News Day Z alpha hits Steam Early Access

The standalone version of Arma 2 mod Day Z has launched on Steam Early Access.
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2013/12/17/day-z-alpha-hits-steam-early-access/1

 

Within the Steam description, it says they are expecting it to take over a year to go to beta - which is pretty incredible. I am not complaining, the game seems quite playable so far, but I do wonder what they have been up to for a year. The servers are all well occupied so they have sold loads in the first 36 hours.

 

The me from 18 months ago is really excited for this. Unfortunately I think present day me has moved on. Battlefield 4 provides all the bugs, glitches and frequent updates i could want; what exactly does DayZ bring to the table?

 

sneaky sneak time, is what it brings.

 

Wastelands in ARMA3 brings that to the table.

The DayZ mod is still light years ahead of the standalone, so this will never be bought by me.

 

I liked the mod back in the day, but it was a pain in the ass to setup and keep updated so I stopped playing. I expect the standalone version will be much easier to update and play, without trying to sift through 50 different versions of server builds to finally find a server that works with the client I have installed,