Following this week’s major title update for DayZ, some might be wondering if the game will be getting more major patches this year. Fret not, as Bohemia Interactive has confirmed “robust support” for DayZ in 2024!

According to the studio, this year represents a significant departure from their typical update delivery model. However, players can take comfort that more updates are planned in 2024 and “beyond.” Players can expect new character cosmetics, there’s also a long-range rifle to be unveiled at a later adte.

On the gameplay tuning side of things, the audio team is hard at work on the major task of reworking the sounds of firearms, with other parts of the game’s audio getting touched up as well. Players can expect new action sounds coupled with a balancing of the audio that’s tied to player actions, and there’s ambient music in the works as well.

Bohemia is also planning to introduce a richer variety of wildlife, improving their terrain tools (Terrain Builder primarily), which should make the modding community’s lives easier. The studio is also planning on elevating survival mechanics from extreme conditions to medical challenges, which will test the player’s mettle and have them adapt to new survival strategies.

In terms of events, the yearly ones like the Halloween event, Christmas festivities and the Walpurgis Event are all confirmed to be making a return this year. The devs are also looking into the possibility of hosting new events in collaboration with other games (they hinted that legacy DayZ players might have an idea of what they’re referring to).

While no timetable has been given on what’s next, this is a good sign for the community that the devs have laid out what’s essentially a roadmap for 2024. Hopefully, we’ll see a proper DayZ roadmap revealed in the future, and once we get one, we’ll be sure to let our readers know.

Source: DayZ