Hide & Hold Out - H2o

I enjoyed this game a lot so far. The graphics are average, but ok. The balancing (weapons, strength of walls, rescources, Sharks etc.) is very well done and the amount of content is absolutely ok for an early access alpha game that has just been released. On top of that, patches come out very frequently and the devs and admins in the forum seem very friendly and communicative. But I'm not going to recommend to purchase this game atm, because it is absolutely overun by hackers. I played a lot of survival games and I've seen cheaters in a lot of these games, but this is far beyond playable. I played on very different servers (PVE only, Official Servers, private PVE/PVP servers) and there were hackers around at least a couple of times a day. I lost all my stuff by flying/through walls going hackers so often that I'm forced to stop playing this game. It says that with the latest patch the anti cheat system got improved. It took less than an hour to loose all of my stuff to a hacker afte...

I have had this game since it's release and it has definitely had its fair share of bugs and cheaters. Recently the Dev released an update to get rid of the cheaters within the game and so far the results have been amazing. The game UI has been completely revamped and the whole game was converted to server side. I am super excited for the potential this game has and I really hope that people start becoming active because the Dev is active and there are huge plans for this game.

First thing first, this game is fun. It is a LOT of fun. That said, it does need a whole lot of work. That is stating the obvious, as the game literally just came out a few days ago. Do not get discouraged by the glitches and bugs, as these are very normal. That said, my experiences have been mostly negative. I started the game, which loads amazingly fast and runs like a dream for me, and found myself a nice quiet server to play on. The people on the server were extremely kind and quick to help me learn how to play and what to do with things. So off I go, mining up debris from the shore and being completely lost and confused in this amazing archipelago when I realized.. I'm about to starve! But that's ok because I have a busicuit! So I eat my tasty little bit of bread and realize.. I also have a raft! Sweeeeeet! A tiny bit of trial and error and a few embarassingly silly questions into map chat later.. and lookout world, I am afloat on the most AWESOME rigged up raft ever! Then thi...

-Pros *Gives that "rust at launch" feeling. *Waterworld type premesis is more interesting than the other dayz/rust clones offer. *Fair amount of stuff in underwater, giving you a new way to explore. -Cons *Hackers, Hackers as far as the eye can see. This game runs on Unity which has boatloads and boatloads of hackers, both figuritively, and litterally. *Advertised Battle mode is not in game, which was a main buying point for me. *Virtually no game population. I saw a peak of 8 players on the most populated official server. Theres 30+ servers, and maybe 12 players online in the whole game. *Many exploits and bugs that happened in H20 are indentical to ones in Rust at launch. Verdict : I want to play this game, I really do! But the same reason I left Rust, H1Z1, Aftermath, and such games remains. There is no effective anti-cheat, and it looks very much like this game will be plagued by hackers for its lifetime. *Note - As of this writing, Hackers can do the following, Spawn any items...

This game has a long way to go before its in any sort of playable state (that doesn't involve constant dying to invisible players). Combat is buggy, Gameplay is lackluster, and the map is rather small for how quickly you can traverse it on a makeshift raft (which you spawn in with). Rather small in this instance is that you can travel from one corner of the map to the other in about 10 minutes real time (to give you some perspective), on that starting raft. Current max players is 40, which is sufficient for the map size, but that player count will need to increase with the map size (I read that there are plans to increase the size and player count in the future). The biggest challenge you will face is dying to people that aren't there. It may be desync, or something along those lines, but if you can't see someone, how can you survive their attacks? After a few patches it may be a better place in regards to the invisible player issue (hopefully the duping and placing objects on you...

You should be allowed a refund at any point during the development of a game that seems like it is not progressing. This one is a perfect example of why steam needs to start holding devs accountable for their actions and put an end to this disease.

This review is done on (4/14/2016) Alright... where to start... I honestly have never wrote an honest review before but here goes... DAY 1: It was just me, and I get my bearings of how the mechanics work and this is what I found out... 1. Resouces come from only scrap piles, floating logs, sharks, whales, floating garbage piles, and other players. 2. press tab to build or craft 3. boats are your friends, if you don't have one so is land 4. The community is friendly to new players cool right? DAY 2: So I got my bearings and started on a swedish server and made my first hut.. not a bad hut but a shabby one made of sweat tears and a whole lot of resources. At the same time I buy two more of this game for my friends so they can see what I talk about on how cool this game is. DAY 3&4: My friends join me in my hut we build walls, weapons, and finally jet skis, which in turn made gathering alot faster and more profitable. We met some friendly Canadians, and we weren't ready to defend ou...

I jumped into this game purely out of curiousity and my experience was alright actually. First thing I noticed going into the game was the graphics. I definitely felt like most of these textures and objects were some of the default textures but I looked past the graphics since the game is in alpha. The server I spent my time in was nice and quiet since I am not big into PVP in survival games so I was really able to explore and figure out the mechanics of the game since there is not really any instruction or tutorial to the game. The next thing that caught me off guard a little is the fact the if you get sharks close enough to land they will literally begin to fly around in the air as though they are swimming and will follow you relentlessly which one did to me for a lot longer than I appreciated. The day and night cycle is nicely spaced out although nights are VERY dark and whenever I tried to go into options I was instantly faced with a "Are you sure you want to keep these settings" ...

This game is a water world rust. You gather resources to build and craft things. Overall this game has HUGE potential and would highly recomend this to anyone.

Hide & Hold Out (H2O) is promising a lot of very interesting gameplay (at least for those interested in survival/post apocaliptic/water world settings). You strand on a set of islands on which you should survive by scavenging and building your base. It appears (at the moment) to be PVP only. If PvE is planned, I am not aware. The devs appear to work on it rather frequently on it (at least in the last couple of weeks and month). Its one of the games where I wish an option between "yes" and "no" for a recommendation is possible. It is not really a "no", but not really a "yes" either. There isn't a "in between". So I am forced to decide. There are still quite a lot of issues to deal with before I'd personally consider it pre-Beta or post-Alpha. I might be just unlucky (as there are actually people playing it and apparently with a lot of fun), but I still experience rather plenty of lags, cheaters (even though that good better), glitches in graphics and gameplay, the occasionally disco...