DayZ Standalone Discussion

[Zodiac13 173]

Didn't you hear? BI and the DayZ dev team teamed up with the guys over at Zynga and the stand alone is now set to release as a mod for farmville 2.

[spinager 152]

Didn't you hear? BI and the DayZ dev team teamed up with the guys over at Zynga and the stand alone is now set to release as a mod for farmville 2.

 

 

EEHHH... no.

[strongtent 74]

[Statik (DayZ) 2695]

What a treat that would be.

I see what you did there.

 

 

 

Predict when you think the Standlone will be released.

There will be no release. There will be no release. There will be no release. There will be no release. There will be no release. There will be no release. There will be no release. There will be no release. There will be no release. There will be no release. There will be no release. There will be no release. There will be no release. There will be no release.There will be no release. There will be no release.There will be no release.

[ibux (DayZ) 22]

december 2015

[beavis_5000 111]

Didn't you hear? BI and the DayZ dev team teamed up with the guys over at Zynga and the stand alone is now set to release as a mod for farmville 2.

 

 

 

smh

[beavis_5000 111]

It will be released summer of 2153

[dannsair2 (DayZ) 16]

it will be released in 3528791017589148096158703608921650986123876580721635887962-8346503489650983465087345870324687364087056348706507346576348765038746458736. years

[drewsta 74]

Don't forget to take a break and look out your window occasionally folks. What if Dean said "bugger it I'm scrapping the whole standalone, it's too hard'? The community would be up in arms and you would probably burn him at the stake for obvious reasons. The banter, personal opinions and rubbish that get thrown around in these forums is what keeps the hype and interest rolling. I'm here typing this, you're here reading it so we are still curious. "I'm not buying it" or "It will fail" really means nothing in the end because as soon as it's released, you just know the servers will be packed full. How long it stays that way will depend on updates and new content I'm guessing. Countless times playing Dayz Origins and the servers dwindled to just a handful of people, most gave it away saying it was not as engaging etc. Then a new update was released and you struggled to even get a slot the same server for weeks at a time. We are creatures of habit and I fully understand the Standalone will simply not reach expectations for some but for most we will be in there making it our own.

 

Dayz Standalone is eventually coming wether you have patience or not, what you do with it is up to you.

 

Just another opinion.

Edited September 29, 2013 by Drewsta

[addictedfool 2]

Oh hey this still exists?  Is this still the same thing from when I was a younger man with dreams of playing a decent open world zombie game?  Or is this like a remake of the original DayZ Standalone?  I'm not usually a fan of all the new "reimagining" type movies, but maybe it's different for games.

 

OK so obvious joking aside, they are just lucky there isn't a better alternative yet...I hope they decide to release this game sometime soon.

 

Did they actually understand "this year" meant in 2012 when they gave the responses for this interview?

 

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-09-27-dayz-standalone-release-this-year-says-dean-hall

 

If not, they are only 2 days late which really isn't so horrible I guess.  Someone explain to them that if they say it again this year it means BEFORE 2014 and not before 9-27-2014...

Edited September 29, 2013 by AddictedFool

[Wayze 549]

Oh hey this still exists?  Is this still the same thing from when I was a younger man with dreams of playing a decent open world zombie game?  Or is this like a remake of the original DayZ Standalone?  I'm not usually a fan of all the new "reimagining" type movies, but maybe it's different for games.

 

OK so obvious joking aside, they are just lucky there isn't a better alternative yet...I hope they decide to release this game sometime soon.

 

Did they actually understand "this year" meant in 2012 when they gave the responses for this interview?

 

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-09-27-dayz-standalone-release-this-year-says-dean-hall

 

If not, they are only 2 days late which really isn't so horrible I guess.  Someone explain to them that if they say it again this year it means BEFORE 2014 and not before 9-27-2014...

Not they meant 2012. But this was another game. It was not the SA as a completly new game with a new engine, it just was the mod taken with arma 2 modified into a game that is playable on it's own.

As they saw how popular DayZ mod got, they decided to do everything from scretch, a real game not just some modified sh*t.

 

Well, realisticly speaking I think DayZ SA will release next week/month. And if it does nobody will talk about this anymore, it will turn into a rage wave cause by gamebreaking buggs, hackers, low FPS and probably constantly full servers.

That's how I think it will look like, but maybe they surprise me.

Edited September 29, 2013 by Wayze

[addictedfool 2]

I understand where you're coming from Wayze, my post was mostly meant in jest since at this point it basically is a joke how long it has been delayed.  I was around for Duke Nukem, Battlefield 1943 for the PC and I'm still waiting for Half-Life 2 Episode 3 so I have experience with video game delays.  I just mostly wanted to point out that the biggest mistake was getting people's hopes up so much so many times for over a year now.  If we just heard "it will be done when it's done even if that takes years" like all the people on the forums say, most people wouldn't have as much of a problem.  The real issue comes when they keep announcing it's "almost ready", or that they're going to test to see if it is ready for alpha (which means they are pretty confident it might be) only to announce they are still months from alpha, then they do it again, and it's still months from alpha the next time.  They will announce "it won't be ready until at least X date" and then instead of it being a few weeks later it isn't even close at all.  This happens over and over and it is 1000x worse than just saying nothing at all.  That is a problem too, but at least you can just sort of put it out of your mind if it isn't in game media over and over to remind you.  I understand they are excited and want to keep interest peaked, but at this point it really does seem to be backfiring.

