A standalone version of DayZ has just been 100% confirmed and announced by the DayZ Development Team, right on time for the DayZ mod to hit the 1 million unique users mark.
"That’s right, this is actually happening - DayZ will be developed as a standalone game, with me as project lead, by Bohemia Interactive. This is the fairy-tale outcome for a mod that many would have said impossible four months ago.
Development and updates of the mod will continue in parallel with the development of the game, so anyone who is playing the mod now will be able to continue to do so. The project will...
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In the past few weeks hacking in DayZ has reached unparalleled levels, it used to be once in a blue moon you would run into a hacker and now instead it's half a dozen times a day or more. It seems like a huge amount of the servers up at any given time are broken from being carpet bombed, nuked or "thunderdomed".
Machinima recently did a livestream interview with Rocket, the creator of DayZ and even they were hacked while conducting the interview, giving testament to just how widespread hacking has become in DayZ.
The question is, what is being done? Sadly, for now, it seems like nothing at all....
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"We could have waited until it hit 1 million for the sake of the bigger headline, I suppose. But I wanted to say something: the success of zombie mod Day Z couldn’t have been predicted. It was a one off. A outlier. It’s one of those rare and beautiful times when a game design experiment explodes into a phenomenon. No one can plan for that to happen, not really. But I can predict one thing: the companies that do not support modding will never have a zombie mod sell hundreds of thousands of extra copies of their game."
Read the full article at RockPaperShotgun here
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