, sit back and enjoy! To kick things off, I have some interesting facts for you from our animation team. The animators have already made or started progress on 5660 animations for DayZ, and 4169 of those animations are currently being used in the game. And another interesting fact - the longest animation we have is shaving which clocks in at 400 frames, meaning it's just a little over 13 seconds long. Thank you Adam Oresten for this interesting info! The Xbox community has a lot of questions and we decided to answer them in a live stream. We took the frequently asked questions and issues you've sent to us in the Xbox Feedback Round - January 2019 on our Forums and we were talking about them on the live stream. Check it out: I can't forget to mention it was Valentine's Day. All of us get from our nice colleague Ket (who's taking care of all the crashes you send, and takes her lovely huskies to the office every day) a DayZ heart cookie. But we get nice stories and wishes from you too. Look at this cute picture. It's Valentine's gift from Kyla to her other half - a picture of them playing DayZ together for the first time. It's so romantic and it is cool to know you can find the love of your life in DayZ. And thank you all for nice wishes and pictures. It warmed our hearts.❤️ Yeah, we've had an annoying issue with persistence, and hopefully it is all gone right now (thank you devs so much!), many of you tried to help us to identify and resolve persistence problems, and among the most active reporters were the members of the community from the Village server who built a wall across the Chernarus to find out what breaks the persistence. In the end, it was a different issue, but we want to thank you for your passion for DayZ, we love you. Here's how was "The Great Wall of Persistence" built. But the persistence issue didn't scare some people, and they continued with their bases without the fear of losing progress. Check out this massive base made by ElementFireClan: Or this one made by judderman2005: A Reddit user jude_ned made an interesting post for all of you guys in the DayZ community. He made a couple of Reddit threads on history, types and exciting facts about the weapons that you can find in-game. He already covered Mosin Nagant and SKS. It's a quality read, check it out: Let's also check out some nice pictures from you. This one looks like some surrealistic painting but it is, in fact, a Chernarus map! Don't ask me how it was made, I have no idea, but you can ask drumfish who posted it on the Reddit. It's just beautiful. Imdenkos shared a screenshot of his squad and they look scary, I don't think they are friendly, but they are dope! Snakevsplane bought a map of Chernarus and put it into a frame, so he is not going to lose it anymore. If you are interested in this map too, you can find it in our shop together with patches, hoodies and t-shirts. And the last picture is a photo by Ciiza, who lives in the Real Chernarus and wants to show you how it looks in Dubky right now. Can you recognize it? Modding is one of the most important things for the community right now, let me show some of fine things that I found. Guys from the Czech community (the same group also working on the BARRANDIEN map) created a really handy thing. It's an interactive map where you can see logs of all the events that you need to have to make server admin's life easier. You can see real-time kills, deaths, logins, logouts and more on the map. It's still WIP and not for the public now, but it's sick! There's also a new map called Chiemsee. It's 10x10km big, and fully playable even though towns get improved all the time.. You can find it on the "Chiemsee Official" server. And here a gameplay video from the Chiemsee map by 3RNO with his friend Gibs (that Jonny Rotten's face). And another one by Belzelga: Next up is DeanoZ who's creating some really entertaining content on his channel. He shows his modded content like karts or new cars but the most interesting are tutorial videos. If you are into modding but don't know how to start, his tutorial can help you. Do you have a nice base, but are you tired of looking for food every day? A private garden is the solution to your problem. You can grow tomatoes, peppers, pumpkins or zucchinis and eat them raw, dry or prepare them on the stick. But do you know how to grow your vegetables? AmishZed has a guide for you. Another guide is intended for beginners, who have troubles finding out where they spawned and where to run after spawn. Grunt made a helpful video for you. And one more guide! Building a working car is not easy. You need to find a lot of car parts and make them work together. Element FIRE Clan made a tutorial on how to build a 100% working Ada, so if you are not sure, check out this video. I couldn't imagine how cool this video is until I've played it. It is an ASMR DayZ video, just sounds of the sea, burning fireplace and ambient nature, really good for sleeping. I love this idea. YThis is a funny moment when Lirik met a crazy KKona Guy. I laughed a lot. This is a story of two FBI officers investigating a cannibal in Electro, and it has everything, action, friendship and tears at the end. Check it out; it's really entertaining. That feeling when you complete a car and then someone kills your driver and you are a hostage of two full geared guys, trapped on the back seat: Priceless. Nice video CitrusPunch! And thumb up for 1PP and VOIP! Another great story made by Gekofish. His videos are so relaxing and funny. And he started to be really popular in the community, so join his subscribe crew: While we are working on our Survivor GameZ, some community make their own battle royal games. On the Round Table Gaming server will be the event on Saturday at 22:00 GMT/5:30 EST and if you want to participate, you need to sign up on their Discord. You can find more info HERE. And here is a video from their last event: And we can't forget about the location riddle. The last location was in the northeast of Shakovka village. And the winners are: Cyril‏ CanisDirus‏ DrDeSync‏ #FreeFadez‏ Rustycaddy‏ Molly Magoo‏ Here is a new location for the next Community Spotlight: If you know where is this place, tweet it to our official DayZ Twitter account and don't forget to add #DayZRiddleTime. Thank you very much for all your content, I had really enjoyable time going through everything you shared. See you next time! - Baty Alquawen/Community Manager

