Me and my friend where on DayZ (PS4) last night and when we entered the town of Elektrozavodsk we encountered a serious game freezing bug, what happened is the game would freeze your characters position once every minute or so, and so if you were to try to pick up an item or open a door or would encounter and attempt to kill or run away from an infected (zombie) then the game would freeze your character to his or her position and you could still move around but the game would be registering your character stood frozen in their previous position, this happened when my friend encountered about one or two infected and would be trying to block the incoming attacks but the game froze and so the infected would be attacking the area that his character had already been as if he was still there but he had already moved from that position and was walking backwards down the road trying to block the attacking infected that were nowhere near him at the time and were basically attacking nothing, he got killed by infected when he clearly shouldn't have and this also happened to me only this time by just one infected, I saw the infected stood in one place that I had already moved from but the infected was attacking nothing as if I was still standing in that area, I was walking backwards trying to block the attacks and was getting hit every time until I got knocked out, when I woke up my health was in the red and I was bleeding along with most of my clothes being badly damaged, my friend got killed twice because of this freezing issue, sometimes it just won't let you open a door for about 20 seconds or so which is still an issue but not that bad, but this is a serious issue because it means that your character has a high chance of dying and losing all their loot when they should not have been so easily killed due to the game freezing for 20 to 30 seconds every minute or so, please fix this issue ASAP.
Description
Details
- Severity
- Major
- Resolution
- Open
- Reproducibility
- Sometimes
- Operating System
- Windows 7
- Category
- Game Freezes
To reproduce the freezing issue (which occurs on PS4) just enter the town of Elektrozavosk and try to do some looting until you notice the freeze in effect, you will recognize it when you try to open a door or pick up an item and the game won't let you and it will freeze the interactions for about 20 to 30 seconds (maybe 10 to 20 seconds but seems pretty random at the moment) during the freeze you can still move your character around but the game won't register it and will only register your character where they were previously before the freeze had occurred, just be aware that if you test this against infected then you have a chance of your character being killed due to the freezing issue and you will lose all of your loot until you either respawn to attempt to retrieve it or it gets either taken by another player or disappears due to a server restart.
This only occurred when we entered the town of Elektrozavodsk and we have not tested this in other areas although it has happened to us in some smaller towns aswell but it wasn't as bad as in the much larger city of Elektrozavodsk.
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Hello prog-rock-1970s.
Can you please let us know on which server did you experience this?
Hi, we experienced these freezing issues on PS4 server number 4436, please let me know if you require any additional information, thank you for your reply.