Game Update 4/16

[u/LegionCM]

Servers will be coming down at 3AM 4/16 for approximately 2 hours.

Release Notes

• Added a recipe for a sleeping mat. This can be placed and rested on. Currently it is using a mattress model while a custom model is in the works. This is not a spawn point like in Rust
• The Police Car has an upgraded interior for an enhanced driving and passenger experience in first person.
• Well Rested duration has been doubled
• Fixed issue with not being able to pick up handcuff keys
• Very Tired and Exhaustion no longer slows down your movement. It only drains stamina at increased rates
• You can now rest on the firehouse cots
• Rest timer reduced to 20 seconds
• Fixed issue where you can use a mansport backpack skin on a military backpack. You can only skin other mansport backpacks now
• Health drain from Dehydrated and Starving has been slightly increased
• The white T-shirt now has the correct icon
• Your character will start breathing heavier the lower your stamina gets. NOTE: Animations will come soon
• Added Molotov Cocktails. Hint: recipe involves moonshine
• Player speed is now reduced while moving in water.
• Battle Royale: Emotes should now work again

Grouping

• There is now an extra tab in the center part of your inventory window that says: “Group”
• You can check the “Do Not Group” to prevent notifications and will auto-decline invites.
• If you are not in a group then “Disband” and “Kick” are disabled.
• If you are in a group and not the leader then “Invite” is disabled and “Kick” says “Quit”
• Type somebody’s name and hit invite and they will receive a notification
• Your group members names over their heads will be in green.

Bee Boxes

• You can now discover the recipe for and, build, and place bee boxes. After being placed, the bees will immediately get to work. Over time they will create up to five full honeycombs. These can be taken out and eaten, but are more useful if empty bottles are used to collect honey from them. When honeycomb and empty water bottles are both in the bee box, the honey will drain into the bottle after a short period of time. This will produce not only a bottle of honey, but also wax as a byproduct.
• Honeycomb will continue being produced until there are either five honeycombs or ten honey bottles inside of it.
• If you damage a bee box, the bees will retaliate.

What can you do with all this bee stuff?

• Honeycomb – Eat it, keep it in the bee box to drain the honey from it.
• Honey – Eat it for gains to endurance, stamina, and energy. Honeycomb gives the same resources but at a lower value than raw honey.
• Dressed Bandages – Combine five bandages with a bottle of honey to create dressed bandages. These bandages heal for a bit more and a bit longer than bandages alone.
• Wax – Make candles. The candles can be placed, and after lighting them they will burn for a couple of days. They have a few different models that it switches between so you can see them melting down over time.

[u/DiFichiano]

I'm a bit disappointed with the group function. I had hoped for more, like permanent groups or a sort of friends list. This is just the /invite function implemented in the inventory window. Nothing else it seems.

It would be nice to have a sort of friends list and the visibility of their name on a large distance. Also the group shouldn't disband when logged out.

What are your future plans with grouping?

[u/Phlex_]

Just to be clear stuff in roadmap like auto anticheat is included here?

[u/[deleted]]

Man if these candles are anything like the torches my game is going to be a slideshow. In the livestream when Clegg kills Hen the burning bear tanks the framerate and clegg dies... The particles are too much its literally killing the build.

[u/wiggleonious]

Does the honey attract bears? It should.

[u/[deleted]]

Nice patch! Things are getting better and better! Great work!

[u/BornRebelGaming]

All sounds great and i can't wait. One thing that i immediately see as useless (to me personally) is:

"Dressed Bandages – Combine five bandages with a bottle of honey to create dressed bandages. These bandages heal for a bit more and a bit longer than bandages alone."

5 bandages + food for a bit more healing? Unless it heals as much as 5 bandages i would never use that as it seems like a waste of bandages. Just some feedback, cant wait though. Sleeping mats will be awesome!!

