Dayz update 1.24 released for PS4 and Xbox One players. According to Dayz 1.24 patch notes, the latest update added various quality of life improvements. Apart from this, Dayz version 1.24 also includes performance improvements.
Previously, a big update 1.10 added various new features and gameplay changes.
Unfortunately, players are still experiencing several issues while playing the game. Today’s Dayz version 1.24 is expected to fix a few of these issues.
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Dayz 1.24 Patch Notes
ADDED
- Vikhr rifle
- 30rd 9x39mm magazine for the Vikhr, ASVAL and VSS rifles
- Camouflage variants of the ballistic helmet
- Sounds for crafting improvised clothing from rags
- Sounds for crafting base-building kits
- Sounds for crafting a bone knife
- Sounds for wringing out clothing
- Sounds for splitting firewood
- Sounds for breaking down bushes with hands
- Animations for cleaning hands with the cooking pot and gasoline canister
FIXED
- The heavy melee attack was displayed with the wrong key assigned in the settings
- Weapons could desynchronize when modified outside of the players network range
- Item interaction by a player who just left another players network bubble could result in item desynchronization
- The microphone icon could be displayed on-screen with no microphone connected when in voice activation mode and lowest voice threshold
- Bolts attached to a door wouldn’t move or animate with a vehicle
- Unloading a bolt with full inventory would reset the bolt health to full.
- Corpses could not be pulled out of vehicles properly
- Fixed an exploit to glitch the camera through walls
- Weather could be desynchronized for players
- Bolts shot on players or creatures would attach in the wrong direction.
- Potatoes would yield full quantity when peeled regardless of the tool used
- When standing up from prone with raised hands, the camera would not properly follow the player
- It was possible for players to rotate with their dead bodies until respawn
- All colored skirts appeared blue on female characters.
- Some birch trees were offering the option to collect dark bark
- The lab coat was not correctly reflecting damage visually
- The leather duffel bag had wrong buttons being displayed.
- The blue hoodie was displayed as red in the inventory view
- The sling bag was clipping with most clothing items on the female model
- Several items were displayed too big in the inventory view
- It was possible to shoot through some corners of the base fence
- It was possible to get stuck in the blocking position if activating it right after picking up a firearm
- Unjamming the AUR AX would play the wrong sound
- The jammed state of firearm models was not synchronized when on the ground
- The camera was briefly in the wrong position after waking up from unconsciousness in a car
- Padded gloves could not be repaired with a leather sewing kit
- No widget allowed to attach barbed wire or camo net to a fence or watchtower.
- The widget of the watchtower’s roof blocked widgets for other walls
- The large entry door of the cement works played the wrong sound.
- It was possible for the stagger animation to be skipped.
- Infected were reacting to suppressed shots over long ranges.
- It was possible to push a car while a gear was clutched
- Firearms would twitch in some cases when too close to obstacles
- An error with despawning base-building objects could result in invisible barbed wire.
- The state of the crossbow was not always correctly saved during server restarts
- The inventory view was sometimes cut off in narrow screen resolutions.
- Fixed a game crash that could occur when connecting to multiple servers at the same time
- The combine button did not work when an item was in the cargo of another held item
- Fixed an exploit that created infinite amounts of liquids
- Some item spawn points inside the bus wreck were in the ground or floating.
- Two players putting an item from their hands into the same cargo slot could result in desync
- Reduced server performance load on player-(dis)connection and -respawn.
- It was not possible to remove items fast from a incapacitated player or infected through CTRL+LMB
- It was possible to get stuck in prone by using the portable map with enabled.
- Fixed a server crash related to player death
- Items dropped next to a fence or gate could not be picked back up.
- Fixed an animation glitch that allowed passing below walls faster than intended
- It was not possible to refuel a torch while it was burning.
- The large ship wreck had several collision issues.
- Ambient fruits from trees were still spawning at their old positions at the NWA.
- Items in the Chernogorsk hotel were spawned below the map
CHANGED
- Changed the collision checks for weapon raising for better accuracy
- Reconfigured the calculation of weapon lengths for more accurate collision detection
- Shock damage of blunt weapons will now partially be translated into health damage when fighting infected and animals
- Bandaging is now a continuous action when treating multiple cuts
- Dayz 1.24 removed outdated server browser filters
- Partial optimizations on the network traffic.
- Simplified collisions of trees for better behavior with vehicles and reduced performance impact from penetrating shots
- Gave basic chemical protection to the OKZK cap
- The great helmet, chestplate, tripod and barrel can now be repaired using the blow torch
- Pulling a body from a vehicle is now done by simply pressing F instead of holding
- Adjusted insulation values of tracksuits and police clothing for consistency.
- Re-balanced the weight of tools and melee weapons
- Dayz update 1.24 reduced the weight of shovels.
- Reduced the weight of plant material.
