Really hope you guys enjoyed this one as it took a lot of work, and am looking forward to discussing your ideas in either the comments or my discord discord.gg/nmC7Xtt
I still would like to think that the outbreak happend at least a few years ago because everything is run down, windows broken, and cars uterlly destroyed and all of the overrun bases etc state that it had been a longer process and not just a few days.
There is always a intended story Or it would just be a bunch of random npcs talking and no loot, cuz your just pointlessly walking around But in a survival game, like life. You write your own story, and the overall story is meaningless unless it changes events in your story
The first bigger city after coming from the German border in the Czech Republic is "Decin" if you drive from Dresden to Prag by train... its just on the other side from the train tracks over the river elbe... Located in an German and Czech border crossing area known as the Elb(e)-Sandstein Mountains... as a DayZ player you know this as a famous cost city in chernarus.. this train line is known as one of the most beautiful train routes to travel in Europe... You also drive through "Usti nad Labem" another well known city in chernarus...
One of the main DayZ Wiki guys here... Sounds pretentious I know... XD Really appreciated the shout-out to the team at the end of the video! Made us super pumped to be mentioned! We are always looking for help! Loved the video and will be subbing! Keep doing what you do man!
@@RavPlays It's a lot to manage but our passion outweighs all the work we have to do! We are working on a video ourselves on lore and it's been months in the making. But we are really lazy... XD
@@ZEROs0000if it wasn't for people like you I would still be figuring out the crafting mechanics of the game. The Wiki is extremely useful for this. So thank you ^_^
As far, as the timeline goes…I like to play on high-pop servers when I’m feeling like PvP. It simulates the first days of the outbreak when it’s total chaos, every man for himself. Then there is times when I like to slow it down and simply emulate the later days of the apocalypse. Focus more on survival, building bases and stashes, and take time to enjoy the atmosphere of the game. That’s when I play on my home server which is a low-pop. I love this game. I play no other. It’s so open. So free of any restrictions whatsoever. It truly is whatever you want it to be. No subscriptions. Nothing hidden behind pay walls. No pay-to-win. No loot crates. Just you. The game. And other survivors.
@Zio Peraza Haha. Wish I could tell you that, bud. But then all of RUclips would know that’s where my team’s stashes and bases are. Then it wouldn’t be the safe and secure low-pop that it is.
The "2172km to Moscow" sign might be referring to the dev studio distance to Moscow. A quick search of Prague to Moscow results in over 1900km distance, which falls a bit short of the 2172, but depending on a specific location maybe on the outskirts of the city, with some indirect side roads, might possibly come out to that distance. Just a theory...
Are you seriously suggesting the city is 272km wide. You gotta be taking real real big side roads to do that. 272km from Prague would put you pretty much at Berlin or Vienna roughly
I always thought of the Arma II mini campaign Eagle Wing as the prequel to Day Z. A build up to a world war 3 scenario ending with a nuke being dropped on the US navy somewhere along the Chernarus coast and the player eventually escaping the island by boat.
I've never actually played the mini campaign and it sounds really intresting, might have to give it ago in my free time. Sounds like a really good take on the situation though, would explain why were a foregin survivor waking up on the coast
In the end credits SPOIER ALERT the Entire World gets nuked. Where radiation? Where the infected come from? I don't see it. The EW campaign is just meant to be the worst case scenario of the Chernarussian conflict, imo.
Great video, really well researched My own 2 cents to add: The virus could be an experimented chemical weapon - which makes sense why a covert military ship disguised as a civilian vessel carried it. In addition, given the way PO-X works and results in cuts all over your body, and the Infected are wounded and bloody all over, perhaps PO-X and the Virus are linked. PO-X could be a stronger or alternate version of the Virus with guaranteed lethality, which may explain why the player character is immune to the Virus, but not PO-X. Or if they are not linked as actual viruses, they may still likely originate from the same research as two different bioweapons. The Virus would act as a bioweapon that makes a population eradicate itself and spread the disease further, while PO-X can be used on high priority areas, or connecting areas (i.e. the airport) to immediately eradicate those areas completely. Also the reason why Helis are crashing (and being shot down?) and why there even is American activity at all - perhaps West Chernarus is an active war zone as of the outbreak, or some time around the outbreak, perhaps due to a NATO intervention after noticing what happened in Chernarus, for example after the Rify shipwreck. American intelligence might've caught on, and turned the rest of Chernarus into an active conflict zone, which also explains why there are no excursions of any kind by interested parties INTO South Zagoria, because they can't. And only the military could, but choose not to for obvious reasons.
@@keekorsomthin theory: those are pox mortars or missiles. as the OP said, we are immune to the original virus, but the gas zones, and POX grenades DO hurt us. my guess is that surveillance reports are why some areas get randomly bombed with the POX. since they were already using POX on the ship and pavlovo, they knew it would keep people out and also kill anything in it. so maybe if they see a huge number of infected, they just drop it in, based on that surveillance, and the pox cleans up the infected, or whoever else might be there
Great work Rav, you really did your home work, and the lore makes more sense now, as they release future content I am sure more of the official story will come to light!
I think that the outbreak also saw a resurgence of fighting between NAPA and ChDKZ groups (them taking advantage of the chaotic situation) as you can find Chedaki berets at checkpoints on military zombies. Due to this resurgence of fighting, this could of further caused chaos among CDF forces which is why they couldn't fight the infection - because they had to deal with infected and gunmen at their checkpoints. This could explain why you can find destroyed/damaged jeeps, tanks, APC's and other military hardware at checkpoints.