The map isn't final. But when it is ready we are going to print it. 🙂

Hello, Survivors! It has been a bit over a month since our last Community Spotlight and a lot has happened since then! In December we released DayZ 1.0 on PC. It was definitely the craziest month in the office and the devs really deserved their Christmas holidays. I know we've been pretty quiet this year so far, and I've even noticed that some of you think we're still on holiday somewhere, but that could not be further away from the reality! Most of the team has been back to their stations since January 2nd and there's a lot of buzz in the office. We're working on fixes, planning our road ahead, and also getting ready for our first Platform Update - but I'll let Eugen explain it in his first Status Report of the year, so stay tuned! We are collecting feedback from the Xbox community because the Xbox version still has several specific issues, and we want to know them all. If you are an Xbox player and have some feedback, here is the place to talk about it. We've organized a 5 Year Anniversary Live Stream in December and answered a lot of questions, so if you missed it, here's a VOD of the live stream: For the live stream, Tim and I organized a special community event for our content creators and a bunch of other members of our community. The event was about attackers assaulting the defenders inside their base. The defenders were asked to build and defend a complex of buildings, the attackers had to kill them all. If you want to know some stats from the battlefield, here they are: DayZ 5 Year Anniversary Stream Results: Hero of the Attackers - AnarchyHD (7 kills) Hero of the Defenders - M1ndr (7 kills) First Blood - M1ndr after 3 minutes Highest Kill Streak - Anarchy (7 kills, stopped by DrDeSync); M1ndr (7 kills, stopped by Moondye7) Blood Enemies - Fadez and Jonny Rotten traded Kills Brought a melee weapon to a gunfight - and won - Uncuepa: 2 kills with the Wooden Axe; Catfu: 1 kill with the Combat Knife Last Men Standing - DrDeSync, Dizzy and Gary were the last surviving defenders Immortal Warrior - Dannyboyy did not die during the event. The best motivational speech - MrMoon We definitely want to keep doing live streams, so stay tuned for more - and feel free to send us some tips about what you'd like to see us streaming! Let's check the community content. Our friends at the Australian DayZ podcast Compass asked us for an interview and we joined them for their latest episode. Eugen and Peter were talking about some interesting topics and if you are interested in DayZ development, you should definitely check it out: If you are a DayZ beginner, you will maybe appreciate some community help. Recently, my favorite "DayZ teacher" has been Archie Stormcloud, who has his own "DayZ school". Check out his videos, they are funny, informative and entertaining. How to find fruits in DayZ: How to navigate in DayZ: Have you ever thought about base building, but you never really knew how to do it? BarelyInfected has prepared a guide for base building. It can come in handy! Another amazing piece of work from Asmondian. He has created a series of #dayztips pictures with instructions how some things work. Let's check out some of them. If you are into modding, you can find some great community mods in the Steam Workshop. The most popular Workshop item -at least for the last month- has been Winter_Chernarus. This mod retextures Chernarus to a beautiful winter environment. And if you run Winter_Chernarus on your server, I suggest you to add Cl0ud's Wintergear, it is really nice. Everyone wants Namalsk, but other terrain creators are already doing an amazing job as well, so now you can check out a new terrain called DeerIsle. It is a 16x16 km size map based on the DeerIsle location in the USA and is still in development. You can try the 3x3 km starting area on the creator's server 85.25.214.246. Here is a sneak peek by the creator JohnMcLane. And here is a first encounters video by TheRunningManZ. I want to show you one more video, which the DayZ team really likes. This base is really awesome, good job guys. And the last thing I want to share with you are some examples of amazing handwork skill. dubas_ got this amazing picture as a gift. Why don't I have anything like this on my own wall? DrZZed shared with us his logo cut from wood. It is huge! I carved a DayZ logo into pumpkin last year and it was so hard. But Reddit user ApersonawithCANCER did the same thing with a piece of wood, how it is even possible to do this by hand? And the last one is a very atmospheric sketch made by Specu85. You are talented, man! And one bonus photo to end things in style. Who else is envious of this DayZ command center by DownBy9UpBy5? I know I am for sure. As always, it's location riddle time. The location from the latest Community Spotlight was under a little factory west of Lopatino. And who guessed it right? Rosiu (@Rosiu11) DrDeSync (@DrDeSync) Emu Threat (@DayzedEmu) Foxypote (@Foxypoteoffical) Good job, guys. Here's the next one: If you know where the location is, send your answer to our Twitter account with the #DayZriddleTime hashtag. Good luck! That's all from me for now, thanks for all the awesome content you create, enjoy the game and see you in two weeks. - Baty Alquawen / Community Manager

Yes, the tracer ammo note was removed, it was a mistake. Sorry for it.

This is Rolf. He is more cute right now.

