Easily and if you've seen the progress Landmark has made you'll understand why I have faith in where this game is going in time.
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H1Z1 Early Access |OT| You've got red on you.
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Easily and if you've seen the progress Landmark has made you'll understand why I have faith in where this game is going in time.
crazepharmacist
Member
I haven't been able to get in-game once since launch yesterday. Keep getting the same "there was an error completing your request" error after hitting play on the launcher.
TimeEffect
Member
Game hit #1 on Reddit for P2W weapons? Thought Id see it on GAF.
The best part of all of this.
They said from Day 1 crates would not have guns, they don't and will not. They only have cosmetic items.
They announced in AUGUST there would be air drops that are highly contested and contain guns. We have known for 5 months this would happen and they've been very up front about it and have shown it on streams.
They in no way lied about this. With today's change though making it drop far away from you, come in really slow and have a low % of dropping guns should help with people hopefully.
They said from Day 1 crates would not have guns, they don't and will not. They only have cosmetic items.
They announced in AUGUST there would be air drops that are highly contested and contain guns. We have known for 5 months this would happen and they've been very up front about it and have shown it on streams.
They in no way lied about this. With today's change though making it drop far away from you, come in really slow and have a low % of dropping guns should help with people hopefully.
FYI I'm not saying this is P2W
but I called my crate and it had a .308 rifle in it, not sure how high the success rate of it is though.
I wish it had other items and not just 3
Bandages
.308 ammo
.308 rifle
Your crate or air drop? Two different things. Crates should only have cosmetic items and unlocked with keys. If it had a gun then report the bug.
Anton Sugar
Member
Holy shit, y'all. Loot respawn rates/ratios/drop tables CAN be modified from now til final release. They can even update these values AFTER release! We have the technology!
Keep calm and submit feedback. That's what early access is for.
Keep calm and submit feedback. That's what early access is for.
I've met the first armed guy and things have gone well, I think:
http://youtu.be/Lnfh8Yx84mk
http://youtu.be/Lnfh8Yx84mk
ahh my mistaken,my air drop had weapons
yeah my crate had only cosmetic items which I was totally cool with. That stuff you do not lose when you die iirc.
There was confusing, there will be no buy weapons that automatically appear in your inventory. The small chance at an air drop for weapons was always there, even when Smedley tested the air drop feature from his house monthys and months ago. SOmething that might not happen in the first place and you might not get it when 200 other people see it coming.
people are way way jumping the gun on it, but then again, i know people like to bitch just to bitch.
crazepharmacist
Member
Just got in. On server select screen. Which one are Gaffers on?
Solace.
Just exploded
Haven't played sine like 8:30 EST when servers got wonky exactly like that guys silly youtube video above. I had fun this rage is out of control those. The #1 thing on Reddit when you click all is "Please do NOT get H1Z1 due to manipulative lies told by developers! "
EDIT: Battle Royale is FREE for a couple days they saying. He spawned in and died in a sky full of loot bags.
Herbspiceguy
Member
I'm enjoying watching Lirik's stream. Lots of funny bugs/glitches.
Probably won't buy AE, too worried about F2P.
Probably won't buy AE, too worried about F2P.
Battle Royal fresh start looks INSANE
http://www.twitch.tv/lirik
http://www.twitch.tv/lirik
So I just got about 30 minutes play in. Bearing in mind this is basically an alpha that barely works here's my impressions.
I like it (I basically like the idea of this sort of game anyway) but at the moment there's no real game there. It's a barely populated sandbox with very little sand. The game systems are only partially there. Rebinding keys isn't currently possible and for some reason the game doesn't let me actually attack anything (No response to the mouse buttons outside of menus). I strongly suspect their loot respawn code is non-functional at the moment. If you'd watched my stream you'd have seen me go from building to building and from car to car and find a grand total of 2 pieces of loot. In fact the only thing you can reliably find are blackberries which provide so little energy and hydration that they might as well not be there. I've been told that you can shift click to eat a stack which would at least make them bareable but that doesn't work for me.
