The hearing on Microsoft's approval to acquire Activision Blizzard, which began last week in California, has proved to be an extremely valuable source of information on the past and future plans of the industry giants. The latest fruit of this was the confirmation that DayZ 2, a continuation of the hit online survival game, is in production. This information comes from Microsoft's internal correspondence, which has been attached to publicly available evidence. Bohemia Interactive is listed there as one of the studios that Microsoft is looking at in the context of a possible takeover. The studio description states that Bohemia Interactive is currently working on three projects - Arma Reforger, Arma 4 and DayZ 2.

I actually like how DayZ is not holding your hand when crafting. It's kinda awesome not to know all the mechanics of the game and discover them with time.

I think I'm the only guy who wouldn't complain about the constant running... even if the new maps are insanely huge. For me, it's the whole reason I play the game. It adds to the immersion, and really helps the zen experience I play this game for. Nothing makes a large map larger, than slow travel. It also forces the player to explore more... which in DayZ is a good thing, because learning subtle terrain features can be a make-it or break-it for solo players.

What makes DayZ one of the best games ever it's the unlimited number of possible sequences, ecounters, threats and friendships you can have while playing it. In over 4000 hours of playing DayZ i made friends across the entire globe and we still communicate, even if we dont play together anymore. As Baby Nades said, it's amazing way of recreating the reality it's exactly what makes DayZ great.

DayZ is my fav game of all time for 10 years now

Love this video, please never leave us Nades, youtube needs you, the DayZ community needs you.

I’d love to see a Dayz 2, but I am skeptical they would mess with a game that is top 20 on steam. Maybe in the next 5 years.

Why don't the people from Bohemia set up a crowdfunding or a Patreon? I think many of us DayZ fans would want to support the development of DayZ 2!

Great work I would love a Dayz 2 it's hard to believe but dayz is honestly a massive influential juggernaut and paved the way for every game in the survival genre.

Very well made video. Well done! And I hope you've raised enough awareness and interest in this that Bohemia can't ignore a sequel. DayZ is hands down my favourite game ever. If I could only play one game for the rest of my life, it would be DayZ for the simple reason of how limitless the gameplay possibilities are with the right groups of people. The only issues like you have mentioned are the aging engine and limited game systems holding back any continued development or modding capabilities.

The emotions, this video gave me.. "Sad" , "Happy" , "Nostalgic" , "Hopeful" , i dont know too many to list them all. But my end emotion was happy and i cant wait to see the future of this game. This is my favorite game. I love DayZ.

Dayz isn't loved for its textures, or the dated game engine. We love the experiences, the reality, the brutality, the friendships we form.

Awesome video man. I’ve been obsessed with dayz since 2019 when it came to Xbox and I’m already dying for a dayz 2. Something modern without the dupers, alt accounts, and exploits that plague the current game

Instead of having a built-in crafting menu, I think it'd be a good idea to have different crafting books placed as common civillian loot you could find.

From a business point of view: Total conversion DLC for ARMA 4 It will force people to get ARMA 4 to get the DLC. Huge increase in revenue. But the biggest is consolidation of workforce and effort. Would allow BI to utilize full team on one large project and allow for devs to be moved between projects with ease.

what i dont understand is how modders (usually one person) can build maps , guns, equipment, vehicles etc with hardly any cash and yet developers take months sometimes years to dribble out content with way more financial backing.

I had no idea Dayz was doing so well, I remember when Dayz was basically dead, 4-5 years ago the player base was maybe a few hundred people, now look at it. I no longer play Dayz, but it gladdens me to see one of my childhood favorites come back from the dead and new people get to experience what I did.

Great video from you. You got me into this game with your old videos and I consider you a real ambassador of Dayz!

Things dayz 2 isn’t complete without: 1: underwater swimming and fighting underwater 2: more in depth cars (being able to shoot out of them [accurately with pistol in accurate with rifles] 3: in depth hostage taking with knife or pistol (can also work like a Cod execution if you you need) 4: better gunplay (more inaccurate while moving, better sway, Picture in Picture scopes, better shock damage system so they don’t ALWAYS get knocked out and also gunsmithing 5: better and fine tuned movement so you can do action movie stuff but it’s also realistic enough to prevent fights where you just zig zag or circle each other 6. Explosive diarrhea

If they make a part 2 it’s going to do a lot better in this gaming generation if they optimize 60 fps and updated graphics

Who else plays console

Love this video. So glad you back with amazing videos. You’re Dayz content is the best.

im playing dayz since 2014 and im 19 year old and i am very happy that the players in this game still talk about dayz so much and that the players appreciate this game

I’m going to go out on a limb here & say that we will see a DayZ 2 in about 2029 around the 20 year anniversary of DayZ itself.

