This demo didn't give me too much to go on, but my gut tells me that H1Z1 will probably end up playing like a DayZ that's driven less by the fidelity of Arma 2's world and weapon ballistics and more by crafting, building, and player-generated content. I like the idea of a survival game that allows for player-created, semi-permanent communities to spring up but that has an organic, systems-driven way of getting zombies to interact with players in those areas. In other words, if you build an isolated community in the wilderness, you shouldn't be completely safe and separated from zombies. One interesting fact I came away with was that zombies will perceive “smell” in the form of heatmap activity in addition to using their eyes and ears. It's a nice detail to see that tall trees, for example, fall when you cleave them, and that wood-gathering isn't some abstract menu exercise, as it was in the early days of DayZ. At this stage it's clear that H1Z1 will benefit a lot from the work done on Landmark and PlanetSide 2 I'm hoping the latter's vehicle tech finds a good home in H1Z1. The latter was simple and intuitive, a good sign for H1Z1's ambitious goal to let players build objects and structures within its open world. My experiences were very rudimentary as a result. Melee is a bit buggy, zombies often clipped through another as a single mushed-together mass, only a small number of items seem to be implemented, and the world is seemingly only populated with wolves, deer, zombies, and other players. H1Z1 is a few steps beyond a tech demo right now, a loose test of how zombies and PvP get along with SOE's excellent Forgelight engine, the tech that powers PlanetSide 2 and Landmark. I found it barren and mostly uninteresting, but that's kind of to be expected at this early, pre-alpha stage. I spent about 20 minutes creeping and fleeing my way through H1Z1's open world.
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