So. First impressions on login. I scroll through the server list looking for a PvE server to play on. There's only a couple of EU servers and they're both PvP but they said they're bringing on more EU server soon. It doesn't matter anyway. I'll play on a US one. I quickly notice that approx 90% of the servers are PvP. Personally I think by launch that will have changed quite a lot. Sony are aiming at a mass market zombie survival game here and the mass market doesn't want to be the sheep. But that's for another time. I scan through the PvE servers and the only ones at less than HIGH pop are the "hardercore" server types. First person only, no recipe retaining. So I pick a regular PvE server and get thankfully only a 6 minute queue.
I spawn in. It's dark, foggy and raining. I'm in the middle of nowhere. I rapidly figure out that some of the default keybindings just don't work on my mouse but happily the one to change the camera has an alternative unlabeled one so I was able to get out of first person mode and into third. I couldn't tell if my HUD was off or on at first. Turns out the HUD is a single target dot. The rest of what you'd consider the HUD is bound to a different key. Right. Now we can explore. Since I'm in the middle of nowhere and I can't see shit (In almost every stream I watched today it rained a lot of the time) I just head off in a direction. It takes me about 15 minutes of running around to actually find something to examine that isn't a blackberry bush and about 5 minutes longer before I see my first zombie. However now that I've found a road signs of civilisation start becoming more obvious. I start to hunt around for supplies. I check cars, trucks, buildings, bins. I run a long way and even find the large town at the center of the landmass. By the time I call a halt I've found a grand total of a knife and a bottle of stagnant water. Given how much loot the people who were playing first thing this morning in streams were finding I'm pretty sure there's a bug in the loot respawn code. If this is intentional I'll eat the hat I couldn't find
Map wise it's big but small at the same time. I saw what I feel were too many players and yet the bulk of the map seems to be wide open spaces with trees and bushes and nothing else. The devs say most of the graphics are still placeholders and I believe them. There's an awful lot of indentikit building placement right down to identikit interiors (Even rubbish placement). There's an awful lot of work going to have to be put in before the map feels like a real place.
Update. Just saw Smed tweet that they hope to have an additional 200 Euro servers by Tuesday. That's pretty impressive.
As you'd expect there's a large number of bugs. Big and small. The biggest two seem to be the lack of loot and some extreme lag when trying to interact with items. The lag seems to be exactly the kind of database lag WoW was plagued with when Vanilla launched. I'm sure they'll get it sorted pretty quickly.
Overall? Promising. I'll be interested in following development but not terribly interested in doing much more until they have more of them game ready to bolt onto the shell they have in place already.
*Edit* Looks like Smed has already addressed my biggest issues. The lag fix is going on shortly and the loot issue also has a hotfix ready to go very soon too. I'll play more when it's been fixed and report back.
Verdict so far. Don't buy unless you're curious to watch it develop.
*Edit2* Also there's a massive lack of zombies and they're pretty ineffectual at the moment which is probably a relief since I can't actually fight back at the moment
I like it (I basically like the idea of this sort of game anyway) but at the moment there's no real game there. It's a barely populated sandbox with very little sand. The game systems are only partially there. Rebinding keys isn't currently possible and for some reason the game doesn't let me actually attack anything (No response to the mouse buttons outside of menus). I strongly suspect their loot respawn code is non-functional at the moment. If you'd watched my stream you'd have seen me go from building to building and from car to car and find a grand total of 2 pieces of loot. In fact the only thing you can reliably find are blackberries which provide so little energy and hydration that they might as well not be there. I've been told that you can shift click to eat a stack which would at least make them bareable but that doesn't work for me.
So. First impressions on login. I scroll through the server list looking for a PvE server to play on. There's only a couple of EU servers and they're both PvP but they said they're bringing on more EU server soon. It doesn't matter anyway. I'll play on a US one. I quickly notice that approx 90% of the servers are PvP. Personally I think by launch that will have changed quite a lot. Sony are aiming at a mass market zombie survival game here and the mass market doesn't want to be the sheep. But that's for another time. I scan through the PvE servers and the only ones at less than HIGH pop are the "hardercore" server types. First person only, no recipe retaining. So I pick a regular PvE server and get thankfully only a 6 minute queue.
