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Arma2: Alternative awesome game mods for Dayz
There are quiete a lot of really interesting and alternative mods out there for the Arma2 series. I thought I will post some infos about other popular modifications, which you should try out. Some of them offer survival gameplay aswell, some even Zombies and others offer a lot deeper roleplaying.
WASTELAND - A Sandbox series by TAW
This mod is actually quiete close to DayZ and therefore a good alternative, since it offers a survival gameplay aswell but offers Faction Wars. You should really check this out, no need to download any files just join the servers with the latest game patch for Arma 2 Combined Operations or Arma 2 + Arrowhead.
Features:
Wasteland is a survival type Sandbox similar towards Dynamic Zombie Sandbox but without zombies and more features that users have wanted. The idea was thought up after monitoring how users play DZS and from submitted feedback of users. The objective of Wasteland is to survive, fortify bases, raid other factions, sell / trade materials and guns with much more to come in the future.
* apocalyptic huge game world
* survival game and the need of food & water
* loot to find in the gameworld i.e. abandoned houses or places
* Faction wars: 3 Factions who raid the opponent
* scavenging materials and building stuff i.e. own fortified bases
* driveable civilian & military vehicles ingame i.e. cars/jeeps/farm tractor and so on...
* persistant world with repair and refuel items aswell other many features & items
* not only played on Chernarus (dayz world), some server offer aswell the Takistan game world
The gameplay offers a lot of teamplay, you will see factions who will guard their bases and watch the horizont for incomming enemies, wheras others are looking for food/water or other usefull loot to support the own faction members.
This screenshot shows for example a fortified base, 100% build by players. They did scavange materials before in the gameworld for it. Bases can look different, this is just an example. Some faction use ingame buildings and build around them.
Someone did open a thread about this mod on the dayzmod forums aswell. You will find more infos about this great mod in this thread:
http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=8752
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Good sources for mods-
http://www.Armaholic.com
http://www.Armedassault.info
The editor - the reason DayZ, and we, are all here in the first place.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTiGUg84D18
The one and only ACE mod. (The most complete Realism mod, imo.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGyAhssD_eQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkOIv3tyIvA (MP)
Vietnam.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB0jhKoBXvs
Realism gameplay - HAHO and HALO jump from a C130 (ACE + ACRE + Others)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7LrGRY188Y
CPU-melting madness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KK6Fo3Y0AU
Invasion 1944 mod (WW2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBp9LCFnMZQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWqwH6RjEuY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXC9RD-b2kQ (D-Day Landing, but older patch of mod)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj81KqfwzDY (Winter)
Cool Operation Arrowhead stuff.
Convoy ambush.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJGPsjQhgsc
Night raid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8EMNAXzbTo
Suicide bomber.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7Txz8L7h64
Alien invasions!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjzYHljnass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi1BUMymyss
Warfare MP mission (ArmA meets RTS)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7eVaCXgGMU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0koEhiwZw
Blastcore FX mod.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kG4Pd3RBYs
City Life RP mod.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei3BdLkPLBI
Chernarus Life RP mod.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVLtxHvCyTA
Police RP silliness from ArmA 1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1RMpL1KtMQ
Hostage mission.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwcANrCy8mA
JSRS sound mod.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCzQtm2ruy8
Littlebird Enhancement mod.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3rY-XZORE8
ACE + ACRE Radio mod + Realism gameplay.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL9rHVnzdqI
Mando missile mod.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRhd8Bqnd7g (Ship-based missiles)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1qYbNU-IMQ (F22 vs SU27)
Apache Gunner POV with ACE + other mods.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbejlnmVYHo
Nuke!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouqRu5aXh18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXDugQ7IUW0
When Arma met CSS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyLHea5wIi4
Exciting chinook extraction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYLgZk9GOLo
Jets!
A10-Attack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vlqe-M_9XA
A-10 GAU-8 Avenger sound mods comparison. (with Blastcore, note - old vid, mods have been updated and improved since.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AooTRVvEnOo
F-14 + Nimitz Carrier take-off and landing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub5JS536hDA
F-16
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEs2d5KnrFU
How could I forget, the best way to resolve any conflict, a dance off!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=0G30LKnm124
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdruxPxhw0I
Last but most certainly not least, the glorious attachTo command! (allows you to invent and create everything from a man covered in bunny rabbits, to the legendary battlebus, to MP battles with Cow-mounted MGs)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP1SZA4SXSU
Might add to it if you guys like some of this. And when it gets to a certain amount, i'll organise it better lol.
