Lore?

[trankin 59]

Hey as most of you know im newish to the game trying to be active on forums. I was looking through some posts and was wondering if there was any lore or back story to DayZ?  Like how did this happen was it a virus, nuclear , a accident ? Just curious figured it would make playing the game more interesting.

[SmashT 10907]

Rockets brother (one of NewZealand's leading virologists) prepared a huge design document to explain the virus and make it plausible, I think they looked at toxoplasmosis among other things. It's never been made public but would be pretty cool to find in-game some clues regarding this. I think they primarily want player driven stories, experiences etc to create their own lore though like we saw in DayZ Mod with Dr.Wastland, Black Widow, Green Mountain, mountain dew curse etc.

[trankin 59]

Rockets brother (one of NewZealand's leading virologists) prepared a huge design document to explain the virus and make it plausible, I think they looked at toxoplasmosis among other things. It's never been made public but would be pretty cool to find in-game some clues regarding this. I think they primarily want player driven stories, experiences etc to create their own lore like we saw in DayZ Mod with Dr.Wastland, Black Widow, Green Mountain, mountain dew curse etc.

well as cool as making our own story line is cool it would still be nice to have a accurate base story line and we could just make the side storys. I wish someone would make a dayz comic or something like that. I would but im no artist. but like you were saying about the clues it would be cool if they put laboratorys in game and we could search them and find books that have notes in them about experiments and what not. or hell there is a huge crater somewhere that I passed maybe it could be micro bacteria from outerspace that seduces its hosts to do its bidding. that's why I love zombies the possibilities are endless. just need the imagination because really anything is possible in this world we live. since we added zombies to it.

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

The Devs want us to pretty much make our own lore, though they did sort of set down the basics.  The zombies are living humans who were infected with some virus (my personal guess is some mutated form of Rabies that went airborne and loss the 'expiration date' that normal rabies has.).  I forget the exact number but something like 86% of the worlds population is dead, the remaining 98% of humans are infected with the virus.  That remaining 2% are immune to the virus so there's no risk of getting that particular infection.  All players are in that 2% (so at least in Vanilla Dayz there won't be any immune NPCs walking around).  That's the 'lore' so far for DayZ.

 

Chenarus has it's own lore as well, more fleshed out by Arma 2.  Though it's been said that DayZ takes place in it's own little alternate timeline/universe, and that the Outbreak took place either during or shortly after the conflict in Arma2, which helps to explain why there's NATO/US weapons in a Post Soviet Backwater.

 

EDIT: Replaced with 'proper' numbers.

Edited August 23, 2014 by BigMike

[BeefBacon 1185]

 

 

Chenarus has it's own lore as well, more fleshed out by Arma 2.  Though it's been said that DayZ takes place in it's own little alternate timeline/universe, and that the Outbreak took place either during or shortly after the conflict in Arma2, which helps to explain why there's NATO/US weapons in a Post Soviet Backwater.

 

I think the official stance is that DayZ takes place a couple of years following the events of Arma 2. I think you're right that the timeline diverges, though, else Arma 3 would be a zombie fest.

 

Lore isn't really too important here anyway. All you need to know is that a virus has turned much of the human population into zombies, and that a tiny fraction of people (the players) are immune. Chernarus, while now a wasteland, once had a US/UN presence which is why there is NATO weapons and equipment.

 

As others have said, it's up to the players to provide a story. The devs only provide a very basic template for us to build on. Maybe they'll expand on it in the future.

[fluxley 2228]

This is pretty much all we have in terms of lore,

 

Its an unused intro from the dayz mod, could be outdated since Rocket had his brother go more in depth once the standalone was announced but its all we have.

 

DEAN HALL PRESENTS

 

A USECFORCE PRODUCTION

 

On 12 March 2013, a prion disease and spreads among the worlds population triggering a global pandemic

The disease causes proteins in the brain to be replaced with prions ceasing regular function

Most people progress to dementia and then death as the brain is replaced with ineffective sludge

86% of the worlds population die

Some survive with the disease in a chronic state. 

Lacking regular brain function, they are scarely human. They are unable to communicate, 

driven by insatiable desire for violence, and attracted to the scent of those uninfected

Society crumbles as the pandemic spreads rapidly

You are one of the 2% who are not infected yet

 

THIS IS YOUR STORY

[General Zod 1118]

Some in game documents that you can find or voice logs made by doctors found in hospitals. All related to the disease itself and how things went from bad to worse.

[Mullraugh 1151]

I made this post a little bit ago and kind of forgot about it, but it would be beneficial if it was revived...

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/206899-community-based-chernarus-history/