Servers

• mis_kick fixed kicking by connection's id, added being able to use the Steam id to kick a player
  
• Improved method base building parts are sent to clients should fix some common base building issues
  
• Fixed a continual server crash on servers with a lot of farm animals
  

Game

• Fixed Kythera crash when game is located in a path with some unicode characters
  
• Fixed issue where some network messages from the server may be missed while logging into the game
  
• Actionable menu won't appear when weapon is raised around bushes
  
• Disable lean, jump, and reload during usage of a scope
  
• World actions may randomly determine which item is found now
  
• Item durability is now saved and restored when logging back in
  
• Military spawn locations added
  
• Adjusted police spawn locations so most won't spawn military gear
  
• Scopes now work on many of the existing weapons
  
• More world actions added
  
• Lights will now turn off when a generator runs out of fuel, or an item being removed from it
  
• Items that can be stored in the belt slots can no longer be stored in secondary slots
  
• Added recipe to convert old "Sniper Scope" to new "Hunting Scope", as the former is no longer supported on the M40A5
  

Base Building

• Removed texture color change when base parts are damaged to see if it eliminates a common crash
  
• Only show the upgrade part action if the player has the required upgrade part in their inventory
  

UI

• Fixed the brightness, tessellation, and view distance video options
  
• Updated the look of the chat window to match the new overall theme
  

Items

• Binoculars added
  
• Police vests added
  
• Flak vests added
  
• Kriss Vector added
  
• Smoke grenade traps added
  
• Craftable bow added
  
• Craftable arrows added
  
• New scarf variations added (colors can be crafted)
  
• Many sneaker variations added
  
• Increased laser attachment accuracy
  
• Adjusted recoil on the AKM
  
• Fixed headlamp light not working
  
• Decreased weight of gnomes
  
• Increased damage of the 12-gauge slugs
  
• Decreased the Katana's weight
  
• Damage caused by the bear trapped is slightly increased
  
• Adjusted weights on most magazines
  
• Bows should now display the correct arrow, depending which magazine is equipped
  
• Added Craftable Bow recipe
  

Map

• Updated Orca Dam area, includes more detail and more item spawns
  
• Added new player spawn location north of Brightmoor on the east coast
  
• Updated broken down pickup trucks with newer models
  
• Fixed radiation zone going over road near center hills
  
• Updated lighting in Sewers
  
• Updated lighting in Hotel
  

Audio

• Adjusted sedan sounds inside cabin
  
• Balanced volume of footsteps on varying surfaces
  
• Balanced volume of projectile weapons
  

Animations

• Kriss v animations created and setup
  
• Scope animations added for
  
  
  
  • AT-15 (Optic)
    
  • Mod16 (Optic)
    
  • MK18 (Optic)
    
  • M40A5 (Hunting, optic)
    
  • Carlington (Hunting, optic)
    
  • Renegade (Hunting)
    
  • Hunting rifle (Hunting)
    
  
  
• Firing animations and setup altered to work with scopes
  
• Ironsight strafing movement looping error corrected
  
• Dedicated animations for M16, and MK18 firing added
  
• Weapon animations added to firing for AT15, MK18, and M16 (casing extractor movement added)
  
• Tranquilizer reload animation fix so dart enters the barrel correctly
  
• Left hand polish in MK18 aimposes
  
• Crafted bow and recurve bow now correctly display the type of arrow in use (aluminum/wood)
  
• Binocular animations added
  
• Alterations to base movement animations (nw, and weapon) so transitions don't cause weapon to go too close to characters face
  
• Swimming search self animation added
  
• Improvements to left hand search self animation to stop issues when dropping active weapon whilst in inventory
  
• Removed some feet sliding whilst crouching
  
• Altered transition between crouching and standing stances to be smoother
  
• Flak vest skinned to male and female character
  
• Police vest skinned to male and female character
  
• Reexported weapons for scopes (rail alterations to work with scopes, addition of rails to weapons without them that need them)
  
• Altered on ground models for certain weapons so they sit correctly on player when stowed
  
• Mutant idle sounds added
  
• Whistle stimulus option changed so AI should react to it
  
• Improvements to drinking and eating animations - particularly when viewing from SFP
  
