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Hey Survivalist,
We’ve just released Alpha 17 Experimental B221 and could really use your help finding the last remaining big issues. Opt in instructions can be found here:

B221 Forum Page

Added

• More food and drink types to vending machines
• New tier 1 cabin_09 dungeon to the game and RGW
• New Cabin_08
• Mods to traders inventory and secret stash.
• Move speeds to AI debug info
• Zombie movement settings Nightmare speed
• Improved zombie run/walk settings (replaced ZombiesRun preference with ZombieMove, ZombieMoveNight, ZombieFeralMove, ZombieBMMove. Each can be Walk, Jog, Run or Sprint)
• Two new tier 1 cave POIs, and made cave_05 larger
• Updated server browser to support the new zombie move settings
• New tier 1 quest-able cabins 8, 9 and 10 to Navezgane and random gen
• Potential fix for some macOS users getting errors about too large socket buffers
• New medicine cabinets, sinks, medical piles and ammo piles
• Overhauled cabin 07 as a dungeon tier 1 to support fetch, clear, hidden cache
• Cabin_01 has been overhauled in to a small dungeon tier 1 that supports clear quests
• Docks 02 is now a new overhauled tier 2 questable dungeon
• Docks_03 overhaul
• Gas_station4 as a tier 1 questable POI
• Cabin_04 as tier 1 clear, fetch, hidden_cache
• New diner_03 to navezgane and replaced a couple dupe cabins with new ones
• New diner 03 tier 1 dungeon
• New cabin_11 tier 1 POI

Changed

• Update the ancient torch model
• Crafting steel bolts and arrows is not gated by a perk
• Overhauled diner 02 into a tier 1 dudgeon
• AI destroy area to check more often and last 2 seconds longer
• Iron and Steel fireaxes do bonus damage to wood
• Iron and Steel pickaxes do bonus damage to stone and iron
• Trader Update: Added mods, clothing, all new food and drug items, rebalanced most item prices, added more construction materials, improved Trader Joel graphics
• Now logging all chat on the server
• Removed AstarPath calling GC Collect, which causes lag spikes when new path grids made
• Pine forest sun is more vibrant
• Increased vehicle placement height, so easier on uneven ground
• Bicycles and wheels no longer need a workbench to craft
• Vultures will target a noisy player if none seen
• Dart traps moved to Engineering 2
• Increased next wandering horde delay range
• Increased wandering horde min pitstop distance and range
• Vulture targeting of the closest player to check if seen on each one and check light level, so stealth at night works
• Ranged weapons and zombie HP scaling rebalanced
• Decreased noise of jumping and step sounds
• Rescaled zombie tier hit points and gamestagebased spawn probabilities
• Reduced wandering horde counts
• Trader doesn’t have a really bright light on him now
• Removed duplicate dock 04 from smaller lake
• Merged the Slow Metabolism and Fully Hydrated perks
• Normalized zombie anim blends, so 1.35 move speed is a full run for all
• Increased normal zombie MoveSpeedAggro max and decreased spider to 1.35 max
• Intellect reduces crafting speed by up to 65%
• Perception increases accuracy with ranged weapons
• Decreased reflection quality settings of Low/Middle/High/Ultra and added Ultra to UI and added private Ultra
• Entity speed properties to MoveSpeed, MoveSpeedNight, MoveSpeedAggro, MoveSpeedPanic
• Feral MoveSpeedAggro minimum to 37% of max value in XML
• Removed AIDirector checking run for some distances and increased day distances
• Power attack damage higher than before but mostly perkbased
• Perks Deep Cuts, Stay Down, Heavy metal increase power attack damage on stunned/staggered enemies
• Stoneaxe, pickaxe, shovel, hoe are bladed weapons
• Removed Wrecking Crew perk
• Melee weapons rebalanced
• Guns and ammo prices
• Intellect 10 goggles maximum craft speed reduction is 95% instead of 100%.
• Increased AI obstacleCheckTickDelay to 4
• Increased chance for power attack grunt sounds because power attacks cost more stamina
• Reduced chance for grunts to play on all power attacks.
• Made tier 6 pois tier 5 adjusted the tiers on a few more pois that should have been 1 or 2s
• Reduced zombie kill XP
• Fetch compass icon changes to up at 3 meters now instead of 2 above.

