The servers will be coming down tonight at 3AM for approximately 2 hours. See Full patch notes here.

Everybody who played Friday 3/13 at 3PM through Monday night will receive their shirt at a later date. Hopefully less than a week. First place winners should now be receiving their shirt upon winning after this patch.

Battle Royale Updates

• Reward T-Shirt skin upon winning first place
  
• Removal of static BR zone launching
  
• Updated defaults for anti-cheating detection and kicking
  
• Updated defaults for BR zones (min pop of 64, max pop of 100 - 60 zones launched)
  
• Crash fix for exiting vehicle
  
• Crash fix for some physics/animation interactions with ragdoll
  
• Adjustments to speed hack detection calculations
  
• Fix for crash on exit (in sound manager)
  
• Updates to queue system to allow it to operate as expected (taking all people out of the queue in order without switching order of people remaining)
  
• Throttling of zone starts to prevent launching any additional zones within the same server tick
  
• Fixes for disconnection issues when trying to join BR match (where client just exits instea - d of entering match)
  
• Fix to prevent more people that cap allows getting in when people exit the zone before it starts
  

H1Z1 servers will be coming down tonight at 3AM and remain down for 2 hours.

Patch Notes | 20/02/15

Weapons

• Increased shotgun damage.
  
• Slightly increased shotgun recoil.
  
• Increased 1911 damage.
  

Battle Royale

• Cleaned up persisting rewards and safe zone information between Battle Royale matches.
  
• Parachutes should no longer act like skateboards for more than a few seconds.
  

Base Building

• Upper Level Walls, Shelters, and Stairs can now be crafted. These look like the walls, stairs, and shelters that you are used to, but they can be stacked on top of placed walls and shelters. This means that metal walls can now be two walls high. Structures can be placed on top of other structures for more variation of layout. Stairs can be placed on top of shelters for greater vantage points.
  
• Fixed an issue that was causing base building structures to not be resistant to melee damage types.
  
• The Metal Gate is now almost twice as tall.
  
• Metal Walls, Shelters and Large Shelters now require more of the same components to craft.
  

Vehicles

• Vehicle collisions with terrain boulders should be more stable, still dangerous but less likely to toss the vehicle up in the air.
  
• Adjusted the requirements for vehicle entry to help improve the response time.
  
• Vehicle death explosions should now consistently damage players in the immediate vicinity.
  

Servers will go down at 3AM PST for approximately 2 hours

Release Notes 12/02/2015

Weapon Changes
1911

• Lowered Hip Fire & Iron Sight horizontal recoil.
  
• Lowered damage.
  
• Improved overall consistency while firing.
  

AR15

• Increased Hip Fire recoil.
  

Shotgun

• Lowered damage per pellet.
  
• Lowered horizontal recoil.
  
• Lowered pellet count.
  
• Slightly increased fire rate.
  
• Adjusted pellet spread.
  
• Decreased pellet speed.
  
• Increased pellet weight.
  
• Decreased amount of bleeding caused when hit by shotgun.
  

Bugfixes

• Updated Steam API to fix some crashes.
  
• Items that had the same placed and dropped item (like landmines) now have a different dropped item. You shouldn’t be able to accidentally drop them and blow yourself up anymore.
  
• Lighting has been given a significant overhaul, it should now look better in almost all circumstances. We’re not done yet, but this change should address any lighting problems that effect game play. You will most likely find some lighting artifacts(bright objects or strange glittering effects). We are aware and will address these as they come up. Feel free to report these.
  
• Fixed a bug in spawned item accounting that decreased spawn rate over time
  
• Objects will retain their orientation during placement mode when they change what surface they are being placed on.
  
• Free placed objects (ie, campfires, furnaces, animal traps, etc) cannot be stacked on top of each other.
  
• All placed objects can no longer collide with other objects, including player placed objects and static designer placed objects. This means that foundations cannot interpenetrate with other foundations, shacks, buildings, vehicles, roads, or anything else. Free placed objects also can’t interpenetrate with the same objects, excluding the object they are being placed on (ie, still be placed on a road, but not when colliding with a destroyed car).
  
• Fixed a bug with socket bound placement objects (ie, stairs on a foundation, barricade on a window, or anything that snaps to a fixed position) that allowed multiple of these objects to interpenetrate each other (a common case was stairs overlapping stairs).
  
• Cannot place free-placed objects on rocks and tree stumps
  
• Key bindings can now be re-mapped. After selecting an action, press the key to map to that action. Pressing [Esc] will cancel the key bind. Holding [Esc] will clear the currently mapped key. Users cannot bind a key to multiple actions in the same action set. Also added a button to reset all key bindings to default.
  
