DayZ Standalone Early Access
Its finally out!
Starting a new topic to keep the mod talk and standalone separate
Over two million people played the award winning Mod by Dean Hall for the military simulator ArmA2,
and now the game is available through the Steam Early Access programme.
Available at: http://store.steampowered.com/app/221100
Also here: https://store.bistudio.com/dayz
This is DayZ, this is your story.
DayZ is a gritty, authentic, open-world survival horror hybrid-MMO game, in which players follow a single goal:
to survive in the harsh post-apocalyptic landscape as long as they can.
Players can live through powerful events and emotions arising from the ever-evolving emergent gameplay.
There are no superficial helpers, or waypoints, no built in tutorial or support given to players.
Every decision matters, every mistake can be lethal.
There are no save games, no lives. If you fail,
you lose it all and you need to play again from the beginning with nothing but your wits, and your two hands.
Fight the hostile environment, where every other player can be friend or foe and nothing can be taken for granted.
KEY FEATURES IN ALPHA
Chernarus - 230 sq. km chunk of post soviet state, featuring deep forests, cities, villages, abandoned military bases, and more..
Up to 40 players per server
Persistent player profile - Key player data is persistent across all servers.
Inventory Combine various clothing items, equipment and carry all of the items that you will need to survive the harsh new environment in the open and intuitive inventory system developed to answer the needs of crafting and character customization.
Crafting - In the apocalyptic world of DAYZ, resources are sparse and every useful bit should be utilized. Items or equipment can be improved, turned into something else or fixed using the new crafting mechanisms.
Weapon customization Use customizable firearms with authentic ballistics and weapon characteristics as well as melee weapons to protect yourself against all the dangers a survivor may face.
Customizable clothing Customize your survivor with a multitude of new clothing items that can be scavenged from the remnants of civilization, which provide various degree of protection against the elements, infected, and other survivors.
MEDIA
Trailer:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ss1dckHhfI"]DayZ Early Access Launch Trailer - YouTube[/ame]I was lucky enough to get to work on DayZ and have also made some videos and
screenshots for you all to enjoy!
Lets start with videos:
DayZ Standalone Bibles, Medkits & Zombies:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyWksC9_Ipg"]DayZ Standalone Bibles Medkits & Zombiess - YouTube[/ame]I made a settings guide which shows you 2 different setups to make DayZ look and run great!
You can see that here:
http://youtu.be/RWuvexH4v68
Settings used in this video
Warm (or worm) and Soft:
http://imgur.com/7dKUTuwh
Fast and Clean:
http://imgur.com/igPCHZW
And here are the screenshots:
Abandon Car:
http://imgur.com/YCgkEcm
Sunset at the swamp:
http://imgur.com/ufZLTSP
The Swamp:
http://imgur.com/5ilQgBO
Lighthouse:
http://imgur.com/gUUcH9z
Lighthouse god rays:
http://imgur.com/9n1QHoC
Twilight at the swamp:
http://imgur.com/9Ywe5cN
360 degree panorama of a swamp as twilight, check that out here
http://wireframebox.com/dayz/panorama/twilight/
Album here:
http://imgur.com/a/PSvw9
Also This is a little something i made:
Cross Peen Hammer:
Hope it was worth the wait!
-lloyd
The game is cheaper on the bohemia interactive store right now!
https://store.bistudio.com/dayz
Also Ive found lots of people not being able to get a daytime server, The time is local to the server so if you go to the search settings and change to look for servers with a ping of 300 and not just 100 then you can connect to America or Oz. Hope this helps!
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The engine being a fork of A2 engine was known like a year ago
Either case I am still interested to see this do well.
I'm holding off from buying this though until I see more on it. I really hope they can come up with a way to stop the shoot on sight mentality and get people working together while still retaining the ability for players to chose become a bandit. Its a tough problem to solve though. There are some good mods for DayZ that encourage team play (Origins) but I've heard that the standalone will not support modding (Correct me if im wrong) so hopefully they'll add elements of the mods into this version.
Heres one of the vids I did in DayZ and its probably the most intense time i've ever had in any game EVER!... Before making this vid I had probably play about 150+hrs of playing the "good Samaritan" role, crawling through woodland, helping others and hunting bandits. In this I decided to try going bandit for a change and honestly my heart nearly jumped out of my chest while doing this one. It felt like a completely different game. I don't condone being a bandit but I have to admit its awesome fun.
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I could be mistaken,the two have been under development in kind of a parallel way - borrowing and trading when needed.
This is all rocket has to show for 2 years? lol ok
Maybe if the game actually used my gpu like all the others itd feel less clunky too. The saddest part is people thinking rocket can optimize the engine when he isn't an engine developer. The engine needs to be rebuilt from the ground up but Arma was never popular enough to fund such a project. Maybe DayZ can though.
With that said ill still get it most likely for shits and giggles with friends, but I think Rust has a much better chance of going further. Either way I can't wait until this survival fad is over
It just felt so damn clunky and slow paced, but to each their own.
I too am disappointed at them not moving to ARMA 3s engine, and the game still looks weird and clunky, but who knows, it might all change.
Torch: You should definitly try out rust got over 40 hours myself on rust, really fun with friends, also the other players seems friendly less shoot on sight
I was positive that this was using the arma 3 engine but that's not the case? Either way it's going to be exciting to see what they add in next.
Also: LOOT!
The crafting system looks really good and the additional skin tones and equipment will really help to give it a personal feel. I hope they are able to integrate other face textures beyond the base one.
Why? I want it to become a new genre. I played DayZ heavily until my friends and I tried out WarZ, the better zombies and melee made it way more fun even though it had a crappy cash shop and rampant hacking. I wish DayZ luck but I hope they make major improvements and count their blessings that WarZ had such a bad rep that many people didn't even try it.
I like WarZ enough to make a shitty let's play video
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Isn't Survarium more of a deathmatch game?
Also I thought it weird that the VSS Vintorez wasn't included from base ARMA2 in the mod, since that's clearly the ultimate zombie killing rifle.
Thanks Wells! Glad you're enjoying Rust
Looking forward to them fixing stuff up, but it's alpha so I can hardly complain. With the stuff they've put together so far, I've high hopes for where this game will end up.
It's a feature! What's spookier than ghost zombies??
Jokes aside I think it's getting better, they are working on nav paths for zombies slowly I think.
I'm looking for team mates to play sometimes i moved to canada and it's getting hard to play with my EU friends
(I wanna try out that new update and engine they are putting in)