ArmA 3

[Shiftdnb]

Does anyone here have any experience with the PC game ArmA?

[autiger730]

Is this the game that has the Zombie mod that is supposed to be so incredible? I'm 75% sure it is. I think i read about it in game informer a while back. Never played it, but they thought really highly of it.

[trendon]

Everyone who has ever played an Arma game think it is the greatest thing ever.

[autiger730]

From Wikipedia on the zombie mod. Sounds like it would be a lot of fun. But once you die, you start from scratch again. From what I remember in the GI article, there are bands of ruthless motherfuckers, that will basically give you the choice of enslavement or death if they catch you. It is widely considered to be the greatest zombie game ever made.

DayZ attempts to portray a realistic scenario within the gameplay, with the environment having different effects on the player. A character may receive bone fractures from damage to their legs, go into shock from unexpected ambushes, receive infections from zombies or diseased players, or even faint due to low blood pressure. Thirst and hunger must be kept under control by finding sustenance in either cities or the wilderness, with body temperature playing a key part in the character's survival.[1] The game focuses on surviving and the human elements of a zombie apocalypse by forcing the player to acknowledge basic human needs like thirst, hunger and shelter. These mechanics require the player to focus on immediate goals before they can consider long-term strategies.[2]

DayZ is praised for its level of emergent gameplay. BuzzFeed author Russell Brandom suggested that the mod has spawned the first photojournalist in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, creating articles that are not only about a game world but journalism told from within it.[3] Brandom claimed that DayZ is a unique example of the MMORPG genre in giving players the freedom to harm/murder each other, whilst adding no restrictions on how or why they may do it, quoting a player who described it as "the story of people".[3] The mod has been compared by Kotaku to The Walking Dead and its focus on interactions between the characters when faced with desperate situations. The players in DayZ are forced to deal with dilemmas in similar ways as portrayed in both the comics and TV series for The Walking Dead.[4]

It has been proposed that DayZ provides some insight into people's motivations and behaviors when reacting to real crisis events, mirroring controlled experiments of a similar nature. However, some critics of this theory argue that participants do not react as they would in a real world situation in which their life is truly threatened.[5] Despite the game being biased towards self-interested, hostile competition, many players enter the game with their own perceptions and priorities. These varied approaches and experiences within the game suggest that even in a system that should theoretically promote rational behaviour, people act in unexpected ways. It has been proposed that this dispels the idea that chaos is an objective and defining feature of the system, rather it is what players make of it.[5]

[Shiftdnb]

Yes DayZ is mod available for ArmA 2. Arma 3 is in alpha phase and about to go into beta. It's much more of a milsim game and not fast paced or as pretty as Battlefield or COD, it's definitely a game for people looking for simulation and better with units. The maps are huge and with some of the mods available it's pretty much whatever you make it.

[youtube]http://youtu.be/2XdK9xhJyH8[/youtube]

I'm having trouble embedding the video, anybody know what I'm doing wrong?
http://youtu.be/2XdK9xhJyH8

[nick]

whoa whoa.. is that the world wide zombie game where ure basically running for your life? I think I need to get this

[autiger730]

whoa whoa.. is that the world wide zombie game where ure basically running for your life? I think I need to get this

Yeah, pretty much. I found a video earlier of a guy playing and he was robbed at gun point by a group. He tried to be a bad ass and they smoked him. I'm trying to talk a couple of my buddies into trying it out. Doesn't sound like something you want to go at alone. Strength in numbers and all that stuff, ya know. I would really like to try it out before the stand alone releases to decide if I want to play it or not. The concept is fucking brilliant, I just want to see how it plays. If the stand alone pc version is successful, the creator says it is going to get a console release.

[nick]

thats hilarious. this is like the perfect game for me. i would just run around and get ruined lol. whens the stand alone coming out?

[nick]

the guy is such a bitch. "friendlyyyy friendlyyy i got no weapon".. well if im robbing someone i dont want them to have a weapon lol

[autiger730]

thats hilarious. this is like the perfect game for me. i would just run around and get ruined lol. whens the stand alone coming out?

This year some time. No set date yet. Q4, I'm guessing. To me it sounds exactly like what a zombie game should be, just survive by any means necessary. I don't know if it is mentioned in what I pasted frome wiki, but there are apparently people who are basically journalists in the world that keep blogs and report on things going on.

[nick]

ya i read that. thats great. I just hate the fact humans constantly kill humans. Id also like the idea if when you die you could be a zombie instead. im gonna watch this SNIPER KILLER dude get worked.

[autiger730]

the guy is such a bitch. "friendlyyyy friendlyyy i got no weapon".. well if im robbing someone i dont want them to have a weapon lol

I love it. He tells them he has no weapons, but he's holding an M16 or something and has a pistol, like he is gonna get the jump on them.

[nick]

some chick is just chilling in a abandoned building? i skim thru trying to find the good parts

[nick]

i went on arma 2's site and it appears arma 2 is free.. so i can get DayZ for free? or is this too good to be true? lol

[nick]

and just like that i bought this game lol. gonna dl it now so i can get the mod. $25? oh well.