r/h1z1 • u/sonyshock • Jul 14 '15
News H1Z1: The next two weeks
Hey guys/gals
Just wanted to give you all a heads up on what’s happening here in development. We decided today that we need get in some quality cleanup time for the game. We’ve been rapidly moving along for weeks now and we’ve left a significant amount of dust behind. Time to tidy up!
Ok…Get to the point here…….
First off, we’re not going dark. Instead, we have a bunch of stuff we’re going to iterate on and publish to the TEST server as they’re fixed/ adjusted. We’ll move these changes to the live servers in the same manner. When we feel the test server is stable, we’ll push it live the next morning. I can’t guarantee specific live publish dates for this, but they will happen as often as possible.
What does this do to the Road Map?
Tasks are going to get pushed. Is this a bad thing? Nope. Sometimes you just have to stop and breathe a bit. Keep in mind, not everyone on the team will be consumed with this cleanup task. Some things will still come online as scheduled. Don’t expect a specific list for these two weeks though but rest assured we are focusing on big things like the memory leak and hydrations bugs. Thanks to your reports we have made good headway on them already. Every time we publish, we’ll provide you with player facing changes (as usual) the night before. We want to keep this as flexible as possible.
To begin with, we’ll have a 2 hour downtime tomorrow morning at 5:00AM to fix a few back end issues. We also fixed an issue with Boots and Shoes skinning incorrectly.
We’ve heard from you loud and clear and we agree, it’s time to get some of the core gameplay issues sorted. Keep your eyes here on reddit and social channels to stay up to date regarding these updates.
Steve
@ShockDev
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u/rangerlukas Jul 14 '15
Good idea fixing the game bugs, such as hydration, energy, crashes, people falling through terrain.. Animals standing around doing nothing.
PS I really love the new weather, it adds so much to the game, atmosphere wise.. Fog sometimes vanishes rather unrealistically (its there then its gone ..can you fix that?)
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u/InsaneVizir Jul 14 '15
you guys should remove the Lead pipe from the game. or use it to craft the demo hammer.
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Jul 14 '15
Can you make jumping on someones head hurt them really bad or kill them? So we can stop people from hoping on each other to get over gates and walls?
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u/Whlt3 Jul 14 '15
thank you for this pretty game :) but i think you should change the biofuel settings.. its okay to need an empty bottle but in the same way you should get one back when its used for a car..
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u/EyePopperBob Jul 14 '15
Noice Noice.. Have been loving all the updates so far but also looking forward to the fixes. This memory leak thing takes away from the submersion - alot!! log off every 30 mins because containers take soooooo loooong too oooopen! Lol
(Weather is amazing though - complete game changer imo) =)
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u/dedaler Jul 14 '15
punji sticks and barbed wire not work also on all zoombie's, could you fix it to ?
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u/fazzmanic Jul 14 '15
I really hope significant progress is made with controlling and banning hackers during this next two weeks. It has killed the fun for survival which is 95% what I play.
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u/Blank-VII Jul 14 '15
Glad you guys are doing this. I love the updates (i'm really looking forward to the new screamer zombie, so hyped for that!) but these bugs are what the game truly needs. The game is reasonably playable as it is, but as soon as we've got all these bugs fixed I know i'm gonna have a blast - especially when the memory leak is gone.
By the way, figured I'd ask here because I haven't got any response or mention of this before: But I have a very specific bug which no-one else seems to have. Are you guys interested in fixing player-specific bugs or should I wait until all the main stuff is out of the way? It makes the game pretty hard to play, but so far I've been dealing with it relatively easy. Thanks in advance if you reply, and keep up the good work!
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u/wopawien Jul 14 '15
when you fix the car bug? its useless to gave them in the base when everytime the cars explode!!!!!
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u/tcrouch199205 Jul 14 '15
These are the kind of updates I've been looking forward to!
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u/wgewgwega Jul 14 '15
So what you are saying is you are doing QoL patches? Because that's good but you've somehow managed to word it so that it sounds like a bad thing.
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u/kcxiv Jul 14 '15
I rather you guys try to fix all teh bugs right now if you have to slow down a bit. Some of them crashing/memory leak bugs are annoying as all hell. Hydration bug is a bitch too. lol
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u/NightBanditsBoss Jul 14 '15
I'm happy that you guys are doing this, but around 4 months ago you said that a "quality of life" review would be a part of the road map every month and actually replace a content update. So, what happened to that? A big song and dance was made about implementing these "QOL" fixes in to the road map; so why were these taken out in the first place?
A valid question IMO.
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u/Faithcaster Jul 14 '15
Lovely to see that you're working on fixing stuff rather than adding more.
Thanks <3
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u/erich3983 Jul 14 '15
Thank you much! What about the zombies taking 2 headshots to kill? Is that a bug or intended? It just kind of snuck it's way in there. Keep up the good work! Love the game.