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Poor man's version of Dayz. Still was very fun.

7/10

Pros: The game has a pretty fluid parkour system. I kinda miss side wall running from mirror's edgh but you can wall run straight up walls at least. Weapons feel like they pack a punch. Fun to slice or smash enemy's. Night was interesting as the volatile actually can kill you. ( if you suck or is to low lvl ) As you level you gain many active abillity's and new ways to get around, also new attacks so its not as much as 10% more dmg with that as it is learn entire new attacks to slam people of roofs or twist there neck by finishing them from behind. The story is quite good as well, At least main story.

Cons: Zombie become to easy to quick, Even the volatiles are quite killable with ease after some time. And you after a while dont even care if it's night or day, you just run and gun/slice anything. Airdrops which i thought was gona be a major thing is just a XP package and the same loot over and over so you end up having 1000 of them all, so you after some time dont care.

Biggest problem: I was looking forward to the Zombie hunter mode, but its pathetic, The humans have more health and do more dmg then you. You only got one good attack and that is a pounch that you only can do if you have full energy. That the player humans drain after having a UAV light on you for 0.01 Sec and leaves you in the end without anyway of of defending yourself. I find myself invading my friend trying over and over but both him and random people tend to just hunt me as the big XP pinata you have become.

They got more HP, More dmg, Can stop your best attack with a starting item they got infinity off. If it runs out they got flares that do the same. If you camp, they rush hives, if you go after them, they kill you. If you get one of them they spawn back in 2 sec. If they kill you, 10 sec. So more or less you die then they will get a hive that you got 5 off. So yea 5 chances. you can lvl up to earn some cool abillity's. So if your willing to lose and lose and lose untile the losing xp stacks up for a lvl. Or join a friend and have him let you feed on him for free xp. Then you wont get them. But when you got them it becomes a bit eaiser. Problem is that the only good thing you get are 2 spits, One that summon insta kill horde if they go near but the horde can't climb so you rarely see them get killed by them. Or a UAV suppressor that turns of the lights. But both only last like 10 seconds and it sometimes can take longer to even recharge your stamina. And this is against 1 person. your normaly have to go against 4.. Did i mention this spit have a very small radius. Sure they can get stuck to people. If you hit them. But also get stuck to every prop or piece of ♥♥♥♥ metal wire container box that is in the way. And they got just an inch of plastic betwen themself and it or 2 meters radius which they can get in the matter of a second. THey wont be affected. And recharging back this spits requires over a minute of waiting. Or dying. both means losing a hive. More or less, your losing one either way as soon as your out of spit. You can roar to see where enemy's are. but that gives away your postion. But as the enemy have a hunter sense as well that dont give out any signal so you dont know if they done it, but it wont matter as they got 1 second cooldown on it and can spam it and it shows exactly where you are within 50-100m depending if they spam it every 1 second or 5 seconds. Have fun with that.

I know I'm raging, and people may say i just suck at being a hunter. But I been invaded so many time and 49/50 times i win. as the hunter dont got anything to put to the table. There plainly weak, Idiotic and only got 1 certain way to get kills that already is easy to counter.

If your buying the game for the game as human then go for it. I had many hours of fun with it. but if you buying it to play a bad ass hunter to ♥♥♥♥ with people, don't as your skin is paper and your claws are plastic.

Well Currently The game don't work. I bought it and well.. You can't connect. You just keep getting Errors. Possibly to a high traffic of players trying to logg in at the same time which i find funny as it was obvius this would happen. I guess This is some kind of stress test or well dont know. But don't buy the game untile You can actually player it. This ♥♥♥♥ hit the top seller in less then 30 min. Since it's launch. And it dont work. expected... YES.. Acceptable? NO!!!!... But Hopefully it be fixed shortly. For now.. I do not Recommend this game. Note to change when i actually can play the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game.

Edited: 2015-04-06

Now the game have had some development. Allot of things have improved but i still can't say i recommend this over Dayz. Even how big a fanboy I am with the new update to dayz fixing persistence. And actually making there zombies dangerus. Yes.. Finally a game where the zombies are dangerus enough so they become an almost equal threat as the players.

Now back to H1Z1.. It ain't the worse game.. Sure is better then Warz and many other survival titles out there. And I can't say it's pay to win as you only pay for cosmetics. Sure you can call in airdrops for tickets. but unless you plan it out your just gona have it stolen from you.. So it as little pay to win about it as it can be and they can't call them in unless a certain amount of people is in.. Now let's start talking about the good and bad things.