Hello Survivors, We switched some servers to the hard-core mode which means that there is only 1st person view and no crosshair. PC Stable: DayZ NL 3664728 HC (Public) 64.95.100.140:2602 DayZ NL 3664734 HC (Public) 64.95.100.142:2602 DayZ US 3664224 HC (Public) 66.242.11.162:2502 DayZ US 3664362 HC (Public) 209.191.164.114:2502 Xbox: DayZ NL 3663858 HC (Game Preview) 64.95.100.134:2702 DayZ NL 3664692 HC (Game Preview) 64.95.100.143:2302 DayZ RU 3664110 HC (Game Preview) 23.105.236.236:2602 DayZ SG 3664437 HC (Game Preview) 72.5.161.236:2302 DayZ US 3664179 HC (Game Preview) 66.242.14.198:2402 DayZ US 3664227 HC (Game Preview) 66.242.14.214:2502 DayZ US 3664287 HC (Game Preview) 209.191.164.115:2302 DayZ US 3664335 HC (Game Preview) 209.191.164.118:2402

Hello guys, We started to think about the future of public hive servers. We are considering the idea to discontinue the possibility to rent public servers. Admins have very limited options to moderate public hives and servers are frequently used as loot/dupe farms, which ruins the DayZ experience. According to community, public servers are more often targeted by hackers. That is however not confirmed by our data which indicates that they are rather aiming at higher population servers with streamers present. So, we need your opinion guys. What do you think about public servers hive? If you are renting public server, why did you choose a public and not private hive? EDIT: This isn't about ending public hive, but not allowing people to rent a server on the public hive. We will still have a bunch of official servers offering intended experience.

Hello Xbox players, we have a new update for you today - 0.63.149255. Please keep in mind that this is NOT the current Stress Test version from PC including vehicles and base building, it still needs more testing. We also changed a server time, a night is now shorter. Fixed: Player stuck in the login queue after console update Massive FPS drop when scoping in big cities - improved Favorite filters can corrupt navigation in server list screen Description block text in Options on XBOX ONE X is too small Quick bar in the tutorial picture Canceling logout timer using B eventually kicks you out of the server after 15 seconds Added: Player invite button If you find any bug just make a ticket here, please.

Hello again, Survivors. Another Community Spotlight is here! Halloween is already gone, but I didn't tell you how much I liked your screenshots with the pumpkin heads. They've been in the game only for a week but you've had a lot of fun with them. Thanks for sharing! Let's check out your horror-themed content. Halloween squad shared by CryDoXz: This one is beautiful! Thank you Ladelthia‏! And love this too. Good job Juh_4u! DayZCore server organized a Halloween event and it looks like they really had fun. Sweetest_Kill and Jakon had fun with pumpkins too. Just for your interest, in case you didn't know, DayZ is a game developed by company based in the Czech Republic (Inter alia) and we don't celebrate Halloween. We have a special day called "Dušičky" (Souls in the English language). People visit cemeteries and light candles for the dead, we don't have pumpkins and costumes here (even though I love the Halloween costumes!). And one more thing! One of our infected joined the zombie-themed night race called Zombie Run here in Prague. The race was 5km long and it was fun to watch people dressed as zombies running around. This was our infected, he didn't win but he didn't eat anyone at least: Who is Negan? A creepy creature. When you hear whistling, run for your life. DayZ can be scary. Belzelga proved it really well. Another creepy little video (Mr. White is back), but with nice singing! Cool story, Foxy Pote! And one more horror-themed video by Gekofish: This is a school project inspired by Mr. Midnight. Let's calm down. Berrett5Bumpas made a really relaxing video. Check it out: And if you are not into video, check out this visual basebuilding guide by RookieN: And if this still isn't enough for you, Asmondian made a base building Infographic: Let's check out your modded content! Kuroakita is trying to mode his first vehicle and it looks cool already! When we are talking about cars, Repa24 is making one too. Nice work. If you are a role-play lover, you probably could appreciate a trader mod. Follow the mod's Twitter for more info. But this is a cool mode made by DannyDog. Let me introduce you to his street lights. They are not on the workshop right now but we hope they will be in the future. Let's solve the location riddle - it was a place near Pik Kozlovka. Correct answers were sent by: Lad Foxypote Chill Pilgrim Lijazos Asmodian DrDeSync And the new one is pretty hard (greetings from Sumrak): As always, if you know where the location is, send your answer to our Twitter account with the #DayZriddleTime hashtag. Enjoy the game and see you in two weeks! - Baty Alquawen / Community Manager

