DayZ Screenshots Show Off Working Village

[Karloff]

DayZ Screenshots Show Off Working Village

The DayZ developers want you to search as much of Chernarus as you like.

It won't be long now before Arma 2 zombie apocalypse mod DayZ gets its standalone release, and the development team is busy at work making all environments in Chernarus viable. Every single structure in the random village pictured here, even the sheds, will be searchable. That means more chance to find rifles and ammo, but also more opportunities to fall foul of the zombie hordes.

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"The task can be pretty difficult," DayZ creator Dean Hall says, "[because] when the buildings were made interiors were not considered, so it can be a challenge for the artists to make the interiors both look correct and work properly." The screenshots seen here were taken at normal settings with medium texture resolution.

Dean Hall and his team are now looking at the city's interiors, and seeing what can be done to make them searchable too. They want to increase performance, but also increase scavenging opportunities inside the cities; whether the two goals can coexist comfortably is an open question.

There's no firm release date, but when last we heard [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/119848-DayZ-Standalone-Will-Hit-Retail-by-Years-End], DayZ was due to come out in December.

Source: DayZ [http://dayzdev.tumblr.com/post/33639244299/interior-work-in-progress-screenshots-taken-from]


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[Sight Unseen]

Awesome! I can't wait for this standalone. It's so frustrating having this great big city full of buildings and only the big red brick house and the school being searchable...

 

[ReiDureau]

Unfortunately I won't be playing this. I'm playing the Alpha for The War Z. It's absolutely amazing. Pure zombie survival mmo. Day Z was fun, but The War Z has it beat. It's well ahead of Day Z. It'll be a battle between the two.

 

[WanderingFool]

I am keeping an eye on this, but from my experience with DayZ, Im not likely to start playing it.

 

[Volstag9]

Unfortunately I won't be playing this. I'm playing the Alpha for The War Z. It's absolutely amazing. Pure zombie survival mmo. Day Z was fun, but The War Z has it beat. It's well ahead of Day Z. It'll be a battle between the two.

Now I heard the exact opposite.

I guess we will see won't we?

 

[lRookiel]

Unfortunately I won't be playing this. I'm playing the Alpha for The War Z. It's absolutely amazing. Pure zombie survival mmo. Day Z was fun, but The War Z has it beat. It's well ahead of Day Z. It'll be a battle between the two.

I think I will be getting both :3

I will be playing The WarZ on the 31st when the beta is out since I got the survivor pack. is it that good?

 

[GAunderrated]

Unfortunately I won't be playing this. I'm playing the Alpha for The War Z. It's absolutely amazing. Pure zombie survival mmo. Day Z was fun, but The War Z has it beat. It's well ahead of Day Z. It'll be a battle between the two.

I think I will be getting both :3

I will be playing The WarZ on the 31st when the beta is out since I got the survivor pack. is it that good?

I'm doing the exact opposite. I bought DayZ and it was fun except when the endgame was just vehicle hoarding and hunting peers trying to grief them.

I'm going to wait to see how both games play out and how the community goes from those games before I consider investing more money. I always considered a zombie survival mmo to be more about surviving and not hunting down fellow humans. Sure if you meet a dick or two take them down, but making a metagame out of hunting people kinda defeats the zombie survival aspect for me.

 

[schwitz]

Cant wait for this, I haven't been a part of DayZ for very long but I'm already hooked. Cant say Ive looked into WarZ much at all though, might have to give it a look. I can easily see that performance on large servers might become a real issue if they try and go too detailed, but thats what everyone wants, isnt it?

 

[Strazdas]

Ah, finally a game that allows entering every building, i been wiatinf for that since 2007.

 

[piclemaniscool]

Didn't think they'd actually address this. That's actually a pretty big deal for me because that's one of the reasons I stopped playing. Also, it's weird to not have to worry about performance on my end. My first thought was "to hell with performance, I can easily play this in highest settings." Then I remembered I only got this computer a couple months ago and my last computer runs worse than a toaster.