DayZ PC Experimental Update 1.29.161219 : Patch Note #2

NOTES

• Consider using the Steam client option to verify the integrity of the local game cache to avoid corrupted data after downloading this update.
• Consider de-fragmenting your HDD after downloading large updates.
• In case of problems, please check the Bohemia Interactive support F.A.Q., DayZ F.A.Q., or BattlEye F.A.Q.
• You can help us to further improve the game by posting your feedback on the Feedback Tracker.

GENERAL GAME

CHANGED

• General server performance optimizations

FIXED

• Fixed a server crash exploited by users (T195100 – private)
• Animation of taking items from the shoulder and belt could glitch (T188349, T188469, T188454, T188536, T189283, T188523, T191268)
• Vehicles were missing attach/detach sounds for battery, spark plug and radiator
• Manipulating a fire barrel could result in desync for other players
• Indoor shots could sound silenced to the shooter
• Chelating Tablets could cure wound infection and influenza (T194353)
• Rain will no longer fall upwards when you run in the direction of the rain
• Bug where items that are very wide would not scale up properly when inspected
• Players could get teleported when exiting vehicles
• Infected movement was stuttering at low server FPS
• Splitting animation was not working for long wooden sticks
• Airfield bunkers had badly placed loot spawns (T193452)
• A ladder at the Rify ship wreck was not functional (T193170)

SERVER

• Added: Player location to connection and disconnection logs (T176899)
• Fixed: Freeze when starting Linux server
• Fixed: Items in the ignore list would still spawn when they were part of cfgspawnabletypes.xml
• Fixed: Items that were part of the ignore list would still spawn if they were in the player inventory (T190555)
• Fixed: Some weapons had chance to spawn with incompatible attachments, resulting in errors (T192338, T192311 – private)
• Changed: Enabled multithreading support for Bullet Physics library

MODDING

• Added: Physics functions directly on Transport to allow vehicles to sleep
• Added: Physics: ‘Physics.GetGeomName’ to get the name of a geometry at that index
• Added: New Inventory location type ILT_TEMP for items that are desynced, held in limbo until the server sends the correct one
• Added: ‘Pawn.GetNextMove’ to preload data during character CommandHandler
• Added: ‘Pawn.GetOwnerState’
• Changed: EntityType can now be used in script per config class definition, used to cache shared variables and expensive initialization logic
• Changed: Partial update of Animation System to Enfusion 2021
• Changed: Physics: Filtered will no longer show collision that has no interaction layer
• Changed: Prioritized usage of variables such as g_Game instead of function calls such as ‘GetGame()’
• Changed: Specific optimziations to several scripted functions such as ‘Object::IsAnyInherited’
• Changed: Physics: Inactive bodies no longer tick EOnSimulate/EOnPostSimulate
• Changed: Vehicles: Vehicle headlights has been partially moved from script to native
• Changed: Improved Gizmo api, moved to GizmoApi class
• Fixed: Mod-loading order not functioning (T194126, T194109)
• Fixed: Make avoidGrassUpdate property properly transfer during binarization process
• Fixed: Physics: Crashes with geometry element usage on skeleton component
• Fixed: Object::IsAnyInherited should return early on 1st match (T194456)
• Fixed: Several crashes with DebugText
• Fixed: Physics: Crashes with geometry element usage on skeleton component
• Fixed: Vehicles: Players could be sent to random coordinates when getting out of some vehicles with improper geometry
• Fixed: ‘DayZPlayer.IsAuthority’ would return false in Singleplayer
• Fixed: Ensure Inventory.CreateEntity properly passes the flip flag
• Fixed: Gizmo rotation would be reversed in some cases
• Fixed: Vehicles: Transport class couldn’t gather inputs
• Fixed: Vehicles: Transport class didn’t have dynamic collision resolution (only cars did)
• Fixed: Vehicles: Vehicles could still be controlled while in freecam while “Player move in FrCam” was disabled
• Fixed: Assigning typename to variable wouldn’t work for base types (e.g. string, int)
• Fixed: Some cases when assigning a quoted vector to a variable would fail
• Removed: Unnecessary native calls that reduce poor performance

TOOLS

ANIMATION EDITOR

• Added: Live Debug, connect via in-game diag “Animation > Enable debugger”
• Changed: Animations now always re-import from the TXA source file when editing Events
• Changed: Changes to animations are now saved via  “Workspace -> Save Changed Animations” instead of using the small “edit” button in the timeline
• Fixed: Various crashes
• Removed: “Test” button in Controls window, now automatic based on active context

TERRAIN BUILDER

• Added: Align to ground mode in Buldozer (default keybind 7)

KNOWN ISSUES

• Navmesh is currently not updating on Fence gates when opened or closed
• Some weapon animations will playback broken in some cases