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DayZ, a zombie mod for ArmA2 - Now standalone on Steam Early Access
- Thread starter potatojohn
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villain of the story
Arcane
Shit's not gonna work without some form of quests that require team work.
Here is a quest suggestion I've once made somewhere:
1. Find/assemble/repair radio
2. Try to catch the periodic radio broadcast that will give new coordinates and times to designate a meeting location every week. The broadcast could be daily or once every 4/6/8/12 hours
3. Meeting location could be somewhere on one of the islands or any place on the rest of the map. A boat or a helicopter will come to the designated location, wait for a very short while, maybe 10, maybe 30 minutes, and then leave. If anyone shoots at the vehicle, it will attempt to leave immediately while the NPCs in/on it will return fire. You will also need to approach the vehicle unarmed (not simply holstered). If you approach with one equipped, it will open fire at you.
4. Once you "activate" the vehicle, <something happens> that require you to survive until the next meeting next week without getting bitten. Maybe you will be administered an experimental drug. Maybe they are taking a blood sample from you. I don't know, doesn't matter. What matters is the game mechanic.
5. If you make it to the next meeting, you will be given a "science kit" (equipped on the tool belt) and will be required to do, I don't know, something tedious and dangerous. Eg. collect blood samples from 100 zombies or 20 players or something like that. 20 players sounds more challenging and team-worky. You will also be given the time and coordinates for the daily batch of supplies that will be dropped off from a plane for the next seven days. Drop time will vary between 10 am to 16 pm. Supplies will potentially include top gear and medicine that can not be obtained anywhere else. No more item spawn hoarding, or heavily toned down.
6. After you get blood samples from 100 zombies or 20 players, you go to a third meeting for more tedious shit? IDK.
If the game had RPG elements and you could slowly gain low profile abilities, that would be an incentive of its own to survive. Since they are aiming at player-built bases with standalone version, maybe one of the advanced goals could be to build and maintain "safe zones". After that, there could be the occasional player-hunts, for instance. Or there could be multiple radio broadcasts by competing factions that put players up against each other.
Simple things like these would enhance both team work and pvp aspects, imo.
Here is a quest suggestion I've once made somewhere:
1. Find/assemble/repair radio
2. Try to catch the periodic radio broadcast that will give new coordinates and times to designate a meeting location every week. The broadcast could be daily or once every 4/6/8/12 hours
3. Meeting location could be somewhere on one of the islands or any place on the rest of the map. A boat or a helicopter will come to the designated location, wait for a very short while, maybe 10, maybe 30 minutes, and then leave. If anyone shoots at the vehicle, it will attempt to leave immediately while the NPCs in/on it will return fire. You will also need to approach the vehicle unarmed (not simply holstered). If you approach with one equipped, it will open fire at you.
4. Once you "activate" the vehicle, <something happens> that require you to survive until the next meeting next week without getting bitten. Maybe you will be administered an experimental drug. Maybe they are taking a blood sample from you. I don't know, doesn't matter. What matters is the game mechanic.
5. If you make it to the next meeting, you will be given a "science kit" (equipped on the tool belt) and will be required to do, I don't know, something tedious and dangerous. Eg. collect blood samples from 100 zombies or 20 players or something like that. 20 players sounds more challenging and team-worky. You will also be given the time and coordinates for the daily batch of supplies that will be dropped off from a plane for the next seven days. Drop time will vary between 10 am to 16 pm. Supplies will potentially include top gear and medicine that can not be obtained anywhere else. No more item spawn hoarding, or heavily toned down.
6. After you get blood samples from 100 zombies or 20 players, you go to a third meeting for more tedious shit? IDK.
If the game had RPG elements and you could slowly gain low profile abilities, that would be an incentive of its own to survive. Since they are aiming at player-built bases with standalone version, maybe one of the advanced goals could be to build and maintain "safe zones". After that, there could be the occasional player-hunts, for instance. Or there could be multiple radio broadcasts by competing factions that put players up against each other.
Simple things like these would enhance both team work and pvp aspects, imo.
AngryEddy
Self-Ejected
Still looks like an overrated mod. I wouldn't pay for shit that should've been in the original mod [Proper spawn locations, being able to enter all buildings, having a variety of clothing etc]
Sranchammer
Arcane
I hopelessly wish it wasn't just a fad.
