Any of you guys wonder what time period dayz is in.

[MaxTheSurvivor 152]

Hard to say, the AK101 is produced since 1995 yet you have some old style Traban like cars. I've seen computers in homes that have CRT monitors so it's probably between 1995 and 2000.

[Steak and Potatoes 13480]

Some time after 2009. Possibly present day or very near future.

 

The Arma 2 campaign takes place in 2009, which forms part of the DayZ backstory. There are old vehicles because Chernarus is a post-Soviet backwater.

 

Correct lore wise ARMA 2's single-player campaign takes place in late 2009, in the province of South Zagoria in the north-eastern region of the fictional post-Soviet state of Chernarus, as well as the remote Chernarussian island of Útes.

 

For more story line-

 

 

Chernarus is in a state of political unrest, with its democratic government trying to keep from being overthrown by pro-communist rebels. Among the most powerful of these rebels is a group calling themselves the "Chernarussian Movement of the Red Star" (Chernarusskiy Dvizheniye Krasnoy Zvezdy), abbreviated as ChDKZ. Referred to by the locals as the "Chedakis", the ChDKZ are led by communist revolutionary, Gregori "Akula" (English: Shark) Lopotev. After many months of civil war, the ChDKZ fails to overthrow the current government and establish the Socialist Republic of Chernarus.^{[clarification needed]} The Chernarussian government asks the international community for assistance in defeating the rebels, and the United States responded by sending a U.S. Navy Expeditionary Strike Group off the coast of Chernarus, hoping that a presence of an Amphibious Ready Group with hundreds of U.S. Marines stationed on board would calm any tensions in the area. However, the ChDKZ remains undeterred, and by late 2009 the ChDKZ launch a coup d'état against the Chernarussian government, taking control of the northeastern Chernarussian province of South Zagoria. This caused the remaining Chernarussian military forces in the area to retreat towards the coastal town of Zelenogorsk.

On 21 September 2009, as a part of their coup, the ChDKZ invade the island of Útes (home to a Chernarussian military training base). Overwhelmed, the remaining Chernarussian military forces in the area regrouped at a church in the Útes village of Strelka in an attempt to fight off the tenacious ChDKZ attack. Ultimately, the Chernarussian military forces on the island were overwhelmed by the massive onslaught, and the island fell to the ChDKZ. As a result, U.S. Marines, operating nearby from the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, USS Khe Sanh (LHD-9), launched an amphibious invasion of Útes to liberate the island from the ChDKZ forces. Soon after the U.S. Marines landed on the island, the ChDKZ were routed, and Útes was liberated.

A few days after the liberation of Útes, U.S. Marines on board the USS Khe Sanh (LHD-9) prepared to deploy to mainland Chernarus in support of Operation Harvest Red, whose purpose is to bring an end to the civil war in Chernarus and re-establish Chernarussian sovereignty. Officially, the U.S. Marines are deploying to Chernarus as a peacekeeping force. In reality, they are there to capture ChDKZ leader "Akula", and to help defeat the ChDKZ once and for all.

Characters[edit]

• Master Sergeant Patrick "Eightball" Miles – He is the leader of Razor team and his father is a Californian politician and lawyer.^{[N 2]}
• Master Sergeant Matt "Coops" Cooper – The player character throughout the single-player campaign. He is a college-educated senior NCO from New York, who dropped out of college to pursue a career in the military; he serves as Razor Team's second-in-command out in the field.
• Sergeant Chad "Robo" Rodriguez – An orphan with a delinquent childhood, serves as Razor Team's heavy gunner.
• Staff Sergeant Randy "Ice Cold" Sykes – He comes from Texas and serves as Razor Team's designated marksman.
• Staff Sergeant Brian "Scarlet" O'Hara – He is from San Francisco, California. Formerly served as a U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman in the U.S. Marine Corps; he serves as Razor Team's battlefield medic.
• Captain Shaftoe – The Force Recon Company's commanding officer. Razor Team which ultimately reports to him.
• Captain Carl Dressler, MCIA – He assists Shaftoe.
• Lieutenant Tomas Marny – A CDF soldier who assists Shaftoe.^[8]

Plot[edit]

In preparation for Operation Harvest Red, elements of the U.S. Marine Corps' Force Recon are deployed behind enemy lines into Chernarus, to weaken ChDKZ coastal defenses for the invading Marine Expeditionary Unit. Among the Force Reconnaissance Marines is Razor Team, a five-man special operations team, consisting of the main character, Master Sergeant Matthew "Coops" Cooper, Razor Team's second-in-command, and the team's leader, Master Sergeant Patrick "Eightball" Miles.