That was such an in depth and just all around well made video!! For real great job man👍

The idea of a Dayz2 scares me. I love this game and it's changed my life in many ways. I would love it but it would break my heart to see DayZ die off.

thanks for getting me so hyped for a game that won’t come out for like 7 years😂😭

Dayz, Is one of the best games ever made. In my opinion of course. If they made a dayz 2, i literally wouldnt stop playing it.

Whoa, I wasnt expecting that much info and knowledge of the game history in one place. You said it all man great video. For me you have spoke everything in that last line on your video, I hope one day we see this game true potential. Thank you for your work

DayZ 2 game map from the beginning where you can mark locations on all platforms and cross platform. That would make so many happy

Yes! A solid functioning sequel with lots of updates and improvements would be awesome!

Agreed. I found out about Dayz through a friends on ps4. When I built my new pc it was one of the first games I bought. I love it. Would love to see a Dayz 2

I think its time for dayz 2 but im sad because of how long it took to come to console. So hopefully with this updated gen itll come over quicker if it is made

Great breakdown, Dayz2 makes sense in my opinion from a financial standpoint. When you did a monetary comparison with Arc and Rust - it would also be interesting to see how much money Arma3 made... I cant imagine its much more than DayzSA.

DayZ has a lot of potential. I’ve played it since 2011 and it still needs improvement. The controls are not easy, and the game should be simpler to play. It could learn from how Minecraft made its inventory and crafting easier to use. The game can be laggy and glitchy, fixing this is more important than adding new maps or items

I agree with you. There needs to be a DayZ 2 with everything you mentioned. I may have missed it, but I think they should also expand on base building and possibly being able to do renovations such as painting, creating a road/driveway, repair boats to go out and catch bigger fish, more types of vehicles, skill tree. One thing I would like to be able to do on consol is customize the billboard signs and put solar panels on the roof of a house to power all electrical items. Bulldozers to knock down a house that may be blocking your view of the beach sunset. A way for people to start businesses in a town they built up. All in all, that detailed level of living in an open world. DayZ 2 would have the potential to be up in the number with GTA 6 when it drops.

Wow, I didn't realize how much I needed DayZ 2 in my life until I just watched this video. I always thought DayZ was flawed but had so much potential, yet somehow no one ever managed to make a "better DayZ" despite the many attempts at the genre. I'm now convinced that the only ones capable of making a "better DayZ" is DayZ themselves.

I think Arma 2 sat around for a year or two in my game shelf before I really started playing it. Back in the day it was really hard to learn a game that had so many controls as there was nothing else like it. Once I learned the controls though I started having real fun playing and manually scripting sequences like loading and unloading helicopters. Anyway it has a huge learning curve but thats what makes it the best game as well because once you learn it there is so much to do!

Excellent video! Very well said. DayZ could be so much more, and it deserves to be.

I'm really impressed with the amount of research you put into this. Also one thing they MUST maintain with a newer version of DayZ is the level of grit and avoid streamlining. The game flourishes with it's multiple trivial obstacles melding together to create an over-arching challenge, unique to each player. That's what makes the game so special. Everyone has a different goal, short term or long term.

I'm proud to say I supported DayZ since 2013 and have bought it multiple times for my friends. I'm happy for the team and Dean Hall seen as much success as they have.

I have a theory that DayZ 2 will start out as a mod for Arma 4 and, as per usual, will be driven by the effort, time and money spent by modders and fans of the game... while Bohemia sits back and gauges the interest and waits until making a standalone version is a "sure thing" (and after they've got that initial Arma 4 sales) and they'll essentially convert Reforger over to become DayZ 2. Feels like it makes sense, cost-efficient and safe for Bohemia. Just a theory, though.

oooh cheeky mention at 04:12 sick video man.

The in game experience of DayZ beats all multi p!ayer games

« dayz is a finished game » yeah i definitely love fighting lagging zombies and running for an hour ( without auto run button ) from a town to another

It makes sense, I mean, The enfusion engine is still maturing. Once the tech/engine is mature I would bet real money that Dayz 2 will be on the cards.