I’m a console player and never played arma. Just dayz on Xbox. As an active duty marine, I wondered why I kept finding zombified marines in bases and marine uniforms on the ground. Great explanation!
i’m on xbox too, if you’re on X|S you definitely should keep an eye out for ARMA reforger whenever it goes on sale. it’s absolutely insane and the engine we’re “supposedly” going to get for arma 4 and the dayz engine rework. or just flat out new game
Started this, and saved it to my watch later list. I’ve just finally found time to finish. Brilliantly done. My only tidbit to add to all the details is blatantly obvious, nearly every building on the map has at least 1 or more sealed door and rooms you cannot access. I have always presumed that they are packed full of the 80% dead citizens population. About 1 in (wild guess) maybe every 100+ play sessions I will find a house or building with an infected trapped in one of those rooms, and sometimes they will scream at me through that barred door
Not sure if this has already been said, but the Mi-8 wrecks have CDF insignia on the back right cargo door, not Russian. You can even see it in the video at 21:00.
Really awesome content! Thank you for providing us at the wiki as a source, and we'd love to have more insights and editors come help us out! We're only a small team so any help or edits made are always a huge help to us! Cheers again!
Crazy how far this game has come and how big the following has become. I remember being a wee-little 11 year old, dying to tell my dad about how cool this game was and how badly I wanted to play it ahaha Now im 23, oh how time flys…
Wow thank u for this masterpiece, if it wasnt for u and this highly informational video i would never have known that the story of dayz was this deep and even reaches back to arma. awesome, this totally changed the way i percieve dayz and gave another level of meaning to it!🙏
Awesome! I like every little dive into the lore :) The Origins story suggests that the virus started spreading as early as 1979, which fits Arma 2 and the Arma 2 mods pretty good - the entire game has a -80's feel to it.
I added a little bit in my comment to the specifics of the exact location not everybody is aware of the ubiquitous availability of the map and which I am referring to in said comment but anyway you might have seen it it's the one that shows our position and the immediate area around it affirming we are in fact in Russia and more specifically lying right next to the black mountains
I'm not sure if this was explained that all and I just didn't hear it but if not please love this comment and share suggest that others do so also please because you be surprised how many people did not know this even though the map in question is ubiquitous I mean I think it's like 52 of em spread around Chernerus
I really hope someday bohemia releases a full lore rundown and story so we dont have to speculate, it will definitely make the game more enjoyable when you know whats happening.
Idk, figuring it out yourself and making theories and never understanding the complete picture of what's going on feels better, you know. Not knowing removes the feel of power, control and safety, so I believe it's better if we're left in the dark.
@@htresty6442 a good thing yes to be in dark and theorising however as things progress more and more and things are retconned or changed as the world and development plan evolves...it would be nice to have an accurate basis given by the devs for us to stand on and so we can speculate about the future. In 2 years I don't want to be still arguing over when dayz is set or if the civil war was a ruse. I'd rather have the answer and use that to speculate over why a submarine has surfaced off of the coast dropping off bicycles for the survivors in the 1.25 update or whatever lol.
but with them leaving a blank slate, the game is dug much deeper into and more people play and talk longer. they let our imaginations run wild and it gets us even more addicted. smart move by them
I also found that In The right conditions in real life damaged or burned metal can rust in just a few of its exposed to high amounts of humidity(rain) snow or salt water in the air would also make sense for a lot of the car wrecks being partially burned and rusted
I’m impressed, never would I have taken the time to pice all this together, regardless of the couple holes in the timeline if anybody ever asks me this is the theory I’m pitching. Thanks Rav.
There's definitely a distinction between the mod and standalone. I seem to remember that it was implied that the original player character was an operative, sent to investigate. The uniform and standard issue pistol supported this. No idea who said that, sorry. The infection seems to mirror the epidemic in the 1973 film "The Crazies" by the late George A. Romero.
Really great dive into the lore. It would be so good if the devs tied together all the loose ends and gave us proper lore. Thank you so much for this video keep up the great work
Rav that was amazing! You`re such a nerd but we love all your work for that very same reason. Mega like for this one dude! (as of now, not one dislike😆). Keep up the good work bro.
Hey this is extremely helpful, because as an aspiring screenwriter, I am currently in the works of writing a DayZ spin-off show, obviously showing the story of a group of survivors in Chenarus.. although the characters are not native to Chenarus meaning there would be much to be explained in the lore of it. I’m believing personally the virus had to be connected to the war, and obviously the military areas were most likely placed during the war. Picturing stuff like present day Ukraine, where people are still living in the country, but military and compounds are presently being monitored. I think the outbreak had to have been going on for much longer than a few weeks, but not fully yet. The virus 🦠 was still alive and personal made attempt to stop it for a while and fight off the dead with their already existing military posts and people from the wars. Making this whole happening like a 10 year battle. The country was still able to live producing goods and stuff, until the outbreak went country wide/ most likely global too. Which is what we play in, about a week or two after most of the population has been thinned to none. Anyways LOVED THE VIDEO! Praying this show I’m working on eventually becomes true, and I get to work with many amazing players of the game for aid, was Well as the devs! Much LOVE! (As for the rify theory, I have a neat idea based on the stories of my chars of how this entire happening unfolded.)
Ok, I could read your stuff or play the game and press the buttons myself. Aren’t writers now 4 generations behind in technological entertainment? Radio, Cinema, TV and PC...
@@twdalpha8421 Ok, I could watch your stuff or play the game and press the buttons myself. It's like Seinfeld again, a show about a game without a plot. Good luck! I've seen a billion zombie movies. All bad except for a handful. Why should I watch others if I can do everything with my avatar now? The old media is so dead is all I wanted to say.
Loved it, thank you! I do love lore! Going to check now in case you have already done one, but if you haven't. Id love to see one on the Deer isle lore!