- It is no longer possible to split plant material
- Adjusted the recoil of several automatic firearms
- Reduced the fire rate of the Vaiga and slightly lowered its recoil
- Reduced area in which infected will be alerted by bullet impacts
- Reduced the alert level impact on infected by suppressed shots
- Slightly increased the silencing effect of the pistol suppressor
- Regular infected will keep their alert state for slightly longer periods
- Tweaked the overheating particles of firearms
- Updated sounds of the SK 59/66 rifle
- Updated the game credits
LIVONIA
- Updated the Lukov Airfield
SERVER
- Added: PlayerSpawnEditor now has (?) next to values to tell you more about them
- Added: It is now possible to have player spawn points not generate a grid and stay a singular spawn point by setting density to 0
- Added: Player spawn point editor now saves which subwindows are hidden and what checkboxes were ticked
- Added: Player spawn point editor now has options for the debug shapes being drawn
- Added: Player Spawn Points can now avoid triggers
- Fixed: PlayerSpawnEditor duplicating group points into regular points when saving with <groups_as_regular>true</groups_as_regular>
- Fixed: Servers with verifySignatures=0 should no longer disconnect players in the queue due to validation errors.
- Fixed: Linux: Json files loaded through script had capitalization.
- Changed: Player Spawn Points will now automatically force change group when no good points are available in the currently selected group
- Changed: PlayerSpawnEditor now saves documentation when saving xml
- Changed: Player spawn gear JSON: If a particular preset has an empty or undefined characterTypes, the character model last set in character creation menu will be used for that preset.
LAUNCHER
- Added: The password window now allows to view the password
- Fixed: The Direct Connect window could not connect to LAN servers
- Fixed: The command line parameter could not be removed in the favorites tab
- Changed: Made the Direct Connect button red for better visibility
- Removed: Outdated server browser filters
MODDING
- Added: terrainNormalPower parameter into world config
- Added: Exposed STANCEIDX_RAISED in DayZPlayerConstants
- Added: SurfaceInfo script API
- Fixed: Human.StartCommand_ScriptInst should no longer crash the game (but can trigger a memory leak)
- Fixed: ‘CGame.AddActionJuncture’ wouldn’t setup the replication relationship between the player and the item
- Fixed: Crash with using the DayZPhysics bullet library functions and passing in a skeleton based object as the ignore entity (i.e. static HouseNoDestruct, static ItemBase)
- Fixed: Inventory Commands were dependent on distance checks from a player which would fail when an object still existed on the client but was outside of it’s network bubble
- Changed: PlayerIdentity can now be sent over an RPC as a serializable parameter, sent as 4 bytes
- Changed: The steam ID can now be accessed on the client for all identities via ‘PlayerIdentity.GetPlainId’ directly now, replacing scripted ‘SyncPlayer’
- Changed: Moved m_dT and GetDeltaT from PlayerBase to DayZPlayerImplement
- Tweaked: JSONFileLoader: better handling of file errors + throwing those to VME or log; new API + old one deprecated (with warning messages)
- Tweaked: JSONFileLoader is passing all the errors to the caller in new API; displaying is not part of the API anymore
- Tweaked: JSONFileLoader: Commented out ifdef added to show future intentions with old API
- Tweaked: JSONFileLoader: Removed the extra logging from old API
The following changes were added previously.
FIXED
- A server crash related to actions
- Fixed a server performance weakness whenever a player connected
- Attachments of the Gas Stove were disappearing upon reconnect
- In specific cases, the character could not regain the ability to jump and sprint after healing a broken leg
- Wrong buttons appeared next to the character customization menu
- Issues with the unconsciousness state when falling on steep terrain
Damaged M3S truck wheels were indistinguishable from the pristine variant
Occasional graphical glitch that appeared when interacting with the M3S truck side plates
Glass in the windows of the M3S truck turned into pristine state after destroying
The Fire Barrel could not be attached to the barrel slots to the M3S truck
- Empty gaps and ghost inventory slots when attaching a barrel or crate to the M3S truck
- It was not possible to stop the car engine in specific cases
The engine damage point from water level on the M3S engine was too low, causing the vehicle to be damaged in more cases than it should be
An occasional issue where the screen could get darker after respawning
The player was able to deploy some items on sea water at certain places
- Temperature on food was fluctuating when cooked on direct cooking slots
- An exploit for fast cooking, using smoking slots
- Broken reflectors on the Sarka 120 did not change their texture properly
- The radiator of the Sarka 120 could not be seen unless you opened the trunk of the car
- Liquid could be poured or drained to/from closed barrels
- The actions for draining and pouring liquids could not be switched while in prone
- It was possible to build the territory flag pole with 3 long wooden sticks
CHANGED
- Improved vehicle stability after the server restart
- Wetness of an item no longer affects its weight
- Improved the off-road performance of the ADA 4×4
Lowered the transfer of damage from reflectors to the surrounding zones on the Sarka 120
The player should not look at the car to be able to stop the engine
- The heat insulation values of clothing items are now balanced.
- The maximum wetness level of clothing items are now balanced.
- The damage state and wetness of clothing impacts their heat insulation.
- Lowered the max wetness value on Plate Carrier, Press Vest and Tactical Vest.
Items inside other items will only get wet when the container is soaked or drenched.
Automated drying of clothing (not wringing out) is now less effective.
The character speed has a larger impact on the overall heat comfort.
The backpack is now taken into account for heat comfort, the armband was removed.
Lowered the energy penalty in the lower warning cold state.
- Lowered the maximum energy buffer of the player.
- The pick axe can be used to dig hidden stashes.
- You can now open food cans with the Hand Saw.
- You can now skin animals with axes, saws, the pick axe, the crowbar, and the screwdriver.
- Removed skinning from the shovel, as it was causing a conflict with the bury action.
- Reduced the usability of duct tape for certain items.
- Tool damage across actions are now balanced.
Download free Dayz patch 1.24 on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