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SLX mod (large gameplay/mechanics mod, some like it as an alternative to ACE)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhWamU443sM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpGp3urVFnY
ACE mod sniping tutorial -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2hI9Dvorz8
Isla Duala + expert piloting (from my unit, good players need no 3rd person)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUJh79xSxHo
Fast Roping + sling roping. (ACE)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWGYufc_6bk
Gulf war mod -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYz7kYLvdL8
JTD Fire and Smoke mod + others
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_uDM3sWcc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_2lgSYBHH0
RH Weapons (Multiple mods/addons)
Pistols - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj8xO3Sp-cI
RH also has large packs of Assault Rifles, Marksman weapons etc...
Predator mod!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmPjXQ91ObQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwE2lKFemDQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS_8m2UyHMA
Crocodiles!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU4ic2G9vqE
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZOdMa2p3rI (famous from the Battlefield 2 community, great for teamwork and realism)
AAS (Advance and Secure PvP Mp mission, bit like BF, good fun)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGpZ2bbaYT4 (has many varieties)
Zargabad Life RP (another Roleplaying mod and besides DayZ and Wasteland one you should try !!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuDvjta1yrI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwndXd6hyT4
FOB Firefight in Afghanistan (Clafgan map)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94VlFrVWQxM
TVT Afghanistan, Convoy Ambush (Spanish comms)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU3oI7szcFg
Cheers for those, Spizz.
I've been playing a bit of ArmA 2 when I've not had enough reliable time to put into DayZ and I've been really enjoying it. I was a huge OFP fan back in the day and played quite a bit of ArmA 1 but got frustrated with the AI. Never really bothered with any mods for it, but I've got quite a few on ArmA 2 now (ACE is just awesome for spicing up vanilla ArmA 2) and this list is handy for getting more.
I'm liking the look of that Vietnam one, I have to say.
never play any arma but still dayz call mi atention its look fun wish is the case of playing it but ill wait till we can buy and play or just dowbload and play it right now the game is in a test phace and it not polish well it need ton of fixing and lot of thing they can still ad in game such as quest and more to come ...ill wait when game is complete and then buy or download if its f2p
Adding quests to DayZ would be terrible.
Nice list of mods thought, I will have to check out more of them but right now I can't help myself but play dayz every time Ilaunch ARMA.
Good job on the list. I've tried some of these and they can be a lot of fun. ArmA 2 is such a great game with almost unlimited possibilities. Even if you don't like the base game the Mods make the game well worth the purchace as you can turn it into dozens of other pretty unique games.
Bren
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If you like Vietnam, have a look at this video, nice music and cuts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-ZLeS5z5OY
If you are looking for such a modification, a good Vietnam Mod out there is called "UNSUNG", they did release or working on a whole Campaign aswell.
http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?108476-The-Unsung-MOD-(Vietnam-War)-Arma-2-Release
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI7G5rXzE3Q
with S.E.A. Island ...awesome rain forrest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvpgoqBLArQ
Another Vietnam mod is called VTE "Vietnam The Expirience" ....didnt play it so far.
Maybe I should organize the whole mod links since the guy who did open this thread from where I did copy all did only throw those links together, not really that great to find out good mods and not every video shown is actually good to show the individual mod...quiete chaotic.
any persistant mods like DayZ for Arma2? Wasteland everything resets every 6-12 hours, and if you log off, the character resets as well. So nothing actually saves. So, solely because of that, is definitely not an awesome alternative to DayZ. However, the mod itself was rather good.
There is City Life RPG...going to try that one out. That one is persistant.
Appreciate the work that went into compiling this list, but since this is a DayZ specific forum it doesn't belong here.
Moving to General Gamign - > PC Gaming.
All the "urban life" series should be saving the character i.e. city life, Takistan life or whatever xxxx life
Ha, I remember the Project Reality Mod for BF2. That was quite awesome, and I'm surprised to see the mod team having moved over to ARMA for the mod.
A shame DICE has taken a stance of hatred to mods, since some of them were quite good for BF2 and BF2142.
"I have only two out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." (First Lieutenant Clifton B. Cates, US Marine Corps, Soissons, 19 July 1918)
It's not Dice that has a problem with Mods it's EA. They can't fill their greedy little pockets with free community made content so they've put an end to it. EA thinks that squeezing every last nickle and dime out of every customer through DLC is the future of gaming. They can't do this if there is a bunch of free addons floating around made by the community.
Bren
while(horse==dead)
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It's sad and true.
At least we have one thing to be thankful for, borg such as EA have sparked a vibrant indie community out there putting out some quality games.
Regardless if EA is the reason for "No Mods" for BF3, I still stick my finger in DICE's eyes. They're still the triggermen.
Anyways, a good 'ol time to support the Project Reality boys.
And a plug to another nice mod, but this time for BF2142, Star Wars First Strike.
Oh, and on the subject of ARMA, check out this cool BBC news about it!
"I have only two out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." (First Lieutenant Clifton B. Cates, US Marine Corps, Soissons, 19 July 1918)