Today was quite a busy day at our office with the Experimental BETA patch hitting the Experimental servers. So apologize this late Status Report, it is worth it. Dev Update/Eugen Dev Update/Eugen Dear Survivors, we are listening. We know the last Status Report has started some heated discussion about DayZ. I'm gonna do my best and touch upon multiple subjects you guys have pointed out and make sure your questions don't go unanswered. But first, I also want to because today is the day that we updated the Experimental branch with what will become the first BETA update. The update itself contains multiple features and tons of content. Just to name the headliners: all new base building, a new implementation of vehicles, player restraining, leaning and more. I'm excited about this first step to a more polished gameplay experience with more endgame goals to achieve. Farewell, 0.62 - 0.63 is fully taking the reigns Not only have we hit Experimental today, but tomorrow, we want to open another floodgate. Since we're no longer working on old technology, the 0.62 version is now becoming a legacy to look back at and learn from. We believe we are past the point where 0.62 is a good first entry into the world of DayZ. So tomorrow, we will be going through a clean-up in our Steam back-end and shuffle things around a bit. The current 0.63 will be moving to the default branch (what we call the Stable branch, as in the first thing that installs when you click on DayZ in Steam, and a version that most if not all community servers will run). 0.62, then, will be moved to its own "legacy branch" for future reference. This will make sure that players coming back in will get in touch with the new version of DayZ, and won't be facing a situation where they start up a game and can't join almost any server due to version difference. That way, we can focus on what the future of DayZ should be and we will deliver updates straight to you. Experimental and Stress Test Branches should not see much use for the rest of the year, and will be deprecated until we get to a point they are once again needed. Our goal right now is to focus on addressing issues you guys have been reporting, and on making DayZ fun for our core player base. With this change, we will release one more thing for you guys to play around with: DayZ modding tools. Yes it''s happening! While they can definitely be considered Experimental, your early feedback on the tool set can help us shape the future of the DayZ platform and game alike. Tools will be available as a free download on Steam and will be also supported by our new DayZ Launcher to organize your DayZ experience. The launcher (familiar to those of you who tried Arma 3) will be useful not only to work with mods, but also for work with startup parameters, server and tools after the tools package stabilizes a bit. With the DayZ tools release, we will be opening the Steam Workshop for you guys to share your creations in an easier way, accessible in one central place. TLDR; if nothing goes majorly wrong, 0.63 is moving to Stable tomorrow, and we begin our BETA development - the march towards a stable 1.0 release. Plans for the upcoming weeks With 0.63 on the Stable Branch, and community server owners updating their servers with all these new features we introduced, I wanted to touch on few more things that are about to happen in the upcoming weeks, as that's certainly something you'll be very curious about. Server browser changes & update schedule The server browser is getting an overhaul based around a new technology that we developed together with our Online Services team. The gain with this implementation is that you'll be better able to tell if a given server is running a modified version of DayZ, and at the same time, the new implementation will make the server browser feel more aligned with rest of our UI design (which is by no means polished yet, but at least a basic direction has been set). Related to community servers, at least for the rest of the year, we're trying to go and have a fixed schedule of weekly updates so that server owners can be ready for any upcoming game updates. Fixing, tweaking, and polishing The upcoming bugfixes and tweaks will be focused on many of your complaints over the years. We read almost everything you guys post across social media, including (especially) those comprehensive lists for 1.0, and I just want say we know these things are important to you. While features are in, their functionality is often broken. We know that's what makes or breaks a game, and now is exactly the time to get that fixed. During this period of stabilization and iteration, you'll see the game change around the details that matter. A balance pass is ahead of us, and while it's certainly not the last, it will definitely be a first one that will fix a whole lot of the inconsistencies you guys experienced over the years. Just as an example, I'm going to use the fix of misaligned guns that is already in Experimental (caused by either using a vehicle, being in prone, or using free-look). We're also going to go over some of the issues that bother you a lot: like hit registration problems, or changing your key binds. Let's go. Feature and content freeze for BETA/1.0 With today's Experimental update, we have released a huge amount of items that were not available in-game before, and while some of their functionality might be bugged, these specific cases will be tackled in the bugfixing, polishing, and balancing push. What's in the Experimental build now is the list of items we want to hit 1.0 with, and anything else we've talked about in the past will be a post 1.0 content released as free platform updates. The same goes for features - features that we previously had planned to deliver and are not in-game right now and are postponed after 1.0 release. We will be working on our post 1.0 plans and communicate the exact details of our efforts through official channels. One thing I can already say - I'm really looking forward to working on a stable game platform. Something we have not seen a lot (or at all) for the past 5 years. Addressing the current most pressing issues There are some hot topic currently resonating in the community, and I wanted to touch upon some of those in more detail. As these would make the Status Report visually even longer, we're gonna put them into a separate forums post. These are the topics covered: Item renaming Hit registration Changing key binds Bloom post process effect tweaking FPS drops READ THE FORUM POST Now to an elephant in the room that has to be talked about in a proper manner. Previously, I have said that I want to write up my thoughts after talking to you guys on various channels and criticism that has ensued after the last Status Report. Here it is. Why go for a 1.0 release this year? There were two choices here, either we miss our 1.0 deadline, or we miss content parity. Both are bad no matter how we look at it. I seriously believe for the health of DayZ as a brand, as a game, we have to move in a direction of stable and reliable gameplay. The core DayZ features are already in the game now, and the devil is in the details. We have to make sure those core features work as they should first and foremost. Not only are you missing out on some really cool things in the game because the current implementation of features is simply broken - additionally, we also we have to deal with development on a game platform that is simply not stable enough for us to continue without loosing our minds. Making a new weapon on a game that crashes or stops shooting bullets every day due to low level changes is not fun for us either. We know that this step is not only important for the game, but also for the team here. While we might have put on a version number 0.64 and just continue development as many of you have suggested, we have to start working with deadlines properly and be prepared to prioritize. We could have spent years polishing and adding to what DayZ is, but to do so, we need to start planning better and that requires a platform where estimations on complexity can be relied upon. That is not the case right now. While we agree that content variety is extremely important to DayZ, we can improve upon that that post 1.0. And the same comes with features like helicopters. We are not abandoning DayZ. We're taking a deep breath, we're taking a look back with the aim to properly plan out building on a platform that is fun to develop for. Can you really have a polished, stable 1.0 version of DayZ by the end of the year? There's not much time left. Yes, unless we believed that, we wouldn't have chosen the option to hit the deadline. There is about a month of real development left, and hopefully some you have noticed we have started fixing some really pressing issues in DayZ over the last week as we shuffled our priorities. And that is what deadlines do. They make you think twice about what is really important. While there are large numbers of issues left, only about 600 of them are crucial to make DayZ work as intended. We plan to do exactly that. Fix features, stabilize the game and make it enjoyable after being weighed down by bugs for a very long time. Are you pressured from the Bohemia management to go for the release? There is pressure of course, that's a natural part of game development. We've just spent five years in Early Access. That said, Bohemia Interactive is a privately owned company under no pressure from external investors. It is our decision to meet our deadline, and there are no business people standing behind our backs forcing us to do it. Bohemia is a family of like-minded people who want to make games without publishers calling the shots. It's also one of the core reasons why Bohemia still self-publishes its own games, and generally does things on its own. While we may not be perfect, our players, our community, our games are still very clearly different from the rest of the industry. Why not just continue in BETA after stabilizing the game, and not avoid "slapping" a 1.0 on a game that's not "feature/content complete"? Because if we were to do every single thing that was ever conceived/thought of/casually mentioned for DayZ, we would not be able to exit Early Access even next year. In development, especially if you work with new technology, there is no proper way to do estimates. You just do them based on your past experiences with different technologies. This a super complex topic and we were unable, and effectively failed to predict the amount of time some these things would take on the new engine. While the possibilities with our own technology are endless in theory, we just can't hit content/features that we wanted or wished for in the time we set for ourselves. That said, we know that the game is going to be tons of fun even when some of your favorite features and content are missing now. Is there any team restructuring going on after the 1.0 release? Are DayZ developers going to be assigned to other teams at Bohemia? No, we are keeping the same resources as we had this year for the year ahead. To be precise, it's 86 people working on DayZ right now. What are your plans for development after BETA? When can we see the remaining features being implemented? As mentioned previously, we want to properly plan out content and features for next year, and focus on timely delivery by having a stable platform that we can build upon. One of the top priorities will definitely be weapons and content variety. As for features implemented post 1.0, we will share more information once the whole team agrees on what exactly we can and will deliver. DayZ is our dream game and we want to make it the best possible experience for developers and players alike. - Eugen Harton / Lead Producer Header image by Uncuepa.

