The post-soviet country of Chernarus is struck by an unknown virus, turning the majority population into frenzied infected. Fighting over resources has bred a hostile mentality among survivors, driving what’s left of humanity to collapse. You are one of the few immune to the virus – how far will you go to survive?

DayZ is an unforgiving, authentic, open-world sandbox online game where each one of 60 players on a server follows a single goal – to survive as long as they can, by all means necessary. There are no superficial tips, waypoints, built-in tutorials, or help given to you. Every decision matters – with no save games, and no extra lives, every mistake can be lethal. If you fail, you lose everything and start over.

Scavenging for supplies and roaming the open world never feels safe in DayZ, as you never know what’s behind the next corner. Hostile player interactions or simply struggling through severe weather can quickly turn into intense, nerve-racking moments where you experience real emotions. On the other hand, meeting with another friendly survivor in DayZ can lead to a true friendship that lasts a lifetime…

Your choices and your decisions create a gameplay experience that’s completely unique and unequivocally personal – unmatched by any other multiplayer game out there. This is DayZ, this is your story.

• The detailed, authentic backdrop of Chernarus, an open world terrain featuring 230 square kilometers of hand-crafted environment based on real-life locations.
• Real emotional experience is driven by the emergent interactions of 60 players on the server, all fighting for survival by any means necessary.
• Environmental dangers include the infected, dynamic weather, and animal predators.
• Wide variety of complex survival mechanics – from hunting and crafting, through sophisticated injury simulation, to transferable diseases.
• Persistent servers with a complex loot economy, and the ability to build improvised bases.
• Visceral, authentic gunplay and melee combat systems.
• Smooth and reactive character controller utilizing a detailed animation system.
• Rewarding and authentic experience of driving vehicles for travel and material transport.
• Robust technology platform featuring modules of Bohemia’s new Enfusion Engine.
• Seamless network synchronization and significantly improved game performance.
• A platform fully open to user created content, offering the same tool set that we use for actual game development.

• RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE

  Awaken as a weakened Vampire after centuries of slumber in a world full of danger. Stripped from your unholy powers and starving for blood – you must hunt to regain your strength and fight for survival.

• FEAR THE LIGHT

  Hide in the shadows in the daytime, or the burning sunlight will turn you to ashes. Stalk the night and prey on your victims in the dark. As a vampire, you must quench your bloodlust and plan your strategies around day and nighttime.

• RULE THE NIGHT

  Unleash your powers after dusk and stalk your victims in the dark. Explore an open world together with friends or hunt solo as you pillage villages, raid bandits, and wander into the territories of supernatural beasts.

• A WORLD IN CONFLICT

  Tailor your play style by combining weapons with a variety of powerful spell kits. Raid other players’ castles or become a diplomat in the game of blood, power, and betrayal. Compete or cooperate – the choice is yours.

• BUILD YOUR CASTLE

  Construct your Castle and exhibit your vampiric style. Convert warriors, archers and mages into an army of darkness, ready to do their master’s bidding and defend your Castle while the threat of other players is rising.

• Commander Battles

  Take control over a company of AI-controlled soldiers and lead your men to glory! Fight in huge battles with up to 800 Bots per Server. Commander Battles are the ultimate game mode to display your tactical cunning.

• Fight in Massive Multiplayer Battles

  Take part in massive multiplayer battles with up to 500 players simultaneously fighting each other on the same battlefield, in a completely destructible and realistic Civil War combat environment.

• Multiple Army Branches

  Multiple Army Branches – Fall in line as a regular infantryman, join the ranks of an elite sharpshooter regiment, or help relay orders as a musician as you get to explore the various roles in the army and trial your favorite units. Support your team from the rear and shatter enemy resistance as a gunner. Join the Heavy Artillery and use the 100pdr Parrott Rifle to lob shells over enemy fortifications with devastating effectiveness. Enlist in the Engineer Corps and support your team by constructing defenses, building pontoon bridges, and supplying ammunition. You can also help stitch up wounds of badly wounded teammates by becoming a Surgeon.

