Game: H1Z1 - First impression

H1Z1 – First impressions

To start of, i did not get to play the game at it's early access launch because like a lot of games lately it did not have an nice and easy start. I expected problems though since it was early access.

So i get up the next day, ready to survive. Starting in the middle of a forest with little to no clue on what's going on. What else can i do but to start walking, and i walk and walk and walk. Instantly i get flashbacks to DayZ Standalone. After something that felt like far to long of walking in the woods i find a road. I just keep following the road and found a nice cluster of houses thinking that if this is like DayZ its lootin' time. Suddenly i saw something, a problem, a scary problem. It was...MAN(bum bum buuuuu).

Again, remembering back to DayZ the people you meet are evil and will kill you just for the fun of it. It's not for the loot or anything, they just kill for fun. I said through the in-game voice-chat that I was a friendly, had just spawned and did not want them any harm. I think they took that as a sign of aggression and so my little life i H1Z1 was over.

I then brushed of myself and spawned again. Back to the forest, oh how i have not missed this forest, but i will admit that i got out of the woods a lot quicker this time around. Soon I saw a road again, same tactics, follow the road. After some walking i find a church and my mind goes back to thinking about looting. So here i was, looting a church(not my proudest hour but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do), when suddenly i hear noises outside. Oh no, MAN is back. Then i feel something i haven't felt in a long time. I am actually scared of the other player. Maybe he is friendly but i would rather hide then find out. I had gone from «Let's survive together» to saying «go away», mentally of course. I can't trust humanity to stand together in a zombie outbreak anymore, and that is messed up.

Some time later i find myself in a little town where i have looted around in all the houses for over 30 minutes and not a single piece of loot. Everything is empty. I do not look forward to the night that is creeping over me. I open my inventory to see if i have found anything to help me hold my stats up(guess what, i had nothing) and i see something down in the left corner. I didn't know what it was and then it hit me. God damn micro transactions. You can get airdrops if you pay for them. Granted i do not know what's inside the airdrops but i am guessing equipment and such. I was kind of angry when i saw this. The men with the cash will yet again kill the poor man.

I have been running for a while now and I see some buildings coming up. My hope for loot and food rises again. I am down too about 11% energy. I am starving and losing health. After about one hour of searching i have found an empty bottle and a car battery. I can not eat either of them. Then, feeling life fading away i find something beautiful. An empty gun and some chili. I am back in the fight baby. Feeling better than ever. After some more running i had to drink some dirty water. It sucks but i found a cop car too and was kind of excited. Problem was, i did not have the parts needed to get it going. Got out of the car and started walking when i hear sounds. Two guys came out from the forest, got in the cop car and ran my ass over. People, am i right. What a bunch of rascals.

Needles to say, i was done going by myself. It's dangerous to go alone.

New day, new possibilities. Me and 3 friends go into the game. First things first, finding each other. If you survive long enough to find each others and group up you still need to find weapons or even more important, food and water. It is so hard to find food and now you are trying to find enough for 4 players. It is not easy. But the most danger is still meeting other players with way more equipment than you have who kills all just for the fun of it.

This has been my experience with H1Z1 and it is not so bad that it sounds. It has an fantastic atmosphere and you really need to have eyes everywhere. The guy you trust might just shoot you in the back of your head. There is also an crafting system in place. I have not had to much time to play with it but it seems to get you what you need if you put in the time to learn to make what you need.

Something i miss are things like zombie packs or actually dangerous zombies. A little more loot and varied loot would be nice. Also, you cant create a character with the same name as a character you have on another server. Don't know why that is but it's not gamebreaking, just a little annoying. There could be a little more streetsigns or something like that so it would be easier to know where you are. There are way to few EU-servers and a lot of queue time on most servers.

TL;DR:

This is another zombie survival game on early access. We are starting to get a lot of them. This looks and sounds like a good idea but the lack of loot and no real danger(not counting players) makes it a little dull. This game will probably be very good when it is done, but for now it is missing some pieces. Is more fun with friends than alone. The question that needs to be answered is this: do you(and your friends?) think you will be playing H1Z1 or DayZ when they are completed?

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