That is the plan. Updates straight to stable.

Today is going to be quite an important Status Report as we are going to talk about the BETA update and our road towards the end of this year. Peter is explaining the current state of base building and Adam discusses the new in-game map which will support you on your travels. Let's get into it! Dev Update/Martin Dev Update/Peter Dev Update/Adam Dev Update/Filip Community Spotlight Dev Update/Martin Dear Survivors. As promised, it's time to address the upcoming BETA update. This will be a longer text, so take a deep breath, we're going to get back all the way to the last year. In the 2017 - Year In Review video published last December, we shared our goals to deliver the BETA and 1.0 updates of DayZ in 2018. Over the course of this year, we've made significant progress towards completing those goals (2 major experimental releases, and 50+ Stress Tests), and while there's less time left in 2018 than we'd all like to have (some 60 days left before the holiday season starts), we're still well on our way to releasing these important updates. In this blog post, we'd like to better define the PC BETA update - what our goals with it are and what your expectations towards it should be. What does reaching BETA mean for DayZ? Before we dive into the specifics of the DayZ BETA update, let's set the terms straight first. In software or game development, BETA is widely regarded as a product that's feature complete. For the DayZ PC BETA, this is true in a sense that the BETA will have all the features required for its core gameplay loop to work, but within the overall scope of the DayZ project, it's certainly not what we would consider a totally feature complete game. Then, the BETA stage of development is a point from which the focus of development shifts to bugfixing and polishing, instead of implementing new features and technology. This will be especially important for DayZ, as one of the the main goals of the BETA update is to start making the game into a stable platform that's ready for further development. The other main goal of the update is to make the vanilla game an enjoyable experience - after years spent on core technology development, we finally have a game in our hands - not a game concept. The game has a given set of features and content, and that will allow us to make the necessary balancing and polishing together with our community. Most of this will be happening throughout the rest of 2018, culminating in a 1.0 release where we leave Early Access - but even after this milestone is achieved (meaning we finally close the core development of the game), we're going to keep improving the platform before new things start making their way into the game again. So to summarize, the PC BETA update is going to be a version of the game that has all the basic fun elements of DayZ available, and it's also the start of the journey towards a balanced, stable platform that's ready to support further development and modding. With that out of the way, let's take a look at the particular features and content that will be available in the BETA update. BETA Features and Content In August, we've gone through a feature freeze - an important internal milestone where we've evaluated the overall state of the game and marked any item from our Feature & Content Goals that did not reach a certain level of implementation as post 1.0 development. While we are ultimately the masters of our own development time, there is one universal truth in game development: you can always try to squeeze more stuff into a release, so eventually, a line needs to be drawn and goals need to be established in order to achieve results. The goal we've set was clear: making sure that we proceed towards stabilizing the DayZ gameplay and platform in 2018, as this stabilization will be necessary for further development of the game, and will benefit DayZ in the long run. Additionally, after working on a project for 5 years, it also became apparent that the team needs to have a sense of an end goal in mind. Making decisions like this is painful for every developer - nobody likes to see "their" feature being cut, or postponed to some future update - but having a balanced and polished core of basic gameplay is more important than having dozens of flavor, supporting and exotic features. Everyone who was ever involved in the full development cycle of any game knows that at the finish line, there''s always less stuff than was originally planned. Since DayZ's development has been very open from day one, you get to experience this side of game development with us, first hand. So, at the end, this is where we've arrived at for the DayZ BETA features and content - ultimately meaning that this will also be our 1.0 release after the polishing phase: Please note: the overview is not extensive and does not cover every single small feature or item in the game - DayZ is a pretty complex game after all. This mostly describes things that the BETA has in addition to the 0.63 Experimental release. If you have a question about a specific feature, feel free to ask us about it in this forums thread! Critical new BETA features (not available in legacy versions of DayZ) Base building related crafting, items, and their economy setup precise placement of objects electricity system locking other players from accessing your base New implementation of vehicles improved controls, physics, and network synchronization improved damage system improvements in vehicle interactions, management, and maintenance Modding support implementation of the Steam Workshop game launcher specific modding tools server files for hosting community servers New player character features visualization of bleeding source character lifespan (growing beards, learning soft skills) character restrain hit reactions Smaller new BETA features and improvements (not available in 0.62) major improvements of the sound design hidden loot stashes not losing your weapon double carry (when switching from hand slot to shoulders) improved in-game map implementation dynamic spawning of loot (fruits, stones, mushrooms and other items) specific animations for carrying/using most items melee attacks with guns server browser improvements central Economy improvements and more :) Features and improvements planned for BETA/1.0, or originally in 0.62, but moved post 1.0 Helicopters we've arrived at the decision that base building implementation will provide enough of an end goal for players, so helicopters can be added later on Climbing over obstacles this feature required additional programming and animation support that we've decided to invest more effectively into other parts of the game Throwing items throwing requires a lot of additional specialist work on physics and network synchronization, and we'd rather invest that into vehicles and other features this includes throwable weapons like grenades or smoke grenades Bows the implementation of bows means an introduction of a completely new weapon type on 0.63 and was always a risky goal, in the end unfortunately not achievable in 2018; we've invested the programming time into gun play, melee combat, vehicles and other core features that were more important Character and infected ragdoll unfortunately, there are many network synchronization cases that we need to resolve and implementing ragdolls in combination with death animations will require more time and resources Two-way doors while a huge quality of life improvement, changing the doors to two way opening will require additional rework of some of the assets, and is not achievable in 2018 Fishing and fish traps, decaying