What’s new in the update?
As always, the first update of the year is a stability update which lacks content and is focused on bug fixing and system improvements. Some exception is the Sakhal map with Frostline DLC, which received few new things as a part of process to improve the overall experience of only (at the moment) paid map.
List of changes and fixes is really long so we will focus only on the most important aspects.
New additions to Sakhal:
– few new villages and expanded settlements,
– new ship wreck near Shantar island,
– wooden log cabins in mountains,
– wooden VSD,
– new concrete bunkers which replaced sandbag bunkers on Burukan island,
– new dynamic military containers which different locks, openable only with special coloured keys,
– naval buoys with flashing lights,
– snow falling from vegetation,
– items now stick to snow (like thrown grenades),
– frozen animal corpses can’t be skinned now.
New additions in general:
– many backpacks received new slots for tools and navigation or camping gear,
– new crafting and repairing animations with sounds,
– boats despawn system.
Most important changes:
– longer heat buff while wearing all clothing,
– delay between falling unconscious due to low blood level,
– many changes to sounds: footsteps in different locations, volume levels adjusted, new ambients and sounds for warhead storage, birds, power generator, SMGs etc.,
– food poisoning and salmonella rebalanced,
– fishing rebalanced,
– equipment slots will stay in place while scrolling the inventory,
– increased blood regeneration in some scenarios,
– cow, goat and sheep will run away from player at much bigger distance,
– items crafted by players will spawn more randomly under the player, not directly on top of each other.
Problems after 1.27
New update has also broken some mods for the game. For example, if you had more than 2 rows of equipment slots on your server, probably they will be invisible. Really popular furniture and building mods like MuchStuffPack (already fixed) or BoomLay’s Things were broken, not showing the content of the furnitures. There are also problems with Terrain Builder tool used for making maps or mods using extensive custom recipes for crafting items. Community already found some solutions to these problems, but most of them need to be addressed by the modders themselves.