• 556x100 box mag now animates during reloading
  
• New chambered reload animation added for MK18
  

AI System

Traps

• Several types of traps have now been added to the game
  
• All traps will be removed on a server restart (they are not base building items and can be placed anywhere)
  
• Most traps are crafted, but some can also be found in the world
  
• Some traps are destroyed when triggered
  
• Some traps are disabled when triggered and need to be reset
  
• To reset some traps requires an item in your inventory - flare trap, for example
  
• Traps can be packed up and moved
  
• Traps can be shot to damage, destroy, and trigger them
  
• Some traps need a guide to be made
  

Servers

World Action System

• Drink from rivers (this will make you sick in a future update)
  
• Search for rocks on the ground (depending on the terrain)
  
• Search for sticks from specific bushes
  
• Tearing rags from some cloth items
  
• Searching vending machines for soda
  

Game

• Optimizations to reduce server CPU usage by about 9% from prior versions
  
• Slightly increased overall item spawn rates
  
• Belt slot added to character's inventory - can be used to store some smaller equipment
  
• Fix for flashlight on/off state getting out of sync between clients
  
• Adjusted recoil screen shake
  
• Helmets now provide head protection (amount varies based on the helmet)
  

Map

• Added a new Skyscraper exterior at the base of the tower in Hayward
  
• Added a new underground carpark in Hayward with a connection tunnel to the sewer system
  
• More map expansion to north of Brightmoor
  
• Added new Orca Dam location in North Brightmoor region
  
• Fixed a few minor level issues reported by players
  

Items

• Survivotron can be activated and listened to while it's in a belt slot (doesn't need to be the active weapon)
  
• Fixed spelling of smoke grenades
  
• Fixed squeegee spawn direction
  
• Added MP5 style weapon
  
• Added 10mm magazine for the MP5 weapon
  
• Added rare M249 weapon - shoots 5.56 rounds
  
• Added rare 100 capacity magazine for the M249
  
• Repair kits added
  
• Large magazines may need to be unloaded more than once - each time will give you a max pile size of ammo
  
• Reduced max pile size for 9mm rounds from 40 to 30
  
• Reduced max pile size for .22 rounds from 15 to 10
  
• New jackets added - 4 color variations
  
• Yellow track pants added
  
• Fixed survival knife not casting shadows
  
• Katana added
  
• Two new recipe guides added - Traps 1 and Traps 2
  

Base Building

• Most base parts can now be upgraded from wood to plated - requires Sheet Metal in your inventory
  
• Plated base parts have higher health than its wooden version
  
• Plated base parts can be packed up and moved as a plated part
  
• Larger bases can now last up to four weeks (was two weeks)
  

Vehicles

• Fuel and oil levels are restored on a server restart
  
• Vehicles consume fuel and oil while their engines are running
  

UI

• Splash screen changed and Crytek copyright added
  
• Two new belt slots added - used to store more utility focused items - handcuffs, Survivotron, rope, ...
  
• Old video options is now broken into two tabs - Display and Graphics
  
• A few more controls have been added to adjust display and graphics options
  
• Many context menu options added to the Survivotron to control it
  
• Added keybind to toggle HUD's visibility (useful for taking screenshots)
  
• Updated wool glove icons to match in game models
  
• Fix for favorite items not working in the server browser
  
• Temperature bar will no longer be visible (will be added back in with a temperature system update)
  
• Individual status bars will only be visible when they are at 99% or less (or above 1% for bad related stats)
  
• Radiation and torpidity bars are now green when in the good range and proceed to red as they get worse
  

Audio

• Player death sounds now play
  
• Added M249 sounds
  
• Added bear trap sounds
  
• Fixed Renegade 700 reload sound so it doesn't play server wide
  
• Footstep sounds added for two-headed dog
  
• Footstep sounds added for grey wolves
  

AI

• AI counts in the game have been increased
  
• More AI spawn locations added
  
• Fixed physics proxy issue on a couple of the AI
  
• Hurt and death sounds now play
  

Animations

• Fixed skinning influence on the main character's toes
  
• Altered punching so you are less prone to pass through walls
  
• Removed procedural layer, which was causing vehicles to be pushed through terrain if sat on top of them
  
• M40a5, Carlington, and Hunting rifle reloads had a polishing pass
  
• MP5 animation set added
  
• All clothing for the main character altered to stop clipping between layers
  
• Crouching and walking with rifle caused hyperextension in the left arm. This is no longer the case
  
