#H1Z1 SHIRT FREE#

But if you were to ask me 'Why should I play this instead of DayZ?' I would respond by emitting a low buzzing noise and then smashing through the nearest window to escape the question.Ĭurrently H1Z1 makes minimal effort to differentiate itself. I had the presence of mind to take a screenshot before being swatted into paste.Īt a very basic level H1Z1 achieves what it sets out to do as a zombie survival game. What I do know is Goldilocks got off lightly. Let's have a survival game focussed on bears.Ī few lives later I was attacked by a bear while raiding the kitchen of an abandoned bungalow. Bears, on the other hand, are huge and bloody terrifying. The indignity of running terrified from a squeaky preteen on the dark side of the Internet will haunt me to my grave. 'Wanna play?' he repeated, before assaulting me with a combat knife and chasing me deep into a forest. 'Wanna play?' he muttered, the voice clearly belonging to a boy no older than 12. On my very first survival attempt I encountered another player on a highway bridge. H1Z1 is equally capable of enabling Weird Stuff to happen. Zombies are mostly just a nuisance unless you stumble into a large group of them, while encounters with human players are tense standoffs in which both parties weigh-up the pros and cons of killing the other. Then you start to develop a routine that gets you through this brief period of vulnerability (in my case, it was eating blackberries and crafting bows). There's the frenzied opening hour as you figure out the game's systems by dying a dozen times. I don't like basing criticism on comparison, but here the similarities are extremely difficult to ignore. H1Z1 plays almost identically to Bohemia Interactive's DayZ. If this sounds familiar - actually, let's not pretend there's an 'if'. There's no safety-net and only one rule stay alive however you can.

From here you must endure the apocalypse by scavenging food and equipment from towns and forests, battling with zombies and dealing with an unpredictable human element. You possess nothing but some casual clothing, a small belt-bag, and a torch. You spawn at a random location in a large, verdant slice of rural North America, reminiscent of Twin Peaks but with no wind in the trees. We've reached the nadir of zombies as an enemy.Ī game in H1Z1 begins thus: you pick a server to play on and give your character a name. It's fitting to talk about cheap knock-offs, because at present that's exactly what H1Z1 feels like. Unfortunately, I fear my broader conclusions regarding the game will remain constant for the foreseeable future. My weekend with it was akin to appraising the ground during a landslide. H1Z1 has been in constant flux since it released on Early Access last Friday, as the developers immediately addressed a slew of issues and complaints. Did they check their survival guide was written by the Special Air Service, and not Surfers Against Sewage? Or had they been watching that knock-off Discovery Channel show Born Subsister, starring Wolf Ovyns?īy the time you read this, my facetious opening may well have become irrelevant. It was at this point I began to wonder where the developers of H1Z1 sourced their survival facts. Available on Steam as an Early Access title for £14.99.

Congratulations! Now get moving, because you've only got about half a day until you die of thirst and starvation at the same time. If you've done it right, an exquisitely-fashioned hunting bow will appear suddenly in one of your four available slots (best not to dwell upon the location of said slots).

Take your ripped t-shirt in one hand, the sticks in the other, and slap both hands together hard. Then run to the nearest forest and press E on all the spry saplings to steal their sticks.

#H1Z1 SHIRT FREE#

Never mind the additional storage capacity a pocket-less t-shirt apparently provides - free your nipples! Let them breathe the open air as you tear that torso-tube into shreds. In a survival situation, the first step to salvation is to take off your t-shirt.

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