It also paves the way for us to allow migrating zombies and zombies traversing open areas in search for their next meal.'Īlso of note: Chernarus has apparently been significantly expanded, and the health system now tracks things like the quality of your diet. It also means that zombies no longer 'pop' in and out of the world, previously used as a mechanism to tell if someone was in the area. This has allowed us to provide increased security and hack prevention mechanisms by disabling functionality at the client level. 'Now all zombies are spawned directly on the server and their movement is governed directly on the server itself. Among other things, his explanation of the new zombie spawning system - which will hopefully go a long way toward stopping cheaters dead (except, you know, permanently) in their tracks - definitely stands out. While the video covers things like the new inventory system, zombie pathfinding, and looting's newfound complexities, Rocket also went over a few other subjects in more detail in a new blog entry. The latest batch of Rocket-narrated DayZ footage, however, has those too! What's next, I ask you? Men ignoring the iron-etched laws of common decency and discarding their trousers with reckless abandon? Like filthy, brief-flaunting savages? I doubt anyone else noticed, but I'm being totally honest! Most of the time, people don't procure their cans that way in real life. This has led me to the following earth-shatteringly profound revelation: videogames are weird, you guys. DayZ's latest dev log features a man ingesting and then allegedly defecating a tin can, at which point Dean 'Rocket' Hall nonchalantly decides to bend over, pick it up, and save it for later.

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