 

In the examples I gave above the worst offender would have to be BF 1943 for PC.  They were stringing us along for almost 2 years on that one, actually going as far as to sell copies of the game.  The whole time they were sure it was just about to come out, they just had to find the time to get it finished.  Duke Nukem and HL2E3 people are angry about, but at least they aren't announcing "it's almost ready" over and over and it turns out "almost" means "probably years away". 

[Wayze 549]

I understand where you're coming from Wayze, my post was mostly meant in jest since at this point it basically is a joke how long it has been delayed.  I was around for Duke Nukem, Battlefield 1943 for the PC and I'm still waiting for Half-Life 2 Episode 3 so I have experience with video game delays.  I just mostly wanted to point out that the biggest mistake was getting people's hopes up so much so many times for over a year now.  If we just heard "it will be done when it's done even if that takes years" like all the people on the forums say, most people wouldn't have as much of a problem.  The real issue comes when they keep announcing it's "almost ready", or that they're going to test to see if it is ready for alpha (which means they are pretty confident it might be) only to announce they are still months from alpha, then they do it again, and it's still months from alpha the next time.  They will announce "it won't be ready until at least X date" and then instead of it being a few weeks later it isn't even close at all.  This happens over and over and it is 1000x worse than just saying nothing at all.  That is a problem too, but at least you can just sort of put it out of your mind if it isn't in game media over and over to remind you.  I understand they are excited and want to keep interest peaked, but at this point it really does seem to be backfiring.

 

In the examples I gave above the worst offender would have to be BF 1943 for PC.  They were stringing us along for almost 2 years on that one, actually going as far as to sell copies of the game.  The whole time they were sure it was just about to come out, they just had to find the time to get it finished.  Duke Nukem and HL2E3 people are angry about, but at least they aren't announcing "it's almost ready" over and over and it turns out "almost" means "probably years away". 

Maybe you do not realise the very unique conditions the SA is developed in.

1. The game was an accident, it was not planned in any way to be an actuall game

2. The game has a very unique and huge hardcore player base

 

These two facts are very important. The game is developed since 10 (almost?) months now and it is almost alpha ready. However, the people who really like this game do want informations. If Dean is quiet people complain about no informations and if he actually delivers information the people always do think it means it will be release very soon.

Actually Dean has never delayed the game, not a single time. Once he scrapped another game and then started a new one, that was in december 2012. Additionally to that he didn't really said "it's almost ready". Once in June he told us that they have an internal release week, which was actually scrapped because the developement went into another direction.

 

This time though, obviously the game will be release very probably next month, he is actually making hope by saying "last lap". This is something he never did before and he said even that he will never make that mistake (announcing a release date) again. So it seems he is pretty sure about it and I think the game is ready by now. He could release it, but I think there are other things he has to take care of (steam stuff I guess).

 

Anyways, we will see if it means "probably years away". We will see in a few days or weeks ;)

[reidloS doG 38]

Rocket has stated in the past that he is going to simply release the game with no release date, to try and make it a soft release.  Does anyone have a link to that?

 

Rocket also has stated he is going to release it with unlimited keys, meaning it will be a open alpha.  Does anyone have a link to that?

 

I know you guys have a page with all of these questions answered, but for the life of me I can't find it.

[Statik (DayZ) 2695]

Rocket has stated in the past that he is going to simply release the game with no release date, to try and make it a soft release.  Does anyone have a link to that?

 

Rocket also has stated he is going to release it with unlimited keys, meaning it will be a open alpha.  Does anyone have a link to that?

 

I know you guys have a page with all of these questions answered, but for the life of me I can't find it.

I don't know where the source is, but he's stated it many times in interviews, etc.

 

EDIT: The alpha is not going to be free, it is going to be like ArmA 3, or Minecraft.

Edited September 29, 2013 by Statik

[Rage VG 4033]

I don't know where the source is, but he's stated it many times in interviews, etc.

 

EDIT: The alpha is not going to be free, it is going to be like ArmA 3, or Minecraft.

An open alpha doesn't mean free. It just means an unlimited amount of people can participate.

[MrONEBADDUDE (DayZ) 2]

Whens the next DevBlog?

[addictedfool 2]

Maybe you do not realise the very unique conditions the SA is developed in.