bodies, carrying characters, contaminated areas, item coloring etc. these are considered flavor features and for now, work on core gameplay features was prioritized instead In recap, there are no major feature cuts or postponements - anything that makes DayZ the game unique and original among the other survival games is still there. Some of the biggest trade-offs are probably bows, throwing, ragdolls, and some of the flavor features that you were already used to seeing in legacy versions of DayZ. These trade-offs are usually allowing us to spend more time on the core features, and that, again, is certainly more beneficial for the future of DayZ. In addition to those features, we've had to done some trimmings to the content. Specifically, we're only going to have two types of vehicles available in BETA - the V3S truck and the Lada 4x4. As for weapons, compared to our original goals for BETA, we're not going to be able to implement the following content in time: Magnum Red 9 IZH 43 shotgun SKS CR 527 Winchester 70 Any other firearm currently available in 0.62, but not on the 0.63 Stress Test branch In general, we''ve done our best to have each firearm type from 0.62 represented in the game, and additional variety in firearms will be provided with content updates after 1.0, where we should have more animation resources available at hand. Road to the 1.0 release In general, polishing the package of content and features as described above will be our goal for 1.0, and for the weeks immediately after 1.0. This will include: general balancing of every part of the game (central economy, weapon damage...) a massive amount of bug fixing polishing and improving the general feeling you as players have when playing DayZ Just to assure everyone again, both the BETA and 1.0 releases will happen this year. All of that will be done together with our community, and we will be expecting to hear a lot of feedback on various things. When the BETA update gets released, we'll be providing more details on how we will be collecting and evaluating feedback. As the cherry on top, there's of course the planned modding toolset release - and we'll also get back to that later on, when the BETA update is in your hands. It deserves its own blog post, and after all, this has already been a very long wall of text anyway! :) - Martin Čulák / Brand Manager Dev Update/Peter Even after some of you had the chance to try out the construction feature to some degree with the recent release of the Stress Test, base building is still considered to be a kind of a mysterious part of DayZ. To recap, the construction feature allows you to build two main elements (portable mesh barriers aside): fence and a watchtower. The process of building these objects is identical and starts with a construction kit, which is placed to outline the position and layout of objects. From there, you are able to add building materials such as logs, planks, nails or metal sheets, and by using the proper tool and a user action, you turn them into actual parts of the fences or watchtowers. Similarly to the watchtower with its multiple floors, the fence includes an optional platform. Upgrades for both are available in terms of camouflage and passive defense. Moreover, a fence can be turned into a gate as there has to be some way how to get in or out, The opening is wide enough for a truck as well. The gate can be kept closed from unwanted visitors by utilizing a multi-dial combination lock with easily shareable custom codes. Of course the code can be cracked by brute force and -as everything in DayZ- it can be broken with a proper tool, although you should consider the time needed for such actions. That goes for dismantling actions as well. Currently we are in the process of solving unpleasant issues with the lifetime of constructed objects and intentional server hopping into the base. Especially the second one is tricky as I don’t want to introduce some unnecessary artificial counter measures or out of place actions which could potentially harm the unique DayZ experience. Base building as a whole is a broad set of activities. Throw horticulture, food preparation, obtaining water, stationary crafting, storage, building a shelter, engineering an electricity grid and others into a mix and you get your very own base. All of that was designed to blend in well with the environment, and I have to say that I’m excited to see the wide variations of bases you will come up with, and how they will add to the persistent world of DayZ. It’s hammer time... see you in Chernarus folks! - Peter Nespesny / Lead Designer Dev Update/Adam If you have played DayZ since the version 0.60, it is certainly possible that you never had an opportunity to see how the in-game item of Chernarus'' map looks and works. The revival of this feature was definitely one of the more important points for the upcoming BETA release and I am glad to announce that this was a success, and in addition to its re-introduction, we have been able to bring a number of improvements to it. So, how does it work? You find the Chernarus map and take it into your hands. After that, you can open it with a user action. Your character will unpack the map and you will have an access to the map interface, where you can use pan and zoom in or out. A nice extra about this is, that anyone else in the world will actually see you having the map open too. So what you can find on the map of Chernarus? While we would like to bring a number of different types of maps, we have decided that it would be best to start with a tourist map. This map features the whole in-game world in great detail (excluding the military areas of course). It shows all the pubs, stores, local offices (PAS panel), medical centres, police and fire departments. I should also not forget about the newly added tourist trails - you can see all the color tracks on the map too. Adding features like the trails is one of the improvements compared to the previous version of the map (versions 0.59 and older). It also allowed us to add all important lakes, streams, rivers and swamps. The location names on the map also received a necessary pass and we have got more types of them now. All the names are up-to-date with the map changes that happened for the past few years, and their names are in Cyrillic, so you can easily connect them with the names you see on tourist trails, settlement or traffic signs. The engine team has also looked at the performance of the map and has brought a number of improvements to it. The map feature, at its core, works the same way as it did in Arma, which means any community map (that is packed using the upcoming DayZ tools) is also supported and only minor additions in the config and script have to be done. And to those wondering - yes, you will be able to add notes (markers) to individual map items. Peter will explain this in more detail in a future Status Report. - Adam Franců / Map Designer Dev Update/Filip If you have played on the Stress Test branch over the last weekend, you might have heard a number of new and updated sounds. Our work in this area continues with: sounds for evade prone animations updated animals footsteps sound dynamic attenuation of ambient and engine sounds, when character is inside vehicle. The sound changes according how many doors are open. sounds for rifle swap animation - Filip Čenžák / Sound Designer Community Spotlight Hello guys, The Community Spotlight is separated to its own page because I have more space for your creations. You can check it out HERE - there are some nice videos of basebuilding in action! - Baty Alquawen/Community Manager Header image by HaroldPalmer.