Good:
Big world - I like that the world is quite big so much to explore.
Building base - Your able to make quite good bases.
Rare weapons - Firearms are quite rare as it stand.. Ammo even wrose.
Optimized - Ok this is perhaps just for me but i feel that the synch is decent as bullet lands where they suppose to when you fire and people die when they are hit.

Im not gonna jam out every good thing but theres a few..

Bad:
Zombies - are a joke.. Worse then early dayz. they dont see 10m ahead of them and are slow as ♥♥♥♥ and have horrible hitboxes.
PVP - Melee weapons are completly worthless to pvp with as you can jabb a guy with a machete in his face for 6 times without any major effect. And guns win every battle.. Just a 1911 colt can kill a guy in 2 shots. So people with guns win 9/10 against melee which is logical yes but if i sneaked up to a guy and landed 4 hits on him before he turns around and kills me with 2 shots i call ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. In dayz its just 1 good hit to the head or upper body to kill them/knock them out.
Loot - Loot spawn so wierd and unlogical.. sure its 100% random but i find guns in houses and milk packages in military trucks. I mean comon?
Airdrops - just that i dont call them P2W doesn't mean i like them. I want them gone if possible.
Slot system - Its horrible to maintain. you can stand for 10 min just sorting out your ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ inventory. and having to do it over and over everytime you wish to pick ♥♥♥♥ up.. Ain't fun. I know you cant fit 10 cans in 1 par of pants but comon I can hardly fit one.
Cars/transport - Rare and a pain in the ass to fix. Kinda dont even see why they exist.

I currently wont' recommend the game but I still hope it will become great. I know i refere to dayz allot but Its the first to me and anything not performing better then it ain't worth the time.

Edited: 2015-09-28:
Allot of improvement.. Still not there yet.. I dont feel like im in a zombie apocalypse.. I feel like im in a social colony experiment where they study if we kill eachother or not when left alone long enough.. Most problems have been solved.. Battle royal is actually really really fun.. I still won't recommend this game as it's as all other zombie open world survival game fails at the point of the entire game. Survival.

Since when did survival be a grind gather materials fest? This is not sandbox.. It's survival.

I say.. Take the last of us.. Add in hunger and thirst.. Keep the one shot clickers and bloaters and other enemy's.. Make it open world with scavenging and the abillity to make clans and settelemnts togheter..

That's it.. That would kill and kick out. Dayz, H1Z1, 7 days to die and all other Open world survival games. Anyone saying otherwise based on that It's a singleplayer.. Sure SUre

The last of us making it online multiplayer open world means you have to remove allot of elements.. But the key factor of enemys that one shot you.. Keep you on edgh.. Bullets hard to find.. You lucky with 1 mag.. And focusing allot on melee instead and timing your attacks.. Would in my opinon sell and generaly be a better game about survival. So many games out there.. Specificaly early access that fail at the general idea of survival and turn everything in to minecraft with zombies.. Oww Minecraft have zombies already.. Hum hum..

1. Make the enemy of the game. Zombies, Mutants, Whatever.. Scary, Dangerus. And riskful to take on even with ammo. And you dont have to make them op.. Do what last of us did.. 1 shot mechanic if they reach you but they die from 1 shot meaning your aim got to be spot on..

2. Make the world dangerus.. Traps to be placed out by players, Settlements to be raided. And no building your own ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ houses out of rock and stone. or wood.. Just have the world from the last of us.. A open world city where many places are flodded or overgrown.. So you then have to pick specific locations and make them safe. .Then keep them safe.. Limited areas so bigger groups will fight over them. Having the militery maybe control one larger Safe zone somewhere i dont know.. Use your imagination.

3. Weapons, Focuse more on melee. In the apocalyps.. Its not cod.. We wont have M4 with 4 drum mags.. Why the ♥♥♥♥? We got maybe a shotgun or rifle or revolver with 1 mag.. Sure always someone that will hoard.. Thats fine.. Whats not fine if everything being way to comon.. Also guns doesn't mean insta win.. Do what last of us did.. Shivs in the neck.. Bats in the back of the head.. Workd as good as a gun shot to the head.. Making stealth and melee a good choice for both monsters and players.. Instead of this run and gun machingun fest..

4. Crafting.. GUNS CANT BE CRAFTED!! You know how much ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ precision that takes? unless were talking a 1 shot slug pipe gun from mad max i wont see it happening.. Same with ammo.. If anyone can craft ammo.. Then whats the point?