• Large Weapon Selection

  Find your own playstyle! Smoothbores, Rifles, Pistols, Swords, Axes… With more than 120 unique weapons, 70 different types of ammunition, and 20 different Artillery pieces, players have plenty of options to choose from.

• Charge – Bayonet!

  Fix your Bayonet and call the charge. Defeat your enemies using the directional melee combat system inspired by games such as Mount&Blade: Warband, which is easy to learn but hard to master.

• Realistic Projectile Physics

  Battle Cry of Freedom realistically simulates real-life bullet physics by modeling not only velocity and twist rate but also taking into account factors such as humidity, temperature, air density, local gravity, wind direction, and wind strength.

• Advanced Artillery System

  Each of the 20 Artillery Pieces will perform differently and each gun has its up-and downsides. Artillery can be loaded with a wide range of different ammunition. Percussion-fused shells, time-fused shells, solid shots, bolts, canisters, and case shots can all be loaded, and work as expected.

• Destructible Environments

  Destroy bridges, fell trees, punch holes in walls, blow up fences; in Battle Cry of Freedom, almost everything is destructible. But don’t stand under a falling tree…

• Construct, Destroy, Resupply

  Play as an Engineer and construct various different defenses, such as chevaux de frise or sandbag walls. Place forward spawn points and help your team by supplying them with ammunition and weapons. Lead the charge and blow holes into the enemy’s fort with gunpowder kegs or destroy their defenses with your powerful felling ax.

• Fully Customizable Uniforms

  Customize your character’s uniform down to the color of the socks he is wearing! Pick from thousands of historically accurate uniform and equipment pieces, choose from different shoes, coats, hats, and more. Even how you want to wear your coat is completely up to you. Wear it open, closed, under, or over the leatherworks.

• Present – Arms!

  All animations in Battle Cry of Freedom are based on real-world Historical Drill Manuals, such as Casey’s Infantry Tactics or Hardee’s Revised. In addition to the “regular” animations all being historically accurate, the game features a large selection of “role-play” animations, such as Parade – Rest, Present – Arms, Support – Arms, Trail – Arms, and more!

• Historical Accuracy

  All the gameplay is historically inspired, with changes only made when it creates a more engaging and exhilarating gameplay experience. While Battle Cry of Freedom is not a simulation game, we make no compromises to accuracy when it comes to cosmetics, such as 3D models or animations. Every stitch is precisely where it needs to be!

• More than 14 Battlefields

  Fight on one of the 14 beautifully hand-crafted maps, inspired by real-world places and battlefields, or play on a randomly generated map, providing a different combat environment each time.

• Dynamic Time of Day and Weather

  Fight on an ever-changing battlefield! Wind and lightning will break trees, rain and fog will lower visibility and heavy wind will alter ballistics. Battle Cry of Freedom features dynamic weather, wind, season, and time of day system.

• Playable Musicians

  Support your team by boosting their morale. In Battle Cry of Freedom, you can become a drummer, fifer, or bugler able to play historically accurate tunes; all recorded and played by award-winning musicians.

• More than 50 Background Music Tracks

  Listen to the 2nd South Carolina String Band or to classical music performances by the United States Military Bands. With a grand total of 57 background tracks available in the game, you have a wide selection to choose from, guaranteeing that you’ll never get bored.

• Ingame Map Editor

  Bored of the pre-included maps? No problem! Create your own maps with the easy-to-use, yet very powerful Map Editor included in Battle Cry of Freedom. Custom Map files are only a few megabytes large and will be automatically downloaded from the server in a matter of seconds, so you spend as much time playing and as little time waiting as possible!

• Powerful Admin Tools

  In Battle Cry of Freedom, Admins can make use of more than 120 Server settings as well as 35 easy-to-use Admin tools accessible via an in-game interface making Administration of a large server easier than ever before.

• Regimental Linebattles

  Participate in the community and enlist with a Regiment (Clan) to take part in massive organized battles with players re-enacting historically accurate tactics of the Civil War Era.