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I would say that DayZ Stand Alone is the Duke Nukem Forever of our decade... But I have a feeling that the difference between the two is that Duke Nukem made it out of Alpha.... There's probably a large portion of this forum that stands by their investment in SA, who's Dad's did exactly the same thing on DNF forums back in 1997... #familytraditions

That's exactly what I'm talking about^^^ "I watched Frankie's videos and bought STAND-ALONE" Frankie doesn't play Standalone in 99% of his videos... And when he did he trashed the game pretty badly. Saying that he wouldn't be replacing Arma anytime soon and after he made an extremely short series out of literally one gaming session, he never returned to Stand Alone... That should tell you something. Look at Rhino Crunch, Devil Dog Gamer... These guys are The authorities on DayZ and play all different styles, yet these youtubers all have only played brief instances of Standalone, each had their own reasons for returning to the mod after very brief SA exposure... Yet it's always the same... Sure you can say that you got 30$ out of the game, I'm not arguing that.. People bought dream casts and Duke nukem forever, and they probably got many hours of entertainment from them.. But there were surely far better ways they could have invested their money (like buying Arma, where you get a FULL BLOWN game... PLUS hundreds of successful Mods) I swear the credo here should be, "Hi, I've never played Arma, or Dayz mod... I like to watch you-tubers play those games though, and instead of buying Arma and supporting the mods, I bought StandAlone because I thought there wasn't a difference on the steam store... Sure it only cost my parents 30$... But Because I've endured hundreds of hours playing, over years of missed deadlines and failed updates... I feel obligated to stand by my mistake and tell myself that it's ok... Everything is going to be ok... I mean it's alpha.. And as soon as it gets to Beta, you can bet things will be better... It's ok... It's alpha... Early alpha........"

I'm blown away that we are entering 2015 and we still have people on here claiming everything is hunky dory with standalone. I have a feeling most of the people white knighting Standalone are kids that didn't actually have to earn the money for the game. I'm not saying 30-40$ is a lot of money, but what's disappointing is that when someone says "I play DayZ It's awesome" 99% of the time what you are seeing and hearing about is Mod content... But the way steam and the community is in general, you see "DayZ 30$" and you buy it not knowing the huge differences between SA and the mods... Basically what I want to say is that if you haven't seen Arma 3 DayZ mod gameplay, you should check it out. My biggest gripe is that I spent 30$ on a game that will never leave Alpha, when a already more complete and better supported game exists in the form of Arma 3 Mods and the Dayz mod in general. It should really make a lot of people who blindly support SA, upset when they see coders building a game faster (and for free) than Rocket and BI can with 80 million dollars.... Maybe he should hire the coders who not just ported but greatly improved the original DayZ mod to Arma 3, and they can actually meet at least one of their deadlines. Q4 2015???!!? The fact that you are happy with a Q4 2015 deadline for Beta shows that you have already committed to going down with this ever fast sinking ship. And the fact that you think they would even pull off a Q4 2015 deadline being this far behind is also a big sign of just how delusional some of you are. We have seen games get completely made, go through alpha, beta and are now not popular anymore in the time it has taken Rocket to put Buggy vehicles ported from the mod into SA.. I guess I did come to SA fanboy central, so these comments are pretty much on par. I love Dayz, the concept is great. I just want people to know that there are better games out there in the form of the arma 2/3 mods... And especially the Arma 3 Dayz mod which surpasses standalone being the most similar... I want people to take that 30$ they would spend on SA and buy Arma instead... Mostly just research any YouTuber, gamer that has extensive experience with arma/dayz etc... Let's just say they are not playing SA...

