5 Easy Tips Beginners Might Not Know About H1Z1 Battle Royale

As a new player jumping into H1Z1’s Battle Royale mode, it’s easy to get lost in the chaos and find yourself dead right out of the gate. Lucky for you, we’ve put together a few easy to remember tips to help you stay alive a little bit longer (so you can blame lag or your controller for your eventual demise.)

Take Your Shoes Off, Stay a While

Removing your footwear is not only a common courtesy, it’s an awesome, underrated survival tactic! Taking your boots off makes it impossible for other players to hear your footsteps, giving you the opportunity to either get the jump on them or stay hidden. You’ll also want to remove your headband and hat to have enough Cloth to create a spare Bandage and ensure you can loot and wear the helmet right away, rather than having to go into your menu and switch your headgear manually.

Remain Hidden

This should be obvious, but deathmatches of popular shooting games have taught us to find the chaos, but that doesn’t work in battle royales. Really, you should be engaging others as only a necessity, especially at first. Though you will need to eventually move into more populous areas, you’ll be happy to learn there are generally more resources, such as weapons, armor, and vehicles, in these residential areas. However where there’s stuff, there are other players, so tread lightly.

You Don't Live In a Barn! Close The Door!

This is a general, unspoken rule, but doors start out closed in battle royale games. If you come across an open door, there's a chance someone is hiding inside that building, waiting to take you down. On the flip side, if you close all doors behind you, it makes it less obvious that you're there. Additionally, opening and closing doors takes effort and makes noise, meaning it's harder for someone to sneak up on you if the door is closed behind you!

Find a Ride

Weapons and armor are great, but the real key to success is a vehicle. Vehicles make it easier to move out of the toxic gas that shrinks the battlefield and stay alive. If you’re lucky enough to find one upon landing, you can remove the shock plug and the battery out of the car to ensure other players can’t steal it. When it’s time to move out, just pop them back in and ride on to victory.

Heal Those Wounds!

As if you didn’t have enough on your mind, you’ll need to find Medkits as well. They’re commonly found in cupboards in residential houses you scour through, but sometimes you’ll find them on deceased players who found one before you did. In that case, make sure the coast is clear before you scavenge any corpses. You’d hate to get found by the person who was responsible for that dead body before you’re ready to fight.

Three is the Magic Number

When you can, you should try to be holding three weapons at a given time, and they should be ranged weapons if you can help it. Early game you might be lucky enough to come across someone who hasn’t found a weapon of their own, but as you get deeper and deeper into the match, you’ll no doubt be going up against AR-15s and shotguns. The only way to win is to fight fire with fire, so make sure you have some ranged artillery. If, for instance, you’re rocking two AR-15s and a shotgun, you don’t even have to reload your first AR, just switch to the second and avoid the reload! That timesaver could be the difference between life and death.

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We hope these quick tips will help lay the foundation for your success in H1Z1’s Battle Royale mode. Interested in getting good enough to try your hand at the H1Z1 Pro League? Check out the ways the league is revolutionizing esports as we know it!