Hello Survivors,
as this week we have some national holidays coming up in the Czech Republic and a big part of the team took this chance to take a few days of vacation, this Status Report will be shorter than usual. However, we are diving into exciting content regardless, as we will be talking about the upcoming first big update for 0.63. And we are happy to showcase another huge collection of your awesome community content - Let's get to it!
- Dev Update/Eugen
- Community Spotlight
Dev Update/Eugen
Dear Survivors,
it's about time to talk about the content update that's coming to Stress Test branch very soon and will get rolled over to the Experimental servers after making sure everything works as intended. We will try and batch the content updates in this way so we can stabilize and make sure the content works properly.
- AI Sensors/Audibility/Visibility
With this change you will see your stealth options getting expanded by quite a bit: Besides stances, the colours and weight of items will affect your ability to avoid zombies and confuse their perception.
- Hidden Stash
With this feature, you'll be able to hide your loot underground and put containers to use. The shovel will be spawning alongside the new containers ready to use. Same goes for corpses.
- Character - Unconsciousness
Shock stat and weapon hits that increase it can cause the character to fall unconscious to be possibly saved by friends in your group. With the unconsciousness state, you'll be seeing more options to disable players and interact with them in combat.
- CPR
The ability to CPR people with high shock values.
- Gestures
The new radial menu alongside the newly added gestures will now be available for even more interactions and videos you may create.
- Repairing
Items like the Sewing kit, Weapon Cleaning kit, Duct tape and more are seeing a comeback as durability matters again. Weapons don't jam yet but that's something you'll definitely see in a future content update.
- New weapons
Yes, there are new weapons coming to the game and it's two classics that everybody loves. M4A1 and Mosin. Yay!
- Scopes
There is no definite list of scopes coming yet in the first content update, but, based on the weapons currently in the game, we will deliver a meaningful selection.
- Soft skills
The Soft skills are getting in, so you'll see the basic specializations working and your crafts bringing better results faster.
- Environmental Exposure
The temperature system will start working without any repercussions first to gather more information on how harsh we want to get.
- Jumping
We have started working on a huge animation set for jumps and climbing this year. So with the upcoming update, the first part of this package is gonna get in and give you the ability to cross some basic obstacles improving your manoeuvrability throughout Chernarus.
- Diseases
Diseases and associated effects (coughing, sneezing and more) are returning as well as items that resolve possible negatives, such as purification tablets. This includes the possibility of diseases transfer from player to player and items.
- Compass
The first part of the navigation system in DayZ besides the new map is the compass. Hopefully, it will help you to learn more about Chernarus and its intricacies.
- Ambient Loot
One of the core features that we want to use to solve a possible lack of loot is a set of items that spawn not centrally but based on the player position and interactions. This might need a lot more tweaks, so expect its values to change even during testing.
- Voice Communication
The whole Voice Communication system along with radios, public radios, megaphone etc. is coming to the game to give you objectives on the map as well as new options to communicate and meet with other survivors in the game.
So, how soon this is going to happen? The features listed here are undergoing testing as of now and the content has been branched away from the internal development version with many more fixes and improvements to stability, security and server performance.
On a side note, since in the internal version of this patch, we resolved the GDPR issues blocking the ability to switch to the experimental version, with its introduction we will enable this option for server owners. I'm personally looking forward to all this content coming back alongside things that changed and have been improved upon heavily. See you in Chernarus!
- Eugen Harton / Lead Producer
Community Spotlight
Hello Survivors,
This weekend, Nine Inch Nails (a band that many of us in the dev team like) had a gig at the Aerodrome festival near Prague, and guess what - Alessandro Cortini, who's been a member of NIN for quite some time now, is a fellow DayZ survivor! We could not pass on the opportunity to meet with Alessandro, and so we did bother him for a bit before he went up on stage! It's been so awesome to chat and listen to some of his stories! Just a brief look at his DayZ t-shirt reassured us that he's serious about being a fan - the condition of the t-shirt has been way, way past pristine, and so we set him up with a new one :) Check out Alessandro on iTunes or SoundCloud, and look for him on Chernarus. Remember - talk to people! You never know who's on the other side, it could be someone from your favorite band!
Let's check out some new video content:
An emotional story of the life of Ricky Jameson by CamCANTRUN recorded in DayZ and the Arma 3 Eden Editor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAO1SrvzRnk
Ant made a DayZ fan trailer and it is really nice!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh_Xf1alkHY
Rustycaddy made a video in honor of our beautiful Chernarus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDQaQtKDJ1w
This is a story about the great opening of Uncuepa's bar. It starts really nice, there were a plenty delicious food, drinks and music, but what happened in the end wasn't nice…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWDGNnFsyhQ
And what about some of your pictures and drawings? Check it out:
The first one is a nice edit of a screenshot by the famous DrDesync.
Another edit is made by Reddit user TheWhishImBallHorson named "They Found Me". Good job!
Zarrov sent us a sketch of his idea of barricading. It looks impressive!
It is an end of a school year and Barrett5Bumpas is getting bored at his classes. So he made this DayZ inspired picture. It is really nice, but don't forget - education is more important than video games!
Do you know you can change the skin of your Steam? I didn't know until today. Mdswish shared his DayZ themed customized skin with the community, you can download it here.
Do you remember the photo series Humans of Chernarus? It continues and it is still really cool. If you don't know it, it is a portrait of some DayZ characters living on the DayZ Underground server, the project is inspired by Humans of New York.
And the last community content for today are Joito's Twitch alerts made by the talented Cobalt_Smobalt. They are so awesome!
Let's check the riddle.
Who guessed the riddle from the last Status Report?
- Emu Threat
- basedBara_RL
- CanisDirus
The correct answer was a Little Hill near Mogilevka.
And the riddle for this Status Report is:
If you know where is it, tweet it to our official Twitter account with #DayZriddleTime and you can be on the Wall of Fame next time.
Thank you for every content you've sent me and see you next time!
- Baty / Community Manager
Header image by A1ANNUAKII.