[Discovery] Schadenfreude Island

[Weyland Yutani (DayZ) 1159]

Location: South Eastern Ocean

Coordinates: N/A

Build: Stable 0.46.124490

 

First and foremost, our research teams were not the first to discover Schadenfreude Island. Nobody truly knows who discovered this island. The earliest known film of it that I know of comes from DayZ Mod via NinjaJake44.

 

What we do know is a forum poster named Gews was the first one to make the swim [possibly the 1st one to swim to it historically] in DayZ Standalone and stakes his claim in the name of Canada.

 

According the Gews calculations, the island is 11 kilometers at 106° from the southeastern point of Skalisty Island. His time was 2 hours and 8 minutes. Our time was 1 hour and 55 minutes. I honestly think it comes down to FPS and connection to the server.

 

Gews Journey to Schadenfreude Island:

http://tinyurl.com/pqjcxwo

 

Earliest known footage from DayZ Mod:

http://tinyurl.com/m4bscp4

 

Thanks for watching!

 

http://youtu.be/uXycodVbUxw

Edited July 22, 2014 by Weyland Yutani

[-Gews- 7443]

Nice video, this journey is quite fun in its own strange way.
 

What we do know is a forum poster named Gews was the first one to make the swim [possibly the 1st one to swim to it historically] in DayZ Standalone and stakes his claim in the name of Canada.

Shall we say first documented successful expedition? ;) I Columbused it.

Reddit's /u/MadRefsa and some friends of his were teleported into the ocean and thus came across the island a few months before. Unfortunately they all died. Others have claimed to have been there as well.

[Weyland Yutani (DayZ) 1159]

Nice video, this journey is quite fun in its own strange way.

 

Shall we say first documented successful expedition? ;) I Columbused it.

Reddit's /u/MadRefsa and some friends of his were teleported into the ocean and thus came across the island a few months before. Unfortunately they all died. Others have claimed to have been there as well.

Haha, awesome post man and thanks for the compliment! Additional thanks for the detail as well as answering all of my other questions. I really do appreciate it!

Edited July 22, 2014 by Weyland Yutani

[Yano (DayZ) 102]

_{Exploring is alot of fun , i have found one place in the far northeast , if you follow the coast off the known map , youll come to a large unfinished bay , with the ocean sliced off like it was cut with a knife , just the waves around the shore and what looks like a large hole through the bottom of the map ,,, really cool to find stuff still being dev'd  :)  If computers werent slightly above a "magic box" to me , id post a screen shot i took , but alas i have no idea how to put up a url up or link a photo to one lol}

[Weyland Yutani (DayZ) 1159]

_{Exploring is alot of fun , i have found one place in the far northeast , if you follow the coast off the known map , youll come to a large unfinished bay , with the ocean sliced off like it was cut with a knife , just the waves around the shore and what looks like a large hole through the bottom of the map ,,, really cool to find stuff still being dev'd  :)  If computers werent slightly above a "magic box" to me , id post a screen shot i took , but alas i have no idea how to put up a url up or link a photo to one lol}

I think this is the place your talking about right?

 

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/182249-discovery-source-of-infection/

[Tatanko 5591]

 

According the Gews calculations, the island is 11 kilometers at 106° from the southeastern point of Skalisty Island. His time was 2 hours and 8 minutes. Our time was 1 hour and 55 minutes. I honestly think it comes down to FPS and connection to the server.

It took me 1 hour, 52 minutes. I would say I was able to spot the island in the distance after about 1 hour, 15 minutes of travel.

 

Shall we say first documented successful expedition? ;) I Columbused it.

Reddit's /u/MadRefsa and some friends of his were teleported into the ocean and thus came across the island a few months before. Unfortunately they all died. Others have claimed to have been there as well.

I guess that makes me second! :p

 

I don't count their discovery as anything but an accident. So really, they "Columbus"-ed it. You were the first person to go there on purpose and actually return, which is a bigger accomplishment in my book because it required a lot of planning and research.

[Yano (DayZ) 102]

I think this is the place your talking about right?

 

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/182249-discovery-source-of-infection/

 

Yes indeed it is ! ive got 2 screenshots of it , but i have no clue how to post them

[Yano (DayZ) 102]

That video is fantastic man , nice work

[Weyland Yutani (DayZ) 1159]

Yes indeed it is ! ive got 2 screenshots of it , but i have no clue how to post them

I you ever need to post some pics in the future, you need to use a hosting site like tinypic.

 

That video is fantastic man , nice work

Thanks man, I appreciate the kind words.

[Coday 248]

english: schadenfreude - german:Schadenfreude , that's awesome. Some weeks ago, I aksed my english teacher :"what means schadenfreude in english ?". Thus I found out that it is the same. Like kindergarden and I think that yióu also say gesundheit when someone sneeze, is that right ?

[Coday 248]

to your video:

Yeah it is quite funny to bring someone there. I also have done  that with my group about a year ago, but we flew back and picked him up again ! But if you emphasize with that guy on the island, it is not amusing.

[Tatanko 5591]

english: schadenfreude - german:Schadenfreude , that's awesome. Some weeks ago, I aksed my english teacher :"what means schadenfreude in english ?". Thus I found out that it is the same. Like kindergarden and I think that yióu also say gesundheit when someone sneeze, is that right ?

It isn't so much that it's the same word in English, it's more that we simply don't have a word for it. We simply borrowed the word (and really, the concept) of schadenfreude from German. I believe "kindergarten" is a term borrowed by many languages due to its creation by a German. I want to say the American use of "gesundheit" is a carry-over from Dutch and German settlers, but I could be wrong about that since it seems to be used elsewhere as well.