Dayz Experimental Update 1.14 (Changelog)

NOTES

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GAME

ADDED

• Static and dynamically spawning contaminated areas
• Contamination disease
• Exhaustible gas mask filter
• LE-MAS assault rifle and magazine
• NV-PVS4 Scope
• New visual effects when wearing specific headgear
• A yellow variant of the NBC suit
• PO-X Antidote
• NBC infected
• Field hospital at the North-East Airfield (Chernarus)
• Field hospital at the Lukow Airfield (Livonia)
• Craftable Tripwire
• Craftable Fishnet trap
• Craftable Small fish trap
• Craftable Snare trap
• New animal carcasses (can be picked up):
  • Hare
  • Chicken/rooster
  • Sardines
  • Bitterlings
• Hare leg and pelt
• New animation for the stealth kill when using one-handed piercing weapons

FIXED

• Mackerel was incorrectly placed in hands
• The ground in specific structures would hide mines and bear traps
• Noise from rolling on the ground would not alert infected
• A previously extinguished fireplace would start to glow again when fuel was added
• Garden plots could appear floating in specific cases (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T158225)
• The brooms resembled the wrong material when hit
• Brooms could be used to open cans (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T159316)
• Texture of damaged tactical goggles wasn’t displayed (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T152919)
• The placing hologram was not displayed properly inside the guardhouse
• It was possible to damage a prone player by hitting a nearby wall (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T157077)
• The character would turn towards a target it was not targeting during melee combat
• Player turning towards the first target it hit instead of the new target during melee combat (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T157077)
• Player turning towards the middle point of the target instead of the hit position during melee combat (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T157077)
• Player choosing to step forward when they are close enough to the target during melee combat (excludes certain animations such as bare fists)
• Bear and cow were not receiving damage when the player melees them in the face with bare fist or one-handed weapon
• Field transceiver simulated the wrong weight when thrown
• In several situations, sounds outside of the audible range would start from the beginning, regardless of how long the sound had been playing
• Removed push-back effect from explosions for the player
• Wind effect was enabled in the inventory item previews
• The foliage could provide cover from explosions (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T156607)
• Several Spanish letters were not properly capitalized
• AI could spawn in inaccessible locations
• Added missing collisions on the small ATC railing
• Added missing bed in the large medical tent
• One type of weapon reload was not functional while lying on the back
• Emptying animation was canceled when executed over water
• Removing materials from the Truck or base building objects via the widget could result in desync (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T158360)
• When a server was picked in the server browser while the list was still loading, the server could move out of the player’s sight
• Players did not cough when aiming with a weapon or lying on their backs (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T159759, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T159798)
• Grenade explosions would not reach all items throughout containers and attachments
• Rags and Bandages kept their disinfected status after being used to craft a Fireplace or Torch
• It was problematic to damage the M3S truck engine or find the widget to repair it
• Wooden crates could be accessed through walls (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T159272, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T158999)
• Mushrooms did not decay properly
• AB- blood type wasn’t properly displayed (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T159522, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T150963)
• Exploit that allowed extended range of melee attacks
• Restraining a player could interrupt the actions of other users in the surrounding area (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T159927)
• When drinking from a pot in a prone position, the wrong animation would be played
• When splitting an M3S double wheel, the two wheels would spawn inside each other
• An empty gasoline canister would have the wrong weight after relog (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T160107)
• Names of 45rnd KA-74 Mag and 60rd Standardized Mag were displayed with lower-case letters when on the ground (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T160163)
• Fixed some flawed building occluders
• Fixed some bad object LODs
• Hold breath “out of breath” sound effects were not working for some character models
• Flash grenade was not blinding in the vicinity enough
• Faster recovery from unconsciousness that was not induced by a projectile hit (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T159657)
• Doors that were locked on the server are showing as open on the client, making them impossible to open
• ATOG 6x Scope was having a rendering issue when observed from close distance

