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11 August

Producer's Update 8/11

Today’s update is about our progress and top priorities for the team.

It was really great to see all of the positive feedback on the gameplay and vehicle changes that went live earlier this week. Working in Early Access can be hectic and a bit tumultuous, and we appreciate everyone’s understanding as we continue to get the game to the place that we want it. The optimizations are great, but with such a big rewrite of the existing code it also introduced some instability. We focused on that instability and put out a hotfix patch this morning to address most of that instability and the more major issues that were there as well. A smaller hotfix patch can be expected to address a few more issues.

This week’s gameplay and vehicle update was our last major content push for a while as we’re going to be focused on bug fixes, polish, and optimizations going forward. Our top priority is creating a high-quality, highly polished game, and we will be a bit heads down to get through the final stages of that. Of course, that doesn’t mean new things aren’t coming. The team has been working hard to optimize the new map, and you can expect a completely new UI, Twitch integration built right into the game, and a scoring system to create better leaderboards.

New Map
We’ve talked about the new map before. Our goal with it is to create a map that is more balanced for intense, competitive gameplay. This means, more equally distributed loot (or no more “bad spawns”), and better visuals and lighting to create a much richer visual experience. The new map will be on test again in several weeks, so make sure you test it out and send us your feedback.

New UI
Also upcoming is a completely new UI with flows for customization and easier access to the game. We’ve had a long time to observe how people play and get feedback from the community about the user experience. And let’s be honest – the current user interface in the game is serviceable, but not exactly pleasant. We have scratched the entire UI and are in the process of rebuilding it to accommodate how people actually play King of the Kill. We are still working on a getting the bugs out, but I think there will be some changes there that will make a lot of people much happier with the experience.

Scoring
We know that immediate feedback on your accomplishments is important, so we are working on systems that add structure to the game and further enhance the game’s competitive nature. One of the things we will be adding is a new scoring system. Play a match and get scored based on your finishing position and number of kills. See how your scores compare to everyone else on the leaderboard and use it to fuel your competitive side.

Twitch
Lastly, we want King of the Kill to be a shared experience – whether you’re a skilled player or just a viewer. We have a big screen playing KotK streams all day in the office and watching others play is one of my favorite parts of the game. We want to provide the ability to keep that going and are integrating Twitch directly into the game experience. For streamers, this means a place to directly invite subs and viewers into a match with you. And for viewers, you can discover the next rising H1Z1 Twitch star by filtering through various streamers based on game stats and activity.

We’ll be releasing more details on everything in the coming weeks, but I wanted to give you a quick update so you know where the team’s head is at. In the meantime, you can watch some of your favorite streamers get ready for the H1Z1 Invitational at TwitchCon. We just announced our second wave of competitors, which includes Dr DisRespect, LyndonFPS, LIRIK, and Aydren, as well as our Twitch Votes Invitational winners, KillyKAPOWapowski and HOOWy.

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8 August

Game Update 8/9

Server's will be coming down tomorrow (8/9) at 1AM PT and will remain down for approximately 4 hours.

Vehicles
In order to improve the driving experience, vehicles have been tuned to have better handling and be less susceptible to flipping.

Additionally, we wanted to create some tradeoffs between each vehicle. To accomplish this, we’ve tuned vehicle performance and added a new feature to the pickup truck to better differentiate each vehicle:
• The police car is the fastest.
• The off roader has the best handling.
• The pickup truck is the toughest.
• Passengers in the rear of the pickup truck can stand up to shoot forward and crouch to take cover and shoot behind.

Flipped vehicles have more realistic friction, won’t be drivable using turbo, and can be righted by getting out and performing an interaction with them.
We’ve performed a pass on vehicle audio that includes: engine and turbo sounds, tire squeal when turning on pavement, and braking sounds. Vehicles also now have horns [Default: J].

We’ve made some physics tweaks that should have vehicles exploding unexpectedly far less and doing the correct amount of damage when they do explode.

Keys & Hotwiring
We believe map knowledge is very important and, specifically, learning where vehicles spawn and where to land to secure them is an important skill. Having said that, though, we have been concerned with how easy it is to completely deny vehicles to other players, particularly less experienced players. We’ve made some changes to vehicle inventory that address this concern while still rewarding those who are able to quickly secure a vehicle.
Vehicles now spawn with a key in addition to the current vehicle parts. The key is found in the trunk, with the biofuel, and can be picked up. Vehicles will start immediately if they have a key inside or if any player (driver or passenger) is carrying a key.

Additionally, vehicles can be hotwired by right-clicking when a key isn’t available. Hotwiring takes a little time and makes some noise, which may alert other players, but can be used to acquire a vehicle in a pinch.
Other vehicle parts (boost, headlights, battery, and spark plugs) can still be removed, but require more time to do so.

Toxic Gas
We’ve observed that games often have a “mid-game lull” as player encounters slow down after the initial landing & looting phase. To begin addressing this, we’ve made a couple of adjustments to the toxic gas that should increase the pace of play during the mid-game and encourage player confrontation.

Dynamic Gas
The size of each gas ring after the first will now scale based on the number of remaining players, becoming smaller if the player count is lower than expected for that phase. This is intended to reduce lulls in the game, though we’ve been intentionally conservative with the initial adjustments to ensure we don’t overly penalize players who spawned far from the safe area.

Toxicity
Toxicity is a new resource pool that fills over time while a player is in the gas. Once a player reaches max Toxicity, they take increased damage from the gas. The main goals of the toxicity system are to prevent long term gas camping by making it harder to stay in the gas for long periods of time in the early game and impossible in the mid to late game without making the toxic gas more punishing for players that get stuck in it for a short period of time.