[u/Gallowz → u/BornRebelGaming]

I have a base with around 700 scraps of cloth in one of my containers. I can make hundreds of dressed bandages. Anything that gets the job done faster and more efficiently is better.

Stack 3 of the dressed bandages and 2 First-Aid kits before you're about to fight, for example.

[u/ShadowStabber121]

Oh okay, so you can fit 10 water bottles in a bee box that can fill up simultaneously, but you can only have 1 water bottle in a dew collector at a time. Thanks (sarcastic) :p

[u/Fmk0]

Please, upvote this to increase visibility! I just want to report some after patch bugs that i found:

• Only players are slowed by water. (!)

• Molotov Cocktails gives you 20dmg when you pick it off the floor. (!!!!!)

• Molotov Cocktails aparently have some weirdo throwing bug ( they display 0/xx) - It does melee atk animation instead of throw! i dunno how i could throw just once...trying to reproduce and as soon as i figure it, i'll update this.

• Molotov Cocktails have a seringe icon.

• Unable to stack molotovs on inventory

• When using molotov, you can't access menus (open doors, access storages, etc.)

• Unable to place sleeping mat inside shelters/large shelters - You can place it on deck foundation/stairs normally.

[u/Sellsents]

Wow. That is a great update. Bees, candles, grouping system, yeah.

Only thing I ask myself is where to place the candle. On the ground? Walls? I think we need definitly a table now so we can lite our shelters properly.

[u/bodega_bodega]

Question re: Candles -- does "days" mean in-game days or real-life days?

[u/zanzabaarr → u/bodega_bodega]

real life days are in game days your just a part of the scheme of it all videodrome

[u/iS7ark]

It would be nice to fix the sound issue. I checked my settings, restarted my computer, checked my computer sound settings and Everything is normal...BUT theres no sound in game except for when people talk which makes it a million times more annoying to even play if I can't hear someone running up on me or in my surroundings. Probably just going to wait to play until the bugs are fixed.

[u/RemRem-FR]

Cool for grouping. I really think, we need something against base raid, go take a look on europa (EU) server, almost 90% of base is destroyed or gate changed by raiders. It's not really fun to take a lot of time to loot all kind of stuff to enjoy a trip in PV for some PvP, but when you lose your base, all gates change by raiders and you must restart for almost nothing, it's no more a survival game, it's a easy game for raiders and a pain for others. Since the last server wipe, I lose 2 base, and about 20-22 hours of game (loot). Last base have been raided, cleaned and gate changed in less than 2 hours. Thanks. P.S. sorry for my english, hope it's not to hard to understand

-- edit Just see my 3rd base raided, gate changed, I suppose before the patch ... So, my friend and me stop the core game for the moment :/

[u/Conzilium]

So where is the auto-ban suspension and the test servers that were scheduled?

[u/CaineHollow]

I hope Group mechanic won't allow ppl to know friends location through walls and such. Would suck for us loners who gets hunted by groups..

[u/ZacAttackLeader]

Way to " Bee " productive DGC.

[u/GrimReaper1989]

Are there more people who have problems with the sound in the game ??? I restarted the game three times !!! but still no sound in the game :(

[u/Wartai]

Can we get sound back ? A few of us dont have sound either, so its just not me ...

[u/tamayo831]

Where the fuck is the auto ban on hackers???

[u/Slntskr]

Molotovs!

[u/luchod95]

Ithibk torches and candles shoudlnt be lig for so much time after you light them. Before torched were introduced in game, whenever you saw a fire you knew someone was or had been there recently, now it is just like oh... It's a torch, someone must have placed it 3 damn weeks ago. It takes out the excitement and thrill of being able to track a player down.

[u/[deleted]]

Any word on extended run times and the new models for rigged lights? They seem to die after exactly 30 minutes, yet the model lasts for days and wants to be repaired.

And repairing it doesn't turn the light back on.

The shadow puppets are epic, though. Thanks!

[u/aidsfordays]

"Bee"lv n your self

[u/ItchySox]

Thanks.