Thank you for making this amazingly detailed video, we appreciate your content!

Baby Nades: "No game can retain its popularity" Minecraft: Hold my beer for me champ.

i miss calling it dayz standalone , cause back then we still all played the mod , now its really just dayz . time flies,

I would like to see a version where you can earn XP or currency during your game life so you can buy equipment and build up loadouts to start with instead of having literally nothing on a respawn. Maybe even have a secure storage for loot that only you can access. Some of us love the game but have a life and we can't just farm loot for days at a time just to lose it all due to some nonsense like bugged out walls, wild animals with zero warning or most egregiously: Hackers. Which WILL be an issue in the game at times. Just a matter of when. Of course I also advocate to have the standard formula servers and call it Classic or Hardcore mode.

I just wait for regular bows again, so I can start up my survivalist playstyle :D

I first biught dayz years ago because of your videos, and i will happily follow you to the sequel (when it comes out)

Hope you come back some day! Miss having new dayz vids by you. Hard to find aanyone else to watch. Most ppl are so hard to listen to.

baby nades, of all the amazing vidz uve pumped out, i gotta say that i like this the best. gave a lil hope and maybe some push to devs to get their arse in gear for #2

great video!

Wow.. a DayZ master is finally playing again..... Welcome Back !!

I think the devs could add the ability to shoot out of cars RIGHT NOW if they wanted to, however they choose not to, as they've said they don't want to the game to be "like GTA." I think it's a change the community really needs to get behind, as it would make cars infinitely more fun and useful.

I doubt we’ll see a dayz 2 stand-alone honestly. It took years for them just to get it in the half decent shape that it’s in now but I’m sure with Arma 4 we’ll get a bunch of really badass dayz(esque) mods that’ll surpass standalone

"Its nearly 10 years old, itll did out soon" Skyrim and elder scrolls players in general: "want to test that theory?"

Dayz is one of the few games I can play it to death, get burnt out, drop it for a long time and then pick it back up and repeat the process.

Dayz when it was ARMA2 was magic. I will never forget those shenanigans.

Fantastic video dude definitely earned a sub from me. Keep it up my friend.

you are perfectly right, WE NEED DAYZ 2!!!

I'll never stop playing this game, ever.

1:36 where I pause. Dayz is so popular these days because it picked up consistent and healthy support from the devs. But also it was released to console and now there's all these PC games that are coming to console. A whole new world of gaming just opened up to console players. And the ridiculously massive maps.It's an arma game reskinned as a zombie survival. People love milsims for their realistic outcomes and huge maps.

If they just remade dayz as an exact copy just refurbished on a newer engine, left the communities ability to mod - they would make millions.