Hard reset your console, it should help.

They are online.

No, I don't want to give you the full information, because we never did it. Players should find out by themselves, just turn on your console and discover. That's what DayZ is.

02/11/2018 Fixed: Player stuck in the login queue after console update Massive FPS drop when scoping in big cities - improved Favorite filters can corrupt navigation in server list screen Description block text in Options on XBOX ONE X is too small Quick bar in the tutorial picture Canceling logout timer using B eventually kicks you out of the server after 15 seconds Added: Player invite button

Dear Survivors, since the launch hype has now calmed down for DayZ on Xbox (we’ve seen almost half a million of you enjoy DayZ across the trial and purchased versions of the game!), we’re now about to trim our server numbers since we've been running too many of them at this point. We're currently seeing between 15 000 to 20 000 people playing DayZ daily, so we're going to provide enough servers to accommodate all of you and leave some safe zone. That's currently around 180 servers altogether. Our apologies for any inconveniences caused - this should be our last server change for some time, but please don't get too attached to your loot during Game Preview. We still need to do a lot of changes, so wipes and server changes are to be expected. We're announcing this because this may have caused you to lose your stashes, and we wanted to let you know. Here are all the servers we're switching off today, sorted by their location: EUROPE: ASIA: USA:

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Survivors, We have some news for you today! The first one is that this week’s Status Report is canceled. But don't worry, it is for a good reason! As 0.63 is getting into a better shape internally, we thought we could go for a more interactive way of presenting the development progress to you - we're going to organize a live stream! At this very moment, we are setting up our first public live stream of the internal 0.63 version of DayZ with our developers, and it will be awesome! our Lead Designer Peter Nespešný is going to talk about the huge changes in gameplay, you will see the new player controller in action and we will be talking more about stamina, new crafting system and changes to combat the animation team will showcase the new animations and what has changed we will talk with our Lead Producer Eugen Harton about our overall release plans, the events we are planning to attend this year, and we'll also answer some of your questions We hope you will join the community on our Bohemia Interactive Twitch channel this Wednesday at 18:00 CET. We expect the stream to run for about 90 minutes, and there will be a VoD available on YouTube in case you can't watch the stream live! If you have a problem with time converting (who doesn't!), we have a little cheat sheet here for you: 18:00 Central European Time - CET (UTC +1) 17:00 Greenwich Mean Time - GMT (UTC+0) 13:00 Eastern Daylight Time - EDT (UTC -4) 04:00 Australian Eastern Daylight Time - AEDT (UTC +11) 10:00 Pacific Daylight Time - PDT (UTC -7) 10:00 Fiji Time - FJT (UTC +9) 19:00 South Africa Standard Time - SAST (UTC +2) 14:00 Brazil Time - BRT (UTC -3) 20:00 Moscow Standard Time - MSK (UTC +3) https://www.twitch.tv/events/9tLTxdtmRHqU9YhdTmNQdA?from-redirect=true https://dayz.com/blog/0-63-developer-live-stream-14th-march-2018