Razor Team's mission is to conduct a raid on the small Chernarussian town of Pusta, to disrupt ChDKZ communications in preparation for the invading Marine Expeditionary Unit.^[9] During Razor Team's raid on Pusta, the team rescues a couple of torture victims, and subsequently uncovers a mass grave, revealing that the ChDKZ have been conducting acts of genocide and are guilty of war crimes in South Zagoria. After the raid on Pusta, Razor Team is tasked with helping to unite the Chernarussian military (CDF) with National Party (NAPA) guerillas, who are led by a man named Prizrak. Originally hostile to each other at the beginning, their subsequent cooperation will help restore peace to Chernarus.

As the civil war in Chernarus rages on, a terrorist bombing occurs in the middle of Red Square, in Moscow, Russia, killing dozens and wounding hundreds more. The ChDKZ blames this attack on the National Party, which causes the Russian Federation, already wary of the presence of U.S. forces operating near its border, to demand the unconditional withdrawal of U.S. forces from Chernarus. The Russian Federation proposes to the United Nations Security Council that the United States withdraw its forces from Chernarus, whom the Russians see as escalating the conflict. The United States' mandate in Chernarus expires, and U.S. forces are quickly withdrawn from the country. Shortly after the U.S. withdrawal, the Russian Federation sends a United Nations-backed peacekeeping contingent into South Zagoria, to replace the U.S. forces. However, in the confusion, Razor Team is left behind as the rest of the U.S. forces withdraw from the country, leaving them in Chernarus. Later, it is revealed that the terrorist bombing of Red Square was in fact a false flag attack committed by the ChDKZ to paint the National Party as terrorists. Razor Team is now tasked with finding evidence which will prove the ChDKZ's involvement in the bombing of Red Square, and the National Party's innocence.

Endings[edit]

ARMA 2's campaign has several different endings, which are dependent upon a number of different factors; whether or not Razor Team eliminates Prizrak, who is opposing the alliance between the Chernarussian government and the National Party, and the arrest of Gregori "Akula" Lopotev. The campaign's endings range from victory for the player, or to defeat, with the elimination of Razor Team by the victorious ChDKZ.^[10]

• "Revelation": A NAPA member calling himself Yuri Olegich asks for a meeting with Razor Team and they agree to meet with him near the Russia-Chernarus border. Meanwhile, Russian peacekeepers, who are under heavy attack, retreat back across the northern border and into Russia. At the meeting, Razor Team is informed that the entire Chernarussian civil war was orchestrated by a select few in the Russian government were collaborating with the ChDKZ; deceiving their own country. Suddenly, a tactical nuke detonates nearby; killing Razor Team along with anyone else who was present at the meeting. It is revealed that the nuke had been detonated by the Russian military in response to a perceived invasion from Chernarus. In the conflict that soon followed, the evidence of the Russian-ChDKZ conspiracy was destroyed by the conspirators. Razor Team was declared missing in action, and their true fate was never revealed.

• "Missing in Action": Under heavy fire and on the run for their lives, Razor Team makes it to an extraction point located at an abandoned church, but are quickly encircled by Lopotev and his band of ChDKZ insurgents. Razor Team, wanting revenge for Miles' death, attempts to fight them off, but they are swiftly killed. After Razor Team's death, there is nothing left to stop the ChDKZ offensive and Chernarussian forces withdrew from South Zagoria. The next year, in 2010, the civil war was over with a total ChDKZ victory, and in the summer of 2010, Lopotev installed himself as the dictator of not only South Zagoria, but all of Chernarus. Chernarus was now under the rule of a totalitarian regime and its populace had little hope for the future. In 2014, four years after the ChDKZ victory in the civil war, Lopotev was killed by an unknown assassin at his summer villa in Chernogorsk. However, his death has no effect on conditions inside Chernarus. The involvement of Force Reconnaissance Marines in Operation Harvest Red post-U.S. withdrawal remained denied by the U.S. government. Razor Team was retroactively declared missing in action at the very moment U.S. forces withdrew from Chernarus, and their true fate was never revealed.