You have some pretty cool thoughts on DayZ lore and I for sure learned a few things even just about the game itself without really talking about the lore. One question that I have about the pox bombings/battery fire is why do the infected seem to be alright with walking around in the gas? Maybe that's thinking too much about it but I would think that maybe doing damage over time could have even been an option for in game mechanics if it was supposed to be for them. Which would be pretty cool tbh. From what you brought up in the video it does sound like they really did add a lot of little things that tells a larger story both in game and through forums/ads/posts. So I feel that it might be for the people who are left, and if the thing that broke out of the boat caused it all. What if that was the pox virus. It does make you bleed (which are probably soars) and throw up both puke and blood. Sounds a lot like what all the infected look like and maybe some people's bodies just couldn't handle all that trauma so they gave out? Just actually thought about that now as I was typing this out.. In my head it does kinda make sense. And the ship coulda been from the docks somewhere by Pavlovo mili picking up a shipment to take it somewhere? Or bringing something back.
This game would have been the perfect opportunity to have some sort of real time system in the game, for example when it first came out it was pretty normal looking on the map etc, and now over ten years later everything has become overgrown, weapons are harder to find in pristine condition etc. A cool concept i reckon for a game. Changing the game overtime keeping it interesting while also being able to feel like everything slowly getting more overgrown and harder to survive in.
You definitely put more thought into the surrounding lore than the devs. Devs just want an excuse to make a wicked cool game, which they definitely did.
Always look forward to your informative videos Rav!!! Nice job on this one bro, very interesting and I hope you do a follow up video in the future as more lore is released by bohemia! Maybe even a cheeky Livonia in the interim 😅, thanks again:)
My personal theory was always that the shipwreck at Rify was the source of the Outbreak, and that the ship crashed as a result of the Infection, which eventually spreads to Berezino and throughout the rest of the region. In 2017 The Chernarussian Defense Force is deployed to South Zagoria, erecting road blocks and checkpoints to evacuate civilians, while all the research from Pavlovo related to PO-X is taken west. As the Infection ravages the region in a relatively quick amount of time, the region is abandoned completely, save for the few survivors left behind, with various world governments keeping the area under lockdown. To combat the infection, the Chernarussian government begins to bomb the region daily with PO-X; first in Pavlovo, the main hub for military research, and the shipwreck at Rify, the source of the outbreak, along with any villages and towns detected to still harbor Infected that are scouted out by the military helicopters. But sometimes, those military helicopters come crashing as a result of the crew becoming infected, most likely from a scouting mission where the personal got infected somehow. In the trailers for DayZ when it first was made Standalone one of the messages on the walls said something about "waiting five years" so I assumed DayZ took place five years after the initial outbreak, although I could be wrong about this.
Man I love this!! I love Lore! And playing around with google maps I'd say Branzow Castle in Livonia might be Schloss Panemune in Lithuania and the location of Chernarus in the Czech Republic might be best fitting with the Lopatino roadsign pointing towards Moscow. Maybe there was a road or highway not built in 2013 which would make the distance on that sign quite accurate. And that geolocation link of yours points that out as well. Though that would negate the marine assault ship and the labe (Elbe) river would not be able to support a ship like rify shipwreck either.
Hi, the reason why the map resembles north part of czech republic is because main game area designer was from city Ústí nad Labem and he ported this area as his own easter egg to the game. Basically every villiage/city/poi is based and placed on real thing
Also, there may be a war between the CDF and the Russian Federation, because the helicopter crash noises sound like they are releasing flares before crashing, suggesting they are being shot down. Although it would be weird to fight each other over something like containing the virus, maybe the two powers are trying to achieve something before the other one does- like maybe the secret hidden at Rify, or even PO-X.
3:51 not trying to be rude but the places you just showed are in the western side of Takistan meaning near the Chernosrussian border it has pine forests
4:14 seems a bit too similar to chernarus don't ya think I mean airfield and a suspiciously looking city that looks like berezino like it can't just be me who thinks that right?
So with the Decay of the buildings, broken glass i feel like the start of the pandemic started a little earlier, the current food ( exp date) could be explained by air drops to keep those alive while being quarantined. As you mentioned the road blocks are very basic which means they were able to contain the spread really quick. with the bombing ( gas attacks) and Helio crashes we know that there is outside help/support ..but remember with the Helio crashes there are zombies so its not 100% contained. Far as the Moscow location , we are assuming that the location of Moscow hasn't changed , remember this is a different world from our own so the location could be different if you went 2k klm from the sign what would you run into ? Also remember 2k klm on a road vs a map is a lot different that road could not be a straight path. One theory i have is you were dropped off as a test subject to be monitored to test a new vaccine against the virus. it will be interesting to see where the story goes with the bunker location in Livonia and how it will tie with Chernarus and if you can travel between the two location at some point.
While I can't contribute to the convo as I am just a DayZ 'noob' at under 1k hours which prevents me from having an opinion- I did enjoy the effort you put into this video, I'm impressed and subbed!
As a seasoned player myself I always wondered what the actual backstory of DayZ was. Before the whole PO-X update I was always very unsure of what actually went down etc but this video summed up my own personal theory perfectly. One thing I did however think of is that both permanent gas zones are linked directly and the covert shipment was more product/research stuff for the development of the PO-X virus and its antidote. My theory is that the outbreak started in the lab when they were creating a new bio weapon and the ship either crashed at a very unlucky time or was already sitting there waiting for a pick up. So the two gas zones aren't leaks but rather the first two that were shot and are now kept up as cover up so other countries can't investigate where the virus originated from so incase Russia does manage to keep things controlled inside Chernarus/Livonia they still have their secret weapon with now an antidote and a way to fight it. Also I believe PO-X is simply the finished version of the original weapon that broke out since the player is no longer immune to it and the hazmat infected that spawn are what I'm assuming also other immune people from the first virus outbreak that were tasked to retrieve/destroy any left over evidence and either had a faulty hazmat suit or they didn't have antidote with them.
Scary to think that the infected are conscious and aren’t walking corpses. They are humans that are just sick, and can’t control themselves. Animalistic behaviour is all they can do. Moving in hordes. I wish there was a way to get the infection and go through the painful symptoms but being asymptomatic is cool too.