1. The game was an accident, it was not planned in any way to be an actuall game

2. The game has a very unique and huge hardcore player base

 

These two facts are very important. The game is developed since 10 (almost?) months now and it is almost alpha ready. However, the people who really like this game do want informations. If Dean is quiet people complain about no informations and if he actually delivers information the people always do think it means it will be release very soon.

Actually Dean has never delayed the game, not a single time. Once he scrapped another game and then started a new one, that was in december 2012. Additionally to that he didn't really said "it's almost ready". Once in June he told us that they have an internal release week, which was actually scrapped because the developement went into another direction.

 

This time though, obviously the game will be release very probably next month, he is actually making hope by saying "last lap". This is something he never did before and he said even that he will never make that mistake (announcing a release date) again. So it seems he is pretty sure about it and I think the game is ready by now. He could release it, but I think there are other things he has to take care of (steam stuff I guess).

 

Anyways, we will see if it means "probably years away". We will see in a few days or weeks ;)

 

I don't know if you realize what he actually scrapped in Dec 2012, you do realize that was THIS GAME and not "another game", correct?  If they were that unprepared they shouldn't have said it was almost ready for release.  He said he learned his lesson and wouldn't post another "release date", except him posting that they have one and then in your own words scrapping it because they "went in another direction" is just as bad.  Since then they have posted about alpha being almost ready, with a test "to see if we are ready" that ended up showing it's not ready for some reason that sounds a lot like "because we say so".  I'm not tired of waiting for the game, I'm tired of getting my hopes up only to find out it's been delayed AGAIN.  You keep trying to say "well he didn't actually say that", but just because it's not a specific date doesn't mean crap.  It's still implying that the game should be ready soon.  If it was a matter of a few weeks that wouldn't be such a big deal, but it keeps turning into months more.

 

Again, I don't care if it DOES take years.  Just STOP SAYING ITS ALMOST READY if it isn't.  Seriously how are we supposed to feel better about this latest announcement?  Just because he used the term "last lap" this is the time they actually mean it?  What if they decide they need to go in another direction...again...for the 3rd time?  Will you still say the same thing again too?  Technically he didn't actually give a date right?  I want to give them the benefit of the doubt, but after 3 times being burned already I'm just finding it hard to have any faith at all.  If I could avoid it just by not paying attention to dayzmod.com or dayzgame.com that would be a bit different, but it's blasted all over every single gaming news site each time it happens.  It's impossible to avoid, which is why I'm even here posting.  Hopefully you are correct and it's coming out soon, I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

[OrLoK 16185]

Hello there

 

How did you get burned?

 

Perhaps your emotions were let down a little due to your and others excitement over a pending release, but you've not invested anything in the game.

 

It will be here when its ready, regardless of however many missed dates perceived or not.

 

My point being, there are other things to do and other games to play, dont invest so much personal emotion in the SA.

 

Its only a game.

 

I read so much rage and anger on the net about intangibles that realistically dont mean anything and I wonder if its right.

 

The SA will be lovely and fun and im really looking forward to it as we all are, patience is key.

 

Rgds

 

LoK

[twinturbonet (DayZ) 294]

Yea, I kind of just let the mod go and stopped thinking about DayZ, that way I'm not sitting here F5'ing all day thinking about the SA.  I see HL3 coming out before the SA though.  Nah JK...or am I?   <_<

Edited October 2, 2013 by twinturbonet

[Owain1122 218]

28th September:

 

Realize the lack of #DayZDaily updates from me annoys some people. But I've taken a break from forums/reddit/life for the final lap. cu soon

 

 

https://twitter.com/rocket2guns

[Jex 1104]

If I owned a video game company, I a) wouldn't make console games and b) wouldn't say anything about a game until it was a month away from release.

[rossums 2190]

If I owned a video game company, I a) wouldn't make console games and B) wouldn't say anything about a game until it was a month away from release.

Haha, probably a wise decision.

The only reason we all knew about DayZ so early in development was that DayZ Standalone was literally just going to be Arma II and DayZ packaged together with each other.

As you know they decided to turn DayZ into a full game and overhaul EVERYTHING.

I feel sorry for rocket, he's the one that's had to put up with the abuse for a year or so :D

[Forgewolf 70]

Who wants Day Z standalone on Halloween at the latest?

[Jex 1104]

Haha, probably a wise decision.

The only reason we all knew about DayZ so early in development was that DayZ Standalone was literally just going to be Arma II and DayZ packaged together with each other.

As you know they decided to turn DayZ into a full game and overhaul EVERYTHING.

I feel sorry for rocket, he's the one that's had to put up with the abuse for a year or so :D

 

Abuse? I don't think he's bothered at all but a handful of dipshits that bitch and moan. They might seem to make a lot of noise on these forums, but in general these people are ignored by most reasonable people because they're known to be idiots - they're the equivalent of creationists. Dean's losing no sleep over these comments because they're not worth it - he's got more important things to loose sleep over or maybe he sleeps like a baby. Either way, as dipshits all over the world will fail to comprehend over and over again, it will be released when it's ready.