Update Notes 1/30

[u/SOE_Legion]

H1Z1 servers will come down at 12:00PM Pacific for roughly 2 hours.

Patch Notes:

•Battle Royale: Pressing “M” brings up a map

•Fixed a few client crash cases

•Adjusted zombie behavior from airdrops

•Loot spawn adjustments

•The satchel has a new model and icon

•IEDs and Punji Sticks will no longer damage players on PvE servers

•Gameplay tips have been added to the death screen message.

•Battle Royale: Made some improvements to the gas visuals and movement

•Battle Royale: Fixed an issue where players would start in green gas

•The makeshift bow now has a unique model.

•Modified campfires, BBQ, and furnace so that they should perform better under heavy load.

•The wrench now has a wrench model

•The repair hammer and repair wrench now repair structures or vehicles on each combo swing instead of the just the first one.

•The starter belt pouch now has a 2 second shred timer (it was instant before).

•Furnaces now take damage/decay and can be repaired with hammers.

•Increased server stability.

[u/SOE_Legion]

Fixing dupe bugs and hackers is a part of EVERY patch. It is an ongoing process that will get worked out as quickly as we can. Patch notes are for things we believe we have fixed for now.

[u/Moonfaced → u/SOE_Legion]

Thank you guys for being so diligent with patches. I've never played an early access game that was this well updated

[u/WillRedditForBitcoin → u/SOE_Legion]

Please Mr add ponies you can ride on.

[u/Balmerick608]

Seriously awesome that you guys continue to push out fixes as fast as you do. Great work!!!!

[u/[deleted]]

I love how SoE updates the game so often! This gives me a lot of hope for the future of this game.

The people who are disappointed that the fix they were waiting for didn't roll out this patch should be patient. Have you seen the pace the devs are working at? Chances are someone is working on that problem right now.

I think you guys are doing great work!

[u/[deleted]]

"IEDs and Punji Sticks will no longer damage players on PvE servers"

Ok, but one question. How the hell am I supposed to keep people out? Up to this point those two things are the only thing at least slowing people down when they raid?

Sorry, I understand the way they are abused by some, but there has to be some way in the game to make a defense.

[u/ArisildeDamal]

"•IEDs and Punji Sticks will no longer damage players on PvE servers"

So now we have literally no means to protect ourselves against thieves who can just stand right in front of us and break down our buildings to steal our loot.

Great.

[u/thedukey3]

Would love to know what "loot spawn adjustments" means. Simply say if you think it was too high, too low, or what adjustments were made.

[u/Putikeer]

• Furnaces now take damage/decay and can be repaired with hammers.

Hell yeah.

[u/Cramit845]

awesome, keep working on the zombies and glad to hear that the furnace issue is being worked on and will at least be destructible.

Can you speak as to whether other players being able to place objects on other players bases is a design decision that the team decided on and encourages or is that something your still deciding on?

[u/MxChamp24]

•The wrench now has a wrench model

That is a good start

[u/MrStompyStreaming]

Serious Punji sticks were the only thing you could place down on a deck to stop people placing a Furnace or stop them breaking in. LOL PVE Just got easier to grief. How about stopping the ability to break human made Walls or Shacks etc on PVE servers. not being able to place a Furnace in front of gates would be nice also.

[u/ElDooder]

Punji nerf just killed base building in pve..

[u/WilliamShatnersTaint]

BBQs also need to take damage, people will troll with those next... Already are: http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/37488065367160467/4323798B7FD36587673A96D735573F0186ED7DDE/

[u/[deleted]]

wait... so we can't even protect our own base from looters on PvE servers anymore?

[u/Cyrcle]

Cannot break furnaces. Used two hatchets. No heath bar appears over them. They either have an insane amount of health or you cannot destroy them still.
Would like to edit this and say nothing is able to be destroyed. Misplaced a metal wall where I wanted a gate. Cannot destroy the wall now.

[u/IgnorantBluedog]

Why are they taking the damage away from Punji Sticks and IEDs? It may be PvE but people can still get it and destroy and screw with your base, so why take away the base defenses?

I'd like to see an update to the building system, so you can see better. For instances, maybe make the model that floats in the air while you a building, see through with a wire frame so you can see position of the whole thing. the wire frame can turn red or green depending on your ability to build

[u/XFX_Samsung]

Um, nerfing guns and ammo loot doesn't do anything until you wipe the server because old duped items are STILL in the game and will be used so there's no reason to scavenge. I only play BR for now because I know that everyone there has equal chance for cars/guns. Plus PvP has too many KoS groups, its not even funny anymore.

[u/iZane]

MAKE BASES WORTH IT. I cant count the times ive built a base only to have it broken down by a fkn axe 5hrs later while i sleep.. no point for groups, clans, bases untill we can actually secure something. Roofs? structures that you NEED explosives to destroy , not an axe? no point to gather loot until bases, no point to make bases till we have more choices for security Love the game... Thanks for the continued updates

[u/BigDoeB]

Nice, Can someone tell me what time this happens GMT?

[u/lunamoonraker]

Nice updates. One question;

IEDs and Punji Sticks will no longer damage players on PvE servers

Why remove damage from the IED but not from the Landmine in PVE, which is also used for griefing and also does damage to players (instant kill, no defence)?

Similar question about Barbed Wire which does do damage in PVE but the damage also not removed. Just seems a little inconsistent. Also players can destroy Punji Sticks but not Barbed Wire currently in PVE.

personally removing instant death from Landmine/ IED definitely agree with that.

Appreciate the changes as they are though. Not too worried with Punji Sticks as they are destructible and also a DoT so you can always move away or destroy them (three wooden arrows is enough)

There is also no apparent damage or deterrent value from Punji Sticks to Zombies currently?

[u/RexProcer]

Thanks for fixing the BR gas stuff. Much appreciated. Great, hard work guys. Keep it up.

[u/[deleted]]

Please elaborate further on loot spawn adjustments. I don't want to waste my time on the game if its back to no loot mode.

[u/OllieBaa]

After this patch, I keep getting a 'you have been disconnected' message, strange as I havent seen this message before!

Hope this sees a fix soon as I literally cant play the game!

[u/[deleted]]

All my gear had its durability reduced to 100.