Bro, I really love this vid, the sumup of all the theories existing within the community so far and all the good work you did to put all this together. I would like to dispute one point of your research. I am not sure if I agree with your a little point of your findings. I:m talking about the distance of Amsterdam, Venice and IStanbul to Mowcow. that you mentioned. In fact they are all three round about 2600 km away from Moscow and not less than 2172 km. The most western part of Tsczech Repubic is up to 2000 km away from Moscow. I discovered that the distance between Chernarus and Moscow is roughly the same as the distance between Moscow and the inner-German border before the German Union back in 1989- At the same time the USSR broke into pieces and Moscows influence was strongly minimalized. Perhaps the devs got this in mind. Perhaps everyboddys wrong and Chernarus is in fact located in Saxony or the Uckermark region. Just kidding, but isn't it a little funny that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics reached exactly 2172 km from Moscow to Europe?
I found your channel by accident as I was looking for more Information about the Backgroundstory of DayZ. There is not that much content about that. Just folloewd up your channel. 82k Followers is totally underrated. Keep uo the great work!
I love the theory. Although the one thing I think may be off is how long everything has been going on ,the fruit specifically.your correct on the timing of fruit decay but what about preserved fruit through different means like cold weather Packaging and then human regrowing the fruit as it runs out that's the only part that threw me off
I’ve played since it was epoch mod on arma 2- operation arrow head, I can’t remember when exactly it was, but at one stage of the game if you died to infected you respawned as infected and had to then die again to respawn as a player, as infected you could carry nothing, hold no weapons but you could summon other infected to your area be calling/ yelling, it was an interesting twist but no very popular and hence phased out.
@@RavPlays THANKYOU FOR THIS! I needed this video so bad honestly, people don’t know any of this information like me, and I’ve been playing for like 3 years now 😳 Thankyou bro for real! I will be a loyal subscriber for ever
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Really hope you guys enjoyed this one as it took a lot of work, and am looking forward to discussing your ideas in either the comments or my discord discord.gg/nmC7Xtt
I still would like to think that the outbreak happend at least a few years ago because everything is run down, windows broken, and cars uterlly destroyed and all of the overrun bases etc state that it had been a longer process and not just a few days.
And if the virus isn't airborn i can't see the defence force "loosing" to infected in a few days.
Even if evidence states something different.
Bro this was absolutely phenomenal! This is the quality of research and story-telling that I would love to see with other games.
@@Blinxis Thankyou man, i glad you enjoyed it and really appreciate thekind words
I love how the devs mentioned this vid in the monthly update but refuse to confirm or deny the back story 😆
Really Nice to see they mentioned it though
I’d say that them mentioning it is confirmation 🤞🏻
Its just a game, so make up the backstory lmaoo!
There is always a intended story
Or it would just be a bunch of random npcs talking and no loot, cuz your just pointlessly walking around
But in a survival game, like life. You write your own story, and the overall story is meaningless unless it changes events in your story
The mi-8 in 20:49 isn’t Russians because it has cdf markings on the rear open panels
I didn’t realize the map was THAT physically accurate to its real life counterpart
Arma 2 is an extremely well made, great game.
@@P1T4BotGreat game. Wild physics
To be fair if it is a epidemic basing it off of a gun and food expiration that could be from humanitarian aid
U can actually go to tisy in real life I watched this dude go in the hangars and the ramped structures
The first bigger city after coming from the German border in the Czech Republic is "Decin" if you drive from Dresden to Prag by train... its just on the other side from the train tracks over the river elbe... Located in an German and Czech border crossing area known as the Elb(e)-Sandstein Mountains... as a DayZ player you know this as a famous cost city in chernarus.. this train line is known as one of the most beautiful train routes to travel in Europe... You also drive through "Usti nad Labem" another well known city in chernarus...
One of the main DayZ Wiki guys here... Sounds pretentious I know... XD Really appreciated the shout-out to the team at the end of the video! Made us super pumped to be mentioned! We are always looking for help! Loved the video and will be subbing! Keep doing what you do man!
Thank for the kind words man, the wiki goes very unappreciated in the DayZ community, a very useful resource. Keep it up!
@@RavPlays It's a lot to manage but our passion outweighs all the work we have to do! We are working on a video ourselves on lore and it's been months in the making. But we are really lazy... XD
@@ZEROs0000if it wasn't for people like you I would still be figuring out the crafting mechanics of the game. The Wiki is extremely useful for this. So thank you ^_^
@@ZEROs0000 soooo where's the video?
Yeah!
As far, as the timeline goes…I like to play on high-pop servers when I’m feeling like PvP. It simulates the first days of the outbreak when it’s total chaos, every man for himself. Then there is times when I like to slow it down and simply emulate the later days of the apocalypse. Focus more on survival, building bases and stashes, and take time to enjoy the atmosphere of the game. That’s when I play on my home server which is a low-pop.
I love this game. I play no other. It’s so open. So free of any restrictions whatsoever. It truly is whatever you want it to be. No subscriptions. Nothing hidden behind pay walls. No pay-to-win. No loot crates. Just you. The game. And other survivors.
Beautifully written! You don't need loot crates when every house could have a mosin and every survivor could be your nemesis or ally.
@Zio Peraza Haha. Wish I could tell you that, bud. But then all of RUclips would know that’s where my team’s stashes and bases are. Then it wouldn’t be the safe and secure low-pop that it is.
@@COD4JESSE All of RUclips will read this comment!!! 🫡
Well written. Which is what I love about it. Especially if you are playing with friends.
Truly a game of infinate encounters with limited recorces.
The "2172km to Moscow" sign might be referring to the dev studio distance to Moscow. A quick search of Prague to Moscow results in over 1900km distance, which falls a bit short of the 2172, but depending on a specific location maybe on the outskirts of the city, with some indirect side roads, might possibly come out to that distance. Just a theory...
