SUMMARY:
- Fixed the weapons system so macros cannot be abused.
- Reworked the OPTIONS menu for better understanding and navigation.
- Bug fixes.
- Improved the bus system on Survival for better navigation, without breaking the gameplay.
- Increased the amount of vehicle spawns on some maps.
- Added new lootable crates.
- Increased the spawn protection timer on Survival.
- Improved the spawns around the main PVP towns.
- Made major changes to Wood Shield Barricades in Survival so they can be more common and not abused.
- Improved the civilian and food loots in Survival.
- Reworked the Safe zones in Oregon.
- Weapon adjustments.
Full Patch Notes:
GENERAL CHANGES
USER INTERFACES AND MENUS:
- Fixed a bug that showed you the wrong "initial" character when selecting a game mode.
- The weight system has been reworked and it should reflect better, and show better on the interface.
- Added an option to show the distance from waypoints on the compass.
- Split the GENERAL section of the OPTIONS menu. They're divided into General, Gameplay, and Interface.
- Added an option to enable/disable profanity filter in chat.
- Fixed a bug that caused your screen to be stuck blurry when you get a notification your subscription is about to expire.
- Fixed some texts and localizations.
GENERAL FIXES & CHANGES:
- Fixed an issue in the UI on the Crafting Menu
- Made some further changes to the guns and how they work to prevent people from abusing macros.
- Fixed a bug that caused an error while joining your server through MY SERVERS that made you join with the wrong character.
- You can no longer use the "ping system" when you're dead.
- Fixed a bug that made cars glitch out when someone jumped on them.
- Added a new progressive system to the "Map Events" (Heli crashes, airdrops, Slicer Zombies);
- The more people there are on the server, the more frequent they will be.
- Lowered the money you receive from Contested Areas.
- Lowered the range of the zombie hits.
ITEM CHANGES
ADDITIONS:
- Added 3 new item crates which will require new key cards.
- The following weapons and attachments statistics have been changed:
- List too long - Detailed info can be found here https://playnewz.com/patch
- Reworked the icons of the QBZ-95 and its skinned.
SKINS & SKINBOXES:
- Changed the model of the Dreadnought Skinbox.
- Fixed the drop model of the Competitive skin recipe.
- Fixed all adventure backpack skins that didn't have skinned arm parts.
ARCADE
MAPS
- Lounge:
- Added a Winter themed Lounge
- Colorado:
- Fixed the door at Lonetree farm that required a keycard to open wrongfully
- Fixed some small map bugs such as flying objects, etc.
- Oregon:
- We have moved the previous Safe Zone to the Eastside added one further to the West. NOTE: Be careful when logging the first time if you had a character inside the safe zone before.
SURVIVAL
FIXES & CHANGES
- Fixed a bug where players couldn't apply for clans.
- Replaced all the "Bus Stops" in the Safe zones with "Shuttles".
- You can now travel from safe zone to safe zone free of charge.
- Added some new bus stops across the map.
- They are near important cities and towns but they do not connect directly to safe zones.
- They will have a cost in SD cash.
- They are only available on Official servers.
- Players can no longer use the "double jump" in Private Servers.
- Increased the Spawn Protection from 15 to 20 seconds.
- Made some changes to the Wood Shield Barricades so we can actually have them more common, but without them playing such a huge part and be spammed around during PvP.
- Increased its cooldown to 5 seconds.
- Increased its weight to 6.7kg.
- Increased the health of it to 250.
- Decreased the health of the Barb Wire Barricade to 220.
- Decreased the health of the Sandbag Barricades to 320.
- Added a player detection on the helicopter crashes. The items will not respawn if players are nearby.
- Increased the general amount of ammo inside magazines and clips. They will usually have at least 90% in them.
CRAFTING:
- Added the craft XP to the crating list items.
- Made changes to the Camping Backpack Recipe:
- Hunter backpack Removed
- Alice Backpack Added (2 Alice Backpacks)
- Fixed the ammo recipes.
LOOT:
- We have increased the amount of food around the map.
- Civilian loot has been increased all around.
- Increased the overall loot on Official servers.
- Helicopter crash loot has been improved.
- Zombie loot has been improved in Radiation Zones.
- Super Zombie loot has been improved.
- Slicer Zombie loot has been improved.
- The "Special" zombies now have a chance of dropping money upon death.
MAPS:
- OREGON
- We have moved the previous Safe Zone to the Eastside added one further to the West. NOTE: Be careful when logging the first time if you had a character inside the safe zone before.
- COLORADO V1
- Fixed some rocks that were misplaced all around the map.
- Increased the maximum amount of vehicles (from 9 to 11).
- Fixed the broken wall entries around Camp Splinter that could cause zombies to get stuck.
- Added the 5-Story building to Whitestone Mountain.
- The amount of items you can get from common rooms has been increased to 3 (from 2).
- Decreased the respawn timer in towns such as Boulder, Campos, Clearview, and Smallville.
- Increased the amount of food spawns in markets (big and small).
- Added more player spawns around Smallville.
- Added more player spawns around Campos.
- We have reworked the safe zones design to make it easier to navigate and find the NPCs and workbenches.
- Added a jump up to the back of the garage in Clearview.
- Added more cover around Smallville with vehicles, trees, and rocks.
Estimated patch size: 210MB
Estimated downtime: 1 hour
Estimated Patch time: 19.11.2020 10:00 AM CET
Pre-patch notes might be changed if we need to fix/add something.
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