5. Last is background.. letting people start with a random background and random start of loot and skills based on what they did before.. Project zomboid does this good..

Make this happen and i pay 100$ for just 1 CD of it.. I buy collectors and toys and praise it at my shrine in my garage i testament to it.. As im so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tired of all the cash and grab zombie fest all just stealing off the hype..

Edite 2017-02-06:

NOPE:. IM done with this..

First of all. I like the game to an extent. Its not the worse or even a bad survival game. But theres to much ♥♥♥♥ going on now that I can't take anymore.

1. You can't sell the items no longer on steam market and your pushed to there own website. More or less they are saying. We want all the profit and ♥♥♥♥ steam. ( I presume. )

2. Splitting up Survival and Hunger game mode to 2 diffrent seperate games. Sure it helps performance, But it splits up the communitues. Also survival seems to be the dying one. In King of the hill I can find matches quick. but finding a high pop server in survival Seems much harder.

3. It encourage you to play on LOWEST ♥♥♥♥ SETTING!! Why? Cause then things dont render.. What does that mean? Oww only that you can see people through grass, trees, Bushes,, Stones, Solid walls. Houses.. Sometimes even through all of them at the same time. Playing on high setting is a stupid idea currently. This game has been out for a long time now. And this was problem on day 1. Now years later. Still a problem. WTF!!?

4. Community is cancer, Raided when offline, 10 year old screaming ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥ while teabagging you. And People with guns and groups with guns hunting unarmed people. ♥♥♥♥ THIS

This game Is..

AN awesome Experience to enjoy with your friends.. If you got some friends. .Then gather up and fight as a team or against eachother.. It's a blast..

If your jumping in solo.. Prepare to lose allot.. Randomers suck in this game.. They argue back.. Theres 0 communication.. And theres 0 teamwork.. This game is TEAMWORK DEFINED.. You die if you try to do anything alone as both vampire and hunter..

Other then that and that every new class they put in is OP as ♥♥♥♥ untile they sold enough of them then they nerf them and balance them.. But i mean.. Riot done that with league of legends since forever and no one complains or well not so many seem to complain about that..

Still I enjoyed this game.. Even bought it before it went F2P.. It had allot of issus back then.. But allot seems to be fixed..

This a.. 6/10.. An average game in my opinion.. I like the idea.. Just feel its missing a touch of horror and maybe less spamm spamm explosive auto aim skillshots and more.. Hunt, track hide in the shadows and ambush.. Still It shines it its own way for what It is.. A third person spelljunky spamming death fest.. And to some thats the best it can be..

Not much to do except go around and hunt other players. Dinos are pretty glitched so they can either be easy and stupid as hell or kill you in the mather of 2 seconds. Still I had plenty of fun with it so far.



Well Scam fest number one.. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ god i just saw my review of this ♥♥♥♥ game.. Well i wrote it like 1 day after it's release.. Well now.. DONT:: JUST DONT!!

Love it. The concept is well made. Every playthrough/attempt to survive feels diffrent and it really tests your capability to survive. No skills. No traits. No stats. Just you and what you remember. [ Survival guide book doesn't count ^^ ] I give it 8.9/10 And it will recive a straight 10 once all the glitches are gone and the it gets a bit more story. At the moment non kinda exist. I have not played that much yet so who knows what will reveal itself in the upcoming patches.

How do one explaine Dayz? On paper It's very simple at first. Dayz Is a Survival game. You Need to survive thats it. But that's not as easy as it sound. The game is a heavy resource management survival apocalypse game? Maybe that's still to vague? It also has players trying to kill you? No thats not it.

Dayz is an adventure game. Not your typical RPG but a make it your own story. Your droped in to the world in a harsh enviorment without any help or any guiding hand. Forced to figure out how the world works. What can you eat? how do you get food and water? How do you prevent sickness or cure it? How do you fight the infected or at least avoid them? Are players friendly? If they not how do i fight or avoid them? While your also trying to gather the Rarest and best SWAG in terms of supplies. Weapons. Outfits and gear.

Day'z cant be sumed up as a PVP survival game or a base building Resource game. Even as much as one would want to drag it towards similar games like ARK or Rust or 7 days to die. I feel Dayz still highly empathizes on personal story. When will you die? How did you die? What risks did you take? Many that play doesn't consider it but they constantly make decisions towards there own survival or there own death. Where do you go? who do you talk to? What do you carry or bring with you?