• Collision resist values adjusted for the vehicles to reduce the damage taken from impacts, particularly when landing hard on the suspension and wheels.
  
• Lighting system updated.
  
• All weather and light sources adjusted with new lighting values. Please report any strange behavior (i.e. flashlights too bright).
  

Battle Royale
[IMPORTANT] When the match ends, if you don't exit the match quickly, your game client may end up in an unconnected state. We're fixing this for the next update.

• Vehicle Spawn Counts set to be consistent with survival.
  
• End screen now shows your rank and your rewards.
  
• Map now displays a “safe zone” ring.
  
• Revamped fog movement phases.
  
• Adjusted rewards to more align with our final payouts (Excessive payouts previously were for testing purposes, BR is still not ready for the consumption of event tickets and will continue to get updates, thanks for helping us test and polish BR so far!)
  
• Removed crate keys from rewards
  
• Removed crates from 2nd-4th (1st place will still earn a crate along with all other current awards)
  
• Lowered the amount of tickets awarded for 1st-4th
  1st 2 tickets
  2nd 1 ticket
  3rd 1 ticket
  4th 1 ticket
  
• Added an Event Ticket reward for 9th-12th
  
• Keep in mind these rewards are based on a 48-64 player max BR, the 200 man BR will have a different set of rewards.
  

The servers will be coming down at 3AM PST for approximately 2 hours.

Patch Notes:

• The backpack frame recipe now requires wood sticks, nails, and metal brackets.
  
• The framed backpack recipe now requires a backpack frame, a spool of twine, and eight pieces of cloth.
  
• The spool of twine rate of appearance has been slightly increased.
  
• Applying an account item to an inventory item no longer resets durability.
  
• Dropping an item from an inspected container now places the dropped item at the players feet, not the origin of the items container.
  
• Fixed durability not being attached to projectiles - thrown spears should now be the same durability as when they were your inventory
  
• Fixed drop spear dupe -you should no longer be able to drop thrown weapons and have them dupe
  
• Adjustments to "heat" generated while crouched. This will allow players to more effectively sneak around zombies.
  
• Exiting from a flipped vehicle should no longer send you below the world.
  
• Vehicles that fall through the world Should now reappear above the world after a small amount of time
  
• Added a ‘ForceSingleGPU’ option to the [Rendering] section of UserOptions.ini. Adding this option set to 1 will disable the games code adjustments applied when it detects you have more than one GPU active (SLI or Crossfire). This may help some users that are having issues get the game running better without needing to disable their SLI/Crossfire setups.
  

Tomorrow as part of our normal game update, we will be doing a complete server wipe. What does that mean for you? Think of it as a factory reset. We are going to be wiping the world clean of any player built structures, vehicle placement, everything. We are also going to be doing a full character wipe as well. Your characters will not exist on any servers, so you will have to create new ones.

What won’t be going away are any account locked items. These items are things like crates and crate keys. All the cosmetic skins you found inside the crate or won from Battle Royale will be safe and be locked to your account. The things that will not be safe are anything you have on your character or hidden in the world at the time of the wipe.

For people who purchased the Premium or upgraded to the Premium Edition will be topped off up to 3 Airdrop Tickets. If you already have 3 or more Airdrop Tickets you won’t be receiving any additional ones. This won’t happen at the exact time of the wipe but will be granted to your account within a few business days afterward.

Full server wipes are a part of Early Access and this won’t be the last one. They help make the game better in substantial ways. We appreciate your support in H1Z1 and the game has already grown a huge amount because of the collaboration between us.

You will receive the full list of other patch notes as we get closer to announcing when this downtime will exactly be tomorrow.

Source: http://reddit.com/r/h1z1/comments/2ut8b2...coming_25/

H1Z1 servers will be coming down at 1:00PM Pacific and will remain down for approximately 2 hours.

Patch Notes:

• Bandages and First Aid Kits no longer heal vehicles when used from the trunk
  
• Reduced the amount of stacked ammo that can be found in the world. Finding a full magazine worth of ammo will be very rare.
  
• Adjusted the amount of durability lost on worn equipment when killed.
  
• Adjusted the amount of durability lost when firing weapons.
  
• Changed some input mapping data which may reset some edits done to InputProfile_user.xml if they player has edited them.
  
• Speculative fix for large latencies when players dismount vehicles.
  
• Fixed additional cases of poison gas persisting after leaving a Battle Royale match.
  
• Adjusted toxic gas damage. adjusted some server configurations to improve overall server performance.