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Akumos
Sep 10, 2006

forge posted:

After reading the replies to your reddit thread, it makes this place still relevant.

SA is still good for discussion/community, but for interacting with game devs or making change in games it's way less relevant.

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Blazing Zero
Sep 7, 2012

*sigh* sure. it's a weed joke

Akumos posted:

SA is still good for discussion/community, but for interacting with game devs or making change in games it's way less relevant.

yeah, devs for any game that use reddit want a pruning system where the (arguably awful) cream rises to the top. building their own forum and whatnot is a waste of money since reddit exists. free is hard to beat.

Akumos
Sep 10, 2006
Teleport hacker just got me on Blackout, guess it already has started again.

Thug Lessons
Dec 14, 2006


I lust in my heart for as many dead refugees as possible.

Akumos posted:

Teleport hacker just got me on Blackout, guess it already has started again.

This happened to me at Pleasant Valley as well.

FormerFatty
Jul 18, 2006
lame...i guess theres not much we can do about it though, right?

Akumos
Sep 10, 2006

Thug Lessons posted:

This happened to me at Pleasant Valley as well.

The guy is "sebsaaaaa" should spam report him, he's just doing it to everyone.

h1z1hacker@soe.sony.com

DOOMocrat
Oct 2, 2003

Has the loot cache key spawn rate gone up? I've gone from finding none to finding three.

Vittek
Nov 8, 2006

DOOMocrat posted:

Has the loot cache key spawn rate gone up? I've gone from finding none to finding three.

Havent found a single one since awhile. And none since the patch.

Republicans
Oct 14, 2003

- More money for us

- Fuck you


Aside from some missing punji sticks and an apparently-failed break-in attempt with a furnace my fort survived the night with all its goodies intact. :neckbeard:

MrOnBicycle
Jan 18, 2008
Wait wat?
Teaming up in BR is really lame.

Ron
Apr 22, 2014

MrOnBicycle posted:

Teaming up in BR is really lame.

just trying to roleplay the hunger games

Ron
Apr 22, 2014
speaking of BR; the loving queue time is like 20 minutes

Fanatic
Mar 9, 2006

:eyepop:

Ron posted:

speaking of BR; the loving queue time is like 20 minutes
I find you're better off cancelling out of the queue and joining new servers as they appear. I'm pretty sure they don't have a BR queue for all servers yet.

Atheist Sunglasses
Jul 26, 2003

All the candy you want. Crotton crandy, crandy apple. I like to go on the best ride first. Name of roller croaster.

Welp. Decided to play again after the wipe. After scavenging for over an hour and barely finding anything, I died to a hacker who was teleporting and flying around loving with everybody. Glad they will never address that! gently caress this game.

epic Kingdom Hearts LP
Feb 17, 2006

What a shame
I don't even think the anti-cheat is turned on yet. Calm down sperg.

jneer
Aug 31, 2006

Mush Mushi!
The only demographic that is destined for long-term fun in survival games is the hacking community.

Blazing Zero
Sep 7, 2012

*sigh* sure. it's a weed joke

Cacodad posted:

I don't even think the anti-cheat is turned on yet. Calm down sperg.

they've posted that it is on. why is he a sperg for not wanting to be insta killed by teleporters?

Liberatore
Nov 16, 2010

Would you like
to know more?


When (that's no) moon hits this guy like a big Twi'lek guy: Liberatore!

Blazing Zero posted:

they've posted that it is on. why is he a sperg for not wanting to be insta killed by teleporters?

It's not on, I can guarantee you that much. At most they're doing what they did with PS2 -- back when I still played it -- which is track people based on stats & reports and investigate outliers; which is actually pretty effective and what GA did to completely get rid of cheaters. Of course, given the nature of H1Z1, even if they are doing this, it's likely far more difficult to pull off.

P.S.: He's a sperg for thinking this will never be resolved, based on his experience playing an alpha. Not wanting to be insta-killed by teleporters is a perfectly reasonable stance but he didn't stop there.

Liberatore fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Feb 7, 2015

LuciferMorningstar
Aug 12, 2012

VIDEO GAME MODIFICATION IS TOTALLY THE SAME THING AS A FEMALE'S BODY AND CLONING SAID MODIFICATION IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS RAPE, GUYS!!!!!!!

Liberatore posted:

P.S.: He's a sperg for thinking this will never be resolved, based on his experience playing an alpha. Not wanting to be insta-killed by teleporters is a perfectly reasonable stance but he didn't stop there.

It's never going to be resolved, at least, not by the hand of the developers. If anything, it'll get worse when things go F2P, assuming they ever do.

E: See: literally all the other survival games that struggle with this same issue.

Liberatore
Nov 16, 2010

Would you like
to know more?


When (that's no) moon hits this guy like a big Twi'lek guy: Liberatore!

LuciferMorningstar posted:

It's never going to be resolved, at least, not by the hand of the developers. If anything, it'll get worse when things go F2P, assuming they ever do.

E: See: literally all the other survival games that struggle with this same issue.

This is the first MP zombie survival game I've spent any money on so I wasn't aware they were all made by highly incompetent idiots.

In any case, if it isn't resolved, we can count H1Z1 among the several other dead games in the genre. But I still think an alpha is a bit too early to tell.

Republicans
Oct 14, 2003

- More money for us

- Fuck you


Until they get a handle on the more egregious hacks I'm just gonna carebare it up and play around with designing bases.

DOOMocrat
Oct 2, 2003

The best thing to do about avoiding hackers is to avoid pleasant valley altogether

iamthehans
May 1, 2012
I don't get some of you. if you have ever read any of the other zombie mmo/survival games you can see they are full of bugs and hackers who really thought SOE would do it and different. its just something you del with while harvesting pubbie tears.