• "Setting Sail": Despite the pro-ChDKZ Russian peacekeeping contingent withdrawing from Chernarus, Razor Team fails to help the Chernarussians recapture South Zagoria from ChDKZ clutches. Barely escaping with their lives, Razor Team and a small group of surviving Chernarussian soldiers plan to escape South Zagoria via truck, by driving west and into safer central Chernarus, when the route they've planned to take is blocked off by ChDKZ forces. They come up with a different plan, diverting onto a different road with a plan to escape the country via boat. Under heavy fire, Razor Team makes it to a boat in a harbor on the Chernarussian coast and escapes the country; they have failed their mission completely. Chernarussian forces suffered a terrible defeat during the civil war and were pushed back into the southwest, out of South Zagoria. South Zagoria suffered for a year under harsh ChDKZ rule. However, Chernarussian forces eventually recaptured the province in 2011, in a bloody and violent epilogue to the Chernarussian civil war. An international United Nations peacekeeping contingent, composed mostly of Russian and European forces, was deployed into Chernarus, in an effort to help stabilize the country. The Russian government suffers a minor crisis in 2009, when several high-ranking Russian officials were charged with treason and sentenced to death for their role in the Chernarussian conflict. General Shagarov of the Russian Ground Forces was awarded the Order of Saint Andrew for his role in uncovering the origins of the Russian-ChDKZ conspiracy and capturing Gregori "Akula" Lopotev; he would die in a car accident in 2012. Razor Team successfully escaped South Zagoria and their involvement in the Chernarussian civil war post-U.S. withdrawal became a well-kept secret. None of them would ever set foot on Chernarussian soil again.

• "The War That Never Was": After helping the Chenarussians take back South Zagoria from the hands of the ChDKZ, Razor Team captures Lopotev at a hideout on a remote island off the Chernarussian coast. They are then ordered by their commanders to transfer him into Russian custody via General Shagarov of the Russian Ground Forces, an order that Razor Team resents due to the strong possibility of a ChDKZ-Russian conspiracy. However, they end up heeding the order anyway. The prison transfer is ambushed by a rogue element of the Russian Spetsnaz GRU. Shagarov is able to get away with Lopotev while Razor Team fights back and kills all of the ambushers, identifying one of them as "Karelin", a rogue Spetsnaz soldiers that was responsible for several war crimes, atrocities, and the deaths of several U.S. Marines, including that of Ian Simmons, one of Razor Team's colleagues who helped free them when they were captured by the ChDKZ earlier in the campaign. Despite Lopotev escaping, the ChDKZ is essentially defeated, with the Chernarussians tracking down the stragglers. Chernarus eventually becomes a powerful, free, and stable democracy, even sending their armed forces on United Nations peacekeeping missions into neighboring Takistan a few years later, in 2012. Razor Team's mission in Chernarus is considered successfully accomplished and they are extracted from the country via a MH-60S Knighthawk helicopter and to the USS Khe Sanh (LHD-9), which is awaiting their return off the coast of Útes island. After arriving on board, Razor Team is greeted to a hero's welcome and a steel beach picnic celebration held by the USS Khe Sanh '​s sailors and Marines. General Armstrong, the commander of the local USMC MEF contingent, congratulates Razor Team on a job well done and reminds them that their valiant achievements will be classified as top secret, thus remaining unknown to the general public for years to come. The CDF and NAPA announce their new joint partnership, Russian peacekeeping forces are withdrawn from Chernarus, and several years later, Lopotev is killed by an unknown assassin outside his summer villa in Chernogorsk in 2014. After the end of Operation Harvest Red, Rodriguez is killed during Operation Fiery Mountain in Zargabad, Takistan in October 2010, and his heroics during the Takistani conflict become legendary throughout the U.S. Marine Corps. With six years of service to his name in the 27th MEU, O'Hara is discharged from the U.S. Marine Corps several years later and returns to his native San Francisco, becoming a doctor of medicine. Sykes is severely wounded during Operation Fiery Mountain in Zargabad, Takistan in October 2010, but makes a full recovery, becoming an instructor at the Marine Special Operations School at MCB Camp Lejeune North Carolina; putting his wartime experience to use in training his fellow Marines. Cooper is put in charge of Razor Team and retires from the U.S. Marine Corps after a deployment in Takistan. After his retirement, Cooper becomes a security consultant for various government agencies and travels to Chernarus regularly.

