While the initial alpha and beta versions of standalone were, in a word, terrible, the same can’t be said for the current version of the game. Almost four years after it was released into 1.0, its 249,000 Steam reviews are still “mostly positive” and its average player count has only recently started to return to its initial Steam Early Access peaks.īut the good news about all of this is that it doesn’t matter, because DayZ (the standalone that is, I haven’t played the mod in years) is every bit as good as the mod once was. So the game’s player base tanked, and it went from being one of the most-watched things on the internet to something that few people remembered for anything besides its bugs and high price tag.
Unlike the mod, there was originally no base building in DayZ Standalone, nor were there community-made maps, mods or anything else besides the core of what made the mod popular. It first launched as an alpha into the then-widely unknown Steam Early Access program with problems that ranged from insane amounts of bugs to a simple lack of features. The initial release of DayZ (better known as DayZ Standalone) was plagued with every type of issue imaginable. The result was, unfortunately, not very good. These things ultimately made the mod - which was free by the way - the best water cooler game of all time, because everyone could play it and everyone would have a different story of how they survived and or died.Īnd while the mod was all well and good, its insane popularity led to Arma ’s publisher/developer hiring the guy who made it to make a standalone version of it for them.
You needed (and still need, I suppose) to manage your food/water/blood levels while avoiding zombies and looting gear from either the environment, or as was often the case when loot pools ran dry, other players. It was originally a mod for Arma 2 it kept the maps and guns from the hyper-realistic military simulator, but instead of fighting huge battles alongside other players, your goal was simply to survive by any means necessary. For those who don’t know (and honestly nobody can blame you), DayZ is the original survival game.
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