H1Z1 PS4 Open Beta Passes 4.5 Million Players, Duos Now Unlocked

H1Z1, the title that was a driving force into throwing the battle royale genre into the limelight, made its long awaited debut on console in the form of its PS4 Open Beta this past week. Offering a competitor for battle royale players on PS4 to Fortnite Battle Royale, H1Z1 has seen a great resurgence of players since the beta's launch, as H1Z1 announced on its official Twitter account that over 4.5 million players have chased victories in the Open Beta for the PS4 version of the game.

In order to celebrate the major and impressive milestone, H1Z1 PS4 players have had the Blue Barbed Hellfire 4-6 item added to their inventories. 

[PS4 Open Beta] As a THANK YOU to all 4.5 million+ of you who have joined us since Open Beta launch, we've dropped the Blue Barbed Hellfire 4-6 right into your inventory!

PLUS, Duos is now unlocked with a brand new patch - see the latest fixes here: https://t.co/ZC3AuC94uU pic.twitter.com/G3iLFmX1AZ

— H1Z1 (@H1Z1) May 26, 2018

In addition to celebrating the millions of players who are testing out the revamped experience that Daybreak games has created for H1Z1 on the PS4, such as with the game's radial weapon menu and an increased and incentivized air drop system to encourage fast paced play, Daybreak Games announced the addition of the highly popular duos game mode to the PS4 Open Beta in a recent patch that was added into the title. 

You can view all of the changes implemented with the 1.14 update for H1Z1 on PS4 below. 

"Game Updates

Duos is now unlocked and open for play!

The mini-map has been optimized to be more performant.

Bug Fixes

Fixed odd rendering issues in several locations in the world when you are the driver in a car.

Medical items no longer play footstep sound effects.

Party leader should now always see the fifth member of their team in the lobby UI.

Fixed an issue where PSN profile picture is occasionally not loaded for all team members.

Throwables now play their proper "wind-up" animations.

Marauder and CNQ-09 now have their proper pick-up items.

Marauder and KH-43 now show the correct icons in the death screen panel.

Crate opening audio now sounds correct based on player distance from the effect.

Fixed several issues that could cause the application to crash.

Coming with rolling server restarts this evening

Bullet friendly fire has been disabled in Duos and Fives. Please note that explosions and vehicles still damage all players.

Extended the Match Start Timer to ensure that players were not skipping the Fort and dropping directly into matches later than other players.

PLUS, as a thank you to everyone who has helped us Open Beta test so far, everyone who logged in prior to 12PM PT today now has the Blue Barbed Hellfire 4-6 waiting for them in their inventory!

[UPDATED May 25, 2018 @ 4:30PM] Currently Tracked Issues

Some players may still see stuck/"infinite" queue time issues - in the meantime, often restarting the application will bypass this.

We're continuing to work to ensure that all who ordered the Nemesis Pre-Order Bundle have received their items (specifically in the EU).

We're working to resolve issues where controls appear to get "stuck" or lose focus (such as not being able to turn your character with the weapon wheel up).

Some players are reporting that they group up for Fives matches, but then get placed in separate lobbies - we are continuing to investigate this."

With the PC version of H1Z1 recently going free to play, the highest level of battle royale esports action currently taking place in the inaugural season of the H1Z1 Pro League and the entrance into the console world with H1Z1's PS4 Open Beta, the longstanding member of the battle royale genre has been making major moves recently to give Fortnite and Player Unknowns Battlegrounds (PUBG) very strong competition.

(cover photo courtesy of GameCrate)