Are you seriously suggesting the city is 272km wide. You gotta be taking real real big side roads to do that. 272km from Prague would put you pretty much at Berlin or Vienna roughly
A game theory
@@WillyJack0076 Not a good one
@@WillyJack0076thank you
@@thecommunistdoggo1008wrong the map off dayz itself is 236 km² "square km" meaning the theory is very close
I always thought of the Arma II mini campaign Eagle Wing as the prequel to Day Z. A build up to a world war 3 scenario ending with a nuke being dropped on the US navy somewhere along the Chernarus coast and the player eventually escaping the island by boat.
I've never actually played the mini campaign and it sounds really intresting, might have to give it ago in my free time. Sounds like a really good take on the situation though, would explain why were a foregin survivor waking up on the coast
In the end credits SPOIER ALERT
the Entire World gets nuked.
Where radiation? Where the infected come from?
I don't see it. The EW campaign is just meant to be the worst case scenario of the Chernarussian conflict, imo.
@@Nicitel94 Of course, EW is not an actual official prequel as it predates the Day Z mod.
Well, the EW is official Arma 2 mission, though non-cannon, and the DayZ was an independent Mod. Also we already know what caused the outbreak.
@@RavPlays it would explain the survivors trained handeling of guns as well
You pretty much taught me how to play DayZ, man. Have loved your vids for a good while. Can't wait to dive into this one!
Ahaha, glad i could be of use. Hopefully you enjoy it!
Wow, just wow. I've played dayz for 3 years now, and never new any of this. Amazing job rav, never cease to impress me.
Thankyou man, I appreciate it!
Great video, really well researched
My own 2 cents to add:
The virus could be an experimented chemical weapon - which makes sense why a covert military ship disguised as a civilian vessel carried it. In addition, given the way PO-X works and results in cuts all over your body, and the Infected are wounded and bloody all over, perhaps PO-X and the Virus are linked.
PO-X could be a stronger or alternate version of the Virus with guaranteed lethality, which may explain why the player character is immune to the Virus, but not PO-X. Or if they are not linked as actual viruses, they may still likely originate from the same research as two different bioweapons.
The Virus would act as a bioweapon that makes a population eradicate itself and spread the disease further, while PO-X can be used on high priority areas, or connecting areas (i.e. the airport) to immediately eradicate those areas completely.
Also the reason why Helis are crashing (and being shot down?) and why there even is American activity at all - perhaps West Chernarus is an active war zone as of the outbreak, or some time around the outbreak, perhaps due to a NATO intervention after noticing what happened in Chernarus, for example after the Rify shipwreck. American intelligence might've caught on, and turned the rest of Chernarus into an active conflict zone, which also explains why there are no excursions of any kind by interested parties INTO South Zagoria, because they can't. And only the military could, but choose not to for obvious reasons.
This comment right here 🤔 🙌🏾 love it adds even more backstory to the future and past of DayZ
I always assumed pox had something to do with the outbreak
Well then, what's up with the missiles that land in the gas zines?
@@keekorsomthin theory: those are pox mortars or missiles. as the OP said, we are immune to the original virus, but the gas zones, and POX grenades DO hurt us. my guess is that surveillance reports are why some areas get randomly bombed with the POX. since they were already using POX on the ship and pavlovo, they knew it would keep people out and also kill anything in it. so maybe if they see a huge number of infected, they just drop it in, based on that surveillance, and the pox cleans up the infected, or whoever else might be there
@@ghomerhust oh
Great work Rav, you really did your home work, and the lore makes more sense now, as they release future content I am sure more of the official story will come to light!
ty man glad you enjoyed it, am really looking forward to seeing how the offical lore unfolds and differs from that of the video
@@RavPlays its like 28 days later
One of the clearest and well done DayZ videos I have seen in years. For a newcomer to the game this would of been Gold.
I think that the outbreak also saw a resurgence of fighting between NAPA and ChDKZ groups (them taking advantage of the chaotic situation) as you can find Chedaki berets at checkpoints on military zombies. Due to this resurgence of fighting, this could of further caused chaos among CDF forces which is why they couldn't fight the infection - because they had to deal with infected and gunmen at their checkpoints. This could explain why you can find destroyed/damaged jeeps, tanks, APC's and other military hardware at checkpoints.
That makes everything make so much more sense.
I’m a console player and never played arma. Just dayz on Xbox. As an active duty marine, I wondered why I kept finding zombified marines in bases and marine uniforms on the ground. Great explanation!
i’m on xbox too, if you’re on X|S you definitely should keep an eye out for ARMA reforger whenever it goes on sale. it’s absolutely insane and the engine we’re “supposedly” going to get for arma 4 and the dayz engine rework. or just flat out new game
I love it when games have very vague story telling so people can make and discuss their own theories.
Finally a back story video keep up the content ❤️
Thankyou man i really appreciate it!
Started this, and saved it to my watch later list. I’ve just finally found time to finish. Brilliantly done. My only tidbit to add to all the details is blatantly obvious, nearly every building on the map has at least 1 or more sealed door and rooms you cannot access. I have always presumed that they are packed full of the 80% dead citizens population. About 1 in (wild guess) maybe every 100+ play sessions I will find a house or building with an infected trapped in one of those rooms, and sometimes they will scream at me through that barred door
Not sure if this has already been said, but the Mi-8 wrecks have CDF insignia on the back right cargo door, not Russian. You can even see it in the video at 21:00.
So that means the CDF is still operating at some capacity
It's extremely weird that the epidemic in this game spread, dated March 12th, when that was the same day covid was declared a national emergency
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Yay! Was hoping you would make this after you propositioned it in another recent video. Best DayZ lore video out! Thanks Rav
Thankyou man. Hope you enjoyed it!
11:04 Holy...! The amount of Research you have done for this Video... Good Job!
Ahaha, thankyou man!
Really awesome content! Thank you for providing us at the wiki as a source, and we'd love to have more insights and editors come help us out! We're only a small team so any help or edits made are always a huge help to us! Cheers again!
