PC Experimental Update 1.08

UPDATE

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.

GAME

ADDED

• Added: Sporter 22 and its attachments
• Added: Lighter
• Added: Frying Pan
• Added: Direct cooking slots on the oven and indoor stove (allows to place both pots/pans or food directly)
• Added: Cooking equipment, kindling and fire fuel can now be used to create a fireplace at the indoor stove or fireplace
• Added: Items can now be attached directly to the fireplace
• Added: Interactive indoor stove
• Added: SKVSCh Biatlon Arena location to Chernarus
• Added: Saint Roman ski resort location to Chernarus
• Added: New car wrecks on Chernarus, spawning vehicle parts
• Added: Character sounds for running out of breath
• Added: Storage containers (barrels, crates, chests,..) can now be destroyed by explosions, gunfire and melee damage
• Added: Tents, watchtowers and fences can be destroyed by explosions, gunfire and melee damage
• Added: Tents, watchtowers and fences can be repaired using tools and materials
• Added: Ruined containers and tents will drop their contents onto the ground
• Added: Canopy Tent along with color variants
• Added: Color variants for the Medium Tent
• Added: Server info in the In-Game menu (PC – can be switched off in the options menu)
• Added: Ability to pull dead bodies out of vehicles

FIXED

• Fixed: A game crash related to base building
• Fixed: Server errors related to throwing
• Fixed: Several optimizations when it comes to building collisions
• Fixed: Several map issues on Chernarus and Livonia
• Fixed: An exploit to look through walls abusing the compass
• Fixed: Loading internal magazines of weapons did not work across multiple stacks of ammunition
• Fixed: No sound was played when skinning something with the machete
• Fixed: Bottles and canteens are now spawning with random amounts of water in them
• Fixed: Sounds weren’t played when filling up a bottle or canteen at a well, lake or gas station
• Fixed: Repositioning the cable reel could break the hand slot and cause desynchronization
• Fixed: The flashbang could cause a permanent Tinnitus effect when hit by multiple flashbangs in short succession
• Fixed: The windows of the large tent could not be interacted with when the camo net was attached
• Fixed: Switching to a heavy item while in throwing stance could freeze the character
• Fixed: The character was not forced to stand up when switching from a one-handed to a heavy item in hands, causing animation glitches
• Fixed: Horticulture: Water/Plant/Fertilize actions would still be shown after they were already executed
• Fixed: Reloading immediately after shooting with the Repeater would sometimes not work
• Fixed: Starting to shoot during firearm melee could cause extremely rapid firing
• Fixed: When waking up from unconsciousness in a car, the player could be teleported to an unspecified location
• Fixed: Characters had misplaced items in hand and were stuck in sitting position after becoming unconscious while entering a vehicle
• Fixed: It was possible to drive a car with a dead battery
• Fixed: The player can now remove car attachments while another player is sitting in the vehicle
• Fixed: It was possible to get out of vehicles too close to walls
• Fixed: A limping character was unable to enter the shooting gallery in amusement parks
• Fixed: Swapping light and heavy items while prone could glitch animations
• Fixed: It was possible to light a fire with an empty matchbox
• Fixed: Trying to chamber an already loaded weapon could break the weapon
• Fixed: Rotation of human meat when attached on the long stick
• Fixed: Switching your item in hands while placing would create false holograms
• Fixed: Some environmental actions could be triggered regardless of height difference
• Fixed: The fireplace could be ignited under water
• Fixed: Igniting kindling would create the resulting fireplace right under the player
• Fixed: It was possible to destroy the barrel fireplace by using bury ashes action
• Fixed: Burying ashes was possible on concrete surfaces
• Fixed: Fireplace effects (particles, sounds) were not cleaned up on clients when the fireplace leaves the network bubble
• Fixed: Water boiling effects were stuck on the cooking pot, even when water boiled off
• Fixed: Cooking equipment effects were present even when the fireplace went out
• Fixed: Damage materials for barrels and fire barrels were not applied properly
• Fixed: Watchtower top roof did not have collisions
• Fixed: Items could not be placed on the upper watchtower levels
• Fixed: The watchtower was not producing the right footstep sounds
• Fixed: When a gate with barbed wire attached was opened, the damage would still be applied at its original position
• Fixed: Ruined Barbed Wire could be mounted on a fence
• Fixed: Traps are now also triggered by animals and infected
• Fixed: Sun shaft effect was not present over the course of the day
• Fixed: Character desynchronization when a player would log in close to a player who is taking an item into hands at that moment
• Fixed: It was not possible to take an item from the hands of a dead player
• Fixed: After committing suicide, the tools used was desynchronized and could not be interacted with
• Fixed: Several synchronization issues related to the inventory, Quickbar and slot reservation
• Fixed: Several character issues when going unconscious while swimming
• Fixed: Issues with the ladder in the lighthouse
• Fixed: The character could get stuck in the climbing animation when attempting to leave the ladder (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T135669, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T150616)
• Fixed: The infected would not follow the player on the harbor pier
• Fixed: Faulty hit registration when hitting multiple components within the same damage zone
• Fixed: The player was able to open their inventory during the surrender gesture
• Fixed: Dried zucchini was missing textures
• Fixed: Several localization issues
• Fixed: Heavy items could be stacked to float in the air

