H1Z1 - Zombie apocalypse sandbox from SOE

~>Dg<~ · 16 Jan 2015 at 14:44

people raging about the paytowin aspects is getting funny.

most seem to be ranting about buying the airdrop crates with weapons in.

Witcher1979 · 16 Jan 2015 at 14:50

~>Dg<~ said:
people raging about the paytowin aspects is getting funny.

most seem to be ranting about buying the airdrop crates with weapons in.

Yeah people seem to not know it is a mini event, someone buys an air drop they got a ton of zombies and about 20 players going for it. Well fun, had some good fights at air drops so far.

enigma27 · 16 Jan 2015 at 14:59

So are air drops part of the battle royal?

Because when watching a dev stream last weekend I specifically heard them say this would not be play to win and micro transactions would be for customisation only.. hats clothing etc...

guns would only spawn in-game..

P.S not a rant just couldn't work out if air drops were in the main game or battle royale they talked about... if its main game it totally contradicts what the devs said.

JBod · 16 Jan 2015 at 15:02

I saw a plane go over on a regular PvP server, I assume it did an air drop. Was kinda cool hearing it come in from way off.

JamesM · 16 Jan 2015 at 15:03

enigma27 said:
So are air drops part of the battle royal?

Because when watching a dev stream last weekend I specifically heard them say this would not be play to win and micro transactions would be for customisation only.. hats clothing etc...

guns would only spawn in-game..

P.S not a rant just couldn't work out if air drops were in the main game or battle royale they talked about... if its main game it totally contradicts what the devs said.

I saw a mention of an airdrop in that game mode but can't confirm where I saw it.

JBod · 16 Jan 2015 at 15:20

Is the lag really bad on US servers for anyone else? It is almost unplayable and all the EU servers are full.

SixTwoSix · 16 Jan 2015 at 15:21

Does this have in-game voice?

JBod · 16 Jan 2015 at 15:23

SixTwoSix said:
Does this have in-game voice?

Yes, but you can see who is speaking as it shows their name when their mic is live.

Middle click is default for push to talk.

Glaucus · 16 Jan 2015 at 15:25

JBod said:
Anyone else finding that all NPCs are just standing around doing nothing?
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It's one of the known bugs, only affecting some servers.

Huggie86 · 16 Jan 2015 at 15:52

Finding this just like dayz or any other zombie survival tbh. Also the pvp is just the usual crap of shoot on sight.

Sigh, guess I'm just bored of this genre.

Witcher1979 · 16 Jan 2015 at 15:54

Give people guns in a game then all they will do is kos, personally that is the way I like it. Pretty sure I saw some Life servers now have zombies for people who like to RP

Glaucus · 16 Jan 2015 at 15:57

That's why we need a hard core server.
Once you die you can't come back and game ends when no ones left, or a couple of people left. Single zombie bite results in death, no air drops etc.

When that happens I doubt people will be so gun happy.

That's what I hope they do anyway.

JamesM · 16 Jan 2015 at 15:58

tbh one good point was made before about how to combat the KOS attitude and that was to give each character a certain skill set.

So for example someone may be better at repairing items, someone may be more effective at healing other people, etc so essentially you would end up with a group of people who may not have a type of character they need and would probably be more interested in finding that person to join their group.

But yes, KOS is a 50/50 probably and my problem has always been, if I don't kill them first then they will 99% of the time kill me. You don't trust anyone in these types of games

BigBruiserAl · 16 Jan 2015 at 16:09

Had a good day, came across 7 people in total no one KOS every one said hi or had a chat, this made the game for really liked it. I have 150 in dayz and I don't even boot up for the KOS attitude hope this don't come to H1

cuffylad · 16 Jan 2015 at 16:19

I cant wait to get home tonight and order 10 air drops and kill everyone on sight :eek:

edit - oh and get killed by a bear (witcher style hehe)

Doogles · 16 Jan 2015 at 16:23

I am not paying for a BETA is all, if it was f2p like it should be in the future then I would but why should I pay to tell them if their game is working? Not against them selling the game but don't sell it early on then make it f2p.

Jaynos · 16 Jan 2015 at 16:26

so hold on, you pay real money for air drops but other people can get to them first and take the stuff you just paid real money for ?

Witcher1979 · 16 Jan 2015 at 16:28

Jaynos said:
so hold on, you pay real money for air drops but other people can get to them first and take the stuff you just paid real money for ?

Yeap, or the zombies could kill you trying to open it. They even said chances are they could be empty.

Ayahuasca · 16 Jan 2015 at 16:29

Jaynos said:
so hold on, you pay real money for air drops but other people can get to them first and take the stuff you just paid real money for ?

Has to be one of the most retarded ideas I've ever heard in a game.

JBod · 16 Jan 2015 at 16:29

Jaynos said:
so hold on, you pay real money for air drops but other people can get to them first and take the stuff you just paid real money for ?

Yup. Everyone hears the plane come in nice and slow, the box drops and huge plumes of green smoke go up from a flare. Zombies are attracted to it as well

Hardly play to win, it will require some tuning as I have read of people getting the drop on their heads but I don't think that is the intention.