Dean ‘Rocket’ Hall may have departed Bohemia Interactive, but the team behind DayZ are still very much hard at work. They’ve just released a last minute patch to the game which adds a megaton of new items, areas and features to the game.
Among the new items and weapons, and two new villages, players can now set up gardening plots wherever they desire, as long as they have the right kit to do so. Also, if you get sick and tired of the apocalyptic world of Chernarus, you can now find a multitude of ways to end your life. Yes, that also includes via the newly added Chainsaw.
Christmas trees have appeared in all the major big cities, which will award players with some very valuable loot, found at their bases. Just be careful though – it’ll surely attract plenty of attention, and they might not share your generous spirit.
New weapons have been added to the game. You can find the likes of a medieval long sword in castle ruins, or big hulking chainsaws in industrial areas. There’s plenty more, but those are the two most powerful by far.
Before, players could plant seeds in designated greenhouses, reaping a supply of constant vegetables for sustenance. Now, players can dig a gardening patch wherever they may please, as long as they have the right tools e.g. garden hoe, fertilizer.
If you find yourself in a bit of a pickle, or maybe you’ve just given up on surviving in the harsh zombie infested land, you now have the grim option to commit suicide; players could accomplish this before the update, by finding a great height to jump off of. Now, if you have a suitable weapon equipped, you’ll be able to use it to end your own life. Don’t worry you squeamish folk – there’s no gory animation. Yet.
Read the full patch notes on the next page; there’s a lot to read!
New Items:
Full Ghillie suite
Stone Knife
Torch
Guts
Chainsaw
Meat cleaver
Prison uniform
Silencer east
Silencer NATO
Handgun Silencer
V3S interior
Teddy bear
Long Sword
MP5 Compensator
Prison Jacket
Prison Pants
Prison Cap
Hunting Knife
Pumpkin seeds
Pepper seeds
Wool dress (color variants)
Bomber jacket (color variants)
V3S (color variants)
New Mechanics:
Suicide (variants)
Using scopes for scouting
Redone horticulture mechanics
Redone spawn points and amount of vehicles
Exiting and entering animations for vehicles
Christmas presents
Crafting of fishing rod, stone knife, bow, with nature only resources
You can cut out seeds out of vegetables
Torch crafting
Blade sharpening
Silencers working
Using of almost all items for melee
New locations:
Kamensk village
Stary Yar village
Location “Lysaya Gora”
“Grozovye Doly”
Krasnoe village
Christmass assets
Meadows and Farms under Svergino village
Ratnoe village
Zaptudnoe village
Zaprudnoe kolhoz
Meadows and Farms near Grishino
Polesovo village
Updated locations:
Stary Yar surrounding
Kamensk mining complex
Severograd mines
Powerlines is now connected with West part of map
Forest improvments
General bugfixing
Fixed:
Muzzle blast, Impact sounds fixed.
Small fish trap exploit fixed
Supressor visible on steyraug now
Damage transfer added to ghillie crafting
Security fixes
Telescopic Baton retracting
Improved heatpack and gut heat transfer, support for multiple heat sources
Drowning while cuffed under water surface
Heatpack and more items properly positioned in hand
Supressor visible on steyraug now
Animation polish
Loot distribution polish
and much much more.
Known Issues:
Item locked in hands slot
Items can’t be picked up sometimes
Left earpice sound volume is lowered sometimes
Ghillie will probably react badly on chemlight, flare and other light sources
Some items will visually duplicate themselves if used from the ground
Server crashes
Client crash when disconnected from server