DayZ Standalone means what?

[Jive Turkey]

When I launch DayZ, I have two choices:
1) Play DayZ
2) Play DayZ Client

Both lead to the online servers menu.
Does Standalone mean offline, single player?
If it does, how do I play offline single player?

[Cpt.P1mp]

STANDalone means it is its own game. Because Dayz used to be a mod and not a full game.
Dayz was a Arma2 mod that evolved into this.
Just how WOTA mod for warcraft3 evolved into Dota and LoL.
No offline, just online.

[GobboKirk]

1 is the launcher
2 is straight into the game.
For official/unmodded use either, for modded stick with the launcher.

[Luca NK]

Originally posted by Barry:

When I launch DayZ, I have two choices:
1) Play DayZ
2) Play DayZ Client

Both lead to the online servers menu.
Does Standalone mean offline, single player?
If it does, how do I play offline single player?

1) Opens the launcher. This allows you to browse servers and setup mods if required. Hitting "play" in the launcher will also load the game in the last configuration set by the launcher, e.g. if you played on a Namalsk server it will load the game with Namalsk mods already running etc. I personally use it to direct join a particular modded server.

2) Launches the game in its Vanilla state, regardless of the launcher setup.

[katsuragi]

to play single player you need to install DayZ Server. You already own it if you have DayZ, you'll find it in the list of Tools on you steam library. You'll also have to google a tutorial to set it up as it won't work straight off the install. It involves using notepad to create a batch file to run it and a config file. Once you've done all that you'll be able to run a private LAN server and join it for single player goodness.

Why this is needed instead of just being able to play the game offline, I have no idea...

https://write.corbpie.com/installing-and-setting-up-a-dayz-standalone-server-on-windows-server-2016-guide/

that should be helpful but also watch a video tutorial because I think some things in there needed to be changed