• Hidden ending: A hidden ending occurs early on in the campaign; Razor Team raids a warehouse, capturing Lopotev and several of his associates. Razor Team is then tasked to transport their newly captured prisoners via truck, when they are ambushed and captured by ChDKZ insurgents, after Nikola Nikitin, a CDF officer and secret ChDKZ mole, betrays Razor Team. Miles is summarily executed by Lopotev, and although Razor Team is rescued by Force Recon Marines shortly thereafter, it is too late to save Miles' life. Razor Team's commanding officer, Captain Shaftoe, feels sympathy for his men and offers to end their mission, sending Razor Team to Germany for liberty. Razor Team reluctantly obliges, boarding a C-130 transport out of the country later that evening. Several months later, the former members of Razor Team reunite at a diner, where they express their disappointment at ending their mission early, which left Chernarus abandoned by the international community and in complete shambles. The team discusses a possible conflict emerging in Takistan, and Cooper walks off in disgust.

 

Regards,

 

Steak.

[GOD™ 2795]

I like to think the DayZ timeline started when the mod first went live in 2012.

 

So we're two years and ten months into the DayZ apocalypse and in that time the infection spread to places near and far (look to the mods additional maps for reference).

Edited October 25, 2014 by GOD™

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

I'd have to agree its either present day or very near future (like 2015-16 near future)

[Deathlove 2280]

When playing dayz, I always saw classic cars classic weapons and other old stuff. This let me to wonder what time period the apocolypse is in. My guess 1982-1999. Now I posted this as a GENERAL DISCUSION its not an idea or suggestion just a little thing I would like to ask.... What do YOU think

This explains EVERYTHING.

 

[svisketyggeren 662]

Im gonna say the same as everyone else say in their posts...because its cool to post posts..it happends in 2009 in arma 2 release backstory of the horney...Arma pew pew die military

Edited October 25, 2014 by svisketyggeren

[klesh 2423]

Like I stated the last time we had this thread, the epipen ingame has an expiration date of 2015 right on the label.

 

The expiration period for EpiPen® auto injector is 18 months from the date of manufacture.

Edited October 25, 2014 by klesh

[Whyherro123 2283]

Like I stated the last time we had this thread, the epipen ingame has an expiration date of 2015 right on the label.

 

The expiration period for EpiPen® auto injector is 18 months from the date of manufacture.

Now that's using your brain, kids!

[Mor (DayZ) 57]

Correct lore wise ARMA 2's single-player campaign takes place in late 2009, in the province of South Zagoria in the north-eastern region of the fictional post-Soviet state of Chernarus, as well as the remote Chernarussian island of Útes.

 

For more story line-

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Make sense, but has this has been confirmed for DayZ SA? it possible that they would make some adjustments or rewrites to fit dayz better.

 

Like I stated the last time we had this thread, the epipen ingame has an expiration date of 2015 right on the label.

 

The expiration period for EpiPen® auto injector is 18 months from the date of manufacture.

