DayZ Could Break Free From ArmA II

[Woodsey]

Eh. I'd be on the fence honestly. Arma 2 is probably the most poorly optimized piece of crap on the market today (of games that people actually buy). My rig can run basically anythin on maxed out settins with a full 60 fps and no framerate drops and yet I loaded up the demo and it still chugged at points when it wasn't even all that busy. I can't imagine what it'd be like with DayZ since it still uses the same code just with the number of players jacked up.

If they actually launched as a standalone game and fixed up ArmA's fucked code though? All my moneys would belong to them.

What's your system like? I'm on a 3.3GHz i5 2500, 1GB Radeon 5770 and 4GB DDR3 and it runs fine for me on mostly high settings. I've never bothered checking the frame rate but I'd say I'm coming in over 45fps consistently.

The game's gone through some substantial optimisations since the demo, I believe, and if you were running the demo in singleplayer, multiplayer runs better anyway, since the server handles more stuff.

Win-win situation in my opinion. Many thousands more including myself would buy the game due to the fact they don't want ArmA2, and the devs get some money to upkeep servers, and for creating such a unique game.

Would Bohemia receive a cut of the sales, due to the engine or the fact it is a mod?

They'd get a cut from selling it - the mod's creator works at Bohemia.

Sweet, maybe now connecting to a server won't be such a hassle.

Servers have been fine for me for ages. It used to take like 20 minutes, these days I'm on in a minute or two, including time taken to boot the game.

Well, there's a REASON why ArmA II didn't do too well until DayZ hit.

Yeah, because military-sims are a niche.

OT: I fucking love it. I had so much adrenaline from killing someone recently (and feeling fucking awful about it) that my hands began to shake.

I recommend people play the ARMA 2 tutorials just to get used to basic stuff like movement and menu interaction, it's certainly... idiosyncratic, but it's well worth it. After a time you'll have very few issues with it.

 

[Kargathia]

Win-win situation in my opinion. Many thousands more including myself would buy the game due to the fact they don't want ArmA2, and the devs get some money to upkeep servers, and for creating such a unique game.

Would Bohemia receive a cut of the sales, due to the engine or the fact it is a mod?

If it gets a budget then the most logical step would be to license the engine from Bohemia. Chances are they could get it reasonably cheap, as the mod already roughly doubled Arma II sales.

 

[Doclector]

I would play this game, if my craptop could actually run ARMA2 as something other than a powerpoint presentation.

Me too. Here's hoping if it becomes a stand alone game that a console release could be on the cards.

Oh god, do you hear that rumbling? The elitists! They come for me!

Quick! Go splurg on some Steam indy games! That should keep them at bay!

I DON'T KNOW WHICH ONES I CAN RUN!

Please tell me carl is safe in the house!

...

DAMMIT CARL!

Crap, crap, crap... Okay, don't panic...
Try some nineties games, say you're going on a retro kick...

AHA! I've been wanting to try call of cthulhu for ages...DAMMIT! It's not compatible with windows 7!

 

[Meight08]

Eh. I'd be on the fence honestly. Arma 2 is probably the most poorly optimized piece of crap on the market today (of games that people actually buy). My rig can run basically anythin on maxed out settins with a full 60 fps and no framerate drops and yet I loaded up the demo and it still chugged at points when it wasn't even all that busy. I can't imagine what it'd be like with DayZ since it still uses the same code just with the number of players jacked up.

If they actually launched as a standalone game and fixed up ArmA's fucked code though? All my moneys would belong to them.

Actually it plays better because there are less complex ai operating at the same time.
My computer runs arma 2 at 30 fps but it runs day z on 60.

 

[Akisa]

If it gets a budget then the most logical step would be to license the engine from Bohemia. Chances are they could get it reasonably cheap, as the mod already roughly doubled Arma II sales.

If that is true, can you explain why companies don't want their games modded?

 

[Meight08]

I would play this game, if my craptop could actually run ARMA2 as something other than a powerpoint presentation.

Me too. Here's hoping if it becomes a stand alone game that a console release could be on the cards.

Oh god, do you hear that rumbling? The elitists! They come for me!

A console can't run it, when will console gamer's understand that consoles can't handle complex sim's or big games like planetside 2

 

[halobolola]

Would love a chance at playing DayZ, but there is no point in me getting arma 2 just to play it.
If it goes standalone, it would be perfect for me, and i dont maind paying a resenable amount for it.

Would be cool if it was put into arma 3 as a menu option, however as the guy has said before, arma 2 has gone through its changes, arma 3 hasn't.

 

[Doclector]

Ze Day Has come!

I would play this game, if my craptop could actually run ARMA2 as something other than a powerpoint presentation.

Me too. Here's hoping if it becomes a stand alone game that a console release could be on the cards.

Oh god, do you hear that rumbling? The elitists! They come for me!

