Dayz Standalone or Arma 3 HELP!!

So me and my buddy are planning to buy either arma 3 or dayz (1 of the 2). We'll be probably playing the game that we will buy until summer 2015 because we won't have free time after summer.We were looking for a survival game but i've read a lot of posts saying that dayz is buggy and slowly developed and that there are some arma 3 mods pretty similar to dayz. So What do you guys think?What do you suggest? Thank you :)

This is a tough one.

DayZ is a lot of fun, and if you have friends you can get online with for some team play then you can't go far wrong. On the other hand it is still constantly changing with new features being added, and you are right when you say that it's buggy still and that can be very frustrating at times. If you are going to buy it, buy it now, because it's about to jump in price I've heard.

The great thing about getting Arma 3 is that there are so many mods and maps for it either out now, or in the pipeline. But there is nothing that currently matches DayZ, some people will suggest that Breaking Point does, but I would disagree (plus there is a lot of controversy within the community about much of this mod was borrowed without giving credit - That's a pretty big deal to modders) . You do have Epoch, Battle Royale , and plenty of other addons you can find at Armaholic and if you were a fan of the 2017 mod for DayZmod (I'm working on the 2017 team), that is also in the works for Arma 3 plus a shed load of other great mods.

I don't really have one to suggest over the other, but the basic points are that DayZ will lock you in for the foreseeable future (though modding support will eventually come, don't expect it soon), while Arma 3 will give you the option to modify as you please. It all depends what it is you want.

Hope that helps!

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Hey, thank you for your answer , it helped alot . I am getting dayz :)

@xtreamgamer100: Glad I could be of service! A

DayZ is terrible to be honest. It's a good concept but even for early access it's too buggy and unfinished.