. Windows. December 13, 2018. Xbox One. March 27, 2019.

PlayStation 4. May 29, 2019,Mode(s)DayZ is a developed and published. It is the standalone successor of the of.

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Following a five-year long period for Windows, the game was officially released in December 2018, and was released for the and in 2019.The game places the player in the fictional of Chernarus, where a mysterious plague has turned most of the population into violent 'infected'. As a survivor, the player must scavenge the world for food, water, weapons, and medicine, while killing or avoiding the infected, and killing, avoiding, or cooperating with other players in an effort to survive the.DayZ began development in 2012 when the mod's creator, joined Bohemia Interactive to commence work on the standalone version of the game. The development has been focused on altering the engine to suit the game's needs, developing a working, and introducing new features like diseases and a better inventory system.

The game sold over three million copies during its early access phase. Contents.Gameplay The goal of DayZ is to stay alive and healthy during the conditions of the that have befallen the in-game world. The player begins equipped with only simple clothes, a road flare and a rag, and must begin exploring the large 225 km 2 landscape of the fictional former Soviet Republic of Chernarus to investigate locations such as houses, barns, and apartments to scavenge supplies. These supplies include food and water, which are basic keys to prolonging the player's life. Beyond the basics of survival, players can find various forms of clothing, which not only allow them to customize their charactes, but can bring the benefit of extra storage space for supplies and warmth.

Also scattered around the map are a variety of weapons, allowing players to protect themselves from and other players, if necessary. These are largely focused on a range of, but a small number of firearms are present, as well as various attachments such as bipods. Player interaction is a major part of DayZ gameplay. The game provides in-game voice chat which allows players to communicate with each other within a certain distance. Text chat is also provided.

DayZ also provides in-game actions such as the ability to wave to other players and allowing players to put their hands up in order to show that they surrender.While travelling around the game, players can also find various medical supplies as the environment poses a range of threats to their characters. Planned features include diseases such as, and, which can be caught by ingesting dirty water or rotten food and must be cured with the appropriate medicines. If a player is shot or otherwise hurt, items on their person may be damaged. The player may also start bleeding and must be bandaged quickly to minimize blood loss; excessive damage or blood loss will result in serious deterioration of vision for the player and can render them unconscious. The game also includes hundreds of books throughout the map for players to read, including titles such as and.Planned features of the game include being able to build bases in the world in which players can keep their items safe, with the possibility of and programmable computers having been considered.

The standalone game will build on the text and close range voice chat of the mod version by including a new whisper channel, which will allow players to communicate over a very short distance without players nearby hearing, as well as radios (based off the 'ACRE' mod for ), which will allow longer range communication, including the possibility of encrypted two-way radios and player-run. A number of features which have been added to the release are hunting animals and cooking.Development. This section needs to be updated. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. ( December 2018)Following the huge successes of the, announced in August 2012, via a new development, that DayZ would begin development as a standalone game with himself as project lead, in conjunction with Bohemia Interactive. He said that the game needed to be released before the end of the year 'in order to achieve what we have to do', also stating that he wanted an initial release around November 2012.

The game will be running on a branch of the engine (part of the ), and the main areas of developmental focus were to be 'critical issues', such as bug fixing, and security. 'I hope I implement a lot of bad ideas. So that then, we know they are bad. Then we can remove them and move on. If we stick to safe ideas, this isn't going to become a great game over the next few months – it will just be a cool idea and I'll try and spend the next ten years going around conventions talking about how cool it was. I'd rather follow all the dead ends so I know what works and what doesn't.'

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—Dean Hall, lead designer of DayZOne of the developmental focuses was making the world feel more realistic by increasing the number of enterable buildings. Hall stated that he hopes to implement bad ideas into the game, in order to find what players enjoy, rather than taking no risks at all. The game will be based on a, similar to that used in many where functions such as item and spawning are decided on the server rather than on the player's machine (the ARMA 2 architecture had a large proportion of these tasks performed on the client). The main aims of this change are to reduce the number of hacks and available, and to remove any unnecessary functions of the previous engine (such as ). It was announced in November that the game would be released via software, allowing use of the Steam and patching functionality.Following the troubled release of similar game, Hall stated in a post on that the 'whole 'saga' of the development made me seriously question if I wanted to be involved in the industry' and that he had considered leaving the DayZ standalone project.