• Change firemode sounds added
  
• Leather jacket skinned
  
• M249 animations added
  

Textures and Materials

• Updated campfire
  

Torpidity and Unconsciousness System Added

Servers

Game

• Campfire will now turn off when wood is removed from it
  
• Campfire won't use up lumber after being extinguished
  
• Balanced damage amounts and sound radius on almost all weapons
  
• Added torpidity handling to consumables and medical items
  
• Fixed issue with last round not being fired/heard for remote clients
  
• Fixed for ladders to help prevent players becoming invisible from using them
  
• Magazine and ammo piles cannot be unloaded or split while in a weapon
  
• Fixed several item spawn locations to reduce floating items when spawned in
  
• Fixes for invisible player issue
  
• Fixes for "Another player is too close" issues
  
• Added ability to loot corpses while swimming
  
• Rocks, sticks, and mushrooms can now be found around the world on the ground
  
• Adjusted spawn rates of different ammunition types
  
• Increased chance for weapon attachments to spawn
  
• Fixed performance issue with more detailed logging levels enabled
  
• Can now loot all items from a bound or incapacitated player
  

Crafting

• Added craftable solar powered generator
  
• Added craftable arrow types
  
• Crafted sandbags will be dropped on the ground if the player's inventory is full
  
• Added wolf pelt rug for base building
  
• Added stone hammer, hatchet, and pickaxe
  

Items

• Tranquillizer gun and darts added
  
• Shotgun bean bag rounds added
  
• Sleep, tear, and nerve grenades added
  
• Solar panel crafting parts added
  
• Added some stone weapons
  
• Fix for some consumables not playing emote/sound
  
• Eating a rotten apple now causes a negative effect
  
• Crossbows and bows always spawn with arrows
  
• Added red headlamp
  
• Added adrenaline syringe
  

Vehicles

• Changed base implementation of the 5-ton truck - better physics, suspension, rolling, tire slipping behaviors - can climb steeper slopes
  

Map

• Added expansive sewer system to Hayward Valley
  
• Added some extra detail and some expansion east of Hayward Valley
  
• Attempt to block Quad bikes from going up the stairs in the hotel building
  

UI

• Updated main menu hints with hints related to this update
  
• Added status bar rows for stamina and torpidity (bars will be hidden in a future update when not needed to reduce the amount visible)
  

AI

• Rocks thrown by AI no longer cause increased damage due to headshots
  

Audio

• Rats now play squeaking noises
  
• Added some additional checks to hopefully prevent weapon fire sounds from not being distance attenuated
  
• Splash sound added when you jump in shallow water
  

Base Building

• For normal build rules, plot signs can only be placed on the terrain or on top of rocks (existing plot signs are not affected)
  
• Fixed decay timer issue when an item is added/removed/moved in a tent or storage crate
  

Animations

• Megalite - altered position so on/off animation matches flashlight and small megalite
  
• Unconscious animation set added
  
• Tranquilizer gun animation set added
  
• Sit exit animation now is triggered correctly
  
• Reason for console spam during movement around AI fixed
  
• M40A5 FP poses and animations changed to better match TP (for when scope is used)
  
• AKM reload polished
  
• Wasteland22 fire animation polished as well as refinement of the left hand position
  
• Self search animations added when inventory window is open
  
• Added animation when picking up items
  
• Slope animations for all movement changed as well as alterations to the set up to improve the smoothness of motion on hills
  
• Terrain foot alignment added for a couple of idles which were missing it
  
• Wool gloves skinning error fixed. Tearing of mesh won't occur now when doing certain movements such as the middle finger emote
  
• Renegade 700 fire rate altered to match animation length
  

Torpidity and Unconsciousness System Explanation

• The unconsciousness lasts for about 30 seconds, 10 of those are a full blackout the rest is a recovery period
  
• The unconscious effect can be extended by applying more torpidity to the knocked out player or made shorter by making him smell salt
  
• Aspirin and Energy Drinks help counteract existing torpidity when consumed
  
• Salt can be used to wake someone up just enough for them to stand
  
• An adrenaline syringe can be used to instantly wake someone up and removes all visual effects
  
• VoIP can be used while unconscious
  
• Unconscious players can be incapacitated with duct tape and other binding items
  

• Drinking too much alcohol/bad food (Rubbing alcohol will knock someone out immediately)
  
• Being shot with tranquilizer darts
  
• Sleep gas grenade - You can protect yourself from gas effects by wearing a gas mask, bandana or dust mask. Only the gas mask provides full protection
  
• Beanbag shotgun shells
  
• Having less than 4 health and bleeding (Gives you temporary enough health to last about 15 seconds for calling for help bandaging.)
  
