The survival MMO H1Z1 is getting a new patch today. This will wipe the servers and bring female player models. However, the survivors are most excited about the improvement of the base security.
With a one-day delay, the new patch for H1Z1 arrives. The servers are expected to be down between 12:00 and 14:00 today, May 1st. The planned connection to the Steam Marketplace has been postponed to next week. With the patch on May 7th, they aim to improve and repair existing features, rather than introduce new ones. The next one is supposed to be a so-called quality-of-life patch.
However, this does not apply to the update on May 1st. For today’s patch, the introduction of a female player model has been planned, along with a complete player and world wipe. The female models currently come with relatively few voice options, which the developers plan to improve later. Additionally, there will be melee weapons and a t-shirt for everyone after the restart.
The players on reddit are most excited about the changes to the base building. Here, the radius in which players cannot build anything around a base has been increased. Unless they are the owners of the foundation or in a group with the owner. In the past, attacking players had crafted items as a kind of “ladder” to bypass the owner’s defenses via such makeshift constructions.
If “homeowners” do not log in for 2 weeks or delete their character on the server, the base is considered “free” and can be claimed by others. Biofuel and ethanol now deal only half the damage to structures with the patch.
Since the early access launch, base building has been regarded as the feature with the greatest potential in the game, but also as the feature that presents designers with technical challenges like no other. It is, if one may pardon the pun, probably the biggest construction site of H1Z1.
