Pending Changelog: Experimental Branch: 0.33.114782

[rocket 16567]

Branch: Experimental

ETA to Stable: 5-7 February 2014

Version: 0.33.114855

 

Known Issues:

• Spawns: Loot is not spawning in military tents
  
• Spawns: Some structures in Svetlo currently do not spawn loot
  
• Server: Servers under load can delay actions from the client
  
• Graphics: Only 4 dynamic light sources will be rendered at one time currently
  
• Crafting: Attachments dependent on other attachments (e.g. flashlight on M4) may be lost when painting weapons (will appear on ground, eventually)
  

What are experimental/stable branches?

In your steam application settings, you can choose a "beta branch". This allows you to opt in to our experimental branch to try it out.

 

Does my saved character get affected in experimental branch?

No. It runs on a different database, so any changes will not affect your character on stable branch.

 

I can't find a slot while on experimental branch!

Only a small number of servers run this branch. You will need to change your game back to the stable branch and play on a normal server

 

Can I join a stable branch server wil experimental branch client?

No, you would need to change your client back to stable.

 

When will this be in stable?

We expect stable to be updated before the end of that week (by 7 February 2014).

 

Why has <insert any bug> not been fixed yet when there is new content coming in?

While priorities are very important when assigning work, there is a limit to how many people can work on a complex task without making it even more complex. Also, many of the team are focused purely on content/design so while the important stuff is being fixed, they continue to provide content and design updates.

 

Is mouse acceleration being fixed?

It is not fixed in this update, but we plan to make control changes. It is not as simple as turning it "off" as the speed your character turns is not dictated by the mouse itself, but your movements combined with the type of weapon you have, how tired you are, etc.

 

New:

• Actions: chambering SKS round from pile, loading 10 rounds from pile
  
• Actions: You can uncuff other players with the hacksaw
  
• Actions: Cannot use an item (e.g. drink/eat) if it is "Ruined"
  
• Actions: Interactions with items reworked. Drinking/Eating/etc... more robust and user-friendly
  
• Actions: Restrained players cannot use inventory or action menu
  
• Animations: Player now can take and hide rifle in crouched run
  
• Animations: SKS reload animations
  
• Animations: firing weapon when sprinting will transition player into the aimed run(with some temporary limitations)
  
• Crafting: FNX45 pistol can be chambered with single round
  
• Crafting: Opening cans with combat knife added
  
• Crafting: Opening cans with machete added
  
• Crafting: Painting Motorbike Helmets to Black and Green
  
• Crafting: Waterbottles and canteens now allow pouring water between them
  
• Effects: Magnum revolver ejecting shells when reloading
  
• Effects: Magnum revolver sounds - gunshots, reloading
  
• Effects: Mosin ejecting shells when cycling
  
• Effects: New Mosin sounds - gunshots, cycling, reloading
  
• Gear: Improvised courier backpack added
  
• Gear: Machete added
  
• Gear: Hard hats added in various colors
  
• Gear: Motorcycle Helmets have black visor variants
  
• Gear: Small, uncomfortable, and silly (but cute) children's school backpack
  
• Gestures: Clapping Gesture added, default F5 key
  
• Gestures: Pointing Gesture added, default F6 key
  
• Login: Player queuing system introduced. Penalty waiting time added for switching server or disconnecting a server quickly
  
• Login: Players receive a login timeout when disconnect, increased if disconnect within 30 minutes of joining (max 5 minutes)
  
• Login: When players logout, their avatar sits on ground for 30 seconds. Players must make sure they logout somewhere safe
  
• Server: Player spawns now cached by engine directly, increasing performance
  
• Spawns: Added Bubble goose jackets into the loot spawns
  
• Spawns: Added SKS rifle, speedloader, ammunition piles and boxes and SKS bayonet into the loot spawns
  
• Spawns: Healthcare Center now spawns loot
  
• Spawns: Police stations now spawn loot
  
• Systems: Hunger and Thirst slightly modified.
  
• Systems: Notifications added to UI for hydration and high energy
  
• Systems: Fractures can now occur due to melee and shot damage, not just environmental
  
• Systems: Fractures (arms/legs) now saved and loaded correctly from database
  
• Translations: Added strings for all consumable items (Gas canisters, Batteries etc) and container items (First aid kit etc) for English, with some Spanish and Russian
  
• Zombies: Different types of Military zombies now have tougher attack values and improved durability
  
• Zombies: Engine dynamic obstacle checking (zombie, another player)
  
• Zombies: Svetlojarsk zombie spawns added
  

Fixed:

• Actions: morphine injection can be used on other player effectively fixing his broken legs and item correctly positioned in hands
  
• Actions: Keys won't disappear after uncuffing
  
• Actions: loading ammo works for sprayed Mosin variants
  
• Actions: Read/Writing notes with paper and pen now works again
  
• Actions: reviving with epinephrine or defibrillator works also if player blood is below 500 units of blood
  
• Actions: Actions on another player no longer have an unlimited distance (max 2 meters)
  
• Art: Bug allowing players to clip through geometry of the police station building.
  
