So, now this is interesting, SOE is making yet another MMO. Come on pretend to be surprised!!! It will be a apocalypse sandbox MMO in shape of a game like DayZ. However, it appears the differentiation between this game and other titles like DayZ or Rust is there will be a focus on keeping stuff you make/find/build. There is crafting system for sure and the infected-zombie folks will have emergent AI (gag, I hate when they use that buzz word) to offering a dynamic enemy interactions.
H1Z1 will be a persistent world with players having to hunt down useful items in order to survive, that is what they are most clear about. There are options go it alone, group up, and the game will be co-op, multiplayer or single player depending on play style. (Err maybe, it was not clear in what I have been reading so far how the MMO part allows for alone playing.) As I said above, players will evidently re-spawn with equipment when they die, yet such features being in/out has not been totally nailed down. I sorts of dig the idea of it being different from DayZ where losing everything you carefully collected feels like a 'nut kick'. (I want to see how this sandbox works, is anything ‘worth having’ if they let you keep it?) Time will tell if what they have in mind with any of these mechanics will be what people enjoy or expect to play in a post apocalypse sandbox game.
There will be vehicles and those will need fuel too. That seems to be a basic tenant to these types of games so far. A sandbox where you might need a vehicle at least sounds big. There will be some sort of 'base building' but, again, no real details on that yet. So crafting, base building, vehicles, and some sort of system where you do not necessarily lose everything when you die…that sounds cool at least a premise.
All I can end with is I hope it is more sandbox/DayZ/Rust than an MMO. I hope SOE adds something and I hope that DayZ, Rust and this game co-exist as separate concepts that are fun to play for different reasons. I look forward to them clarifying how you can go it alone in an MMO…but as I said I REALLY hope ist is not an MMO as we know it now. Could I hope that this will be an MMO RPG in the same sense/funtion as Tom Clancy's The Division is an ‘open-world RPG’?
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