Today's Status Report focuses on the current work of the team to fix the remaining issues in the PC BETA, while we are getting closer to our release in December. Eugen gives an overview of the most pressing issues, and the team leads give a brief recap of their work during the past two weeks. Let's get into it! 

• Dev Update/Eugen - General status report and overview of current issues
• Xbox One update/Martin - Basebuilding & Vehicles game update details; DayZ is 15% OFF on Xbox One now!
• Dev Update/Peter - Focused Feedback, Round 1
• Dev Update/Mirek - Car physics, hit registration, and other bullet point updates from the programming team
• Dev Update/Viktor - Animation polish pass on items + new sickness and character states animations
• Dev Update/Filip - new infected sounds, clothes/backpack sounds, and other improvements
• Community Spotlight/Baty - Community Spotlight on your Halloween content, mods, and more

 
Dev Update/Eugen Dear Survivors! Today, I'm gonna talk about the pressing issues th... Read more

Hello again, Survivors. Another Community Spotlight is here!Halloween is already gone, but I didn't tell you how much I liked your screenshots with the pumpkin heads. They've been in the game only for a week but you've had a lot of fun with them. Thanks for sharing! Let's check out your horror-themed content.
 
Halloween squad shared by CryDoXz:
This one is beautiful! Thank you [/u]Ladelthia‏[/u]!
And love these too. Good job Juh_4u!
DayZCore server organized a Halloween event and it looks like they really had fun.
Sweetest_Kill and Jakon had fun with pumpkins too.

Just for your interest, in case you didn't know, DayZ is a game developed by company based in the Czech Republic (Inter alia) and we don't celebrate Halloween. We have a special day called "Dušičky" (Souls in the English language). People visit cemeteries and light candles for the dead, we don't have pumpkins and costumes here (even though I love the Halloween costumes!).]And one more thing! One of our infected joined the zombie-th... Read more

Dear Survivors!Today is a very exciting day for all of us here at the DayZ team. Coming closer to five years of Early Access Alpha development, we are now moving the PC version of DayZ into BETA. What does that mean for the future of DayZ and how long do we intend to run the BETA? Watch our new Dev Log video to find out more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_ZfK6a8T00
To recap, The DayZ BETA shifts our focus from introducing new features and content to bug fixing, stabilization and balancing. The goal is to create a stable and -most importantly- fun experience for our 1.0 release, scheduled for the end of 2018.
Worry not, this is not the end of DayZ development: we have more features and content planned after we stabilize the game, and they will come to you as part of free platform updates in the future.The former 0.62 version running on our old technology has been moved to a legacy branch on Steam, and the default (Stable) branch on Steam now runs the new, 0.63 BETA update.So what are s... Read more