• Animations: fixed an issue where reload in prone would leave some residue sound clutter at the end of the reload animation
  
• Animations: Weapon reloading for magazine was not working properly when no magazine fitted
  
• Animations: Rifle Aimed Walk Updated, diagonal animations fixed
  
• Animations: Sidestepping through doorway with rifle while crouching should not cause the player to get stuck now
  
• Animations: knocking down player now possible in prone states, (possibly fixing the issue with frozen characters)
  
• Animations: changed animation for equipping the compass
  
• Animations: Proper animation played when taking pistol in run
  
• Animations: Changing stances is faster now both for armed and unarmed player
  
• Animations: Skinning problem with armored zombies that caused the model to warp during some animations
  
• Animations: Standing with aimed weapon now allows for higher angle of tilt/bend
  
• Config: Berries have more nutrition now
  
• Crafting: You can no longer saw off sawed off shotgun
  
• Crafting: Can spraypaint M4 to green or black
  
• Crafting: Damage is now transferred when items are painted
  
• Crafting: Improved Backpack creation only possible when Courier Bag is empty (previously items accidentally deleted)
  
• Crafting: Weapon cleaning kit can't be used when it's "Ruined" and won't reduce condition of a gun
  
• Crafting: Spraypainting an M4 won't delete your carry handle
  
• Effects: Dazed effect plays again when a player is hit/damaged/shot
  
• Effects: Some effects were not active locally when a player was restrained 
  
• Fixed: Missing texture error dz\weapons\data\weapons_damage_metal_smdi.paa
  
• Fixed: Popping up texture error for beret models
  
• Gear: Spraycans won't deplete after relogging
  
• Gear: Book, radio, pot, pan, gas canisters, matchbox, paper, firewood and stone can be placed in hands
  
• Gear: Headlamp beam raised slightly
  
• Gear: Painted items now retain their previous quantities (i.e. Magazine ammo won't reset)
  
• Gear: Various item descriptions and notifications fixed for grammar, typos, more detail
  
• Gear: ZSh-3 Pilot helmet fixed and updated
  
• Gear: Hoxton and Dallas masks where displayed in center of character, now display on face
  
• Gear: Splint position in hand was wrong now corrected
  
• Gestures: Taunt defaults correctly to F4 key
  
• Graphics: "god rays" could cause overloaded post-processing and graphical corruption
  
• Graphics: fix of removing shining object from hand (switch off)
  
• Graphics: Roads have per pixel lights
  
• Graphics: Dynamic lights should be now defined with "radius" value which is maximum radius of light in meters
  
• Graphics: Tooltips are now not displayed for quickbar items, as it is a reference to type not specific item
  
• Login: Respawn button now works correctly
  
• Login: Various bugs fixed associated with connection errors that could cause a character to be deleted or killed by the server
  
• Spawns: Lowered chance of Taloon and Mountain backpacks spawning
  
• Spawns: Drastically lowered chance of backpacks spawning on the construction site
  
• Spawns: Loot spawn tweaks in some civilian structures
  
• Weapons: Mosin recoil increased
  
• Weapons: Sawed-off shotgun can be loaded with ammo (was broken due to changed inheritance)
  
• Weapons: Sawed-off shotgun: reduced size in inventory, reduced spread
  
• Weapons: It is no longer possible to attach longrange scope onto SKS
  
• Weapons: M4 carry handle can now be attached to painted variants of M4
  
• Zombies: Better filter/check of attack hits directly in engine
  
• Zombies: Military zombies made tougher
  

Hotfixed:

• Crash: Irregular crash of server in corpse garbage collector consequence of this is that the bodies will not disappear if other player is in vicinity
  
• Crash: Creating item using recipe system caused serious server crash when not enough space in inventory
  
• Crash: Client crash on exit, all systems 100% reproduction
  
• System: Previous build caused overzealous starvation to occur
  

Edited January 31, 2014 by rocket
Updated with new changelog again +3

[Schumi 51]

Yeah! love it

[Von_Carnage 37]

nice :D

[PitstopHead (DayZ) 40]

Wow! Very impressive selection...well done guys. Looking forward to using the Machete and painting my helmet! Oh...errr

Edited January 29, 2014 by PitstopHead

[intensity (DayZ) 312]

Coming along nicely.