Hello Xbox players, we are taking 150 Xbox Game Preview servers for our internal testing of the latest fixes for the Xbox database. If everything will go well, we will use them for a couple days and then return them back. Sorry if one of them was your favorite server. Here is the list of them, IDs in the list are the same as in the server name: 3635880 3635883 3635889 3635892 3635784 3635793 3635790 3635814 3635817 3635820 3635823 3635841 3635787 3635850 3635853 3635859 3665352 3665355 3665358 3665361 3665364 3665367 3665370 3665373 3665376 3665379 3665382 3665385 3665388 3665391 3665394 3665397 3665400 3665403 3665406 3665409 3665412 3665415 3665418 3665421 3665424 3665427 3665502 3665505 3665508 3665511 3665514 3665517 3665520 3665523 3665526 3665529 3665532 3665535 3665538 3665541 3665544 3665547 3665550 3665553 3665556 3665559 3665562 3665565 3665568 3665571 3665574 3665577 3665652 3665655 3665658 3665661 3665667 3665670 3665676 3665682 3665688 3665694 3665700 3665703 3665709 3665715 3665721 3665727 3665730 3665736 3665742 3665748 3665754 3665757 3665763 3665769 3665775 3665778 3665913 3665919 3665925 3665931 3665937 3665940 3665946 3665952 3665958 3665964 3665970 3665976 3665982 3665988 3665994 3666000 3666006 3666012 3666018 3666024 3666030 3666036 3666042 3666048 3666054 3666060 3667452 3667464 3667473 3667482 3667491 3667500 3667692 3667698 3667704 3667710 3667713 3667719 3667878 3667884 3667890 3667896 3667899 3667902 3667995 3668004 3668013 3668022 3668028 3668031 3636000 3636015 3636024 3636036 3636042 3636054 3636063 3635985

Hello everyone! It is the day before our Status Report, and that means it's time for the Community Spotlight! We released a Stress Test last week and you clearly had some fun with it over the weekend. We didn't announce officially that you can find the first iteration of base building on the servers, because we didn't think it is ready (and no, it isn'''t). But some of you discovered it really quickly and tried their first creations. A small base concept in the offline editor by Lijazos: Another one by CryDoXz, including a time-lapse video: And the last one made by JeckRush: It is really nice to see you had a fun on the Stress Test, even though it is very much WIP. TheRealCDiggity has shared a deep truth with the community. He added a comment to this nice picture: Had a great time with these guys before we were brutally attacked by a barbaric madman, they taught me a valuable lesson, that making friends is a lot more fun than attacking randoms with knives and eating them. Don't forget, an empty stomach is not a good political adviser. What is better than calm evening on your farm? mov3ax is really enjoying the rest. And I don't want to force my opinion on you, but even in DayZ is the Earth round. mov3ax has a proof! We have another amazing screenshot-guy here. His nickname is DanceOfYesus and his pictures are breathtaking. Just sit down and enjoy the view. The whole gallery is here: winterfellwilliam and his friend Sparky organised a fight club in Kamyshovo. I have no idea who won, but all participants are on this photo. This video is really weird. It scares me a little bit. Who the hell is the Mr. White?! We've met members of the famous DayZ Underground community on Gamescom this year and they made a nice video from our meeting. Here is it: TheRunningManZ met a very talkative player and it drove him crazy. Really funny story. I love this video. Cool song, dope video, good work HandZ! A new episode of the DayZ community podcast named Compass: Let's talk about your modding and game modifications. Server HeadhunterZ built a road to the Prison island, no more wet clothes and hypotermia. Dr. Zed is working on infested zones, looks cool, man! Vojtěch Matouš is working on a new weapons. Check out his work down below. I was already talking about our music composer L_K_P1 and I want to talk about him more. He send us a message that DayZ is for him not just a game, but also inspiration, it helps to trick his brain to forgetting his pain, because he had a spinal chord problem and he needs to stay in bed for 22 hours per day. His latest song has a cool video clip, you should check it out! Turambar44 is enjoying his peaches when exploring the real life Chernarus. DayZ in DayZ - is this a DayZception? Another interesting content made by NeuroticEUROtic on Reddit. Lets check out your answers to the last location riddle. Correct answers: S-BOY Tweedy Foxypote And the next one is really hard: Send your answer to our Twitter account with the #DayZriddleTime hashtag and you can find your name here next time! Thank you for your attention and see you in two weeks! - Baty Alquawen/Community Manager Header image by JACK SMITH.