The game missed its original 2012 release date, with a development update coming in January 2013 saying that the game was not yet released because the developers 'had the chance to go from making a game that was just the mod improved slightly. To actually redeveloping the engine and making the game the way we all dreamed it could be.'

The release date was rescheduled and an internal closed test began on the game, with it being announced that public testing would not be taking place until the server architecture was finalized. Development screenshot showing items (axes and cans of beans), in locations the player would expect to find them inside an abandoned building.In June 2013, Hall commented that the alpha release of the game would be a 'very bare-bones' alpha in which the development team want a relatively low number of players providing and feedback. The secondary aim of the initial alpha release is to keep the project funded for further development until the full release.

Hall has stated that he expects the beta release to be at least a year after that of the alpha. The last tasks prior to the alpha release were network optimizations, referred to as a 'network bubble', which would reduce network load on the player by only loading events which occur within their vicinity.

In October, Hall stated that the development team was on the final lap of development and that the team was '100 percent focused on getting the alpha out the door.' After release the developers are focusing on server performance and stability, adding extra features such as animals and vehicles, and improving the controls and animations, among other things.Throughout the game's development Hall has posted development blogs, attended video game conventions, and uploaded gameplay videos, keeping the community up to date with the development progress. The second development video showed the animation team in a session recording new animations, as well as some interviews with the development team and the third contained a large amount of in-game footage, showing new clothing items and a new area of the map.Hall said that a release of DayZ is 'almost certain' and that he had been in talks with both and about and versions. He commented that he was happy for DayZ to be released on any console that is 'indie-friendly,' but that he was put off by Microsoft's ban on and their history of charging money for though the development team was not counting the Xbox One out. The development team will not be considering the console version further until the game has been released fully on PC.In March 2014, Dean Hall revealed that Bohemia Interactive had purchased a new development team, whose 25 developers would be added to the DayZ development team. At Gamescom 2014, DayZ was confirmed for the PS4 console with a release date to be determined.

During, the version of the game was announced. Support, which grants players access to host servers, and a single-player mode of the game was also announced and will be added to the game in the future. Release The first publicly available development build was released on December 16, 2013 during the alpha development stage through 's Early Access program at a cheaper price than when it is finally released.

The price will increase as development continues until reaching the full release price. This alpha release is an early access build with a large amount of the features still in progress and the development team is targeting the release at an audience who want to be involved in what Hall called a 'very barebones experience that is a platform for future development.'

At 2018, it was revealed that game would be released on the Xbox One's on August 29, 2018. DayZ was officially released out of early access for Windows on December 13, 2018, and for the and in early 2019. Reception ReceptionAggregate scoreAggregatorScoreXONE: 56/100PS4: 31/100The alpha release sold over 172,500 copies in the first 24 hours, totaling over US$5 million in sales.

During peak sales, over 200 copies were being purchased per minute and after one week over 400,000 copies had been sold. The game reached a total of more than a million sales while remaining at the top of 's sales charts for two weeks in a row.

In an alpha review of DayZ, Rick Lane of commented positively on the new additions but said that the game may not be worth the current price until more features have been added. On the other hand, Craig Pearson of said that he had good experiences in DayZ and that it was already worth the price.By May 2014, the game had sold over two million copies. Increasing to over four million by November 2018. In August 2019, the game was briefly banned in Australia due to 'illicit or proscribed drug use related to incentives or rewards', derived from one of the game's options to restore being a. This option was not officially in-game, and it was only available via community made mods.

The ban was eventually lifted after Bohemia edited the game in order to fully comply with the. Awards DayZ won the MMORPG.com award for Best Hybrid at East 2013, and it was announced as the winner of 's People's Choice Award of 2013, beating 49 other games with 15% of the votes. At the 2014 DayZ won the Best Indie Game and Best Original Game awards. References.

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Welcome to the world of DayZ, hit by a new and unknown infection which has wiped out most of the world's population.In this gritty, authentic, open-world survival set in harsh post-apocalyptic landscape players follow a single goal: survive as long as you can. You are one of the few that have survived and now you must search this new wasteland. Make your own story and fight to survive the hostile environment. Every other player can be friend or foe and nothing can be taken for granted. Team up with friends and take on the world, as you choose your path in this brutal and chilling landscape using whatever means you stumble upon to survive. This is DayZ, this is your story.