Great video. (The Video mentions) "What everyone want to see - DayZ to reach it's full potential" sounds great. I just hope it will still be the DayZ with the real DayZ Feeling. A few thoughts form my view: Video mentions "Will have a huge Map" I think that's a bad thing - allready on Chernarus you can run for 5 hours on a full server without to see any other players. Then you spawn with a Friend and he is 50km away from you? Do we need bigger maps? I think we need better maps. And more then one or two maps. Some days you seek fast PVP, and on others you go for a huge Adventure. To support all aspects on one single map is impossible, becaus it always has just one size. - Esseker and Banov wil never bring the same way of playing DayZ. - We have those improved, further developed maps already, that bring enormous variety to the different Gameplay. (Even Chernarus is for ever the original and very beautifull) The best modded maps are amazing, very popular and not bigger as Chernarus. If you make huge maps where the servers must be full with arround 200 players, then half full servers will suffer much more in proportion as if smaller ones were only half full. In Esseker or Namalsk you run into guys even when the server is half empty. I think so many people play Namalsk because the main land is very small and forces tonnes of that uniqe loved DayZ-interractions. Also the harder Enviroment support the real Survival Experience arround the PVP or the Exploring. And of course also that you have something more to do then just reach Tisy to get the best loot or find a Keycard for a Bunker. A longer Mission as on Deerisle, Namalsk, Iztek and others. - As Namalsk is from Sumrak, I'm sure a DayZ 2 Map will become anyway great. But if it is just huge, interractions get rarer and aren't the random interractions one of the special things in DayZ? Not always KOS - people speak to each other and team up with randoms for several hours on an Adventure, or to take a hostage instead just murdering without a word. If you have everywhere more and more cars or even Airplanes, much less interractions will result. Rust is a game with non stop Base-PVP-Base, this all the time running back to the Base. To many Cars do a bit the same, less hard slow adventure and exedently walk into someone and talk. I f a Car runs into you gunshots are for sure the answer - A good mix in a map is very important, not just the size. - There's no need to mention how many incredible mods and maps the community invents and produces. These extremely creative and hard-working people should be even better included and supported to make it easier to build their mods. In video mentioned "All that walking..." isn't that what makes it unique. The slow but intense survival. Would you find in an Appocolypse a Fighter jet and fly over the map or rather build a large Stick into an arrow bow? What gives more Survivalfeeling and better interrractions and fights. DayZ 2 shouldn't become a totally different game because they already exist since the meantime - More crafting possibilities would probably help not getting slowely bored that you do nothing else then open million time doors to see if there is Loot on the ground. To craft a bit more Survival-Basic-Items then just combine Rags for Ropes or stones for stoneknife would suport the survival feeling "I do creat something to survive". Just open doors, picking up loot and find canned food everywhere take the apocalyptic survival feeling a bit down. - I wish they would ad Bows. From my point of view, almost nothing is more fulfilling in Survival and direct PVP than calculating the eternally slow flight time and the enormous drop with an arrow bow and aiming 20m in front of a running player or an Animal and then hitting him/it perfectly after a few seconds of flight time. There are incredible bow mechanics. I'm sure there are tonnes of smart experienced people and I hope Bohemia work with them together to make DayZ 2 the best it can become. And I hope DayZ 2 will still be DayZ. Big thanks to Bohemia for that great Game, big thanks to the whole Community for being such a helpfull comunity, all the effort from the Server owners, the endless amazing entertainment and game advertising from all streamers and huge applause to all the modders that spend so much of their freetime for free to make the game lots more variety. You all rock!

This video is awesome! I bought DayZ few months ago but cant really play...Have to delete something in a folder of it..but didnt do anything yet, need to learn about pc and just play more games for now. I cant wait for this new game anyway, hyped af xD

DayZ 2 with the old Alpha Map would be amazing !

love the video my guy !!! awesome to hear ya breaking down ya thoughts on whats good with game we all enjoy !

With Tom Segura on the title card, thought this was some DayZ standup.

Dayz is what brought me to the pc, i have the game on pc twice, xbox, and ps4. I also bought 4 people the game and it is by far the best game i ever played. I am really wanting for a second Dayz as well.

tbh my dream would be a polished expanded version of DayZ 0.62, the legacy gameplay was way better imo and was just overall a more enjoyable game, the new version is just to arcady. i hate the gunfights in new dayz i just want that old slow scary gameplay, back when getting shot at made you shit yourself ive been playing the game on some community made 0.62 legacy servers and its not just nostalgia talking, i really do enjoy the older version much more.

as a DayZ player for the last 7 years, on PC and Console(s). i can safely say, that as bad as the inventory system is on consoles it’s overall gameplay is incredible. graphically it’s pretty good, even on Series X graphics aren’t as good on optimized games as they are on PC. but, its frame rate is a solid 60 consistently unless there’s some crazy additions to the map. Xbox One does have lag spikes, frequently and it can be frustrating but if you look passed that it’s a great experience. i think a big problem with it is that most people don’t have the time to play games like this. i’m honestly surprised Rust sells so well considering keeping a base on there is a full time job. but these games take dozens of hours to learn, and then it takes hours to even find gear on official servers. community is becoming increasingly popular on consoles because while there’s no mods to download they do edit server files to make spawning with your friends easier, finding loot much faster, and making cars spawn much more frequently. PC will always be the goated system, it may cost an arm and a leg to get something that will handle everything you throw at it but that computer will last you 3x longer than a console will. it offers better frames, graphics, modding capabilities, and much more. but dayz on console overall is actually a great game, i hope it keeps up its player count. this game holds a special place in my heart and it will be a sad day when its put to rest. sorry for the paragraph, and good luck out there.