CHANGED

• Wearing a gas mask slows down stamina regeneration
• Gas masks now prevent the wearer from eating, drinking, and taking pills
• Gas masks can now be repaired with epoxy putty and the tire repair kit
• The NBC respirator and the Gas Mask require Gas Mask filters to function
• The Combat Gas Mask has a limited, integrated, non-exchangeable filter
• Improved visual quality of the Combat Gas Mask
• Improved visual quality of the bear
• Increased the armor of the bear
• Removed spawn points that were too close to the static contaminated areas
• Improved targeting of melee combat to be more forgiving
• Tweaked the look of the Russian helicopter crash-site
• Helicopter crash-sites now emit sounds upon spawn in the surrounding area
• Tweaked the smoke quality of crash sites to make them more visible
• Adjusted collision geometry of the Machete
• Horticulture plants are now moving in the wind
• Cholera now causes fever
• Food poisoning now causes fatigue
• Salmonella now causes light pain
• Night-time acceleration period adjusted to only influence actual night-time
• Reduced the size of the NBC clothing when stored in the inventory
• NBC clothing can now also be repaired with the tire repair kit
• It is no longer possible to build a stone oven if it would be clipping with a large item
• Two-handed and non-piercing weapons are no longer suitable for stealth attacks
• Names of servers will only show once the server browser is done loading and it is possible to connect
• The flash grenade uses a stronger light that lasts longer than that of regular fragmentation grenades
• The overheating effect of firearms appears later
• Boiled food will no longer burn from boiling
• Baked and dried food can be boiled without burning
• Damage of melee weapons is significantly lowered when they enter the ruined state
• The mackerel now yields two fillets
• Adjusted the mackerel filet model
• Water in fountains and metal troughs is now visual only
• Updated the credits

CENTRAL ECONOMY

• Added: New ContaminatedArea usage flag
• Fixed: Typo in spawning presets SodaCan_Franta -> SodaCan_Fronta
• Fixed: Rify ship wreck loot spawn points
• Fixed: The infected zone definition inside cfgEventSpawns.xml is now properly read (previously it was ignored and used default values)
• Fixed: randomloot_deloot_perevent now properly overrides the amount of DE Loot per container per event
• Changed: Spawning of high-value items across dynamic events, contaminated areas, and T4 areas
• Changed: High tier weapons are not limiting spawning anymore, when stored in storage
• Changed: DELoot is now correctly randomized
• Changed: init_random on static dynamic event now properly randomizes nominal value between min and max parameters (nominal can be set to 0 in such case)
• Changed: The Woodland ghillie color now varies across maps
  • Chernarus now spawns only mossy variants
  • Livonia spawns woodland variants
• Tweaked: Ammo Boxes now spawn with random ammunition packs inside
• Tweaked: Increased the maximum number of items that can spawn on a helicopter crash event by 50%

SERVER

• Added: Warning messages when the LootMax of a DE is higher than the sum of LootMax of its containers
• Added: When log_ce_dynamicevent is enabled, it will now print to RPT what loot was spawned (when RPT logging is enabled)
• Fixed: Kick message for a player exceeding max ping was not showing in any log files (now in the server RPT)
• Changed: Improved the printing of possible loot items to RPT for DE when log_ce_dynamicevent and RPT logging is enabled (they now say what category they belong to)
• Changed: Updated the Offline DB

LAUNCHER

• Changed: NoPause parameter changed from simple check box to combo box to reflect the new options

