Day z, an arma II zombie mod

[yottabyte]

Props to rocket who actually made a proper zombie survival mod. A game like Day Z has been in a lot of people's minds for a long time but no one has actually gone through and made it. I specifically remember this 11 month old post on reddit that gained a lot of attention for a while.

This got some developers to begin working as seen in this post http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/...l_fps_rpg/

That turned into the game Survivor Zero, which has been in progress ever since. There hasn't been much happening with it except for some concept art but they started releasing screenshots as Day Z got popular.

IIRC, Survivor Zero is targeted more toward the single player survival aspect but if it ever gets completed, it will have an open randomly generated world like Minecraft, day/night cycles, randomly generated towns and I think they said all houses will be intractable. It will also be more of a sandbox than ARMA II is. Think Garry's Mod zombie survival.

I'm still pretty surprised no one made a mod like this earlier. When discussed, most people say you need to create an engine from scratch with huge world and it can't be loaded into memory and you need to render zombies and yada yada. No one had the idea to use an existing world like Chernarus. Except for rocket.

[geckosquid]

Did that full map already exist in ARMA II?

[bvcxzmn]

Did that full map already exist in ARMA II?

Yes

[Crazylol5]

Damn Chernorussians resisting that American Invasion and then becoming zombies.

[Crashlander04]

Dood, can you get a bike possibly in this game?

[yottabyte]

Dood, can you get a bike possibly in this game?

yep

[Smythie]

Crash has a new formed obsession with bikes?

[oranges44]

Two version updates in one day ... and the site is down.

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(My first account of playing DayZ) :

I loaded into the server and immediately inspected my inventory , I had a couple of mags some food and water and basic medical equipment. I looked around and saw a town to my right , but instead I sprinted into the forest ahead of , sticking to the foliage and cover to make sure no one saw me. I ran for about 20 minutes and eventually came upon a town , I inspected it before I decided to go ahead and scavenge it - most of the buildings turn out to be simple distractions and after some detailed looking I find a little shack , with a tyre in it? So I think to myself , dam that sucked and as I turn around a zombie is crawling towards me and instantly I aim for the head and execute it perfectly , not realising that this was a fatal error I feebly walk out of the town to find out that there's 6 zombies following me. I shoot 3 down and shoot the other in the head , but the two zombies get to me (Damn they run fast as heck) I kill them both but I see that I'm bleeding. I forget how to bandage myself and after my blood is at 5000I bandage. But the side effects start to kick in and I'm forced to take Morphine and Painkillers , then a zombie spots me repairing myself and decides to have a go at me. 4000 blood. and quickly dropping down. I bandage myself with my last one and find a painkiller on the zombie which I use. From there I start to walk around , cautious and careful I spot a barn on the far side of the village I sneak around the zombies and find a winchester in it! However I wasen't careful enough and I can hear the zombies approach. I load the gun and take stand behind the crates. The shotgun is super effective , and it wipes out all of them. I hear a storm coming and I decide to shelter in the barn because it might rain , and my body heat might drop.

END OF PART 1;

[Crashlander04]

Dood, can you get a bike possibly in this game?

yep

dood wanna ride bikes?

[doggypwn]

Sorry to necro, but I couldn't resist quoting a favorite let's player of mine; "Because there is nothing more I would love to do than go through Elektro ringing a bicycle bell."

On a side note, bicycles are not in the mod at this point. Only motorcycles, cars, and helicopters.