H1Z1 Airdrop Weapons Fallout
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On paper, the concept of a rare airdrop of supplies occurring within the zombie-infested world of H1Z1 is a sound one, and one that SOE's John Smedley and Adam Clegg both claimed would never include weapons to ensure a certain level of hardship for all players. But with the recent Steam Early Access launch, such airdrops do include weapons, and can be purchased with real money. And that's what has led to this apology by Adam on Reddit, though it doesn't sound like there will be any backward stepping on the implementation:
Hey guys, first I want to say thank you to all of you, even the ones that are very upset with us. We have received an overwhelming amount of support and feedback from everyone and the dev team is all working hard on all of the current issues and I appreciate your patience as we try to get H1Z1 up and running smoothly. We are a little over 24 hours in and it has been and absolute roller coaster.
2nd I wanted to address what I said in an earlier stream with NGTZombies prior to our release. I said you cannot buy a gun or ammo and it had to be found in the world. When you are on a stream, and you are talking about your game, you tend to talk a million miles an hour both to keep the information flowing and to keep it entertaining. But sometimes things get said without completely thinking about what you are saying 100% through. H1Z1 is a massive game with a lot of systems, some of which we were tuning every day and finishing last minute. When I said you can't buy any guns or ammo, I completely disregarded the possibility of airdrops and meant that you can't buy a gun or ammo and have it go into your starting loadout, or your loadout immediately like you were buying a gun from the gun store.
All that being said, I totally understand how what I said was at the time lying to you guys and I apologize. But please understand that's not what I was trying to do. For those of you that don't know me or understand me, know that I'm not trying to be this monster that is conniving and lying in hopes that you get tricked into buying the game. I am very passionate about making video games and I want more than anything in the world for people to love the games that I am a part of making.
The dev team loves airdrops, and in testing, every time we used one, they were highly contested where the person who actually called in the airdrop had to earn it through a gladiator style brawl. They usually weren't the one that ended up with the airdrop but no matter what, the person who called it in was satisfied with the event that they got to make happen. That event is the magic we are trying to capture with everyone. The last thing we want is it to be a boring item that someone can sneak around and quietly get to find gear without it being contested. In our opinion that is basically cheating and nobody should be able to do that.
Whether you agree with us or not, that is how we want airdrops to work. We are going to be tuning them throughout early access until we can get them to work that way, here are the first pass initial changes.
1) Make the plane move slowly (53% of current) This increases the ability for other players to react to the plane coming in.
2) Make the drop fall more slowly (80% of current) This increases the ability for other players to react to the plane coming in.
3) Less accurate maximum drop radius (was 250m now 700m, so with these settings it would drop up to 700m from the calling player)
4) New minimum distance of 250m for airdrops to appear from a player. This is a little less than ½ the player density of 700m distance with 120 players on a server. Therefore more players are likely to be near the airdrop when deployed.
5) Increase the minimum number of required players to 120 (a little higher after more discussion about player density being important to keeping airdrops contested)
H1Z1 Airdrop Events and drop percentages
65% chance to call in one of these airdrops
The Caveman
'¢ Bow 1x
'¢ Bundle of Arrows 2x
'¢ Torch 1x
'¢ Waist pack 1x
'¢ 7 Zombies
The Welder
'¢ Wrench 1x
'¢ Hammer 1x
'¢ Metal Sheets 4x
'¢ Metal Pipes 2x
'¢ Weapon Repair Kit 1x
'¢ 7 Zombies
The Medic
'¢ First Aid Kits 2x
'¢ Bandages 5x
'¢ Cloth 6x
'¢ Purified Water 2x
'¢ Saline 2x
'¢ 7 Zombies
The Demolition Man
'¢ IED 2x
'¢ Lighter 1x
'¢ Landmine 1x
'¢ Flares 2x
'¢ Smoke Flare 2x
'¢ Ethonol 1x
'¢ 7 Zombies
The Builder
'¢ Nails 20x
'¢ Furnace 1x
'¢ Logs 4x
'¢ Metal Bits 10x
'¢ Scrap Metal 10x
'¢ Wood Axe 1x
'¢ 7 Zombies
The Farmer
'¢ Tamper 10x
'¢ Corn Seeds 10x
'¢ Wheat Seeds 10x
'¢ Fertilizer 10x
'¢ Purified Water 5x
'¢ 7 Zombies
The Hiker
'¢ Motorcycle Helmet 1x
'¢ Military Backpack 1x
'¢ Goggles 1x
'¢ Binoculars 1x
'¢ Compass 1x
'¢ 7 Zombies
12.5 % chance to call in one of these airdrops
Life of the Party
'¢ IED 5x
'¢ Swizzle 20x
'¢ Moonshine 15x
'¢ Flare 30x
'¢ 7 Zombies
10.0% Chance to call in this airdrop
The Hobo
'¢ Shotgun 1x
'¢ Shells 12x
'¢ Moonshine 2x
'¢ Torch 1x
'¢ Twine 1x
'¢ Bear Sandwich 1x
'¢ 7 Zombies
The Lone Wolf
'¢ Pistol 1x
'¢ Ammo.45 14x
'¢ Logs 2x
'¢ Wolf Sandwich 1x
'¢ Animal Trap 1x
'¢ Deer Bladder 2x
'¢ 7 Zombies