I came here to read "it's in Alpha" from a bunch of people who never played the mod and I was not disappointed! I wanted to create an account just to add to this discussion: After seeing the hype and watching some videos last year I decided to buy Dayz Standalone for this new survival gaming experience... I'm an older gamer and the immersive elements of the game really appealed to me.. First off, my initial impression really blew me away. But after hours of running (and running), being chased by zombies for literal miles, only to be killed by some 12yo who wanted to feed his sadistic desire to force disenfectant down my throat because he watched some pre pubescent YouTuber do it... Or having my fully geared character die from a ladder, or spawning under a building... Or logging in to find all my gear had become "ruined" because of the constant rain etc etc... Anyways, I felt behind the polished graphics that some really crucial game content was missing to complete or even remotely create a gaming experience that went beyond spawn killing noobs and appealing to the mis guided youths. I poured over 200 hours into the SA and the more YouTube videos I watched trying to figure out how and why people enjoyed the game, I found one common variable... The people enjoying the game that weren't sadistic, or getting kicks off stealing pants and shooting noobs in the D!ck we're not playing SA, they were playing the mod.... I bought the MOD, and since downloading Epoch I have not looked back. It's been almost six months playing the mod and I can't believe that Dean Hall has managed to steal the money from so many countless suckers willing to white knight his ass yelling "ALPHA ALPHA ALPHA ALPHA" at the top of their lungs like a group of morons who bought Alienware laptops thinking the branding would make it superior. I think it's about time for the people who played the Alpha argument LAST YEAR to just stop and re-assess what's actually happened with the game... The updates seriously started slowing down after march, and by the earliest estimates the release went from late 2014... To 2015 and now we are talking 2016. Talk about getting your monies worth (rolls eyes).. I logged back in after a 7 month break only to find that now I can cook meat, die from hypothermia, and now when the zombies walk through the walls to get me, they have a chance to destroy my weapon (???) and ruin any means of healing myself.. As if their hands are ballistic or something.. Yet it takes all 30rds of my precious clip to their head to kill them, and my axe is as effective at killing zombies, as it is at getting myself a broken arm. To say the game is broken is an understatement, and to say that it is leagues ahead of the mod is utter BS. Here's where the SA is ahead of the Mod: Graphics-by a slight margin because the frame rates in anything other than the woods is abismal at best... That's it... Immersion? Is it immersion when every gun you find is unusable after barely any use? Is immersion having no loot, no weapons, no form of transportation, and when you finally do find a means of survival it's broken at best. I don't know about you but I've never seen an M4 get damaged so badly it can't hit a target at 20yards... I get all these things are meant to make the game harder to play, all It does is make it easier for well geared groups of 12yo kiddies to fulfil their homo erotic needs of taking off another mans pants and dangling their animated nutsack over him (totally not gay) All of the things SA was supposed to do to make it better than the Mod, it has failed miserably... The cheaters/hackers are barely present on my epoch server, I've seen one in the last six months, I played two days on the SA and encountered more Hackers than actual players.. The stability, what a joke.. The immersive aspects, what's more immersive than running for 6 hours to find rotten fruit and a orange construction hat... The gameplay. How's that new engine working out?? Oh wait, nothing's fixed it's actually worse! Persistance, here's a tent.. There's a 20% chance it will be here with your stuff on server restart... Loot, here's a bandana! Sorry we couldn't give you a bike, here's a different colored hard hat... Zombies, well they still glitch through doors, and now walls! But as a bonus they spawn on top of you, and can hear/see you from a town over.. Did I mention that the diseased little suckers are faster than a healthy adult male? YAY!!! This is not an "Early Access Alpha", no matter how much steam or Rocket says in little messages when you log in. I can't believe fan boys are still screaming that this many years later. You don't make 60,000,000$ off an Alpha. Please name another game in the history of games that has even come close to this style of release schedule and been considered an early access ALPHA?!?!?! Anyways, to answer the OPs question.. NO! I would only suggest buying this, if you have some faith that SA will eventually become a real game that is comparable with the mod. I at this point lost faith. I will wait around for the "you bought an Aplha" argument, and "have patience, next weeks update will add purple hard hats and bunny rabbits which will be game changing" comments.