[Geordie (DayZ) 4]

Thanks again

[Rkelt 46]

Very nice mate...Keep up the good work

[m3ik0 333]

"- Gear: Improvised courier backpack added"

Could make them since the latest stable.  :huh: 

 

"- Systems: Notifications added to UI for hydration and high energy"

If you ask me, less of these, more of sounds. At least for Hardcore <3

 

"- Config: Berries have more nutrition now"

Been trying to find berries in the woods, chopping down bushes, but nothing. For hours. Well... more nutrition is good. For the berries. The ninja berries.   :| 

Edited January 29, 2014 by Meik0

[Rancor 90]

Give us binoculars !!!  :D  Are berries now ingame ?

 

 

Apart from that, great patchnotes.... you make great work rocket !!!  :thumbsup:

Edited January 29, 2014 by Rancor

[Apelo 26]

"Known Issues:- Spawns:

- Loot is not spawning in military tents

- Spawns: Some structures in Svetlo currently do not spawn loot"

 

But, loot also does not spawn in more than half of all enter-able buildings. Just thought I would mention this here.

 

These buildings include more than half of rural type homes (found in all villages/towns). Since previous update certain buildings have also lost spawn locations, e.g. back room of red brick bar, or "tool" room of large yellow house.

 

I have posted a bug report for this.

Edited January 29, 2014 by Apelo

[GeordieMarv 293]

Awesome news Rocket and team.

Keep up the good work, can't wait to play stable version when it's done.

[Ratsmon 131]

Pretty cool ;O

[rocket 16567]

 

"Known Issues:- Spawns:

- Loot is not spawning in military tents

- Spawns: Some structures in Svetlo currently do not spawn loot"

 

But, loot also does not spawn in more than half of all enter-able buildings. Just thought I would mention this here.

 

These buildings include more than half of rural type homes (found in all villages/towns). Since previous update certain buildings have also lost spawn locations, e.g. back room of red brick bar, or "tool" room of large yellow house.

 

I have posted a bug report for this.

 

 

Items spawn in these places, they are just rare and/or other people find the area first and loot it.

[PitstopHead (DayZ) 40]

Bring on the SKS.....

[xoligy 8]

 

- Config: Berries have more nutrition now

 

 

Dude stop trolling berries are not in the game =P

[Rancor 90]

- Login: Player queuing system introduced. Penalty waiting time added for switching server or disconnecting a server quickly.

 

This scares me a little.

 

When still no loot is respawning until the server restarts...... i feel bad

I mean serverhopping suxx as well, but sometime its necessary... for example when your selected server carries no loot anymore.... nowhere

Edited January 29, 2014 by Rancor

[rocket 16567]

- Login: Player queuing system introduced. Penalty waiting time added for switching server or disconnecting a server quickly.

 

This scares me a little.

 

That's the purpose of experimental. To test out these changes and see how we feel about them.

[jock360x360 (DayZ) 26]

I find it funny how many complain about the game on almost all of the threads, then patch notes come out and everyone is in love again?

 

Make up your fucking minds people....

[byrgesen 1341]

THIS THIS THIS!!!

 

Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/1whk6p/dayz_changelog_033114782_pending/cf20nss?context=1

 

When you disconnect, you character waits around for 30 seconds (currently set in experimental but subject to change) before disappearing. Forgot to include that on patch notes.  

[sebasdayz 0]

thanks!

[cywehner1234 582]

All these updates, keep em comin rocket! Nice pace on the updates btw

[Rancor 90]

That's the purpose of experimental. To test out these changes and see how we feel about them.

 

Dont misunderstand me :)

Basiclly we need a system against server hopping and especially aginst combat logging. But i think these systems shouldn't be tested until the loot respawn is fixed.Cause if you grab a sever which is sucked out of all loot and you are looking for a server which just restarts... you may get a penalty... and that would suckt imho...

[spartanxapathy 203]

for example when your selected server carries no loot anymore.... nowhere

 

I have yet to see a server that has absolutely no loot. Coastal cities pretty bare, sure, all towns inland completely looted? Not likely.

 

Great update guys.

[Exciision 20]

when i join a server is there a "you are dead" on the screen. de respawn button doesnt work...what should i do? stable version and respawn there and then update again?

[dakisback 39]

Items spawn in these places, they are just rare and/or other people find the area first and loot it.

 

Not true, the log cabin with the bedroom that has a bear rug. Never ever ever ever spawns loot. Promise.

 

unless loot is just like a .00001% chance to spawn lol.

Edited January 29, 2014 by dakisback