A new patch for H1Z1 is releasign today, and as promised, along with it comes a complete server wipe.
The servers will come down at 7:00am PST (10:00am EST), at which point the world will been wiped clean of any player built structures, vehicle placement, everything. A full character wipe will be performed as well, meaning any existing characters you had will no longer exist on the servers. You'll have to create new ones. That being said, account locked items like crates, crate keys, and any cosmetic skins you've found or won are safe. However, anything else has been deleted with the wipe. After the patch, you'll only be allowed to create one character per server.
People who have purchased the Premium or have upgraded to the Premium Edition will be topped off up to three Airdrop Tickets, but only if you don't already have three or more.
Unfortunately, server wipes are a part of Early Access, and Daybreak Game Company, formerly Sony Online Entertainment, warned this won't be the last one. "They help make the game better in substantial ways," the developer said. "We appreciate your support in H1Z1 and the game has already grown a huge amount because of the collaboration between us."
As for the patch, a ton of change and tweaks have been made. The full patch notes can be found below:
- Sitting will cancel auto-run.
- Fixed a bug where players can interrupt equip actions too quickly.
- Fixed an issue where ammo count could become incorrect if you interrupt a reload action.
- Objects making noise above or below you in a multi-story building will now be properly attenuated.
- Added slight zoom to all guns and bows in Iron Sight mode.
- Lowered sway on .308 rifle while in scoped mode.
- Fixed an issue with hydration burning too fast when stamina was full.
- Fixed a bug that would occasionally cause oddities on SLI setups
- Dropping an item from a world container places it at the players feet instead of the world container origin. The latter would hide it in the world container model.
- Vehicle stability adjustments – angular damping, moment of inertia, center of mass, tire friction and steering range tuning on the OffRoader, PickupTruck and PoliceCar.
- Working on getting the vehicles to be more stable and less likely to abruptly roll or flip (this will still be possible on rocks, rough terrain, and player placed objects) but trying to make them more fun and survivable.
- Fixed /respawn on PvE servers.
- Fixed self-damage on PvE servers; the players may be the source of damage to themselves without mitigation.
- Made players names reusable across servers. Names on each server must still be unique.
- Battle Royale: Cleaned up gas after matches.
- Battle Royale: gas damage reduced.
- Fixed certain points of interest not getting reported when players entered.
- Limited players to one character per server.
- Recipe Changes
- The makeshift shovel recipe now requires a metal sheet instead of a metal shard.
- The storage container recipe now requires more materials.
- The barbed wire recipe now requires wood planks and more metal shards.
- The snare recipes now requires more metal shards.
- The dew collector recipe now requires more wood planks and wood sticks.
- The ground tiller recipe now requires more metal shards.
- Bulk Changes – Many bulk changes have been made in an effort to meet somewhere in the middle of realistic and not annoying.
- Canned food is 25 instead of 100.
- All instances of water bottles are 25 instead of 50.
- Backpacks are 150 instead of 600.
- Military backpacks are 500 instead of 1400.
- Car batteries 300 instead of 100.
- Car fuel is 100 instead of 10.
- Wood logs are 50 instead of 100.
- Wood planks are 25 instead of 50.
- Campfires are 50 instead of 100.
- Scrap Metal is to 25 instead of 5.
- Metal Sheets are 100 instead of 50.
- Metal Pipes are 150 instead of 50.
- Shirts are 50 instead of 100.
- Jeans are 50 instead of 100.
- Many melee weapons have had their bulk reduced.
- First aid kits are 25 instead of 10.
- All meat is 15 instead of 5.
- Rifle ammo is 2 instead of 1.
- Shotgun shells are 5 instead of 1.
- Arrows are 5 instead of 1.
- Shirts can now only hold 50 bulk instead of 90.
- Pants can now only hold 50 bulk instead of 100.