Quick! Go splurg on some Steam indy games! That should keep them at bay!

I DON'T KNOW WHICH ONES I CAN RUN!

Please tell me carl is safe in the house!

...

DAMMIT CARL!

Crap, crap, crap... Okay, don't panic...
Try some nineties games, say you're going on a retro kick...

AHA! I've been wanting to try call of cthulhu for ages...DAMMIT! It's not compatible with windows 7!

Why didn't you get the Humble Indie Bundle when you had the chance? WHY!?!

I DIDN'T KNOW! I JUST DIDN'T KN-Wait, are you talking about the latest one? I did get that. Unfortunately, amnesia disagrees with my specific graphics chipset...

 

[CardinalPiggles]

It's still a bug ridden, unoptimised piece of shit at the moment, and seeing as I don't own ARMA 2, I don't want to put any money down.

Plus, the zombies are very fast and VERY jerky.

 

[Doclector]

Ze Day Has come!

I would play this game, if my craptop could actually run ARMA2 as something other than a powerpoint presentation.

Me too. Here's hoping if it becomes a stand alone game that a console release could be on the cards.

Oh god, do you hear that rumbling? The elitists! They come for me!

Quick! Go splurg on some Steam indy games! That should keep them at bay!

I DON'T KNOW WHICH ONES I CAN RUN!

Please tell me carl is safe in the house!

...

DAMMIT CARL!

Crap, crap, crap... Okay, don't panic...
Try some nineties games, say you're going on a retro kick...

AHA! I've been wanting to try call of cthulhu for ages...DAMMIT! It's not compatible with windows 7!

Why didn't you get the Humble Indie Bundle when you had the chance? WHY!?!

I DIDN'T KNOW! I JUST DIDN'T KN-Wait, are you talking about the latest one? I did get that. Unfortunately, amnesia disagrees with my specific graphics chipset...

WELL DON'T JUST SIT THERE MAN! Upgrade 4 the love God! Don't you know that anyone who doesn't know how to edit Unreal Engine Ini files or has access to a top range PC powered by the ghosts of Microsoft certified system engineers HAS NO BUSINESS playing PC games?!

I...i dared to overstep my place in the world...and in doing so, my foul presence has displeased the PC gods.

 

[Lancer873]

Wouldn't be surprising, wouldn't be disappointing, and certainly wouldn't be the first time. Sounds like it's a natural evolution of big-name mods these days.

 

[shintakie10]

Ze Day Has come!

I would play this game, if my craptop could actually run ARMA2 as something other than a powerpoint presentation.

Me too. Here's hoping if it becomes a stand alone game that a console release could be on the cards.

Oh god, do you hear that rumbling? The elitists! They come for me!

Quick! Go splurg on some Steam indy games! That should keep them at bay!

I DON'T KNOW WHICH ONES I CAN RUN!

Please tell me carl is safe in the house!

...

DAMMIT CARL!

Crap, crap, crap... Okay, don't panic...
Try some nineties games, say you're going on a retro kick...

AHA! I've been wanting to try call of cthulhu for ages...DAMMIT! It's not compatible with windows 7!

Why didn't you get the Humble Indie Bundle when you had the chance? WHY!?!

I DIDN'T KNOW! I JUST DIDN'T KN-Wait, are you talking about the latest one? I did get that. Unfortunately, amnesia disagrees with my specific graphics chipset...

Amusingly I had that problem with my computer when it came to some random indie game called Dinner Date. It happens sometimes with lower budgeted games.

 

[Rainboq]

I would play this game, if my craptop could actually run ARMA2 as something other than a powerpoint presentation.

Me too. Here's hoping if it becomes a stand alone game that a console release could be on the cards.

Oh god, do you hear that rumbling? The elitists! They come for me!

Quick! Go splurg on some Steam indy games! That should keep them at bay!

I DON'T KNOW WHICH ONES I CAN RUN!

Please tell me carl is safe in the house!

...

DAMMIT CARL!

Crap, crap, crap... Okay, don't panic...
Try some nineties games, say you're going on a retro kick...

AHA! I've been wanting to try call of cthulhu for ages...DAMMIT! It's not compatible with windows 7!

CRAP! Uhhh, try finding an emulator?

 

[Kargathia]

If it gets a budget then the most logical step would be to license the engine from Bohemia. Chances are they could get it reasonably cheap, as the mod already roughly doubled Arma II sales.

If that is true, can you explain why companies don't want their games modded?

Aliens.

(Yea, that's about as good an explanation as it's gonna get)

 

[WaysideMaze]

Certainly hope so. DayZ looks interesting but I could give a flying fuck about Arma2. I don't want to pay 30 bucks so I can ignore the game itself and just play a total conversion.

This is precisely what I've just done, and I really am having fun with it.

I'd be gutted if I had to buy the game again, but I can understand that the devs need something.