Sevenfold
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You wasted your flare. No sympathy
Well fuck.
Air mine floaty arrows fixed tomorrow and fishing coming soon Woot haha
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H1Z1 Early Access |OT| You've got red on you.
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You wasted your flare. No sympathy
Air mine floaty arrows fixed tomorrow and fishing coming soon Woot haha
Early on you should try to get a Bow Drill together. It's one scrap cloth, one wood stick and one wood plank. You can get the sticks from some of the flora directly, and the planks from smashing small crates with your fists (check the back rooms of gas stations and such).
This scenario is pay2win. Say a group meet up, 4 or 5 players, craft some bows maybe for protection. Then they call in air drops one by one while the rest stand guard and protect the drop site. After afew minutes you could easily have a full squad kitted up with the best gear. I've played close to 5 hours and havent seen a firearm anywhere, but if i want i can open the menu up and call some in at any moment.
Aha! Thanks!
The Dear Leader
Banned
Which is incredibly low still. 90-110 or bust.
fluffydelusions
Member
The loot respawn still seems messed up. Also you can get quests off zombies that give you a ton of loot including guns
But the loot from airdrops are often mediocre at best. Guns are really rare from them. They posted what you can get on reddit.
watched a twitch this morning that was freaking hilarious. Guys had a police soundboard and everything and were cruising around in a cop car harassing people running on the roads etc. They had no guns or anything so weren't being dicks just gunning everyone down.
The reaction people would have when the car would come flying up on them sirens blaring then the soundboard being used
The reaction people would have when the car would come flying up on them sirens blaring then the soundboard being used
psn
Member
Why am I not able to register for a Station account? It won't let me play without it and I can't register... great.
https://www.h1z1.com/register?launchedByLpShellReg=true&cid=1065726&launchPoint=steam
https://www.h1z1.com/register?launchedByLpShellReg=true&cid=1065726&launchPoint=steam
There's a reddit post asking for what we want them to work on. Rather unsurprisingly the answer is loot
To get started as a wilderness man you need a water bottle and an axe. That'll let you create a fire, bow drill, shack and animal traps. At least until the axe breaks. Then you're screwed
Post your requests for ph4t l3wt here
http://www.reddit.com/r/h1z1/comments/2suexn/will_be_working_on_for_patch_monday/
To get started as a wilderness man you need a water bottle and an axe. That'll let you create a fire, bow drill, shack and animal traps. At least until the axe breaks. Then you're screwed
Post your requests for ph4t l3wt here
http://www.reddit.com/r/h1z1/comments/2suexn/will_be_working_on_for_patch_monday/
DarKshodaN
Member
I played for an Hour, and found a Sniper Rifle, Backpack and lots of food. So when you are lucky you definitely find some gear quick.
Good luck with that, you're going to have a lot of people and zombies show up. On top of that you have a 10% chance of actually getting a gun. Enjoy!
While that's the biggest part I don't think it's the entire issue. Head to a town like Cranberry on a PvE server so you can't get killed while experimenting. There's no zombies at all so no danger. Have a good look around. Take note of the sheer amount of containers and the amount of players active in the area. There's no way the players are clearing out the loot as fast as it spawns. It's either spawning incredibly slowly or it's not spawning at all.
Here's me spending 15 minutes in the place. Surprisingly though I do find a loaded gun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4KJbmuIiVc&list=UUdF4c4bQnS543nwDKpj2B9g
Shining Sunshine
Banned
Yeah like Crytek is making Sonic Boom, right?
lets not forget zombies are broken right now too they dont react like they should. once they actually do, zombies plus other PC's its going to make it a pain in the ass to get the weapon if one is even in there.
who is to say that one of your group of 4-5 people dont get killed on the way to get the damned crate.. Its going to be a crap shoot as long as they dont make the clans in the game unlimited number of people inside. they need to cap it at like 10.
I hate p2w and I'm not afraid to say it. I get they need revenue but there are many f2p games that have done this without being p2w. The airdrops are a bad idea and I think they will be gone soon. If they don't get rid of them or nerf them into the ground then this game will fade away.
I have read all the arguments defending the airdrops and they are terrible you just can't put perfume on a pig and call it sexy.
The game has so much potential, bugs, loot from containers and so many other things need fixing but that's all good because it's early access. The airdrops, however, have got to go or have their loot table gutted.
Cosmetics are a great way for f2p games to earn btw.
I have read all the arguments defending the airdrops and they are terrible you just can't put perfume on a pig and call it sexy.
The game has so much potential, bugs, loot from containers and so many other things need fixing but that's all good because it's early access. The airdrops, however, have got to go or have their loot table gutted.
