DayZ Standalone alpha patch tweaks several systems, full patch notes inside

DayZ Standalone has received a new alpha patch courtesy of Dean Hall's team, addressing several known issues and balancing many factors of the survival sandbox.

Hall's team posted the full patch notes in a Pastebin entry last night, and it goes as follows:

Version: 0.33.114926

This build continues with small bugfixes and several engine changes. A late addition of a significant change to the server variable processing has provided us a major performance boost on the server of around 5-10 FPS. This helps with a great deal of issues and results in a much smoother game experience from players even on a smooth server. Once several more of these optimizations are made it will allow us to increase player/zombie numbers and enable loot and zombie respawning.

Known Issues:

• - Spawns: Loot is not spawning in military tents
• - Spawns: Some structures in Svetlo currently do not spawn loot
• - Server: Servers under load can delay actions from the client
• - Graphics: Only 4 dynamic light sources will be rendered at one time currently
• - Actions: Looting a dead body may make a ghost clone copy of the inventory

New:

• - Actions: chambering SKS round from pile, loading 10 rounds from pile
• - Actions: You can uncuff other players with the hacksaw
• - Actions: Cannot use an item (e.g. drink/eat) if it is "Ruined"
• - Actions: Interactions with items reworked. Drinking/Eating/etc... more robust and user-friendly
• - Actions: Restrained players cannot use inventory or action menu
• - Animations: Player now can take and hide rifle in crouched run
• - Animations: SKS reload animations
• - Animations: firing weapon when sprinting will transition player into the aimed run(with some temporary limitations)
• - Crafting: FNX45 pistol can be chambered with single round
• - Crafting: Opening cans with combat knife added
• - Crafting: Opening cans with machete added
• - Crafting: Painting Motorbike Helmets to Black and Green
• - Crafting: Waterbottles and canteens now allow pouring water between them
• - Effects: Magnum revolver ejecting shells when reloading
• - Effects: Magnum revolver sounds - gunshots, reloading
• - Effects: Mosin ejecting shells when cycling
• - Effects: New Mosin sounds - gunshots, cycling, reloading
• - Gear: Improvised courier backpack added
• - Gear: Machete added
• - Gear: Hard hats added in various colors
• - Gear: Motorcycle Helmets have black visor variants
• - Gear: Small, uncomfortable, and silly (but cute) children's school backpack
• - Gestures: Clapping Gesture added, default F5 key
• - Gestures: Pointing Gesture added, default F6 key
• - Login: Player queuing system introduced. Penalty waiting time added for switching server or disconnecting a server quickly
• - Login: Players receive a login timeout when disconnect, increased if disconnect within 30 minutes of joining (max 5 minutes)
• - Login: When players logout, their avatar sits on ground for 30 seconds. Players must make sure they logout somewhere safe
• - Server: Player spawns now cached by engine directly, increasing performance
• - Server: Optimized synchronization and transfer of variables within and outgoing from server (significant performance increase on server, of 5-10 FPS)
• - Spawns: Added Bubble goose jackets into the loot spawns
• - Spawns: Added SKS rifle, speedloader, ammunition piles and boxes and SKS bayonet into the loot spawns
• - Spawns: Healthcare Center now spawns loot
• - Spawns: .45acp box of 25rnds added to loot spawns
• - Spawns: Police stations now spawn loot
• - Systems: Hunger and Thirst slightly modified.
• - Systems: Notifications added to UI for hydration and high energy
• - Systems: Fractures can now occur due to melee and shot damage, not just environmental
• - Systems: Fractures (arms/legs) now saved and loaded correctly from database
• - Translations: Added strings for all consumable items (Gas canisters, Batteries etc) and container items (First aid kit etc) for English, with some Spanish and Russian
• - Zombies: Different types of Military zombies now have tougher attack values and improved durability
• - Zombies: Engine dynamic obstacle checking (zombie, another player)
• - Zombies: Svetlojarsk zombie spawns added
• Fixed:
• - Actions: morphine injection can be used on other player effectively fixing his broken legs and item correctly positioned in hands
• - Actions: Keys won't disappear after uncuffing
• - Actions: loading ammo works for sprayed Mosin variants
• - Actions: Read/Writing notes with paper and pen now works again
• - Actions: reviving with epinephrine or defibrillator works also if player blood is below 500 units of blood
• - Actions: Actions on another player no longer have an unlimited distance (max 2 meters)
• - Art: Bug allowing players to clip through geometry of the police station building.