CHANGED

• Changed: Hold breath sway pattern behavior
• Changed: Hold breath stamina consumption is now non-linear
• Changed: Fireplace ignition action won’t show up if the conditions to light a fire are not met (too wet or windy)
• Changed: Fireplaces under exterior roofs will ignore rain and wind factors
• Changed: The stone oven is immune to rain and wind effects
• Changed: Items in fireplace cargo will get damaged and eventually removed when fireplace burns
• Changed: The fireplace stone circle is no longer built automatically and also cannot be carried with stones attached
• Changed: Fireplace bark slots merged into one bark slot
• Changed: The fireplace with a stone circle has a lifetime of 2 days, the stone oven lasts 7 days (refreshed by interacting with it)
• Changed: Reduced fireplace tripod inventory size and visuals
• Changed: The barrel fireplace can be ignited anywhere except in water, but can douse when it is raining
• Changed: The fireplace barrel can now be carried after the fire went out (can be carried with ashes)
• Changed: Tent windows, walls and windows have their state persistent over server restarts
• Changed: barrels and fire barrels have their lid state persistent over server restarts
• Changed: Splitting 1 large stone produces 3 small stones
• Changed: Wringing out clothing now dries clothing faster (one level per circle)
• Changed: Bark requires less size in the inventory
• Changed: Wooden Crates can now be dismantled
• Changed: Ruined items can not receive attachments or items into their cargo
• Changed: Combination of items also calculate health of the final stack
• Changed: Improved vehicle stability in closed spaces during the spawn (server restart)
• Changed: Vehicle brake power is now increased over time instead of instantly
• Changed: It should now be easier to find action-widgets on base building objects
• Changed: Disabled the crafting of the spear for now
• Changed: The temperature tool-tip label no longer shows the accurate temperature in the inventory (rounding applied)
• Changed: The escape menu no longer opens automatically after death in multiplayer
• Changed: When a player is aware of their own blood type, it gets automatically added to blood bags the player fills with his own blood
• Changed: Performance optimization for the Watchtower
• Changed: The wooden logs of the fence/watchtower base can be dismantled regardless of the direction
• Changed: The destroy action has been disabled on all relevant tools because of balance reasons (but remains functional for modding)
• Changed: Barbed wire attachment slots for the Fence and Watchtower were moved to the material pile inside (rather than left outside)
• Changed: Updated the textures of several farm/industrial objects (better resolution and visuals)
• Changed: Rain drop sounds are now played on player-made tents
• Tweaked: The fireplace cannot be ignited in interior space with a ceiling height of below 5 meters
• Tweaked: Fireplace values for ignition, heating, cooling, fuel consumption
• Tweaked: Fireplace objects (except fire barrel) are now indestructible (to be tackled in a future update)
• Tweaked: The Stone Oven requires 16 large stones to be built, the stone circle 8
• Tweaked: When creating the Stone Oven, the opening now faces the player
• Tweaked: Crafting of the fireplace barrel takes longer and damages the knife more
• Tweaked: Reduced the inventory size of lard
• Tweaked: Reduced the inventory size of small stones
• Tweaked: It was possible to break down the ash tree like a regular bush
• Tweaked: Plum and Pear can now be attached to the long stick
• Tweaked: Increased crafting cost of the Wooden Crate
• Tweaked: Particles for boiling water are now raising slower and less vertical
• Tweaked: Cooking on the long stick is now disabled for the barrel fireplace (new direct cooking slots on top of the barrel are available instead)
• Tweaked: Particles of the indoor fireplace (primarily to address clipping with surroundings)
• Tweaked: Collisions on fence/watchtower lower walls, making the shooting/aiming behind them easier
• Tweaked: combination lock will drop when important parts of the gate are destroyed
• Tweaked: The player swings the carp now when attacking with it
• Tweaked: Improved texture compression for reduced file size
• Tweaked: Reduced noise of the MKII
• Tweaked: Collisions of the medium tent (to allow easier entrance and exiting)
• Removed: Attachments slot for books in the fireplace inventory
• Removed: Fake inventory attachment slot for the spare wheel in the Olga 24
• Removed: Stacking of small and large stones outside of the fireplace

SERVER

• Added: New usage flag “Lunapark” in the CE
• Changed: Personal night light is by default deactivated

LAUNCHER

MODDING

• Added: Ability to set aimChange for non-player entities
• Added: 3rd person camera solver – ability to set ignore entity to camera result
• Added: Possibility to add a scripted command for animals and infected
• Added: Ability to register animation settings for items by modders (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T150316)
• Added: Central Economy mission files modding (details at https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/DayZ:Central_Economy_mission_files_modding)
• Added: Scriptable JSON Api + object for JSON struct packing/expanding
• Added: Exposed pathgraph functions (FindPath, RaycastNavMesh) and constant into scripts
• Added: New method for creating objects CreateObjectEx (check script comments for details). We recommend to use this instead of the old CreateObject
• Fixed: Spawning projectiles fired by non-player entities (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T149517)
• Changed: Vehicle camera is now telling to collision solver which entity should be ignored
• Changed: Curl core refactored to RestApi due to future compatibility
• Changed: Tents can now be re-textured using hidden selections
• Changed: JsonApi extended by more types + array + onstack functionality
• Changed: ScriptSampleNavmeshPosition can use PathGraph filter now
• Tweaked: Lifetime values of the fireplace stone circle and stone oven are now in the fireplacebase class
• Tweaked: Sun shaft appearance is now tied to the through parameter in weather config classes
• Tweaked: The value of the through parameter for each weather classes in the config (sun shaft effect appearance)
• Tweaked: Changed model center and rotation of various food and drink items
• Tweaked: GetSteamPosition() moved into MiscGameplayFunctions
• Removed: Obsolete LightItemOnFire recipe
• Removed: Obsolete ActionIgniteFireplace and CAContinuousTimeIgnite classes
• Removed: Obsolete class CAContinuousTimeBuryAshes
• Removed: Cleanup of the graphics.pbo from un-used data
• Removed: Main menu NewsFeed layouts, textures and image sets
• Removed: Obsolete script files / car classes

KNOWN ISSUES