arma 2 steam vs dvd

[Andrew0472]

hi guys this might be a really stupid question but in australia i can get the disc version of arma 2 and operation arrowhead which i would rather instead of downloading but would this affect anything as the people im playing with have arma 2 through steam and dayz through dayz commander. Would this also make it that i wouldn't be able to get dlc through steam? sorry i don't understand steam properly.

[Mac]

Usually with disc games, they activate through Steam, Origin or Uplay, if it activates through Steam it would have been like buying it from the Steam store so you would be able to get DLC from Steam.

 

Check to see if it has the Steam Logo anywhere or ask in store to see if it activates on Steam.

[ERSCreeper]

You get a CD Key if you buy the Disc version which you will enter into steam and it would be the same as buying on steam. You can buy any of the DLC's and they will work unless there are restrictions in your country.

[Andrew0472]

the game is standalone and doesn't use steam apparently :c maybe i should just download it, 25gb download

[sonarctica]

the game is standalone and doesn't use steam apparently :c maybe i should just download it, 25gb download

I wouldn't say it's worth buying just for DayZ

[Mac]

I wouldn't say it's worth buying just for DayZ

So wait for the standalone that was supposed to be released nearly a year ago? haha

[Andrew0472]

nah i want to get dayz as all my friends play dayz rp and i have been waiting to build my pc for about 8 months to play arma/dayz especially. Apparently its worth getting the extra textures so thats why the download is like 25gb

[sonarctica]

So wait for the standalone that was supposed to be released nearly a year ago? haha

I have no hope for the DayZ standalone at all, if it's anything like Arma 2 DayZ, it's just gonna be buggy and glitchy mods put together which cause even more problems and put it under a folder called DayZ.

[Andrew0472]

I have no hope for the DayZ standalone at all, if it's anything like Arma 2 DayZ, it's just gonna be buggy and glitchy mods put together which cause even more problems and put it under a folder called DayZ.

the devblogs look quite promising, just not sure if i am a fan of the inventory system (more so the inventory which stays on the bottom of the screen)

[sonarctica]

the devblogs look quite promising, just not sure if i am a fan of the inventory system (more so the inventory which stays on the bottom of the screen)

As much as I agree on your taste of music, don't go preorder it:p wait and see what people say.

[Andrew0472]

As much as I agree on your taste of music, don't go preorder it:p wait and see what people say.

maybe i am getting ahead of myself but the mod seems fine to me, i worry that standalone will have heaps of cod players etc. My friends who play dayz say that the servers they play in are great and don't have hackers (fingers crossed)

[Mac]

I have no hope for the DayZ standalone at all, if it's anything like Arma 2 DayZ, it's just gonna be buggy and glitchy mods put together which cause even more problems and put it under a folder called DayZ.

I think the Arma 2 mod is glitchy because it's a mod, I never actually played DayZ but I wanted to. There probably will be hackers still.

[sonarctica]

I think the Arma 2 mod is glitchy because it's a mod, I never actually played DayZ but I wanted to. There probably will be hackers still.

It is a mod, but even a mod can be unglitchy but the way the maker of DayZ made it was by downloading all kinds of mods and putting them all together and slapped the "DayZ" logo on it and called it a day which is a shame because it could have been so much better.

[jbr]

but the way the maker of DayZ made it was by downloading all kinds of mods and putting them all together and slapped the "DayZ" logo on it and called it a day which is a shame because it could have been so much better.

 

LOL, no he didn't.

 

It's glitchy because of engine limitations and lack of animations and limited skeleton system required to have zombies being able to do what they do in DayZ.

 

It simply was not worth continuing trying to shoehorn features into an engine that was simply not designed for the task

which is why Dean Hall is working with the guys who built the engine (Ondrej Španěl and Marek Španěl) to put together a new version of the RV engine

that can do the things he wants to do.

[RuecanOnRails]

I don't think the original question was even answered...

 

You can mix and match Arma games between steam, and retail disc as much as you like, it will not affect anything. Except for Arma 3 which is steam only (buying the physical copy still requires steam). Meaning you if you buy Arma 2 in disc, but the expansions and DLC on steam, you will get the same experience. Benefit to steam may be the ability to have patches pushed to you.

 

If I may interject, I'd like to recommend picking up the Anniversary Edition directly from Bohemia Interactive. Buying it directly from BI, will help the developer out much more than buying it at a local retailer or anywhere else for that matter. You also get some free physical addons with the anniversary edition such as 5 authentic printed maps of terrain in the Arma series, in addition you get 8 novelty postcards from those locations. You can purchase the digital download which will still include the physical addons.

 

https://store.bistudio.com/armax-aniversary-edition

https://store.bistudio.com/armax-aniversary-edition-steam-version

 

The anniversary edition includes the entire Arma 1 collection, and the entire Arma 2 collection minus the latest DLC Army Of the Czech Republic.

 

Then you're only one step away from having the entire Arma collection. look into picking up Arma 3 then combine them to create a great experience unlike any other game with ability to import and play all previous titles inside the newest engine.