If you like or want to try DayZ save your cash...Follow

cause it's being recreated as a standalone game.



Hopefully they make the game cheaper than the $30 you need for ArmA 2: Combined Operations, which is required to play the original mod.

Nope, it's a realistic zombie FPS mod. You have to stay fed, hydrated, scrounge from ammo, run and hide for zombie hoards, and out-wit/out-shoot psychotic survivors (other players). You can even hunt animals to replenish your food supply.

Edited, Aug 7th 2012 11:18am by Shaowstrike

The standalone version is rumored to be designed for the new ArmA 3 engine, so a lot of the current bugs and graphical issues being experienced should be gone.

What's the J stand for, Jesus? Is it a Rapture sim?

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It's been said, but it's a realistic-ish zombie survival game with an emphasis on survival. Death is permanent; if you get killed you lose everything (but you might be able to find your corpse and reclaim items if someone else doesn't beat you to it). Early on the zombies are the biggest danger; even taking a few hits can cause you to bleed or break a bone, which is pretty much a death sentence. Later on, as you get better equipment and supplies to ward off zombies and starvation/wounds/dehydration/disease, players become a huge problem. As you invest more time in your character and gain better gear, you'll likely become increasingly protective and paranoid. A player with 10 minutes invested in the character doesn't have much to lose. A player with 10 hours? Yikes, you might even lose some vehicles that took an hour of searching to repair!

It becomes an interesting type of prisoner's dilemma. There are other neat factors: there's a day/night cycle, when night is EXTREMELY deadly. You can hardly see anything without flares or flashlights, but they attract the attention of zombies and other players like a "FREE MEAL HERE" sign in bright neon lights. Also, your character is persistent across servers, so if you don't like one server you can jump to another.

Buuuuuuuut there are a lot of bugs and glitches, as said. It's Alpha, after all.

A = 0?

That does sound pretty awesome. I could see how you would become paranoid as **** if you had a lot of time invested in your character.

Video makes me want to play now... but my wallet is telling me I should wait until the standalone goes alpha.

They should make Michael play DayZ for Rage Quit.