Mode – MMO Fallout

H1Z1 Goes Free To Play Following Population Drop

In the past four years, H1Z1 has been announced, launched into early access, promised as a free to play title, converted into a pay to play game, split into two products, rebranded, and now Daybreak Game Company is going back on its original decision to go back on its decision to launch the game as part of their “Free to Play Your Way” library, and will be making the game free to play. H1Z1 officially launched earlier this month as it also deals with a major drop in concurrent player count.

Excited gamers can get their hands on the Battle Royale mode for H1Z1 while current owners can look forward to a bundle of free goodies. Daybreak Game Company has also directed players to Steam’s refund policy which allows them to refund purchases within two weeks or two hours of game time, whichever comes first.

It is also worth noting that this does not affect the survival mode of H1Z1, dubbed “Just Survive,” which has not announced a free to play transition.

(Source: H1Z1)

Jagex Announces Seasonal Deadman, $10,000 Tournaments

With Deadman now six weeks out of launch, Jagex has revealed their plans for the game in the upcoming year. As previously discussed in our interview with Mat K, part of the idea for next year is to have seasonal deadman, a separate set of servers that run on independent rules and are wiped once the season is over. Seasons could, for instance, have higher experience rates, or equipment unavailable in the standard game.

Prior to each season we will allow players to decide if they want additional rules for that season. For example, you may want a season with Dragon Claws, PvP armour or other things. Please do let us know what ideas you have for the Deadman Mode Seasonal servers.

The top five thousand players from each season will be able to participate in a special tournament, with the last man standing receiving $10,000 as a prize.

(Source: Deadman)

Old School Deadman Introduces Survival PvP

Jagex has unveiled the latest game mode for Old School RuneScape, dubbed Deadman. In Deadman mode, the entire world is open pvp except for certain safe zones. By killing other players in the world, you are given the opportunity to raid their bank for one inventory (28 slots) worth of items. On the other hand, if you are killed that means the possibility of losing your best stuff in addition to that which you have banked. Dying also means losing half of your experience.

The good news is that Deadman will also carry a 5x experience boost, as well as the ability to protect up to five skills and pay to insure items.

Deadman mode will have its own hiscores so you can see how good you are, don’t forget though, you can go down the hiscores as well as up them. You will also be able to track the total amount of times you have been killed, how many people you have killed and the highest score you have reached.

There is no set release date for Deadman mode, however Jagex assures that it will not come out until the issue with denial of service attacks is fixed.

(Source: Old School)