• - Animations: fixed an issue where reload in prone would leave some residue sound clutter at the end of the reload animation
• - Animations: Weapon reloading for magazine was not working properly when no magazine fitted
• - Animations: Rifle Aimed Walk Updated, diagonal animations fixed
• - Animations: Sidestepping through doorway with rifle while crouching should not cause the player to get stuck now
• - Animations: knocking down player now possible in prone states, (possibly fixing the issue with frozen characters)
• - Animations: changed animation for equipping the compass
• - Animations: Proper animation played when taking pistol in run
• - Animations: Changing stances is faster now both for armed and unarmed player
• - Animations: Skinning problem with armored zombies that caused the model to warp during some animations
• - Animations: Standing with aimed weapon now allows for higher angle of tilt/bend
• - Animations: Mosin bolt animation after each shot updated to match hand animation
• - Animations: Removed footstep sound from pointing animations
• - Animations: Pointing gesticulation now possible even when holding 2 handed weapons
• - Animations: Clapping now possible to initiate while holding 2 handed weapons
• - Config: Berries have more nutrition now
• - Crafting: You can no longer saw off sawed off shotgun
• - Crafting: Can spraypaint M4 to green or black
• - Crafting: Damage is now transferred when items are painted
• - Crafting: Improved Backpack creation only possible when Courier Bag is empty (previously items accidentally deleted)
• - Crafting: Weapon cleaning kit can't be used when it's "Ruined" and won't reduce condition of a gun
• - Crafting: Spraypainting an M4 won't delete your carry handle
• - Crafting: Guns are no longer placed on ground while being painted (if not nescessary)
• - Crafting: You won't loose attached universal weapon flashlight after M4 painting
• - Items won't longer appear on ground after unsuccessful force feeding/drinking/fibrillating/handcuffing and won't loose quantity
• - Effects: Dazed effect plays again when a player is hit/damaged/shot
• - Effects: Some effects were not active locally when a player was restrained
• - Effects: gunshot sound of Magnum reverted to original one
• - Fixed: Missing texture error dz\weapons\data\weapons_damage_metal_smdi.paa
• - Fixed: Popping up texture error for beret models
• - Gear: Spraycans won't deplete after relogging
• - Gear: Book, radio, pot, pan, gas canisters, matchbox, paper, firewood and stone can be placed in hands
• - Gear: Headlamp beam raised slightly
• - Gear: Painted items now retain their previous quantities (i.e. Magazine ammo won't reset)
• - Gear: Various item descriptions and notifications fixed for grammar, typos, more detail
• - Gear: ZSh-3 Pilot helmet fixed and updated
• - Gear: Hoxton and Dallas masks where displayed in center of character, now display on face
• - Gear: Splint position in hand was wrong now corrected
• - Gestures: Taunt defaults correctly to F4 key
• - Graphics: "god rays" could cause overloaded post-processing and graphical corruption
• - Graphics: fix of removing shining object from hand (switch off)
• - Graphics: Roads have per pixel lights
• - Graphics: Dynamic lights should be now defined with "radius" value which is maximum radius of light in meters
• - Graphics: Tooltips are now not displayed for quickbar items, as it is a reference to type not specific item
• - Login: Respawn button now works correctly
• - Login: Various bugs fixed associated with connection errors that could cause a character to be deleted or killed by the server
• - Spawns: Lowered chance of Taloon and Mountain backpacks spawning
• - Spawns: Drastically lowered chance of backpacks spawning on the construction site
• - Spawns: Loot spawn tweaks in some civilian structures
• - Weapons: Mosin recoil increased
• - Weapons: Sawed-off shotgun can be loaded with ammo (was broken due to changed inheritance)
• - Weapons: Sawed-off shotgun: reduced size in inventory, reduced spread
• - Weapons: It is no longer possible to attach longrange scope onto SKS
• - Weapons: M4 carry handle can now be attached to painted variants of M4
• - Weapons - fixed error in config of shotgun snaploader causing low velocitiy and damage
• - Zombies: Better filter/check of attack hits directly in engine
• - Zombies: Military zombies made tougher

Hotfixed:

• - Crash: Irregular crash of server in corpse garbage collector consequence of this is that the bodies will not disappear if other player is in vicinity
• - Crash: Creating item using recipe system caused serious server crash when not enough space in inventory
• - Crash: Client crash on exit, all systems 100% reproduction
• - System: Previous build caused overzealous starvation to occur

Via MP1st.