



For the most part, melee weapons will be your primary means of dispatching the undead, and players will be able to craft a wide variety of blunt and edged weapons once they've collected the proper materials. Unlike Rust or DayZ, functional firearms will be incredibly rare in H1Z1, and players will frequently be forced to work with other players if they hope to take down a sizeable group of zombies (or fellow survivors). Early videos have primarily focused on smaller structures, and some of the gear that you'll find during your first few hours playing H1Z1, but SOE is promising loads of endgame content and all the tools needed for (BUZZWORD WARNING) "emergent gameplay". In H1Z1, players will start out foraging for supplies and hunting the local wildlife - a list of animals that will include everything from cattle to wolves - before moving on to the now zombie-infested remnants of human civilization.Įventually, you'll have enough supplies to make your own mark on the world, and players will be able to build everything from single-room shacks to sprawling compounds when H1Z1 opens its doors sometime next month. Revealed earlier this month, H1Z1 is Sony Online Entertainment's first attempt at creating a zombie-survival title, and will incorporate many of the same mechanics that players have become familiar with in popular Steam Early Access projects like DayZ Standalone and Rust. And yet, H1Z1 may very well be one of the most exciting games to be announced this month, given the studio's prior experience with the massively-multiplayer genre. When the popularity of DayZ (and its many, many clones) exploded last year, anyone with half a brain likely could have predicted the onslaught of zombie-survival projects that would emerge in 2014, but I'm not sure many gamers were expecting Sony Online Entertainment to enter the fray. Two weeks after Sony Online Entertainment president John Smedley first announced H1Z1, a pair of videos featuring members of H1Z1 dev team and various Reddit threads have yielded a surprising amount of information about SOE's upcoming zombie-survival game ahead of the H1Z1 release date.
