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Confirmed: Day Z Will Be Its Own Standalone Game
Weeks ago, we reported on the possibility of the increasingly popular ArmA II mod Day Z turning into a standalone experience before year’s end. As it now stands, Day Z is being turned into its own project, and is being developed by ArmA II developer Bohemia Interactive and lead by none other than the lead mod designer himself.
“That’s right, this is actually happening – DayZ will be developed as a standalone game, with me as project lead, by Bohemia Interactive,” mentioned lead designer Dean ‘Rocket’ Hall in a post on the Day Z dev team Tumblr.
“This is the fairy-tale outcome for a mod that many would have said impossible four months ago.”
As was mentioned by Rocket in our previous article regarding this news, the project will slowly form into what he’s calling the “Minecraft development model”, in that the team will produce “fast iterations” of the game in ongoing alpha, which will be available for a heavily discounted price.
Don’t worry though – anyone who is playing the mod currently will continue to be able to do so as the game approaches its standalone status. The team plans to continue putting out updates to the mod in its current state while (in parallel) developing the standalone version.
Excuse me for a moment – I must go dance.
[via Day Z Game]
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By “a heavily discounted price” does that mean like $5? Because isn’t Arma II $20?
The total price which is needed to actually play Day Z costs around 40$. I think it will be a 10-15$ game if not less.
to actually play dayz you only need arma 2 operation arrowhead and arma 2 demo. you dont need to buy arma 2 aswell. but if you want improved graphics then you need arma 2.
Not surprised.. with the popularity of the mod on youtube vids, streams and at home I figured it would become it’s own title eventually, and I’m actually glad the developers will reap off of what was a very cool mod.
I hope it has some video settings because not everyone has an epic gaming computer
All of my yes on this. I so badly want to play but can afford a super computer at this point in time
Imagine if there’s a console release too, Amy mod developers dream
Man I hope they do something with the whole UI of ARMA, which really sucks.
Maybe this will finally stop the DayZ kiddies from ruining the RP servers they stumble into
wait… I dont get it… So i can buy the standalone, or keep playing the mod?? What? I dont get it…
You can keep playing the mod, it’ll still be up until the standalone version comes out.
but them making money of it now? the right way or not?
You will be able to continue playing the mod,since they say they will keep on updating it,but it will have far less features just because of they cant build them in Arma 2.The Standalone mod will most likely have things like better Ui,advanced zombie AI,much of cool stuff.
I’ve been putting off buying ArmaII:CO, and now i don’t have to.
WOW this is just what hapened whit CS
good for them
It’ll be interesting to see whether the standalone game will be any different to the mod. That’d be the deciding factor as to whether or not I buy it again, having only just bought ArmA II & Combined Operations less than a month ago >_>
cant wait i am not allowed to download stuff off the internet so this will be great
Can’t wait!! I hope it’s rated T because I’m not aloud to play M games