War Z (That's right, not Day Z)
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Well this looks pretty cool. An mmo experience similar to Day Z, but with a lot better graphics by the looks of it. That's the one thing keeping me from Day Z, it looks a little too old for my taste.
http://ca.ign.com/articles/2012/07/19/the-war-z-a-new-zombie-survival-experience?utm_campaign=ign+main+twitter&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&page=1
http://ca.ign.com/articles/2012/07/19/the-war-z-a-new-zombie-survival-experience?utm_campaign=ign+main+twitter&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&page=1
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I like the character lock system in Normal as well. You still have the fear of dying, but instead of losing all your data your character will be locked for 24 to 48 hours and you can't play it anymore. I love that idea!
Thanks for the link.
http://thewarz.com/
This sounds great
I love the idea of players leaving notes for each other that may or may not be traps.
... I guess there's worse people to be in a zombie apocalypse...
Nice to see they are addressing that as well.
Thanks for posting the website...
True. But making a legit game that in premise is the same as a mod called Day Z... then naming it War Z... a little too obvious.
Edit: I actually read the IGN article now
-Generic zombie mmo in production
-DayZ comes out
-Lets borrow some ideas!
-Lets rename it!
-Screenshots!
-IGN article!
-Lets say it was that way all along!
Ok, I'll quit hating now
No, War Z is based upon World War Z, set in an MMO pipeline, you cannot simply up and go and change EVERYTHING of the game in under a year from Generic MMO to survival based that quick, it's simply not possible.
There are plenty of Comics and Books which have the word Z in them, and they all follow the World War Z storyline, which itself, it's an extension of the Zombie Survival Guide (many fans call it Ze Survival Guide, with Ze both being for Zombies and 'the' jokes about how French people pronounce it).
Day Z did EXACTLY the same thing thing, with the only added benefit that 90% of the kludge work was already done in Arma, it's all about working around and with the engine in a clever way.
War Z didn't have any of that.
I mean honestly, this conversation is starting it get to the point of "All FPS game ripped off Doom because it was an FPS", I understand you're a fan of Day Z, but going to the point in hating a game/company for as something as mundane as the title, when it comes from people who like Max Brooks, it very silly to say the least.
Also, the Day Z author mentioned he wanted to go 'solo' on the project, as in without Arma 2, how pissed of will you be when a bunch of people hear this news for the first time and say "Oh, Day Z saw War Z being a solo thing, so he's ripping them off!"?
They're evolving to what the players want, their first rendition of the game they were describing was really not all that appealing.
League of Legends.. People want a polished experience.
He wants a stand-alone client, it'll still be using Bohemia's new engine.
Okay, so we already know that The War Z isn't a clone of DayZ. I never said it was going to be, I was saying that they know there's a market for something similar and they'd like to make a polished version.
They realized that their game was already fairly similar to DayZ and made some changes because they knew what was going to be marketable and already has a large player-base.
And yes, it was a DotA clone.. It solidified a godamn genre. Not saying that all FPS games were based off of Doom, but when someone sees a market for the type of game and creates something similar, they're not going to be flamed and booed.. They'll be joyous to see something more polished with additional features.
Yeah, exactly... possibly why it's being unveiled with only a handful of screenshots and an interview.
And I really doubt they would have to change EVERYTHING:
They probably had a working game engine, and art assets to go with it. Kind of like a mod...
Wow, did someone just used "DayZ" and "stable" in one phrase?
i'll stick with Day Z.
Yep that's pretty much the only feature that keeps people interested, because almost everything else is horrible, and that's not DayZ fault, just bad arma2 legacy. The fact that Rocket made it work at all is amazing.
Most of modern game engines have no problem rendering and processing big landmasses.
I like this chart: http://unrealitymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/large-video-game-worlds2.jpg
between 200km2 and 400km2(now i'm trying to find where i read this and i can't find it)in the best case the same territory as Arma3 main island which is 20x20 kilometers with the water and everything.Its not that much actualy.
Btw the game sound so similar to DayZ and what features people want from it.I found this to be verry strange coincidence.
EDIT:
WarZ Features list:
matchmaking in survival MMO-game like DayZ?
where's fun in this?!
I figured itd be a DayZ with higher player count
One of the most important features in DayZ (at least for me) is the fact that only up to 50 people can be on the same map at any moment. It really emphasize the feeling of being alone and surrounded by zombies. Meeting another survivor is and should always be something special. I really don't want to play a Zombie apocalypse game where I can bump into a different person every 5 seconds... That's just dumb.
I really want to believe into this game, but the thing is : Rocket doesn't need to make money, they do... Which means they will make it more approachable, more friendly, less punishing. (i.e Not loosing your gear when you die in normal. Really? Why would I fucking care then...). Game developers still don't get it. Dayz is the leaving proof that a lot of people want something else, something more hardcore, meaningful and unforgiving.
I'm afraid that WarZ won't be able to deliver that for the economic reasons that we all know.
Z is for... Zombie.
Remember the difference in map size as well (according to Hristo Rusanov): DayZ got 16x16 kilometers. WarZ will be between 200km2 and 400km2, so you might still be running around for hours without meeting anyone.
"Chernarus is 225 km2"
But hey, googling is hard, right?
btw they use 225km2 because sound more epic
Soory for my crappy english.
I sometimes find myself looking forward to a real zombie apocalypse since it's so much fun with friends online
But then with my luck I'll probably be the first infected, and real life has no respawn
As for War Z, look interesting, but I wonder how fun it'll be as an mmo. We'll just wait and see, until then we have Day Z to keep us busy
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Comparisons between WarZ and DayZ are going to be incessant. Mine is that I like that DayZ is built on a simulator. WarZ looks and sounds a little too gamey to be occupied by the same kind of audience.
And it's funny that I generally go on DayZ servers with less people playing, because they can potentially ruin the experience. I've found the sweet spot to be a cap of 25. And WarZ is touting 10x more players.
Stop turning things to 11 for arbitrary reasons, devs!
Yea I look for servers with less than 20 myself for the same reason. Seems to work well.
On the Features list-
Dedicated public servers as well as private servers that can be completely self-managed in game client
So this is on the steam store now. Screenshots looked good but in motion it looks atrocious. The animation is unforgivably bad. The gameplay looks jerky and floaty. Shame.