DayZ will get a new engine upgrade in a couple of weeks on the PC

It appears that the standalone version of DayZ will receive a major engine upgrade really soon. As Eugen Harton, lead producer at developers Bohemia, told PCGamesN, the team is currently working on upgrading DayZ’s game engine and will release this new version in a couple of weeks.

“We’re releasing DayZ on a new engine in a couple of weeks on PC, and it’s gonna be coming to Game Preview on Xbox this year. That’s basically our aim. I would almost say it’s a reboot of DayZ on PC.”

Harton did not clarify whether this is still an Early Access version or the full version that Bohemia promised to release in 2018. Still, it appears that the development team will be really committed to it in 2018. After all, Harton claimed that 2018 will be the year of DayZ.

“I still feel like we have not hit our peak. This is the year of DayZ.”

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9 thoughts on “DayZ will get a new engine upgrade in a couple of weeks on the PC”

“This is the year of DayZ.”

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thartist says:

April 6, 2018 at 4:56 am

Reminds me of something, that phrase…

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Joy, which means it’ll introduce a plethora of new problems for the devs to spend another 5 years working on.

I saw the devs behind Castle Story doing the exact same thing. They spent a good two years working on the game, but then thought it would be a neat idea to switch to a new engine, but that only brought a bag full of issues for them to sort out, optimization included.

Fast forward to 2018 and those devs are still having to sort out CPU spike issues.

if you’re going to roll with a new engine, at least think about it before going through years of developing the game. You only increase the time it takes to make a polished game by switching halfway through.

Daniel Anderson says:

April 6, 2018 at 2:51 am

IMO its the only thing that’ll give DayZ a chance. When the mod started out as a project it was easy to see the jank @$$ engine Bohemia has been using wasn’t going to cut it. Its becoming ever increasingly important for engines to be modernized. So even though this probably won’t save DayZ, I hope the engine is used down the road in future titles by Bohemia as they seriously need something new, and stop stacking crap on the already high stack on crap.

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