Which could be an indication that: lore wise the infection outbreak in Chernarus(Day Zero) is set to after 2012, or simply that unlike the Standalone, the MOD assets came from 'ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead', which took place in 2012, Takistan. Edited October 25, 2014 by Mor

[svisketyggeren 662]

For me its not important what timeperiode Dayz takes place...because Dayz takes place...in my heart. And I want u guys to say that with me...like u mean it

[klesh 2423]

Which could be an indication that: lore wise the infection outbreak in Chernarus(Day Zero) is set to after 2012, or simply that unlike the Standalone, the MOD assets came from 'ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead', which took place in 2012, Takistan.

 

 

The old epipen in the SA was from the mod. It had no expiration date that was readable and looked like this:

 

 

The new one with the exp date was added with .48 and look like this:

 

Now, I'm saying that the fact that epipens are still usable means it isn't 2015.  I have no idea what the effects of an expired epipen would be, but since they work fine in game I'll presume they are not past expiration. That should mean the game takes place up to 18 months, or 1.5 years before 2015; from July 2013 to December 2014

[GOD™ 2795]

We need some base lore and timeline from the devs dammit.

 

 

EDIT: i can make my own lore, but a timeline at least damn you.

 

Fixed my words...

 

EDIT: Turns out there's already an older thread bout this sooo... Screw this.

Edited October 25, 2014 by GOD™

[svisketyggeren 662]

Im slowly warming up....nop wait im cooling down

[Deathlove 2280]

Im slowly warming up....nop wait im cooling down

"Your feet hurt"

 

"You are dead"

 

XD

[Rags! 1966]

I've found a copy of Shakespeare's "Othello" in the game, which confirms that the game takes place after the year 1603.

[svisketyggeren 662]

I've found a copy of Shakespeare's "Othello" in the game, which confirms that the game takes place after the year 1603.

right that does it, we done here...move on

[Steak and Potatoes 13480]

When playing dayz, I always saw classic cars classic weapons and other old stuff. This let me to wonder what time period the apocolypse is in. My guess 1982-1999. Now I posted this as a GENERAL DISCUSION its not an idea or suggestion just a little thing I would like to ask.... What do YOU think

 

Merged, Carry on.

[slippery gypsy 107]

Not one modern car though, in all of Cherno, except the HMMWV.  No rich guys in Cherno I guess.

so not true  a guy in ghille suit picked me up in his black escalade outside elektro once 

[Mor (DayZ) 57]

This is probably the closest we'll get to a 'cannon' answer.  DayZ takes place in a branching timeline after the Events of Arma2, possibly even indirectly caused by the events in Arma2.

Indeed. I am sure that eventually we will get the lore tidbits, but as a general rule it wont happen before release.

EDIT:

Now, I'm saying that the fact that epipens are still usable means it isn't 2015.  I have no idea what the effects of an expired epipen would be, but since they work fine in game I'll presume they are not past expiration. That should mean the game takes place up to 18 months, or 1.5 years before 2015; from July 2013 to December 2014

Nice find. It would be nice if it is an intended detail (as oppose to easily attainable texture). Edited October 26, 2014 by Mor

[Deathlove 2280]

I can just imagine a cave man waking up in this games time period after a long Ripvan Winkle kind of slumber and going "AW HELL NO!" *Smashes himself over the head with his club to go back to sleep* XD

[a_ruttle 199]

Arma 2 campaign was like 2008 or something, So I'm going to go ahead and say Dayz is like 2012ish

[killerbyte12 29]

-_- Chernarus is not located in Russia

 

Somebody slap this man silly.....

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

Somebody slap this man silly.....

Technically speaking its not.  Otherwise it'd be called Russia and not Chernarus, the local soldiers would have Russian flag patches instead of Chernaruan flags, and it wouldn't be bordering Russia and takistan, it'd just be bordering takistan.

[killerbyte12 29]

It clearly states that Chernarus is in mother Russia..

[Mor (DayZ) 57]

It clearly states that Chernarus is in mother Russia..

Actually DayZ is set in Chernarus, a fictional country from ARMA2. Where it is clearly stated that this is a post-soviet country, that gained independence in 1991 (e.g. like Ukraine)

And while mother Russia in its delusions of grandre might mistakenly think that Chernarus is still part of it. I think that arm it might have some more pressing matters to deal with, you know like a zombie apocalypse..

Edited October 26, 2014 by Mor