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Get your diaries ready. The final version of DayZ – meaning it will have exited Steam Early Access – is scheduled to launch in the first half of 2016, the game’s dev team and Bohemia Interactive have announced.
“Having completed our first year of Early Access development, we have reached an important project milestone,” reads a Steam blog. “Looking forward into the opportunities and obstacles of the coming year, we would like to share our plans and goals for 2015.
“These plans change over time, and internally the team has reviewed our progress this year against where we want DayZ to be at 1.0. Compiling this data we have completed a light roadmap based on our experience with the project for the upcoming year, and this is a taste of exciting things to come that we can look forward to.”
Q1 2015
- Basic vehicles
- Central economy (advanced loot distribution)
- New renderer
- New Zombie AI
- Basic stealth system (zombies, animals, …)
- Diseases
Q2 2015
- Advanced vehicles (repair, modifications, …)
- Advanced animals – life cycle, group behavior
- Player statistics
- New UI Stamina / fatigue
- Dynamic events
Q3 2015
- Traps
- Barricading
- Character life span + soft skills
- Animal predators + birds
- Aerial transport
- Console prototype
Q4 2015
- BETA version
- Animal companions (dog, horse)
- Steam community integration (Achievements, Steamworks modding, etc)
- Construction (building shelters / walls / …)
A few key points include the console prototype in Q3 2015 and the launch of the PC Beta in Q4 2015.
As the game updates and gets closer to launch the price of entry will also increase. The current 23.99 EUR/29.99 USD will remain until the end of the Steam Fall Sale on December 1, when it will increase to 27.99 EUR/34.99 USD. The final game will be priced 39.99 EUR/49.99 USD.
Source: Steam Community
