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H1Z1 Early Access |OT| You've got red on you.
- Thread starter CountAntonius
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I definitely have more faith in them than in the DayZ team.
Anton Sugar
Member
WarZ was a cheap knockoff of DayZ.
This is obviously a DayZ clone but with an engine that DayZ will likely never match (until maybe they get their "new rebuilt" engine done). DayZ is janky as fuck.
WarZ was a ripoff and DayZ is still broken as all hell with an engine that is broken as all hell. SOE has a legitimate chance of making a good zombie MMO survival game.
Because the genre finally has a well funded proper developer making a game.
It's the potential this game has over those as it's an actual MMO, not just a bunch of player ran servers for 1.
Also because of the plans they have for city building, etc. also having a large company with a great engine work on this who have a history with a lot of online games give's a lot of faith in what we'll get. there's more to it but ya.
fluffydelusions
Member
This seems reasonable to me
Dead Prince
Banned
my hour count keeps going and i've yet to get on a server lol.
Dead Prince
Banned
do we have a backup server in place.
Piercedveil
Member
It's nice to see how fast they are getting stuff done. That looks like a great update. I was interested to see if they were going to just can the airdrops and think of something else due to the reactions. I'm a bit surprised they are still pushing for it.
Are you trying to be funny or something? Why do driveby posts like this? It gets you nothing but a chance at being banned.
Raijin_Cain
Member
Exaxctly. 77 mins played never got in. lol
Dead Prince
Banned
pointless tweet but heh.
pointless tweet but heh.
Maybe they should try putting up a Steam announcement and see what happens to that percentage.
You can, they drop a little loot bag next to them.
You can, they drop a loot bag.
CheeseConey
Member
Glad SOE is fixing the air drops so quickly- games only been out for a day... the whole thing was way overblown. They have always been an open/friendly dev with Planetside 2. Im not saying Planetside 2 is perfect, but as far as devs talking to the community there probably is no other doing a better job of it than SOE.
Raijin_Cain
Member
Now I get in a queue and afew mins after the game crashes.
If Im supposed to give feedback on an alpha I have to actually play it SOE
If Im supposed to give feedback on an alpha I have to actually play it SOE
SDCowboy
Member
I've gotta say I expected more from SOE, even for early access. It's almost impossible to even get into a server because the queue is screwed up, the game constantly closes itself, and if I can even get into a server, I can only play for a minute or two without getting DC'd. And when that happens, I have to ctrl+alt+delete out because the log out button doesn't do anything.
Compsiox
Banned
Ive only seen this once. Everytime I kill someone their body disappears leaving nothing.
Thats all part of the process. they are see'ing what happens when 50,000 people try to join at once on 200 servers or whatever the number is. There is no way to figure that out until something like this.
fluffydelusions
Member
Have you ever been a part of an MMO launch?
I have had a lot of dev interaction with SOE because of Planetside 2 (I used to commentate on a tournament thing) and have never once had any problems. All of them were sometimes so helpful that we actually felt bad about asking them for so much.
From a purely personal point of view and just talking about the actual people involved, not the company personas, SOE is a fine bunch.
wanderingprostheyltite
Member
So has the loot patch been implemented yet? If loot is more plentiful now I might take the plunge.
I've been apart of several+, and nothings been this bad. Can't play on the server I want to 28 hours after release
Man the server browser is so bad. I hope its up there on their list to of stuff to sort out.... No matter what server i try to join, whether it says low, med, high population, theres always a queue. And after trying to join 2 servers and backing out of each to try another, the join bottom becomes inactive and the game has to be rebooted, and then back to more queues.
pointless tweet but heh.
I wonder if you take them up on that refund, will you be banned from the game when its F2P ?
SDCowboy
Member
Yes for well over a decade. Never seen anything close to this.
Compsiox
Banned
goldsoundz
Member
Yep, saw that earlier lol. The paid for airdrops is stupid--not calling it P2W.
Mikey Jr.
Member
Stahsky
A passionate embrace, a beautiful memory lingers.
There's a lot of people inexperienced in MMO launches here. This isn't shocking, and these loot issues are a big reason they are in Early Access as opposed to just straight up launching. Way too much drama for a game that's only been out for a day.
Chubzdoomer
Banned
Remember when it was once a joke to say that someone had paid to alpha/beta test a game?
Now people are more than happy to do so.
It just boggles my damn mind...
Now people are more than happy to do so.
It just boggles my damn mind...
CountAntonius
Member
Silly when you realize the they had for plans to make blueprints sellable on the steam market and had the same insane level of backlash because of it.
The thing is you don't have to and there are plenty of warnings from the devs themselves while doing so. I'm glad the option exist because I was that guy back in the day that signed up for every single closed beta i could and never got in. Now I can choose to support the game and get a spot.
mercenar1e
Member
yeah the engine is still janky as fuck on ARMA 3. its not going to get better unless they build one entirely from the ground up but that's not happening anytime soon.
No they're not. They're miserable because they don't understand it doesn't mean getting the full game early.
This is my reaction to all the craziness on reddit surrounding this game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr7BqQeuYgE
Gonna pick it up once the servers are fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr7BqQeuYgE
Gonna pick it up once the servers are fine.
ChosenPredator
Banned
CountAntonius
Member
Day Z has a janky ass engine.
Rust has horrible hit detection , lag , hackers and they can't seem to figure out how not to make servers shit themselves after a few days of everyone building massive structures.
H1Z1 so far is having launch pains. I need them to get these and server issues sorted before i can say how far along it is. I was getting pretty bad performance yesterday but they said it's because some servers had fps issues. I'm hoping that what it is.
Because of SOE, the size of their team and their proven engine H1Z1 seems like the one most likely to be able to pull it off one day. I have no horse in this race as I put 400 hours into Rust legacy and loved it but it's still far too early to tell who will be the better game at the end. I hope one day all three of these games reach a respectable 1.0 because it's a great genre with moments that none of the others can replicate.
DayZ isn't using ARMA3 engine. It is, at best, using "ARMA 2.5"
CountAntonius
Member
Solace though it's down at the moment. I won't choose a back up yet because which one goes down and stay up is pretty random. When things get better sorted I'm sure we will be able to jump on. For now it's basically play on whatever you can.
SDCowboy
Member
I wish I could stay connected long enough to hang around in one. lol
IMACOMPUTA
Member
But you aren't paying2win. So it's not pay2win, pay2win with a twist, or anything like that. It's pay2getacrate.
It sounds like we're arguing semantics but it's a big difference, and it's unfair to call it p2w.