PC Gamer is reporting that DayZ is being developed as a stand alone game. According to a Twitter post from Dean “Rocket” Hall, he will be the lead designer and a new web site dedicated to the DayZ stand alone has also been unleashed.

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 follow the Minecraft development model; fast iterations with the community alpha available for a heavily discounted price.

I realize people will have many, many questions - but we wanted to let everyone know the announcement now. Over the coming weeks, these questions will be answered.

Check out the brand new DayZ site.

DayZ is a great game, probly the best zombie game out there. but the main issue it has and biggest is it hackers wich l8tly has been running rampid. It has come to the point where server hosts have been shutting there servers down permenently and opening private stand alone hive servers where you must apply to in order to get in. Apparently ts alot easier to track and punish hackers on a stand alone hive server.

Rocket himself in my opinion is doing a 50/50 job at developing this game. Now i know its in development still but he is adressing issues that arnt even major! and putting major issues off and making excuses for doing so. And when ppl complain about them he uses the line "its my mod ill do what i want" sounds liek a great developer alright...not. ppl have even stared petitions on the official forums demanding that he fix certain issues before they come back to the game. This is why ppl are excited and looking forward to The War Z in my eyes...hoping that these issues do not arrise with it. Some but not limited to major issues are:

-combat loggers

-MAJOR graphic glitches that cause the game to be unplayable

-server hoppers

-hackers

Now i still play DayZ but have moved  to a private server that has a huge pop for a private server.

Originally posted by Pantherninpo
Yay!  Except I bought Arma II just for this game. 

Me too.

Oh well if it will be indeed "heavily discounted price" I might just buy it again.

I just hope they set up some nice servers too. Most of them crap atm.

Originally posted by Pantherninpo
Yay!  Except I bought Arma II just for this game. 

Then you should give the ARMA II MP a go as well as its actually good fun :)

Anyway this is awesome news and I guess it had to happen :)

Originally posted by Scypheroth

DayZ is a great game, probly the best zombie game out there. but the main issue it has and biggest is it hackers wich l8tly has been running rampid. It has come to the point where server hosts have been shutting there servers down permenently and opening private stand alone hive servers where you must apply to in order to get in. Apparently ts alot easier to track and punish hackers on a stand alone hive server.

Rocket himself in my opinion is doing a 50/50 job at developing this game. Now i know its in development still but he is adressing issues that arnt even major! and putting major issues off and making excuses for doing so. And when ppl complain about them he uses the line "its my mod ill do what i want" sounds liek a great developer alright...not. ppl have even stared petitions on the official forums demanding that he fix certain issues before they come back to the game. This is why ppl are excited and looking forward to The War Z in my eyes...hoping that these issues do not arrise with it. Some but not limited to major issues are:

-combat loggers

-MAJOR graphic glitches that cause the game to be unplayable

-server hoppers

-hackers

Now i still play DayZ but have moved  to a private server that has a huge pop for a private server.

 hackers ruin every fun game.

just think how bad planet side 2 is going to be with hackers =(

I would think they will use the ARMA III engine..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pHvShDHGlw

would be silly not to :)

This is great news.  There are some other similar games in development, but I was concerned that they would be too "MMO-y", which in my mind is not a good thing.  I have no interest in yet another basic themepark with a zombie skin on it, so a standalone version of DayZ sounds great.

Problem with a mod, you really cannot control the hackers.  In game like this where you lose everything, it can get very frustrating when the cheaters are running rampant.