Fixed

• Recipe unlock issues with gunPumpShotgun, thrownAmmoPipeBomb, thrownDynamite, tnt, rScrapIronPlateMine, ceilingLight01_player, toolForgeCrucible, resourceArrowHeadSteelAP, resourceForgedSteel
• Particle effects of destroyed terrain blocks were always black
• Parent spam on survivor camps
• Client not showing if you tried to connect to a server with an invalid password
• EAC keeps connecting and disconnecting
• Creating a Blank game then hitting continue brings unused game settings
• EAC keeps connecting and disconnecting
• Blood draw kit does not take away any health
• AI could be distracted when it had a target
• Burnt zombie sound persists when in Pause
• Collision on jail bars
• Placed TNT is not explody enough
• Armor perks can easily make you invulnerable
• Rabbit very difficult to butcher from middle of its body (chicken too, made HasRagdoll false and set CC layer to cLayerLargeEntityBlocker on death when no ragdoll)
• Zombies are no longer attacking doors or monster closets
• Repair speed of stone axe, hammer, wrench and nail gun and syncronized animations with delay
• FastTags GetTagNames not returning correct extended names
• DrugRecog and drugFortBites have wrong craft tool assigned
• The POI burning barrels have no collider to them
• Perk Stay Down level 1 and 2 are not working
• Active challenge prevents trader quests.
• All mining ores have unique textures again
• Light fixtures showing up dark.
• Pathing issue with 1/2 blocks (added AI obstacle sidestepping)
• AI CheckEntityBlocked not using origin and changed to SphereCast with longer range
• Host can have still standing chopped down (POI?) trees remaining in their game
• Power attacks with iron fire axe play grunt sounds
• Land claims compass icons were showing for other people.
• Nail gun nails don’t do damage and/or have collision (reworked launched obj handling, fixed offset from gun)
• Nail projectiles not being deleted on collision
• Infection adds a severe cap on stamina
• Steel fire axe didn’t play grunt sounds on power attack.
• perkHeavyMetal applies the correct effect
• Torches are not at the 3D location where they were placed
• Courier satchels appear for clients instead of normal containers

Important for dedicated servers:

<property name=”ZombiesRun” value=”0″ /> <!– OLD! 0 = default day/night walk/run, 1 = never run, 2 = always run; this setting ONLY affects regular zombies, some zombies like ferals always run –>
<property name=”ZombieMove” value=”0″ /> <!– 0-4 (walk, jog, run, sprint, nightmare) –>
<property name=”ZombieMoveNight” value=”3″ /> <!– 0-4 (walk, jog, run, sprint, nightmare) –>
<property name=”ZombieFeralMove” value=”3″ /> <!– 0-4 (walk, jog, run, sprint, nightmare) –>
<property name=”ZombieBMMove” value=”3″ /> <!– 0-4 (walk, jog, run, sprint, nightmare) –>

Known issues:

• Some scenarios where trees remain in the world, repro cases are welcome
• Auger and chainsaw soundloop in MP games reloading and switching slots fixes this temporarily
• Trader Jen has a deep voice
• Players visually disappear for another when looking up
• No lights on vehicles
• Turrets target zombies through walls
• Guns with a magazine size of 1 still autoreload
• Some mods are in a testing phase only and do not work yet
• Stealth has some issues that may not get fixed until the next patch
• Server connection issues
• Floating POIs
• Repair material not refunded when repair was cancelled
• In some scenarios double swing may still occur
• Ammo count of nailgun goes broke, when equipped with full auto receiver
• Trader Rekt is nicer than usual
• Some achievements can not be obtained at the moment
• Charismatic Nature is not working right now
• Scrapping items in crafting queue while relogging may go lost
• Relogging when crafting usable items are in the crafting queue may have negative sideeffects
• Debugshot/dbs closes instantly on Linux and Mac
• Nightvision does not properly work
• Crafting speed bonus does not properly apply to workstations
• Clipping into blocks to see through terrain
• Vultures play their fly animation when dead for clients
• Vehicle key mapping does not save
• Shotgun driver loses sound on 4×4 after a while
• Self medicated can be purchased but should not
• Server browser does not display the proper values for zombie movement speed
• Workstation tools do not refresh the recipe list when the tools are installed
• Can use torch and flaming arrows as light underwater
• Hand held weapons and items show light on them while inside sealed rooms or underground at night
• Clothing items should be removed and swapped out manually or risk deleting them

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