Q: Is there any plan on adding aircraft (helicopters) to the game?
A: No.
Joystiq says: What impressed me so much about the game was not only how smooth and polished it was for an early version but how immersive the game felt. I could lose hours and hours to this one. I can only imagine the turmoil involved with claiming a chunk of land or a building, working to secure it with several of my buddies, only to have it overrun with the undead or a stronger group of players. The lighting effects and simple interface are wonderful to toy with, and the different types of zombies will keep everyone on his or her toes. I found myself actually tensing up as zombies moved in on me, and smashing the undead in the head with the same flashlight that is lighting your way is quite invigorating.
Could have at least chosen a better name for it lol. I mean cmon. This screams ripoff.
I have to say this looks pretty bad. None of the charm that Dayz had but it tries to steal everything it can from it.
I see arcade gameplay, none of the mil sim stuff that made Dayz special.
So it comes out tomorrow it looks like. This looks pretty cool, I just happened to stumble on it after typing in zombie mmo in google
Yep.This game looks like ass. Especially when it's not scripted.
What's worse is, this guy is just casually walking through town like he doesn't give a fuck. And the zombies are just shuffling about like they've had their meal for the day.Looks a lot more casual and a lot less frightening than Day Z, but I guess it's a different kind of game.
What's worse is, this guy is just casually walking through town like he doesn't give a fuck. And the zombies are just shuffling about like they've had their meal for the day.
You just dont do that shit in DayZ.
This game looks like ass. Especially when it's not scripted.
Yep.
If they were going to rip off DayZ so bad, they could have at least put in some ambient music like DayZ. And what the FUCK is up with the Crysis like weapon customization LOL. Another Complaint would be that there is so little cover. Mess things up a bit. More parked cars, trees, broken washing machines behind houses, etc. Everything looks so empty, as if nobody lived there at all. At least DayZ puts in tables and shit.
EDIT: LOL at that melee fight with the lady zombie @ 2:25 in that video. That looked so HORRIBLE.
This game looks like ass. Especially when it's not scripted.
Yeah, the way the zombies react makes it seem really bad. That joystiq quote from a few posts up, about securing a place with your friends being intense, and then zombies over-running it, that totally happens in DayZ but the zombies really don't seem to give a damn here. It seems to copy it almost to the point of assets, but doesn't seem to be nearly as good.
The only reason of why zombies are threatening in dayz is:
-Player speed
-they can cripple you in one hit if it the game feels like it.
-they start doing circles and zigzagging like usain bolt
Not because there's something special about their AI or because they have a nice coding to the way they pack up. It's just a staminaless infected that will chase you...until you cross a bush.
And I dont know whats wrong with the melee fight. Sure it was stupid, but hell, at least zombies react here to stuff that hits them, most of the time.
Yes, and it makes it feel more like a 'I sure would be fucked if zombies actually attacked' instead of 'I have an automatic weapon and will mow down zombies without anyone noticing I'm firing a gun in the middle of a town'.
I didn't play DayZ for that long, because I'm sure the stand alone will fix a lot of the issues with the ARMA engine, but the feeling was more unique than your standard zombie shooter, unlike WarZ.
Some people seem to just want to hate this due to it being a DayZ "rip off"
Some people seem to just want to hate this due to it being a DayZ "rip off"
This game looks like ass. Especially when it's not scripted.
Not to be the Defense Force, but all the footage posted above is alpha, so let's not jump the gun and be superficial.
everyone is jumping in without really looking - these guys are going to make bank.
Dayz would lose in small segments of gameplay, for example when you just turn a corner and your leg goes break mode for no reason. Or when you draw your gun 7 times when regaining consciousness.
Some people seem to just want to hate this due to it being a DayZ "rip off"
So is the alpha dropping tonight or what?
Supposed to be ready on Mon 15th. I'm not sure if it's right at midnight or what though.
http://thewarz.com/download.html
I'm hyped as all hell. Last time i heard there's tons of preorders already and they were setting up new servers to be able to handle the load. Tons of interest so far.
At this point it means nothing. It's entirely based off of the hope that it's a better DayZ
Why cant it be "as good as"?
Why cant it be "as good as"? All the shit I put up with in dayz was in hope that it would get better. But over all never really did. Hell for a long time part of the Dayz map was so janked up that you couldnt even go to major loot spawns. But since the game was broken to the point where we had every gun and tents respawned items it never really mattered.
I see potential in The WarZ. And maybe DayZ will fix all the bugs and hackers without bringing up new bugs. We wont really know till we all try the game out and see. That goes for both games. Honestly I think there should be room for both games.
Because ultimately DayZ is a mod for a 3-year-old game created by one guy, while this is a fully-fledged game and developed from the ground up. If this game is not [miles] better than DayZ then it's fundamentally a bad game.
Honestly I think there should be room for both games.
This game looks like ass. Especially when it's not scripted.
Again, this is all based on videos. If the finished product fixes the awful animations, terrible guns and melee weapons, sounds, and zombie a.i then maybe I could see myself buying this.
It really sounds like ass too, fuck, it's like there was no sound in the original recording so some terrible foley artist did his work to it.
The zombies don't look much of a threat. Because of that there's no sense of tension when going to towns or buildings.