Zombie survival mod DayZ takes place in the nation of Chernarus, which sounds entirely made-up, but it’s only mostly made-up. The geography of the map is actually lifted from a real-world location, around Povrly, in the north of the Czech Republic.
Sure, there’s no ocean in the Czech Republic (only ArmA/DayZ devs Bohemia Interactive), but as you can see from this comparison here, the real Povrly’s river matches the outline of the fictional Chernarus’ coastline almost perfectly. Same goes for the rest of the terrain, right down to the location of towns and even buildings. It’s so close, in fact, that aside from the names of the towns, you could use the game’s map to navigate the actual location in the real world.
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As a survivor, the player must scavenge the world for food, water, weapons and medicine, while killing or avoiding the infected, and killing, avoiding, or cooperating with other players in an effort to survive the outbreak. Later updates include the fictional Eastern European country of Livonia, ported from Arma 3.
Though the terrain for our beloved DayZ Chernarus map is based on the area of Ústí, where the developers are from, some of the buildings and several attractions are actually located outside the area elsewhere in the country.
DayZ has unused files for cannabis, which puts the Australian Classification Board on edge. The Australian Classification Board has refused to classify the physical release of zombie survival game DayZ due to its use of cannabis.
Unlike other games, blood in DayZ isn't directly associated with the health or energy gauge. Instead, it's a separate mechanic that helps determine a character's physical abilities. However, you can't take or receive blood randomly in this game.
bohemia interactive is a czech republic based company, famous for their arma franchise. most czech are bilingual, the russians stuff is basically their roots with being a part of the ussr back in the day.
Chernarus is officially a bilingual state, where the Russian and Chernarussian languages have official status. The prevalence of the Russian language receiving official status stems from the long-standing historical and cultural ties to neighbouring Russia.
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