I spawn in. It's dark, foggy and raining. I'm in the middle of nowhere. I rapidly figure out that some of the default keybindings just don't work on my mouse but happily the one to change the camera has an alternative unlabeled one so I was able to get out of first person mode and into third. I couldn't tell if my HUD was off or on at first. Turns out the HUD is a single target dot. The rest of what you'd consider the HUD is bound to a different key. Right. Now we can explore. Since I'm in the middle of nowhere and I can't see shit (In almost every stream I watched today it rained a lot of the time) I just head off in a direction. It takes me about 15 minutes of running around to actually find something to examine that isn't a blackberry bush and about 5 minutes longer before I see my first zombie. However now that I've found a road signs of civilisation start becoming more obvious. I start to hunt around for supplies. I check cars, trucks, buildings, bins. I run a long way and even find the large town at the center of the landmass. By the time I call a halt I've found a grand total of a knife and a bottle of stagnant water. Given how much loot the people who were playing first thing this morning in streams were finding I'm pretty sure there's a bug in the loot respawn code. If this is intentional I'll eat the hat I couldn't find
Map wise it's big but small at the same time. I saw what I feel were too many players and yet the bulk of the map seems to be wide open spaces with trees and bushes and nothing else. The devs say most of the graphics are still placeholders and I believe them. There's an awful lot of indentikit building placement right down to identikit interiors (Even rubbish placement). There's an awful lot of work going to have to be put in before the map feels like a real place.
Update. Just saw Smed tweet that they hope to have an additional 200 Euro servers by Tuesday. That's pretty impressive.
As you'd expect there's a large number of bugs. Big and small. The biggest two seem to be the lack of loot and some extreme lag when trying to interact with items. The lag seems to be exactly the kind of database lag WoW was plagued with when Vanilla launched. I'm sure they'll get it sorted pretty quickly.
Overall? Promising. I'll be interested in following development but not terribly interested in doing much more until they have more of them game ready to bolt onto the shell they have in place already.
*Edit* Looks like Smed has already addressed my biggest issues. The lag fix is going on shortly and the loot issue also has a hotfix ready to go very soon too. I'll play more when it's been fixed and report back.
Verdict so far. Don't buy unless you're curious to watch it develop.
*Edit2* Also there's a massive lack of zombies and they're pretty ineffectual at the moment which is probably a relief since I can't actually fight back at the moment
DJSebolski
Member
Game crashes for me when in queue.
Herbspiceguy
Member
One of the devs in the Lirik stream said there's only loot in gas stations, grocery stores and camping sites. Offices and other buildings don't have loot. Not sure if this is BR only.
LOL waaaaaat this stream is crazy
Was it actually a dev or a "my dad works a Nintendo" style comment.
I found a combat knife sat on top of a upturned fridge in a small house and in the next identical (And I mean identical) house over a bottle of water on the fridge in there
A "dev" or an actual developer of the game?
ChosenPredator
Banned
it's amazing but lirik makes games look SUPER fucking fun, I really need to try battle royal out looks like a blast
Icyflamez96
Member
Edit: ok jna i see how it is
Cheat Code
Member
Why is Reddit so angry.
i dunno 100k people watching it.'
haha, Lirik just punked one of his viewers. dude doesnt give a fuck.
ChosenPredator
Banned
scoobidoo112
Member
Wow, this whole thing really blew up on Reddit.
Nr. 1 on the front page right now:
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/2sn2du/please_do_not_get_h1z1_due_to_manipulative_lies/
What a shame this keeps happening I was keeping an eye on this game for a while now but I can't in good conscious reward this type of stuff. I'm hoping we can get some sort of solution for this problem so the devs aren't punished for what are probably publisher decisions.
Edit: Beat me to it!
Nr. 1 on the front page right now:
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/2sn2du/please_do_not_get_h1z1_due_to_manipulative_lies/
What a shame this keeps happening
I was keeping an eye on this game for a while now but I can't in good conscious reward this type of stuff. I'm hoping we can get some sort of solution for this problem so the devs aren't punished for what are probably publisher decisions.Edit: Beat me to it!
Lev
Member
I'd extend that to why are gamers so angry.
Wow, this whole thing really blew up on Reddit.
Nr. 1 on the front page right now:
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/2sn2du/please_do_not_get_h1z1_due_to_manipulative_lies/
What a shame this keeps happening
Edit: Beat me to it!
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SolidSnakeUS
Member
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Can't wait to play this.