DayZ Standalone

[Nagash]

some more info is coming out, and still coming out about the standalone, as it's being showcased at Gamescon. Here's a link to a very detailed article.

http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/top ... scom-2013/

tl;dr? here's a few points worth noting....

1, The game itself is ready to go into "alpha" status, however the muliplayer networking framework etc isn't, making multiplayer unplayable, and once thats ready the alpha is released. while the people responsible for that are working on it, others are making the game better.

2, the original DayZ map, Charnaus (sp?) is being extended massively...

40km² in the north and ~25km² in the west

it's different than the Origins map, so it'll all be new to us.

3, Systems are being added to help reduce the need to kill other players on sight. one is that equipment can degrade and break, and it'll damage more if you shoot it, or someone carrying it.

4, you can't just carry packs of blood around now... you need something to keep it cool or it goes off, also players have a blood type now, so you need to find a testing kit to find out what blood type you are, or you could kill urself when getting a blood transfusion. Also they say that now only other players can give you blood transfusions... guess that was something Origins added, anyway, sounds like it's the choice of the giver who gives the blood, so you could give people blood posioning

5, weapon crafting will be possible, with addons

6, it's going to be possible to do unarmed melee

[Thaldarin]

Sounds dull. It's like a really bad realistic version of the sims. If anything, it's like the generation conversion of CS -> Cod. So it's like Sims -> Dayz.

Enjoy it, but it sounds like one dull fucking chore to have to balance your real social needs with the game needs, as you're pretty much simulating your life to an extreme in a video game, just remember to have a bucket to piss and shit in and lots of bottled water next to your screen... oh and the chinese take out menu haha!

[Nagash]

know what your saying but dayz already has plenty stuff like that in it anyway and while it sounds dull, it's one of those games you can really get caught up in.

personally i don't think the standalone will be that great until you have the ability to build bases, be it Origins Mod style or Epoch Mod or whatever, so long as you have somewhere to lock up your important stuff. Otherwise it just seems like a big game of hide and seek with other players... which is good also in it's own right, but i like making up a base of operation and then exploring . People will be making mods for it no doubt to make this kind of thing happen if they don't try and include it themselves.

easily the best thing about the game will be the way multiplayer works, since their new setup will be less demanding on servers.