From the what I see dayz will go on forever if not a significant way into the future because I and I think a lot of other people out there really love dayz

Ai survivors/bandits is a must for a new dayz they made dayzmod so fun

Awkward inventory, have you ever had to pack a camping bag? Pain in the arse

I know that I’m being too delusional or optimistic, but imagine a DayZ game with The Last Of Us quality, I’m really hoping that Factions 2 will fulfil my wish…

towards the end of the video you mentioned superzombies. i play on xbox right now and theres one server i play on cant remember the name but it has zombies wearing the full rag outfit that take mad damage like im talking a mag or two from the ump45 up close mad damage. it adds an interesting dynamic to clearing an area of zombies

How to make a DayZ Asia : Add anime and make it 3rd person only Tons of P2W assets

Good vid. One point though that wasn't referenced, Always Streams was talking about BI as a developer company, not the development team specifically. He praises the team working on it all the time and encourages people to watch their streams. He's said a few times he thinks the team working on it are fighting against the tied with limited support, which has become a little less harsh with rising player numbers. But BI loves ARMA, they don't love DayZ. Sumrak had to make Namalsk in his spare time, because BI would never have invested in anything like that. Realistically, the dev team have been exceeding their actual budget, which was originally just there for maintenance and occasional patches. Because DayZ was not released completed, it was broken, cars didnt work, glitches didnt stop, content was removed and so on and so on

The best thing about DayZ is seeing it grow over the years. It could of easily slipped into a cash grab but the devs listen to their players and refined it into a classic.

I feel they want to perfect the (Enfusion Engine) before doing a DayZ 2 As to me it feels they wanted to learn how to use the new engine and they chose Arma as their test project due to the series long running popularity, AND the fact that its the first Arma game introduced to Console, meaning they want to better/perfect the game mechanics for Console players to be as good as PC. Arma Reforger/Arma 4 is just the beginning of what I feel, is there "Console Project". Makes sense since its called Arma "Reforger", as if to reforge the series to accommodate the new engine but maybe im reading to much into it😂

I've been saying this for years. Bohemia is/was using DayZ specifically to test and develop their next generation of games Arma4 and DayZ2. DayZ died once. It was completely dead and seemingly beyond revival. Bohemia took a years old game back into the workshop, built a brand new engine, and opened it to mod support. Instant revival. Though that was a gamble that gaming companies don't generally take. Why would they risk it? Well if they were using DayZ and it's playerbase to test future features and engines it would make sense. The new gunplay in DayZ is immaculate. Far better than the majority of titles out there, and exactly how I want an Arma4 or similar title to feel. However, they stated from early on that vehicles would never be completely fixed in this engine. So from very early on this new engine was already obsolete. They knew it would be though. It was meant to test features, gauge interest, and collect information on what the current bohemia players want in a game. It wasn't much longer after that and they released Reforger. Which oddly enough uses the same general terrain/location scheme as DayZ. I mean it looks like Chernarus. These DayZ clone mods are nice, but they will not withstand the official DayZ2 on the Reforger engine when it drops.

this is some top notch quality content.. thank you

Would love a dayz 2

Hear, hear! Loved the speculation, I hope something comes of it.

@BabyNades Real Virtuality goes back WAY further than ARMA2 or ARMA 1 even. It goes back to the start - Operation Flashpoint and maybe even Gravon may have some of it's hooks in RV.

I hope that, in DayZ 2, *all* doors will be able to be opened. Got sick of going into a house to find 3 out of 4 doors bolted with no way to open them.

The one game i keep going back to for years now

Amazing video, Big fan of your work

Solid job with this video. Thank you.

Coz of Nades, i'm in DAYZ and it's been while

AlwaysStreams is fr the best dayz content creator I’ve ever watched imo

Day z is my favorite game out there and to have a sequel would have me spending money every chance I got. WE NEED DAY Z 2!!!

I used to pvp at balota after pilling up cars to block the roads in the mod with my firends, now kids eat cans of beans in the woods on a 12 hour gameplay session and never see a single person..........Its crazy you guys spent 10 years to build the FURTHEST thing you could from the most popular mod ever.

I don't know if it's just me but I wouldn't like unrealistic superzombies or superzombie animals in DayZ 2. I would just love to have new, bigger/denser maps with some verticality, an expanded weapons/gear/clothing/food/craftables selection and modern graphics/physics. I'd keep everything else the same because that is what made DayZ such an incredible game!

I think the food can’t get too complicated and the crafting as simple as possible, because is about the journey and interactions

Baby Nades OG!! Great video.

Great job on this!