I am definately looking forward to the Standalone for DayZ as well as the next version of ArmA. ArmA III was delayed because of the stupidity of the Greek courts.
DayZ Standalone is being based on a custom engine built by Bohemia Interactive and Rocket. The map will be much larger and there will be many changes for it. ArmA III's engine may have been better though unless they take parts from the ArmA III engine and put them in the DayZ engine.
All in all, the standalone for DayZ will rip the spinal cord out of WarZ(cough cough) not that it already has not.
Both are slated for release sometime this year (2013). DayZ will be following the Minecraft model.
Nope, for DayZ stand alone you will need the all new stand alone yet to be released, as your mod for ARMA2 + OA is just a mod......but, as a silver lining ARMA2 is a really good game without the MOD, and you can also try playing "Wasteland" if you have not already?
..........you can have as many privet hives running custom code as you want, but when the majority of players migrating to standalone they are going to empty out fast, and who is going to carry on covering the server costs for empty servers?
Besides, you should play the ArmA II campaign as well as hook up with the United Operations group for some hardcore Multiplayer. They mostly do missions.
Bohemia Interactive have announced that their upcoming military sim Arma 3 will be Steam exclusive. As revelations go, it seems rather quaint – at this point developers tying their games to Valve’s Steamworks suite is becoming increasingly the norm. It is, however, BI’s first go at distributor exclusivity, and the team seem aware that the announcement will upset some members of their community. The reason for the move, according to Arma 3′s project lead Joris-Jan van ‘t Land, is that, without Steam, the team wouldn’t be able to release the game in 2013 at all.
“Some of you will remember the huge amount of different distributed versions for Arma 2, and all of the problems associated with it,” he writes. “We needed to spend far too much time on creating and testing all the master copies. Every patch had to be tested for every conceivable combination of distribution, patch and DLC. This drained so many of our resources, that we could not support the game itself as much as we’d have liked. By targeting Steam as our primary distribution, we can take those resources and put them to much better use: making the most splendid game possible.”
Van ‘t Land also points to Steam’s proven distribution infrastructure and ready-made developer tools, as well as the dreaded P-word. “Think of it what you want, but piracy is affecting us as a business.” He claims that Bohemia are working on expanding Steam’s DRM solutions, announcing, “It will be possible to run Steam in Offline mode, and still play the game (with the exception of online services obviously, including multiplayer itself).”
As for the release, Bohemia say they’re gearing up to announce further details in the near future.
dayz standalone runs off of the take on hleicopters game engine pretty much arma 2.5 and boheimia interactive put arma 3 on hold to develop the standalone dayz since the devs are still in prison
