Do people still play Dayz? Update soon?

[Markus843 1]

I couldn't make up my mind to buy arma 2 or not, because I don't know if people play. Are there servers with 50-100 people 24/7? Also I heard there is an update coming out soon? Should I buy arma 2? Help please..

[f123456789knvm 10]

Yes, the initial boom in population has died down after lets-players and their fans have moved on but you still see a few large servers. The full standalone will hit "before the end of 2012" so if you're low on money don't go buying ARMA just yet. The standalone should cost about 20 dollars, ARMA 2 combined ops is 30 so if you can't wait a month or just want to get some training and experience in by all means buy it, the mod is great. Personally I suggest just buying it if you have the money, the mod is very fun and the standalone could get delayed unexpectedly.

[Markus843 1]

Yes, the initial boom in population has died down after lets-players and their fans have moved on but you still see a few large servers. The full standalone will hit "before the end of 2012" so if you're low on money don't go buying ARMA just yet. The standalone should cost about 20 dollars, ARMA 2 combined ops is 30 so if you can't wait a month or just want to get some training and experience in by all means buy it, the mod is great. Personally I suggest just buying it if you have the money, the mod is very fun and the standalone could get delayed unexpectedly.

Thanks for the reply. I'll be waiting for the standalone one.

[OrLoK 16185]

If you wait for the stand alone. you'll miss out on arma2's goodness.....

Thousands of mods and missions......

Dayz, is a brucey bonus that tops it all off.

rgds

LoK

[Markus843 1]

If you wait for the stand alone. you'll miss out on arma2's goodness.....

Thousands of mods and missions......

Dayz, is a brucey bonus that tops it all off.

rgds

LoK

Even when the standalone version comes out, can I still play dayz with just arma II?

[OrLoK 16185]

Hello there

No, the Standalone....stands....um....alone.

You will still be able to play the mod tho if that's what you mean.

Rgds

LoK

EDIT: one also needs Operation Arrowhead as well as A2 (or the CO bundle)

Edited December 4, 2012 by orlok

[Markus843 1]

Hello there

No, the Standalone....stands....um....alone.

You will still be able to play the mod tho if that's what you mean.

Rgds

LoK

I'm still a little confused. What I meant was if I got arma II right now and installed the dayz mod, will it still work when the standalone version comes out? Will I be able to play with the people with the standalone version? Also, when the standalone version comes out, do I have to pay for dayz ? Sorry, I just found out what standalone means like 1 hour ago lol, I'm a big noob when it comes to mods for a game.

[Derpy_Hooves (DayZ) 4521]

All up to you OP, if you wanna play on some private hives till SA is released then go ahead and buy ARMA.

Alot of people are waiting for SA and have taken time off playing, some of us are soo Die Hard we can't stop playing!

Arma 2 and the Standalone will not work together, they are completely different. When SA is released you can still play the mod via ARMA2 as the community will have the mod but the majority of the players will move to the SA

Edited December 4, 2012 by Derpy_Hooves

[Markus843 1]

All up to you OP, if you wanna play on some private hives till SA is released then go ahead and buy ARMA.

Alot of people are waiting for SA and have taken time off playing, some of us are soo Die Hard we can't stop playing!

Arma 2 and the Standalone will not work together, they are completely different. When SA is released you can still play the mod via ARMA2 as the community will have the mod but the majority of the players will move to the SA

Thanks for answering my question!

[finkone 320]

Arma 2 is worth owning on its own if you like a military simulator, DayZ is worth playing because it will supply you with a heart-pumping-I-need-to-spot-him-I-hear-his-foot-steps-Im-so-scared-I-dont-want-to-loose-my-beans feeling that I have NEVER had in any other game... and I've been in war-zones IRL... Now with that said consider 2 things.

1) When the standalone releases, it might not work 100% correctly or all the time at first, as with any other popular game (Diablo 3 anyone?) I know for one I'll be using DayZ MOD as a crutch if this happens.

