PC update Experimental 1.20 (Change Log) – Patch Note

PC Experimental 1.20 Update 1 – Version 1.20.155659 (Released on 19.01.2023)

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

• Mime masks
• Carnival masks
• Warning icons for the connection stability and server performance

FIXED

• Hitboxes of items in characters hands were misplaced (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T168891)
• It was possible to place items inside the stairs of the yellow church (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T167358)
• When approaching a restrained player with binding materials, the non-functional option was shown to restrain the player again
• It was possible to commit suicide with ruined firearms (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T160975)
• Carp, Mackerel, Chicken and Rabbit were always yielding 100% pieces of meat when skinned
• Character sounds when picking up heavy items were not played for the player themself (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T167931)
• Drink sounds were not played when drinking from pots or cauldrons while prone
• Impact sound of items when landing in water was repeating itself
• It was possible to shave characters while having their face covered
• Equipped belts were not accumulating wetness
• Explosives could not be armed reliably (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T168007)
• Reduced instances of vehicle access being prohibited due to another user already interacting with it
• Fixed several broken character animations while restrained in prone
• Improved damage zones of the M1025
• M1025 trunk bars did not move correctly with the model (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T168594)
• Sound of taking the SSG 82 magazine was doubled while prone
• The player could get stuck in throwing stance
• During combat with infected, the player’s position could get reset to a previous infected kill (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T167694, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T168690 – private)
• ADS sensitivity wasn’t properly applied in all cases (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T165015, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T165855)
• Jumping while having a gag applied or removed could desync the player
• Manipulation of heavy items allowed players to access items through walls (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T169133 – private)
• It was not possible to cover/uncover a characters head while they are prone
• It was possible to be force fed while wearing a gas mask (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T160486 – private)
• The character could teleport to the roof of their seat if an object was at the height of the door (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T164360)
• Inventory icon of the deployed spotlight was badly cropped
• Filling a gasoline canister at a pond could result in desync (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T168967)
• Items were interfering with the character collision when dropped from gift boxes upon their destruction
• Other players could not hear the sound of a locked door being opened (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T163131)
• Using the quick bar while moving items in the inventory could result in desync
• Some twin doors could not be closed (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T160737)
• Several twin gates were not properly aligned to open in the same direction (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T158950)
• Some twin gates could not be opened by force when locked (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T159534)
• VOIP did not work after reconnecting the microphone
• It was possible to access certain underwater locations
• Portable maps could display wrong map features when switching between servers running different terrains
• Fixed character collision shape shifting causing clipping through structures
• It was possible to skip certain parts of the soda can opening animation (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T138370 – private)
• The character collision shape would not adjust when falling into water
• Switching between 1st and 3rd person camera could result in a distorted character (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T162688, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T162468, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T162412, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T164586)
• The head-torch with the yellow light did not update its light location in all cases
• Orientation of the light on the weapon flashlight was pointing forward when shouldered (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T165114)
• Chemlight on ground models of utility bags not lighting from the correct position
• A climbing player was able to phase through objects during the landing state (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T164706 – private)
• The player could be teleported to the world origin when climbing (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T166375 – private)
• Smoke grenades wouldn’t show smoke outside of the players near distance network bubble
• Doors could have their animations and sounds played when reconnecting
• Previously felled trees would play their fall-animation upon reconnect
• Other players and creatures could be stuck in a permanent frozen animation state if they were to die while the client is being logged in
• Grass did not move with the wind on the tenement buildings
• Bear traps could hit the player in multiple zones
• The M3S truck was missing a sound related to high RPM
• Reversing lights of the M3S truck did not emit light
• Reversing lights did shine even when the engine was off
• Stamina was not decreasing during jogging in deep water
• Fixed several issues with individual buildings
• Fixed bad rendering of specific trees
• Source of the car horn sound was not properly located in 3rd person view
• The Santa infected did not scream while attacking
• Placing certain items would play the place sound twice (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T156577)
• Dropping the wooden cooking tripod would make metal sounds
• The unloading sound and bullet animation of the Longhorn were not in sync
• The dry fire sound of the Derringer was too quiet while prone
• Fixed several exploits used to look through walls (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T168561 – private)
• An exploit allowed to repair car parts to the pristine state
• It was possible to repair vehicle engines while they were running
• Certain scopes allowed to look through the smoke from smoke grenades (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T141155)
• The M1025 driver was accessing the wrong lever when switching gears
• Damaged Santa’s hats looked pristine while worn
• The Claymore mine explosion did not have the proper volume when the player was facing away
• Opened food cans did not fit properly into the inventory UI (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T157660)
• Respawning from unconscious state could result in a black screen (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T169330)
• It was possible to deploy the spotlight using the drop action
• The Gunter 2 did not have sounds when removing and attaching wheels
• Large clusters of rocks and cliffs could result in in client performance drops
• Manual transmission from vehicles could get desynced when changed too quickly (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T168465)