• Flashbang grenade (low amount)
  

• Poisoned Arrows/Bolts
  
• Shotgun Shells / Thrown stones
  
• Explosions
  

• New Main Menu
  
• Torpidity/Unconscious System
  
• Sewer (Sneak Peek)
  

Servers

• Fixed bug that was allowing bases to be built anywhere on public (non-whitelisted) servers
  
• Server time is also output when using the status command
  

Game

• Anti-rad pills can now be used when a player's radiation is at 100%
  
• Radiation zones will now affect all players within a zone
  
• Molotovs no longer explode if they contact water
  
• Several fixes related to the mouse cursor
  
• Adjusted algorithm that determines when a player's head is underwater
  
• Improved streetlight glow effect - less pixel flickers and better performance
  

AI

• Fixed issue with AI not spawning correctly after being killed
  
• Fixed issue with mutant packs being incorrectly spawned as wolf packs from a logic standpoint
  

Items

• Increased spawn chance for anti-rad mushrooms
  
• Removed rear sights from M16 and Mk18 (getting ready for future scopes)
  
• Chemlight duration decreased from 15 minutes to 5 minutes, radius from 20m to 15m
  
• Added more colors for the bike helmets
  
• New salt shaker item (used in crafting)
  

Vehicles

• Fixed minor issue with updating vehicle's wheel positions
  

Map

• Updated the road tunnel north of Woodhaven with an updated model, lighting and item spawners
  
• Optimized gas station prefabs
  
• Optimized domestic garage prefabs
  
• Fixed floating jerry can spawn points in domestic garages
  
• Player spawn points revamped and cover a larger range of the southern area of the map
  
• Wolf spawns adjusted
  
• Increased view distance of air ducts on top of the shop-n-save
  

UI

• Fixed duffel bag icon to be correct color
  
• Toggle keys added for zooming and sprinting forward
  

Audio

• Fixed a lot of audio events missing from surface collisions
  

Crafting

• Some mixed drink recipes added
  
• Wooden toilet added for bases
  

Animations

• Male no sleeve vest vertex coloring fixed - clothing will now have same color as when dropped on the ground
  
• Optimized on ground model for the recurve bow
  
• Added some IK bones for LOD characters, so animations work correctly after bones have been LOD'd
  
• Added sound to kick animations
  
• Fixes to eating and drinking animations added
  
• Tweaks to player's IKs to help with transitions
  
• Fixed LOD files for the female's tennis shoes
  
• Massively reduced the number of bones needed for AI to optimize animation system for AI, added new LODs
  
• New Carlington firing and racking animation
  
• M40A5 - fixed double racking sounds when firing looking down the scope
  
• New M40A5 firing and racking animation
  
• New Hunting Rifle firing and racking animation
  

Models/Textures/Materials

• Fixed issue with normal map on female's eyes
  
• Improved shipping container material so they can be placed on their sides
  
• Made labels on alcohol bottles two-sided so you can see them through the sides
  
• Adjusted materials for the supermarket
  
• Improved coffee cup materials
  
• Added LODs for recurve bow when on the ground
  
• Fixed vertex colors for the no sleeve vests
  
• Reduced specular value on the sandbags
  
• Fixes issues with some of the fire department materials
  
• Fixed physics proxies on some house walls - made them thicker
  
• Improved physics proxy on the carlift and ramps
  
• Fixed proxy on three story house to stop players from jumping through the windows
  
• LODs added for duffel bags when on the ground
  

Servers

Game

• Headshots now work correctly - was fixed on Feb. 23rd on all servers
  
• Fixed "ghostshot" issue
  
• Increased surface friction for grass - helps prevent corpses from sliding down hills
  
• Slightly increased mass of smaller mutants, and animals, so they will sink in water
  
• More potential client crashes fixed
  
• Opening your inventory while holding an animal now drops the animal
  
• Fixed pve damage multipliers for special cases: lug wrench, self damage like falling, starving, bleeding etc