I research so much dayz lore and would love to help !
Great job Rav! I’ve been waiting for something like this.
Ty man!
That was awesome I've been waiting on this video for years! Thank you for doing all that.
Really well done; thoroughly researched with plausible conclusions. EXCELLENT work, a Must see for any true fan of DayZ.
Crazy how far this game has come and how big the following has become.
I remember being a wee-little 11 year old, dying to tell my dad about how cool this game was and how badly I wanted to play it ahaha
Now im 23, oh how time flys…
thank you for bringing color to this game in such a well digestable format. great stuff
Wow thank u for this masterpiece, if it wasnt for u and this highly informational video i would never have known that the story of dayz was this deep and even reaches back to arma.
awesome, this totally changed the way i percieve dayz and gave another level of meaning to it!🙏
Ty ever so much man!
Awesome! I like every little dive into the lore :) The Origins story suggests that the virus started spreading as early as 1979, which fits Arma 2 and the Arma 2 mods pretty good - the entire game has a -80's feel to it.
I added a little bit in my comment to the specifics of the exact location not everybody is aware of the ubiquitous availability of the map and which I am referring to in said comment but anyway you might have seen it it's the one that shows our position and the immediate area around it affirming we are in fact in Russia and more specifically lying right next to the black mountains
I'm not sure if this was explained that all and I just didn't hear it but if not please love this comment and share suggest that others do so also please because you be surprised how many people did not know this even though the map in question is ubiquitous I mean I think it's like 52 of em spread around Chernerus
I really hope someday bohemia releases a full lore rundown and story so we dont have to speculate, it will definitely make the game more enjoyable when you know whats happening.
Idk, figuring it out yourself and making theories and never understanding the complete picture of what's going on feels better, you know. Not knowing removes the feel of power, control and safety, so I believe it's better if we're left in the dark.
@@htresty6442 a good thing yes to be in dark and theorising however as things progress more and more and things are retconned or changed as the world and development plan evolves...it would be nice to have an accurate basis given by the devs for us to stand on and so we can speculate about the future. In 2 years I don't want to be still arguing over when dayz is set or if the civil war was a ruse. I'd rather have the answer and use that to speculate over why a submarine has surfaced off of the coast dropping off bicycles for the survivors in the 1.25 update or whatever lol.
but with them leaving a blank slate, the game is dug much deeper into and more people play and talk longer. they let our imaginations run wild and it gets us even more addicted. smart move by them
My theory is that there’s this guy who really loves beans and hiking mountains who made a zombie mod in a military game because he likes zombie games
Dean Rocket Hall lore
I've been looking forward to this!! Thanks Rav!!
No worries man; hope you enjoy
Solid vid! Great research and love the way you put it all together!
Thankyou man!
Just a tip: The distance to Moscow isn't a developer mistake... It's a particular road length to Moscow, not a distance...
Wow this was awesome. Great job Rav!
I also found that In The right conditions in real life damaged or burned metal can rust in just a few of its exposed to high amounts of humidity(rain) snow or salt water in the air would also make sense for a lot of the car wrecks being partially burned and rusted
GG Rav, this was a good video and the work involved is very noticeable
Ty man, glad you enjoyed it!
I’m impressed, never would I have taken the time to pice all this together, regardless of the couple holes in the timeline if anybody ever asks me this is the theory I’m pitching. Thanks Rav.
There's definitely a distinction between the mod and standalone.
I seem to remember that it was implied that the original player character was an operative, sent to investigate. The uniform and standard issue pistol supported this. No idea who said that, sorry.
The infection seems to mirror the epidemic in the 1973 film "The Crazies" by the late George A. Romero.
Really great dive into the lore. It would be so good if the devs tied together all the loose ends and gave us proper lore. Thank you so much for this video keep up the great work
Really want to see what the devs do with it in the future
@@RavPlays yeah definitely I hope what they do with Livonia also ties into the lore
Rav that was amazing! You`re such a nerd but we love all your work for that very same reason. Mega like for this one dude! (as of now, not one dislike😆). Keep up the good work bro.
When I saw "Instanbul" the Turkish inside me screamed a lil.
You're wild figuring all this out. Great video, not sure how I can learn all this but never anything from school.
Hey this is extremely helpful, because as an aspiring screenwriter, I am currently in the works of writing a DayZ spin-off show, obviously showing the story of a group of survivors in Chenarus.. although the characters are not native to Chenarus meaning there would be much to be explained in the lore of it. I’m believing personally the virus had to be connected to the war, and obviously the military areas were most likely placed during the war. Picturing stuff like present day Ukraine, where people are still living in the country, but military and compounds are presently being monitored. I think the outbreak had to have been going on for much longer than a few weeks, but not fully yet. The virus 🦠 was still alive and personal made attempt to stop it for a while and fight off the dead with their already existing military posts and people from the wars. Making this whole happening like a 10 year battle. The country was still able to live producing goods and stuff, until the outbreak went country wide/ most likely global too. Which is what we play in, about a week or two after most of the population has been thinned to none. Anyways LOVED THE VIDEO! Praying this show I’m working on eventually becomes true, and I get to work with many amazing players of the game for aid, was Well as the devs! Much LOVE! (As for the rify theory, I have a neat idea based on the stories of my chars of how this entire happening unfolded.)
Ok, I could read your stuff or play the game and press the buttons myself. Aren’t writers now 4 generations behind in technological entertainment? Radio, Cinema, TV and PC...
@@knutblume907 a screenplay is cinema?? Help 😭
@@twdalpha8421 Ok, I could watch your stuff or play the game and press the buttons myself. It's like Seinfeld again, a show about a game without a plot. Good luck! I've seen a billion zombie movies. All bad except for a handful. Why should I watch others if I can do everything with my avatar now? The old media is so dead is all I wanted to say.