CHANGED

• Vehicles can spawn without wheels again
• Wheels can again be damaged
• Reworked item weight calculation (fixing several bugged item weights)
• Item wetness now influences their weight again
• Weight of the carried gear now impacts player movement inertia
• Increased the time needed to refill the car radiator
• Checking a player’s pulse is now a continuous action
• Increased the lifetime of improvised explosives to 5 days, which can be refreshed through a flagpole
• The stairs of the concrete silos are now usable to access the roof
• Adjusted the geometry of barrels and fireplaces to cause less issues when colliding with vehicles
• Improved the surface detection for throwing impact sounds
• Optimized the character update to environmental exposure
• Lowered the hit points of improvised feet covers and gave them louder walking sounds (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T169140 – private)
• Positional wind and tree creaks are more audible now
• Tweaked the 3rd person camera collisions to reduce possibilities of exploits
• The 3rd person camera zooms in when an obstacle is in front of the camera
• Disconnect due to a server restart will no longer kill restrained players
• Updated map textures to reflect recent map changes (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T163844)
• You can now stealth-kill with the Cleaver
• Replaced outdated dirt pile model
• Updated textures on static pipes
• Updated sounds for the different stages of cooking for more variety
• Slightly increased the volume of the stealth kill
• Improved the sun reflection on water and changed its color in quarries

CHERNARUS

• Fixed: Green and black plate carrier vests and their attachments did not have their intended lifetimes (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T168947)
• Tweaked: Increased chance for random positional bird, insect and tree creak sound to play
• Tweaked: Increased audibility of the positional bird sounds during windy weather
• Changed: Adjusted player spawn points for more even distribution

SERVER

• Added: Server config parameters for connectivity warnings (Documentation – will be updated shortly)
• Added: Gameplay JSON version mismatch and default value handling
• Added: Parameter to gameplay config (JSON), that allows people to disable the behavior of influence of stamina to inertia (Documentation – will be updated shortly)
• Added: Parameters to gameplay config (JSON) that allows control over variety of stamina consumers (combat, climbing,..) (Documentation – will be updated shortly)
• Added: Launch parameter “storage” to define root folder for storage location (“-storage=”) (Documentation – will be updated shortly)
• Added: Functionality which will copy over storage when a storage exists in default location (mission) but not in the custom location provided by the storage launch parameter
• Added: Warning when DE spawns an entity with no Types entry
• Fixed: Sawedoff18 was missing from types
• Fixed: Deleting events.bin but not vehicles.bin would cause events composed of eventgroups to have the possibility to spawn inside each other
• Changed: Improved error messages and error handling regarding storage location
• Changed: Adjusted ping calculation to be more forgiving with individual spikes before kicking a player

MODDING

• Added: DiagMenu script API
• Added: Variety of new debug settings within the script section of the DiagMenu
• Added: ScriptCaller, a stricter ScriptInvoker which is expected to hold one func
• Added: DayZPlayer.GetKickOffReason to get the reason why a player was kicked off
• Added: ‘EntityAI.IsSimpleHiddenSelectionVisible’
• Added: Common script class ‘DayZCreatureAIInputController’ to control Animals and Infected movement and behaviour states
• Added: Script method ‘InventoryItem::ForceFarBubble’ to allow items to temporarily be visible from further distances
• Added: Added physics function ‘dGetInteractionLayer’ to check if two ‘PhxInteractionLayers’ can interact
• Added: Collision overlap testing methods to DayZPhysics
• Added: “$storage:” prefix can now be used to access storage through script
• Added: Common script class ‘DayZCreatureAIInputController’ to control Animals and Infected movement and behaviour states (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T158984)
• Added: Launch parameter for diag exe to allow window resizing ‘-resizeable’
• Added: weightPerQuantityUnit config parameter that defines a weight of one quantity unit
• Fixed: Docs: string.Split bad usage example (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T154855)
• Fixed: Docs: string.ToAscii bad script declaration and typo in example (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T160003)
• Fixed: Function string.LastIndexOf was not linked (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T155602)
• Fixed: Object::SetHealth could not be called on local objects (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T168604)
• Fixed: Crash in TextListboxWidget::GetItemData (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T154626)
• Fixed: ScriptCallQueue.GetRemainingTime(…) methods
• Fixed: HumanInputController.OverrideAimChangeY was incorrectly using values from HumanInputController.OverrideAimChangeX (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T151736)
• Fixed: DayZPhysics.RayCastBullet and DayZPhysics.SphereCastBullet would not pass the ‘hitObject’ (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T150488)
• Fixed: ScriptCallQueue stopped working correctly after 4-5 hours of uptime (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T156746, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T151279)
• Fixed: Scripted command method ‘PrePhys_IsTag’ would not work in the intended way (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T165933)
• Changed: Moved and renamed certain RPCs relating to Diags to prevent conflicts and usage outside of Diag
• Changed: ScriptInvoker now has additional flags and documentation
• Changed: New compile errors will be displayed as Warnings outside of Diag/Workbench to minimize impact on existing mods
• Changed: New compile Errors being displayed as Warnings will contain the text “FIX-ME” to signal the importance of fixing these
• Changed: Improved func reliability and error messages
• Changed: “Overriding function but not marked as override” has been changed from being a “Workbench-only warning” to an error in Workbench/Diag and Warning in regular exe
• Changed: Weapon chamber and internal magazine changes now also trigger EntityAI.EEAmmoChanged
• Changed: Weapon and magazine textures now contain the bullet for better optimization
• Tweaked: Widget::GetRotation exposed
• Removed: Incorrect usage of ‘func’ by NotificationSystem as it is only meant to be paired with proto functions, will unfortunately break compatibility with mods using the removed Bind and Unbind functions
• Removed: Calling of super of Engine events (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T164047)

KNOWN ISSUES

• Due to a navmesh issue causing infected to run through closed doors, official PC Livonia Experimental servers will only be available from next week
• Bleeding effect reappears on screen after dying while bleeding
• Player cannot get bleeding from punching with empty hands into objects
• Bleeding effects remain on the screen after player respawn, with helmets equipped
• User can not hear other players, when joins the server without a microphone plugged in