As it seems multiple people are throwing around the idea of playing War Z, I'd like to throw together an information thread regarding things we need to know.

If you have things to add, post them.

I'd like to discuss what people think on various topics within War Z.

To start with, here is a quote from Sergey from the forums that really is turning me off.



Bold part of particular interest.

Now, as I understand it, we will be able to have multiple characters, how many is unknown.  So I die, I can't use my character again for 24 hours from that point in time.  It's a pretty big deal, but hey, I'll go use this other character.  

Where it gets tricky is how many characters can we create?

The problem I see is that death will cause MANY people to stop playing the game.  Why?  Simple.  As we don't know how many characters to can create, we know for a fact that it isn't infinite, you can only have so many at any given time.  When you switch characters after your death, a bug or random glitch kills it.  You switch to another, some douche bag kills you at spawn.  You switch to another, something happens and you're dead.  

Then all of your characters are dead and on a 24 hour "lock down."  Now you effectively cannot play War Z for 24 hours from the time the first character died.

How is this a business model?  This sounds insanely stupid to me.

You should start a pit thread about it .

its a bit shinier graphics wise, the inventory looks like its easy to work.  the other thread had a few videos in it, but i did not see any yet with high population of zeds or players,

you can get weapons upgrades like cod, maybe not colors, but lights, laser , sights etc.

you get different hats, not sure about clothes

Is War Z the stand alone version of DayZ or is this something completely different?

completely different game.

here is the official site

warz

It's a different game, but it has gotten a lot of heat. Lots of fans are calling it a cheap copy of DayZ and that they are just riding on the hype of DayZ to make a quick buck.

I saw two videos for War Z, and while the graphics and environment were detailed better and looked better, the gameplay looked real cheap, granted it's not even in beta yet.

If I recall correctly, only a few months after DayZ became popular WarZ guys showcased gameplay that looks as polished as it is now. Basically they had been working on the game for quite a while, just never thought it would be a huge success until they saw how popular DayZ had become.

So I don't really think they ripped DayZ off, just DayZ made them realize it was worth pursuing further.

For $20/30, I'll probably be picking it up... might wait until a few days after the Alpha is launched to make sure it is worth it though.

I'll wait for the DayZ standalone version. Hopefully that comes around in the next couple of months.

When registrations are open to register your cd keys and gain access to the alpha/beta on the 15th, the first 100 people to use this code get the game free.

MZLU-Z9EP-PEXX-6ZDK

It's also on their facebook page if you want to look there.