Cosmetics are a great way for f2p games to earn btw.
Yeah, there's a lot of people who feel like it's a waste of time/annoying to loot every container in a dense area and skip a lot of them. It definitely seems like spawning is really slowly or not happening in 90% of the containers.
But... But the drops you get aren't even that good most of the time... I think its a fine system, now that its working as intended. Plus you rarely get the airdrop you paid for because someone kills you.
CountAntonius
Member
Someone does this I'll put it in the OT.
Fordfx2
Member
Originally Posted by JesseZao
We should make a google doc with gaffer names on the community servers so we can recognize each other.
This is an awesome idea!!
We should make a google doc with gaffer names on the community servers so we can recognize each other.
This is an awesome idea!!
That is really anecdotal. If you aren't a moron with your location when you call it you can pretty safely get your loot not to mention if you have a group of friends that can gaurd you... Look it's p2w there is no sugar coating. They are packages you pay for that are designed to give you a massive edge. If it was materials and such that would not be as bad. The guns need to go.
I think they will eventually be gone or nerfed. No dev that is this jacked in to community input could possibly be so obtuse as to leave them the way they are.
http://www.h1z1crafting.com/ - some recipes may be wrong, but it's good enough.
There's a 10% chance to get a pistol or a shotgun. airdrops are loud, visible, and slow. There's no way to know exactly where the airdrop will deploy. The crates take around a minute to hit the ground once they do start falling.
I don't think the airdrops are working well. They still spawn really close to the caller and I've only ever seen 2 other people show up max. You can definitely abuse it in a bumfuck nowhere area of the map. The people who talk about a dozen people showing up have to be calling near a large town or something.
Sure they could further tweak the spawn areas and the timers, but as someone who hates RNG, there's no way I'd be paying any amount of money for a 60% chance to get shit loot and I'm not sure who actually would. And as someone who doesn't like pay2win, I don't want to see any weapon buffs.
I just can't imagine a good balance. Airdrops are great for the game, but they need to be a free random event for great loot. Monetize the game in other ways.
I decided to do a loot search on a server I figured would be less populated. A first person, headshot only, recipe wipe one. I spawn near a gas station but get killed. Luckily when I respawn I'm near Cranberry (Which has zombies as it turns out). In rapid succession I find a axe, machette, some clothes, a little food, quite a few hammers in cars.
The things I noticed the most? Almost nothing comes from containers. The bulk of my haul is just sitting out in the world. The second is not a single scrap metal from a car and no sign of a crowbar (Despite finding all the other tools).
The things I noticed the most? Almost nothing comes from containers. The bulk of my haul is just sitting out in the world. The second is not a single scrap metal from a car and no sign of a crowbar (Despite finding all the other tools).
CountAntonius
Member
I hope you at least read the latest changes and have actually played the game before offering such an irrefutable opinion. All of us who have played and the vast majority complaining online has ceased since they updated it. Also people really dramatize the advantages of these gun drops in game. My crew of four went on one run into town we got 3 hunting rifles, an ar 15, 5 pistols, ammo for all of it and found parts for a working police car. Case drops are 5 dollars a piece. Crews will be geared regardless.
Thanks a lot man, that's the best guide I've seen so far.
Sorry for another dumb question but is there a way to create and lock a base door?
I built a wooden raised foundation and a large shelter on top but I need a door.
Also if anyone on Hunger is playing you can come join me and my friend, we use teamspeak too.
They have been, it's been 2 days and they already updated and patched peoples concerns
Agreed, It's more important to fix the placement bugs on the current map than to add more.
Fordfx2
Member
Yep, yesterday they put out like 2 or 3 small patches...
I'm not really a fan of 'pay to use' type items in F2P games. It's a psychological thing for me. If I pay for and use an air drop or crate, I'm going to pretty annoyed if the drop either sucks or I get killed or do something stupid and waste it. If I get a get a good drop, I'll feel like I have to get the most out of it and play super cautiously and maybe have less fun. I'd rather just pay a bit more once a month for a "premium" mode, where I'm guaranteed a slow trickle of air drops and crates no matter what I do, allowing me to play a bit more freely and hopefully have more fun.
Sevenfold
Member
Pretty sure I had some success hitting a car with an axe.
In all the pre-launch streams I watched people were just finding scrap metal by searching cars. It's probably just not respawning properly.
Fordfx2
Member
It works, i had mine on but the menus and fonts were way too small, even the steam in-game browser was too small I had to change it.
You have to go into panel settings ( keep in mind if you have Nvidia surround enabled the DSR option doesnt show up) I had to tinker around and disable mine to figure that out...
Sevenfold
Member
Yeah, I've never found any by searching.