DayZ standalone delayed for 'groundbreaking' changes
You may have noticed that the standalone version of smash-hit Arma II mod DayZ missed itsplanned December launch, but there's a very good reason for that. Creator Dean Hall explains in a new blog post, "Put simply, DayZ Standalone isn't here because we had the chance to go from making a game that was just the mod improved slightly, packaged simply, and sold - to actually redeveloping the engine and making the game the way we all dreamed it could be."
Here is a joke for you: What food do zombies like to order at this bar? The answer is ghoulash!!
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replyAlice O'Connor posted a new article, DayZ standalone delayed for 'groundbreaking' changes.
You may have noticed that the standalone version of smash-hit Arma II mod DayZ missed itsplanned December launch, but there's a very good reason for that. Creator Dean Hall explains in a new blog post, "Put simply, DayZ Standalone isn't here because we had the chance to go from making a game that was just the mod improved slightly, packaged simply, and sold - to actually redeveloping the engine and making the game the way we all dreamed it could be."-
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I'm on the impression the original plan for the standalone release was basically like the commercial release of Counter-Strike back in the day, with some added anti-cheats.
Which may seem dumb but I believe that retail CS release sold a million copies at retail - a large number of people either do not know how or just don't want to deal with the hassle of installing a mod. Plus, a large number of the DayZ audience doesn't care about ArmA 2 so this eliminates the hurdle of buying a game you don't want to install a mod you do.-
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Most of what made it janky they seem to be fixing. Hell part of the problem with chernarus was they never really expected anyone to do much exploring in ARMA2.
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Arma's engine isn't horrible - it's a just sim engine. It's can render huge battles, has good draw distances and ballistic calculations and flight modelling and so on.
Whether building a zombie game in it is a good idea will be up to history to decide.
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Like it does for every other MMO, with smaller instances breaking up game world.
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Name any other engine that can handle 180 sq kilometers at 500 knots or walking speed ground level.
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Indeed, Not sure how the rumor that it was going to be on ARMA 3 started but to be more precise...Standalone will use a code branch from Take On Helicopters which is a branch of Operation Arrowhead thus ARMA 2. That info was taken from the dev blog.
Still exctied for ARMA 3 though and with its increase in popularity this time around I bet we will see some amazing mods come out of it.
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that plus WarZ got pulled from Steam and probably won't be sold again. Good for them. Hope they can make the game good rather than rushing to try to compete with WarZ
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Rocket was on Lirik's stream yesterday. He said that he plans to allow modding, talked about of the new features and also said that if they manage to sell more than 1 mill copies they might do a console (Xbox on his words) version.
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I am looking forward to this game since there are no real good zombie fps games apart form killing floor.
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