Items

• Silencers added - works on some pistols and rifles
  
• Added craftable candle players can hold
  
• Cargo shorts added - many varieties
  
• Adjusted all ammo and magazine proxies to be at a minimum 8cm² - helps keep them falling through stuff when dropped
  
• Decreased Megalite radius and intensity - helps prevent shadowing issues
  
• Decreased tarp/camo netting mass 2kg->1kg
  
• Tarps can now stack to 3
  
• Decreased paint can stack size 5->2
  
• Increased paint can mass 0.5->1.0
  
• Fixed some issues with light flares on the headlamp and flashlight at distance
  
• Inreased harvest percent change to 100% for both hammer and pickaxe
  
• Fixed damage and description for "Her Majesty" baseball bat
  
• Map texture updated with all new roads and locations
  
• Increased the size of the small generator
  
• Renamed Reflex Sight to Holo Sight
  
• Diesel jerry can is now visible from further distance

Base Building

• Increased light radius for the camping lantern, fixed description
  
• Increased large candle radius slightly, added lens flare
  
• Adjusted light and particle effects on all candles
  
• Increased mass of wood walkstairs 12kg->14kg, build time increased 15s->45s, added four lumber as an additional requirement
  
• Decreased 0x4x4 walkway mass 12kg->6kg
  
• Increased barbed wire construction time 2s->10/20s (2m/4m), decreased mass 2km->0.5kg
  
• Increased pungi build time 10->20s, increased Woodpile requirement to 4, increased mass from 1kg to 5kg
  
• Increased punji poison build time 15->30s, increased Woodpile requirement to 4, increased mass from 1kg to 5kg
  
• Decreased palisades build time 60->45s, decreased mass from 12kg to 8kg
  
• Removed lumber requirement from 0m platforms
  
• Added wooden target base part
  
• Adjusted height of 3m tire stacks

AI

• AI have their "give up" radius randomized now to help prevent exploiting the behavior (except wolves, for now)
  
• AI will now engage the player again if they have given up chasing a player and they are subsequently attacked

Map

• Minor adjustments to the airfield area - reduce model clipping, terrain painting issues
  
• Few tweaks to gas station prefabs
  
• Fixed numerous clipping/floating issues with gas station objects

UI

• DPI awareness disabled - fixes mouse scaling issues in fullscreen mode
  
• Updated m40 magazine icon

Audio

• Removed windmill creak sound from the radio towers

Animations:

• Fixed some idle animations so footIK is working correctly in crouch
  
• Changed woodpaddle idle set up to match everything else
  
• Eating and drinking animations added
  
• Skin fixes for no sleeve vest around male's right armpit
  
• Lookpose changes for when looking left so player's head turns correctly
  
• Fixed issues so emotes work correctly in lowered stance of when using no weapon
  
• Added M16, AKM, crafted smg lowered stance fire mode change animation, also added in crouch
  
• Adjusted hands up emote so it works better
  
• Skin fixes for male torso/chest, and no sleeve vest

Models/Textures/Materials

• Adjusted hair textures to look better
  
• Optimized mesh for Ruger 22 magazine and added LODs
  
• Fixed several counter tops that had texture issues
  
• Various tree LOD fixes/ optimizations
  
• Fixed office corkboard so the textures are correct
  
• Added correct "packed" version of canopy and gazebo
  
• Adjusted bathroom towel rack textures to look better
  
• Flare gun textures improved
  
• Optimized female textures
  
• Updated textures on the log furniture and log cabin
  
• Adjusted a couple of the impact textures for surfaces to be more correct looking

Female Character

Factions

Chat Commands

• Chat commands can be typed into the chat window and can be used to get additional game information
  
• The current chat commands are:
  
• !uptime (amount of time the server has been running for)
  
• !ping (your ping time to the server)
  
• !restart (time until next scheduled server restart)
  
• !server (name of server you are playing on - and motd messages)
  
• !pop (displays the server population)
  

Servers

• Fixed issue with new shutdown/scheduling commands not working via rcon or in the hosting.cfg
  
• Servers can now be configured to adjust where players can build bases at. There are three options listed below:
  
  
  
  • g_gameRules_bases=0 (players cannot build bases on the server)
    