FreelanceSocialist
Nov 19, 2002
We like to complain. Especially about games we know aren't finished.

a.lo
Sep 12, 2009
Probation
Can't post for 31 minutes!

FreelanceSocialist posted:

We like to complain. Especially about games we know aren't finished.

pays for what will be a free game anyways

FormerFatty
Jul 18, 2006
If you cant beat em, join em -- although the teleport hackers are ridic.

Ron
Apr 22, 2014
battle royale is pretty much hacker free

Gucci Loafers
May 20, 2006

Ask yourself, do you really want to talk to pair of really nice gaudy shoes?


Has anything been updated with drops? It seems literally impossible to find anything at all in the game

Xegaus
Sep 27, 2006
King of nothing!

Tab8715 posted:

Has anything been updated with drops? It seems literally impossible to find anything at all in the game

I find if you go on a medium populated server, you find plenty of stuff. High population, I have to get lucky and kill a a few pubbies that have stuff, because finding loot is rare.

Ron
Apr 22, 2014
arent we still playing on backout?

FormerFatty
Jul 18, 2006

Ron posted:

arent we still playing on backout?

Yes but since theres no base building you can pretty much get the same experience on any server. There is no persistence in H1Z1 in its current form

Kimsemus
Dec 4, 2013

by Reene
Toilet Rascal

Republicans posted:

Until they get a handle on the more egregious hacks I'm just gonna carebare it up and play around with designing bases.



Ah, Republicans, long time goon, attempts to escape the hackers by "carebaring".

But will he escape their unfaltering aim? That's what his wife wondered, right before she watched her husband...murdered....right before her very eyes.

Republicans
Oct 14, 2003

- More money for us

- Fuck you


ScarTheKiller posted:

I find if you go on a medium populated server, you find plenty of stuff. High population, I have to get lucky and kill a a few pubbies that have stuff, because finding loot is rare.

Problem is that stuff just stops spawning eventually. The river full of busted cars just west of Rancho Taquito used to be an excellent source of scrap metal but for the past couple days only maybe four or five of the cars actually spawn items properly. I tried other lower-pop servers and finding anything in a wrecked car anywhere was rare. The police station basement still spawns plenty of ammo, though.

Also if none of you have seen Pleasant Valley on a pve server check it out. Some pretty impressive and elaborate building going on there.

Edit: Update notes just went up.

quote:

The servers will be coming down at 3AM PST for approximately 2 hours.

Patch Notes:

The backpack frame recipe now requires wood sticks, nails, and metal brackets.

The framed backpack recipe now requires a backpack frame, a spool of twine, and eight pieces of cloth.

The spool of twine rate of appearance has been slightly increased.

Applying an account item to an inventory item no longer resets durability.

Dropping an item from an inspected container now places the dropped item at the players feet, not the origin of the items container.

Fixed durability not being attached to projectiles - thrown spears should now be the same durability as when they were your inventory

Fixed drop spear dupe -you should no longer be able to drop thrown weapons and have them dupe

Adjustments to "heat" generated while crouched. This will allow players to more effectively sneak around zombies.

Exiting from a flipped vehicle should no longer send you below the world.

Vehicles that fall through the world Should now reappear above the world after a small amount of time

Added a ‘ForceSingleGPU’ option to the [Rendering] section of UserOptions.ini. Adding this option set to 1 will disable the games code adjustments applied when it detects you have more than one GPU active (SLI or Crossfire). This may help some users that are having issues get the game running better without needing to disable their SLI/Crossfire setups.

So bases will be slightly harder to break into now that you will need to bring a bunch of metal shards and branches with you to make new spears instead of one lasting forever. Bummer about the extra mats to make framed backpacks since the world is maggoty with normal backpacks with only 200 less capacity. But more twine means more wooden bows so I'll call it a net positive.

Republicans fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Feb 10, 2015

Thug Lessons
Dec 14, 2006


I lust in my heart for as many dead refugees as possible.
Are bases invincible on PvE?

Republicans
Oct 14, 2003

- More money for us

- Fuck you


Thug Lessons posted:

Are bases invincible on PvE?

Yes. You see player-made buildings everywhere since that's really the only thing you can do on those servers.

Republicans
Oct 14, 2003

- More money for us

- Fuck you


This base I built on Blackout has remained undisturbed since I rebuilt it a few days ago. Seems like this is enough to keep just one dude with a furnace and a spear from coming in and wrecking the whole place. Or nobody cares because they don't play anymore. :geno:



However I have noticed that anything useful to a hacker who teleports wherever he wants will eventually go missing from any storage container. Usually just guns, ammo, repair kits and first aid kits. So actually hoarding anything good is still pointless.

The Shep
Jan 10, 2007


If found, please return this poster to GIP. His mothers are very worried and miss him very much.
Remember when Smedley hinted at this game being the next Star wars Galaxies? :laugh:

edit: Hold on a minute... are the official H1Z1 forums seriously just a link to loving reddit?

The Shep fucked around with this message at 09:17 on Feb 11, 2015

Kimsemus
Dec 4, 2013

by Reene
Toilet Rascal

Cmdr. Shepard posted:

Remember when Smedley hinted at this game being the next Star wars Galaxies? :laugh:

Do you remember when :soe: was owned by Sony, and was a great place to dump their profits as a tax write off?

:toot:

redwalrus
Jul 27, 2013

:stoke:

Republicans posted:


However I have noticed that anything useful to a hacker who teleports wherever he wants will eventually go missing from any storage container. Usually just guns, ammo, repair kits and first aid kits. So actually hoarding anything good is still pointless.

Can you login with an alt and take the items from the container temporarily and store them that way?

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Ron
Apr 22, 2014
you'd be a complete idiot to waste another 20 bucks just to do that.

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