Greetings, Steam Survivors!
A few years back, we introduced a few basic community items, including badges, trading cards, profile backgrounds, and emoticons. This time, we are expanding the collection with new items you can purchase on the Steam Points Shop!With these items, you will be able to customize your Steam profile with DayZ visuals to the fullest. Here are the types of items you can now get from our Points Shop:
Animated avatars
Animated backgrounds
Animated profile frames
Animated emotes
Get Em Here!
To state the obvious, the operative word here is “animated!”We also kept most of the visual elements of these items as close to the game as we could. For example, there are two types of animated frames: window frames taken directly from the three maps, and frames based on your character’s progression and playstyle. They all should have their own unqiue animation. The avatars are also taken directly from the game, featuring actions and emotes you can perform in-game.Emotes are the only category where we allowed ourselves to be a bit looser, hand-drawn, and cartoonish. Because, why not!? Even though we pride ourselves on being gritty and rooted in realism, we also like to pay tribute to the lighter side of DayZ, where the community takes itself a little less seriously and goes on goofy runs with randos and/or friends. That is why we added our iconic “friendly wiggle.” Its extension, the Chicken Wiggle, should be attributed to our resident chicken expert, Joito.
There are also two animated backgrounds for each of our maps, all with their own uniqueness. (Edit: Chernarus: Rest in the Moutains is still in submission) Think Livonia Rain, Sakhal’s oppressive snow, and Chernarus’s desolation. We do have something planned for Nasdara as well, but it is a bit too revealing as a spoiler, so we are holding it back until the release of DayZ Badlands. (Psst, wishlist it if you have not! Big love!)
All in all, we hope you like these items! Feel free to send screenshots of your customized DayZ profiles to our socials.All the best,
The DayZ Team