  • g_gameRules_bases=1 (default - can only build in the default, allowed areas)
    
  • g_gameRules_bases=2 (players can build anywhere, but can ONLY be set on a Whitelisted server)
    
  
  One of the g_gameRules_bases lines could be added to the server's hosting.cfg file - leave out the comment in ()
  

Servers - Whitelisted Only

• Added ability to block any Steam IDs with VAC/game bans from joining the server - set sv_noBannedAccounts=1 in hosting.cfg file
  
• Added ability to notify all players when a new players connects or a player disconnects - set sv_msg_conn=1 in hosting.cfg file
  
• Added ability to notify all players when a player is killed - displays killer, victim, and weapon/vehicle used - set sv_msg_death=1 in hosting.cfg file
  

Base Building

• Part damage colors have been re-introduced - parts should darken at each 25% of damage caused to them
  
• Made tiki torch light more subtle, better particle effect, slight lens flare added
  
• Bronze gnome added (so you can have bronze, silver, and gold!)
  
• Any clan member interacting with a base will reset the despawn timer - including opening a crate's inventory
  

Game

• Arrow damage was updated to use our kinetic-based damage system (now is consistent with bullets)
  
• Adjusted view distances for all specs to ensure gameplay is fair across all settings
  
• Adjusted vehicle spawning code to help prevent some servers spawning with too many vehicles
  
• Potential fixes for a couple of additional client crashes (from BugSplat integration)
  
• Don't allow items to be dropped while on a ladder
  
• Resolutions below 720 in height or 1024 in width are not supported and have been removed from the resolutions list
  
• Added rear cargo lights to the 5-ton truck (default is "t" key)
  
• Woodland trees can now be harvested for wood
  
• Adjusted harvesting message to indicate you may be carrying too much weight
  
• Added message that is displayed if you are trying to pick up an item that already has other items inside of it
  
• Game properly hides skin mesh under long clothes (will still be seen in inventory view)
  

Items

• Reflex sight added - can only be used on the AT-15 - support for M16 and Mk18 will be added later
  
• Decreased basic flashlight spawn chance
  
• Adjusted ratio of drink to food items since several drinks can be refilled
  
• Increased spawn chance of the lugwrench since it's the only item that can be used to repair vehicles
  
• Torch no longer set players on fire when not lit
  

Map

• Added new area north of Woodhaven with road access to Hayward
  
• Can now access river by Horseshoe beach to the ocean so you can drive a boat from river to ocean
  
• Updated the shire swamp area
  
• Various other minor fixes and tweaks around the world
  
• Moved a weapon spawner that was impossible to loot in the three story houses
  
• Replaced some of the old assets used in the three story homes with new ones
  
• Fixed rain occluder in the single story house
  

UI

• Updated icons for the hammer and hatchet
  

Audio

• Fixed rooster idle so the sound is correctly played
  

Animations

• Don't allow any fullbody emotes (opening inventory, for example) to be used while on ladders - would cause animation issues
  
• Pick up object animation added
  
• Male tshirt mesh altered to stop clipping with trousers
  
• Skinning on stowpack altered to fix issues around straps
  
• Crouching search container dedicated animation added instead of using standing
  

Models/Textures

• Adjusted textures on the pickaxe
  
• Adjusted plywood material to look better
  
• Fixed missing texture for the basebuilding electrical cables
  
• Adjusted some of the Bistro assets - umbrellas and chairs
  
• Improved textures for some of the single story and three story houses
  
• Fixed missing tuna can material at distance
  
• Fixed materials for two of the sunglasses models
  
• Adjusted materials on the quonset military building
  
• Adjusted materials on the sleeping bags
  
• Fixed shading issues on the gas station
  
• 5-ton truck - fixed glass not showing impacts, adjust physics proxies, reduced drawcalls
  
• Fixed burned material setup on pick up truck
  
• Many more adjustements and tweaks to textures
  

Faction System

• players can't damage each other and bases
  
• players can join a outlaw or lawmen faction
  
• outlaw and lawmen can fight each other while the other players are unaffected
  
• lawmen can't damage each other
  
• players can damage outlaws but not lawmen
  
• outlaws could be allowed to damage bases while lawmen can't
  
• the environment can damage anyone (and to increase difficulty player damage to them can be halfed while damage to players could be doubled)
  
• messages for deaths and join/disconnect