I searched a bit and found no mention of this mod on the forum, so here it goes:
Day Z is a persistent world multiplayer zombie survival mod for Arma2: Combined Ops. The mod is developed by a Bohemia Interactive developer and is updated almost daily with new features and bug fixes.
I think there are 9 or 10 servers in Europe, 5 or so in the US and 2 in NZ with more servers popping up once in a while because of the increasing player base. The servers run at real time adjusted to the time zone where the server is located and I think they have dynamic weather, but so far I've only seen a ton of clouds.
I've been playing it for the past few days and I have to say its the best Arma2 mod I've ever played. The servers I've visited have been largely lag-free, even with 800 zombies and 50 players. The zombies have motion capped animations and they respond pretty well to nearby sounds. Fire a gun in the middle of a town and you will get swarmed by a dozen or so Zs.
Day Z is the first true zombie survival game/mod I've ever even heard of as it includes hunger, thirst and some other things like that. So basically you have to scavenge villages to get food and medical supplies.
It is played in 35-60 player servers and uses the Chernarus map. There are hundreds of zombies scattered in all the towns around the map, and there's all kinds of loot to be found in the villages, army camps and airfields.
You spawn with only a pistol, some cans of beans and a couple of bandages, so navigation is a little hard at first, if you don't know the map well.
Scarce supplies lead to quite a lot of PVP action, especially along the southern coast of Chernarus, where the largest cities are located. Killing other players lowers your humanity stat, and at some point changes your character model to that of a bandit. Most people just shoot bandits on sight, which kind of sucks because kills in self defense also lower humanity.
So yeah, there are still some bugs and the servers get pretty laggy once in a while ( quickly fixed by a server reset ), but its still a great mod and totally worth testing if you have ARMA2 and Operation Arrowhead.
Large screenshot, watch out. My brother and I killed a few dozen zombies in this factory area, was pretty intense.
Damn, this is a wall of text... Sorry.
Day Z is a persistent world multiplayer zombie survival mod for Arma2: Combined Ops. The mod is developed by a Bohemia Interactive developer and is updated almost daily with new features and bug fixes.
I think there are 9 or 10 servers in Europe, 5 or so in the US and 2 in NZ with more servers popping up once in a while because of the increasing player base. The servers run at real time adjusted to the time zone where the server is located and I think they have dynamic weather, but so far I've only seen a ton of clouds.
I've been playing it for the past few days and I have to say its the best Arma2 mod I've ever played. The servers I've visited have been largely lag-free, even with 800 zombies and 50 players. The zombies have motion capped animations and they respond pretty well to nearby sounds. Fire a gun in the middle of a town and you will get swarmed by a dozen or so Zs.
Day Z is the first true zombie survival game/mod I've ever even heard of as it includes hunger, thirst and some other things like that. So basically you have to scavenge villages to get food and medical supplies.
It is played in 35-60 player servers and uses the Chernarus map. There are hundreds of zombies scattered in all the towns around the map, and there's all kinds of loot to be found in the villages, army camps and airfields.
You spawn with only a pistol, some cans of beans and a couple of bandages, so navigation is a little hard at first, if you don't know the map well.
Scarce supplies lead to quite a lot of PVP action, especially along the southern coast of Chernarus, where the largest cities are located. Killing other players lowers your humanity stat, and at some point changes your character model to that of a bandit. Most people just shoot bandits on sight, which kind of sucks because kills in self defense also lower humanity.
So yeah, there are still some bugs and the servers get pretty laggy once in a while ( quickly fixed by a server reset ), but its still a great mod and totally worth testing if you have ARMA2 and Operation Arrowhead.
Large screenshot, watch out. My brother and I killed a few dozen zombies in this factory area, was pretty intense.
