Around 2:51, Smed mentions Emergent AI for zombies, the same AI tech they alluded to for EQN/Landmark.
Storybricks? Guess we'll finally see it in action soon.
Storybricks? Guess we'll finally see it in action soon.
H1Z1 (Not actually an MMO) - Server: Antidote (info in first post)
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Jait
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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.
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.
Urlithani
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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.
Cantatus
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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.
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.
Pyksel
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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.
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.
What? The whole zombie sandbox platform was birthed from a persistent world with Dayz 2 years ago.
Rime
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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.
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
-When you die your items remain on your corpse
-There are no levels or skills
-There is a live gameplay stream planned for Monday april 14th, dunno what time yet
-Game is built off of Planetside 2, I guess this means no voxels?
-Different servers will have very different rule sets.
-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
-When you die your items remain on your corpse
-There are no levels or skills
-There is a live gameplay stream planned for Monday april 14th, dunno what time yet
-Game is built off of Planetside 2, I guess this means no voxels?
-Different servers will have very different rule sets.
bixxby
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Holy shit ! That's great news. I was thinking it was still wayyyy off.
Damn that's disappointing. No skill points or builds ? Not sure how far the comparison to SWG can go in that case.
Yeah. Smed clarified in last nights stream he meant SWG's crafting and player towns.
Edit:
Smed doing adiscussiononH1Z1 subredditasking about monetization ideas.
He's reading and replying, so if you have any good ideas this is your chance!
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