2) They are really, really, really - on the fence lately it seems in regards to launching DayZ standalone this year, they are currently playing around with the final pre-alpha-launch and should be addressing us within a week or so to tell us if we gonna get to play DayZ standalone a few weeks before the end of the world... or if its getting pushed to the right (released at a later date)

I still play the mod daily - I only needed Arma II Operation Arrowhead... Largely populated servers expect to see a troll hacker come in, and you'll die or get teleported and the last 3 hours of your hard work are gone, but they are like terrorists man - don't let'em change the way to play, don't get attached to gear, play for the entertainment value. If you do buy and download the mod - locate yourself a private hive server with a good admin (check the forums) and you'll see... I know right now you are asking WTH is a private hive? I'll explain below because I played DayZ for a few months before really understanding this.

Public Hive = DayZ mod OFFICIAL hive - any offical server you play on you'll log in at the same location and have the same gear you found.

Private Hive = DayZ private server - if you log into any other server you won't have the same gear on another. You need to keep playing that server.

Private Community Hive = DayZ private servers that are connected together and you can play on all servers with this branding (for example, all DayZ.ST servers that are community hives - are linked together but in general these are passworded and protected from the regular population)

Community Hive = Same as above - simply not passworded, not offical hives, but still connected to several other servers that you can log onto in the same location and same gear.

Games like crack - you'll get a retarded buzz after a kill, or surviving a near death, and then you'll be coming down hard after moving 6 clicks of lonely wood jogging. Thats why hackers are goofy, they don't get it, they will never get the full rush that DayZ can offer from playing legitimate, because they are worthless, the sweet hackzer items they spawn'd in have no value to them.

Either way Arma 2 will get your feet wet to DayZ, give the ability to check out its endless mod world as I'm sure someone else stated.

Edited December 4, 2012 by FinKone

[Typheran 20]

I couldn't make up my mind to buy arma 2 or not, because I don't know if people play. Are there servers with 50-100 people 24/7? Also I heard there is an update coming out soon? Should I buy arma 2? Help please..

The DayZ mod is horribly infected with hackers and script injectors.

I quit about 2 months ago because of the broken state the cheat protection was in. spending two hours looking for items and dodging bandits only to have yourself teleported to a guy with a hacked weapon got old very quickly. Seeing unkillable people mow you down over and over was rage inducing. Last week I decided to try again, with the hope that they had actually fixed the massive holes in the cheat protection. Sadly, I was killed by someone who teleported in front of me as soon as I logged it. He spawned a crate and switched weapons while I tried to get away. I didn't get far. Joining another private server I listened as an admin talked with a player on how they both script in thieir weapons when they die. The next day I joined a server in which an admin picked my up in his chopper, when told me that I was to gun for him as he tracked other players with his scripted map. Finding players that were totally hidden in a building seemed crappy. I told the Admin that he was abusing the game and ruining it for other people.

I uninstalled the mod. I still play Arma for the insurgency servers, but Day-Z is not worth playing. I really love the idea of it, but the way it was implemented was just bad.

Should you buy Arma2? sure.. IF you like Arma2. But, if you just want to play Day-z.... I would pass on this broken game.

Edited December 4, 2012 by Typheran

[Kaffarov37 125]

I play 4-6 hours a day ._.

[ElectricHead 3]

I probably play a few hours every other day and have done for a week or two. I've encountered teleport hacks twice (the second I escaped, idiots), but not for a while. Might be the times of day but whilst I'm conscious of the problem (especially as my gear and effort put into continued survival increases) it's not really stopping me. Worst case I start over and don't feel safe stalking again. I think the hacking can be overstated.

I would say generally I don't have problems finding decent ping public servers w/ 20-50 people unless it's a silly time of day. That's enough people for me. I'm far more interested in rare encounters than it being a constant firefight anyway.

Edited December 4, 2012 by ElectricHead