Marek Španěl talks of incorporating DayZ into ArmA II

**Jagdgeschwader** 15th May 2012, 11:03 pm

To all you ArmA II players out there, Marek Španěl, the lead at Bohemia Interactive has committed the company to incorporating it into the game official, the mod itself having driven the sales up fivefold and Armed Assault II: Combined Operations currently being the number one selling game on Steam.

Luke Plunkett from kotaku.com sat down with Španěl who said this.

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=16786

"There's no doubt that the thrilling Day Z mod currently drives Arma 2 Combined Operations sales on Steam", he says with a touch of understatement. "Sales have increased almost fivefold from how they were before Day Z's Alpha release!"

"Bohemia Interactive has always tried to help community mod makers in many different ways and Day Z mod is no different", he says. "We're more than happy to assist DayZ in any suitable way and considering the mod's popularity we are committed to do some related work in the next Arma 2 update (1.61)."

"We are actively communicating about how we could best support the Arma 2 user community especially in multiplayer and Day Z players are right now a significant portion of people actively playing the game, so of course it's high on our priority list to support it the best we can. It's important to understand that DayZ was released just a few weeks ago as a tech demo/proof of concept and it's still at Alpha status so until we know where the project intends to go it's hard to commit to anything specifically."

And the future? "I personally find the combination of realistic Arma style gameplay and settings with survival zombie apocalypse so addictive that I believe it can stand as a gaming experience on its own."

"There are many aspects involved, for example the environment and different assets in Arma 3, new engine features etc. It's important to understand that there is still a long way to go even after Arma 3 is out until mods are properly configured, ported and matured onto the new platform.
"So realistically we may be looking at one year or more from now until we can see something like Day Z based on Arma 3 technology."