DayZ - Persistant, Open World, Perma-death, Multiplayer Zombie Survival

[Crispy]

Excellent talk and Q&A from the developer here: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-07-09-watch-dean-rocket-halls-huge-rezzed-q-and-a-for-dayz

Over four hundred thousand unique players. Also, it'll end up being a standalone title

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

I managed to get this going for about 5 ins.. it was fooking terrifying

 

[InfoBurner]

Standalone up and running since 17th Dec. Steam for £15ish. Very alpha, buggy as fuck. The developer has said don't purchase unless you're willing to be a tester. However folks on youtube are having a ball.
Really tempted

 

[Sunray]

Yeah, I saw it and I was very tempted but will wait for a less buggy release.

 

[Citizen66]

Or just buy arma 2 and get the mod.

 

[Radar]

standalone is purtier though.. think it's been updated thrice since alpha release so it is very much a work in progress.

Arma 2 should be dirt cheap; sure I saw it around EUR 6 for combined ops over the break, but seems to be back up around EUR 20 now

 

[Yata]

I hope they finish this game, looks fun lol

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

Last year I read about it, got fervently overexcited, bought Arma 3, made it work ONCE shat myself playing it and then never played it again. it was a brilliant 15 minutes of hiding in a hut from zombies. I had absolutely no clue what I was doing. The reason I never played it again was I could not be arsed to do all the updates and everything.. and the control system is shite. I will probably buy the actual game hen this out..

 

[no-no]

My boy's been playing the mod for a while, he bought the standalone but reckons you're better off with the mod for now. No vehicles yet in teh stanalone apparently. I keep meaning to give this a go but I need to free up an extra lifetime first.