NOTES

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GAME

ADDED

  • Added the SVAL rifle
  • Added the 20 round magazine for SVAL and VSS
  • Added new textures for the static (abandoned) M3S truck
  • Added abandoned truck parts for M3S
  • Starting a vehicle engine now slightly depletes the battery
  • Added flags of the winners of our base building contest
  • Garden plots can now be removed with shovels and pickaxes

FIXED

  • Fixed an exploit to look/glitch through walls
  • Plants could not become infested
  • Fixed a server crash related to pulling corpses out of vehicles
  • Fixed a game crash connected to item attachments
  • The player can no longer execute certain actions when their legs are broken
  • The player can no longer dance with a broken leg
  • Preparing Mackerels or the Carp did not stain the player’s hands with blood
  • An applied splint would disappear if the player’s inventory was full at the moment the healing was completed
  • The Pumpkin Helmet was still shining when ruined
  • Flares shot by the flare gun often disappeared inside objects
  • The glow of the flare was immense when seen from up close (now scaled with the distance)
  • Getting out of a car could result in the character appearing on the roof when an object was on the exit position
  • Fixed a server error caused by repeated crouching during an ongoing action (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T154062)
  • The inventory of improvised shelters could be accessed from the closed-off sides
  • Infected could hit the player through shelters and tents
  • Infected could enter closed-off containers (variants 2A and 2B)
  • Infected would glitch into players during combat
  • Dead bodies getting stuck in mid-air
  • Bodies of infected would sometimes rotate while already dead
  • The wrong particle effect was displayed when hitting infected with a Pipe, Wrench, or a Lug wrench
  • Adjusted collisions and occluders of buildings against unwanted behavior (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T152082, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T154532)
  • Removed collisions of low-hanging tree branches for better navigation
  • Exploit allowing players to get infinite plant seeds
  • The Frying Pans and Cooking Pots would disappear from fireplaces upon server restart (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T153689)
  • The inventory of the M3S truck did not refresh after removing attached containers from it
  • The dashboard on certain vehicles would disappear after certain actions
  • Ruined hatchets showed the wrong texture
  • The contents of the fireplace would not always be displayed correctly in the world
  • The indoor fireplace could sometimes get wet during rain
  • Land mines were not dealing damage when placed in the doorways of specific houses
  • Barbed wire could block the damage of grenades (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T154631)
  • Sounds were missing when skinning with some tools
  • It was possible to build overlapping fences and watchtowers
  • Swapping materials attached to base building objects could trigger a desynchronization
  • Fixed a server error when checking the pulse of a disconnecting player
  • The battery charger is not a heavy item anymore
  • The battery charger could not recharge car and truck batteries
  • Items could not be rotated and placed on the same space
  • Placing a connected battery into the inventory would not disconnect it
  • It was possible to use items placed in attachment slots for crafting operations
  • Entering a vehicle with a Chemlight or Road Flare turned on would ruin them
  • It was problematic to open/close the doors of certain vehicles when in third person view
  • It is no longer possible to cut a raincoat into armbands when its inventory isn’t empty
  • Attempting to throw a handheld plugged device would unplug it, preventing it from being turned back on
  • Slicing a rotten pumpkin produced edible pumpkin slices (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T155304)
  • Preparing spoiled fish would produce edible fish
  • Players were unable to remove some car parts from close range
  • An engine belt was displayed in the ADA 4×4 (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T148071)
  • It was possible to craft a long torch from a sharpened stick with food attached, causing the food to disappear
  • Items split in the inventory of the truck would appear below it
  • Items were appearing on the roof when swapped while inside specific buildings
  • It was not possible to open cans that were upside down while in full inventory
  • Character hand slot become broken after exiting a vehicle in the water
  • Endless white cable appeared after placing a Spotlight
  • It was possible to sometimes light a fireplace underwater
  • Fishing in sea was frequently interrupted, making it difficult to find a place to fish
  • The revolver was not dealing consistent damage
  • It was problematic to place a Medium / Party Tents too close to the player
  • Issues with fertilizing garden plot slots (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T156389)
  • The magazine of a weapon on the players back was detached after relog
  • The immunity system was not updated on the player (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T156489)
  • The spotlight could be plugged into a battery that was inside of a vehicle
  • It was possible to place two tents inside each other
  • It was possible to stack up stone ovens
  • It was possible to sometimes place objects inside furniture of buildings
  • Epinephrine was not working correctly (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T156359)
  • Improved the client performance when holding an item in hands
  • Continued damage from a fireplace or barbed wire after moving away from it
  • Packing a tent while having an item in the hands would not hide the item
  • Resuscitation while having an item in hands caused it to appear in the middle of the action
  • Blurred text on the logout dialog window
  • Camera clipping issues in the big ATC building and airfield service hangar
  • Infected walking through service hangar doors
  • Several object placement issues on the Chernarus terrain

CHANGED

  • Updated the Tarp (Fabric) durability, textures, and inventory view
  • More tools can be used to slice pumpkins
  • Reduced initial velocity of the 5.56x45mm ammunition by 9% to match real values
  • Barbed Wire and Fire now deal damage to infected and animals
  • Deployed Barbed Wire can only be dismantled from inside on Fence and Watchtower
  • The fireplace now warms a larger area, with the maximum heat reaching further
  • Lowered the maximum heat of the fireplace
  • Updated the credits
  • The flare from the signal pistol now falls down slower

CENTRAL ECONOMY

  • Changed: Reduced the amount of ammunition and magazines
  • Tweaked: Deagle and Revolver now spawn in Towns only
  • Tweaked: Repeater tiers adjusted from Tier 1,2,3 to 2,3,4 (Chernarus)
  • Tweaked: Batteries won’t spawn with a full charge anymore
  • Fixed: Spawn points on Land_Castle_Stairs_nolc
  • Fixed: BearPelt was missing

SERVER

  • Added: timeStampFormat now supports two additional options “ShortTZ” and “FullTZ” which will append the time zone in UTC (RPT log only)
  • Fixed: Server startup freeze when using too many mods (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T153090)

LAUNCHER

MODDING

  • Added: IsBoxCollidingGeometry, an extended version of IsBoxColliding, with parameters to fill in what geometries to check against (primary and secondary)
  • Added: Moved cargo conditions for Clothing into separate functions for modders to override (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T154093)
  • Added: Road parts for the terrain making on the sample GitHub repository (https://github.com/BohemiaInteractive/DayZ-Misc)
  • Fixed: FPS dropping down to 1 when using the backward compatible SetActions implementation
  • Changed: the ActionDismantleGardenPlot has been added to the items that could build it
  • Changed: Created new base recipe PrepareFish to limit the script duplication in prepare mackerel and carp Do methods
  • Removed: Unused internal organ classes from the character config DamageSystem >> DamageZones

KNOWN ISSUES

  • Entering a vehicle might cause a black screen