Well, with a renewed interest in Arma 2 (that thing you bought so you could play DayZ), Bohemia Interactive has released the 1.62 patch update for said game. There's quite a bit of fixes that not only help stabilize the large-scale military battles (as well as adding new video options and script commands for content makers), but most importantly this update helps makes "zombie hunts" less prone to crashing.

It's been quite awhile since I've seen a developer tailor a patch for their game to an insanely popular community mod. Not only that, but it's been awhile since I've seen a game be revived because of a mod. Arma 2: Combined Operations has been selling like crazy for the past two months. Really awesome to see.

To get the patch, just head over to Arma 2's official site and download it there. Once that's all finished, you can see the full list of patch notes in the README file that's included.

ArmA 2 Timeline

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Jasper Kazai

IMO, Arma II is a failed game. Because no one actually plays the game itself.

tmak94

I hope Valve can get the rights to Day Z so that they can give it the DOTA II treatment.

L3ED

I hope there's a DayZ mod for Arma III.

Spaz

Damn right about that, Arma II still managed to be in Steam's top sellers list throughout its damn summer sales. That alone is impressive. I may have to end up picking up Arma II just for the mod myself. I think it would be in the devs best interest to help support the mod, if a mod was causing my game to sell like hot cakes for 2 months straight I'd help the mod get better to attract people who where on the fence.

Spaz

Just looked on Amazon the game is selling for $132. WTF O.O.

TheMexicanSpaz

Arma 2 is not a failed game, Its Very very succesful in Europe but not popular in the US, They're hoping to change that with Arma 3.

Menelaus

Read up on WarZ, it's going to be a $30 standalone game that builds upon and improves upon every single aspect of DayZ.

CDRaff

I for one love ARMA, been playing Bohemia games since Operation Flashpoint. Love hardcore military sims.

Jinx 01

Haven't liked DayZ since the removed global chat and the starting pistol. Everybody shoots on site now, it's basically been a big 'fuck you' to team players. Unless you're in a clan or something... those guys use outside chat programs to team up and murder the rest of us.

I'm not playing again unless they bring back global chat.

Jinx 01

Oh, and while some people are talking about WarZ, the game I'm looking out for is Survarium by the guys who did the Stalker series. Love that the promo shot looks like a Stalker and a DayZ survivor teaming up lol.

Klay Fuller

Yeah, I apparently started playing exactly at the wrong time. My leading causes of death are in order: 1. Shot on sight by fellow surviver, usually before I ever lay eyes on the other person. 2. Getting killed by a single zombie after a retarded 5 km chase because I searched every town for like 3 hours without finding a single fucking thing to defend myself with. 3. Getting shot by hackers, who teleport every player on the server to their location and proceed to murder every single person for the lulz.

What makes this mod so amazing again?

EchoRenegade

I have no problems with other than being shot on sight. Which sucks but I guess is kept to keep the whole "realistic" vibe going. Scrounging around for weapons and items is sort of the point.

You just have to know where to look and how to avoid the zombies. Tip: don't stand our run when you see them, crouch and use shift to slow crouch. Those zombie eye sight is pretty limited and mostly go by the sounds you make.

Themuad

Mods, they got you more buisness.

You hear that big publishers? More money.

-Ninja-

Operation Flashpoint was one of my favourite games. But I never liked how how clunky and awkward controlling your character feels in these games. If only DayZ was in a better engine.

-Ninja-

And to add: ARMA III still looks just as awkward.

FriedZombie

Bohemia better thank the fucking heavens for Kiwi Dean, no one would give a shit about their game without this mod.

Geosmith

I don't think people understand Arma II always catered to a hardcore military sim audience. So no, people still "gave a shit" about their game, just not the mainstream audience.

Mr Andy Dixon

I played about five seconds of Arma 2 while I waited for DayZ to download. It was... Interesting.

Dao2-SKP

I hope everybody realizes that DayZ is actually made by a developer of Bohemia.

RaginDude

@Jasper Kazai

ArmA 2 is not a game it's a platform with options, the players gotta do the rest.

Scaryjim

Jesus some of you people are fucking dicks . Bis has thankfully not been pandering to the COD crowd and is the only dev making realistic tactical shooters on an open world scale and you fuckers are so fucking shallow that it takes a fucking zombie mod for you to enjoy it. FFS if you want source just go and play half life if you love it so much. Way to bash an original dev.

Scaryjim

And incidentally I want to play dayZ I just think if people gave arma2 a couple of hours and settled their brain into a more patient mode they'd reap the rewards, ok it feels a tad clunky but the environment/vehicles and options of how to complete missions more than make up for it

ctg867

Hmm... still need to play this game. Maybe I can guilt a couple friends into buying it. Wish there was a demo for Arma 2 that gave me a demo for Day Z, lol. As ridiculous as that sounds. At least that way I'd know if I like it so I don't waste money on the full game. I hate doing the whole "pirate a game because there's no demo" thing. Never feels right.


@tmak94

..or they could just make Half-Life 3 like we've all been asking for the last 5 years.