Dayz update 1.26 patch notes are now available for PS4 and Xbox One players. According to Dayz 1.26 patch notes, the latest update adds new animals and items, rebalanced clothing and weather interactions, enhanced fishing mechanics, improved server browser, and multiple bug fixes. Apart from this, Dayz version 1.26 also includes general stability fixes and improvements.
Previously, a big update 1.11 added various new features and gameplay changes. Unfortunately, players are still experiencing several issues while playing the game. Today’s Dayz patch 1.26 will fix a few of these issues.
Dayz 1.26 Patch Notes
GAME
ADDED
- Brown Hare
- Red Fox
- Wolf trophy headdress
- Shemagh
- Fishing jig
- Wooden fishing hook
- Scientific briefcase and keys
- Consuming scorching hot items now slows consumption and causes damage
- It is now possible to climb onto ledges while swimming
- Some items can now freeze if exposed to low temperatures
- Grass now bends under animals and infected
- Terrain and object visibility settings
- In-game server browser now verifies all official servers before displaying them
- In-game server browser can now filter for maps
- In-game server browser now allows sorting for maps in a separate column
- Description field for servers, displayed in the server browser
- Support for stick dead zones
FIXED
- In 1st person view, the characters shadow cast by dynamic lights did not have a head (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T158144)
- The character could get stuck in falling animation when cornered by infected (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T173675, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T173952, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T177664)
- After killing an entity with a bolt, cancelling the reload of that bolt through “Load round” would result in the bolt disappearing (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T174854)
- New firewood would not be visually reflected in the fireplace after it went to ashes for the first time (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T177432)
- It was not possible to gather firewood from one variant of hornbeam trees
- The jammed state of weapons could get falsely displayed when moving the weapon into vicinity
- The Zenit radio station was outputting radio communication, while it is only intended for input
- Vegetation was bent by wind stronger at specific angles
- The speed of the wind did not properly affect its sounds
- Fixed several gestures that could be abused to hide large weapons
- Cutting a flag attached to a flag pole into rags would glitch the flag pole (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T179035)
- It was possible to clip weapons through walls (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T178620)
- The stamina bar was visible when inside a vehicle (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T169545)
- Vehicles were missing sounds for failed startup (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T177537)
- The meat tenderizer and hammer were missing their sounds when building base objects (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T179254, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T179271)
- When in the Exit menu from the main menu, pressing ESC did not close it
- Characters could desynchronize when attempting to sit in the same car seat simultaneously
- The player character was not properly turning in the main menu (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T180967)
- Wheels of vehicles would occasionally spin faster than they should (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T167606)
- Inventory items should no longer flicker when at near memory limits (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T181570 – private)
- Volumetric fog should now be consistent across different view distance settings
- It was not possible to bandage a player who is sitting in a vehicle
- Fixed an exploit that allowed movement of an unconscious character
- Fixed an instance of desynchronized weapon ammunition status
- The “Previously played” filter in the PC client server browser
- Voice range icon did not appear when pressing voice range up/down keys
- Unloading multiple types of ammo into an inventory with limited space would result in surplus ammo types being changed (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T179946 – private)
- It was not possible to remove the car battery from the Field Transciever (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T181638)
- Rebuilding a fence after it being destroyed would not update collisions until the nexty server restart (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T181962 – private)
- Some sunglasses were not visible in hands in first person view (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T156564)
- When holding NVG goggles in your hand, they could be misplaced while looking through them (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T173863)
- The pill icon would never disappear again after taking two pills in quick succession (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T182138)
- Fixed visual appearance of damaged and ruined ghillie set pieces
- The respawn menu could not be controlled using a gamepad (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T178687, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T178098, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T182112, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T182447)
- The respawn button was skipped after going unconscious with an open pause menu (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T181778)
CHANGED
- Updated official server naming conventions in coherence with the server browser update
- Reworked character heat comfort and how it is influenced
- Rebalanced the insulation values of most clothing items
- Reworked fishing action and its chances, including audio and particle effects (let go of LMB to reel in a fish when caught)
- Fishing bait is no longer crafted, but an attachment of hook
- Slightly rebalanced the nutrition values of fish
- Eating raw fish now causes food poisoning instead of salmonella
- Worms are now stackable
- It’s now possible to dig multiple worms at once with certain tools
- Reworked the common cold into stages, added pneumonia
- Codeine pills and morphine now suppress common cold and influenza symptoms
- To tackle animal predators being an easy source of food for highly geared players, we have infected predator meat with a disease
- All edible items can now be added to cooking slots
- All edible items can now be heated up to warm up the character when consumed
- Tweaked water gain from food items, decreased the gain from cooked items
- Removed rough and precision soft skills
- Firewood can now be stacked up to 3 times in the inventory
- Tweaked the minimum and maximum temperatures of items
- Players now gain temporary immunity to the cold after beating it or any of its later stages
- The flare gun ammunition now spins slightly on descent
- Active rain/snowfall now decrease the hearing of infected
- Force feeding is now only possible when facing the player
- Sitting in a vehicle with running engine will now set your character’s heat comfort to neutral
- Heat packs cool down over a longer period and give drastically more benefit
- Traps now require bait and might catch different animals depending on the bait
- Traps now play a sound when they aught an animal
- Traps in water not play a particle effect when they caught an animal
- Reduced damage taken by traps on catch
- Increased chance of catching animals via trap
- Reduced time required for traps to catch an animal
- Significantly increased the weight of animals pelts
- Terrain detail video settings are now hidden and set to one value that corresponds to the multiplayer settings (it was always forced to one value by the server anyway)
- Optimized world loading for respawning players (PC only)
- Reduced the AI alertness from pistol shots
- Strongly reduced the AI alertness from shots of the Sporter
- Heat buffer (+ symbol) now shows progression on HUD and its behavior has been slightly altered
- Reduced size of the cargo on most jackets, pants and vests
- Adjusted inventory sizes of various items
- Many continuous actions have now their camera view angle limited to the general area, where the action is conducted
- It’s not possible to construct garden plots below certain environment temperatures
CENTRAL ECONOMY
- Fixed: The restock value was not properly considered when restocking items (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T177835)
CHERNARUS
- Fixed: A glitched military convoy position at Dubrovka
- Changed: Morning fog behavior, there is always morning fog around the coast and in the low altitude valleys. The density is randomized, it can be too thick sometimes
- Changed: Wind direction and speed is giving clues about how the upcoming overcast will be
- Changed: Large-scale rebalancing of clothing items and firearms
LIVONIA
- Changed: Morning fog behavior, there CAN be a morning fog which is on the river and around its bed. The density is randomized
- Changed: Livonia now has sudden overcast changes. The sudden change always ends with a bad weather and the duration of it shorter compared to normal overcast changes
- Changed: Wind direction and speed is giving clues about how the upcoming overcast will be
- Changed: Default date reset interval moved from Aug-Sept to July-Aug
- Changed: Large-scale rebalancing of clothing items and firearms
- Weapons would not spawn with attachments
- The truck battery could not be charged using the battery charger
- The flag pole was refreshing bases more often than designed (every server restart).
- The universal flashlight could be attached to handguards without a rail
- The player could not switch to VSS iron sights when using PSO optics
- A client crash related to attachment slots on base building objects
Download free Dayz update 1.26 on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
