DayZ Standalone experimental branch going live this evening after delay

Today the experimental branch of DayZ is being released but there’s been a delay to getting it live.

According to the team the servers will not be back until 8PM central European time this evening.

Downtime for the experimental branch will be till about 8pm Central European time sorry for the delay.

— DayZ Development (@dayzdevteam) January 20, 2014

As with any DayZ Standalone updates there’s an air of excitement. We all want to go berry picking right?

If you missed the update notes then here they are again and if you want to know how to play the experimental branch then check out previous post.

Fixed:

• Niosh mask (respirator) inventory size fixed to 1/1 slot.
• Missing strings for BE popup for alternate languages, set to English while translations are being done.
• Reduced dispersion of FNX45 (from 0.05 to 0.03)
• Balanced stomach capacity,
• Added stuffed notifier (instead of sickness when full up)
• Eating and drinking animations properly set for tablets/disinfectants
• Version number in server browser and details
• Saline transfusion doesn’t refill full blood
• Charcoal and Tetracycline tablets won’t give sick badge if you aren’t actually sick
• Player aim run speed updated, weapon position changed and improved for first person view
• Glitches on right hand while moving and while giving taunt fixed
• Players can’t pile backpacks inside of another backpacks, backpack-inception style. You can only put one backpack inside of another backpack if the backpack that is being put inside is empty.
• Magnum speedloader should be spawning now
• Number of backpacks spawning lowered
• Number of .357 Pythons spawning lowered.
• Number of M4A1s spawning lowered
• Dead character cleanup performed at 10 minutes past death
• Removed scripted server teleporting check as now managed by engine

New:

• Editable character name in main menu
• Hive, mode and time columns in server browser
• Database support for sub hives. (Sub-private, Hardcore/Regular public)
• DayZServer.exe support for sub hives.
• Signature verification against PBOs
• Added shotgun speedloader into loot spawns
• Added box of 20 pieces .357 rounds into loot spawns
• Added color variants of all shoes into loot spawns
• Added Hiking pants (both long and short ones) and Canvas pants including their color variants into loot spawns
• Added hacksaw into the loot spawns
• Added shotgun into loot spawns
• Berry picking
• Added Hacksaw into loot spawns
• Saw-off shotgun recipe
• Opening cans with saw
• Painting Mosin now supported w/ spraypaint
• Added spraypaint can into loot spawns
• Coastal harbor town of Svetloyarsk (and surrounding areas)