H1Z1 (Not actually an MMO) - Server: Antidote (info in first post)

InterSlayer_sl said:

Listened to it again more closely.

The Zombie AI will be the first we see of Emergent AI SOE talks about (Storybricks?), and will also be used for Landmark/EQN.

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I'm glad to see Smedlee just say fuck it and start wearing a moomoo. Brave choice, sir. /salute. I look forward to EQ next: zombies.

Looks cool. Has the potential to make them some serious $$.. Guy interviewing was pretty annoying tho.

Looks promising if they can keep game breaking microtransactions out of the picture.

i'm really glad their new model is f2p, looks like something i'd fuck around with for a few hours but not wanna pay a sub or box fee even, being a cheap bastard

i mean honestly it just screams DayZ clone, but pay us lots of $$$ instead

Not anything I would want to pay a sub for but like $30 for a key? Yea sure. I bought rust and enjoyed it for a while.

This actually looks good. SOE has really been stepping it up lately.

Looks like SOE is gonna be getting all my monies... just don't fuck it up, Smed.

P.S. - Why is pitch black darkness in H1Z1 a 'feature' but in EQNext it's 'denial of service'? Oh that's right... keep Butler off camera because he is so full of shit it hurts.

Flipmode_sl said:

This actually looks good. SOE has really been stepping it up lately.

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As a current PS2 subscriber I'm content, but their track record with PS2 since launch 18 months ago isn't making me jump for joy over this game. PS2 isn't bad, but it is suffering a death from a thousand cuts. Sometimes C4 doesn't blow up; engineer turret hitboxes have been screwed up for a year; AV turrets can hit vehicles but they don't even render for the vehicles, allowing no retaliation (broken for 6+ months), lock-ons are OP then nerfed and suck, every balance pass takes things waaaaay too far(very few things are balanced, they're either overbuffed or overnerfed...see current Liberator and the old Harasser). FPS drops for many people after every patch they add, random crashes, stuttering/hangups, hit detection got messed up about a month ago. Oh, and a bug made it onto the live servers where you can become invincible, and you had to relog to fix it...you can imagine how people felt when one enemy soldier would knife his way through entire platoons.

PS2 population is (very) slowly dwindling; nobody is experiencing all of these problems, but each person has 2-3 little persistent problems that interfere with their experience in some way and these things are keeping PS2 from being a great game. (I should note I loved Planetside since beta, and that has transferred over to PS2, so depending on your POV I'm either being too hard or too soft on the game).

Edit: How this concerns H1Z1 is that SOE's philosophy/design decisions, if PS2 is any indication, would make it an average, playable game that stumbles due to its own flaws.

A persistent world is really sounds like a game changer for the zombie survival genre. Even if there's not permadeath (and I'd bet that would be a ruleset on at least one of the servers), it does mean you have a lot more to work for, which means even more to risk. The idea of having an economy in this game alone excites me. Though, they could've come up with a name that was less of a mouthful.

InterSlayer_sl said:

Around 2:51, Smed mentions Emergent AI for zombies, the same AI tech they alluded to for EQN/Landmark.

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I was sort of hoping people could play as zombies in this one. It'd add an interesting twist to dying to other zombies, but perhaps that's just me waxing nostalgic for the days of Project M.

We (as in the current iteration of gamers) need more transparency from large developers similar to the trend that SOE has set with their continued communication. Trion following suit and dropping the NDA so quickly on the ArcheAge alpha was a great followup.

This new project H1Z1 looks quite promising but I have to wonder what sort of resources they plan to tie up between this, Landmark, and EQ:Next coupled with continued support on PS2? I don't know enough about the SOE infrastructure or personnel to ascertain if things will end up anemic in areas due to folks being stretched too thin but if they can keep this pace up, I think the MMO future looks very exciting.

Cantatus_sl said:

A persistent world is really sounds like a game changer for the zombie survival genre.

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What? The whole zombie sandbox platform was birthed from a persistent world with Dayz 2 years ago.

Cantatus_sl said:

I was sort of hoping people could play as zombies in this one. It'd add an interesting twist to dying to other zombies, but perhaps that's just me waxing nostalgic for the days of Project M.

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I would love a game like this.

Project M and the Plague Event in WoW that led up to the Wrath Launch were some of the most fun I have ever had in an MMO.

I really enjoy DayZ so this may be a home run. I guess it comes down to SoE's decision making (which hasn't been bad as of late) and how the microtransacations impact the game.

Jait_sl said:

I'm glad to see Smedlee just say fuck it and start wearing a moomoo. Brave choice, sir. /salute. I look forward to EQ next: zombies.

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He's starting to look like Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now.

InterSlayer_sl said:

Some quick updates

-Early Access will be $20 on Steam supposedly in 4-6 weeks (smedtimelol). The GTL video preview said the h1z1 debut was suppose to happen in February, and its almost mid april now /shrug

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Holy shit ! That's great news. I was thinking it was still wayyyy off.

InterSlayer_sl said:

Some quick updates
-There are no levels or skills

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Damn that's disappointing. No skill points or builds ? Not sure how far the comparison to SWG can go in that case.