Day Z aiming to go stand-alone this year

The Day Z mod for ArmA 2 could spin off into its own stand-alone game this year, assuming all goes smoothly with striking a deal.

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The Day Z mod for ArmA 2 has been a runaway hit, boosting ArmA 2 sales and raising its profile among PC enthusiasts. The mod team has been open with its plans to spin off into its own stand-alone game, but it sounds like that's happening sooner than expected.

Modder Dean Hall told VG247 that making it a stand-alone product could happen "certainly before Christmas," but that will rely on reaching an agreement first. Apparently he has entertained offers, but felt they were based on the mod's rocketing success rather than an understanding of the game.

"We're really on borrowed time," he said. "I want to see it become a standalone game, following the Minecraft model of a low price point, but that will only work if we say that everyone is going to pay, and in order for people to not feel ripped off we need to have a load of new content; so, things like base-building, tidying and cleaning up animations and add ragdoll physics as the like."

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    July 24, 2012 8:15 AM

    Steve Watts posted a new article, Day Z aiming to go stand-alone this year.

    The Day Z mod for ArmA 2 could spin off into its own stand-alone game this year, assuming all goes smoothly with striking a deal.

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      July 24, 2012 8:21 AM

      I'd buy it again for base-building alone.

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        July 24, 2012 8:27 AM

        i thought it would be fun but it is insane amounts of fun really.

        also, i think they should just add random spawns for shovels (like in sheds a rare spawn) and the shovel will let you dig dirt. so you can make a small underground base.

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          July 24, 2012 8:32 AM

          And pick axes, and the ability to take that dirt and metal to make other stuff.

          heeeyyyyyy, waitaminute.

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            July 24, 2012 8:36 AM

            if minecraft and dayz mated and had a baby, it could be the perfect game.

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        July 24, 2012 8:29 AM

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          July 25, 2012 8:33 AM

          have you played with the base building interface that arma has? its rts like with money to buy bldgs that can create certain units.

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      July 24, 2012 8:25 AM

      could this be because of world z?

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        July 24, 2012 8:39 AM

        Not really they've been talking about going standalone for a while. The whole thing was initially intended as a proof of concept but it blew up via word of mouth.

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        July 24, 2012 8:45 AM

        I hope so. Hopefully all these games learn from each other and evolve in parallel so we (as gamers) get the best deal. Day Z is a really cool idea but a lot of the roughness needs to be worked out before I'm signing on fully...and I bought the game a month ago or so.

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        July 24, 2012 1:27 PM

        Sounds like that might have been the final thing to make them hurry up.

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      July 24, 2012 8:36 AM

      god I hope not. I just bought it the other day

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      July 24, 2012 8:42 AM

      They really need to learn how to get rid of all the hacking. I'm absolutely tired of everyone getting warped to the same location to get mowed down. It happened to me 5 out of the 7 times I logged on yesterday and have resorted to pressing escape and hitting alt+F4 to avoid losing all progress. It's stupid.

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        July 24, 2012 2:24 PM

        They won't be able to before the end of the year if they use the Arma engine.

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        July 25, 2012 11:52 AM

        I doubt a mod can do anything about that, therefore that might be another benefit of a stand alone game; they could actually address the cheating on their own. On the other hand, it could go the other way and they might miss out where Arma2 would address it later... but since I wasn't born yesterday, I highly doubt that's the way it goes.

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      July 24, 2012 1:50 PM

      Hope theres more citys/towns. Playing Day Z today here, and after getting killed by people i'm looking forward to killing my first person.

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      July 24, 2012 1:50 PM

      They NEED to do this.

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      July 24, 2012 2:06 PM

      thats not alot of time to put together your own game engine

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        July 24, 2012 2:19 PM

        I seriously doubt it will be a new engine. It will just be a repackaged Arma II for just DayZ. BI does the same thing with the Arma engine for their helicopter game if I'm not mistaken.

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          July 24, 2012 2:34 PM

          im surprised they would allow that unless they are super chummy with the dayz creators

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            July 24, 2012 2:37 PM

            The dev works for Bohemia Interactive. They've sold more copies of ArmA 2 than ever before since DayZ's release

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      July 24, 2012 2:30 PM

      I'm all about this. They really need to get a team dedicated to DayZ and handle all the hacking and server issues independently of ArmA.

      I'll buy a copy asap and do a shack giveaway of a copy when it's launched.

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      July 25, 2012 7:16 AM

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        July 26, 2012 5:41 AM

        Its not a bad idea just remove the dayz crowd to another game so people who want to play Arma can actually find servers, with people who want to play on a team as apposed to tking at base.

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      July 25, 2012 11:50 AM

      This is awesome, because I've been wanting to try this out and it sounds like this guy really has a handle on things. A low price point and continued development for the game itself seals the deal, I will definitely pick this up.

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      July 26, 2012 9:02 AM

      I hope they do... but I wouldn't mind if they took their time and did it right... I would love to check out Day Z but hopefully in a less buggy and more refined way.

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