@@twdalpha8421 hey don't listen to this other douchebag, you should totally write your screenplay if you're feelin good about your idea
Loved it, thank you! I do love lore! Going to check now in case you have already done one, but if you haven't. Id love to see one on the Deer isle lore!
This was great bro!
I’ve been alive for 13 weeks yesterday on vanilla official, playing like my life depends on it. It’s so intense, glad I started playing
13 weeks without running into hackers on official is an accomplishment in itself. Congrats.
@@Phil8sheo he might be on PS4 or Xbox
@@rig0rmort1s I am indeed a peasant.
I like your take on this. I enjoyed the video, thanks for putting all the effort in.
Thankyou man, appreciate the kind words
You have some pretty cool thoughts on DayZ lore and I for sure learned a few things even just about the game itself without really talking about the lore.
One question that I have about the pox bombings/battery fire is why do the infected seem to be alright with walking around in the gas? Maybe that's thinking too much about it but I would think that maybe doing damage over time could have even been an option for in game mechanics if it was supposed to be for them. Which would be pretty cool tbh. From what you brought up in the video it does sound like they really did add a lot of little things that tells a larger story both in game and through forums/ads/posts. So I feel that it might be for the people who are left, and if the thing that broke out of the boat caused it all. What if that was the pox virus. It does make you bleed (which are probably soars) and throw up both puke and blood. Sounds a lot like what all the infected look like and maybe some people's bodies just couldn't handle all that trauma so they gave out?
Just actually thought about that now as I was typing this out.. In my head it does kinda make sense. And the ship coulda been from the docks somewhere by Pavlovo mili picking up a shipment to take it somewhere? Or bringing something back.
great vid rav! best lore vid made
Thankyou, i'm glad you think so. Means alot mate!
This game would have been the perfect opportunity to have some sort of real time system in the game, for example when it first came out it was pretty normal looking on the map etc, and now over ten years later everything has become overgrown, weapons are harder to find in pristine condition etc. A cool concept i reckon for a game. Changing the game overtime keeping it interesting while also being able to feel like everything slowly getting more overgrown and harder to survive in.
Bravo! well done! Thanks for the time and effort you invest in your productions they are very much appreciated and enjoyed
Thankyou man I appreciate the kind Words
@@RavPlays yw....
Fascinating video and thanks for putting it together!
Thankyou for the kind words man!
You definitely put more thought into the surrounding lore than the devs. Devs just want an excuse to make a wicked cool game, which they definitely did.
Great vid, makes Chernaurus even more interesting and eery!
Ty man!
Can we take a mo-
nah just kidding but your videos are OP,
I love DayZ
Always look forward to your informative videos Rav!!! Nice job on this one bro, very interesting and I hope you do a follow up video in the future as more lore is released by bohemia! Maybe even a cheeky Livonia in the interim 😅, thanks again:)
Thankyou for the kind words man, glad you enjoyed it!
would love a video on the new map sakhal just like this video, that map has an insane amount of storytelling around it
Exactly like what are the scientist on The volcano doing
Your synopsis works for me mate. Kudos on a great vid. Hope this becomes very popular. Was just gutted it came to an end.
Really Glad you enjoyed it, your kind words mean alot!
This is a solid video, I think any DayZ player would enjoy watching this
I've been waiting for this. Thank you
Awesome viddy Rav! 8 year DayZ player and learned a lot! 👊
Thankyou Joe, I appreciate it
Omg I'm early !!!! I'm good at the game because I watch you and got good because of your tips and guides. And just watching you play
I’m glad I could be of help
This was a really good watch and great detail! Thanks 🙏
My personal theory was always that the shipwreck at Rify was the source of the Outbreak, and that the ship crashed as a result of the Infection, which eventually spreads to Berezino and throughout the rest of the region. In 2017 The Chernarussian Defense Force is deployed to South Zagoria, erecting road blocks and checkpoints to evacuate civilians, while all the research from Pavlovo related to PO-X is taken west. As the Infection ravages the region in a relatively quick amount of time, the region is abandoned completely, save for the few survivors left behind, with various world governments keeping the area under lockdown. To combat the infection, the Chernarussian government begins to bomb the region daily with PO-X; first in Pavlovo, the main hub for military research, and the shipwreck at Rify, the source of the outbreak, along with any villages and towns detected to still harbor Infected that are scouted out by the military helicopters. But sometimes, those military helicopters come crashing as a result of the crew becoming infected, most likely from a scouting mission where the personal got infected somehow.
In the trailers for DayZ when it first was made Standalone one of the messages on the walls said something about "waiting five years" so I assumed DayZ took place five years after the initial outbreak, although I could be wrong about this.
Just got suggested this Vid in my feed I really liked it good work, got a new subscriber 👌 keep up the good work Bro 👌
Awesome, thank you!
@@RavPlays no man thank you for the awesome content really enjoyed it lokking forward to watching more or your vids now 👌
Man I love this!! I love Lore!
And playing around with google maps I'd say Branzow Castle in Livonia might be Schloss Panemune in Lithuania and the location of Chernarus in the Czech Republic might be best fitting with the Lopatino roadsign pointing towards Moscow. Maybe there was a road or highway not built in 2013 which would make the distance on that sign quite accurate. And that geolocation link of yours points that out as well. Though that would negate the marine assault ship and the labe (Elbe) river would not be able to support a ship like rify shipwreck either.
Hi, the reason why the map resembles north part of czech republic is because main game area designer was from city Ústí nad Labem and he ported this area as his own easter egg to the game. Basically every villiage/city/poi is based and placed on real thing
Just started playing like 3 weeks ago on ps5, your vids have been a big help thanks.
Glad i could be of help
Huge work, excellent work. Thank you for this vid !
Also, there may be a war between the CDF and the Russian Federation, because the helicopter crash noises sound like they are releasing flares before crashing, suggesting they are being shot down. Although it would be weird to fight each other over something like containing the virus, maybe the two powers are trying to achieve something before the other one does- like maybe the secret hidden at Rify, or even PO-X.
