DayZ January 16 Update: Full Patch Notes Listed

Boot up those consoles and PCs, we’ve got an update, survivors. Here’s DayZ’s experimental January 16 Update, with all patch notes listed.

DayZ January 16 Update: Full Patch Notes Listed

It’s a sad day for PlayStation users, but PC and Xbox players rejoice. We’ve got an experimental update that’s gone live, which features brand-new guns like the Vikhr rifle, some quality-of-life changes like continuous bandaging when you’ve been injured, and plenty of bug fixes. Let’s dive right in.  

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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.

GAME

ADDED

• Vikhr rifle
• 30rd 9x39mm magazine for the Vikhr, ASVAL and VSS rifles
• Camouflage variants of the ballistic helmet
• Updated book shelves with the winning entries of our #DayZBook contest
• Sounds for crafting improvised clothing from rags
• Sounds for crafting base-building kits
• Sounds for crafting a bone knife
• Sounds for wringing out clothing
• Sounds for splitting firewood
• Sounds for breaking down bushes with hands
• Animations for cleaning hands with the cooking pot and gasoline canister

FIXED

• The heavy melee attack was displayed with the wrong key assigned in the settings
• Weapons could desynchronize when modified outside of the players network range
• Item interaction by a player who just left another players network bubble could result in item desynchronization
• The microphone icon could be displayed on-screen with no microphone connected when in voice activation mode and lowest voice threshold
• Bolts attached to a door wouldn’t move or animate with a vehicle
• Unloading a bolt with full inventory would reset the bolt health to full
• Corpses could not be pulled out of vehicles properly
• Fixed an exploit to glitch the camera through walls
• Weather could be desynchronized for players
• Bolts shot on players or creatures would attach in the wrong direction
• Potatoes would yield full quantity when peeled regardless of the tool used
• When standing up from prone with raised hands, the camera would not properly follow the player
• It was possible for players to rotate with their dead bodies until respawn
• All colored skirts appeared blue on female characters
• Some birch trees were offering the option to collect dark bark
• The lab coat was not correctly reflecting damage visually
• The leather duffel bag had wrong buttons being displayed
• The blue hoodie was displayed as red in the inventory view
• The sling bag was clipping with most clothing items on the female model
• Several items were displayed too big in the inventory view
• It was possible to shoot through some corners of the base fence
• It was possible to get stuck in the blocking position if activating it right after picking up a firearm
• Unjamming the AUR AX would play the wrong sound
• The jammed state of firearm models was not synchronized when on the ground
• The camera was briefly in the wrong position after waking up from unconsciousness in a car
• Padded gloves could not be repaired with a leather sewing kit
• No widget allowed to attach barbed wire or camo net to a fence or watchtower
• The widget of the watchtower’s roof blocked widgets for other walls
• The large entry door of the cement works played the wrong sound
• It was possible for the stagger animation to be skipped
• Infected were reacting to suppressed shots over long ranges
• It was possible to push a car while a gear was clutched
• Firearms would twitch in some cases when too close to obstacles
• An error with despawning base-building objects could result in invisible barbed wire
• The state of the crossbow was not always correctly saved during server restarts
• The inventory view was sometimes cut off in narrow screen resolutions
• Fixed a game crash that could occur when connecting to multiple servers at the same time
• The combine button did not work when an item was in the cargo of another held item
• Fixed an exploit that created infinite amounts of liquids
• Some item spawn points inside the bus wreck were in the ground or floating
• Two players putting an item from their hands into the same cargo slot could result in desync
• Reduced server performance load on player-(dis)connection and -respawn
• It was not possible to remove items fast from a incapacitated player or infected through CTRL+LMB
• It was possible to get stuck in prone by using the portable map with enabled “use3DMap: true” settings
• Fixed a server crash related to player death
• Items dropped next to a fence or gate could not be picked back up
• Fixed an animation glitch that allowed passing below walls faster than intended
• It was not possible to refuel a torch while it was burning
• The large ship wreck had several collision issues
• Ambient fruits from trees were still spawning at their old positions at the NWA
• Items in the Chernogorsk hotel were spawned below the map