And that's just touching upon the vanila experience. Not the 1000 of mods that turns the game in to cosmic horror, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Metro 2033 or other similar experiences. Wana play late in to the apocalyps where cans of food have run dry? And your forced to hunt more? Want to play Day zero where society still stands and some cities even have running water and electricity? Mods allow you to experience the game in a diffrent light and its up to you to make your own fun.

Dayz Is a multiplayer game at it's core and soul. I would not recommend hosting a solo server to run about and loot yourself. However if you want PVE only. There's several mods that add dangerous monsters/mutants that would add to the variation of the zombies and would allow for a deeper more meaningful pve experience.

So what's bad about dayz? If your not in to the looting survival genre? Then maybe this will be a hard sell? Allot about the game is the expectation. The hyping yourself up for the next loot? the moving towards a military base or Helicopter crash as you hype yourself up with expectations what your about to find? A rare weapon? Nightvision googles? Food? water? A player what will kill you? Or maybe a player that will be friendly and you can team up with? All this is valid reasons to continue the struggle and to see how far you get this life. Something that is not gonna be for everyone.

The only thing i can say to be 100% sure a bad thing. I's days Track record and what it represents in the overal survival gaming community. Dayz was the first real Survival multiplayer game. Not necesary the first survival horror or the first survival but the first game to take the whole open world multiplayer looting simulator typ of game. It had everything to win and it started as a mod back in Arma 2. it quickly hit track record and launched Bohemia the creators of Arma in to godhood. Dayz mod sold so many copies of arma 2 more people where playing the mod then the actual game.

Very quickly the licensed it but the arma 2 dayz versions thrived and grew over many years. With one of the most dedicated modding community's I have ever been part of. As they claimed the license and hired in the original creator Dean hall to there team they started working on this Dayz Standalone that was to be the offical version of dayz. The game that allowed all thos mods all that potential to come out.

But Dayz If one looks to it's history even with some shining moments stands as a massive disapointment to a big chunk of the community. They held records for the longest game stuck in Early access. They made constant updates that was unecesary? Why add kiwi and some other labeld cans of food? When zombies walk through closed doors and just phase through them? This game had such massive issues for so many years that they pretty much scrapped the whole thing and ported what they could over to a new engine and started over. 2013 the game launched in early access. Several years later it was all wiped and moved to a new engine. Around 2018 the game was released from early access.. All so they could get a valid excuse to port and sell this game to console players. The only untapped market they still had left.

Dayz's progress and development is at a halt. They sure add a new gun. more updates. Things are 100% moving foreward. but the creator has jumped ship. Bohemia is investing in other projects/games and Dayz stand to just endure based on it's modding community now. Dayz represents the golden age of early access and the optimistic ideas of taking risks and trying something new that paid off.. Only for corporation to get between and tear the idea down for greed. Incompetence and several other issues.

So should you get dayz? YES... At this day and time the game stands more solid then it has ever been before. In terms of content. Features. Glitches. And mods. Its better then ever. But should you be very careful where you put your money in the future? yes. Games like dayz standalone should not be supported or invested in. It's not good for the players or the consumers. We should stand against what Dayz represents towards the industry.

But in the end Dayz is the sort of game you either forgive and realize you have so many hours you got your money's worth? And the experiences you had with the mods. Dayz Arma 2 and Dayz Standalone stand the test of time more then any damage the development had on it.

Or you stand to despise the game for your broken expectations, shattered dreams and lost promises. And then you should stand by that and not buy this game for any amount of money ever.

Awesome game. Focuse on team work alot, Forcing you to either work togheter or die alone. Not like Left 4 dead and other 4 coop games where 1 player if skilled enough can take down all enemys alone. A skill full players is better. But the skill in this game mostly comes from knowing what to do when. Marking high threat targets. Concentrating fire. Covering a friend that is Hacking or Piclocking. Clearing diffrent rooms at the same time. Without your friends the game becomes almsot impossible.

Theres also alot of Progress, Customesation, Weapons and attachments. that keeps it fresh. The game can become quite repedetiv if you tend to play the same heist the same way. Thankfully theres always diffrent way's to complete them. And both Stealth and full frontal assault is an option.

I think the game is worth it. a delightfull experience for you and your friends. Also a good way to meet new friends as good comunication is almost a must. Get it, and learn how to robb a bank or break up a drug deal.

Update 2014-11-15

Still a good game. Love it to death. So many more Heist/missions. More guns. More masks. More everything. Even the enemy AI has had a bit of revamp. Not smart but still enjoyable. Can't wait to see how they plan to move with this game.