They haven't said anything, but I think this is an intentional change to stop "skimming" of military compounds, i.e. just looting the towers to avoid the hotspots further inside, where the risk of bumping into other players is greater. IF that is the case I think it was an unnecessary change, there is nothing wrong with different players having different strategies to looting. Maybe they were a little too reliable sources of loot, but a slight reduction in spawn rate would have been better than completely removing all loot from them.

Looked into xml files of livonia mission... There is no defined postions of watchtowers, group is also commented inside group definition xml. It looks like Livonia map variables/settings are incomplete.

Tested on my server and is enough uncoment group and then add entries for each watchtower on Livonia map. Please fix this, thanks.

@Geez Hi. Check it out please.
DayZ loot in textures on watchtowers.
Loot small in size on the other side of the floor, there is no chance to pick them up.
Loot large, visible on the surface, there is a chance to pick them up.
This happens very often.
All photos are fresh from the game stable version on Chernorus.

In T147367#2008615, @Geez wrote:

These towers should not spawn loot by design.

@Geez Please open this ticket, as the respawn loot in the textures occurs not only on military towers, it is also characteristic in other buildings, tents, houses, etc. Loot hidden in textures often do not have an interaction area. A respawn loot is required on the surface of the floor texture. Military towers and hunting towers allow you to see where the loot is hidden. In other objects where the loot is hidden, you cannot look at it or see the problem.

In T147367#2014953, @Lex wrote:

@Geez Please open this ticket, as the respawn loot in the textures occurs not only on military towers, it is also characteristic in other buildings, tents, houses, etc. Loot hidden in textures often do not have an interaction area. A respawn loot is required on the surface of the floor texture. Military towers and hunting towers allow you to see where the loot is hidden. In other objects where the loot is hidden, you cannot look at it or see the problem.

Hello Lex.
Please create a new ticket related to the issue you are describing with all the information available. As the original ticket was related to towers on livonia not spawning any loot, which is the correct behaviour.
Regards,
Geez

In T147367#2014957, @Geez wrote:

Hello Lex.
Please create a new ticket related to the issue you are describing with all the information available. As the original ticket was related to towers on livonia not spawning any loot, which is the correct behaviour.
Regards,
Geez

Ok T148464

@Geez I guess I'm not going to climb them anymore. A pity really, these towers were a really nice NVG providers. As the meme says "guess I'll die"