Branch: Experimental
ETA to Stable: 5-7 February 2014
Version: 0.33.114855

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

Description:



This build is being tested on experimental branch, and contains a number of fixes and changes that have been in preparation for the last two weeks. Please note that we do not expect that this build will be quickly posted to stable branch as we anticipate at least one more update will occur to Experimental prior to being pushed to stable. Only a limited number of servers will be running this version, so be aware slots may be limited. Once we have confirmed this build is functioning correctly we will announce more information about the release to stable branch.


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.


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


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


We expect stable to be updated before the end of that week (by Friday 24 January 2014).

Fixed:

Niosh mask (respirator) inventory size fixed to 1/1 slot.
Missing strings for BE popup for alternate languages, set to English while translations are being done.
Reduced dispersion of FNX45 (from 0.05 to 0.03)
Balanced stomach capacity,
Added stuffed notifier (instead of sickness when full up)
Eating and drinking animations properly set for tablets/disinfectants
Version number in server browser and details
Saline transfusion doesn't refill full blood
Charcoal and Tetracycline tablets won't give sick badge if you aren't actually sick
Player aim run speed updated, weapon position changed and improved for first person view
Glitches on right hand while moving and while giving taunt fixed

Players can't pile backpacks inside of another backpacks, backpack-inception style. You can only put one backpack inside of another backpack if the backpack that is being put inside is empty.

Magnum speedloader should be spawning now

Number of backpacks spawning lowered

Number of .357 Pythons spawning lowered.

Number of M4A1s spawning lowered

Dead character cleanup performed at 10 minutes past death

Removed scripted server teleporting check as now managed by engine