Servers will be coming down at 9:45PM PT for approximately 4 hours on Thursday 8/11. This publish requires a player and world wipe due to bug fixes regarding base tampers and durability.
New Features
A set of unique zombies have been seen roaming the area. These zombies hold the secrets to a new set of exotic and powerful weapons.
Players who succumb to the harsh realities of H1Z1 will now come back as one of the horde. These zombies will appear wearing the same gear they had when they died.
Quality of Life Changes
Respawn selection has had some improvements added
You will no longer be able to respawn within an area around where you died.
This area is a 9 grid diameter around your corpse
You cannot respawn within that grid for 5 minutes
If you die close to the grid any overlapping grid will inherit the lockout time form your previous death
Text chat is now enabled. Press enter to open chat bar
Made the following changes to the limited base building rules
Bases can now be built in the Villas
Campfires can now be placed anywhere
Flares can now be placed anywhere
Added limited base building to the Krakow server
Performance Enhancements
Improved server performance to reduce lag on high-pop and zombie intensive servers
More parallelization of core game and graphics systems for better performance on multi-core cpus
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue the prevented Zombies from damaging vehicles
Fixed an issue which allowed tampers to be stacked
Fixed an issue that allowed players to prevent the loss of durability on certain tools
Players now start with a basic compass instead of an improvised one
Combat Feedback
Reticle now indicates that firing is disabled and character will enter a passive stance.
Thrown weapons now display a tracer, only visible to the person throwing them, making their path of flight more apparent.
Vehicles
Vehicles handling has been improved
Vehicles are less susceptible to flipping
Vehicles have been modified to have varied characteristics:
The police car is the fastest.
The off roader has the best handling.
The pickup truck is the toughest.
Passengers in the rear of the pickup truck can stand up to shoot forward and crouch to take cover and shoot behind.
Flipped vehicles have more realistic friction, won’t be drivable using turbo
The following vehicle sounds have been improved:
Engine and turbo
Tire squeal when turning on pavement
Braking sounds.
Vehicles also now have horns [Default: J].
We’ve made some physics tweaks that should have vehicles exploding unexpectedly far less and doing the correct amount of damage when they do explode.