Sometimes I wish game developers would just shut up until the game is made
DayZ Standalone Creator Address Hype Train, No Release Date Just Yet
Post by Eorl @ 12:26pm 05/11/13 | 0 Comments
Creator of the very popular ArmA 2 DayZ mod has revealed that "all major components required for an alpha release" has been finished for the long-awaited DayZ Standalone release, however no release date has yet been determined. Speaking on Reddit (thanks Games.on.net), Dean "Rocket" Hall stated that while work for an alpha release may be complete, the hype train may want to slow down.
Hall revealed that while an alpha release is functional in theory, there is still a lot of testing that needs to be conducted to ensure "it provides the level of multiplayer performance and stability needed for us to have meaningful feedback from the experience."
"I want to simultaneously derail the hype train and then recover it, in saying that we have finished making the network bubble. In fact, we have finished all major components required for an alpha release. However, we need to make sure they have integrated okay, and perform basic testing (a kind of acceptance testing) to ensure that we have actually achieved what we thought."
Of course some eager fans have speculated that a release date may be known, though Rocket was quick to strike that flare of hope by confirming that no one at Bohemia Interactive knows of a release date, "because there is not one."
Maybe one day DayZ Standalone will be released, but until that day comes we will ahve to sit by patiently twiddling our thumbs.
