DayZ Rises From The Dead

It seems the DayZ X account had to rise from the dead this month.  Several members of the community noted that the DayZ X account had been disabled, with the entire post history cleared out altogether!  This prompted many community members, including @LottieTwitch to question who on Earth one-tapped DayZ themselves!?

Luckily, it didn't take long for @Scotty (DayZ Marketing and Brand Manager) to step in and give us all the update that a simple clerical error resulted in the temporary uncon of the account. Phew.

In the interim, the @BohemiaInteractive account stepped up and posted the highly sought after, Dev Blog.  This blog boasts work-in-progress changes such as skybox updates, weather patterns and huge increases to draw distances!  More info on this can be found in @Wobo's video below!

Once the DayZ account had been revived by Elon and a few days past to get their bearings, the team announced a brand new Experimental branch, full of hotfixes including a change to how well the infected perceive player sound!  This is another shining example of how this relationship works: DayZ innovate and implement, the community test and feedback, DayZ tweak and repeat.  DayZ's huge success owes itself to this workflow, so never be afraid to speak up. 

DayZ also announced their 4th Dev Blog for week 26, featuring a very exciting deeper look into the development of Frostline.  The interior design and new buildings stirred up quite the fuss along with a few points of interest!

Community Spotlight

Each month we want to celebrate the hard work this community puts in to keep DayZ feeling fresh and new 10 years on!  Below are some of our favourites from the last month.

LadyAdventure Releases A Movie

Popular DayZ streamer @LadyAdventure recently dropped a video chronicling her experiences at the massive DayZ Frostline event in Prague. The video, titled "We SURVIVED DayZ's BIGGEST RL EVENT!", offers a lighthearted and informative look at the event, following LadyAdventure from the initial days leading up to the event to the star of the show itself.

Viewers get a glimpse into the excitement of the event, from coach tours to the campgrounds, along with some of the behind-the-scenes activities like MRE lunch breaks and learning how to make a fire. Interspersed with footage from the event itself, LadyAdventure provides a unique perspective for fans.

They Explode Now?!

Looking to make a few of your Infected a little more trouble to handle?

Developed in the G Code Discord by Armin Atomic, Armin did some work with items on infected and how they are spawned in once the infected are killed by adding ruined explosives to the infected's loot drop.  It makes the usual infected a little harder to handle and a change in tactics is needed  while fighting them.

Josie Garfunkle from G code did a video on how to implement them into your server and the various styles you can create. 

Check out the video below and add a little surprise to your server.

Video of the Month

Friendly?: A DayZ Podcast (shameless plug) review a video for each episode.  This Month, Dave has chosen Tommy: I DOMINATED from DayZ's SMALLEST BASE!

Featuring well known creator, JLK, Tommy creates a tiny base in the woods of Chernarus, just south of Devil's Castle.  Expect intense gunfights, crafty editing, revenge, despair and base raids.

Hot Console Servers

Eight.

A newer style to the Xbox DayZ community. Following the footsteps of the PC server DayOne. 

This no base building server on the Livonia map brings survival to the next level, with customs bunkers and some unique POI's to loot and explore. 

Where will you hide your stash?

Join the Discord for all the info.

!++

Not for the easily offended. !++ is the purest form of DayZ chaos. This full pop 70 slot server has one spawn zone at Kamyshovo. 

Loot can only be found on the coast at key POI's like Police and Fire stations.  Grab a car or run to the nearest town and kit up to prolong your lifetime.

Look for !++ in the Community tab.

Zagoria Reloaded

This popular hardcore server has custom locations scattered around the Chernarus map.

Owned and coded by Project Lemons, this harder than official style server will test your skills at both PvP and survival.

Join the Discord for the lore about the server and POI's to help fuel the adventure.

Diseases and Their Cures

Another helpful chart by @Asmondian, this time, giving us a quick reference guide to all the current diseases and their cures!  At this rate, we may as well dedicate a section to the guides each month. 

We cannot stress how helpful these guides have been to us and many other players over the years.  It's always useful to have these for reference, so take a look and you may learn something new!

Yippe Ki-Yalteria!

Fan favourite Alteria has had a new update!  Creator @JohnMcLane666 recently admitted that work on the project had to take second place whilst "'real life' gets in the way", but we're very excited to see that Alteria is back on the project table and getting the JohnMclane treatment again.

Alteria features a beautiful and varied landscape. Expect to find rolling hills, dense forests, well thought-out towns and a beautiful coastal area. This diversity creates different tactical situations in a visually stunning setting.

Dynamic Event Groups: How To

If you're a server owner and want to spice up your dynamic events (think heli crashes, police events, military trains) then this easy-to-follow guide by @King Alobar might be just what you're looking for!

Demonstrated in the video, King Alobar creates a crashed heli site on top of a building in DayZ Editor, then through some coding wizardry, has that group of objects spawn in Livonia!  Neat stuff!

We've seen this before on other popular servers and it always adds a nice, lived in feel.  Get creative and give it a shot.

The Console Modding Guru

@Tbag is known in the console Dayz community for his outstanding builds and server services.

He mods for some of the biggest DayZ console communities (iZurvive, Dzmt, TGP DayZ Community hub and more)

Co-owner of Custom DayZ Services (CDS) Discord, he, along with his team provide custom builds, servers, logos, video designs, Discord Bots plus much more.

From the early days of DayZ Editor builds to now creating easy to apply file sets with loot distribution tags, you can customise your server further than ever before. This absolute legend, needs to be recognised even though he hides in the shadow's. He has helped countless DayZ communities with their issues and continues to push the limits of console modding higher. He does it for the love of the game and the community he has helped to make.

Check out some of his work at the CDS Discord.

Events

From solo's to squads.  From rallies to prison breaks.  You won't find a more interesting spread of events!

Milestones

Here are some notable milestones reached in the past month!

If you have a milestone you want to shout about, let us know!

Screenshots

Here's a collection of some of our favourite screen shots from the community and some from DayZ!

Screenshots For the Community

“Hey Survivors,

This time, we searched our image library for more summer-related, vibrant screenshots, but as you know, summer vibes are rather scarce in DayZ. However, you will find a few here sprinkled among other random character screenshots. Feel free to use them in your thumbnails, social posts, and so on. As usual, you are free to edit, crop, and change the images!

On behalf of the DayZ Team,

Lynn”

Legends ☝️  Thanks DayZ.  To download the full quality images, click here! 

That just about wraps us up for this article. Thank you to every one who has created something to expand the enjoyment of this game.

Continue to use #TalentForDayZ so we can find your stuff!

Keep on surviving.