The Complete DayZ back-story! A DayZ lore documentary

Really hope you guys enjoyed this one as it took a lot of work, and am looking forward to discussing your ideas in either the comments or my discord discord.gg/nmC7Xtt

I love how the devs mentioned this vid in the monthly update but refuse to confirm or deny the back story 😆

I didn’t realize the map was THAT physically accurate to its real life counterpart

As far, as the timeline goes…I like to play on high-pop servers when I’m feeling like PvP. It simulates the first days of the outbreak when it’s total chaos, every man for himself. Then there is times when I like to slow it down and simply emulate the later days of the apocalypse. Focus more on survival, building bases and stashes, and take time to enjoy the atmosphere of the game. That’s when I play on my home server which is a low-pop. I love this game. I play no other. It’s so open. So free of any restrictions whatsoever. It truly is whatever you want it to be. No subscriptions. Nothing hidden behind pay walls. No pay-to-win. No loot crates. Just you. The game. And other survivors.

The "2172km to Moscow" sign might be referring to the dev studio distance to Moscow. A quick search of Prague to Moscow results in over 1900km distance, which falls a bit short of the 2172, but depending on a specific location maybe on the outskirts of the city, with some indirect side roads, might possibly come out to that distance. Just a theory...

One of the main DayZ Wiki guys here... Sounds pretentious I know... XD Really appreciated the shout-out to the team at the end of the video! Made us super pumped to be mentioned! We are always looking for help! Loved the video and will be subbing! Keep doing what you do man!

I’m a console player and never played arma. Just dayz on Xbox. As an active duty marine, I wondered why I kept finding zombified marines in bases and marine uniforms on the ground. Great explanation!

I think that the outbreak also saw a resurgence of fighting between NAPA and ChDKZ groups (them taking advantage of the chaotic situation) as you can find Chedaki berets at checkpoints on military zombies. Due to this resurgence of fighting, this could of further caused chaos among CDF forces which is why they couldn't fight the infection - because they had to deal with infected and gunmen at their checkpoints. This could explain why you can find destroyed/damaged jeeps, tanks, APC's and other military hardware at checkpoints.

I always thought of the Arma II mini campaign Eagle Wing as the prequel to Day Z. A build up to a world war 3 scenario ending with a nuke being dropped on the US navy somewhere along the Chernarus coast and the player eventually escaping the island by boat.

Great video, really well researched My own 2 cents to add: The virus could be an experimented chemical weapon - which makes sense why a covert military ship disguised as a civilian vessel carried it. In addition, given the way PO-X works and results in cuts all over your body, and the Infected are wounded and bloody all over, perhaps PO-X and the Virus are linked. PO-X could be a stronger or alternate version of the Virus with guaranteed lethality, which may explain why the player character is immune to the Virus, but not PO-X. Or if they are not linked as actual viruses, they may still likely originate from the same research as two different bioweapons. The Virus would act as a bioweapon that makes a population eradicate itself and spread the disease further, while PO-X can be used on high priority areas, or connecting areas (i.e. the airport) to immediately eradicate those areas completely. Also the reason why Helis are crashing (and being shot down?) and why there even is American activity at all - perhaps West Chernarus is an active war zone as of the outbreak, or some time around the outbreak, perhaps due to a NATO intervention after noticing what happened in Chernarus, for example after the Rify shipwreck. American intelligence might've caught on, and turned the rest of Chernarus into an active conflict zone, which also explains why there are no excursions of any kind by interested parties INTO South Zagoria, because they can't. And only the military could, but choose not to for obvious reasons.

My theory is that there’s this guy who really loves beans and hiking mountains who made a zombie mod in a military game because he likes zombie games

I love it when games have very vague story telling so people can make and discuss their own theories.

Wow, just wow. I've played dayz for 3 years now, and never new any of this. Amazing job rav, never cease to impress me.

Great work Rav, you really did your home work, and the lore makes more sense now, as they release future content I am sure more of the official story will come to light!

You pretty much taught me how to play DayZ, man. Have loved your vids for a good while. Can't wait to dive into this one!

I really hope someday bohemia releases a full lore rundown and story so we dont have to speculate, it will definitely make the game more enjoyable when you know whats happening.

Crazy how far this game has come and how big the following has become. I remember being a wee-little 11 year old, dying to tell my dad about how cool this game was and how badly I wanted to play it ahaha Now im 23, oh how time flys…

One of the clearest and well done DayZ videos I have seen in years. For a newcomer to the game this would of been Gold.

Finally a back story video keep up the content ❤️

I also found that In The right conditions in real life damaged or burned metal can rust in just a few of its exposed to high amounts of humidity(rain) snow or salt water in the air would also make sense for a lot of the car wrecks being partially burned and rusted