Zewp
Arcane
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I would. The reason they went with the standalone is because the new engine gives them a lot more freedom than the incredibly limited ArmA2 engine. That and why make something for free when you can do it for money?
AngryEddy
Self-Ejected
There is absolutely nothing wrong with them trying to make money, but in a competitive market, I can get 10x the entertainment from tons of other games with extensive modding communities for free. In my opinion, DayZ was a cultural phenomena, and it only worked out because it was a mod, but in the end who is still talking about Dayz? It's a fad that came and went, it's done. I'm interested in seeing how the game does, with the same shitty fanbase, with the same gameplay that gets boring quickly.
Besides all of this, since the prime reason to play the game is PvP, I can't imagine that all of these people wouldn't move to Arma 3 when it comes out.
Zewp
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The other problem is that development on the mod stopped almost entirely. DayZ doesn't need to receive a continuous influx of new content across it's entire lifetime, but at the moment there simply isn't enough content to keep you busy for longer than a week. Although projects like DayZ+ and DayZ Origins is helping to keep things alive.
AngryEddy
Self-Ejected
On a coincidental note, it was modders who kept Dayz alive with new gametypes and new maps for Dayz, while Rocket was working on the standalone.
Jashiin
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Yes, even though I've stopped playing, and not active in the mod community and private servers, I'm still happy that a community is there. It will give fresh ideas to the dev team and also there will always be a group who just want the mod and that's fine. Perhaps down the line Bis will have some useful patches for it even.
New content was certainly a problem and the inventory was so unwieldy. Some time will have passed once this game is ready for release and it's starting to itch again... and hopefully it will be a far less buggy experience. Also they've done a total overhaul of the item system... with traits that can be added to them. Such as transmittable disease. This could turn into an interesting crafting system. Also a good melee system with lots of makeshift weapons.
With the "fad" over it might even generate a very healthy new community.
New content was certainly a problem and the inventory was so unwieldy. Some time will have passed once this game is ready for release and it's starting to itch again... and hopefully it will be a far less buggy experience. Also they've done a total overhaul of the item system... with traits that can be added to them. Such as transmittable disease. This could turn into an interesting crafting system. Also a good melee system with lots of makeshift weapons.
With the "fad" over it might even generate a very healthy new community.
villain of the story
Arcane
Last update came out just the other day. When I started playing, it was 1.6.2, I think. When I stopped playing, it was 1.7.2.5. Now it is 1.7.5.1. Biggest changes came around the time I stopped playing. Always fun to see doomsayers, though.
villain of the story
Arcane
July: 1.7.2 to 1.7.2.4
August: 1.7.2.5
September: 1.7.2.6
October: 1.7.3
November: 1.7.4.4
http://se1.dayz.nu/latest/1.7.5/Changelog.txt
Last few months also saw the busiest and the most rapid update schedule. Plus, with summer ending, it was only natural that things would slow down a bit, both in player base and in development. Otherwise, the community is still very active.
August: 1.7.2.5
September: 1.7.2.6
October: 1.7.3
November: 1.7.4.4
http://se1.dayz.nu/latest/1.7.5/Changelog.txt
Last few months also saw the busiest and the most rapid update schedule. Plus, with summer ending, it was only natural that things would slow down a bit, both in player base and in development. Otherwise, the community is still very active.
Zewp
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Dude, did you even play between March - July? We saw updates with actual content updates on an almost weekly basis back then.
I expect the community to boom again once the stand-alone releases. Maybe not to the extent it grew when the mod just went viral, but there are definitely a lot of players waiting for the stand-alone to release before they start playing again.
I expect the community to boom again once the stand-alone releases. Maybe not to the extent it grew when the mod just went viral, but there are definitely a lot of players waiting for the stand-alone to release before they start playing again.
villain of the story
Arcane
Yes I did. Spring and summer time. They are over now. Get over it.
Jashiin
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Sranchammer
Arcane
Alpha testing is coming soon judging by Hall's tweets
Zewp
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Scratch what I said earlier this year. I don't think the standalone will get a tenth of the activity the mod received. This should have released while the mod was still popular. Instead it's releasing when everyone is tired of it and have forgotten all about it.
They took way too long on this one.
They took way too long on this one.
AngryEddy
Self-Ejected
I remember when Rocket was spouting off in interviews last year about a standalone by October. 8 months later and the public ALPHA isn't even ready. Hopefully they actually spent some of that time implementing actual shit for people to do.
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