CHANGED

• Changed the collision checks for weapon raising for better accuracy
• Reconfigured the calculation of weapon lengths for more accurate collision detection
• Shock damage of blunt weapons will now partially be translated into health damage when fighting infected and animals
• Bandaging is now a continuous action when treating multiple cuts
• Removed outdated server browser filters
• Partial optimizations on the network traffic (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T177400)
• Simplified collisions of trees for better behavior with vehicles and reduced performance impact from penetrating shots
• Gave basic chemical protection to the OKZK cap
• The great helmet, chestplate, tripod and barrel can now be repaired using the blow torch
• Pulling a body from a vehicle is now done by simply pressing F instead of holding
• Adjusted insulation values of tracksuits and police clothing for consistency
• Re-balanced the weight of tools and melee weapons
• Reduced the weight of shovels
• Reduced the weight of plant material
• It is no longer possible to split plant material
• Adjusted the recoil of several automatic firearms
• Reduced the fire rate of the Vaiga and slightly lowered its recoil
• Reduced area in which infected will be alerted by bullet impacts
• Reduced the alert level impact on infected by suppressed shots
• Slightly increased the silencing effect of the pistol suppressor
• Regular infected will keep their alert state for slightly longer periods
• Tweaked the overheating particles of firearms
• Updated sounds of the SK 59/66 rifle
• Updated the game credits

LIVONIA

• Updated the Lukov Airfield

SERVER

• Added: PlayerSpawnEditor now has (?) next to values to tell you more about them
• Added: It is now possible to have player spawn points not generate a grid and stay a singular spawn point by setting density to 0
• Added: Player spawn point editor now saves which subwindows are hidden and what checkboxes were ticked
• Added: Player spawn point editor now has options for the debug shapes being drawn
• Added: Player Spawn Points can now avoid triggers
• Fixed: PlayerSpawnEditor duplicating group points into regular points when saving with <groups_as_regular>true</groups_as_regular>
• Fixed: Servers with verifySignatures=0 should no longer disconnect players in the queue due to validation errors
• Fixed: Linux: Json files loaded through script had capitalization
• Changed: Player Spawn Points will now automatically force change group when no good points are available in the currently selected group
• Changed: PlayerSpawnEditor now saves documentation when saving xml
• Changed: Player spawn gear JSON: If a particular preset has an empty or undefined characterTypes, the character model last set in character creation menu will be used for that preset

LAUNCHER

• Added: The password window now allows to view the password
• Fixed: The Direct Connect window could not connect to LAN servers
• Fixed: The command line parameter could not be removed in the favorites tab
• Changed: Made the Direct Connect button red for better visibility
• Removed: Outdated server browser filters

MODDING

• Added: terrainNormalPower parameter into world config
• Added: Exposed STANCEIDX_RAISED in DayZPlayerConstants
• Added: SurfaceInfo script API
• Fixed: Human.StartCommand_ScriptInst should no longer crash the game (but can trigger a memory leak)
• Fixed: ‘CGame.AddActionJuncture’ wouldn’t setup the replication relationship between the player and the item
• Fixed: Crash with using the DayZPhysics bullet library functions and passing in a skeleton based object as the ignore entity (i.e. static HouseNoDestruct, static ItemBase)
• Fixed: Inventory Commands were dependent on distance checks from a player which would fail when an object still existed on the client but was outside of it’s network bubble
• Changed: PlayerIdentity can now be sent over an RPC as a serializable parameter, sent as 4 bytes
• Changed: The steam ID can now be accessed on the client for all identities via ‘PlayerIdentity.GetPlainId’ directly now, replacing scripted ‘SyncPlayer’
• Changed: Moved m_dT and GetDeltaT from PlayerBase to DayZPlayerImplement
• Tweaked: JSONFileLoader: better handling of file errors + throwing those to VME or log; new API + old one deprecated (with warning messages)
• Tweaked: JSONFileLoader is passing all the errors to the caller in new API; displaying is not part of the API anymore
• Tweaked: JSONFileLoader: Commented out ifdef added to show future intentions with old API
• Tweaked: JSONFileLoader: Removed the extra logging from old API