MODDING

• Added: Post-process manager
• Added: Selected player modifiers can now be synchronized with the client
• Added: New config parameter invertHitDir for melee ammo allowing to invert heavy hit animation
• Added: float.MIN and float.MAX (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T157077)
• Added: array.Reserve
• Added: Script enums for constant values that were defined in C++ and not visible in script (ObjIntersect, VoiceEffectType, VoiceLevel, ChatChannelType)
• Added: CGame.IsBoxCollidingGeometryProxy and associate classes (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T157077)
• Added: Object.GetDirectionUp and Object.GetDirectionAside
• Added: DayZPlayer.GetCurrentCameraTransform (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T157077)
• Added: HumanCommandMelee2.GetComboCount to know the current number of the melee combo
• Added: DayZPlayerImplement.IsInThirdPerson
• Added: Events that signal simulation being enabled or disabled (OnSimulationEnabled(), OnSimulationDisabled())
• Added: “transferToAttachmentsCoef” to “DamageSystem” -> “GlobalHealth” -> “Health” in config to set up transferring of damage to attachments
• Added: Implementation of FindEntityByID to script API
• Added: ModFloat, RemainderFloat, SignFloat, SignInt to Math script API
• Added: Ignore parent pitch to PlayerCameraResult
• Added: Support for reading files from the mission folder by using “$mission:”
• Added: SetCollisionSphere, SetCollisionCylinder, SetTriggerShape, GetTriggerShape to ScriptedEntity for triggers
• Added: IntersectSphereCone, IntersectSphereBox, IntersectWholeSphereCone, IntersectCylinderOBB, IntersectRayCylinder to Math3D
• Added: IsInRange, IsInRangeInt, IsPointInCircle, IsPointInRectangle to Math
• Added: CylinderTrigger and SphereTrigger
• Added: OnEnterTrigger and OnLeaveTrigger to an object that gets called when an object enters a trigger
• Added: Constants in GameConstants for car contact event
• Added: SEffectManager.GetCachedSoundParam to store and/or get SoundParams
• Added: SEffectManager.PlaySoundParams to play a sound with cached SoundParams
• Added: SoundParams.GetName, which will return the name of the sound set inside the SoundParams
• Added: AbstractWaveEvents.Event_OnSoundWaveHeaderLoaded, which will fire when the header for a sound finishes loading
• Added: Option to set parameters for player sound events at the time of requesting a specific event
• Added: GetSceneHDRMul (camera)
• Added: CEApi.AvoidPlayer, CEApi.AvoidVehicle and CEApi.CountPlayersWithinRange
• Fixed: Error: muzzleFlashParticle error when firing SVD (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T159069)
• Fixed: CGame.ObjectModelToWorld and CGame.ObjectWorldToModel giving inaccurate results in certain scenarios
• Fixed: IEntity.GetBoundBox and Object.GetDirection giving inaccurate results for proxies
• Fixed: Crash when calling dBodySetInteractionLayer/dBodySetGeomInteractionLayer/dBodyGetInteractionLayer/dBodyGetGeomInteractionLayer on certain objects
• Fixed: Crash when spawning a weapon that has no skeleton (“[ERROR] :: Weapon ‘TYPENAME’ has no skeleton!!!”)
• Fixed: Crash when trying to call “Cast” where it’s not supported
• Fixed: Triggers not working properly when exceeding a certain size
• Fixed: ScriptCompiler: XOR operator parsing fix
• Fixed: Several compiler issues (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T150267, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T154252, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T154508)
• Fixed: Human.GetCollisionBox giving highly inaccurate results in certain scenarios (crouch, prone, swim, vehicle)
• Fixed: AddHealth not applying when the total went over the maximum
• Fixed: dGetGravity script implementation
• Fixed: EOnInit not being called for anything lower than EntityAI when created through CreateObjectEx
• Fixed: Script JSON reader can now read JSON bool
• Fixed: A performance issue related to sounds created from script
• Changed: The old static ‘PPEffects‘ has been deprecated, but it is still initialized and usable
• Changed: HumanCommandMelee2.ContinueCombo and Human.StartCommand_Melee2 now take additional parameters
• Changed: DayZPlayerImplementMeleeCombat overhaul (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T157077)
• Changed: EnMath.c cleanup and additional functions
• Changed: DayZGame.SetMissionPath is now called from C++
• Changed: Building script inheritance -> “class House” should now be used by every “House” defined in config and is moddable
• Changed: Moved DayZPlayerTypeCreate into class, so the function can be modified (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T159367)
• Changed: ShockRefill logic moved to ShockMdfr
• Tweaked: FModulus now returns Math.ModFloat as FModulus has been DEPRECATED in favor of the native ModFloat method
• Optimized: Notifier update loop and notifier fetching sped up

KNOWN ISSUES

• Ambient sounds of the contaminated areas might follow the player after leaving the area