H1Z1 - Temperature, Fishing, Air Drops, No Safe Zones
John Smedley is once again spreading many interesting little details on H1Z1, the newly announced zombie MMO by Sony Online Entertainment.
Between Reddit and Twitter, we caught the following. For starters, you will have to fend off the cold in H1Z1:
we will have temperature matter in this game, so although in theory they do provide warmth that’s an incidental thing, not what we’re selling. All the clothes in the game you can just find do the same thing.
The idea is to make temperature matter. If it gets cold at night you need to keep warm and either find shelter or start a fire. Which is noticeable…..
The next one is a very short tidbit that will make some of you very happy - someone created a new thread on the subreddit titled “Official We Want Fishing Post”, and this was Smedley’s reply:
us too.
Of course, there’s no telling when this will actually be introduced in H1Z1, but it seems pretty much a confirmation that fishing will be in game at some point. Next, Smedley created a new thread himself explaining a feature which will let users pay microtransactions to get Air Drops and inject some mayhem into the game world…
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.
He then added a couple of clarifications:
no way there would be weapons [in the drops, for those who worried about Pay2Win already]
Also, someone asked if the zombies would react to this and Smedley confirmed it:
oh hell yes they would. good luck getting it alone :)
The last one will appeal to hardcore gamers. In a Reddit thread titled “Will There Be Safe Zones And Global Inventories?”, Smedley chimed in to say:
Only if we want to allow the carebears to take up residence. That’s my way of saying hell no.
That’s all for now, but stay tuned to learn more on H1Z1, which will be available in Early Access (probably via Steam) in about a month from now.