http://store.steampowered.com/app/437220/
Brother signed us up for the alpha of this, and I've played it for one round plus the tutorials. Essentially seems to be a cash in on the Twitch fame of H1Z1's Battle Royal mode, except more refined and with the sole focus being on a Hunger Games style death match. I had a good bit of fun, and I've not felt as tense and "in the game" as I did in ages playing this.
Spawned in, looted a hanger for **** all, and heard someone moving around outside. Peeked out of an upstairs window and saw a dude with a hatchet coming towards the building. Waited for him to come in, he saw me, and I bolted past him and towards the forest. He seemed intent on following me, but fortunately I found a poison gas trap in a field and had enough of a head start on him to pause and set it off, releasing the stuff, which covered a surprisingly massive distance, cutting him off on the other side of the field and leaving me to run for it. A few minutes later, I've crafted a spear and suddenly a dude leaps from the woods and has a go at me with his spear. We duke it out until I have him at low health and as he stands back with his sliver of health anticipating my charge, I say "**** it," and toss my spear into his chest, killing him. Spend about 8 minutes wandering around without seeing anyone, crafting and looting myself a respectable arsenal all the while hearing death cries and the announcer booming over the announcer that "Someone killed someone else with a hatchet/spear/some other horrible way!" Open a door to explore a building and step on an IED, which takes me to about half health, but find that the dude that presumably planted it has been murdered to death on the upper floor of the building. A few minutes later, the poison gas is creeping in, pushing us all towards the center of the map, and I hear someone sprinting below me in a cave, and jump down in the entrance just in time to ambush some dude. A few stabs send him running backwards to avoid me, smack into the gas, at which point he decides he'd rather try and kill me than choke to death on it. He fails, and I leave his lifeless corpse to be consumed by the creeping green wall. Arrive in the very center of the arena and find a guy hacking noisily at a tree to collect branches. Take a few shots at him with a bow, but after eating a few of his arrows in return fire, I run for it, and he lets me go. Craft some bandages to heal up as best I can, when I start getting pelted by some dude a little ways off. I run around him returning fire and hitting him once or twice before he finally kills me in the middle of the stadium set up in the center of the map.
All in all, great fun, it is.
Brother signed us up for the alpha of this, and I've played it for one round plus the tutorials. Essentially seems to be a cash in on the Twitch fame of H1Z1's Battle Royal mode, except more refined and with the sole focus being on a Hunger Games style death match. I had a good bit of fun, and I've not felt as tense and "in the game" as I did in ages playing this.
Spawned in, looted a hanger for **** all, and heard someone moving around outside. Peeked out of an upstairs window and saw a dude with a hatchet coming towards the building. Waited for him to come in, he saw me, and I bolted past him and towards the forest. He seemed intent on following me, but fortunately I found a poison gas trap in a field and had enough of a head start on him to pause and set it off, releasing the stuff, which covered a surprisingly massive distance, cutting him off on the other side of the field and leaving me to run for it. A few minutes later, I've crafted a spear and suddenly a dude leaps from the woods and has a go at me with his spear. We duke it out until I have him at low health and as he stands back with his sliver of health anticipating my charge, I say "**** it," and toss my spear into his chest, killing him. Spend about 8 minutes wandering around without seeing anyone, crafting and looting myself a respectable arsenal all the while hearing death cries and the announcer booming over the announcer that "Someone killed someone else with a hatchet/spear/some other horrible way!" Open a door to explore a building and step on an IED, which takes me to about half health, but find that the dude that presumably planted it has been murdered to death on the upper floor of the building. A few minutes later, the poison gas is creeping in, pushing us all towards the center of the map, and I hear someone sprinting below me in a cave, and jump down in the entrance just in time to ambush some dude. A few stabs send him running backwards to avoid me, smack into the gas, at which point he decides he'd rather try and kill me than choke to death on it. He fails, and I leave his lifeless corpse to be consumed by the creeping green wall. Arrive in the very center of the arena and find a guy hacking noisily at a tree to collect branches. Take a few shots at him with a bow, but after eating a few of his arrows in return fire, I run for it, and he lets me go. Craft some bandages to heal up as best I can, when I start getting pelted by some dude a little ways off. I run around him returning fire and hitting him once or twice before he finally kills me in the middle of the stadium set up in the center of the map.
All in all, great fun, it is.
