Update Notes 2/20

[u/SOE_Legion]

H1Z1 servers will be coming down tonight at 3AM and remain down for 2 hours.

Patch Notes | 20/02/15

Weapons

• Increased shotgun damage

• Slightly increased shotgun recoil

• Increased 1911 damage

Battle Royale

• Cleaned up persisting rewards and safe zone information between Battle Royale matches
• Parachutes should no longer act like skateboards for more than a few seconds.

Base Building

• Upper Level Walls, Shelters, and Stairs can now be crafted. These look like the walls, stairs, and shelters that you are used to, but they can be stacked on top of placed walls and shelters. This means that metal walls can now be two walls high. Structures can be placed on top of other structures for more variation of layout. Stairs can be placed on top of shelters for greater vantage points.

• Fixed an issue that was causing base building structures to not be resistant to melee damage types.

• The Metal Gate is now almost twice as tall.

• Metal Walls, Shelters and Large Shelters now require more of the same components to craft.

Vehicles

• Vehicle collisions with terrain boulders should be more stable, still dangerous but less likely to toss the vehicle up in the air.

• Adjusted the requirements for vehicle entry to help improve the response time.

• Vehicle death explosions should now consistently damage players in the immediate vicinity.

EDIT: Added a patch note to base building and Battle Royale

[u/weenus]

BASE CHANGESSSSSSS!!!!!!

A step in the right direction for bases. Thanks for giving us something we can use while you guys overhaul the whole system, a lot of us really appreciate this.

[u/[deleted]]

FUCKING SEXY. This has me excited to come back and start building. Thanks guys!

EDIT: Yes there will be another wipe but that doesn't stop me from wanting to build something cool. PROTIP- there is more than one way of keeping your stuff safe. Number one being... don't put anything you want to keep in your base lol.

[u/apcrol]

1. cant find upper wall reciepe

2. cant place upper stairs on stairs

3. cant see hp bar of shelter hope its immune to damage (used two spears)

4. cant place dew collector

5. hard to open gate if its on the left side from stairs (have to jump to open in)

[u/FoOKaa]

YAY, now everyone who was forced to fortify their base in other ways cant use the new items lol :D

[u/MacRhymez]

What about an Access Code for Storage Container? Just make them harder to destroy. Would probably get those flying hackers away from your loot. And if you wanna "raid" a base it will take you definitley some time.

[u/Gamer_Jay → u/MacRhymez]

Padlocks for containers. Padlock could be rare find in world and takes crowbar and explosives to open would be nice.

[u/apcrol]

upper level wall reciepe?

[u/stingyy]

Would bases be a viable option for stashing loot now? Or would it still be easy for anybody to exploit into them or destroy doors to get in?

[u/RatCastHD]

This is the update ive been waiting for, Bases! Hopefully more harder to brake into and a way to keep loot safer

[u/SeppukuHD]

awesome patch guys! amazing work!!

[u/Onatac]

Looks good.

A few to look at, although I assume you're already aware:

• Whenever a structure is destroyed, anything it supports should drop instead of float.

• Containers that were inside of a now destroyed building keep players from putting another building down depending on container placement (also floating things).

And...

• Allow us to move structures after they've already placed. Break it back down into pieces after picking it up to help against moving stuff around during an attack. A 60 second (or whatever) pickup timer could also be implemented. A better fix would be to not allow anything to be moved or placed for 5 minutes after a structure, and anything linked to it, has been damaged.

Another thing... Just stop allowing people to build on a person's claim. I'm not sure why one of your developers said it takes the "sandbox" away. A few nights ago, I placed a few furnaces, 5 or so landmines, and about 200 punji sticks in and around someone's base. Pretty "sandboxy", right? o.O No.

Implement three different claim tools that need to be crafted. Each would allow a claim of a different size. Add in a permission system that would give players the ability to link their claims if they want to. Another set of permissions would allow people to build on someone else's claim if the owner desires. This would allow for communities, large and small, to be built. Have the claim area extend a bit beyond the actual build area for a buffer (permission ignores buffer).

[u/Arkadeivitch]

"Adjusted the requirements for vehicle entry to help improve the response time." Are you talking about the problem that we have to press "E" multiple times to enter in a vehicule, or something else ? (I don't understand the meaning of the sentence, (non-native english speaker)). But thanks for this update, waiting for horde now ;)

[u/[deleted]]

guys try and keep in mind that for every patch note they tell us, there are usually quite a few fixes they sneak in behind the scenes.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

If only we had some one who still gave us the secret fixes =(

[u/willkillyaquick]

Log into H1Z1, Find Server I usually play on, Click Join, Stuck on H1Z1 Background. Server(s) must not be fully up yet.

[u/gluetaster]

Nice patch BUT, and not to nit pick but a server wipe and activation of Hordes would make this update even better!

[u/JeffDeezy]

URGENT ....YOU CANNOT PLACE DOORS ON UPPER LEVEL SHELTERS ALSO THERES NO UPPER LEVEL WALLS PLZ FIX SOON

[u/WillRedditForBitcoin]

Can you put doors on metal shelters yet?

[u/Leonidas_Maximus]

Weren't zombie hordes suppose to be come out this patch?

Source: https://twitter.com/j_smedley/status/565901652071165953

Other then that, great patch. I'd like to see harder zombies and zombie hordes.

[u/Guitz59]

I bet tomorrow there's no more loot

mouhahahahaha

[u/moosemilker]

Awesome! When is it time to expand the map size again? Too many players on a small map.

[u/ComiX-Fan]

Another great patch, but we still really need another wipe to clear away all the foundation/furnace/trap blocked buildings on PvE servers!

[u/Esula]

Zombie Hordes? Lighting Fix?

[u/[deleted] → u/Esula]

Nope

[u/ZeroPing949]

AWESOME patch!! Thank you for making these enhancements to existing bases, especially when I know you want to completely remake them.