H1Z1

Sentrosi · 18 Apr 2014

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I think it helps that SOE has been working with the Forgelight engine for 4-5 years now. So it's going to look a bit more polished IMO.
But I think that this may be a nice little divergence from other games. One we could all, potentially, play.

nachtwolf17 · 18 Apr 2014

It definitely has potential. Lighting zombies on fire in the dead of night sounds fun. $20 for an early access Steam release in 4 weeks sounds like a good deal. The only problem will be splitting time between this and the Dog Fighting Module (hopefully).

Khorneholio · 18 Apr 2014

nachtwolf17 said: ↑

...The only problem will be splitting time between this and the Dog Fighting Module (hopefully).
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I was thinking the same thing, but we're going to be playing Arena Commander for quite a long time. It will be good to have a fallback game to chill in and avoid burnout.

scrub · 18 Apr 2014

my fall back games are rust, dayz, and breaking point to name a few......don't know if I want another survivor/zombie game

Sentrosi · 19 Apr 2014

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I bought the latest Batman game. So when I do find time I'm playing that. But I will be interested to see how H1Z1 turns out.

Gunslinger · 21 Apr 2014

Im going to buy into the early access. Im wondering if any of you want to put together a survivors community?

Sentrosi · 21 Apr 2014

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I don't know if I'll have time for early access, but if it means gaming with you again Gunslinger, then count me in.

Khorneholio · 21 Apr 2014

Gunslinger said: ↑

Im going to buy into the early access. Im wondering if any of you want to put together a survivors community?
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I'm planning on checking it out with what time I have away from Arena Commander. Since I don't think we've had a chance to play together, I'll gladly take the opportunity to join you.

Gryphon · 21 Apr 2014

I'll check it out after release, gonna try my hardest to stay out if betas. I've beta tested so many, usually by the time the game comes out I'm tired of it.

NuclearMessiah · 22 Apr 2014

We had our first monetization meeting yesterday (self.h1z1)
submitted 18 minutes ago* by j_smedley

Some of our outcomes. Please note I'll do a comprehensive posting after we're done with this. We have another meeting Thursday to discuss.

We will be selling wearables. We felt like this will be a good, fair revenue generator. However - we recognize how important finding wearables in the world is so you'll be able to find and craft a lot of stuff. We agree that's something important. We've also come up with a pretty awesome idea to let players who kill other players loot stuff. So if a player has a black ski mask and gets killed by another player, that player can wear the ski mask for a few deaths (we have durability in the game. Station Cash wearables won't degrade at all but when you loot something.. it will degrade. Please note the original player always keeps their SC purchased wearables. This gives the great feeling of whacking some unsuspecting fool who decided to bring a knife to a gun fight. Also - you will be perfectly able to get ghille suits in game cheaply either by crafting or finding them. We won't sell those. Please note - you still lose everything if you die. If you bought a Station Cash item it will be in a global inventory that is basically anything you bought for real money. We don't like the idea of a stash you can readily access in a survival game. So yeah, it's hard. Deal or don't play.

We will NOT be selling Guns, Ammo, Food, Water... i.e. That's kind of the whole game and it would suck in our opinion if we did that.

Nor will we sell boosts that will impact #2.

Emote Pack - of course we'll have the basics for free. But we felt like this is another good and fair revenue generator.

Character slots - feels reasonable.

That Monetization thread has turned out to be a terrific source of ideas and it also is helping us steer clear of the stuff you just don't want to see.

More to come late this week.

Smed
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Hamma · 22 Apr 2014

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Just read that as well. Seems pretty resonable.

NuclearMessiah · 22 Apr 2014

Air Drops in H1Z1 (self.h1z1)
submitted 2 minutes ago by j_smedley

An idea was discussed internally yesterday that we really like. It's simple - We will allow players to purchase Air Drops of care packages like food, water. Before you judge - it goes to a random location and is obvious to everyone in the area. Think of it like buying surprises for people in the game that if you're lucky you can try and get yourselves.

However, our real goal here is along the lines of The Hunger Games. A mad rush for supplies followed by a tense standoff. Basically think of it as instant chaos.

How is there anything flying? A few pilots manage to scrounge together enough fuel to make these runs.

Just an idea. Thoughts?

Smed
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No surprise here

NuclearMessiah · 22 Apr 2014

Death and Looting in H1Z1 (self.h1z1)
submitted 1 minute ago by j_smedley

I've seen some questions about this. I want to clarify this as it's important to the game.

When you die, your corpse becomes a container with ALL your stuff. Your corpse may end up wandering around if it turns into a zombie and reanimates. But either way it's completely up for grabs.

Station Cash purchased items are always available to you from your locker. We're not going to have you buy something and have you permanently lose it. However, we will allow other players to loot a lower durability version of the item (Station Cash items do not degrade).

So dying is a serious thing in H1Z1. This game is not for the weak.
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Khorneholio · 22 Apr 2014

So I buy a hat, it has infinite durability and I can always retrieve it from my locker after dying. If Ash kills me and takes that hat he gets a version with finite durability that he can wear until it breaks?

Am I understanding this correctly? If so, that seems like a fair compromise.

Hamma · 22 Apr 2014

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Yep that's how I understand it as well.

Khorneholio · 22 Apr 2014

My only worry is that you're duping all your cosmetic items every time you get killed. Seems like it could lead to economy problems in the future.

I'd suggest that there's only a CHANCE of any given cosmetic item being lootable upon death. Something to ameliorate the inevitable item inflation that would come otherwise.

NuclearMessiah · 28 Apr 2014

A brief trailer

NuclearMessiah · 28 Apr 2014

Community Event 4/29 (self.h1z1)
submitted 2 days ago by j_smedley

We want to have some fun Tuesday to change things up a little. We want you all to tell us what to make on Tuesday. Pick a fun feature we can make for you between 9am and 9pm. You'll get to watch it developed and hear directly from the people implementing it.

Of course, we have yet to get the time machine to function, so I would ask that you pick something reasonable. We'll weigh in in this thread on stuff that wouldn't actually be doable in that time frame.

So this call for ideas is now officially out there. Step up and come up with some cool ideas you want to see in H1Z1.

We will leave this to you to decide. If you can't make a decision we'll pick something fun from your list. But our great preference is for you to figure it out for yourselves. Self Organize. Vote. However you want to do it.

You have until 6pm Monday Pacific time.

Have fun!

Smed
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Hamma · 28 Apr 2014

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The last time a company got so deeply involved with what the community got we ended up with Tribes Vengeance which was a massive flop (Thanks for the reminder Gryphon). Let's hope SOE doesn't go too shithouse with their "Community" development.

Sentrosi · 28 Apr 2014

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Indeed.

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