DayZ 2022 Year in Review

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Hello Survivors! 2022 was a total blur. Now that the winter holidays are approaching, we’d like to take a moment and look back at what happened throughout the year.

What's new in DayZ in 2022?

• 8 new/returning firearms

• Huge Livonia update with underground area

• Grenade Launcher

• Several new dynamic events

• Upgrade of vehicle simulation

• Major character controller changes and fixes

• Increased support for customizing console community servers

• Continued modding support

DayZ received 4 updates this year. Our goal was to keep the game engaging for new and experienced players alike. We were once again able to release all of these updates on schedule, and to include some pretty big additions in terms of assets and features. While all this was happening, the team and its processes underwent major changes as part of the continuous restructuring in preparation for team growth and future challenges. Another aim of ours was to stabilize the game. The stabilization process included a more in-depth look at long-standing issues regarding stability, exploits, and recurring bugs. We balanced these fixes with spectacular themes in every update to generate more attention and continue supporting our marketing efforts.

Update 1.16 kicked the year off with a clean sweep that was meant to stabilize the build, supported on asset-side by the firepower of the Bizon SMG. Meanwhile, update 1.17 was all about crafting. It introduced improvised bone spears and knives, as well as a very popular mummy outfit made from rags. Update 1.18 set out to define an explosive summer season with both industrial and self-made explosives, and a grenade launcher. Finally, the year culminated with update 1.19, which provided a significant update to our Livonia DLC, including the first large underground area in the game. We also introduced the M1025 Multi Purpose Vehicle, which was supported by an update to our vehicle simulation and character collision that fixed tons of bugs and exploits in the overall gameplay.

DayZ 2022 in numbers

• Game Updates: 4 (1.16, 1.17, 1.18, 1.19)

• We broke the all-time concurrent PC player record from 2021 in every month but one. The current record was reached in April with 58,523 players. (SteamDB)

• Daily Active User peaks of 184,000 on PC.

• Top monthly average of concurrent PC players: 31,070 in January (all-time record, Steam Charts)

• Last year’s monthly average record was surpassed during every month of 2022, except for March.

• DayZ saw over 3.9 million new users from January to November

• Highest average monthly viewers on Twitch: 17,200 in June (all-time record, TwitchTracker)

• BattlEye bans: 30,000+; reaching a total of 100,000 cheaters banned from DayZ

• 17,000+ mods created by players

• 3 seasonal events

TELLING A TALE OF THE APOCALYPSE DayZ is all about the survivors and their paths in this post-apocalyptic world. This is why our recent trailers have focused on telling these stories and how they are interconnected and impacted by large scale events. With update 1.19, we were finally able to finish the first major story arc around the character named Hannah.

Hannah was introduced in our previous release trailer back in 2019, when she was ambushed and robbed of her backpack by two bandits with motorcycle helmets. She got her revenge later and retrieved her possessions. A battle-hardened Hannah returned in the trailer for update 1.14, where she witnessed what appeared to be a trigger for a barrage of mortar strikes across Livonia and Chernarus that