Air Drops
We’ve removed air drops from the late game because bombing runs could be too oppressive in the small safe zones.

Air drops should no longer land on steep, vertical terrain that makes is hard or impossible to loot them.

Air drops will no longer originate only in the NE corner of the map and will angle up or down during flight to indicate whether or not they have dropped their payload.

Dropped bombs can be heard from much further away as they are falling.

Parachute
We’ve made some adjustments to the parachute, adding ropes and handles and smoothing animations while flying and landing. These changes will make parachuting feel a little different, but shouldn’t significantly alter parachute flight mechanics. Being able to stretch landings is an important mechanic and something we want to maintain.

Players should no longer take falling damage when detaching from their parachute.

Combat Feedback
Feedback has been improved to better indicate when a player’s gun is in collision and they are unable to fire. Reticle now indicates that firing is disabled and character will enter a passive stance.
Thrown weapons now display a tracer, only visible to the person throwing them, making their path of flight more apparent.

Visuals
In order to make loot in busy rooms more visible, passive highlighting has been added to lootable items in the world.

Teammate chevrons are now visible through collision.

Fixed an issue where distant toxic gas could mask nearby particle effects.

Skirmish Bug Fixes
- Reanimated Skirmish: Fixed an issue causing players to not be able to shoot reanimated zombies from point blank
- Reanimated Skirmish: Fixed an issue where some items (such as Duct Tape) were not spawning in the world

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes

- Fixed an issue where players slightly clipping through thin assets (such as fences) could be shot from the other side.
- Ninja’s shirt is, once again, Ninja’s shirt.
- Fixed an issue where a bit of fuel would be consumed if players enter a vehicle while running
- Kitsune Infiltration Shoes will no longer incorrectly turn shoes into loud shoes.
- Makeshift Armor should now cover the entire body as intended
- Fixed issue causing incorrect animations to play when changing bow ammo types
- Brazil Server: Increased the number of available zones so more games would start

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System Requirements

Minimum:

OS: Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 (64 bit only)
Processor: Intel i3 Dual-Core with Hyper-Threading (required)
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: nVidia GeForce GTX 275 series or higher
DirectX: Version 10
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 20 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card

Recommended:

OS: Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 (64 bit only)
Processor: Intel i5 Quad Core or higher / AMD Phenom II X6 or higher
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: nVidia GeForce GTX 560 series or higher / AMD HD 6870 or higher
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 20 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX compatible Sound Card

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Posted: 15 August

Garbage game

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H1Z1:King of the Kill

Pros:
-PvP is fun as hell
-Playing with buddies is always fun
-Gun sounds are great
-Play smart, Win as a result
-Adrenaline pumpimg
-Cars!

Cons:
-Some kills are seriously shady (Hackers)
-Solo BR teams
-Lack of updates
-Lack of weapons
-CSGO style cases -Pay 2.50 to open 1 case
-Toxic community
-Graphics/Performance (I have a GTX 970 and I7 6700k with 32gb ram still doesn't look 60fps)

For now, the game delivers a fun experience but, if they fix these problems it will be way better!

H1Z1 King of the Kill
Rating: 7/10

GRATE m8

just bad lmao

Good

Anytime i think of redownloading the game i just read the comments and think .....thats right now i remember why i said f*** this game

I don't recommend u buy this game. it has too many cheaters and bugs. the devs don't give a ♥♥♥♥ about the game. I don't have any framerate issues but my friends have 5 fps. GAME IS SOOOO ♥♥♥♥!

unoptimized piece of ♥♥♥♥

good just needs some patches

This game Just ♥♥♥♥ing Rocks

Most Helpful Reviews In the past 30 days

suicidal nihilist

44 products in account

4 reviews

Posted: 23 July

I gave it a chance. I've been playing since day ♥♥♥♥ing one, before the split, before the crates, before the lizard squad DDOS'ing, before the firing of John Smedley. This, along with H1Z1:JS, was good. It WAS good. But not anymore. Not at all. This pathetic excuse of a game has had ZERO progression since day one. More crates, more money. That's all they care about. The only major changes for this game has been a couple lighting changes, a couple new zombie/player models, and a couple new items. Other than that? Absolutely ♥♥♥♥ing nothing. Not a single thing. Don't buy this garbage, don't buy their crates, don't support these jackasses that care about nothing other than more money. Please.

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Konkur

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1 review

Posted: 20 July

WhitePower is a banned name.
BlackPower is not a banned name.
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2 reviews

Posted: 8 August

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The game went from ok to ♥♥♥♥.

AaTrez

58 products in account

10/10 Would get killed by a lagging Asian again.

Stef3D

133 products in account

7 reviews

Posted: 22 July

This game was fun, but after a time, it really needs some new maps

Ant

17 products in account

Posted: 11 August

this os the most poor optimized game on steam right now

Cauvster

100 products in account

5 reviews

not good, devs brani dead

aiosz

19 products in account

gay, removed voice feature.

Hexu

3 products in account

Posted: 2 August

It will be fun they said..
You'll get enough FPS to play they said..

.aVaChKa.

31 products in account

Posted: 13 August

piece of ♥♥♥♥ not a game developers doing nothing accept adding ♥♥♥♥ that they cant handle. The game crashes a lot and it is not acceptable, the developers dont give ♥♥♥♥ about it they only care bout their money and trying to get bigger audience. very unstable game and i will enjoy it when its finished.
P.S the updates are ♥♥♥♥ every update there is aproblem and they need 2 shut down the servers al ot cause of that,very not profesional.

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