That was awesome thanks for the loreee, they were some mad theorys❤❤❤
Some serious research grind here. Nice work.
Ty man i Appreciate it!
3:51 not trying to be rude but the places you just showed are in the western side of Takistan meaning near the Chernosrussian border it has pine forests
4:14 seems a bit too similar to chernarus don't ya think I mean airfield and a suspiciously looking city that looks like berezino like it can't just be me who thinks that right?
Awesome video Rav
Bro absolutely love your content keep it up
Thankyou man, it means alot!
So with the Decay of the buildings, broken glass i feel like the start of the pandemic started a little earlier, the current food ( exp date) could be explained by air drops to keep those alive while being quarantined. As you mentioned the road blocks are very basic which means they were able to contain the spread really quick. with the bombing ( gas attacks) and Helio crashes we know that there is outside help/support ..but remember with the Helio crashes there are zombies so its not 100% contained. Far as the Moscow location , we are assuming that the location of Moscow hasn't changed , remember this is a different world from our own so the location could be different if you went 2k klm from the sign what would you run into ? Also remember 2k klm on a road vs a map is a lot different that road could not be a straight path. One theory i have is you were dropped off as a test subject to be monitored to test a new vaccine against the virus. it will be interesting to see where the story goes with the bunker location in Livonia and how it will tie with Chernarus and if you can travel between the two location at some point.
thank. you. rav. ive had such a hard time finding lore.
loved this lore video, not realy that much lore on dayz/arma mod so im happy to see this typa stuff.
12:03 hmmm.
While I can't contribute to the convo as I am just a DayZ 'noob' at under 1k hours which prevents me from having an opinion- I did enjoy the effort you put into this video, I'm impressed and subbed!
Everyones opinion is welcome man, im glad you enjoyed the video. Thankyou for the sub!
Great job putting this together. It definitely adds to the DayZ lore. 🧟♂️🧟
Glad you think so!
I know this video is like a year old, but I really appreciate your content.
You missed the Livonia bunker where you can find artillery ammunition with pox vials inside in tousands
Great work! I really enjoyed this!
Very intresting you got some very good points. Keep up the good work
Thankyou man I really appreciate the support
As a seasoned player myself I always wondered what the actual backstory of DayZ was. Before the whole PO-X update I was always very unsure of what actually went down etc but this video summed up my own personal theory perfectly.
One thing I did however think of is that both permanent gas zones are linked directly and the covert shipment was more product/research stuff for the development of the PO-X virus and its antidote.
My theory is that the outbreak started in the lab when they were creating a new bio weapon and the ship either crashed at a very unlucky time or was already sitting there waiting for a pick up. So the two gas zones aren't leaks but rather the first two that were shot and are now kept up as cover up so other countries can't investigate where the virus originated from so incase Russia does manage to keep things controlled inside Chernarus/Livonia they still have their secret weapon with now an antidote and a way to fight it.
Also I believe PO-X is simply the finished version of the original weapon that broke out since the player is no longer immune to it and the hazmat infected that spawn are what I'm assuming also other immune people from the first virus outbreak that were tasked to retrieve/destroy any left over evidence and either had a faulty hazmat suit or they didn't have antidote with them.
I live in Lipová (Czech Republic) and it helped me find my way around in dayz. even that the map isnt 1:1 to the detail i knew where am i etc.
That’s sick bro
Scary to think that the infected are conscious and aren’t walking corpses. They are humans that are just sick, and can’t control themselves. Animalistic behaviour is all they can do. Moving in hordes. I wish there was a way to get the infection and go through the painful symptoms but being asymptomatic is cool too.
Bro, I really love this vid, the sumup of all the theories existing within the community so far and all the good work you did to put all this together.
I would like to dispute one point of your research. I am not sure if I agree with your a little point of your findings. I:m talking about the distance of Amsterdam, Venice and IStanbul to Mowcow. that you mentioned. In fact they are all three round about 2600 km away from Moscow and not less than 2172 km. The most western part of Tsczech Repubic is up to 2000 km away from Moscow.
I discovered that the distance between Chernarus and Moscow is roughly the same as the distance between Moscow and the inner-German border before the German Union back in 1989- At the same time the USSR broke into pieces and Moscows influence was strongly minimalized. Perhaps the devs got this in mind. Perhaps everyboddys wrong and Chernarus is in fact located in Saxony or the Uckermark region.
Just kidding, but isn't it a little funny that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics reached exactly 2172 km from Moscow to Europe?
I found your channel by accident as I was looking for more Information about the Backgroundstory of DayZ. There is not that much content about that. Just folloewd up your channel. 82k Followers is totally underrated. Keep uo the great work!
Appreciate you making this!
My pleasure!
I love the theory. Although the one thing I think may be off is how long everything has been going on ,the fruit specifically.your correct on the timing of fruit decay but what about preserved fruit through different means like cold weather Packaging and then human regrowing the fruit as it runs out that's the only part that threw me off
Love you rav
Love bro
Glad you went through with this dude. Brill stuff!
Cheers man, appreciate it
I love me some lore! Thanks Rav!
No problem man, enjoy!
I already know this is gonna be a good video!
I’ve played since it was epoch mod on arma 2- operation arrow head, I can’t remember when exactly it was, but at one stage of the game if you died to infected you respawned as infected and had to then die again to respawn as a player, as infected you could carry nothing, hold no weapons but you could summon other infected to your area be calling/ yelling, it was an interesting twist but no very popular and hence phased out.
The effort put in to this 🔥🙏
Thankyou mate
@@RavPlays THANKYOU FOR THIS! I needed this video so bad honestly, people don’t know any of this information like me, and I’ve been playing for like 3 years now 😳 Thankyou bro for real! I will be a loyal subscriber for ever
Very interesting and insightful. Well done!